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taylorswift I am heartbroken to hear that your mom has to face a battle with cancer.  Like millions of others, I adore your mom, and I want to wish her well in beating the disease.   My own mom has an inoperable aortic aneurysm and is not expected to live more than a few months.   For me, a victory would be keeping her alive for a year.  Even though your mom will probably have a much better outcome, I still understand the unbearable stress of seeing someone you love face such a challenge.  I want to be in control and change the outcome, and sometimes life limits our power.

I have learned a lot about the medical system and biology over the last few years, and one of my biggest surprises is that the system we have today treats symptoms more than it treats diseases or their causes.  The system also tries to create an illusion that doctors have all the knowledge about disease and that the only treatments worth considering are those the doctors allow as the "standard of care".   This is a highly regulated system in which doctors are only allowed to talk about drugs offered by big drug companies and approved by the FDA.  This means even if the doctor knows about an alternative therapy that is not approved, he more often than not cannot even talk to you about it.   And the sadder truth is that more often than not the doctor does not even know about the alternative.  

From patients' perspective, they are usually terrified by their disease, and they simply trust the doctor to do what is best for them.  For a disease like cancer - where the track record of medicine over the last 20 years is very bad - I think that is not the path I would pursue if I had the disease.   A person with the resources would be very well served by hiring medically-trained science advisors who could really spend significant numbers of hours reading the literature, studying trials under way, and considering alternative therapies for which there is no natural sponsor.   Doing these activities in a comprehensive and competent way takes a significant amount of time, and the truth is doctors will never spend significant hours to look at the edges of the system.   They do not have the time, and they do not have any license to think outside the box.  I want to give you specific examples of these ideas so you can begin to form your own opinions.

Consider the idea of reading the literature.  I recently read a study done in animals using a readily-available over-the-counter antioxidant, and amazingly the antioxidant stopped all metastasis of cancer for the diseases studied.  You will find situations like this where the substance cannot be trademarked, is readily available, is low risk, and which has no natural sponsor in the commercial medical system.  Lack of a natural sponsor means very little additional research gets done timely (because no one has financial incentives to research it in humans), and no drug company has any incentive to tell you about it or sell it.   A science advisor can find such gems for you, whereas your doctor will never look for things like that.  If you can find therapies that are low risk, but potentially high gain, you stack the odds in your favor.  This complements your medical treatment.  No one knows if that antioxidant works in humans or if it works in a specific type of cancer.  But if the risk of the therapy is low, even a low probability of a dramatic positive outcome may make it a very smart risk to take.

Regarding trials under way, the one everyone is talking about is the Duke trial on a modified polio virus.  Right now it is confined to the worst kind of brain cancer, but they may be opening it up to other types of cancers.  Unlike other therapies, this one holds out the promise of really curing the cancers it treats.  It's a radical therapy with amazing early results.

As you can probably tell I am very opinionated.  I could go on and on for a long time on this subject, but probably this is not the place to do it.  None of the above is a recommendation to try any specific therapy.  Rather, the above is to help you understand how a technically-trained individual who works outside the official medical system can help the patient to see a much broader horizon and to make much more informed decisions on their treatment options.   And most patients never realize that they do have this option, particularly at an early stage in the disease when they can better affect the outcome.  The choice is between being silent and accepting of what the official system tells you, and being a little bit sassy and digging for a deeper truth.   If any of your people want to contact me through Tumblr, I am happy to share references to the above.   I pray that you are able to stay strong during the stress of your mom's treatment and recovery.

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Definitely About John Mayer: Ours Superman Dear John The Story of Us

Probably About John Mayer: Innocent (And here is why I think so) Treacherous (Probably originally written for Mayer and repurposed for Jake) I Knew You Were Trouble ("Once upon a time, a few mistakes ago")

May Be About John Mayer: Haunted SuperStar Wildest Dreams

remembering dear john, superman, i knew you were trouble and ours are all about the same person 

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Could you please explain why Come Back Be Here isn't about Harry? I'd love a link to that interview where she says she wrote with Dan Wilson predating her relationship w/ him.

Poetrydude66 says:

I think you are probably referring to some post I submitted to the AnalyzingTaylor board, where I said I thought “Come Back Be Here” is about Jake Gyllenhaal. Here is the basic argument:

Dan Wilson tells us he wrote two songs with Taylor over two days.  Dan co-wrote “Treacherous” and “Come Back Be Here”, so to the extent he tells us when he got together with Taylor for “Treacherous” that would also date “Come Back Be Here”.

Dan tells us around 1:40 into this video that he cowrote “Treacherous” sometime around Spring of 2012.  Now Spring of 2012 does not disallow the possibility that “Come Back Be Here” could be about Harry. But given that she called it off with Harry in late April 2012 - a mere one month after first flirting with him - that would make it quite strange for her to then immediately write a song about longing for him and falling in love with him?

What suggests that “Come Back Be Here” is not about Harry is Taylor’s description that the song was one “I wrote about falling for someone and then they have to go away for work.”

The thing is Taylor and Harry met at the Kids Choice awards in Los Angeles on March 31, 2012. Harry did indeed have to leave for work, but work was in Australia. Take a look at the One Direction concert schedule for April 2012.

So the timeline with Harry doesn’t support them in New York, and also doesn’t support Harry having to leave for work to London.

To contrast, Taylor and Jake did date in New York (with many now well-known photos of their time together), and Jake did have to leave to work on a new movie in London. So a relationship where she starts to fall in love with a person in New York and then has to watch him leave for work to London fits perfectly to the Jake relationship. Jake famously (over)paid $100K to fly Taylor to the set of his movie in London for a few days, and that’s certainly the kind of romantic gesture that might make a girl want to write a fanciful song, right?

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Taylor Swift Impressionist Painting Based on Billboard

Welcome to my painting of taylorswift which I am calling "Phantasm". Here is the story behind the painting.

I converted a photo of Taylor Swift done by Billboard into an Impressionist painting.    I absolutely love the original photo that I based this on.  The photographer did a genius composition of elements, and I love the empty frames on the wall as a metaphor that the photo itself is the painting.

If I were getting paid for it, I see unlimited potential for what this image could become.   I imagine painting some great work of art onto the wall behind the paintings, further expanding the surrealness.   Unfortunately, I am not getting paid, and there are only so many hours I have available for Tumblr now. 

I tried to show this to Billboard as part of their thread on Twitter where they published the photo.  As usual, Twitter hid my Tweet from the public view of the conversation.  Twitter does NOT like low-follower users posting to conversations of users with high follower counts.   What happens is that Twitter makes it look to the poster like your Tweet is being seen, but if you log out of Twitter and go to the original conversation starter, your Tweet disappears from the public view.  Go figure.  Twitter is a strange and badly conceived product.  All of this is to say that if you are besties with the folks at Billboard, feel free to show this to them.

Be sure to enjoy my other paintings of Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran.

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Poetrydude66 says:

This is a really nice compilation of interviews with Taylor about each song on the Speak Now album.    While most of the facts in this video are readily available in separate interviews, this interview is nice because they brought them all those separate interviews together and then played a small clip of each track to help people identify the songs.

Almost everything in this interview is already well-known to any Taylor Swift superfan, but there were a few minor things I noticed that were new to me:

Apparently "Sparks Fly" was constantly re-written over a two year period. Taylor had the luxury of playing early versions of the song for live audiences and then continuously improving the song.   I think this is an approach many artists take, and it is nice to have the luxury of time to let a song grow into its final form.   Recently, however, Taylor has gotten so popular she really does not have the ability to pre-release songs.   People would leak the songs and the early distribution would probably hurt sales of the final product after it is officially released.

In most of her interviews, Taylor compares the writing of "Dear John" to hitting send on an email that is intended for an ex, but that might be too blunt or too angry to really send.   And Taylor makes the point that by putting this song onto the album, she is hitting the send button.   In most interviews she says this in a pleasant and polite way.  In the interview above, I read some real anger in her.   It is very subtle and subdued, but if you have ever seen enough interviews with Taylor you learn to read between the lines on these things.

"Dear John" feels at times to me like it is like an emotional napalm attack.   It is all of Taylor's frustration, and anger, and resentment - not about things that were said - but about the failure to communicate at all, when so much was at stake for her emotionally.   "Dear John" is the song that will make you grimace at its rawness, but it is just so mesmerizing at the same time.   There is something just so pure about this song and the place of honesty that it comes from.  One reviewer describes the song as "an expertly crafted middle finger" and I think it is that, but I am grabbed more by the emotion of it.

Enjoy the interview.

Speak Now - Track By Track (This SO rare!)

1. Mine

2. Sparks Fly

3. Back To December

4. Speak Now

5. Dear John

6. Mean

7. The Story Of Us

8. Never Grow Up

9. Enchanted

10. Better Than Revenge

11. Innocent

12. Haunted

13. Last Kiss

14. Long Live

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Poetrydude66 says:

Hmm.  Interesting.   Would Chicago Bulls player Doug McDermott be a good match for Taylor Swift?

So I pick up on a few things here:

* Doug McDermott is a top-10 scorer in NCAA history, having scored more than 3000 times in his four college years.  There are questions about whether he will do well in the NBA, but no one doubts he is very talented, and he will probably have a long career.  So he is a fiercely competitive guy doing very well in his chosen career.   A match up with Taylor Swift is a kind of match-between-superstar combination, and it might play well in the press.  I do not think Taylor cares about that, but someone who does not play well in the press is going to get buried in negative publicity, which puts unnatural pressure on the relationship.

* People seem to ship them as a couple.   If you search "@dougmcd3 taylor swift" on Twitter, there is nearly 100% approval for the idea of the two of them as a couple.  

* As a professional athlete, Doug is used to pressure situations.  Could he handle being the object of 10 gossip articles a week for the first year of a relationship?  Probably, the answer is yes.  An athlete is the kind of person who stays focused on career and won't let press gossip defocus him.

* Doug certainly likes Taylor and has not been shy about saying this.   In March of 2013 he went on a Twitter campaign to get an introduction to Taylor, which apparently at the time did not go anywhere.

* Taylor followed Doug on Twitter after attending the basketball game recently between the New York Knicks and the Chicago Bulls.  What's interesting about that is Taylor was at that game and they asked her to promote New York, and the New York Knicks team.   Doug plays for the competition.  He was the only competition player at that game who she followed.   Clearly someone told Taylor that Doug is smitten with her, and Taylor noticed him.  Well, I smell flirtation. :)

I do wonder would these two have much to talk about.  Taylor has such phenomenal creativity and imagination, and somehow I imagine her with someone who can return back that creative energy and who - at worst - has the aesthetic sensibility that would enjoy being surrounded by that creative energy.  But that's something we cannot work out on a blog.   We do not know enough about either of them.

If there is mutual attraction, I think they should spend some time together.   Doug, pick up that phone man.

So I was looking at the people Taylor recently followed on Twitter and saw a Doug McDermott and I was like WTH is this guy? Well he plays for the Bulls and is 6’ 8” and I believe he’s single…. Ship ship!

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Poetrydude66 says:

We have taylorswift exactly where we want her, muhahaha....

Taylor Swift about tumblr on KiSS 92.5

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Poetrydude66 says:

Probably Scott does not want to put up the $20M advance payment required to get Taylor to re-sign.  In that scenario, any buyer for BMLG would structure a deal so Taylor re-signs with them at closing.

In addition, Scott probably understands that she wants to start having a real life, with a slower pace, which may mean less commercial intensity (e.g., folk album, less touring, marriage, more travel, more time off, etc).  

My guess is that Taylor negotiates with Scott to take equity in the label instead of cash, and then she re-signs with Scott based on less aggressive commercial goals for future albums.  If Scott sells the label, the buyer will want Taylor to agree to another three rounds of high intensity album production.  Does she want to be working like this at age 30?

Wow, such nice problems to have at the age of 24....

Big Machine, the record label of Taylor Swift, Rascal Flats and Tim McGraw, is on the block, The Post has learned. Owner Scott Borchetta, who started the label in 2005, is looking for a price in ex…

I didn’t know she still has an album left on her contract.  Yup, now’s the time to sell.  

Maybe Universal buys out BMLG.  or she could just move to Republic Records since they’re already related.  

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Human burrito taylorswift promotes her new role as the Star Wars Jedi Master Obi Cat Kenobi.  Here are some possible captions:

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of Swifties suddenly cried out in terror for new music."

"What do you mean there are no cat-shaped sugar cookies on this flight?   Get me some cat cookies now!"

"You can't win, hackers. If you release my music early, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine."

"Lord Taylor greets you from Australia" (not to be confused with a personal message to her similarly-hooded singer-friend Ella "Lorde, Taylor greets you from Australia")

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Poetrydude66 says:

Taylor's reaction, upon learning that someone in the audience baked her Viennese Nut Cookies with Meringue cat whiskers and brought them to an Australian show for Taylor as a gift.

Especially love the bottom left hand corner of the second photo, with the show host's hand reaching from off-screen at Taylor to get her back onto the primetime Australian TV show, where he is dying while trying to ask Taylor questions that she doesn't hear or care about because she is exchanging super-hot cooking feels with the fan.

Dude, if you wanted taylorswift 's attention so badly you should have gotten busy in the kitchen and been waiting with some Truffle Rum Balls lightly scented with Catnip.  One whiff of those and you would have become much more interesting.

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"Are you gonna write about this?" Like his mediocre lines and the way he butchered the names of Thai food had me shaking at the knees. Like that was something worth noting. I still wrote three poems about my last dinner date. I live in a world where I am blessed to believe that everything is something worth noting. But people tell me that if I keep writing poetry about every mouth I meet, nobody’s going to want to kiss me anymore. The first time that someone compared my poems to Taylor Swift songs, I didn’t know that it wasn’t supposed to be a compliment. It turns out they weren’t saying: “thank you for your honesty, your openness, your willingness to make life into art even when it gets tough to pronounce”. They were saying: “All you write are love poems.” Like that wasn’t okay. Like that was somehow discrediting or laughable. They were saying: “You go on too many dates and you can’t make them stay.” And I don’t know how to shake that off. I live in a world where I am blessed to believe that everything is something worth noting, even bad dinner dates. I also live in a world where a 24 year old Taylor Swift can’t write about bad dinner dates anymore. A world where she has sworn off dating and written an album with a curt nod to love instead of a wide smile, because she’s sick of her love life being an American pastime, a comedic punchline every time she leaves the house. “Watch out: she might write a song about you!” God forbid she tells the world that you’re a sloppy kisser. God forbid she tells the world that it still hurts that you left. She is a girl with a big heart and a bigger mouth and she owns everything that ever happens to her. I own everything that ever happens to me and I refuse straddle the line between privacy and honesty for the sake of someone else’s comfort level. I will not be a Disney mermaid willing to give up her own voice for love. Forget legs. Choke on water, choke on ink. I will not kiss another man who refuses to learn how to swim.

"Me vs. Taylor Swift vs. Ariel" Trista Mateer (via tristamateer)

Poetrydude66 says:

Hey taylorswift, look at what a beautiful poem your fan tristamateer wrote about you (and about herself).

My wish for Taylor would be that she starting reading other female poets like Trista, because that style of brutal emotional disclosure has a lot of runway.

Taylor should meet this person;  you are both walking on opposite sides of the same fence.

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The Agony of the 1989 Secret Sessions (WARNING: Graphic Cat Burrito Photo May Be Too Shocking For Younger Viewers)

ONE: Your reaction, upon learning that 300 fans have heard the entire 1989 album, and Taylor Swift walked them through each song personally, while simultaneously working the crowd, passing out homemade cookies, and acting out each song:

TWO: Your response after all of these fans tell you "don't worry it's great you will love it, but we cannot tell you any song titles, any song subjects, any song details, any details of how Taylor described the song, any musical detail, or any other detail that would help you to understand any aspect of the music":

THREE: Your attempt to sneak into the next 1989 Secret Session, trying to dress like one of the "cool kids":

FOUR: Your appearance in the middle of the night, after security kicks you out and you end up sleeping on the cold, hard ground:

FIVE: Your next attempt to break into a 1989 Secret Session, this time dressed as something Taylor Swift could never resist - a cat burrito** - which would have worked great except that they were only serving pizza.  Security mistakenly believes you might be a suicide cat bomber, clears the area, and calls in a SWAT team:

SIX: Your sad look when your girlfriend visits you in jail and tells you she is rethinking your relationship, since she is a reclusive heiress, and now you have an arrest record and the FBI has questioned you in order to rule out any connection to the terrorist organization "Al Cata":

SEVEN: Newly single, and still without music, you gain a few pounds as you engage in binge eating behavior in the weeks prior to the release of 1989.  The photo recording this period was a little bit fuzzy, due to the fact that there might also have been some alcoholic beverages consumed  (cropped out of the photo because this is a Taylor Swift blog after all):

EIGHT: Finally, you accept your fate, and you close your eyes in silent resignation to the fact that you will know nothing about this music and you have been shut out by your fellow Swifties:

This is the agony of being a taylorswift fan.

** No real cats were harmed in the making of the cat burrito.

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Poetrydude66 says:

My point is analyzing her songs is fair game, whereas gossiping about her every movement is what really violates her privacy.   Taylor has said in almost every interview for eight years:  I prefer to write about my private life in my songs.   So aren't the songs fair game?   That's where she chose to publish her feelings and thoughts about those relationships.   What a shame it would be if no one talks about lyrics, and instead just trades in real-time photos every two hours as she walks through New York.

Talking about Taylor's lyrics has NOT generated bad press for Taylor.   What generates bad press for Taylor is when someone notices that in a photo MGG's hand is next to a kitchen cabinet that matches the decor in Taylor's kitchen in Rhode Island, and then that observation blows up on Tumblr, where any gossip columnist is going to see it and then turn it into a story.   

I count fewer than 10 people on Tumblr who really like to immerse themselves in the details of her lyrics enough to actually analyze and write who songs might be about.   Those 10 people write long and thoughtful articles and get very few Tumblr Notes on what they write.  Because almost no one is listening and very few people seem to care.   If a gossip columnist finds one of those articles, how is she going to turn that into a bad story about Taylor?   If it requires 10 minutes to read and think about and requires background research to validate, it's already too long for the gossip format.   I mean if I speculate that Innocent was inspired by John Mayer, is TMZ going to turn the lyric analysis that argues for that into a story?   

On the other hand, I count hundreds of Tumblr accounts that appear to exist only to track Taylor's every single physical movement and reblog and speculate about all of that in real-time.  And the people who do that best get 500+ Tumblr Notes all the time.   So there is tremendous interest in that kind of idle gossip. 

It's pretty clear to me where 95% of the interest is, and it is the same place where 95% of the damage to her privacy is being done.    I agree with you that many of these photos are intentional publicity intended to help her career.   But the same people who reblog the "good" photos won't think twice about reblogging the "bad" ones that result in speculation about a potential relationship.

What I take away from all of this is that I should not participate in idle public gossip about her, and I never did have any interest in tracking where she is one day to the next.    I carve out an exception for Sweeran, only because Ed and Taylor are enormously talented artists who mutually benefit in their careers from knowing and liking each other, and who also mutually benefit in their careers from the speculation that they could be a couple someday.   But people like me who like to immerse in lyrics are not the ones who were ever interested in MGG photos and were probably not reblogging those.    If they were, now they have a chance to change.

I hope people who write about lyrics keep writing about lyrics.    And I just don't know how you control the 95% of the fan base that is focused on the other things.

poetrydude66 said: People who say they will not discuss who a song is about think nothing about reblogging paparazzi photos all day. There is cottage industry on Tumblr of teenage girls who live for the next real-time photograph. Privacy not possible there. (x)

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You should stop calling your things paintings. It confuses people, they probably think you either painted this by hand or painted it digitally. They are photos edited in Photoshop to look like paintings, not actual paintings. Big big difference.

No, this is incorrect.  I never use Photoshop autopainting.  Have you tried it?    The brushstrokes are wrong; the palette is horrible.    The way I texturize photographs involves a combination of digital hand-painted and auto painted elements, with the hand painted parts done in Corel Painter.   The auto-painting is typically limited to broad surfaces where a brushstroke pattern repeats.   The only use of Photoshop is when I want to take separately created elements and experiment with positioning.  Layers works well for that.   The original Starry Night painting was about 30 hours of work.   In no way shape or form was that a photo brought into Photoshop with some magical “create a painting” button pressed.    

Here is the thing I don’t understand.  Can people just enjoy something that is beautiful without requiring me to be Vincent Van Gogh?   I mean 95% of the content on Tumblr is people reblogging photos from magazines.   Those get thousands of Notes simply because the photo is beautiful.   If you actually went out on the photoshoot for some of these fashion magazines, you would quickly realize that many times the photographer is not even responsible for most of the beauty in the photograph.   There was a person whose only job was to establish lighting.  There was another person who did makeup.   There was another person who selected wardrobe, and there was another person who had the creative concept and organized the elements together.   Yet at the end of the day people credit the photographer with the photo, even though 70% of the beauty there might be coming from other people.  And - to the point - people enjoy the beauty of these photographs without extensive requirements that the photographer engineered every element on his own without any kind of assistance.   Why is my case any different?  Just enjoy beauty, if you find beauty.

The irony of course is that if I were Vincent Van Gogh, I would produce in three hours what took me 30, and it would probably look better as well.   So I do put in the time to create something that is beautiful, and I cannot tell you how frustrating it is to hear from people that “this is too beautiful therefore it cannot be real.”  I hear that repeatedly in my Anon box.  This is Tumblr, not the Guggenheim museum.   Let’s just enjoy beautiful things and not overthink it.

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What I love about those 2 is the many parallels in their music and in their comments. If I recall, it was your amazing theory who brought up "lunchbox days" right? Brilliant theory there. I can name so many parallels when it comes to them. Although I still think Innocent is about Kanye. :)

Poetrydude66 says:

To make things clear, I think the Anon is referring to Taylor Swift and John Mayer.   I think they have equal talent, although Taylor’s lyrics are a bit stronger, whereas John is a bit more musical.   Taylor’s lyrics are at least clear in meaning.   John has more beautiful sounding words, but often they seem to just run in emotional circles and lead you to a less clear place.  But they run a close race.

While they both have exceptional skill, I actually do not think they were well suited to each other, if you want to believe that their lyrics describe them as people correctly.   When I read Taylor’s songs, I read someone who has very little doubt about what she values and what she wants.   When I read John’s songs, I hear nothing but self doubt and indecision.   The only thing I am sure of is that Taylor Swift wants a partner who is absolutely sure he wants her, and she doesn’t want him to be shy about saying it.   I can’t see John Mayer having that kind of certainty about a relationship.  Taylor fell in love with his all-around excellence and mystery, but became very angry when she had to deal with his real persona.

Yes, I think Innocent was originally inspired by John Mayer, and I was the one who connected Taylor’s lyric in Innocent to Mayer’s lyric in 83.   I like Taylor’s lyric in Innocent so much I want an excuse to quote the entire part, but first let us look at Mayer’s lyric in 83:

whatever happened to my lunchboxwhen came the day that it gotthrown away and don’t you think I should have had some sayin that decision

But the smoking gun here is really John’s Playboy interview from early 2010.  That interview is a catastrophe for him, and he was depressed after it was criticized widely.   John says on Twitter on Feb 8, 2010:

And that’s what adulthood is: you wake from the nightmare and realize there’s no bigger bed to climb into.

Now we can play back the key section of Taylor’s Innocent:

Wasn’t it easier in your lunchbox days?Always a bigger bed to crawl intoWasn’t it beautiful when you believed in everythingAnd everybody believed in you?

If that isn’t a lyrical sledgehammer talking directly to John Mayer, then what is?

I guess I still owe the world a real post documenting the argument for why Innocent is originally inspired by John Mayer not Kanye.  I have not written that post yet, but here I can give a few hints.  Emotionally, Innocent is a song written for someone she has intimate knowledge of.  She is encouraging the person and trying to cheer that person up.  Mayer fits every part of that song perfectly.  The “bigger bed” and “lunchbox” lyrics fit like a glove to John’s hand.

Originally I said that nothing in Innocent says Kanye to me.  But an anon contacted me and pointed out the lyric in Innocent:

Time turns flames to embersYou’ll have new Septembers

Since the VMA incident with Kanye was in September 2009, those lyrics do suggest Kanye.   So that leaves us with a song that might have multiple inspirations.  Perhaps originally it was inspired by Mayer and targeted to him, but later when the split from Mayer was final, she may have decided to retarget the song to Kanye, with some of the lyrics then re-adapted.

Regarding the lunchbox and bigger bed lyrics, I have problems believing that Taylor would ever presume to talk down to Kanye and suggest things about his innocence and how his world view might have been in the past.   And surely Kanye’s actions and many interviews make clear he is so consumed by anger and paranoia and self-promotion that all attempts to talk to him compassionately would be turned away.

Taylor has verbally hinted in interviews that Innocent is for Kanye.  But you have to understand that redirecting a song to a situation is just something artists do from time to time.  It does not mean Taylor was trying to fool anyone. 

For my part, I am focused on who was the original inspiration for the song.  I want to follow the facts but also match those to the emotion being expressed.   Innocent screams John Mayer to me.   Details will have to wait for now, but I gave the ones that pertain to Anon’s comments.

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Goodbye, Sweet Becky, I Knew You All Too Well

And in this scene, Taylor Swift ( taylorswift ) considers her dear friend Becky, whose life was devastated by an unfortunate encounter with an illicit substance.

Even in this dark hour, the talented Taylor cannot stop songwriting.  "Hey," Taylor thinks, "All Too Well sounds like a catchy name for a song. I'll have to remember that one...."

Credit to ohsoswiftly who did the original frame captures without the Becky theme. Copyright on the video is CBS.  This is derivative work intended for humor only. 

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Please Help Me Find GIFs With Strong Taylor Swift Performance Moves?

Can any of my lovely followers point me to any GIFs that show Taylor Swift doing strong performance moves?  I mean by this any performance where the movements are powerful, choreographed, or just very emotive.   One example of such a performance move is the GIF here:

There are others similar to this that are popular and reblogged a lot, and I would appreciate pointers to them.

I would be equally interested in GIFs that show Taylor just emoting in some very clear way, similar to what she does at the end of Better than Revenge on the Speak Now DVD.

I'm collecting these for a future post.  My inbox is always open.   Let me know your favorites.  If the GIF is your personal work and you want credit, I will do that.