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- the colors of midnights by taylor swift ✨

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Who's going to the Eras Tour??? Reblog with your city and what you think you're wearing!

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Would've, Could've, Should've

This song. The instant I heard it, even half-asleep at three in the morning, I knew that it was going to be one of my new favorites. I feel like we as a fan base collectively like to talk about the hard-hitting lines in this song (i.e. "never would've danced with the devil at 19," and the fan-favorite "give me back my girlhood//it was mine first"), but after thinking about it a lot I don't think those are the most devastating lyrics.

I think that, by far, the most heart-wrenching bit of the song is when Taylor says "I miss who I used to be." I think it's easy to overlook this line, as its typically nestled in between other lyrics and she sings it rather quickly. But I feel like this, more than anything, encapsulates the spirit of the song.

"Would've, could've, should've" is a common phrase (at least, in American English...not sure about other countries or languages), typically used to imply regret. It's also, however, a way of acknowledging that whatever has been done is officially in the past, and there's no changing that.

By singing "I miss who I used to be," she almost directly contradicts that. She's not at peace with what happened, and even now, over a decade later, she misses who she used to be. Remember, this is the Taylor that gave us fairytale metaphors and wanted to name her third album "Enchanted." But this relationship changed her, made her a bit more cynical and a lot less trusting. She misses the person she was before she "danced with the devil," and she will never be able to be that person again...I think that's probably the most heartbreaking part of this whole thing.

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My Tears Ricochet~Hoax

Listening to folklore for the umpteenth time on shuffle, I realized something I'd never noticed before. A series of parallels between my tears ricochet and hoax.

In Swift's folklore doc on Disney+, while discussing my tears ricochet, she speaks about how the worst betrayal comes from someone you thought was your friend...how in movies, the worst kind of villain is someone the hero had been close to (hence the mtr lyric "you're the hero flying around saving face.")

When else do we hear about a hero in a folklore song?

From hoax's bridge: "you knew the hero died, so what's the movie for?"

At first, I thought it was an odd coincidence, but it doesn't stop there. Both songs mention releasing emotions via yelling (mtr: "I still talk to you when I'm screaming at the sky" vs hoax: "stood on the cliffside screaming").

mtr says "if I'm on fire, you'll be made of ashes too." hoax? Says "I am ash from your fire."

mtr's narrator says "I loved you, I swear I loved you." hoax is all about someone that's convinced the love being shown to them is a hoax ("your faithless love's the only hoax I believe in").

I thought it was really cool to find connections between songs aside from the cardigan/august/betty triangle (maybe there's connections between other songs that haven't been noticed yet??)