#Love Story - Taylor Swift

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Taylor Swift

Love Story music video (2008)

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WAIT WAIT WAIT YOU GUYSSS

A little snippet out of “Love Story” by Taylor Swift:

That you were Romeo, you were throwing pebbles  And my daddy said, "Stay away from Juliet"  And I was crying on the staircase  Begging you, "Please don't go"  And I said

"Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone  I'll be waiting, all there's left to do is run  You'll be the prince, and I'll be the princess  It's a love story, baby, just say yes"

So I sneak out to the garden to see you  We keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew  So close your eyes  Escape this town for a little while, oh, oh

'Cause you were Romeo, I was a scarlet letter  And my daddy said, "Stay away from Juliet"  But you were everything to me  I was begging you, "Please don't go"  And I said

"Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone  I'll be waiting, all there's left to do is run  You'll be the prince, and I'll be the princess  It's a love story, baby, just say yes"

I’ve always felt a bit weird about this song. I’ve seen other Gaylors call out that Taylor is an amazing songwriter and has a way with words, but sometimes her lyrics turn out quite tame, almost like how Taylor Swift haters think all her songs are. And it seems like sometimes she does this on purpose, every time because she’s trying to prove a point of some sort. I have no idea if what I’m trying to say here is old news for Gaylors, but this is my first time realising this so bear with me.

Let’s take a look at this:

“That you were Romeo, you were throwing pebbles, and my daddy said stay away from Juliet.”

The interesting part here, for me at least, is the last part. Stay away from Juliet. It isn’t specified who the father says that to, “Romeo” or Taylor.

The first part is interesting as well. “That you were Romeo, you were throwing pebbles.” “You were Romeo” sounds for me like how you feel when you come to terms with liking girls. It’s a shock. There is no Romeo in your life, there is another Juliet. You look at your girl crush and realise, THIS is Romeo. Not who I thought it’d be. And your father tells you that you’re supposed to have a Romeo in your life, and this isn’t Romeo, this isn’t a boy. You’re not supposed to love a girl like this, stay away from her, stay away from Juliet. And now look at that part of the song again. “That you were Romeo, you were throwing pebbles, and my daddy said stay away from Juliet.”

Now let’s take a look at “You’ll be the prince, and I’ll be the princess.” This is one of the sentences that have made my head hurt with this song. It’s so classic, such a cliché. Not at all the Taylor we know. But if we look at it like this: here we are, two girls in love, two Juliets. And it’s so new, so unfamiliar without a Romeo, without a prince. You’re still adapting to this new feeling. It’s like a new forbidden game. “You’ll be the prince Juliet, I’ll be princess Juliet, this is a new unfamiliar game for us.”

“It’s a love story”. As if there’s need to convincing. No, it’s not all a game, this is real, these feelings are love, please. say. yes.

I will take a closer look at the whole song and all the lyrics later! Feel free to add anything you’re missing, I am more than willing to have a long conversation about Gaylor, hehe 😅

[ofmd-ann]

👰🤵💍❤

[harryswiftsstuff]

Marry me Juliet💍💫

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[edmundpevensiesqueen]

but daddy i love him is just love story part 2 in this essay i will -

[taytouroutfitshowdown]

[yudgefudge]

imagine ur at ur wedding and ur fiance plays love story...then it's not taylor's version

[queenghost31434]

The growth from

Romeo, save me…

to

You don’t need to save me, but would you run away with me?

is just so beautiful.

[pqt-tumble]

I forgot to upload last year's huevember on tumblr so have a dump of them over the next three days before this year begins.. I did Taylor Swift style challenge focusing on her outfits. Shout out to @taylorswiftstyle where I sourced most of the outfits from.

Day 2: Love Story video dress in Disney princess style.

DO NOT REPOST! Reblogs encouraged. All other uses, please ask.

[george-taylors-version]

FRIENDSHIP BRACELET UPDATE

My two newest additions! I have 19 bracelets for the tour and going to take what I have made so far to the movie!

[tolerateit]

it's a love story, baby, just say, "yes"

[still-beautiful-things]

I think there are plenty of songs since Lover that show us Taylor and Joe were having problems, or that Taylor was trying to work through her emotions when she was hurt by Joe. I just never thought about it too much because it seemed pretty normal for a couple to have issues. Part of the human experience is being deeply hurt by the people you love and, while they don't mean it to, it can feel like your scars are reopening.

I don't like going back to her pre-breakup song and be like "oh she was always scared of him leaving" "there were always signs they'd breakup" because you can find flaws in any relationship. Being in a relationship is constantly making the choice to stay, despite everything. Despite your trust issues, despite their struggles to communicate. You choose to stay because the sacrfice is worth the prize. You choose to stay until it's not worth it anymore, or maybe you choose to stay again and again until either of you die. But in Taylor's case, she realized she was choosing something that, by this point, was destorying her instead of building her up.

your second paragraph is *chef kiss.*

to be honest, a lot of the conflict taylor described in her music sounded like something i'd never want - but i also really love how beautifully she describes her own journey in figuring out her flaws and facing them in order to make her relationship work. and the only option we have is to trust her judgment about her own life. if she stayed 6-7 years, we have to assume there was reason for that and i don't think there's any reason to have discourse about how "she should've known better" or fans should've seen it common, you know?

and, yeah, conflict is a normal part of relationships and i believe it's very common for issues that will eventually tear your relationship apart to be present at the beginning. it's just that at the beginning, you might be endeared by them, you have the energy/desire to work through them, you think they might change, or the issues actually just get worse over time.

as taylor said in renegade, "if i would've known how many pieces you had crumbled into, i might've let them lay" - that indicated their issues were serious at the time of writing, which i discussed with you guys at the time, but it was also very relatable. people can go through shit together after 6 - 15 - 20 years that would scare you at year 1.

also, some people made it hard to discuss any of this at the time without becoming the joe defense squad, becoming the taylor hit squad, or immediately turning this into "joe and taylor are gonna break up" discourse. so like. yeah. lots of reasons why we didn't or couldn't talk about these things in the moment lmao

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The Eras Tour as Eras: Fearless (x)

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[taylornation]

It’s been 3 years since this princess started the journey of reclaiming her life’s work with Love Story (Taylor's Version). 💛 Since then, 105 songs have joined her outside of the vault.

Taylor, WE LOVE YOU AND THAT’S ALL WE REALLY KNOW!