can we share this for the Swifties that can't go to the Eras Tour? For those people who haven't got the money or the time. Or have no Swiftie friends and don't want to go alone. Who can't trade friendship bracelets. Or the silent peolpe who don't have a Swiftie social media account.
Cause they are out there. And I want them to feel seen and appreciated and loved. It's ok if you can't go. It doesn't mean that you are no real fan 'cause that's not true. You are a real Swiftie.
And we know you're there. We see you. We love you.
No but the wild thing about TTPD and how HUGE the set was is how it totally subverts the expectations of the woman scorned. It IS female rage and she's leaning into it full stop.
After everything that's detailed on the album -- the slow and agonizing death of a relationship, the blurry lines of infidelity, the gaslighting of a new lover, the mind games, the trauma of living in the public eye and of being a woman with power that threatens the patriarchy -- it would be easy to guess she'd lean into the sadness. Hell, before TTPD came out I thought so too, because I thought this was going to be a heavy, painful album she might want to roll out quietly on stage!
And it is painful, but she has galvanized it into the most theatrical production of her career. She is not going gently into the night with this. She's not letting past slights against her roll off her back and act like they didn't affect her or like it rolled off her back. She's not sitting in the "shame" of being conned by a man who used her. She's not hiding away the fact that she fell for his lies and blew up her life in the process. She's owning it and she's making A GODDAMN SPECTACLE out of it. She's channeling this very private hurt into the loudest woman the WORLD has ever seen, and show the performance of the idea of love for what it really was -- an act of the highest order.
You think you can break me? You think you can play with me as inspiration for your own art? You think you can use me for your content? THINK AGAIN. I'm going to put on the biggest goddamn show of my life and everyone will know it.
You'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loved you.
They (all the theys) may have kicked out the stage lights, but SHE is going to be the last one performing.