#fun fact! no lyrics from folkmore were featured in this post. there’s a reason her pandemic albums are her most mature ones

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here’s every taylor swift song that i think fits dl!scott’s relationship with pearl, but from his pov. i’ve never actually watched his pov from start to end but it’s just the vibes from the parts that i did see

going to reiterate, these are the songs that are exclusively about him and pearl in double life. i don’t know that much about scott to assign him songs on other stuff

oh, and it goes without saying, switch the pronouns where applicable

(left to right, top to bottom: I Knew You Were Trouble, We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, Blank Space, How You Get The Girl)

obvious picks first. this is what scott’s externally presenting to pearl, as a decisive, snappy breakup. to some extent it’s true in that pearl chases after scott in a backhanded way but it’s definitely not this simple, even if scott wants it to be.

blank space (3rd ss) especially is them in a very twisted way, in that they’re obsessed with each other but hate each other at the same time, which is why they interacted more frequently than strictly needed in DL, but always with outcomes that were beneficial to neither party.

(Castles Crumbling, Red, Babe, Midnight Rain)

we never actually get an explicit mention of LL (afaik) from dl!scott, but in the first episode when pearl brings up GGG, he basically shuts it down, so i think his general attitude was that pearl ruined it so he had to move on. these are songs about change.

i think there’s a certain element of regret but not that he himself screwed up but rather the circumstances led to their estrangement (which is why i put in castles crumbling). he viewed it more as a “it had to end at some point” fling i think (like in red).

this is one of the things that pearl and scott saw differently on. DL!pearl was LL!pearl, looking at DL and wondering how it would have happened, while scott was DL!scott and saw LL not as something that was destroyed between him and pearl, but rather as a “before” state that was bound to turn into something else.

(Should’ve Said No, All You Had To Do Was Stay, Look What You Made Me Do, This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things)

but you know what dl!scott does explicitly mention? that he felt that pearl abandoned him, not the other way round. should’ve said no in particular takes the black-and-white stance of “you cheated on me”.

since he was quite smug about it all the songs featured above are very boppy (from albums like reputation and 1989), your stereotypical taylor swift songs trashtalking her exes.

linking it to taylor: the rep songs were actually about her “haters” (kanye west etc) and i think it’s very on-brand for scott to view pearl as a #hater. also their titles of “look what you made me do” and “this is why we can’t have nice things” are straight out from textbook manipulation 101.

pearl would be more the type to use those lines on scott, but i feel like scott was thinking those lines and channelling them constantly. he definitely internalised them more while pearl was just saying them to avoid focusing on her own self-hate. but for once this post isn’t about her so let’s move on.

(You’re Not Sorry, That’s When, Innocent, The Moment I Knew)

if i could describe scott’s attitude to pearl in one line it would be “i’m not mad, just disappointed”. anyway these are all songs where taylor has been wronged in some way, and while they’re definitely not an accurate portrayal of how the events unfolded, they definitely fit scott’s perception as him having to cope with this horrible partner/ex. he’s wrong, but hey, quoting the great princess celestia, there’s no wrong way to fantasize.

focusing on innocent (3rd ss), i chose it because it was funny. it’s essentially a song about forgiveness and telling the other person that they can always fix themselves, which was a very scott way of looking at things imo. it’s very reminiscent of the dl!finale in its benevolent, saintly condescension and straight out dismissal of the other person’s feelings.

the moment i knew (4th ss) is about knowing when your relationship with someone is over (taylor songs are not hard to interpret: this song was based off her boyfriend not coming to her 21st birthday). with how scott says welcome home cheaters in the first episode and going on about martyn and pearl being reckless, it’s pretty clear that he felt that pearl had committed a grievous sin against him. and maybe she had, who knows? it’s a scott’s world and you’re lucky to be living in it

pit stop! c!scott would unironically listen to You Need To Calm Down and i’m not even joking

(Is It Over Now?, I Did Something Bad, Getaway Car, Karma)

very shady songs. they’re mainly mid-season scott, when he treated pearl with the most detachment (they swing between the two poles of attraction so much i can barely keep track, but i can pinpoint at least this).

scott wishes he could ever be i did something bad like sl!gem was, but as i said, this is his biased perspective so obviously to him pearl is the bad guy, like how scott was the bad guy in pearl’s story. it kills me to say this but dl!pearl was genuinely awful at some points so i don’t entirely blame him.

getaway car is semi-LL, about the part of scott who realised that he did pearl dirty, especially with their shared history, but at the same time doesn’t want to take accountability for it

(imgonnagetyouback, Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus)

these ones are kinda iffy, but if you squint i guess you could see scott being conflicted in the final sessions? tbh they lean more into the fandom interpretation of galaxy duo, which is more of love and hate at the same time. either way they both end up dead

(High Infidelity, But Daddy I Love Him)

i know i said i was only going to talk about dl!scott in relation to his perception of dl!pearl, but i guess how he talked to pearl about cleo and how he talked to cleo about pearl kind of counts.

anyway the whole chosen soulmates thing was kind of a banger. only scott smajor could have weaponised it to tell his bitter ex why she was inferior and therefore undeserving from the start. divorce duo’s entire relationship was built on spite, which they both superficially acknowledge, so there’s that at least.

while we’re here someone tell me if i hallucinated cleo telling pearl “i’m you but better” at some point. i swear it happened but i might just have straight up imagined it

lightning round

aka i’m too lazy to come up with explanations

aka scott would never ever confront his feelings like this but since i say so then these songs apply

conclusion

no conclusion. this post never ends, much like pearl’s hate for scott. thanks for watching and don’t remember to subscribe

as one of taylor’s more problematic songs i feel it fits dl!scott (song is renegade by big red machine, ft. taylor swift)

anyway we’ve had far too many people (that includes me) tearing apart dl!pearl’s pov, i think scott’s pov has just as much potential if we just dig a little deeper. he was just as much an unreliable narrator as pearl was