#godofsmallthings

[whereshadowslive]

If you're happy in a dream, does that count?

— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

[evermoredeluxe]

i actually don't have a cover for my taylor playlist do u want to pick a photo for me

the fearless one is extremely 🥺 and i lovelovelove the red one

[iwanttobelieve11]

List 5 things that make you happy, then send this question to the last 10 people who liked/reblogged one of your posts.

10 things that make me happy:

1. my friends

2. my family

3. food (especially french fries, tacos, pizza, pasta, wings, cheesesteaks, crab cakes, & funfetti 🤤)

4. philadelphia eagles 🏈

5. philadelphia phillies ⚾️

6. music/concerts 🎶

7. new jersey (my home state) 🫶🏾

8. traveling

9. craft beer/breweries 🍻

10. the beach/sunsets 🌅

[fifteensjukebox]

@godofsmallthings tagged me to post five songs i've been listening to lately!!! <333

paris is burning - st vincent

crystal memphis - thérapie taxi

libre - angèle

ava - cœur de pirate

blindness - metric

im just going to tag @ameliapondmd and whoever else wants to so this

[pr]

i think this is the outfit those pics are reminding me of

i can see it

[bougainvilea]

🎶✨️when u get this u have to put 5 songs u actually listen to, publish. Then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool)🎶✨️

bleecker street - simon & garfunkel

happier than ever - billie eilish

nonsense - sabrina carpenter

don't take the money (ft lorde) live version - bleachers

nothing else i could do - ella jane

[theone]

21, 22

21. favorite viral trend of the year?

Goncharov (1973) finally getting the recognition it deserves!

22. list any three new things you learned this year (could be recipes, a new skill, etc.)

I learned to make this awesome lasagna with spinach, tomato sauce and cheese sauce; I learned how to play billiards, and a new tune on the piano (a few days ago actually)

[lonelyisthe]

List 5 things that make you happy, then send this question to the last 10 people who liked/reblogged one of your posts.

oh thank you! these are fun!

1. my cat matcha ❤️

2. washing my sheets and showering before bed

3. soup

4. thrifting

5. seeing my niece 🥰

[doveofmourning]

i saw u rbed my post and i'm just so intrigued about the thought process behind your lover tracklist/you're losing me being a lover vault track. pls explain.

Yeah absolutely! I was on a break from Taylor when Lover dropped unfortunately after being a day one fan but feeling really burned by LWYMMD, the way it seemed like she was really going to make a hip hop album just to spite a black man (and I never thought Kanye was in the right but it didn't sit right with me for her to go that far) and the way she just refused to address the growing homophobia in her own fanbase, so unfortunately I wasn't there when it came out and a lot of this has been my own research.

I'm pretty sure everyone knows by now that Lover was finished being recorded, mixed and mastered in February of 2019 but London Boy has been proven to have been made in early June of that year. (If I need to explain this too I can make another post for it.)

We also know that the songs All of the Girls You Loved Before and Need/It's A Need were vault tracks. This was essentially confirmed on March 17 of 2023 when she officially released All of the Girls You Loved Before as a vault track.

So here's my thoughts. First of all, You're Losing Me isn't sonically coherent with Midnights. Not with the main album which MANY more qualified people than I have explained (but suffice it to say that the mastering makes the album sound very samey; I LIKE Midnights but this is undeniably true), not with the 3am tracks which have a very Aaron Dessner sound to them. You're Losing Me doesn't fit with the 70's and 80's inspired synth sounds most prominently heard on Lavender Haze, Karma, The Great War and Labrynth. It has incredibly important drums, but unlike the ONLY two drum forwards midnight tracks (Question...? and Anti-Hero) it does not use a drum machine. It also has its bass line mastered in a different way than midnights that feels more natural and less muddied. While I do think Jaxk Antonoff is an amazing producer, he's gotten into a rut and this is NOT the sound of his current production style.

In addition, Taylor uses a sample from Cornelia Street in the bridge. The piano line isn't just similar, I've put them next to each other and they are the EXACT same sound. This is possible but unlikely to be achievable four years after the production of Cornelia Street because while Taylor COULD be more careful than industry standards, many record companies only save the master files, not the DAW workbench, at least long term. This is something that has been changing recently, but I still think it is at least a point in the favor of You're Losing Me being the original Track 11 of Lover.

In addition, You're Losing Me mentions "mending all of her gashes" as well as other references to other knife wounds; it also mentions "We thought a cure would come through in time, now, I fear it won't". This creates a narrative link between Death by a Thousand Cuts and Soon You'll Get Better that just wasn't present in the official release. In addition, DBATC and YLM end and start, respectively, on the same piano note. Similarly, YLM and SYGB end and start, respectively, on the same chords.

Thematically You're Losing Me also mirrors the dramatic shift in the Lover era from bright pastels and pop songs to all black and singing the greatest breakup songs of all time in lounges. It seems like a predictive song that came true.

There are a LOT of people who believe Joe was a fake relationship, and if so a breakup likely happened here, but even assuming Toe was real we now know that they has NUMEROUS breakups over their 6 year relationship. I think one likely happened in the summer of 2019, and Taylor saw it coming, and this was a song about it. It would also explain why Joe was so offended about its release if it wasn't even from this breakup.

Also "I wouldn't marry me either" sure seems a lot more in line with Ms. "I take this magnetic force of a man" "I think he knows he better lock it down" "I'd marry you with paper rings" than Dr. "She would've made such a lovely bride, what a shame she's fucked in the head" "no deal that 1950's shit that want from me" "he wanted a bride I was making my own name". Like obviously she can have conflicting feelings bit it seems way more likely that this was back when she WANTED to marry him.

Moving on though. False God is Taylor's sexiest song and it feels bizarre to abruptly change to YNTCD. Need is also horny but in more of yearning way, and sonically it tranItions from very sultry at the start to very upbeat and airy by the end. This just makes a lot more sense to me. Personally I'd have preferred, given her lack of meaningful queer activism, her to NOT have profited off of a song explicitly about queerness, but this isn't about what I want, it's about what I think was on the Original Track Listing ™️.

Moving on, I think It's Nice To Have A Friend and Daylight are doing two wildly different thing, and AOTGYLB both bridges them nicely and acts as a good end to the story of a young woman in love but afraid she's going to lose it. "Yes, I've been afraid, especially because I'm afraid I can't measure up, but I can see now that I don't have to measure up and your past shaped you into the person why wants me despite my flaws." It allows Daylight to breath as an author's note, and I genuinely think that's where Daylight shines.

Also, just numerically, it feels unlikely that Taylor Swift would look at a 19 song tracklist (18-1 for London Boy+2 for AOTGYLB and Need) and go "yeah no let's cut nothing and also not add one more track to make it are significant or round number." The woman cut Wonderland from the standard 1989 to me the tracklist 13; I don't buy it.

Ultimately because we ojow the tracklist is different in the initial mix vs the actual release we know SOME changes were made. We can't KNOW which changes are 100% correct unless she tells us (and even then she does like to just lie sometimes), but to me this seems like the closest I'm going to get unless new information arises.

Thanks for the ask, and sorry the explanation was so long/took a bit to type up!

[whereshadowslive]

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

- Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

[evermoredeluxe]

sequel:

i want to steal that playlist name 😵‍💫

[godofsmallthing]

[fifteensjukebox]

@godofsmallthings (thanks!!!) tagged me to shuffle 5 songs on my spotify on repeat and have my followers pick their fave!

once again tagging whoever wants to do this!

[pr]

unsolicited hair advice (and this very well may not work at all for u) but i recently started using the 'not your mother's' brand curl cream on my hair (just scrunch it in wet after showering) and it's been a game changer for me bc it's really simple but keeps my curls rlly defined without them feeling crunchy at all. just in case ur interested :))

[bougainvilea]

List 5 things that make you happy, then send this question to the last 10 people who liked/reblogged one of your posts.

hi bestie 🩷

my friends

my job

movies & books

my dnd characters

my bed

[fearsomeandwretched]

Kimberly-wexler -> andisitover -> ifclaritysindeath -> fearsomeandwretched!!!

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