i really love the metaphor of love as a place on florida!!!
little did you know your home's really only a town you're just a guest in
little did you know your lifelong relationship can end, their touch can become foreign, you can become bereft, the same way you can be exiled from a whole town
so you work your life away just to pay for a timeshare down in destin
you put all this effort into finding your soulmate, only to end up with someone who, like a timeshare, is only yours temporarily
little did you know your home's really only the town you'll get arrested
your relationship can end up feeling like a cage, a lock you have to crack, something you have to escape from
so you pack your life away just to wait out the shitstorm back in texas
the same way an outlaw would skip town and go into hiding, you can leave a relationship and find a temporary respite in someone else until you're ready to move on
think what pisses me off the most about seven and raffi is that it would’ve been so easy to have them be in a long distance relationship (a mention here and there, space skype, having raffi include seven when speaking on family and vice versa etc) and not have it affect the greater story at all. yet they just. didn’t try in the least.
a canon gay ship that ended the previous season deciding to finally give their relationship a try, opens the new season with nary a word and im supposed to clap? make that make mf sense because im not getting it! what’s worse, they never actually reveal what happened between them to cause the split and when they finally meet, they move around each other like fucking strangers. just giving absolute nothing.
and the show pretending their relationship just fizzled out is such nasty work. like the way they played it with no intimacy, hardly a personal word, a lack of privacy, no references to their relationship or why it dissolved (professionalism my ass!) plus the worlds most awkward chaperoned post break up convo was all so intentional and insidious. might as well have come out and said fuck the gays lol.
because there was literally no reason to not have them at least try. wouldn’t have affected the show in any way other than injecting some much needed joy into a lifeless, uneven season filled with old things presented anew. but not engaging with them and dragging things out (10 episodes that could’ve been a fucking email) was cruel, obvious and beyond unnecessary.
and, as the show is over, the fact that they’re on the same ship does little to curb my annoyance because in truth, it means nothing.
i just know that all of you who claim not to like ready for it were absolutely losing it, screaming “KNEW HE WAS A KILLER FIRST TIME THAT I SAW HIM WONDER HOW MANY GIRLS HE HAD LOVED AND LEFT HAUNTED BUT IF HES A GHOST THEN I CAN BE A PHANTOM HOLDING HIM FOR RANSOM!!!!” when you heard it live on the eras tour and that’s the power of reputation. she will always be famous
rep tour felt so big to me (and it was!) like the main stage was crazy, the 2 b-stages were crazy, the intro was crazy, everything felt so big, and somedays i can’t believe that eras tour is bigger than that. not just slightly bigger but much more bigger. and i think the best part of it all is that taylor still feels so accessible. im just so proud of her so yeah
Yeah once again I am not og anon but Cowboy Like me is the yeehaw version of Ready For It, I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL
*clears throat like Taylor in the beginning of RFI*
- Ready For It: "Knew he was a killer first time that I saw him", "I was a robber first time that he saw me" = Cowboy Like Me "You're a cowboy like me", "You're a bandit like me".
- "I'm so very tame now, never be the same now, now" = "Now I'm never gonna love again".
- "I know I'm gonna be with you
so I take my time" = "Forever is the sweetest con".
- "Wonder how many girls he had loved and left haunted" = "And the ladies lunching have their stories about when you passed through town but that was all before I locked it down".
- "Me, (...) stealing hearts and running off and never saying sorry" = "And the old men that I've swindled
really did believe I was the one"
Both songs are about two people falling for each other when they were not looking for love at all: they (con artists in Cowboy Like Me or thiefs in Ready For It) were not really in it for searching for commitment when they met each other, but somehow read into the other persons' tricks and identified each other as equals.
well said and thank you so much for writing this all out!!