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midnightsslut · 7 months ago

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i know swifties are known for appreciating taylor’s lyrics, but i’m starting to wonder if the fandom has grown so large and her music so dense that a lot of people don’t understand what she’s saying at all. add the general trend of media illiteracy, the weird handwringing about whether her lyrics are autobiographical, and the increasingly popular view that you cannot see the author in the work, and a lot of people (largely not on here) are starting to have zero appreciation for the meaning of her lyrics beyond ‘this sounds pretty. that’s such a good metaphor!’ a lot of people are genuinely amazing at analyzing her music and post insightful takes, but the opposite is becoming prevalent as well imo.

#there was a thread on twitter about a month ago asking people to reply/qrt with the lyrics they didn’t understand #and it was just. the most basic stuff.#I remember the argument about what ‘maybe it was egos swinging / maybe it was her’ meant even on here when I thought that was just obvious?#syntactically it makes no sense for the her to be taylor’s ego #idk this fandom is unmanageable #and to be clear there are a lot of great takes on here and on twittergenuinely #but it’s hard to discuss anything without someone coming out of the woodwork to criticize you because they don’t understand

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