#we need more memes about taylor's albums

[iwasbored777]

How I want Gwen and Miles to be vs how they actually are:

[mcflymemes]

THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT - THE ANTHOLOGY BY TAYLOR SWIFT PROMPT LIST *  assorted lyrics from the album, some lines slightly adapted for meme purposes but feel free to adjust as necessary

even if it's handcuffed, i'm leaving here with you.

trust me. i can handle a dangerous man.

i love you. it's ruining my life.

does it feel all right to not know me?

i am who i am 'cause you trained me.

quick. tell me something awful.

i loved you the way that you were.

we were just kids, babe.

i can fix him.

you and i go from one kiss to getting married.

you said i'm the love of your life.

way up there, i actually love it.

i just don't understand how you don't miss me.

do you hate me?

did you think i had it in me?

what if i told you i'm back?

i still miss the smoke.

i'm not trying to exaggerate, but i think i might die if it happened.

you look like stevie nicks.

it's hell on earth to be heavenly.

i still can't believe it.

this happens once every few lifetimes.

didn't you hear? they called it all off.

it's happening again.

my friends say it isn't right to be scared.

i might just die.

fuck you if i can't have us.

tell me about the first time you saw me.

are you gonna marry, kiss, or kill me?

no one's ever had me... not like you.

stay away from her.

there wouldn't be this if there hadn't been you.

i don't think you've changed much.

that's where i was when i lost it all.

life was always easier on you than it was on me.

i hoped you'd return.

do you believe me now?

what if your eyes looked up and met mine one more time?

what are the chances you'd be downtown?

is it something i did?

oh, we must stop meeting like this.

they say what doesn't kill you makes you aware.

i'm not a donor, but i'd give you my heart if you needed it.

looking backwards might be the only way to move forwards.

the story isn't mine anymore.

what a charming saturday!

none of it is changing.

wild winds are death to the candle.

one bad seed kills the garden.

i'm bitter, but i swear i'm fine.

this place made me feel worthless.

i didn't want to come down.

everything had been above board.

blood's thick, but nothing like a payroll.

you can mark my words that i said it first.

the professor said to write what you know.

all of this to say, i hope you're okay.

your words are still just ringing in my head.

i built a legacy which you can't undo.

who do i have to speak to to change the prophecy?

the effects were temporary.

no, i'm not coming to my senses.

babe, you gotta fake it 'til you make it.

you know you're good when you can even do it with a broken heart.

i guess a lesser woman would've lost hope.

thought of calling you, but you won't pick up.

you're a professional.

long may you reign.

you're an animal. you are bloodthirsty.

now i seem to be scared to go outside.

i don't believe in good luck.

i hate it here.

if i'd been there, i'd hate it.

only the gentle survived.

i'm lonely, but i'm good.

you have no room in your dreams for regrets.

i thought it was just goodbye for now.

are you still a mind reader?

let it once be me.

i haven't decided yet.

i still dream of him.

i'm so afraid i sealed my fate.

it was always the same searing pain.

i can't forgive the way you made me feel.

it wasn't a fair fight or a clean kill.

she used to say she wished that you were dead.

tell me all your secrets.

they tried to warn you about me.

you're in terrible danger.

i'm the life you chose.

yes, i'm haunted, but i'm feeling just fine.

no one asks any questions here.

tell me i'm despicable. say it's unforgivable.

i'm running back home to you.

you should see your faces.

you knew the price going in.

was any of it true?

who the fuck was that guy?

i don't ever want you back.

did you sleep with a gun underneath our bed?

you don't get to tell me you feel bad.

you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me.

am i allowed to cry?

there's no such thing as bad thoughts. only your actions talk.

they're going to crucify me anyway.

i know i'm just repeating myself.

that's the closest i've come to my heart exploding.

[dogsliampaynedoesntinstagram]

Actually, one of the first things I thought of when learning that Liam had passed away was that he was Nora’s favorite. Liam to me was never the most interesting member of all the 1D lads but the way Nora talked about him on every single album had me appreciating him way more. I do think some of his qualities, both musically and personally, were a bit overlooked during the band.

This makes me want to relisten to the 1D related Every Single Album episodes anon.

I've just finished listening to the latest Every Single Album, and I enjoyed hearing more of Nora's perspective. I liked how expansive they were with what they talked about, the way that they emphasised the importance of 1D culturally and musically, and that they started by putting it in the context of fame.

As always it gives a sense of how differently people understand celebrities. I really want to interrogate Nathan about the idea that it's Taylor Swift's work ethic saved her. I think there might actually be an argument there (which is bascially - the fact that she always needed to work meant she always had people with her, and the hardest part of fame is the isolation from others in time), but it reminded me how easy it is to draw obviously untrue causation lines from success to wellbeing. When they basically asked 'is Harry Styles too dumb to be fucked up by fame?' I thought 'here are people who are less obsessed with what Harry has said to and about his therapist than I am.

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I'm going to articulate something that has been rolling round my brain, and which I haven't said yet. She mentioned again the clip about being locked in their rooms. Each time I've heard it, I've thought how much I think fans missed the point when they use that as proof of the evil of management. And I do think it's important to talk about the way the music industry is profiting is suffering in that example.

But by focusing on (or pretending to focus on) and literalising the quote (I've never been in a hotel room that you can lock people into). Fans miss the point - what was it that 1D was being protected from? Why couldn't they just go outside? How could 1D have been kept both safe and free while touring?

There seems within fandom a real unwillingness to look at the fact that was our actions that did harm. I'm sure the decisions by people with power did harm. It may not fully be that Eric Andre meme, but there is an element of it. Fans damaged Liam. Fans trapped him in his room with just a minibar. The damage was a result of aspects that were central to what fans love - they weren't avoidable just if better people were in charge.

I sometimes think that fandom's rush to blame someone is a way of avoiding the role we played.

[likeadevils]

I trust your opinion. If you were making bets about what TS11's themes, concepts and sound would be like.. What would you like& prefer? and what would you think Taylor would do?

thank you for trusting my opinion but i am god awful at predicting what taylor is going to do next. that being said:

i think something taylor learned with all too well, anti-hero, and cruel summer is to… trust her instincts, i guess? not that she hasn’t in the past, but she’s mentioned that those songs were her favorites of their respective albums, and she didn’t expect that the general public would enjoy them as much— at least, not to the degree that they have been. but they’ve all been #1s, and more impressively to me, they’ve all broken through into wider pop culture in a way that’s super hard to do nowadays. like can you tell me what’s #1 right now because i can’t. but anyways i think she’ll be following what she wants to hear a little bit more, and trusting that her and the general public’s taste is pretty aligned at the moment. so like, to boil it down into a bingo card prediction, the lead single is going to be taylor’s favorite song on the album

also, bingo square, the color will be white. no evidence just vibes

i think another thing taylor recently learned is trusting that not only her fanbase, but the wider pop landscape would accept complex ideas delivered with a complex vocabulary. in some ways i think she was really burned by me!— she had been taught that it’s the we are never ever getting back together and shake it offs that you send to pop radio, not the all too wells. and then me! got torn apart (deservedly or not), and then the world shut down and it’s not like she needs to find a tour off her next album so what the hell, let’s take out the immediate hooks and replace it with flowery language. and it was a massive hit! twice! but it’s not the kind of music she wants to make forever. so midnights was an added gamble— can you marry the hooks with the collegiate vocabulary? and you can! anti-hero was her biggest chart success ever! so i expect more dictionary/thesaurus starter pack memes in our future, no matter what genre it’ll end up in

that being said, i think she’ll be staying in pop. i maaaaybe could see a kind of pop rock thing happening— think like, the electric guitar she adds to don’t blame me when it’s preformed live.

regardless i do think she’ll be pulling in more rep influences— i’m not super in the buisness of trying to track down when exactly she’s been re-recording, so this is coming from swiftie brain rot not timeline brain rot, but if i had to guess i would say she was mostly recording rep over the summer and with the occasional ts11 track thrown in as well. but i could be wrong maybe she has three albums recorded. idk. i am very interested in what the rep sounds like though, i think that’ll be the biggest clue to what ts11 will sound like

i’m curious how auto-biographical it’ll be. honestly, i could see taylor creating a single character to inhabit and tracking their story throughout an album, which would parallel the emotions she’s going through, but not the exact situations. but that’s me projecting what i would need to do to process the fucking year she’s been through, and taylor has consistently been saying how much she gets from having people sing back the words thought she must be alone in thinking, so like maybe it’ll be intensely About Her, who knows

as for release, i’m a big post eras tour believer. like i know it’s been said a million times but god how impossible would it be to add another set to that thing. like we might get the announcement and lead single while still on tour, but not a full album

i’m also expecting a more talk-y rollout. i would bet we’re getting a couple of print interviews— not anywhere near 1989 or lover levels, but like, you know. rolling stone, vogue, maybe another time, that kind of thing. and in front of camera stuff too— zane lowe, a bbc live longe, some late night appearances, maybe going on kelly clarkson’s show. and maaaaybe a hot wings episode. maybe. i think taylor got a bit burned by the long roll out for lover, and regardless she had other priorities when it came to the midnights release, but it’s been a while and she does like to surprise people by doing something completely predictable. but also this is totally me being like pleaseeeee give interviews they help me with timeline research so much

i predict this every time but visual album!!! if i keep saying it one day it’ll be true!!! it just makes sense she’s been getting so into directing!!!

while we’re in the realm of things that would make me specifically go insane i just think it would be funny if she got paul mccartney to feature on a song. just to be petty. imagine your ex is releasing an album and she gets one of your favorite musicians to play on it. and after the sweet nothing debacle too. oh. so ouchie. also she would have paul fucking mccartney on an album that’s insane in its own right

while we’re throwing spaghetti at the wall. two word title. let’s get crazy maybe 3+ words why not (this is by far the least serious prediction if the title is more than one word i’ll lose my mind)

maybe some religious imagery for the visuals? i’m trying to think of aesthetics taylor hasn’t thoroughly explored. what’s coming to mind is stained glass windows and like, the wild west. this is not at all influenced by me being raised catholic in the american southwest what are you talking about

so to sum up i think i want a pop rock opera with a title along the lines of “the blank of firstname lastname” about a woman in the wild west that has climatic scenes in a cathedral?? i guess that’s the shape i want?? i was not aware that’s what i wanted when i started writing this post okay

[beacarrot]

When some feeling is so big and high it doesn't even fit in the chest, let alone in lines in a notebook or on an internet blog. I get lost more than I'd like to admit, letting current events just pass by, have you ever heard of the girl who got trapped in her illusion? It's as if time doesn't pass for her, she's 15 inside her fantasy... that's me, and maybe you too!

I'm in my secret garden, where the only key to get in there is mine. The flowers are more colorful, the sun is brighter, time doesn't passes, the seasons are penetrating, the promises are silent, and the bridges of songs rescue our souls from the cold river.

I really like Tumblr for several reasons, one of which is that there are many "safe place" profiles. Besides, I feel free to post my adoration and passion for the things that I like and that make me happy, make my eyes shine, my heart race like a teenager in love!

One Direction is one of those things, probably the one that makes me most ecstatic.

I met the band when I was 14, I was entering adolescence, a dangerous territory, a lawless land, disappointments, broken hearts, complexes, I can't go into too many details, but a road not paved with only gold. But when this world hurt me too much, I needed to run, and live here and there for a little while, in my little secret world, in which I reserved my romanticism and unfinished analogies. I spend most of the year there, because I hate it here (just kidding, I don't actually hate it here, it was just an excuse to use a Taylor quote LOL)

One Direction (and the fandom) presented me with valuable things, treasures, magazines, CDs, thousands of Pinterest boards, fanfics, Wattpad, silly memes about the band, but they made me laugh a lot. The lyrics of the songs, the affection between the boys and their fans, every particularity of these special boys that warms our hearts!

Five years, five albums, five magical kids! (that's why five is my lucky number).

The band split up, but these five years and the legacy they left were so incredible, every show, every smile, every life saved, that I honestly believe they will still come back, but until that happens they deserve a rest, they deserve get to know each other.

But they made and make my adolescence worth it, for made me feel loved, I feel alive loving something as valuable as them. They remind me of my innocent and naive times, and that I don't need to grow up inside, and I'm grateful for every adventure with them, every time I turned on my computer and spent hours and nights reading fanfics LOL!

They are our teenage dream, they are our inspiration...it doesn't matter that we never touched them, we will be Wendy and they will be our Peter Pan.

And I will wait at the window for their return, to fly to the land of dreams, our private Neverland.

Happy 14 years of One Direction!

Signed: Beatriz <3

23/07/2024.

[spade-riddles]

I agree this situation is unpredictable, and as an old hand at this, I feel like you do. This could go either way. But one thing that is clear - and of some interest - to me is that Taylor is really throwing Joe under the bus here.

That decision alone gives credence to the idea of him as the 🎃 recipe thief. How many times did we here in the fandom say Toe seemed like a nice guy overall? That he was the best of all the beards? That message about people pretending to be nice is certainly one I'm looking at in a different light, given the actions of the last few days. It's impossible to know how pre-planned the decision to strike at Deuxmoi could have been - but the release of You're Losing Me, "Sweet Nothing was about Paul and Linda", and Jack poking holes in the Toe narrative, all feel very much orchestrated.

The normie interpretation I'm seeing, IRL, is that Toe were on the rocks for a long time because Joe didn't value Taylor's emotional needs. People are connecting "I wouldn't marry me either" with the "pain and trauma" Tree says the marriage rumors caused, and turning on Joe hard. MH and TK are being interpreted as rebound relationships. Moving too fast and being too public out of nowhere. Fans have turned on Joe (which I think was the intention) but pushing these stunts so hard in the aftermath of the "break up" has made it look like Taylor is still hung up on him, and trying to make him jealous. Which I don't think was the intention.

The casual fans I know had mostly forgotten about Joe until the events of the last few days. All this drama has thrust him into the spotlight again in their minds. I know some in the fandom are saying Taylor did this to erase Toe and give an upcoming TK "engagement" more legitimacy - but if that is the plan, I think it's backfiring. Everyone and their mother is going to believe she's rushing into an engagement to make him jealous. It only adds to Joe's perceived importance in her story - and again, I'm not sure that was the plan.

If it was me, I would tone down the Travlor and give people something else to talk about. Now would be the perfect time to poke some holes in the feud narrative, by having Jack or Blake or someone post some unseen Kaylor images. That maybe hint the pretender wasn't the real muse for Reputation. Hit him where it hurts by stripping away his connection to the album that made Swifties so besotted with him. They're already reevaluating their perceptions. Why not blow their minds a little further? We already have one perfectly meme-able image of our understudy side-eying the real muse, just waiting to go viral, if Tree wants to pull that trigger 😘

(By the way, if Joe is the recipe thief, it's been staring us in the face all along. The recipes = the songs. We witnessed that particular theft happen in front of our eyes with his "producing credits" and the Grammys speech. We even speculated at the time that it was what his team demanded as the price of sticking around during the pandemic, when he lost work and stunting opportunities were limited. And speculated again that he'd jumped ship early before the Eras Tour began. Maybe we should have gone with our gut and teased out those suspicions a little further.)

Just some thoughts, percolating as we await the next move.

[the-gayest-tree-you-ever-did-see]

all my ttpd notes on each song before public opinion (overall opinion of the album at the end)

i didnt include tracks 1-6 bc ive posted about them already, but ill add them slowly by eod tomorrow most likely

fresh out the slammer

this is the track i was most excited for i think

oh title drop very early

fresh. out. the slammer. uhhh

i love the flow on all of the songs but i especially like this, its very fluid

FOR JUST ONE HOUR OF SUNSHINE!!!

in the shade of how he was feeling

the flow is very midnight rain i think

OOOH THE CHANGE AT 2:25 I LOVE THISSSSS

"im the girl of his american dreams" OMGGGG

i like the second half way better but the song is awesome

i think what im noticing about the album overall (so far) is it feels very empty production wise. its mostly her voice carrying it through but its hollow and i really think we need a more full production on this, or at least some parts of it. it feels uneven yk? or sort of unfinished, like she had the vocals and just slapped something behind it

florida!!!

VERY VERY EXCITED FOR THIS FLORENCE!!!!!!

and my friends all smell like weed or little babies.... ok.

okkkk less than a minute in and this is sooo anti-capitalist for a billionaire

FLORENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i was so scared she'd be swept aside

"all my girls got their lace and their crimes"

so many mentions of a cheating husband on this album

"is that a bad thing to say in a song?" I LOOOOOVE MENTIONS OF THE MEDIA IN THAT MEDIA

FLORIDAAAA!! IS ONE HELL OF A DRuug..........

you can kind of here the thinness (??) of taylor's voice next to florence, the depth is lacking -- not necessarily bad, just something you can hear more with this track

some parts of it ("little did you know...") sound sort of like everybody wants to rule the world, idk if thats just me

guilty as sin

love the production this is so niceee

am i allowed to cry!

"oh what a way to dieeeee"

MESSY TOP LIP KISS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

without ever touching his skin, how can i be guilty as sin............ is this about matty healy please

the quiet distorted "what?" in the bg is very bejeweled

my bedsheets are ablaze

the melody on this is lowkey kind of boring. theres points where i expect her to do something interesting with her voice and flick up or drop low or trill and it just doesnt happen. would be very cool if that was there

"long suffering propriety" that whole bridge is written well but sung so clunky? like it doesnt sound natural it sounds like syllable filler yk? and i know this bc i do it way too much KSJDCHIUHRFIUH

ending with am i allowed to cry, its very much an internal song. idk how to explain it but shes looking in, and when she says am i allowed to cry, shes looking up. <- what???

whos afraid of little old me?

ooooh it starts out so cunty

"my bare hands paved their paths"

you dont get to tell me about sad!

I LOVE THISSS its so mad woman its so rep coded

"i leap from the gallows and i levitate down your street" GREAT LYRIC HILARIOUS VISUAL ITS LIKE THAT HALLWAY MEME BUT WITH TAYLOR. hold on

okay

WHOS AFRAID OF LITTLE OLD ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you should be <- ME TO MY MOM

production goes off cunty as fuck

"the scandal was contained" OMGG TELL ME TELL ME

you dont get to tell me you feel bad variant

BRIDGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i think this is my favorite track i love it

"the circus life made me mean" ooooh very very interesting. i will analyze this song more fully later but not on this post

"tell me everything is not about me, what if it is?" OKAYYYYY

the way she sings "you should be" reminds of something on folklore/evermore but i cant think of what

shes very cool on this song. the emotion actually comes through.

"you wouldnt last an hour in the asylum where they raised me." oh okay! so like. have we considered not saying that.

i think that line turned me off the whole song KJSDCIUERFHIUEFH LIKE???? HELLO???????

i just. hm. very disappointed. you have one billion dollars. your parents put down the deposit for your career. ok.

the way she sings "wretched" and "narcotics" is what i wanted for more of the album. ykwim.

i will admit her screaming the title is veeeery very nice

"i am what i am cause you trained me" okkkk. im sorry taylor my bad!

idk how i feel about this song anymore. should i just ignore the lyrics and listen lmaoo

i can fix him (no i really i can)

okay i was waiting on this song but with the context of the rest of the album. idk. we'll see

okay IMMEDIATE ick.......... "the smoke cloud billows out his mouth like a freight train through a small town" okay taylor i guess rhymezone was in for her. idkkkkk

okay next line came in actually i spoke too soon it serves !!

this is very cowboy like me inverse

ughhh title drop already. see i wanted it cunty!!! why title it that when its so nothing. this is SO NOTHING

is this about matty healy. girl hes a neonazi you cant fix him

BRIDGE?????? i love when she shows off her kinks

okay. yeah this song was very nothing.

loml

the piano is very gentle on this and muted. i like it

is this aaron dessner? hold on lemme check

yes it is!!!

"never before and never since" looooove <3 <3 <3

"still alive, killing time at the cemetery, never quite buried in your suit and tie" LOOOOOOVE <3 <3 <3

this is very her relationship with religion methinks....

"about a million times" ala illicit affairs "a million little times"

"when your impressionist paintings of heaven turned out to be fakes" i think this is my favorite lyricism out of the album, its very natural its very clear its very real. i really really like it

A CONMAN SELLS A FOOL A GET LOVE QUICK SCHEME. GAGGED

some of it is very grieving that she didnt last with her first love, that she still has to work for it. but its also still feeling like a metaphor for religious beliefs and god, that she cant fully believe and she wishes she had unwavering faith

MR STEAL YO GIRL????????????

"talking rings and talking cradles"

i wish i could unrecall how we almost had it all

"SOMETHING COUNTERFEIT'S DEAD" GLITCH I ALWAYS BELIEVED IN YOU (lie)

"ill never leave. never mind"

the way this extends is very phoebe bridgers and the way she enunciates "loss of my life" is very her as well

okay donesies. i liked this one a lot.

i can do it with a broken heart

i like the glimmery production

lyrics again are flopping a little :/

"im a real tough kid, i can handle my shit" 😸 okay

GOTTA FAKE IT TIL I MAKE IT TIL I DID !!!

the lyrics are so over and so back so much its killing me. i cringe so hard i cry and then i gag just as hard

lights camera bitch smile even when i wanna die......................

"ALL THE PIECES OF ME SHATTERED WHILE THE CROWD WAS SCREAMING MORE" im so. im sooo sos so so feeling aout this.

whos counting in the background idk how i feel about it

"im so depressed i act like its my birthday everyday" ughhhhh!!! cunty but she didnt sing it right yk. idk.

production slays

"im so obsessed with him but he avoids me like the plague" we're back again. i told yall its over and back and over and back SOOOOOO MUCH

okay i think i like it

I CRY A LOT BUT I AM SO PRODUCTIVE! SOOOOOOOOOOOO ME

i wanted the whole album to be like that verse

im a real tough kid again :/ shhhh

"in stilettos for miles" eras im so so sorry girl

IM SO DEPRESSED I ACT LIKE ITS MY BIRTHDAY EVERY DAY IM SO OBSESSED WITH HIM BUT HE AVOIDS ME LIKE THE PLAGUE I CRY A LOT BUT I AM SO PRODUCTIVE ITS AN ART YOU KNOW YOURE GOOD WHEN YOU CAN EVEN DO IT WITH A BROKEN HEART! ! !

when she does "you know youre good!" and the laughing and everything ohhhh my god. IM SO MISERABLE! AND NO ONE KNOWS! dont try and come for my job OKAYYYYYYY SHE SERVED ON THIS

okay i think i really like this song. i just need a couple days lol

the smallest man who ever lived

veryyyyy excited for this. i think. a little.

"who the fuck was that guy" OKAYY!!!!!!!!

theres no lyric i was to write here but its all very good btw

she sounds like my english teacher vocally and its killing me KSJDCIUERHFIUERH

"in public showed me off then sank in stoned oblivion"

i cant figure out what shes saying "once your queen had come, you treat her like an ulcer and"??? alseran?? i cant understand it skdjfhieurhiuerg

you didnt measure up in any measure of a man !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! taylor date girls <3

the production is building here i like it is she gonna belt/scream

YEAHHHH BELTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"were you a sleeper cell spy in 50 years will all this be declassified and youll confess why you did it and ill say good riddance cause it wasnt sex [something something] and it wasnt forbidden" I REAAAAALLY LIKE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i like when she makes up situations and puts herself in them

YOU CRASHED MY PARTY AND YOUR RENTAL CAR

you kicked out the stage lights but youre still performing.

"you are what you did" versus innocent's "who you are is not where you've been"

i like this track

the alchemy

I WAS SUPER EXCITED FOR THIS BUT NOW IDK HOW TO FEEL!!! idk im just jumping in

oh r&b production?? interesting....

ooh whats the rumbling thing i like that

shes returning to something but what...

TOUCHDOWN IS THIS KILLATRAV !!!!!!!!!!!!!! KILLATRAV KILLATRAV !!!!!!!!!!!

oh title drop but i wasnt listening KJSHCIUHEGFH

reference to maathp

is this returning to american boys KJIUFHEORUFHOERF???

oh this is sooooo referencing maathp

okay but it sounds like this person and her were already together and now theyre back "his heart....is still reserved for me" or maybe thats just trav holding on the friendship bracelet

i hate to say this but "wheres the trophy? he just comes running over to me" is very call it what you want + sweet nothing and another song i cant remember right now but yall know...... im sorry

im stupid as hell i cant hear what the line is where she says the alchemy

"he jokes that its heroine but this time with an e" THIS TIME??????

very much like this song. def not what i was expecting and im disappointed in that regard but its still a fun song

clara bow

nervous for this song. i like when she references people and places but theres a way to do it so i get scared every time

oooh ear ringing noise is very fun. i hope its not the whole time though

immediate title drop

oh so its not her? shes talking to someone else i think

oh this is in her past i think

lyrics are flopping.

"breath of fresh air through the smoke rings" like i can fix him (no really i can"

ohhh tambourine WAS stevie nicks reference

SORRY i dont like how she says eclipse lmaoo

i kind of dont vibe with all the small town references its as if she needs to remind us where she came from to be considered good like look how much i did when i came from nothing (even though she didnt)

YOU LOOK LIKE TAYLOR SWIFT IN THIS LIGHT !!!!

youve got edge, she never did girlllllllllll

so does she consider herself the "replacement" for clara bow?

song is okay i think it might grow on me. i think the biggest disappointment on this album is how predictable it all feels sonically.

the black dog

bonus track!! this is the only one i have so i might add the others later but tbh i might wait bc i dont know how much i. care.

muted pianooooo i love muted piano<333

YOU SHARED YOUR LOCATION AND FORGOT TO TURN IT OFF

oh the black dog is a bar. im kind of. okay. okay

"shes too young to know this song" is a nice line but its clunky how its sung

old habits die screaming!

girl your longing does NAWT stay unspoken

folklore when she used "big" words it felt natural (for the most part). here it feels performative? like it doesnt FIT naturally

"was it hazing for a cruel fraternity i pledged" idk how to feel about this!

lots and lots of smoke references!

"six weeks of breathing clean air" -> CLEAN!!!!!!!!!!

two times she says she wants to burn her clothes on this album

i like the production im literally kind of ignoring the lyrics

omg never mind "tail between your legs youre leaving"

personal ick but i hate when songs cut off in a word. she goes "old habits die screeeeeam-" and nothing. JUST SAY THE -ING

okay cool. mid song but i hope the swifties who thought it was about depression and got the variant are feeling okay<33

overall: idk about this album. i went in really excited and so maybe thats why i feel so let down... but i feel so let down. this isnt what was marketed, this isnt anything even real for a lot of it. she's all over the place and i dont think its a tight and solid album -- although monetarily it will obviously look like one. there are moments where we get something very her and very real and i think those moments save the album. the production is also a little all over the place, and so very nothing. im not asking her to do anything fresh or new but why would you market it as if it was and not deliver?

i liked florida!!!, loml, and i can do it with a broken heart -- i think clara bow, the alchemy, and some others (you can tell with my notes LOL) will grow on me. and the tortured poets department and my boy only breaks his favorite toys were good songs, but i think i need a few days to actually acknowledge them as such.

also i think lyrically shes done a few very interesting things. it almost feels like debut with how specific it is and the name dropping and everything -- however it is new/rusty for her so that also kind of hurts her overall. i think maybe this is like good practice for a more evolved narrative lyricism in the future, bc her past mo of hazy visuals and thinly connected moments to string into a narrative just doesnt work anymore.

i will say. she did make me experience all 5 stages of grief plus some fun extras. maybe not in the way she wanted, but i did anyway ! its a fun album and i def think ill like it more as time goes on, but this is my opinion without outside influence and within the first day of listening -- i want to see how that changes! im also holding off on album rankings until a week or two passes

[lifeascaty]

I've been away from tumblr for a few months. In October 2021, my Dad was diagnosed with Stage 4 neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer. I felt like my whole world was falling apart. He already followed me on tumblr, so I filled my feed with things he would like so he had something new and interesting (or a cute cat) to see every day. (I was already posting a lot for him, but now my queue was entirely for him.) It was a small thing, but I wanted to do anything to help make him smile or distract him. As it was a neuroendocrine cancer, there were treatment options, and soon he was back to living life as if nothing was wrong. But I still kept my queue running for him. In November 2023, a scan was misread. They told my Dad his cancer was responding well to treatment, and he wouldn't need any more nuclear medicine for two years. Unfortunately, this mistake meant my Dad passed away on January 26th 2024. There's no question that this is the worst thing to ever happen to me. My Dad is the person I am/was closest to in the whole world. I've never felt pain like this. I don't know what to do with my tumblr now. I've had it for over a decade, but I've been posting for my Dad for so long that it feels wrong to post without him. I know that's silly. I just miss him so much.

I'm going to post the eulogy I wrote for him below the cut. I don't expect anyone to read it, but I want it to exist somewhere online. I'm really proud of it. It has mistakes - repetitions of words etc. - but I also think it's the best thing I've ever written, because it's about my Dad.

As a professional writer, I’ve felt a lot of pressure to write a eulogy that does my Dad justice. The problem is, I don’t think that’s possible. Especially without him here to give me notes. My Dad has always given me his opinion on my writing at whatever stage it was at, bouncing ideas back and forth with me and arguing over intricate punctuation but, on this occasion, he can’t. I hope he’d like this anyway.

I could talk forever about my Dad. There are so many things I want to tell people about him, about his love and excitement for the world and his joy in getting to live each day. To quote Marcus Aurelius, as my Dad often did, “When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” This sentiment defined him, really.

My Dad and I have so much in common. We traded books back and forth. He introduced me to his favourite shows and I showed him mine. He showed me his favourite movies from when he was growing up, and we were always first in line to see new releases at the Odeon in Wrexham. I would spend hours hanging out on the couch in his study as he worked and played music, talking me through his love and admiration of various songs and bands, like Led Zeppelin, Genesis, The Jam, The Smiths. We talked a mile a minute over dinner, always excited to share whatever new thing we’d learned that day. We experimented with various recipes and he gave me my love of cooking. We debated politics constantly, always talked about what was in the news, forwarded interesting posts and memes to each other across multiple social media platforms. Even when I lived on another continent we were in contact with each other every day, keeping track of our respective timezones so we could always find time to talk.

My heart aches every time I read a news article about some interesting new archaeological finding or a new discovery in space, because I want to share it with him. There are so many movies we planned to see, upcoming TV shows we wanted to watch, books we were waiting to be released.

I want to talk to him about the new Taylor Swift album and the Grammys she just won. As some of you may know, my Dad was a Swiftie – he was in the top 0.5% of Taylor Swift Spotify listeners last year. He was a fan of her before I was, often falling asleep to her 1989 album on international flights. He bought us tickets to see her Eras Tour together this summer and we were so excited. I can’t describe the pain I felt when last month he told me that I’d have to go and enjoy it without him. Because he should be here to see it with me. He loved stained glass – even taking classes and making his own artwork. He promised to teach me this summer, and now I’ll have to do it without him. But I’ll still do it. Like I’ll still go to the Eras concert – because it’s what he would have wanted, and because it keeps his memory alive.

I recognise how lucky I am that he is my Dad. So many things had to happen to make it so. Various ancestors had to meet and have children. My parents needed to be born, needed to both decide to go to the same university, needed some anonymous admin person to assign them both to the same university halls where they would ultimately meet. All so that one day I would come in to being and he would be my Dad. The chances of that happening, for everything to have gone right, are so infinitesimally small. And yet they happened. How miraculous is that?

I am who I am because of him. As a young man, he reviewed books for The Oxford Times and Interzone, a Sci-Fi and Fantasy magazine. (He was particularly proud to interview Terry Pratchett, his favourite author, and have his quote used on Pratchett’s books for years to come). He fell in love with stories and storytelling, a love that he passed down to me. Without him, I don’t know if I would have become a screenwriter and author. Storytelling is such a huge part of me, and I don’t know who I’d be without it, and without him. 

There are so many big, impressive things that my Dad did and achieved through his lifetime, but the things that make up a life are the smaller moments. My parents dancing around his study to God Only Knows by The Beach Boys. His love of all our cats across the years and his special relationship with each of them. The time we went out into the garden, on a freezing cold night in November, to watch the Leonids – shooting stars – falling brightly through the atmosphere. Picking me up from Gobowen station every time I came back from London or undergrad, no matter how late my train was. His specific way of stacking the dishwasher that only I could emulate. Summer holidays swimming in the pool, eating ice cream together, and marvelling over his tan.

The problem with loving my Dad so much is that it’s incredibly painful now he’s gone. One of his favourite Marvel TV shows, Wandavision, had the line “what is grief, if not love persevering?” There is so much grief because there has always been so much love between us. And I am thankful for that. Thankful for him, and everything he has done to build a beautiful life for our family.

My Dad’s last words were beautiful. Something we often said to each other, from childhood to adulthood, was “I love you more than the moon, and the stars, and the wide, wide world”. I started saying it to him, none of us knowing the end was hurtling so quickly towards us. He smiled as I began to say the familiar words, and as my Mum and brother joined in, so did he, still smiling as he said “and the wide, wide world”. And that was it.

'To reference Marcus Aurelius once more, he talks in Meditations about how just a day–just a minute–of happiness, of perfection, of peace, is enough. The same goes for the people we love. That we ever had my Dad in the first place is a wonderful thing, something to be so grateful for. Whatever comes after, whatever fortune has in store for us in the future? It can’t change that. What happens next matters less because of the wonderfulness of having had my Dad at all.'

He is my best friend. He will always be my best friend. Whatever happened, I knew he would look after me. That he loved me and cared for me and that with him I was safe. He would look after our family, always. And he did. Even now we’re discovering things he did and put in place to make sure we were okay.

I know I need to stop talking, although, as I said at the beginning, I could talk forever about my Dad. I will finish with a quote from Terry Pratchett: “No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.” Hopefully my Dad will live forever.

[thesinglesjukebox]

BONNIE MCKEE - "SLAY"

Will Adams unearths a pop time capsule and presents his findings to the rest of us...

[5.20]

Will Adams: I was aware of "Slay" ten years ago, even if it wasn't on iTunes. Through truncated live performances and interview snippets, I got the concept instantly: a big silly pop song that co-opted common Stan Twitter parlance of the time into a motivational anthem. But despite a stellar previous single that showed great promise and an impressive CV of hits penned for other artists, McKee's solo career seemed doomed to fizzle. With each passing month it became clearer that "Slay" would never see the light of day, so I couldn't fully embrace the song. I didn't believe I, myself, could slay. (Put less cornily and more accurately: McKee's label Epic didn't believe she could slay.) But ten years later, she announced her project to re-record her shelved album and release it independently, and the promise reignited. Then "Slay" dropped, and "reignite" felt less appropriate a descriptor than "exploded." Over a bombastic arrangement with a cadence and chord progression that recalls Hoku, the song is quintessential McKee: inspirational rallying cries ("come on, everybody, let's go!", "we can do anything!"); imagery that's punchy at first and confusing if given more than one second of thought ("flyer than firebirds"; "shine like razorblades"; "slaying like 1999"); a colossal bridge where she launches into the stratosphere and makes the song even bigger. And on top of that, spelling out the title in a pep rally affect. It's unashamed to be big, be dumb, be earnest, which makes listening to it in 2023 that much more impactful. It would be easy to cast "Slay" off as naïve yearning for the Obama-era college years, our wasted youth that might not even have been as carefree as we thought. But in spite of it all -- being hardened by a decade of Real Adult Life, of the awful shit that keeps on happening around us and to us, of the increased feeling of being unmoored from any sense of purpose -- I want to embrace it. You see, Dorothy, you've always had the power to slay. Before the 2023 release, I wouldn't have believed that. [10]

Joshua Minsoo Kim: ...iconic? [2]

Taylor Alatorre: As an incurable fan of the might-have-beens on the left of the proverbial dial, the impulse to stan a theoretical pop star is one that I empathize with. It can lead to some weird places, though, like pretending that this rewrite of Katy Perry's "Roar," shorn of its indie pop pretenses and with a muddier zero-to-hero narrative, would've lit up the charts as intended back in 2014. As with the hipster run-off of that era, maybe the wishfulness is part of the appeal. To the subset of the population for whom Bonnie McKee's unreleased album is their Dear Tommy, I'm sincerely glad you're getting what you wished for. [4]

Jeffrey Brister: We really need a critical reappraisal of Trouble, so we'll get less of this. [5]

Micha Cavaseno: The closest parallel I have to Bonnie McKee's musical career is actually the directorial career of Elizabeth Banks. Everything about it is perfectly functional but burdened with a trite and immensely DOA sense of humor that maybe had a chance to thrive 8 or 9 years ago but now just completely misses the mark. (If you overextend the narrative here, this makes the Pitch Perfects and Katy Perry stuff a kind of perfect parallel because they both thrive off the weird see-saw between conservatism and quasi-quirkiness. But I digress!) "Slay" is essentially a Cocaine Bear, because even if the punchline feels like a decades old meme, it's also slapped together in a kitsch from several decades ago. "Slay like 1999" while sounding like late '00s/early '10s pop nostalgia is a triple-double of identity crisis (made all the weirder by those subtle happy hardcore breaks at the bridge). It's so perfectly amorphous and logically commercial, yet also missing every possible mark? I'm not even mad it exists, I'm just more concerned how we justified it needed to exist now? [3]

Dorian Sinclair: Bonnie McKee has had a hell of a career and, in the process, been a writer on multiple all-time great songs ("Teenage Dream" is probably the crowning glory here, but let's give a shout out to Britney's "How I Roll" and CRJ's "Turn Me Up", two deeply underrated album cuts). I don't know that "Slay" is going to join that pantheon, and it's showing its age a bit after its release was deferred for a decade...but it's a solid song from a solid writer, and it gets me looking forward to her long-delayed second album, which is enough to be counted as a win. [6]

Ian Mathers: On the one hand, this really makes me wonder why McKee didn't just get to have Katy Perry's career directly instead of writing a lot for her. On the other... I don't actually like those Katy Perry singles that much, and all the goodwill towards McKee in the world doesn't change that this sounds a lot like them. [6]

Michael Hong: The further we get from "Teenage Dream," the less the American dream seems viable, the more it seems unattractive -- unfortunate for Bonnie McKee, whose music sounds like sparklers and stars and stripes all written in glowing neon letters. This version is just too theatrical; the way she sings the word "technicolor" is far too excessive. [4]

Daniel Montesinos-Donaghy: I naively thought we were doing away with this sort of label-mandated Search Engine Poptimisation, where keywords are stuffed into a song and its title, ensuring that it shows up at the top of confused uncles' Google searches until the end of time. Brazen, yes, but if you can give this songwriting prompt some heft, the shortcut is forgiven. Nope! "SLAY" (even the try-hard all-caps!) is engineered to make you think of different better songs you've heard in different better places, a cynical DayGlo casing that sounds like it was destined for a Buffalo Wild Wings Pride commercial instead of a major label release. Screw the SEO and dig deeper; there is better, organic, REAL affirma-pop out there, and you know it. [2]

Brad Shoup: Will this be the last pop song to reference Technicolor? "Slay" is out of step in so many ways: a widescreen arena-pop yearner in a time of grim partying, with a title that would have been in the pop vanguard when McKee originally wrote it. (In the video, she pulls the song from a synthwave vault -- door code 2013 -- and it's on a VHS tape.) It's really moving to see that McKee still believes in these big gestures, in the goofy metaphor that ushers you to the towering bridge. [8]

Nortey Dowuona: "Welcome to the part of the show / where we fake it 'til we make it." That's an irritating thing to say on a pop song. First, it's giving the game away. All pop is fake. It's the amalgamation of every genre, flattened until acceptable and accessible to anyone who would turn their nose up at the depths of it. Why let anyone know that you fake it? Second, it's an awkward line. The drum patter is kick snare kick-kick snare, and it lands so clumsily on that patter that it jars you either awake into "what, what does that even mean" or "oh ok, fine." It's not a sudden spark of wit, just a jarring reminder of the actual project here -- allowing you a peek into a swelling bubble of confidence. Thirdly, each lyric after and at the beginning of the second verse is as clumsily sung, as is the chant, but it feels right to have them in that way, and they turn to mush the way pop song lyrics should. They're not itchy and scratchy the way that first line is. Finally, because it's so revealing, awkward and jarring, the rest of the song fades once you hear it, since the hook, the drums and even the seething synth line jumping up and down the chorus, all melt into each other since they all cancel each other out. It don't slay, it just swipes. [5]

Jacob Sujin Kuppermann: OMG it's got a "spell out a word" hook I'm in love

Tara Hillegeist: Oh, so that's what Dua Lipa was missing. [7]

Alfred Soto: MARGO CHANNING: A mass of music and fire. That's me. An old kazoo and some sparkles. [3]

Katherine St Asaph: I got into an argument the other day with someone else my age about whether millennials are middle-aged yet -- they thought no, I think yes. My argument is admittedly vibes-based, swayed less by historical context than how many gray hairs I eradicated on that particular morning. But it's hard not to declare that you're in your midlife crisis era when you hear millennial Don Quixote-core like "Slay," which is only 10 years old but feels like an artifact from an ancient era with an equally ancient worldview. We all hear Katy Perry and "Halo"; what truly marks this as a genuine 2010s production rather than zoomer retromania is how many of the era's minor artists you hear. Specifically, I hear Catcall in the shouts, and MS MR in the way Bonnie McKee clips notes short. McKee's songwriting stakes out her usual turf, a lightly subversive yet unironically inspirational underdog anthem -- think the midpoint of Grease, Tank Girl, and Ready Player One, for those who too were raised by the television. Ultimately, though, "Slay" is a Bonnie McKee song that wasn't given to Katy Perry (or whomever); it's too easy to devise just-so explanations for why. Were the hooks too dulled, too inconsistent? Maybe, but so were the ones in "Part of Me." Were the lyrics miscalibrated -- too razor-blade explicit, or conversely too earnest and uncool? We have pejoratives for this sort of thing now: girlboss, Disney adult, Marvel fan. (Whether someone actually likes Disney or Marvel or has a managerial job is irrelevant to the online gaze.) But for every "Fight Song" and "Roar" on the charts, there was a "Government Hooker" or "Cannibal" in the album tracks that got even bloodier. The most likely explanation is luck: someone woke up too hungover to send an email, too sick for the earworm to take, too grumpy to want to reach for glory from the gutter. Whatever the reason, the song's nonexistence as an actual 2013 single adds another layer of subtext. Not only is "Slay" about seizing at a dream that's a decade dead, it's about seizing at a dream that maybe wasn't even alive at the time either. McKee deploys the firebirds and pop hooks regardless, and they roar to life oblivious but loud. We slay on, us aging diamonds. [6]

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[lucifersresources]

taylor swift self titled album rp meme.

edit/alter/change pronouns etc as you see fit!  

tim mcgraw.

that's a lie.

i was right there beside him all summer long.

the moon like a spotlight on the lake.

when you think happiness, i hope you think of me.

i hope you think of me.

think of my head on your chest.

september saw a month of tears.

i'm thanking god that you weren't here to see me like that.

it's hard not to find it all a little bittersweet.

i'm back for the first time since then.

picture to burn.

i didn't get my perfect fantasy.

you love yourself more than you could ever love me.

watch me strike a match on all my wasted time.

you're just another picture to burn.

there's no time for tears.

i'm just sitting here planning my revenge.

if you're missing me you'd better keep it to yourself.

coming back around here would be bad for your health.

teardrops on my guitar.

i fake a smile so he won't see.

she's got everything that i have to live without.

i can't even see anyone when he's with me.

he says he's so in love.

i wonder if he knows he's all i think about at night.

he's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar.

he's the only thing that keeps me wishing on a wishing star.

can he tell that i can't breathe?

there he goes, so perfectly.

the kind of flawless i wish i could be.

she better hold him tight.

i drive home alone.

i'll put his picture down.

a place in this world.

i don't know what i want.

i'm still trying to figure it out.

i'm alone, on my own.

life goes on.

just trying to find a place in this world.

i'm wearing my heart on my sleeve.

tomorrow's just a mystery.

cold as you.

you take the very best of me.

i start a fight coz i need to feel something.

i'm not what you wanted.

what a shame.

just walk away.

i've never been anywhere cold as you.

you put up walls.

i stood there loving you.

you come away with a great little story of a mess of a dreamer, with the nerve to adore you.

every smile you fake is so condescending.

counting all the scars your made.

the outside.

i know i didn't read between the lines.

nothing seems to work the first few times.

nobody ever lets me in.

i've been a lot of lonely places.

i would give it all up.

no one notices until it's too late.

tied together with a smile.

seems the only one who doesn't see your beauty is the face in the mirror looking back at you.

hold on, baby.

you don't tell anyone that you might not be the golden one.

you're tied together with a smile, but you're coming undone.

love was all you wanted.

stay beautiful.

will you ever know?

you're beautiful, every little piece.

you're really gonna be someone.

i hope your life leads you back to my door.

stay beautiful.

i'm taking pictures in my mind.

it's hard to make a conversation when he's taking my breath away.

you and i are a story that never gets told.

what you are is a daydream.

should've said no.

everything is gone.

just looking at you feels wrong.

it was a moment of weakness.

you should've said no.

i should've been there in the back of your mind.

you shouldn't be begging for forgiveness at my feet.

you can see that i've been crying.

you know all the right things to say.

do you honestly expect me to believe we could be the same?

the past is the past.

was it worth it?

mary's song (oh my my my)

i looked at you like the stars that shined.

our daddies used to joke about the two of us growing up and falling in love.

take me back when our world was one block wide.

i dared you to kiss me.

your eyes still shined.

all i need is you next to me.

you stayed outside till the morning light.

after all this time, you and i.

our song.

we don't have a song.

our song is the way you laugh.

i didn't kiss her and i should have.

i'm only me when i'm with you.

you and i are painting pictures in the sky.

we don't say a thing.

everything i need is right here by my side.

i know everything about you.

i don't wanna live without you.

i'm only up when you're not down.

don't wanna fly if you're still on the ground.

you drive me crazy.

i'm only me when i'm with you.

just a small town boy and girl, living in a crazy world.

i don't try to hide my tears.

i don't try to hide my tears, my secrets or my deepest fears.

through it all nobody gets me like you do.

when i'm with anybody else, it's so hard to be myself.

i'm only me, who i wanna be, when i'm with you.

[turniptitaness]

🎶✨ When you get this u have to put 5 songs u actually listen to, publish. Then, send this ask/tag 10 of your favourite followers ✨🎶

I was tagged by @ineffablebookgirl which makes me happy, because omg I'm one of your favorite followers??? ☺️

Also, I love that it specifies "songs u actually listen to," because we all know we try to name songs that will make us seem cool otherwise 🤣

Okee, here's my list (update: I got tagged again, here's part two):

Almost every single day at least once since the album was released. No, I am not exaggerating.

Whenever I want to feel something.

Whenever I want to feel something Part 2.

Seattle Girl™ ✌️

Whenever I need to remind myself that I am, in fact, still just a basic bitch. (And because I swear to God she wrote this about my sweet Heartstopper boys. ☺️)

Okay. Three things about this list:

I listen to so much music. I could have included twenty more songs without even reaching. Yes, this is an open invitation for more people to tag me in music-related ask games.

Because of this fact, I had to limit myself. For example, I could have made the entire list only Ben Platt songs. That might have been more honest, now that I'm thinking about it. My Spotify Wrapped last year called me a nerd in about six different languages.

I also didn't allow myself any musical theater songs. Because honestly don't we all listen to entire cast albums start to finish? We don't really listen to just one song from any show, right? Right?

Now it's time to tag people!

@mentallydatingahotcelebrity @dank-meme-legend @coffeelovinggayidiot @broken-lycan @badgermcghee @arsonyte @wine-and-whines @firstmatesheeran @the-haven-of-fiction @i-wanna-be-in-england

As usual, these are no-pressure tags, but it did say to tag your favorite people, and that's all of you, so.

[maylorscardigan]

that set list today was… depressing. No Robbers and it was just… he’s so sad 😭

what is your take on the performance today?

Setlist included:

Give Yourself a Try

Looking for Somebody to Love

I'm in Love with You

I Like America & America Likes Me

About You

Ballad of Me & My Brain

It's Not Living (if its Not With You)

I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)

Somebody Else

Love it if We Made It

Sex

People

My first impression... anyone who is familiar with My Chemical Romance knows their first album "I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love" and their last "Danger Days"... I get that vibe from this setlist with a mixture of "The Used" for good measure. So long and short of it - this is as emo as the 1975 can get without being Drive Like I Do.

And I am here for it.

Just look at the songs themselves.

The song is one that talks about humanity. How the media makes you believe in happiness and growing up liking who you are, only it doesn't happen. It touches on identity & aging as well.

Political in nature. It's about school shootings and the toxic masculinity of society today.

A love song. Matty wanted a love song that was sincere and earnest.

Talks about Matty's relationship with fame and how he pleas with society for a safer world without the fear of gun violence.

Do I really need to cover this one? It's THE song.

This song covers mental issues and how their looking for their lost brain (sanity). It covers dodging fans and what its like trying to cope with fame. This song has always made me think that it would be the result if Taylor's Wonderland & I Know Places had a baby.

Another regular. It's about his heroin addiction.

Matty says that death has essentially become a big meme and that death is now, essentially a mood. It sums up life in the online age.

Another regular. Jealousy, ownership over the body of a former lover (emotional ownership. not actual) and dealing with seeing a former lover with someone else. Anyone who knows MAYLORE knows this songs history.

Like About You... i never see this leaving the set list. This song is better live by far then the recording could ever dream of. It's a social anthem much like Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" before you know... FOB did a cover of it.

Teenager angst over sex.

The new closing song? Unhinged Matty and when I truly feel like I am watching Gerard Way - and if anyone takes that as an insult come fight me because its not. Another social anthem.

As I said - this setlist comes off as very much the context and themes you'd see at an emo / pop-punk show. Very much reminds me of The Used and MCR.

Does this set list make me think he's sad? No. Not at all. Angry? Hell yes. The themes of dealing with fame and how fans are assholes and society sucking as a whole... its an interesting statement and I am completely here for it.

Honestly - unpopular opinion but Danger Days is one of my all time favourite albums and this screams that to me. Especially People. Matty has said that the band is an influence and a dream collaboration so...

Gerard... I am looking at you. Please PLEASE do this.

I also think this is the truest side of who Matty is and what he has always stood for and against. They said that SATVB was how Matty is NOW and I honestly believe the set list reflects that.

As for no Robbers... maybe he just wanted to give fans a breather from being afraid he will kiss someone or to just flat out get rid of the speculation on whether or not he will.

I havent seen the whole show yet but snippets I did see... he was very happy and high energy. Very pre-May happy Matty.

I'll find more videos and see if that changes but as of right now.. yeah.

[the1975attheirverybest]

Oooh give us your thoughts on the New Yorker article if you're up to it?

Sure! I mean, I’m not sure I have anything original to say. Just that I didn’t like it that much. I guess it was as good as it could possibly be when written by someone who doesn’t seem to know much about Matty. I mean, I commend the author she did her research and seems to even have interviewed some of the crew. It wasn’t lazy journalism or anything. She just didn’t seem to get why Matty does what he does, and as a result, whenever she’d be quoting him, he’d come off as pretentious.

I know, I know. We joke in the fandom that he’s the most pretentious guy ever. But he’s really not. He’s very down-to-earth and humble and doesn’t take himself too seriously. I think people fail to see that. (By people I mean non-fans) like she did a lot of work to “contextualize him.” Talking about the George Floyd thing and him quitting Twitter, his memes on Instagram described as “makes fun of himself as well as his own fans.” Or whatever it was that she said. But….the more information she gave to try and give people more context, the more ridiculous it all sounded. What’s that thing she said about him silencing himself to make room for women or whatever cuz he put Greta on Notes? Do you see what I’m saying? I REALLY doubt that Marty was sitting there thinking “it is time for me, a man, to stfu so that a woman, Greta, may speak.” That sounds pompous. It happened a lot more organically than that. He was thinking about topical stuff. Struck my the environment discourse, Greta happened to the voice of the moment, he had this thing about releasing singles so that they are relevant, not in 6 months time when the record would be sent off for Vinyl because the news cycle changes so fast, it needed to be about what’s happening NOW. And it was Greta. Simple as that. Like it was the album ethos that affected his choice. It’s just that he’s usually irreverent and gets ticked off by outdated societal attitudes so it shows in his work and personality. But he’s not like deliberately being woke to make a point. So when she says he’s uncomfortable with fans praising his morality….but the article is doing exactly that. Do you see what I mean by she doesn’t get it?

The thing about Matty is, though he might deliver certain lines, jokes, or statements with a straight face, he’s not a serious guy. Like he doesn’t take himself seriously. That’s I guess why he comes off as a “troll.” He’s the sort of person that you have to tilt your head a tiny bit in order to see him clearly. And….she’s not tilting her head when writing about him. So, she captures SOME of his traits, but it’s foggy and out of context and comes off as kind of….I don’t know what the verbal equivalence of guy in black and white French movie sipping a coffee outside a cafe and twirling his thin mustache. You know what I mean? Makes him seem too overly philosophical when the first line in the article says that he hates the idea of artists being liberal academics.

And I don’t know who commissioned the article: whether it was jamie/dirty hit. Or The New Yorker approaching Matty, or as the swifties claimed “Taylor’s team wanting good press for him.” But if the goal of it was to introduce him to a wider public than his fans who already know him, then that’s not a great image of him. Makes me seem like the kinda guy you meet in your first year philosophy seminar. Also i don’t know that the New Yorkers subscribers are the target audience of the 1975 haha. I say that as a former subscriber myself. Keyword: FORMER.

IRONY! That’s the word I’m looking for!!! Matty is a pretty ironic guy, and The New Yorker takes itself

Too seriously to have fun and play with irony. That’s it!

Coulda just said those two sentences lmao. Anyways yeah. I hope this makes any sense???

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#5

taylor swift is a climate criminal.

taylor swift is a climate criminal.

taylor swift is a climate criminal.

taylor swift is a climate criminal.

a new album doesn’t change that.

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#4

pov you are on tumblr right now

See the full post

462 notes - Posted September 8, 2022

#3

we need to start bullying jk rowling for her new profile picture because like

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#2

god. it’s just. it’s dreams by the cranberries. it’s the montage of them all voting yes. it’s orla’s little smiley face in the box. it’s the live footage of the troubles. it’s erin’s speech. it’s the way that the last shot is of grandpa joe and anna jumping together out of the voting hall. it’s the sheer symbolism of youth and age being joyful and hopeful together. god.

9,384 notes - Posted May 18, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

so after the revelation that Taylor Swift’s private jet is the highest carbon dioxide emitter of any celebrity, she’ll still trend at number 1 two weeks later because she announced a new album and everyone conveniently forgot about the environment thing. we really learned fucking nothing huh.

39,568 notes - Posted August 29, 2022

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So I’m stealing this from @tayloralisonswift and you should definitely check out their version, but I’m going to listen to and rank all of Taylor’s songs album by album (and then maybe her non album songs at the end). You can also see my debut rankings and what I’ve changed here + my Fearless, Speak Now, RED, 1989, Reputation and Lover rankings here, here, here, here, here and here.

So with that in mind, it’s Folklore’s turn. As per usual, I’ll put a content warning here and say that I mention mental struggles (ptsd, anxiety and depression) and family issues. They are just mentions, but read at your own discretion.

The 1: So this song that I relate to a ex friendship coming out at a time when they were in lockdown but I was not (a reminder that my city did not go into lockdown into mid 2021 because we were very privileged/lucky to not have unknown/unidentifiable cases) was definitely... something. As was potentially seeing my estranged sister on the tram twice (years apart at that) while this song was playing (insert the Phineas and Ferb meme here). Genuinely though, I really do love this song. Like it's definitely top 5 from the album for me and highly ranked overall due to both being great and relatable. Back in 2020, I did write a longer piece about it here for anyone who is interested (don't @ me about the fact I dropped that series of posts after 3 songs lmao). 9.5/10.

Cardigan: Against my better judgement (because some of you have been complete weirdos about this over the years), I am going to remind people that I relate this song to my estranged father. Like it was the first song that I was like !! over in regards to that feeling of going from the favourite child to estranged. Outside of myself, I also feel the need to say I feel like people read the 'favourite' line differently than I do in that they see James as being the first person to make Betty feel like the cardigan under someone's bed, but I see it as an admission that she has had friends, family or other partners make her feel that way. It's a good song, but admittedly not one I listen to all that much or am super drawn to despite finding it relatable. For my longer thoughts back in 2020, click here. 7/10.

The Last Great American Dynasty: I know a lot of people whose grand/parents had immigrated to their current country spoke about relating this to intergenerational pride and trauma when the album came out, and despite my maternal side not being immigrants, I feel very similarly. Like this will always be the most 'I am my mother's daughter too' (coming from someone who is more often alikened to my father) song from me out of Taylor's discography. Outside of myself, I do think this song encapsulates Folklore best. From the "mistake" of the dog (Rebecca apparently originally dyed a cat) showing how oral traditions and tales change with each iteration to the song being both about Taylor and someone else, it just really hits all the points of what Folklore is to me. You can read my longer thoughts here for more. But yeah despite all of that, it's not a favourite of mine. 6.5/10.

Exile: Definitely a top 3 vocal collaboration Taylor has done. This song has had so many lifetimes and meant so many different things to me over the last 4 and a bit years and I just love it so much. 9.5/10.

My Tears Ricochet: Can we agree that Taylor Swift was evil for releasing this when I, someone estranged from their family who they were close to growing up, exist? (joking). Actually the same can be said about this whole album, let's be real. But yeah, it's an absolutely beautifully haunting song, and while it's one of the few songs that I love the long pond version just as much for (the other two being exile and epiphany), I hope one day she goes all out and plays it on an organ one day. 8.5/10.

Mirrorball: Listen, this is one of those songs that if it came out pre 2019, it would have been my favourite Taylor song of all time. But I was too healed for it, and as such, it's quite boring to me. 5/10.

Seven: Another song that while I relate to the second verse heavily in relation to my relationship with my estranged sister, I just don't really vibe with and find uninteresting overall. I will say that it worked really well as a poem for Eras though. 5/10.

August: I think this is the only album Taylor has released an album that my favourite song aligned with the fan favourite tbh. I just love it dearly, and again, it has been the theme of my life on multiple occasions. Weird bit of trivia is that on one occasion, due to the wackiness that was our lives, I actually went to one of my Eras nights to find out that one of my "James'" were there, sitting close to me, and looked at me when this song was playing (people with him at the time have since told me he was looking at me the whole show and I just didn't notice until then). Anyway, brilliant song. 10/10.

This Is Me Trying: So a weird fact about me, I have not cried since early August 2020, and the last time I did cry, this song was playing in the background. At the time, I was going through something very similar to what happened with my family and this was the most relatable thing I had ever heard. It's still a top notch song, even if I don't listen to it as much as I used to and don't relate to it at all anymore. 9/10.

Illicit Affairs: I don't know if I can call this an underrated song anymore due to Eras, but god was it when this album came out. I also related this to the first "James" I related August to at the time (and then the another at a later date... whoops lmao. Also should point out now that none of these "James" incidents had cheating involved on my end, just other factors that made it relatable), so I was very excited when August and it got put together for Eras, ngl. 8.5/10.

Invisible String: Listen, I understand that the point of this song is that she's forcing it to try and be cute, but I just don't feel the vibe at all. 3/10.

Mad Woman: I know this is heralded as her feminist masterpiece, but I'll be real, it's another one I just don't think is that interesting without the context of her life/what she specifically wrote it about. 5/10.

Epiphany: So I will note now that this is the only song that I like the long pond version of more than the album version. This is one that's somewhat grown on me, perhaps because, as I mentioned earlier, my city did not have unknown cases until mid 2021 so a lot of my experience with this song was from a survivor's guilt pov when hearing my friends in medical fields around the world talk about their experience with the pandemic. It is perhaps one of Taylor's most worldly songs to me, and obviously is important to the pandemic album. It is also interesting that in the early days of the rest of the world being (more) affected by covid, one of my legal professors made the comparison of war and covid by saying that those on the front lines came home traumatised while the rest of us wanted to celebrate 'the end' (something I've spoken about in my Anne Of Green Gables series first thoughts post too, particularly regarding Rilla of Ingleside) just for Taylor to release this song a few months later. So again, a very important song, but ultimately just not something I'm drawn to. 5/10.

Betty: Ah yes, the 'dumb teenage boy energy' song (imho). Listen, as a Betty who took back their James in their teen years (and don't regret it now given we are raising a child together and super close), it's definitely a song I would have loved more then and not a decision I would make now lmao. 6/10.

Peace: The grower of the album for me! It's a little too anxiety filled to be relatable to me now but I do still love it dearly. I actually like to listen to it from the other pov (someone singing it to someone who is depressed/anxious, like saying that they cannot heal them but that they will love them all the same). I also think there's a case to be made for it to be known as one of if not Taylor's best song objectively. 9/10.

Hoax: Mental illness song of all time (to me). Like even now that I'm recovered past the point of needing therapy, this will forever remind me of my relationship with myself when ill. Like there is nothing worse than when you are doing everything you can to try to get better, but even you don't believe you can (even if it's only in the moment) and your ptsd has those crappy memories on repeat. Ultimately just a very good song. 9/10.

The Lakes: So the funny thing with this song is that I like the original version Taylor put out after the album, but for the sake of the album, I think she made the right choice going with this one. I don't listen to this song as much as I should because I really do like it, maybe more so than most given the hate I see it get lmao. But yeah overall a good song, even if not a favourite. 7/10.

Final score: 122/170 - 72.1%

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You Try Waking Up having whole on purpose no side quest listened to Taylor Swift, Jah Jah, and Whole Album Cigarettes after Rut 💿

That was the Ninja Equivalent of she went with her dealer from Brooklyn upstate and hasn't come back yet

Anyway, that dream mattered.

Lingua Ignota gets it. You Used Her Too.

If It's Love Just Say So the right way

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That's what she told you. There's a couple of them in the story. She's going to come and stab me if I don't f****** get out of bed 🛏️

I have not upset her once non usefully I imagine.

But who is Annie Clark?

Tumblr's going to figure it out.

"Easy Buck Oven Pastel Cuisinart Cutter Set"©®™

The Meme 🐑

Because she's going to get there and he's going to be like good job sweetie. Got that son of a b**** anyway, he's going to be real mad when he gets here

But that's why I'm asking you about that. 🎂 Who's with that meme where you had the Pastel cutter set? That looks like it's for an Easy bake Oven. 🦌 Buck makes it clever like you like

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Amyl And The Sniffers "You Should Not Be Doing That" over holes with Men like me in them, is an acceptable to me non sect of that faith backround.

You have to not be a tourist and poser there for Shure though.

Teach me more of Him, whatever weaponed brandished

And Then They Go Back to their Witch Shacks that got that rep put on us all

It's The Same Game Every time

We Love One Another.

As He Did. It's what she wants and that's what I want

What do you desire though, Anne?

What is your greatest wish?

All that was slightly creepier you character.

But it wasn't even close to the main villain in the new "Silence of the Lambs"

And that's all I want from you.

Just villages surrounding you in Southern California. While you sold your cannabis infused human products And psychiatric solutions.

I need you to get there and I need you to stay there. If we're doing movies.

You embarrassed me.

But we can move on. We're all learning.

That is in a difficult story. He was raised to be king and then his so-called Kingdom that he never claims on Earth

Already presold them out For the same forces of silly coups and Janell Monets 🖼️ , That was the deal with Rome.

You have to get past the obvious parts before we can get to the interesting and amazing parts.

That's the kind of dry dialogue about big lofty things I need you to be able to do in scene, improvised

If you can't then I just wasted all my f****** time this whole time

And that's fine

There's always another actress

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