#which would be my first time meeting an irl swiftie

[fightwithyouinmysleep]

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[permanentreverie]

just a quick lil rant before i head to bed

[annvchanted]

now see im an indian kid who grew up listening to taylor swift this includes songs from fearless, red and 1989. but the thing is when people ask me how i listened to it becomes so embarrassing. in the early 2000s no desi parent was going to buy one cd for one album cause they used to be super expensive. and streaming platforms were like non existent. radio never played taylor swift. so we used to get these kind of illegal compilation cds which you would get at a local shop and they used to call them "20 top hits of 2011" or "top hits of the year." and each cd had like 1 or 2 songs by taylor swift which i jammed to like a maniac. and we kept buying more becuase each cd would have some new taylor swift song we never heard of.im not sure if they were 100% illegal but the shop is still up today 😂 and they have zero business cause of spotify. anyway i know this is super long and u probably wasted ur time reading it. but I saw a fellow swiftie and got excited

hii bestiee sorry it took so long to answer my brain could not comprehend anything apart from red tv this morning lol.

i 100% understand this feeling omg. growing up ppl have always made fun of me for being a swiftie and i remember getting into this very intense argument with a directioner when i was in middle school. but ig now ppl are realizing that it was their own internalized misogyny that was making them do this cause a lot of my irl friends have started appreciating her music now.

this makes me sound so old but when i was in middle school ytb didn't upload the non single songs so for a lot of time i just assumed that only music vid songs existed lol. 1989 was the first album where i heard the full thing at the time of its release🤍 thank god we have spotify/apple/gaana/wynk now. and same my parents would never buy cds cause it was too expensive 😔

omg saameee!!! i get sooo excited meeting indian swifties because of how less swifties i have irl and thank you for sending this it was very wholesome and i enjoyed reading it <333

[crwelsummer]

ABOUT THE BRAZILIAN CONCERT AND SITUATION

Ok, so, basically, I’m brazilian and I’ve been to a lot of international concerts here and I’d like to make things clearer for US and other international fans about what is happening.

1. we’re not having Lover Fest

so if anyone is still confused, WE DO NOT HAVE LOVER FEST AND ALSO SHES NOT COMING AS A FESTIVAL ACT. We’re having a solo normal concert (which, I think, is what we deserve after being ignored in every single tour)

2. This is THE 1st TIME Taylor comes to Brazil or LatAm

Taylor has been here once before for a private pocket show (30mins) for 1k guests only, back on 2012 when she was promoting RED. We never had tour or a concert before.

3. This is her ONLY LatAm concert

if there’s not as many of us as there are US swifties, then there’s even more. I’d say twice as much, at least. Still, only 1 show for a whole continent. 46.000 capacity.

4. Regarding to seats

Brazilian concerts have always been a mess. We have two big pits we call “pista” and “pista premium”, where we kill each other. People have been trampled before, being severely injured and some even died. I’m not even complaining about this rn because since she was never here before, and since there’s only ONE CONCERT for an entire continent, bringing chair seats to the game means less capacity. About 28k. So I’m kinda “ok” with it. Regardless, the right thing would be booking at least another 2 extra concerts in Brazil (1 more in São Paulo and another one in Rio de Janeiro, where usually international artists go to) and have numbered seats, so the amount of people who can attend doesn’t suffer and also to meet the demand. Shawn Mendes will be doing this here and I personally think it will be better and safer.

Also: not even cadeira superior and cadeira inferior, which are the only two chair sections, are numbered. This is a mess. They should AT LEAST number the chairs.

5. Presale

While I understand the presale privilege is always given to a certain bank clients or something similar, it is very dangerous to partner up with a relatively unknown bank for an event THIS HUGE. I checked and yes: the bank is safe. But also, they gave us wrong informations (stating that 50% of the tickets were going for presale, WHICH IS ABSURD and was later denied by T4F). I got the credit card and the limit I need, but what about those who didnt? It’s NOT OK. There are SO MANY misleading info about limit, e.g.: now they are saying that we should buy something irl before purchasing online. I honestly have to spend EVEN MORE MONEY so I can buy the tickets? They also don’t decide if they’re letting people who didnt get the needed limit deposit the difference for the ticket price beforehand. THIS IS AWFUL. The only one benefiting from this presale is C6 Bank. Thousands of young people created accounts in their bank, and NOT EVEN HALF ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO BENEFIT FROM PRESALE.

6. Illegal fees

For me, this is the worst, most serious and concerning issue. I’ve been going to concerts since I was 10, and I can assure you that Time for Fun is the worst event promoter agency in Brazil. 4 of each 5 concerts I go to are theirs. There’s no organization, they don’t answer their phone/contacts, and now THEY ARE CHARGING AN ILLEGAL FEE. As of last March, The Superior Court of Justice of Brazil decided that charging fees over online tickets purchases IS ILLEGAL. That being said, Tickets for Fun IS STILL CHARGING A 20% FEE OVER THE PRICE OF THE TICKET. Also: they even charge for us to print the damn ticket AT OUR OWN HOUSE, using OUR OWN PRINTER. This is not only abusive, but illegal. We have contacted the autorities (Procon) many times, and we always get the same orientation: buy first, then report. THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS. 1st thing abt this: not everyone is aware the fee is illegal; 2nd: everything would be easier if they effectively forbidden the company from charging this illegal fee BEFORE the tickets go on sale. Who knows how many months I will have to wait to get my money back after I report them? In a country where approximately 50% of its people live under miserable conditions, this just makes me APPALED.

7. Album and merch prices

Thanks to our fascist president, dollar is peaking at 4,18 reais (as of 10/16). Last month, it was even higher. Only very few wealthy people can afford merch. And I cant even begin to explain how disgusted I was when I first saw the album price. standard version: R$ 59,90; deluxe versions: R$ 159,90. add around R$ 18 for the shipping fee. Keep in mind that these are national products. They are not imported, so there’s no reasonable explanation for this. If someone were to buy the 4 deluxe versions, it would cost almost a minimum wage. Let’s remind ourselves of 2 other important facts: 1. there are families of four that live with less than R$ 200; 2. actually seeing her live is cheaper than buying ONE deluxe version. Cadeira superior (student fare) is R$ 150,00 reais without fees at the official boxoffice.

This is what happening in Brazil right now. If you have any doubts, come to me. HELP US!! LET US BE HEARD!! In 13 years, never once we were actually considered. LatAm swifties, assemble.

[idontwanttospoiltheparty]

Ive never really understood the hype surrounding Taylor Swift - I mean, I like some of her songs, but im not big on modern pop music so generally she just doesn’t really click for me. But I find it interesting that theres quite a few of Beatles/Swift blogs - like, they should have very little in common given that they’re from completely different eras and all, but somehow people seem to find a lot of semblance between the two. << and thats not me shitting on any of these blogs btw! Hope I don’t come off as rude or condescending there <3

Anyway, I was just wondering what got you into Taylor Swift? (I think ive read your post on how you got into the Beatles)

Hi, anon! Don't worry, I don't think you're rude or condescending! I agree they don't have too much in common and I don't really like their music for the same reasons.* I do have a playlist of Paul songs that have similar vibes to Taylor songs but it's mostly lyric-based. (Also the Beatles For Sale songs actually have quite the Taylor-tinge because Paul and John were not immune to Country Music)

I saw @stewy say once that a possible reason there are a good handful of us Swiftie-Beatle People on here is the appeal of a vast discography, which I agree with. If you have an artist/group with 200ish songs, it's just really fun to really dive into their work and explore all the facets. I also think: we're talking about the most popular band of all time and one of the highest-selling artists of the 21st century. They have a lot of fans so there's bound to be overlap, regardless of musical differences.

Moving on to your question: Getting into Taylor was an extremely personal experience for me and so my explanation is probably going to be kind of long so I'll put it under a read more.

It was spring-summer 2014, I was 15. I had heard the more popular songs of hers starting with Love Story and enjoyed pretty much all of them (I always found her hopelessly romantic point of view fascinating) but before I got a Spotify account in 2013 it was difficult in general for me to really get into an artists' entire discography so most of her songs had flown under my radar.

At the time, I was in this very weird sort of codependent online friendship with this girl who was basically my first real best friend and my first more or less crush. She was very depressed and I was very much in an I Could Fix Her™ mood, except that I obviously couldn't fix her and it made me feel like I wasn't enough and she had begun pulling more and more away from me and not replying to my messages and it was simply driving me insane. I consider it the saddest period in my life.

at some point during this period, I started trying to connect with other people (all online, I didn't know how to talk seriously to anyone IRL) and explaining the issues I'd been having, and one of the people who brought me joy and whom I actually felt not drained talking to was a huge swiftie. And IDK the fact that she loved Taylor and the fact that talking to her made my life better (and also the fact that I liked all the Taylor songs I knew at that point) just made me decide to give her a listen. And I think that whole "large discography discovery" phenomenon really helped me at the time (funny, because her discography has doubled since then). It gave me something new to focus on; there were just so many songs to discover, all telling such rich stories. I also have always loved bridges, they are almost always my favourite part of a song. And Taylor, god-bless her, loves them too and always puts her ALL in them. Like pretty much every bridge of hers brings the song to the next level, and even a lot of her songs I don't adore tend to have great bridges (Stay Stay Stay and Paper Rings come to mind). I think one of her most underrated qualities is how good she is at song structure and really building up an entire musical journey with a song. She also almost always adds cool ad-libs in her second and third choruses to keep the songs interesting and dynamic (or at least since she's gone pop). Anyways, back to the story: Then Taylor announced 1989 as her next album and released Shake It Off, and it was just like this great happy thing for me to look forward to, when I had very little keeping me going. The era was promoting a lot of happiness which in hindsight was slightly fabricated and it was just a really great thing for me to latch onto.

At the same time I was coming to realize that I was gonna have to pull away completely from my friend and all those break-up songs just… Hit, y'know? Like, some people seem to think Taylor's a one-trick pony because she likes to write break-up songs but to me, break-ups are just like this moment where you as a human can potentially feel every single emotion, and Taylor's songs have covered every facet of the concept. Here are some songs I remember from that period, that all meant a lot to me at the time because they explained my own pain to me so well:

Haunted, for the absolute terror you feel in the first moments you realize someone is probably gonna leave you. Come on, come on / Don't leave me like this / I thought I had you figured out / Something's gone terribly wrong / You're all I wanted.

I Almost Do, for the inner turmoil you feel when you know you have to stay away from someone for your own good but you really, really have to resist just running back to that person. We've made quite a mess, Babe / It's probably better off this way / And I confess, Babe / In my dreams you're touching my face / And asking me if I wanna try again / With you / And I almost do.

Last Kiss, for that absolute sadness that comes simply with remembering everything that was good and not comprehending how it could've possibly ended. I still remember / The look on your face / Lit through the darkness / At 1:58 / Words that you whispered / For just us to know / You told me you loved me / So why did you go / Away?

Forever and Always, for that feeling of desperately wanting to hold on to what you still have but at the same time realizing it probably isn't going to last and having no idea how to fix it, plus feeling like the other person doesn't even care. So here's to everything / Coming down to nothing / Here's to silence / That cuts me to the core / Where is this going? / Thought I knew for a minute / But I don't anymore.

Dear John, my all-time favourite song, for that moment you find clarity and realize that you deserved better and that you were headed in an extremely dark direction because of this other person. [DISCLAIMER: my friend did NOT abuse me nor did we have some inappropriate age difference. But the way she would ignore me and her general moodiness really affected my own mental health and self-worth problems] You paint me a blue sky / And go back and turn it to rain / And I lived in your chess games / But you changed the rules every day / Wondering which version of you I might get on the phone / Tonight / Well I stopped picking up / And this song is to let you know why.

(She's covered more aspects of break-ups in other songs [cheating, divorce, feeling awkward around your ex amongst others], these are just the ones I remember being really important to me when I was first getting into her)

She really helped me feel a lot less alone during one of my loneliest periods and I really can't thank her enough for that. Soon after this, I started crushing on a girl in my class and Taylor's love songs started to take on a new meaning for me as well.

What's crazy to me is, when she went on hiatus for a few years, a part of me thought maybe I'd grown out of her and no longer had much in common with her, but when reputation came out I was pulled right back into my love for her as a person and musician and then when Lover came out I found that she was still explaining feelings to me better than I ever could (specifically with the songs The Archer and Cornelia Street). And now with folklore and evermore she's simply absolutely perfected her story-telling and I find myself deeply moved even by the songs I don't directly relate to. I feel like she has this amazing ability to find the absolute truth in the specific. I've never had a summer romance with someone who already had a girlfriend and mostly wanted to go back to her, and yet the bridge of august feels so real to me, y'know?

Back when we were still changin' for the better Wanting was enough For me, it was enough To live for the hope of it all Cancel plans just in case you'd call And say, "Meet me behind the mall" So much for summer love and saying "us" 'Cause you weren't mine to lose

It's hard to explain but looking at this, like it's so much more than the story it's telling. It's talking about how when you're young you really need so little to feel satisfied; how sometimes the idea of someone maybe spending time with you is better than actually doing things with other people; and how if someone using you without much thought can make you feel like you're not even entitled to grieve what you lost. Sorry. I'll stop. Don't want to go insane.

So, all of this is very personal and unique to me, but I think really the main thing that draws me to her is how vulnerable and honest she is about emotions, how eloquently she can explain the pain of being alive to me. Some people think she isn't the strongest singer, but I think, much like John actually, one of her greatest assets is how good she is at projecting emotion. The song happiness is a song I think has some lyrically weak moments but her vocal performance on it is so raw and devastating that every single line works even when, looking at it on paper, it feels like it shouldn't.

Hope this rambling made sense to you, lmao?? I love talking about Taylor though so thanks for the ask! Also very open to giving song recs if you do want to check her out more but I won't unless solicited to lmao *Sort of off-topic but I do think there's a relation between my fascination with the Beatles' history and my love for a great break-up song. I like pain I guess :)

[afearlesslyredreputation]

2 Years

Dear Taylor,

Two years ago, you sat in a court room and won your assault case. I remember keeping up to date with your case online and I remember being so sad for you and angry, but so happy and proud of you. We need more women, people like you. The world needs more light, more lovers than fighters. What you don’t know is that while you were going through your trial, standing up against the liars and the dirty, dirty cheats and sickos of the world, I myself had just been sexually assaulted, almost 3 months prior.

Now this is something that I don’t openly talk about. I’m not going to give any details because it’s way too personal for the world to hear. Very few people know about this, which is funny, because now I’m posting this on a public social media platform, but I don’t know anyone irl here in the stan Swiftie-base. But, I wanted to share this with you guys here, but specifically you, Taylor, because you have no idea how much your trial meant to me.

When I was going through the worst of it, the event still so raw and fresh, you received a major victory. Your strength gave me strength that I didn’t have. You gave me hope, faith in humanity again. You made me believe that crappy things happen to good people, but you also taught me that if a man talks shit than I owe him nothing.

I’m so proud you got your justice. I feel like you got justice for all those women (and men) who don’t have the courage to stand up to their abusers; myself being one of them. I chose not to pursue legal action against my abuser because I didn’t want to see him, hear him, think of him. I’ve slowly made my peace about my attack, but, honestly, a huge part of that is because of you.

I have been a fan since 2006. I legitimately grew up with your music. Your songs and lyrics filled voids in my soul. They fixed my broken heart many times. They gave me confidence, happiness, when I never thought it would be possible.

Right now, I’m thinking about one of my favourite albums by you: Fearless. Because of your strength, your determination, your belief in yourself that made you stand up for what is right, you have helped and still help me to this day to be fearless.

Thank you for helping me feel whole again. Thank you for holding my hand in the darkest of days and loudest of nights. You do so much for me and all your other fans that you might never fully understand, and we love you for that.

Forever and always,

Samantha

Also if anyone and everyone who sees this could reblog and/or tag @taylorswift, that would mean the WORLD to me. I just want her to see how much she changed and saved my life, and if I ever get to meet her, I am totally going to tell her all of this. Please help a fellow Swifie out. You guys are the best!!!

(PS. this is the first time I’ve posted a pic or my face and it’s super awkward that I’m not wearing TS merch but I don’t have any!!! Forgive me Taylor)

[taylorsentourage]

How I Met Taylor Swift Twice in the Same Weekend...

Okay everyone, this is the story behind my NYC adventure taking place from arriving to NYC on Nov. 12th (flew all the way from Oklahoma...) to leaving out on the morning of Nov. 13th. 

For new Swifties:

Taylor Swift and her management team work very different from other celebrities. They won’t allow purchased meet and greets. Instead, they engage with fans online to find those who have both not met Taylor (though there are exceptions, definitely!) and who have been loyal followers and supporters for a long time. And when they invite you, they send a private message with details and ask you to keep it secret until after the event. Shady, right? Not in the Swiftie community.

However, I was not chosen. I didn’t deserve to meet Taylor. I’m too fresh to the social scene.

But I befriended a girl on Tumblr, @staytreacherous , because she was so nice and always offering to try and help others get noticed by Taylor. It didn’t sit well letting her help me and having the possibility of her thinking I was using her. I don’t do that. So I kept talking to her and we quickly became nice acquaintances, talking about reputation and early TS and everything in between. We eventually took the budding friendship to Snapchat (to make sure we weren’t talking to creepers 😂) where we decided we’d listen to reputation together (in spirit) when it came out. 

Well, this is where it got crazy. After only 2 or 3 days after we became snapchat friends, she messages me on Nov. 6th asking if I could get to NYC on November 13th.... and I knew what that meant (Taylor’s favorite number is 13, after all) and I was like, “noooo, you didn’t get invited to something?!” Well, she did, and she was asking if I’d be her plus one!

I was in shock and couldn’t believe she asked me of all people. So first I asked her why. I couldn’t possibly feel okay being her plus one!!!

But she said she hardly had any friends who liked Taylor IRL, which I can definitely relate, and she stated that everyone who talks to her on Tumblr would usually only do so to get noticed by Taylor, but I was the only one who really kept talking to her. Which made me really sad because I could never just let someone reblog my posts 20 times without trying to find some way to repay. 

So, I happily and humbly accepted the offer to go to NYC once my dad gave me the all clear from work. I still can’t believe it all happened the way it did. 

I don’t think even I fully comprehend the odds of this situation but, @taylorswift is way too famous for this to happen to me. And given my newness to social media (even though I was a longtime TS fan), I rested on the fact that I would NEVER meet her.  But then-

I met Taylor in line the night of Nov. 12th by sheer happenstance at her new pop-up!!!

So that was a big shock in itself! I had been up since 5:30am and had a full day of travel until I arrived in my hotel at around 4:30pm. After eating, I considered going to Times Square. But I REALLY wanted to go to the pop-up. Because I have no concept of subway systems, nor did I really have the extra money for a taxi, I decided to walk there. It was a thirty minute walk and once I arrived, I realized the line was about 2 hours long. It sucked, but I decided to stay. It was that important that I get the Taylor Swift sweater dress, afterall! haha Well, I just happened to be at the right place at the right time, because when Taylor came to surprise us, I was still on the outer most side of the railing where she was taking pictures! 

And if the experience of having her hold my shoulders, thank me for coming, and then take my phone and get a picture with me wasn’t enough,

I met Taylor Swift AGAIN Nov. 13th at the party, where she called @staytreacherous and I beautiful and held our hands like we were the only ones in the building!!!

There really are no other words for it. I am blessed beyond measure and I am so thankful for @staytreacherous , @taylorswift , and @taylornation . 🙏🏻

Kindness can really take you places, guys. I wouldn’t doubt the power of it. Just look where it took Taylor Swift.