rachlou86

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#first #but there are songs that are prob top ten in her entire discography on the second

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“The story isn’t mine anymore” is the most perfect album closer ever

#esp in light of everything she said last year #about seeing us singing the lyrics back to her making her feel less alone

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thinking about "knew he was a killer first time that i saw him, wonder how many he girls he had loved and left haunted, but if he's a ghost then i can be a phantom" because WELL

#Urgh

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**tumblr's poll length limit cut me off, so i know a lot of these aren't the complete first lyric, but you all get the picture of what you're voting on

#Folklore and ttpd are equal

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thinking about the songs taylor chose for the vault for speak now and 1989 in light of the last two years or so of her life is abjectly fascinating to me

#I think of jumping off of very tall somethings #just to see you come running #yep

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Imagine telling May 2023 us that in exactly one year we’d be excitedly waiting to find out if a song about masturbating to Matty Healy would make the Eras Tour setlist

#would’ve triggered the apocalypse I fear #lmao #guilty as sin?

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taylor and travis watching the nfl draft with sean from bleachers is making me jbol

this is soooo funny

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the longing in the prophecy…..a crying

#It’s soooo #makes me really dislike the ‘she doesn’t need a man’ brigade #because she might not need one #but she really really wants a loving partner #and I well #i think she finally got there

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betweentwobooks: A very special recommendation from Taylor Swift and The Tortured Poets Department: ‘Red’ by Ted Hughes. What are your favourite poems? (x)

#florence welch #ttpd promo

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i know a lot of people have mentioned this, but i’m just obsessed with the way taylor refused to sanitize herself on this album. she’s telling you everything. she got off to gross men whilst already in another relationship. she fell for the most obvious lies because she wanted to believe them. she was mad at anyone who tried to warn her. yes, she’s still mad at you for clutching your pearls and watching her like a circus animal btw. she’s having his baby—no she’s not! she just likes trolling. she does really want babies, though. like a lot. she felt like she’d been abducted by aliens and found cosmic love, but in reality, she was manic. and then he fucking ghosted her! and he didn’t even measure up in any measure of a man!!!!! and now she’s devastated by him and his predecessor! she feels like a wondrous prophet one day and the desperate victim of a curse the next. btw he knows how to ball and she knows aristotle. and fuck kim k! also man sex with certain men kinda fucked her up, but at least the writing that came from it defined her legacy. the manuscript isn’t hers anymore. she hopes this insane ass manuscript won’t have to be hers, either! free her of these stories.

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down bad using the alien abduction metaphor to describe a love affair that is filled with stars as far as the eye can see and the possibilities of other worlds far away making you feel like you are no longer tethered to the cruel realities of our world juxtaposed with the blunt image of crying at the gym and saying "fuck it if i can't have him" is soooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#Something about the gym specifically makes it very back down to earth too #Idk

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we’ve talked about “functioning alcoholic” but we haven’t talked about “til NOBODY noticed my new aesthetic”

#Breaks my heart actually #we have said this so many times over the years #but why does everyone just turn a blind eye to this stuff everytime

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I’m over this football season 🙄 when is the nfl back??

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I think you can certainly pinpoint lines to certain men but loml I think overall is so blurred. Like it is written about a pile of loss. In a short period of time I lost all of this shit. Sparks and promises and futures and marriages and babies and love.

yes 1000% agree - sort of the wake of the entire thing when she realizes she has to pick up the pieces of her life. i kind of view the album in four acts: the buildup (1-5), the delulu (6-9), the breakdown (10-13), and the awakening and coming home to herself (14-16).

#Ttpd

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Happier than ever, ET says. Fork found in kitchen

no one is shocked!

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There’s something so beautiful about being the same age and growing up with Taylor.

Obviously all of her albums will be relatable for generations to come but there’s something so special about hitting all these life stages at the same time as she’s writing about them

#even if sometimes it cuts too deep #and sends me into a tailspin for weeks after

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lavender haze police pls do not come for me about this but one of the most striking things on this entire album is how forward taylor is about badly wanting a baby

#The baby talk surprised me but idk why