COWBOY LIKE ME – meet up every tuesday night for dinner and a glass of wine. infatuation. it’s rare that people get through the tough shell you have built up. especially since you see the way they’re running mirrorball around. the responsible thing to do would be to stay far away from it all, but there’s something about recklessness that it just so enticing. against your better judgement, you’re giving them time of day. they better not make you regret it.
HAPPINESS – good thing este's sister's gonna swear she was with me. found family. their rejection was talk of the town. more people focused on gossiping about champagne problems than caring about their mental state post-relationship. someone has to step up, and you decided it would be you. at first, you thought it was going to feel like a chore. something you just had to get through. you weren’t expecting to genuinely get along with them.
TOLERATE IT – acting different and it smells like infidelity. concerned for. you’re constantly watching them settle for less and never standing up for themself. you want to grab them by the shoulder and shake, but you know that won’t actually work. you have to be patient with them, but you hate watching them give ivy their all and never getting the same in return.
"I liked opening the album with that because I loved the feeling that I got immediately upon hearing the instrumental that Aaron created for it. It felt strangely… I say witchy, and I stand by that. It felt like somebody standing over a potion, making a love potion, dreaming up the person that they want and the person they desire and trying to figure out how to get that person in their life, and all the kind of misdirection and bait and switch and like, complexity that goes into seeing someone, feeling a connection, wanting them, and trying to make them a part of your life. It's um, it's tactical at times, it's confusing at times, it's up to fate, it's magical, it's weird…
It felt a bit magical and mysterious, which is what I wanted people to feel going into an album that was a collection of these stories um, that were going to take them in all kinds of directions, so I wanted to start them with sort of a setting of the vibe."
December 17, 2020: Zane Lowe asks Taylor why she opens 'Evermore' with the song 'Willow'. (source)
Making friendship posters for all the albums, Starting with my favourite album folklore. (no idea why Tumblr demolished my quality rip). Which album should I do next ?
we need to STOP assuming songs are autobiographical. i would say it's the taylorswiftification of popular music but also like even taylor swift is like hey these songs are fictional narratives that aren't about me and then her entire fanbase still acts like they're her personal experience. man. treat songwriting like creative writing and dont make assumptions. this is what mitski is always talking about, devaluing women's art in particular by saying it's like a diary rather than an intentional craft. and art that is vulnerable and personal and like a diary is of course valuable but you have no way of knowing if that's the case if the artist doesnt share and frankly as a music listener its none of your business if it's "true" or not