#idk fearless (taylor’s version) has been doing a number on me lmao

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i think the purest section of the internet i’ve ever stumbled across was the comments section of a lyric video for “i’d lie” by taylor swift sometime in the aughts the song’s chorus goes “i could tell you his favorite color’s green / he loves to argue / born on the 17th / his sister’s beautiful / he has his mother’s eyes / and if you asked me if i love him / i’d lie” and all the comments were lovesick young girls rewriting the song to fit their own crushes like “i could tell you his favorite color’s blue / he loves NASCAR / born on february 29th / his brother’s kinda cool / he has his mother’s old toyota camry / and if you asked me if i love him / i’d lie <3”

#tswift #mine.txt #long tags #tagged tangent #it was simultaneously the purest and also the funniest corner of the internet i’ve ever encountered #bc it was just all these young girls pining very earnestly for oblivious boys #and rewriting love songs to fit them even if they couldn’t quite make the chorus rhyme #like that’s so cute??? idk i think that’s why i’ve always gravitated toward TS #bc i think it’s really neat that even her most personal/niche/unrelatable songs have an element of universality to them #and there’s plenty of written work re: universal experiences but it can be inaccessible to Youths™️ #like are you 12 years old lamenting the inevitability of oblivion a la hamlet? no you’re crushing on jeremy from math class wtf is a hamlet #and that’s not to say young people aren’t capable of profound or complex emotion or whatever #and even if they’re not waxing poetic about mankind as a whole doesn’t mean their emotions aren’t complex and nuanced #like is a girlhood crush on an objectively lackluster classmate as high stakes as other universal human experiences? of course not #does that make it any less important? i mean i guess but c’mon #trivialities are as much a part of existence as the dramatic shit too #idk i just think about the comments section of i’d lie a lot lol #being a swiftie on youtube in 2009 was a thankless job but there were rare pockets of joy amongst the joesulub #idk fearless (taylor’s version) has been doing a number on me lmao