#song: willow

[themoon-andtosaturn]

willow // metlife n1

#song: willow #era: evermore #era: eras #willow #evermore #taylor swift #candy swift #the eras tour #userrcmanticpoetry #tswiftedit #tscreators #tswiftgif #networkthirteen #tswiftdaily #usertaylorswiftdaily #tsgif #for emma #mine. #tegan .gif #100. #200.

[arrowverse-next-gen]

Life was a willow and it bent right to your wind (oh) Head on the pillow, I could feel you sneaking in As if you were a mythical thing Like you were a trophy or a champion ring And there was one prize I'd cheat to win The more that you say The less I know Wherever you stray I follow I'm begging for you to take my hand Wreck my plans

#arrow next gen #arrow #astra constantine #nadia lance #otp: astradia #artist: taylor swift #song: willow #valentines day #repost

[stood-onthecliffside]

it's finally sunday !! which means @chiara-swiftiedreamer13 @evermoreftboniver and yours truly brings you #*the evermore discussion. where we discuss each song every sunday in an attempt to collectively manifest evermore long pond session (it felt right to start this in november for obvious reasons.) we hope that your sunday regrets go away with this and we all can have some fun!

we start with WILLOW!

favourite line- "but I come back stronger than a 90's trend" simply because one of the major fashion moment in the 90s were cardigans,, i love how she interconnects both the albums and leading singles with this (especially when she has mentioned them to be sister albums). i love story weaving between songs and/or albums from the same artist.

theme- love the reputation vibes of it all "finding love amongst all the noise" and what can i say other than the fact that i need the grammy's version. it seems like the perfect opener,, the album starting with "I'm like the water when your ship rolled in that night" and ending song having the lyrics "and when I was shipwrecked (can't think of all the cost) i thought of you (all the things that will be lost now)" it's such a beautiful love song to your partner as well as yourself.

#evermore #taylor swift #*the evermore discussion #song: willow

[tayfabe75]

Speaking of the IILWY mv… It’s interesting that the songs — IILWY and COH — are not linked, but the mvs are. The same goes for cardigan and willow. COH and cardigan end with the protagonist alone and IILWY and willow are about reuniting with the lost lover. Also the invisible string in the willow mv appears to be music!

It's not just IILWY or ACOH, anon! Matty brings back the clown for the beginning of the 'Somebody Else' video as well as the end of 'Sincerity is Scary', even describing clowns as a "motif", heh!

Anon, I love that take about 'Cardigan'! I interpret it in a very similar way, though slightly different. But before I get into it, I want to stress, yet again, to anyone who might be reading this… that Matty Healy is the muse of 'Cardigan', confirmed by Taylor, herself! This rarely happens!

"I've never named names, so I feel like I still have a sense of power over what people say."

I've noticed that most fans completely ignore this bombshell because, rather than explore 'Cardigan' from a new, exciting angle or trust their favorite popstar not to get seduced by or romantically entangled with a "literal monster", they'd rather jump on the bandwagon and believe a 280-character gross misrepresentation of him on Twitter. Boo!

But... I digress! Anyway, as we take this journey, just please remember that Matty is who she is singing about all throughout 'Cardigan'… and keep him in mind as she purposefully ties various songs together with these "plot devices" (more on that in a bit!)

In 'Cardigan', we see how Taylor accesses that golden thread through music (the piano), and the way it is tied not just to this enchanted, magical place (memories from the past, I'm thinking), but by continuing to follow that thread, she ends up in a precarious position - in the middle of dark, turbulent waves during a thunderstorm (very reminiscent of 'Clean'). As the camera pans out, we see just how massive the body of water is. In nothing but a nightgown and totally unprepared to suddenly find herself in this giant ocean… Taylor luckily finds her piano floating on the surface, clinging onto it for dear life. The piano, or the music, is the only thing that saves Taylor from drowning in that abyss - the golden thread luring her to, instead, immerse herself in music once more. Through the piano, or through music, she is able to return to safety and ground herself again, even finding comfort in having taken the journey, because in it, she found a lot of strength and resilience.

Gosh, that sure sounds familiar… doesn't it? Here is where it gets even more interesting! Yes, the beginning of 'Willow' is a continuation of the end of 'Cardigan'. Taylor described the golden thread as a "plot device", which is a "technique in a narrative used to move the plot forward". Taylor is suggesting that there is a plot.

So, let's check out what the Vevo Footnotes video for 'Cardigan' has to say (found on Taylor's official YouTube channel - so, it's as good as "official" to me):

"Returning to the cabin signifies returning to a sense of self after experiencing love lost. However, Taylor's clothes remain soaking wet to represent that she was changed by the journey but has discovered who she always was. I view folklore as wistful and full of escapism. Sad, beautiful, tragic. Like a photo album full of imagery and all the stories behind that imagery."

It's a bit subtle, but the ending of 'Cardigan' is just another iteration on the same story we've already seen elsewhere in Taylor's work. The two that immediately spring to mind are these:

Out of the Woods: She lost him. But she found herself. And somehow that was everything. I Knew You Were Trouble: I don't know if you know you who are until you lose who you are.

And of course, Taylor is directly referencing another song from Red, this time by name: 'Sad Beautiful Tragic' (by the way… I strongly suggest listening to that one back to back with 'Bigger Than The Whole Sky'!)

Taylor suggests that she uses various scenes in 'Willow' to represent the songs 'Seven', 'Exile', 'Mirrorball', and 'Mad Woman'. By the way… 'Mirrorball' is a song that shares sonic similarities with The 1975's 'About You' and 'Medicine' (click the links for fun mashups that help showcase those similarities!)

In the Folklore foreward, Taylor alludes to 'Cardigan' again by describing "lovestruck kids wandering up and down the evergreen High Line" - does that remind you of anything? It sure reminds me of:

"Slut!": Got love-struck, went straight to my head Superman: I'm far away, but I never let you go, I'm love-struck and looking out the window

So, we have a connection to a song that we know Matty helped co-write a different version of… as well as a song that he, himself, hearkens back to via the Superman shirt he chose to wear in the music video for 'Me & You Together Song', as well as lyrically in 'About You'… for some, reading parallels is better, for others, listening is better, so here goes both:

Superman: Don't forget, don't forget about me About You: Do you think I have forgotten? Do you think I have forgotten… About you?

Even the golden thread in 'Cardigan' and 'Willow' is reminiscent of the pixie dust from Peter Pan! Just another connection to Matty, who has not only compared himself to Peter Pan about half a dozen times in interviews throughout the years (slowly adding all instances to this blog), but in one of them, he even talks about Wendy!:

"For me, the Peter Pan analogy of him not wanting to grow up because his… Captain Hook is his only example of a grown-up and he has Wendy, who's a conservative lady who wants to grow up and get married, but he has Tinker Bell who titillates him and she's like pornography, she's like all these… it's like, of course you get like um, titillated by the absence of a domestic reality. You don't live anywhere. You're doing something for other people, although it's yours, you know. You eventually find solace in relationships, like I have done."

Of course, I get it - that this could all be "accidental", but upon studying Taylor's techniques and listening to countless interviews where she says storytelling is the most important aspect of her work… I just don't see coincidence being the most likely conclusion, here. Forgive me, anon... I can get a bit carried away 😅

Thanks for the ask! ♥

#answered #tatty #maylor #taylor x matty #lyrical parallels #sonic similarities #topic: motifs #song: willow #song: cardigan

[puppyeared]

littlest furth shop

@laikascomet

#i think i had a little too much fun with this lol #i also wanted to draw road boy and other characters but maybe when they actually get introduced #i do have a sketch of him with a lil chainsaw.. im not gonna be normal when he gets introduced man he looks so sillygoofy #if you squint laika's eye marking is a clover yue's is a crescent moon and mars' is a star ^_^ #i wanted to give laika an accessory too but i couldnt think of anything.. maybe a stack of pancakes?? #im curious to see the apocalypse side of the story too.. like so far we have an idea of the comet fucking everything up #and im assuming that lead to a ripple effect causing the apocalypse but exactly how bad?? i cant wait to find out #rn im kinda piecing stuff together.. larkspur delivers mail in a beat up van so that might mean all transportation is grounded #the buildings we've seen so far are intact like the observatory and turnip's house but idk if thats the same for big cities #laikas playlist only includes songs downloaded on yue's computer and there hasnt been internet in 20 years.. but radio signals might #still work.. if yue grows his own food we can assume that mass production and distribution also isnt a thing anymore #sorry im a sucker for worldbuilding.. and the furth puns are fun to me. i like to think toronto would be clawronto.. and vancouver wld #be nyancouver.. barktic circle.. mewfoundland and labrador.. canyada.... #christ i have so many drawing ideas. willow if youre reading this im so sorry youre probably gonna expect to see a lot of drawings frm me #like. i wanna draw laika in the akira bike pose so sosososo bad. IT WOULD BE SO AWESOMECOOL. ill teach myself to draw bikes if i have to #i also wanted to animate laika leekspin.. man #my art #myart #fanart #laika's comet #laikas comet #laika #mars #yue #furry art #fur #littlest pet shop #lps

[mourninglamby]

emerald trio for a change 

#song unrelated i just kinda like it smile #anyways #hunter toh #hunter noceda #Gus Porter #willow park #emerald trio #the owl house #toh #toh fanart #the owl house fanart #toh season 3 #the owl house season 3 #im getting a bit antsy for the finale tbh #my art #art #fanart #flapjack #kinda

[selineabanto]

crawling vines and weeping willows 🌿

#that one vampire weekend lyric out of context #the song is unrelated i just liked the lyric #the owl house #toh #selineabanto art #toh spoilers #the owl house spoilers #willow park #toh fan art #the owl house fan art #toh season 3 #the owl house season 3 #digital art

[itsnicsalad]

summer vibes☀️ went with more simple shading again aye

#the owl house #toh #fanart #the owl house fanart #luz noceda #amitt blight #willow park #gus porter #hunter deamonne #vee noceda #hexsquad #i had a 2010s hit songs playlist while drawing these

[willowser]

ᴅᴏᴡɴ ᴏɴ ᴀʟʟ ғᴏᴜʀs. werewolf kiri au.

you wake up under a mountain of furs.

light comes flickering from the hearth and, warm and welcoming as it is—you've no idea where you are.

you don't recognize the inside of the cabin; it's certainly not yours, nor is its layout that of any you’ve seen in the village. it's rather plain, with a singular window and table and chair and small fireplace, empty enough that you wonder how anyone could live comfortably with so little.

outside, the winter storm rages on, and there's a howl that cuts through the air that strikes bone-deep.

all at once your memories come back to you: dragged through town with bound hands and ankles, in only a thin night dress, screaming with all your might as the physician that delivered you into this world tied you to an old pine, along with the priest and the man that sold you blueberries in the spring.

people you knew and loved. had trusted.

the memories become hazy after a while, darkening with the night that crept in. you remember your body losing its feeling, but not its fear. you remember the violence of the storm, breaking trees and branches and uprooting the forest floor. you remember the horrible and hulking shape of something rising in the moonlight.

the door shoves open then, with enough force to send you scurrying back into the corner of the room. the blizzard tries to rush inside, but a man stands in its way, leaning back against the wood to keep the wind and snow out where it belongs. he's—big, as tall as the frame and just as wide, with thick hair that he's tied back, messy and low.

he's rosy in his cheeks and on the tip of his nose, as bright as the eyes that snap to you the moment you dare to breathe.

he doesn't say anything, at first. the bag of firewood he sets at his feet settles as he turns to you in interest, eyebrows raised. the clothes he's wearing look—old and worn, certainly not suitable for the storm roaring outside, with the holes and tears in the fabric. the boots he has on, however, seem heavy, have his steps echoing when he moves further into the room.

you pull your knees up to your chest and try to shrink away; beneath your thin dress, your skin has pebbled up, reminding you of just how vulnerable you still are.

your fear translates; the man stops on the other side of the little table, breathing in deeply before raising his hands up in what reads as surrender.

"hello," he finally says, and when you don't respond, he places a thick hand to his dark-haired chest and introduces himself as, "eijirou."

he nods emphatically and then repeats himself, as if to reinforce the name. you only grant him a small nod in return—and he smiles. it's wide, stretching across his face, and friendly, authentic enough that you question whether you're as damned as you thought, or perhaps saved.

how did you even get here? the question finally thaws out from the recesses of your brain and you take another look around the room as if the answer lies between the wood or nestled into the furs. this place looks too hand-crafted, you realize, all of it—and the man before you looks like he could move mountains, if he wanted to.

the chains that had bound you were iron-strong and didn't once budge in all your thrashing, before things went dark—but now you are inside by a well-maintained fire, warm and free, and all that remains of your ill fate are the indentions worn into your wrists.

he's still staring at you, the man. eijirou. he's not moved any closer, either, and when you meet his curious gaze, his lips twist and his eyes narrow. a thoughtful noise comes out of his mouth, like he's thinking of what to say or how to say it, and you're reminded that you don't recognize where you are, nor do you recognize him in the slightest.

big as he is, you don't think he could have carried you too far in a snowstorm such as the one still raging outside; are you still somewhere deep in the forest? in a cabin at the heart of the wood? saved by a man that somehow survives with so little out in the middle of nowhere?

"eijirou," you test the name on your lips and he perks up at the sound, attention snapping back to you instantly. you don't know if it's winter seeping through the floor, or if it's in the way that he watches you, that makes you shiver.

finally, he asks, "cold?" and when you nod, he slowly makes his way over to you, carefully, as if approaching a deer ready to run.

—and then he sheds his shirt with a quick shrug and holds it out to you.

you should want to look away, for decency sake, but you're—stunned by it, by him. there's a litany of scars that paint him in odd and worrisome places, but he stands tall and strong before you, unbothered by his own state. unbothered by the eyes that run over the expanse of his bare shoulders, the dark, thick trail of hair running down from his belly button, the ripples of muscle his loose shirt did well to hide.

you take it from him carefully and it's so warm, almost hot, that you press it to your face immediately to chase away the chatter of your jaw. the material itself, however ragged, is big enough to drape over your curled form like a blanket, and so you do just that. it carries the earthy smell of the woods, deeply woven into the fabric; pine and musk and something smoky.

with your cheek still pressed to his shirt, you look up to thank him, at last, but the words still in your throat at the minute changes of his face: still smiling, though sharper now, somehow, and his eyes are still wide with that keen, rapt interest—but the crimson to them has set like the sun and they've grown just as dark as the night outside.

#i wrote this like a madman pls excuse the first draft quality hehe #PLEASEEEE he's so akfhahfkah isn't socialized LOL #doesn't talk to anyone really 🥺has no reason to 🥺 #he's new to all this 🥺 #doesn't mean to put you in his lil nest and cover you in the smell of him 👀 #okay well he DOES but he didn't know it would AFFECT HIM THAT WAY PLEASE #ugh this has been living in my head for so long i'll write more of this when it isn't 1 am LOL #✿ thoughts: kirishima #✿ willow writes #song is wolf like me by tv on the radio !!!

[cosmokyrin]

The Huntress in the Woods

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Artwork powered by Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS): Linux Mint MATE 21.1 and Krita 5.1.5

#summer rose #rwby #rwby9 #spoilers #rwby spoilers #kyrin's art #AAAAAAAA SHE #SHE SHE SHE #I had Taylor Swift's 'willow' playing the bg while drawing her and god that song just inspired much of this portrayal #SUMMER #I LOVE HER SO MUCH

[simminginstars]

I always say I'll be better on Saturn None of this matters Dreaming of Saturn

#not sza dropping an amazing song for an ad #nvr watched an advert more!! #ts4 edit #sims 4 edit #simblr #s4 edit #i dnt love this but like willow nvr gets to come out so

[probablyhuntersmom]

Hunter has been given a blanket and hot cocoa at last. Guess which Disney Renaissance movie they're watching

#hints: Camila cries mostly at the start. Hunter cries so much towards the end #look at how the TV lighting influences the colours in the room #they can bond through this movie #a song around the middle of the movie fits Huntlow #there are characters that Hunter will think are similar to Luz Gus and Willow #I'll give the answer in a day or two #camila noceda #hunter noceda #the owl house #loz's edits #loz's art

[bookhousestark]

ARYA STARK + stand-ins (insp.)

#asoiafedit #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #arya stark #gotaryastark #ygritte #alys karstark #jeyne poole #willow heddle #valyrianscrolls #canonarya

[tayfabe75]

"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)

#year: 2020 #december 2020 #quote: taylor swift #taylor's character #topic: love #topic: fate #topic: magic #song: willow #album: evermore #connection: mastermind #get to know them #source: zane lowe #timestamp: 23:32

[rileyclaw]

silly huntlow type beat animatic because I was too weak to reisist the call . song is When He Sees Me from Waitress!

#animatic #the owl house #toh #it started as me going 'lol this song i found reminds me of willow a bit' and then it snowballed after an hour long discussion discussing #EACH lyric and how it could fit and i knew i was gone. #huntlow #willow park #hunter toh #animation #video #my art #idk if it'll go on youtube! i kinda like the cultivated safety of posting just on my art pages FHJSDJ #anyways willow my beloved

[willowshimmer]

⭐✨Gossip Besties✨⭐

#willow shitposts #willow rambles #hazbin hotel #hazbin rosie #hazbin hotel rosie #rosie hazbin hotel #alastor hazbin hotel #hazbin alastor #hazbin hotel alastor #they are so silly #besties #Rosie is amazing and the best auntie figure in history #shes the cool aunt that hypes you up to perform a song infront of you're parents