Don't ever change

oh wow that is brutal but valid. Watching the mv made me feel like she is copying others while making it as dull as possible. Even with celeb cameos i wasn‘t thrilled in it at all. And the dissing of her exes gets boring

Swift’s penchant for self-referentiality and meta-narratives makes her music seem impenetrable to casual listeners, and the artist herself overly insular. With the exception of a loose narrative about the lengths people will go to in their search for “the one”, the video for “Opalite” has very little to say.

Instead, it feels like another vehicle for Swiftian world-building – less an expression of artistic intent and more like a self-mythologising sales technique that Swift draws on her own life to create her art.

The issue is that she now appears unable to see that life in the context of anything other than herself.

Perhaps the most frustrating thing about this is that she’s proven on numerous occasions that she is more than capable of constructing narratives of great depth: from the masterful “Cardigan”, “August” and “Betty” trilogy from 2020’s Folklore, in which she fleshed out a tale of infidelity, regret and longing, to “Clara Bow” and “The Last Great American Dynasty”

Along the way, though, this inquisitive and observational eye has turned exclusively inward. Take Showgirl’s lead single "The Fate of Ophelia". The Swift of Folklore would have done her due diligence in accurately representing the nuances and complexities of Shakespeare’s doomed heroine.

The Swift of Showgirl, however, fails to look beyond her personal and professional identity – and the marketing power attached – in order to do that character justice.

The tragic story of Ophelia becomes a mere costume Swift dons to further mythologise (and commodify) her romance with American football star Travis Kelce.

Such navel-gazing affected the entirety of Showgirl, a record that has nevertheless become one of the biggest records of Swift’s career.

While Swift was never a trend-chaser, frequently eschewing Top 40 fads in favour of thoughtful songwriting and smart production, her insularity is now isolating her. She no longer feels part of a wider cultural conversation involving other musicians, literature, history, film or visual art.

What does casting a host of famous faces you appeared with on a chat show say about anything?

Swift’s sole point of reference has become herself. Alone at the pinnacle of pop supremacy and consumed by her evidence board of easter eggs, she has lost her once-tenacious grip on the pen she used to expertly wield.

taylor consistently for years has portrayed her ex's depression as a wrong that he perpetrated against her. it's been three years and she's still trying to humiliate him for struggling with mental illness and swifties are just like "lol yass queen give us more" and regurgitate the most ableist shit they learned from her

just look at any of their sycophantic analysis of the opalite video

I've not seen it nor am I planning to watch- dare I ask? 😭

she spends 70% of the video shading joe by portraying him as a literal rock she's dating that doesn't participate in the relationship or give her anything. the funniest part is that "gray rocking" is a pop psychology term for a communication strategy for dealing with manipulative, abusive, or narcissistic individuals by becoming as uninteresting and emotionally unresponsive as a "gray rock." so that implies joe giving her nothing to feed her ego and constant need for drama was potentially a strategy to create emotional safety for himself!

taylor consistently for years has portrayed her ex's depression as a wrong that he perpetrated against her. it's been three years and she's still trying to humiliate him for struggling with mental illness and swifties are just like "lol yass queen give us more" and regurgitate the most ableist shit they learned from her

just look at any of their sycophantic analysis of the opalite video

More proof that all she cares about are charts. Not publishing the music video on youtube until two days later so people are forced to watch it on Spotify or apple music.

Also I feel like she's trying to get to number 1 during the Superbowl, after all the talk about her not being asked to do it, and block Bad Bunny.

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THIS!!! RIGHT HERE!!!

The argument that Taylor was defending/protecting her friend is such bullshit.

Taylor conspired with her friend to help her steal someone else’s creative project, after years of whining about her masters being “stolen” by Scooter Braun.

Also she thinks this will last between her and Mr wondering eye travis kelce! Taytay!! Girl, hes already stalking instagram models. And that pap walk he looked miserable as fuck, guess the contract is coming to an end and I dont mean the football.

She just put out another variant this week, right? I was shocked to learn it’s still at the top of the charts because I genuinely don’t know (or know of) a single person who actually likes the song, let alone worships it. It just goes to show you how much the charts and what plays on the radio is a game of celebrity politics. She’s got them in her pocket with behind-the-scenes deals, not to mention how these variants contribute to her inflated numbers.

Not to mention she can pay to have her songs boosted in the algorithm on streaming services and TikTok, etc.

At this point, she knows everyone wants her to just go away (in her own words) and she’s only going to dig her heels in harder. She’s never been the type to listen to criticism and try to grow from it. I think the closest we ever got to that was when Red didn’t win a Grammy, and she said it was because the album wasn’t “sonically cohesive” and aimed to accomplish that with 1989. But that wasn’t criticism given to her bby the public; that was her own reflection. I doubt she’d lower herself to even do that much now, though.

But I digress. Her refusal to listen to criticism of her music or to budge on these ridiculous variants is the same as her continuing to insist that Travis is this sweet, polite gentleman when everyone knows he’s anything but. We have eyes and ears. She’s making a fool out of herself by parading him around as Mr. Right while he’s ogling other women online with no shame. But she can’t admit to it.

please help me find a sterek fanfic!!

The town gives sacrifices to the wolves/werewolves and stiles gets picked (or he volunteers instead of someone else, can’t remember exactly) he goes into the woods expecting to die but he meets derek who turns out actually nice. He later falls in a well and derek saves him but he gets sick so derek takes care of him. Scott gets bit by peter. After that, derek k!lls peter with the help of Scott. stiles sees and ends up having a panic attack but derek helps him. Later derek bites erica, Isaac and Boyd. Stiles gets kidnapped by a monster but they save him and then him and derek get together.