Make Good Choices

Commission for kalinkaledaa 

Surprise!! 1989 (Taylor’s Version) is on its way to you 🔜! The 1989 album changed my life in countless ways, and it fills me with such excitement to announce that my version of it will be out October 27th. To be perfectly honest, this is my most FAVORITE re-record I’ve ever done because the 5 From The Vault tracks are so insane. I can’t believe they were ever left behind. But not for long! Pre order 1989 (Taylor’s Version) on my site 😎

this is AMAZING! huge, huge win for her team.

Evelyn Hugo and Celia St James

She did it.....you kept me like a secret but i kept you like an oath

so the main character got emotionally destroyed by a boy and then later grew up to be someone who looks suspiciously like celia st james, a lesbian who married a man

On page 54:

Evelyn uses the saying "all’s well that ends well" as part of her explanation for not regretting her actions.

Also, this one...

Harry to hide his feelings or decline the house. I had very little energy left to try to hide who we were. I had learned all too well that pain was sometimes stronger than the need to keep up appearances.

There's just so many parrallels—

Bonus: Taylor Jenkins Reid posted about Red/All Too Well Friday. Didn’t get the video of her freaking out about the 10 minute version but 👀

Countdown to RED (Taylor’s version) release day

I was shocked by the Joe mention at such an important moment, but she also backed herself into a corner by insisting on the WB thing. She’s also shared her an award win speech with CH before - another bearding travesty. It’s not unprecedented, just weird.

The aggressive bearding gives her more privacy, less salacious headlines, and maybe most importantly, obscures her work/life for everyone.

It used to be that we could listen to her album and have an idea of what was going on, knowing she’d written it relatively recently and given her history of aligning her work with her life. Starting with folklore, she’s given lyrics that conflict with her public persona big-time. She’s setting fans up for the idea that you can never tell the real story because she can write from any perspective at any time. Plausible deniability. It’s honestly brilliant and it’s why I really struggle to interpret her folklore-evermore.

I get it. I’m just sad because I’m tired of the asterisks on all her accomplishments. 

Look at how the damn headline for HER MAJOR, MAJOR, MAJOR WIN and the highlighted portion of her speech are about her fake boyfriend.

They made it about a man that is not even involved. It’s really fucking lame.

Please compare this to Beyonce’s headline by the same publication: