I am just! wow this sounds like her owning her whole whole self again “man it’s been a while—wearing that same smile” like. that’s how it’s felt seeing her the last few years, and honestly this coming out so close to the anniversary of owning her masters?! is kinda making me teary

happy one-year anniversary of taylor announcing she bought her masters back to all those who celebrate 💚💛💜❤️🩵🖤

Excuse me.. this one right here folks.

LOOK AT HER

“The mirrorball bridge, this was Jack sending me a track during Covid, and me immediately knowing that it needed to be how I felt as a performer and an entertainer within this moment when entertainment and art has effectively shut down. I’m still gonna stand on this tightrope, I’m still up on the trapeze, I’m still gonna try to do tricks for you. But at the same time, you know, being a person in the public eye, I’ve really begun to realize that you are a mirror, like, you are a mirror for your fans, for the media, for people on the internet, for just random, just people who don’t really care about your music but they know who you are. However they feel about themselves and their life will be projected onto how they perceive you. A public person who makes art is a mirrorball! And that’s part of why I’ve been able to keep my wits about me through all of this, because I know that, and I’m really kind of aware of that dynamic, but I'm still endlessly fascinated by people, by the human experience, by why people are the way they are, by the ways that they feel emotion. I think that’s what keeps us connected, even though, you know, you can make these kinds of like, shockingly vulnerable confessions by being like ‘I’ve never been a natural, all I do is try, try, try.’ And you say that at first, and I remember writing that and being like, ‘Oh my god, this feels like—like, ‘Do you want to say this?’’ And I’m like, ‘Actually, I feel like a lot of people feel that way.’ That always overrides my discomfort with if a line feels too true, because I don’t really think that there’s anything that’s too true.”

“I think the importance for me of a bridge, it just feels like we’re painting a picture, we’re setting a scene, we have this opportunity as a songwriter to tell an entire story, an entire movie, or a very detailed description of one scene in a movie, or a very nuanced dynamic between people, or a complicated emotion, or we only have so long to do this, you know? I’ve written some really long songs in my life but for the most part, they’re between three-and-a-half and four minutes. You can start like, painting the picture in the verse, you can get to the heart of it at the chorus, but then the bridge can be where you zoom back, you walk 20 feet back, and you see what this entire painting was supposed to be. Like, you’ve seen brushstrokes, you’ve seen the color tones, but the bridge can be when you step back and you feel everything you’re supposed to feel. That’s just how I feel about bridges.”

“I learned you can’t ever really tell if other people are going to like it. But oftentimes, when I love it to a certain degree, that kind of tends to match up with people. And it could be that it doesn’t match up with the way people feel until six, six years later. I loved the reputation album. I was like, ‘You guys say what you want. I know what I did. I love it. Like, go with god, sorry. You can come around if you want. It’s okay if you don’t.’ And then you know, six or seven years later, people are like, ‘Oh my god, like, …Ready For It? People slept on that song.’ When we were making that song, I wanted to headbang myself through a wall. I felt that when we wrote …Ready For It? I felt that way during, writing Getaway Car. I felt that way, I think the first time I felt like, ‘I don’t care if people hate this because I love it so much’ was when I wrote the song Love Story when I was 17, sitting in my bedroom, mad at my parents because they wouldn’t let me go on a date with a guy who was too old, so I shouldn’t have been on a date with him anyway, and this is why you need to discipline your kids, because they might write songs that go no. 1.”