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Got out some popcorn , as soon as my rep starting going down, down, down .

Laughed on the school yard as soon as I tripped up and hit the ground, ground ground

But I forgot that you existed , and I thought that it would kill me, but it didn't ,

And it was so nice so peaceful and quiet

Track # 2

And it’s oh , whoa oh , it’s a cruel summer ,

It’s cool that’s when I tell em no rules ,

Unbreakable heaven but oh whoa , oh oh

And at every table ,

I’ll save you a seat ,

Track # 4 ,

I’d be a fearless leader , I’d be the alpha type ,

What’s it like to brag about raking in dollars , and gett’n bitches and models , and it’s all good if you’re bad , and it’s ok if you’re mad

I’m so sick of running as fast as I can ,

wondering if I’d get there quicker if I was a mann ,

I’ve been the archer ,

And I’ve been the prey

I think he knows his footprints on the side walk , Lead to where I can't stop , go there every night

I think he knows his hands around a cold glass ,

Make me wanna know that body , like it's mine

He got that boyish look that I like in a man

I am an architect, I'm drawing up the plans , It's like I'm seventeen, nobody understands

He got my heartbeat , Skipping down 16th Avenue ,

I saw the scoreboard , and ran for my life . No cameras catch my pageant smile

I counted days, I counted miles , To see you there , To see you there , It's been a long time coming but , It's you and me ,

Went home and tried to stalk you on the internet

Now I've read all of the books beside your bed

I like shiny things , but I’d marry you with paper rings

I hope I never loose you ,

I hope it never ends ,

I’d never walk Cornelia street again .

But if the story’s over , why am I still writing pages?

I ask the traffic lights if it’ll be alright ,

They say I don’t know ,

Gave you so much, but it wasn't enough

We can go drivin' in, on my scooter uh, you know, just riding in London

They say home is where the heart is

But that's not where mine lives ,

And I can't talk to you when you're like this

Staring out the window like I'm not your favorite town ,

I'm New York City

And I’m just like ,

Uh oh ,

Uh oh ,

Uh oh ,

You need to calm down .

I blew things out of proportion now you’re blue .

Put you in jail for something you didn’t do .

I’m the only one of me ,

Lost my gloves, you give me one

"Wanna hang out? Yeah, sounds like fun

Luck of the draw ,

Only draws the unlucky ,

So I became the but of the joke .

I've been sleepin' so long in a twenty-year dark night . And now I see daylight

Her epic seventh album is all about big moods, dreamy Eighties throwbacks and evolutionary freedom 

By the time “It’s Nice to Have a Friend” arrives on Lover, her seventh and most epic album, Taylor Swift has entered uncharted territory. For one thing, it’s the 17th song here, and none of her previous albums have run more than 16 tracks. (Lover actually contains 18.) More importantly, it’s not about being 16 or 22 or even her not-insignificant current age, 29. It’s about being six or seven, and walking home from school in the snow: “Lost my gloves / You give me one / Wanna hang out? / Sounds like fun.” There’s no beat, no banjo, no metaphors or coded messages. There is, instead, deconstructed steel drum, horn and cooing voices — Animal Collective as interpreted by hip-hop-savvy pop-producers-of-the-moment Louis Bell and Frank Dukes, the song’s co-writers. It’s like the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey, where a long turbulent journey through outer (and, naturally, inner) space culminates in the sudden appearance of a planet-sized fetus. For two and a half minutes, Swift regresses past all the drama and heartache she’s cataloged since her teen years to curl up in a weird little pocket of beauty. Swift has always been vulnerable, of course. And just as obviously, that vulnerability has been her strength. Female pop stars since Madonna have been expected to constantly reinvent themselves, lest it seem like they’re aging — an impossible standard that vexed Swift contemporaries like Lady Gaga and Katy Perry. In sharing her actual feelings about relationships chronicled by the tabloids — and parrying the entire internet’s judgements of those feelings — Swift helped open up a space for Ariana Grande to directly address Sean, Pete, and Malcolm on “Thank U, Next” (to name one glorious example). When Swift went pop, that wasn’t so much a transformation as an annexation of new territory. Grande might’ve picked up something here, too, with her triumphant embrace of hip-hop-style surprise drops. If Ariana, Billie, Halsey and others seem so effortlessly themselves, it’s in part because Swift worked so hard at speaking her truth and smiting her enemies. Lover is, fittingly, evolutionary rather than revolutionary. But nevertheless it feels like an epiphany: free and unhurried, governed by no one concept or outlook, it represents Swift at her most liberated, enjoying a bit of the freedom she won for her cohort. Made mainly in collaboration with Jack Antonoff, female songwriting ally nonpareil, the album’s dominant sound is sleekly updated Eighties pop-rock. In a bonus making-of track destined for a Target edition of the album, Swift tells Antonoff she wants a “dreamy guitar-y throwback, but not camp throwback” sound for the title track, and that’s pretty much the vibe. (Think recent Carly Rae Jepsen, if she made actual hits.) Swift loads “Paper Rings” up with a “1-2-3-4,” a “hey! ho!” and a key change for a jittery bit of Cars-meets-Eddie Money-meets-Go-Go’s delight. On the terrific “Cruel Summer,” written with Antonoff and Annie Clark (a.k.a. St. Vincent), she tells a simple tale of tortured love in under three minutes of pure pleasure, with what sounds like a smattering of talk box. When she sings “Out the window / I’m always waiting for you to be waiting below,” there’s no question you’re supposed to picture John Cusack in Say Anything.

Swift adjusts her frame of reference as needed. She claims to be “In my feelings more than Drake” in “I Forgot That You Existed,” a pro forma, post-trop-house declaration of her “indifference” to the haters. Thankfully, that’s mainly it for the sassy, winking Swift. Instead, she mostly goes for the big moods. “False God” is as minor-key and seductive as anything by the Weeknd, with a chorus, well — I’ll just leave this here: “Religion’s on your lips / Even if it’s a false god / We’d still worship / We must just get away with it / The altar is my hips.” She zags into oblique political commentary with “Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince,” a high school parable where she sees “high fives between bad guys” and delivers “O! K!” interjections in her best cheerleader voice. Like Euphoria,the HBO teensploitation extravaganza, it’s dark, melodramatic and, against all odds, perfect.

There’s plenty more fodder for the Swifties, haters, and bloggers here. Leo takes a proverbial volleyball to the face on “The Man,” a usefully blunt indictment of double standards, and the dub-inflected “London Boy” counts all the ways she “fancies” her boyfriend Joe Alwyn. “Soon You’ll Get Better” was recorded with Dixie Chicks, but giving the country-radio exiles a feature isn’t the point — the song is note-perfect ballad for Swift’s mother, whose cancer returned earlier this year. Whatever there is to be read into these songs, they are for one person and one person alone: Taylor Swift. Finally.

@taylorswift @taylornation

Just wanted to write to you because the day after Lover is released I’ll be marrying my love / king of my heart! August 24th!!

Here’s a couple of my favorite photos of us!

Anyways just wanted to tell you how excited I am! And to thank you for writing music that kept/keeps me believing in love for 13+ years! Without your music I don’t know where I would be!

King of My Heart is the song I listened to when I realized Tyler was my forever!

Thank you for everything 💕 I’m going to have a kick butt wedding playlist!

well i can tell you how taylor interpreted it.. i don’t think i’ve really seen anyone post about the meaning behind this song even though everything else has come out… it’s actually really funny because dwoht has become the most misunderstood song on rep LET’S CLARIFY

taylor set it up by saying that inspiration for the song came when she was back in LA after spending several months out of the public eye. as we know now she spent basically all of this time in the UK with joe without anyone knowing she was in a relationship. back in LA (i think for work), she went to the gym only to be caught by paparazzi on her way out.. the paps shouted all kinds of things at her including comments about her weight… remember this was the first time she had been properly seen in months and nobody knew she was in a relationship.. 

she described being really overwhelmed by the experience but that her thought process was less about herself and more about how she could possibly have a normal relationship when this was her life. taylor actually said that after the incident she went straight to the recording studio, cried, and wrote this song. for the record, i’m pretty sure she was describing this day in Jan 2017 

in terms of how this led to the song, i think in the past we know taylor has made comments like “who would sign up for this” but this was more of a “who would stick around for this” kind of situation.. it’s important to remember that taylor describes this relationship as being different to any other relationship she had ever been in. firstly nobody knew they were together and secondly this person had signed up to be with her despite everything. i think i remember taylor saying something along the lines of feeling like she had something permanent she needed to protect. 

i’ve seen a lot of people say dwoht is a break-up song but.. it’s not.. at all. it’s about a bunch of internalised doubts taylor had about her ability to be in a long-term relationship being brought to the surface quite suddenly. in the song she isn’t questioning the relationship because things are going badly, she’s questioning it because things are going well and she’s scared that she’s going to destroy it by virtue of who she is. in my opinion, this is why dwoht represents what reputation is about at it’s core. the effect her reputation has had on the people she loves. this entire era has been about her taking control in order to protect something that has become everything to her. 

a recent example of this true meaning is that taylor actually said before performing dwoht in manchester that the song was about feeling “a combination of love and fear” and “how those two emotions coincide with each other and fight with each other”. 

if we look at the song this explanation is probably most visible in the lyric "i loved you in spite of deep fears that the world would divide us” but it’s echoed throughout the track in lyrics like “you said there was nothing in the world that could stop it i had a bad feeling” and “i knew there was no one in the world who could take it i had a bad feeling”. i could do a full lyrical analysis but that would take forever. 

Okay stay with me here. So It Goes is a sexy song, sure. But…something about it just feels off, even a little sad. I think this is about a relationship ending and I think that relationship is Calvin Harris. Here’s why:

“See you in the dark, all eyes on you” - Calvin Harris was in the public eye. He was a DJ in the dark. People were watching him/them (whereas no one even knew Joe)

“Cut me into pieces” - she feels fractured by their public/personal lives, losing pieces of herself to the relationship  

“Hostage, gold cage to my feelings” - she’s trapped in these feelings she has for this guy, implying she can’t get out even though she wants to. She’s hostage to the memory of him

“Trippin’ when you’re gone” - this is a nod to Don’t Blame Me which is a satirical song about Taylor Swift’s reputation for NEEDING to be in love, where love is a drug, she’s constantly tripping 

“We break down a little” - being in the public eye hurts their relationship. We saw all the gossip about why they broke up, when they weren’t happy. It had to do with differences in opinion about how to handle public appearances

SO IT GOES x12 - this is a Kurt Vonnegut reference about death and the unpredictability, the randomness of losing something.

“I’m yours to keep and I’m yours to lose” - she’s saying she’s all in; it doesn’t seem like Calvin was. 

“All eyes on me” - sounds familiar? Cuz everybody’s watching her but she’s looking at you

“Illusionist” vs “magician” - they’re both tricksters. They’re putting on a show. They both know how to give the other what they want, but it implies it’s not real. 

“Wear you like a necklace” - possessive, an accessory. Plus, he gave her a locket for their 1-year anniversary which she posted about when there were rumors of their breakup

“Come here dressed in black now” - A funeral. Plus, Calvin looooooves wearing black. 

SO IT GOES - I cannot get over the importance of this line. 

“You did a number on me” / “I did a number on you” - this is a negative idiom. It means someone had a negative affect on your life; there’s no way to spin it. She’s saying they each messed each other up a little – and she kept count (and we know from “End Game” she’ll forgive but she won’t forget)

SO IT GOES - this is a narrative transition to another subject when here’s not an easy way to move on and explain the inexplicable.

She’s saying “So it goes”, marking the death of her relationship with Calvin, her reputation from the first half of the album, her personas of the “old Taylor” and she’s moving on with the ellipses to a new chapter. 

WHICH STARTS WITH GORGEOUS. THE SONG WHERE SHE MEETS JOE. THE SONG WHERE SHE MENTIONS A BOYFRIEND SHE’S NO LONGER CONNECTED TO. THE SONG WHERE THE SECOND HALF OF THE ALBUM STARTS OUT TO SHOW THE REAL TAYLOR.

Hi Taylor! Im Shivaani from India! I such a craaazyyy fan of yours longing and yearning to meet you and tell you how much you mean to me and how much you have helped me in my life throughout my teenage! Its my wildest dream to meet you! Unfortunately i’m in India and can’t attend you concerts or world tour and there is not even one day i don’t cry about that!

Im jealous of every fan of yours who get to go to concerts and tours and especially those who attend your secret sessions😭😭😭😭🙈🙈🙈! I got the inspiration to sing because of you! Thanks for bringing out my talent! I know every single line of most of your songs! You are an inspiration in my life as a person! The way you never change and you are yourself inspite of whatever happens in the world! You are one of the very few people who never fail to express yourself that too in the best way! Your music had helped me in every way in every situation!! When i’m stuck somewhere where i have no clue what to do next i turn to you!

I listen to your songs it calms me and helps me to think straight! You never fail to inspire and motivate me! You are my source of energy and boost that i need!

There is no way i would go to sleep without listening to you! Be it a very busy day or be it during my hectic college semester exams!

As there is no way i could attend a concert or tour.. i watch every online video about you or your performance! Thats my only connection to you.. i feel im the most happiest person when i watch your live performances in award shows and tours but i cry inside that i wasn’t there to experience it live!

Even though it bothers me a lot,the happiness of seeing you overcomes the sad part and i end up having an emotional breakdown everytime!!

I also feel very bad that im not able to afford to buy any of your albums nor any of your goodies! 😭 when i earn i will make sure i save up enough money to buy your goodies and albums!!💖💞

And im also not able to subscribe to directv to watch your exclusive videos and it breaks my heart and kills me!

I jus want to thank you for everything you have done to me and every other people like me! You have been a true inspiration and a motivation to all of us especially me because i found that i can sing well by singing along with you in my earphones!

You have a very special place in my heart Taylor! I jus wish i could meet you in person! You have millions and billions of fans out there who are like me! Im fortunate to be one among them! But i feel im unfortunate because I’m not able to see you!

I know you receive like a millions of fanmails everyday! I jus hope mine reaches you! I jus want you to know you mean the world to me next to my parents!

I love you to the moon and back!! I will be the happiest person in this entire world if i could communicate with you! 🖤🖤🖤❤

Its been an honour to have been your biggest fan and im on the top of the world to still be the biggest fan supporting in everything you do and getting inspired to do more!

I love you more and wish i could be there for you like you are here for me!🖤

@taylorswift @taylornation

Im jus tagging you people so that I can get to be friends with you and rejoice by hearing your stories about how taylor has reflected in your life! Sorry if its annoying