#was drivingflyingcrying

I can’t get over how raw taylor is in afterglow, cos she’s not just admitting she made a mistake, she’s admitting that maybe she isn’t 100% all the time, maybe she isn’t a strong badass all the time, and maybe the way she’s been treated in past relationships has left scars. That’s why the lyric ‘it’s all me in my head’ is so important, because she’s recognising precisely what the problem is, but she goes a step further because she doesn’t say she knows how to fix it. She stands there in front of him and says ‘I know I panicked, I know I overreacted, I know I’m overly defensive, and I know it’s because of my history with some pretty crappy people, and I don’t know what I can do to make it better except say that I’m sorry’. It takes so much guts to admit you dont know how to deal with your ingrained flight or fight response, which is why she says ‘tell me that we’ll be just fine even when I lose my mind’ - she’s desperate, she doesn’t know what to do, so she reaches out and says ‘remind me that it’s all in my head and that we are stronger than this’. It’s not manipulative.

can we talks about the structure of false god and death by a thousand cuts because we all say we love a taylor bridge, and yet there isn’t one on either of these songs and find that really interesting

honestly that question in the rolling stone interview about 1989 as a reset button has me thinking about 1989, reputation and lover as a trilogy, and how it moves through the process of the rebirth of the mind, the rebirth of self-image, and the rebirth of the heart

gosh the parallels between ‘I’ve found time can heal most anything’, ‘time won’t fly it’s like I’m paralyzed by it’, and ‘that’s the kind of heartbreak time could never mend’

It’s disgusting because Taylor’s post was so heartfelt and professional, and the BMR statement is really clearly them scrabbling for a petty means of discrediting her, and their direct address of her in the statement demonstrates how they’re attempting to infantilise her. Taylor was right, they’re telling her to be a good little girl and shut up.

lover is a record about overcoming doubt and fear in favour of love, and so me! being the lead single really makes me feel a lot of emotions

omg go billie for making a statement about how her label lets her do what she likes