isn't it delicate? ✨

taylor’s control of language always sends me into oblivion when i hear some of her songs. there’s this super sexy thing in linguistics called topicalization where you put the a phrase at the beginning of the sentence instead of its canonical position further right in the sentence to emphasise the an action or feeling over the thing. it appears in cruel summer when she says “it’s new, the shape of your body / it’s blue, the feeling i got” and again in invisible string when she says “bold was the waitress on our three year trip / cold was the steel of my axe to grind / gold was the colour of the leaves / hell was the journey but it brought me heaven” however she usually uses this for emotions instead of actions. she doesnt want to emphasise what happened, but how it feels. she creates such sensory in her songs but not of a sound or a sight but an emotion and thats neat

Okay but you can’t compliment folklore while dissing taylor’s previous work because it was too bubblegum for your manly brain. The woman who wrote folklore is the same girl who wrote “so i start a fight cause i need to feel something and you do what you want cause i’m not what you wanted”, “I’ve never been anywhere cold as you” at 16 and she’s the same girl who wrote “you paint me a blue sky then go back and turn it to rain. And i lived in your chess game but you changed the rules everyday” about a grown man who dated her when she was only 19. She’s the same girl who wrote “so you were never a saint and I loved in shades of wrong we learn to live with the pain mosaic broken hearts”. I could go on for hours talking about how great she has always been as a writer but i know you won’t listen cause you have a superiority complex, i mean god forbid you like something or someone a lot of “teenage girls” like, right? 

I hope Taylor continues to just put out whatever the fuck she wants because she genuinely could do any genre and nail it.