which I also quite like so far

did kanye postpone his album for this? are we finally done with kanye v taylor?

I’m obsessed with this album already

Cottagecore Taylor Swift

Also I think she says shit too...idr, I listened to it while falling asleep

she does but she said shit on reputation

fuck is New Territory

anyway I was just thinking "boho librarian" is my new aesthetic and behold, taylor understood me

anyway looking more into kanye… is he okay, has anyone seen kanye

cottagecore taylor swift the perfect description and I am here for it

safe & sound but a whole album

this is really good.

i admit I skipped her last two albums but I'm really enjoying this.

reading this I was like I guess I'll listen to my TSwift albums today and realized I am neutral to dislike on every song on Fearless

and it's the only album of hers that I feel like that about

medieval and betty for the gaylor swift conspiracists

👀

wait her middle name is my name???

I think the answer to is kanye ok is sadly probably not based on recent events.

ftr I like lover (but Me! is kinda eh) and the back half of reputation

and fifteen ++ the title track from fearless

fifteen bugs me a lot because of teh way I read some of the lyrics but I'm sure I love songs that other people hate so.

i don't read it in the slut shaming way, fwiw

I didn't initially but then I couldn't unhear it later /o\ argh brains

i forgot all about a lot of the early taylor swift feminist takes and a lot of them were p unfair but i get the "can't unhear" problem

yeah. by the same token I'm pretty sure most people didn't read "ours" as queer on first hearing, but I sure did, and that interpretation is just glued into my brain

so at least it goes both ways I guess

yeah and tbf it's not because i think early taylor swift was full of feminist masterpieces-- something like "you belong with me" is def full of not like other girls sentiments

but i was hardly a perfect feminist in high school, adolescence is full of messy feelings, and she was a teenager singing about that

yeah I am uncomf with the amount of grown-ass women dunking on a teenage songwriter in early tswift criticism

like not that it's without merit

also that twilight dunking is getting reexamined when stephanie myer wrote it as an adult but nobody is ever like hey maybe we were too hard on this actual high schooler

I scrolled thru so much twitter for this

aw I'm touched that you braved twitter on my behalf

I am always on twitter

and y I think it's a of the Smeyer overreach "things teen girls like?? fantasy for teen girls??"

which has plagued all teen girl media since the dawn of the concept, probably, because we see teen girls as both worthy of extreme derision and also incapable of critical reading

tswift has the double problem of being things teen girls like and also publicly a teen

teen girls reading twilight were by and large aware that vampires aren't real and that actual relationships aren't like that

but it's an obsessive fantasy that mirrors the heights of teenage obsession

likewise taylor swift writes songs about teenage jealousy, and is both not given any credit at all for writing her music

like as a former teen who hated twilight at that age, it's still like HOW DARE YOU THINK I WOULD LIKE THIS??????

"I don't hate Taylor, I just hate the things her managers make her do"

only when you call them out on it tho

like 'I'm critical bc I care!' bitch you dont sound like it

but also not given any credit for the artistry of her songs, by which I mean they are treated as exactly what she feels and advocates with no artistic distance whatsoever

yeah,,

people were extremely weird about that with 'look what you made me do' even

and tbf this is partly something she courts with her own extremely confessional style, like part of the appeal of taylor swift is the feeling her songs are autobiographical, like pages of a diary

but… they are not

ANYWAY I think the Taylor Swift discourse has flipped a few times

I'm not sure where we're at now

yeah idk but it's like, hmm, the way people treat women writing memoirs or autobio or even first person journalism as having no artistic direction whatsoever

I WILL ALSO SAY re: the Kanye/Kim drama, that "I think I might still have sex with Taylor / I made that bitch famous" is a sexist line regardless if she gave permission

I think it's a dumb joke but also that she was referencing the record label drama in her speech and people made it about kanye

I realize that's not what the drama was about but

and yeah, it's also like

was this the line that launched a thousand tweets?

not a big deal to me, kanye clearly has larger problems

I also feel like kim's response was kind of................immature lmao

bitch you were 37

32 and still growing up now

anyway they know they all profit off the drama so it keeps going

what no surely that was not 7 years ago.............

nooo that's the line from the song supposedly about kanye

ohhhh which one is that

Taylor Swift – Innocent

awww that's a nice song to be about kanye

medieval also the real question is

will taylor swift get a fourth cat now

I think she will.

She needs to keep up.

If she got "writing an album" out of her system in quarantine, clearly a cat is next.

i'm so excited

benjamin button has gotten bigger:

look at that boi

Gorgeous cats

Also I migraine passed out but yeah even my husband who aggressively dislikes pop music as music comments on what a good poet she is

I hope you're feeling better!!

in another update I bought one of the limited edition albums… I still have a cd player, I'm not cool enough to have switched to vinyl

my dad still owes me a record player from a 2010 hanukkah present

I should just ask a music friend for recs and buy one myself

I am feeling better now that I've realized part of the problem was dehydration

I also still have a CD player. My dad gave me a 51 CD changer for Christmas my freshman year of college and I absolutely still use it

I used to stick all my FF soundtracks in there in order and hit play

I believe a black mages album is what is currently in mine