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my CHILD. her HAIR.

The Prophecy x Long Story Short (Live from Lyon)(download)

I was today years old when I learned that the name Robin literally means "fame" or "bright light" 👀

It's a song about keeping a secret from a child to protect their innocence. And the secret is the fame. They're not the robin, she is. That's the secret. It's in the name 🤯🤯

Medley of Everything Has Changed / End Game/ Thinking Out Loud

Just like with Us I thought this deserved 2 versions

thinking about taylor saying ‘there was something dark and too adult about what I had experienced. you should keep some element of childhood - that wonderment and ability to laugh’ when explaining the chorus of begin again in light of the manuscript

UMMMMMM

NEVER FORGET.

thanK you aIMee x Mean (Live from London)(download)

The Albatross x Dancing With Our Hands Tied (Live from Dublin)(download)

#1 diver in my heart 🤍

taylor nation dropping a photo of the exact moment where taylor had a life changing epiphany during glendale n1

A Guide to Red - The Quintessential Taylor Swift Album

After the release of The Manuscript, the role of Red and Red (Taylor’s Version) in Taylor’s life and discography has been highly discussed. A lot of people have referred to it as her magnum opus and most formative album. I have decided to compile a condensed list of about a dozen key interviews, performances, speeches, posts, and videos from 2011 all the way until 2024 that illustrate the importance of this record for Taylor’s personal life and career. I’m putting the list under a cut because it got pretty long. You don’t have to go through all of these, obviously, but I would suggest at least one per era. The bolded ones are essential in my opinion.

Pre-Red - These interviews hint at Taylor’s emotional state at the time and thus the content that will be explored on the Red album

2011 The New Yorker profile

Taylor Swift reveals new album is all about heartbreak - Extra TV

Bonus: an article going through Taylor’s arm lyrics on the Speak Now World Tour, which she described as mood rings for any particular show

Lover diary entries from the making of Red (credit to @cabincreaking for the scans)

- All Too Well lyrics first draft (February 2011)

- Random bursts of happiness and anxiety during the Speak Now Tour (June 17, 2011)

- Red (September 8, 2011)

- Holy Ground (February 2012)

- Nothing New (March 2, 2012)

- Working with Max Martin (June 10, 2012)

Red era - Listen to the original sixteen songs on the Red album at this point.

Red announcement livestream + Q&A

Red prologue

2012 Rolling Stone interview

2012 The Guardian interview

2012 Billboard interview

2012 Esquire interview

Sirius XM Town Hall - an hourlong interview from the day Red came out

Good Morning America - this is the first mention of the ten-minute version of All Too Well

Red track-by-track descriptions

Random interview where she discusses the connection between writing Speak Now and Red

I Knew You Were Trouble music video

Diary entry about how love is fiction and she might move to New York after all (January 6, 2014)

Diary entry from Grammy night (January 25, 2014)

Red Tour London performance of All Too Well - any performance of this song from 2013-14 will work here, but this one has a pretty comprehensive speech

Final performance of All Too Well on the Red Tour - just listen to the speech here

Post-Red era - Over the course of these interviews, you’ll see her relationship to the album evolve.

Taylor’s description of Clean (skip to 11:18)

2014 BBC Live Lounge interview

1989 World Tour interview where she mentions thinking she’d never sell as many albums as she did with Red before 1989 came out

Clean speech - a lot of these will work, but these two best describe her relationship with the Red era and heartbreak in general

All Too Well (The 1989 World Tour live)

2015 GrammyPro interview

All Too Well Super Saturday Night performance

Reputation Tour All Too Well speech

Red into Daylight performance - 2019 City of Lover concert in Paris

Re-recordings era - at this point, listen to the red vault

2020 Rolling Stone podcast

Red (Taylor’s Version) prologue

2021 Saturday Night Live performance

All Too Well: The Short Film + Behind the Scenes

Seth Meyers interview

2022 Tribeca film talk OR TIFF (both are equally good. I have a slight preference for the former, but there are some interesting new details in the latter). You could also watch directors on directors from the same year as a bonus, but it’s less comprehensive.

2022 Graham Norton - How All Too Well (10 Minute Version) came about + how the re-recordings inspired Midnights

Also listen to Midnights

The Eras Tour

All Too Well speech (Glendale Night 2 & Atlanta Night 1) - any of the speeches from March and April 2023 will work, but these two really illustrate how she feels about this time in her life now and how the fans changed the Red album for her. Obviously credit to @cages-boxes-hunters-foxes for the transcripts!

Maroon first ever live performance (‘This is a song about something that happened a long time ago, but it took place in New York’)

Aaaand finally listen to The Tortured Poets Department, especially The Manuscript

This is a lot, but it’s worth it. Enjoy!

This TTPD megamix is blowing my mind 🤯

@lgbtqcreators creator bingo: layout

The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology userboxes

“who’s afraid of little old me?” being about how the media and her life of fame has hardened her to the point where she feels the meanness in herself. she literally says that none of us would survive what she’s been put through so confidently, and tells us to he afraid of her. it being pointed at the public and how their treatment of her is what has made her crazy… very much getting how the tributes in the hunger games were normal people put through the most traumatic thing which the people enjoyed it as if it’s a show and then they were berated for being hard and calculating and un-humanlike…

the manuscript

the black dog

FIVE STAGES OF GRIEF ⸺ Playlists curated by Taylor Swift

Wanda x castle crumbling #W

We Swifties need to set the score right

There's SO much discourse around Taylor Swift on this site and it fascinates me, so I making a poll to see what the overall opinion of her (and her music) is.

I am specifically not tagging this with her name because I don't want the audience to be biased towards people who follow her tag, because they're more likely to be fans. Would appreciate it if people of all opinions reblog the poll to get the best sample possible.

she emotionally devastates and then just. swims away. and we let her

OMG It's even worse than it looked

TAYLOR SWIFT | "Vigilante Shit" The Eras Tour, Tokyo Night 1

the autotune distortion part of dear reader is soooo effective in how it takes someone who has been idolized and constructed through song and performance and public persona, with some of the cogs and bolts her own doing, and reveals how that person we think we know is as real as the pixelated images we see of her, which is to say not real at all. it reveals this god like figure to be an invention of our own design, barely human anymore. and the fact that it distorts over the line "never take advice from someone who's falling apart" hits home that she's not the shiny, perfect godlike woman we see. the hologram ripples, the machine glitches, when the fallibility of her humanity shows through, breaking the visage of perfection we're accustomed to. it's not real, not humanly possible to be this person the curated and carefully constructed way we see her, never was, and isn't possible to achieve. the reality of who she is, outside the songs and the narrative, is way messier, way less inspiring and tied up in a perfect bow. but also doubles as a philosophical meditation on where does one end and the other begin? if the only version of her that most people know is a bunch of perfect pixels, is that the real her now? If that's taylor, then who is the flesh and blood person sitting on her couch every night? does she even exist outside of those pixels anymore? does anyone know the real taylor anymore, herself included, and which one is the real taylor? is she just the ghost in the machine now?

it's going to be so ironical if the theme of the album is what about my art? what about my voice? and all that people do is focus on the person behind the motivation of it. Obviously it's taylor breakup so she's allowed to get personal in every way about it but what happens when the fandom's whole focus is just on Joe and how he fumbled instead of connecting themes and parallels because what about her art now? what about her voice? what about recognising the core thing that makes her her?

My brain is braining in the first time in a while... it hurts

this tracklist has me thinking so many thoughts you guys.

they broke up a fortnight into tour... the first show post joever was in florida... who's afraid of little old me being a twist on who's afraid of virginia woolf a film which starred elizabeth taylor and richard burton about a couple whose relationship breaks down at late night drinks in front of people... my boy only breaks his favourite toys - is she the toy??? free from the slammer where the slammer is an obvious reference to jail after all the criminal metaphors of her and joe tricking the system... but daddy i love him being a reference to the little mermaid where she gave up her voice for a man... clara bow being a 1920's film star who found her voice, married a guy who denied they were ever married publicly and then died + the majority of her fame coming from silent films where she literally didn't need to have a voice and then successfully transitioning into 'talkies' (films with sound).... the smallest man who ever lived vs. 'the loudest woman this town has ever seen who had a marvellous time ruining everything'... oh boy.

i think if you refer to joe alwyn as “joebless” though.. you’re not funny. you’re really annoying and kind of a fucking loser

Rep TV will get her chance someday, Taylor can't stop her from being bejeweled forever

ALSO ALSO "the alchemy" and how alchemy's main goal has always been trying to transform ordinary materials into gold, and the number of her lyrics being like "deep blue but you painted me golden" and gold rush and fucking MIDAS TOUCH on the song about a failed proposal???? she is so back in her lyrical parallel era I'm living