Taylor Swift - Tortured Poets Department
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Now grandkittens I can be on board with
Husband: I hate artichokes.That's called quality control checks
Two days later . . .
Me: what happened to that dish on the counter? I’m supposed to take dip to the party and it needs to go in the oven.
Husband: it was pretty good cold. What was it?
Me: Artichoke dip
She can come back for med school! But sounds like she'll be getting a great education regardless!
She can pull in the 60 something dudes with altering mowing techniques to promote upright shoots and avoid soil compaction
I never saw "Anti-Hero" as a boy/girl love song. I thought it was a "maybe I'm the problem" song.
A fine song, and one I think that would work better with a true rock beat instead of a synthpop soundscape, but it's another IV I V iv four-chord sequence by her. The production dresses it up as best that it can and the lyrics are introspective by her, but it is just going to end up sounding like other songs.
I get romantic love is one of the primary sources for inspiration for all songwriters (women and men alike). But she's very and almost exclusively reliant on it. And she's almost always singing with her own voice about her own experience and feelings without mixing in much for metaphor. She has occasionally gotten away from that narrow focus (especially on the folksy pandemic albums that I like) but only rarely.
Plenty of male and female rockstars and popstars have had troubled personal lives (and looking at the "Personal Life" section on Wikipedia for many of them looks like a thermonuclear weapon went off there). Plenty of them used that for inspiration in their songwriting. But plenty more of them used other themes as the foundation for songs and albums... especially when they recorded 10+ of them. George Harrison put "Something" on Abbey Road, yeah, a quintessential love song, but he also put "Here Comes the Sun" on there, a life-affirming and beautiful song meditating on life and loss. I wish she would try riskier things like that.
I'm not critical of her personal life. I actually don't know much about it. You're right she's the master of the parasocial relationship. I like her for her friendly, bubbly self rather than whoever she is dating and want to meet her cats. The only relationship of hers I know much of anything about is the current one with Travis Kelce because I knew who Travis Kelce was a long time ago and she keeps popping up on the TV whenever I try to watch football on Sunday and the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes are breaking the heart of yet another opponent.
I find it hard to square that her personal life is irrelevant to her public persona when it is central to her work as a musician and, as you said, foundational to the parasocial relationship so many of her fans have with her. They bonded with her over songs about the same ****** boyfriends they had growing up.
I try to keep it about music and cats, though, and occasionally football.
Music? I give her a solid "B." Always listenable if a bit repetitive. Slick and professional but very much anchored to its era and lacking in musical and lyrical adventurousness.
Cats? A+
I don't mind her at Chiefs' games. A few cuts to her isn't obnoxious. Though she could shut it down entirely if she wanted to and... she's chosen not to. Lots of NFL stars date famous actresses and models. Notice that you never see cuts to Hailee Steinfeld during Bills' games even though she's dating Josh Allen... because her PR team told the broadcast networks they didn't want her shown in that manner.
Taylor...? Doesn't seem to mind...
I’m so depressed, I act like it’s my birthday every dayI honestly didn't read all 31 titles and it shows. I've only listened to like 6 songs
Wait I heard this during my workout.....that is the broken heart one
I took that song more as one reflecting on her own anxieties/insecurities
I think our readings are compatible.
The song is her voice taking responsibility for so many of her own failures in life...
"It's me. Hi. I'm the problem its me."
...because of understandable things we all have like anxiety and insecurity.
I live with my wife and 4 daughters between the ages of 10-13. I am familiar with Swifts entire catalog.
Good luck with four in college! There is a ten year gap between first boy and fifth boy. But boys 3-5 were all in high school together one year and same at ISU.
Replace pissing around with a snowblower for 30 minutes with pissing every 30 minutes and I'm sold.
They’re much like people who have pets call themselves dog moms or cat dads or call them furbabies.
I’ll admit I called myself a plant dad on a dating app once upon a time to see if it would help as I do actually own a bunch of plants. It didn’t.
Though I am on a fun vendetta with my apartment complex to have one of my plants be “pet of the month” and that they are discriminating against people who don’t have animals.
Got to hand it to you, on the spectrum of casting a wide net vs finding your people, you picked a lane and went for it.
