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she really put her entire pussy into these vault tracks.
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1989 (taylor’s version)
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“darling i’m a nightmare dressed like a daydream”
taylor swift, blank space 2014
someone please help a fellow haylor in need!! i’ve been trying to find “evidence” of when taylor said she played 1989 songs to harry but i can’t find anything about it anymore :( does anyone know which interview it was or has pics of the interview or something saved and can send it to me
i just have to disagree with anon about ayhtdws and wonderland being the saddest songs out of 1989. ootw at the grammy museum personally crushed me. that’s when you realize the song stripped bare from its heavy production, is actually a very sad song about somehow sensing that this love you held was doomed from the start. trying to protect something you hold so dear and that could break at any moment due to its fragility and then it finally breaking because outside forces ultimately won and you had to give up what you were fighting for because it was too hard. it makes me so sad :(
Sorry about the haylor in your asks but if it is atleast partly inspired by him that means that there must've been more to it than we knew. Like I still can't believe AYHTDWS was the saddest song she could come up with in 1989. I think that she locked her sad songs in vault because she wanted a fun pop album. Especially after people dragging her for red aka heartbreak album in that era. Even wonderland (arguably the saddest one in 1989) is bonus that didn't get much attention. Man I can't wait for 1989 tv
from what we've heard of his side, there was definitely strong emotion, and the fact that she addressed that situation on midnights (and potentially folkmore) at all lends itself to the idea that there could be more beneath the surface there. we know they went back and forth for quite a while. as you mentioned, something i feel is important to recognize about 1989 era is that she was projecting a polished, perfected image on purpose. she had exposed real devastating heartbreak before and been dragged through the mud for it, as far as the media goes, and the response to red back then was quite different than it is now, and we also know about her then making that conscious decision to pivot - into pop, into a "cohesive" sound, into sort of glossing depth on the album in order to seem more...assured and effervescent. she suppressed her romanticism and she attempted to hide how she was struggling. i know i've mentioned that era was really hard for me and i stepped back for a few reasons, but it's more clear now how she was grappling with a lot of difficult things. this is totally subjective, but i've always thought the most emotionally vulnerable song on the record was this love (or at least it's tied with clean), and it's telling it was originally a poem written earlier. she tried to shed that signature heart on her sleeve (even in interviews, 1989 taylor was often at her most cynical), and the sadness and struggles and pressure she locked up tight. it's still good writing, it's fundamentally a perfect pop album, but it's at a bit more of a remove, layered with the slick production, and more weighted with anxiety than sadness. and you're right, some of that was to keep it fun - if you strip AYHTDWS or IWYW or OOTW or I Know Places or Wonderland down to bare acoustics, they'd sound a LOT more sad. i am very curious if the 1989 vault has any of the more vulnerable writing, or if she didn't really lean into that aspect of her pen at the time because of what she was focused on creating. we don't know anything about the songs that could be there, i don't think? it'll be so cool to hear what she held back from that time, and interesting if it illuminates/redefines any of the album the way Red TV did!
Honestly, this was one of the best days ever. I am still really happy and still can't believe I was able to be there
@taylorswift @taylornation thank you so much for making this tour possible, this is the greatest concert I've been to. Not only because of the show (you can tell everyone gave their all), but also the other swifties were really lovely. I am NUNCA going to forget that day
Well…. I was an interesting 16 year old I guess
(ps I am a swiftie now so this is your warning)
everyone wants him, that was my crime.
the wrong place at the right time.
slut! (taylor's version), taylor swift.
1989 and ofmd have a few too many parallels for the last episode to just so happened to have lined up with the release of 1989 tv…. i see you ofmd marketing team
' 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐨 𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐤 , 𝐬𝐮𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐫𝐝 . '
' 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 , 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐭 . '
' 𝐚𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞 , 𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐰𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐨𝐥 . '
' 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐟 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 ? '
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I was just listening to suburban legends and, first thing first, what and absolute total banger. I genuinely cannot understand why I did not listen to this song more often. And second, the lyrics are like, really queer-coded.
The one that really called my attention was "1950s gymnasium". Now, if you dont know that, in the 1950s the lavander scare, a process where queer people where maked to be outcast on the society by the goverment, took place. People needed to hide and did not really know who to trust (since the people caught "guilty" were force by torture and manipulation to give names or other queer people), it was really a strugle. She says she is "standing in a 1950s gymnasium" like, trying to survive the scrutiny and navigaiting her life not knowing who to trust about her true self alongside other queer people. All together in one place, practicing not getting caught (and we all now that era was when Taylor was really bad at hiding her alleged relationships with women)
Then, theres the chorus. I didnt come here to make friends, when would you need to clarify that in a straight scenario? Almost never and, based on the lyrics, I dont think thats the case. And then the "you kissed me on a way thats gonna screw me up forever" its really deep if we read it as queer. Taylor queerness was an obstacle to her career, something that should be hidden and secretive because the consecuences of it being know were too catastrofic (like in the 1950s). Her queerness could screw her career and dreams forever, so that kiss (that I think represents her whole relationship with the muse) could screw her up forever, everything she has worked for could go away because of who she was in love with. Yet, when she hold her, it hold her together, so it was worth it.
Now in the second verse, there are (appart from the 1950s lyrics) a few things that caught my attention. First, the fantasy she has about surprising everyone with their mismatched sings, its a fantasy because it cannot happen. Its not posible, that is why it is a fantasy. Second, theres the lyric, "You'd be more than a chapter in my old diaries with the pages ripped out" she says "You'd" as in a way of hoping, like saying: if our love was not something we have to hide you will be more than a than a chapter in my old diaries with the pages ripped out. Now, this thing about ripping of pages of a diary is honestly heartbreaking. She feels so afraid, she needs to hide that much that she even erased any prove of her love from her diaries, one of the most personal things anyone could ever own, were you pour your feeling to yourself and yourself only; she could not even trust her diaries to keep her love secret.
To finish, we have to tie it all to the title: suburban legends. A history that everyones knows yet no one can tell if it is or not true, because there us no proof. It could be real or not, but everyone has heard of it. Taylor saying her and her muse were born to be suburban legends insinuates that the relationships she is singing about was secret, very few people knew that it existed for real (bacause it was not safe) but everyone heard the rumors about it.
Disclaimer: this is just my interpretation and by sharing this I am not saying this is the truth or that Taylor said that to me or something like that. I am just reading and analising the art she putted out there.
Either we're getting 1989tv announcement or she's trolling us massively
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