SABRINA CARPENTER in Please Please Please (2024) dir. Bardia Zeinali

hi! your icons are stunning and I was hoping to see some of your most recent set in pink. ty! 💓

thank you so much! here you go:

hope you like them!

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ttpd honestly has some of taylor's best metaphorical work ever and i'm not seeing enough people point it out - she's always been good at running a metaphor throughout an entire song but she truly perfected her craft here. the alien abduction metaphor in down bad obviously, but also the romeo-and-juliet in a small town of but daddy i love, the wild west saloon of i can fix him (no really i can), obviously the high school in so high school is just an amazing use of extended metaphor but so is the high school small town of thank you aimee, the witchy mythical metaphors of the prophecy, the way she uses the house in cassandra, and of course the peter pan of peter... she has literally never been more on top of her english major game than she is this album

A death rattle is a sound sometimes dying people make when their dying. Sometimes it quite traumatizing for the people in the room when it happens.

ohhh thank you for explaining! i honestly couldn't parse the bridge grammatically because i didnt know so i was truly just out here vibing to it

fave lyrics today?

say it once again with feeling how the death rattle breathing silenced as the soul was leaving the deflation of our dreaming leaving me bereft and reeling my beloved ghost and me..... sitting in a tree..... d-y-i-n-g.....

TAYLOR SWIFT The Eras Tour @ Paris, France Night 3

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me the first time i heard “tattooed golden retriever”

13 fave TTPD lyrics this week?

oooh excellent question. in no particular order except how they come to my brain:

i was supposed to be sent away but they forgot to come and get me

just say when, i'd play again, he was my best friend down at the sandlot

you'll confess why you did it and i'll say GOOD RIDDANCE

could we watch our phantoms like watching wild horses, cooler in theory but not if you force it to be?

the deflation of our dreaming, leaving me bereft and reeling

i wrote a thousand songs that you find uncool, i built a legacy that you can't undo

i'm just mad as hell because i loved this place for so long, london

cuz fuck it, i was in love... so fuck you if i can't have us

my friends tried but i wouldn't hear it, watched me daily disappearing for just one glimpse of his smile

bygones will be bygone eras fading into grey

i hope it's shitty in the black dog

then he'll call her a whore, wish he wouldn't be sore

you shittalked me under the table, talking rings and talking cradles, i wish i could unrecall how we almost had it all

travis when taylor played him the tortured poets department

I hate it here so I will go to lunar valleys in my mind

t.s. + the motif of space

THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT 📜 And so I enter into evidence my tarnished coat of arms. My muses, acquired like bruises. My talismans and charms. The tick, tick, tick of love bombs. My veins of pitch black ink. All’s fair in love and poetry.

'Cause there were pages turned with the bridges burned. Everything you lose is a step you take. So make the friendship bracelets, take the moment and taste it. You've got no reason to be afraid.

the prophecy -> cassandra -> peter is possibly one of my fave three track runs in taylor’s discography, if not the fave. they’re not the only three songs that do this on ttpd but the way all three of them take you on a time travel trip across the verses, the use of fantastical or mythological imagery in all of them, all three being about three different subjects/concepts but ultimately coming back to the theme of growing up lonely, which obviously reappears over and over on ttpd but it’s just so prominent here.

the prophecy starts with losing one relationship and ends with losing a different relationship, and in the bridge you see the narrator going crazy because she’s so afraid of being alone any longer. every time she pleads with the fates is a different time - first when her first lightning in a bottle disappeared, second when she thought she had it again and was dreaming of him, and third when she loses the lightning in a bottle again. in cassandra, she uses her house as a metaphor for her life and experiences (you could loosely map the verses to either 1989-reputation-lover era if you read it as about snakegate, or lover-folkmore-midnights era if you read it as about her masters) and in the bridge, she’s not going crazy but everyone else thinks she’s going crazy because she stands alone against this family, this pure greed, this christian chorus line. in peter, she takes you through three stages of waiting for someone who promised they wouldn’t leave her forever, but they did. in the first verse she doesn’t want to come down, in the second she no longer wants to hang around, and in the bridge she admits that she did wait but she truly can’t do it any longer, leaving her alone once again.

at the end of each song she stands alone, despite all the superstitious, magical things she’s tried to put her faith in, fighting a desperate battle against fate - she’s doomed to no soulmates, she’s doomed to have no one believe her, and she’s doomed to wait around for peter. which takes us straight into the bolter, where the narrator takes charge of her fate and leaves first, robin where she reflects on youth as sweetness, and the manuscript where she reflects on youth as agony.

how much sad did you think i had? did you think i had in me?