By all accounts, she almost drowned when she was six in frigid water. The Bolter by Taylor Swift

happy one month of ttpd brainrot to those who celebrate

“stars placed and glued meticulously by hand next to the ceiling fan” taylor has so many lyrics about her relationship with joe and how they spent so much time dreaming while staring at the ceiling, but except for this one line, she never mentions something that could hurt her while they were dreaming. the blades of the fan are moving fast and can quite literally hurt you, and she’s just trying to place stars next to this thing that could cut her because the ceiling with the dreamscapes is all she has.

and this also just makes me think how she has kept somethings back and not told the full story because she was trying to protect him (and as was her right because that’s what a partner does)

I love Taylor’s unrelenting desire to murder someone who hurts her

TAYLOR SWIFT | "I Can Do It With a Broken Heart" The Eras Tour, Stockholm Night 3

Her ability to have the best time ever with the guitar songs and then sing the most devastating piano song never fails to impress me

and I won’t confess that I waited, but I let the lamp burn! as the men masqueraded, I hoped you’d return! with your feet on the ground, tell me all that you’d learned, cause love’s never lost when perspective is earned! and you said you’d come and get me, but you were twenty-five, and the shelf life of those fantasies has expired, lost to the lost boys chapter of your life! forgive me, peter, please know that I tried to hold on… to the days… when you were mine… but the woman who sits by the window has turned out the light… you said you were gonna grow up, then you were gonna come find me :( said you were gonna grow up :((

I don't know if anyone has pointed this out yet, but the crowd's wristbands flash the two colors of Taylor's 1989 two piece during Shake It Off

so high schools great because of the sex jokes but also underneath the whole "you make me feel like im not carrying the weight of a lifetime in the relationship, we're new and shiny and its just the two of us against the world"

and that’s why it’s the perfect foil to all the themes of the album ☺️

The way rwylm is about people out growing you and feeling stuck and Peter is about out growing people and feeling stuck

one thing about taylor is that she’s going to feel caught in the gap between childhood and adulthood and unsure what to do about that feeling (also for the record i think she feels like after this moment she’s maybe wedged herself out for real)

I would love to know when she wrote it because I really picture it being during the shitty part of the season when we were all starting to speculate on Grammy appearances. And she said no I’m manifesting this for you. And then did lmao.

taylor be like “i wrote a song about you winning the super bowl and it made the tracklist so you better win”

hold on to the memories they will hold on to you

“dancing phantoms on the terrace” is one of the best turns of phrase in taylor’s entire discography

you guys i had a thought that started off as a joke post but now i fear im serious this is so quintessential swiftie brain disease

part of why i think 'red' can be argued to be her magnum opus is that taylors post red discography is so referential of it and that time in taylors life. i once believed love would be burning red! so scarlet it was maroon! now and then i reread the manuscript! no one is doing it like my girl!

thinking about how working with max and shellback literally changed taylor's entire career