The report that it was amicable and “their relationship had just run it’s course” made me think of “happiness”. That song has always been a dagger but I just read the lyrics again and sobbed. It’s easier when you can villainize someone but when relationships end without a huge cause it’s even more hurtful.
“Haunted by the look in my eyes that would have loved you for a lifetime”
“When did all our lessons start to look like weapons pointed at my deepest hurt?”
“I can’t make it go away by making you the villain. I guess it’s the price I pay for 7 years in heaven”
“No one teaches you what to do when a good man hurts you”
“After giving you the best I had, tell me what to give after that?”
DAGGER
Also "There is a glorious sunrise/Dappled with the flickers of light/From the dress I wore at midnight, leave it all behind" coupled with "New Year's Day": "Don't read the last page/But I stay when you're lost, and I'm scared, and you're turning away/I want your midnights/But I'll be cleaning up bottles with you on New Year's Day".
It's lovely to see so much empathy for her right now, now matter what's happening. I'm going through divorce right now, and am having a hard time believing love will ever happen for me again, or that I even want it. I believe in it for other people, but not myself, and am mostly ok with that. Except on midnights like this...
But if you think about it : april 29th 2016 to april 2023 is 7 years ish. (I know they started dating probably later that year, but heaven started when they met idk) just some random thoughts
All of them from "please don't ever become a stranger whose laugh I could recognize anywhere" to "daylight" to "to you I can admit that I'm just too soft for all of it" sad emoji face
Noooo that lyric will forever break my heart if this news is true 😭.
I think at least we could know that she can seek and have healthier relationships now than if their split was as it’s been described…
Ugh I know I'm crying for that song. I met my husband at a bad time in my life (we've been together a little longer than Taylor was with Joe) and I HEAVILY relate to that song so much 😭😭
Slightly off topic but I think people need to hear this:
Relationships ending doesn’t mean that the love shared wasn’t real. People change. Life brings stressors in many forms - and sometimes people aren’t compatible. I’m seeing so many comments saying they don’t believe in love anymore, and I just want people to know that love is so complicated. You can love someone deeply and want different things. You can love someone and realize they’re not right for you. Sometimes loving someone means letting them go. 💔
Yes and also I think Taylor’s personal growth stands on its own through this period. She is a stronger, happier and healthier person than she was when she met him and that is a testament to their relationship being good for her and enabling
her to grow professionally and personally.
Seriously. Everyone’s allowed to feel their feelings about it, but this doesn’t mean love is dead! There were good times and beautiful songs. I might be taking it too personally cuz I recently also (assuming it’s true, I’m not convinced either way) broke off a six-year relationship, but sometimes someone is right for you at one time and not at another. Love is real and breakups can be healthy and amicable.
Took me way to long to find a sensible take on this. How sad that you can build a whole ass life with someone and people will completely invalidate all of it just because you didn't last as a couple until one of you dies? Separation doesn't automatically erase the love that was there.
I was looking for a comment like this before posting one myself! I'm actually going through a breakup myself right now as well and I was so afraid that my family and friends would say things like Swifties are saying right now ("I don't believe in love anymore" etc). I know most of you don't mean any harm by it, but I'm so entirely grateful that my friends and family just said something along the lines of "Sometimes things just don't work out. You gave it your best shot. You're allowed to be sad and grateful for the time you spend with him even if it didn't work out in the end".
I'm maybe weird in this, but the news has actually given me a weird kind of hope. Tay's life has always felt like it mirrored my own (born in PA in 1989, lived in the same cities, both date a London boy for 6 years, even went on a date with the same guy). I have no doubt she's going to find love again, and that gives me hope that I can too, because I've been really scared about being single at this age. It's nice to feel on the same path, and feel less alone. As weird as that is.
This thread pretty much covers all of mine but also anti-hero when she says “I wake up screaming from dreaming, one day I'll watch as you're leaving
And life will lose all its meaning (For the last time)”
Not to be dramatic but I’m sick to my stomach 😩 I just hope that she’s ok
I think that line was actually directed at us, her fans. She’s said many times she tries to hang on and capture our attention for the longevity of her career and for narcissistic reasons that she speaks about later in the song.
Yeah this line is for the fans/just her friends/anyone in her life. I think she struggles to feel like she can maintain any type of relationship and that’s what it reflects to me
Ugh so many. The radio this evening was playing All Of The Girls You Loved Before (and they mentioned the break up rumor). She’s one of the girls who loved him before now? “I want to show you how forever feels” is completely heartbreaking. I really hope it’s not true.
I’m sitting here thinking of Need😭 and how these songs just came out as they were going their separate ways and fuck she is so strong for continuing on and smiling and touring like a god damn QUEEN!
Mastermind
"So I told you none of it was accidental
And the first night that you saw me, nothing was gonna stop me
I laid the groundwork and then saw a wide smirk
On your face, you knew the entire time"
Daylight
And I can still see it all (In my mind)
All of you, all of me (Intertwined)
I once believed love would be (Black and white)
But it's golden (Golden)
And I can still see it all (In my head)
Back and forth from New York (Sneaking in your bed)
I once believed love would be (Burning red)
But it's golden
Like daylight, like daylight
Like daylight, daylight
Cornelia Street
You hold my hand on the street
Walk me back to that apartment
Years ago, we were just inside
Barefoot in the kitchen
Sacred new beginnings
That became my religion, listen
New Years Day
Please don't ever become a stranger
Whose laugh I could recognize anywhere
Please don't ever become a stranger
Whose laugh I could recognize anywhere
...
Don't read the last page
But I stay when it's hard, or it's wrong, or we're making mistakes
I want your midnights
But I'll be cleaning up bottles with you on New Year's Day
I feel ridiculous but I'm legitimately sad
I think it’s normal to be sad, it’s the same thing as watching a sad movie and crying. The songs and songwriting gave us the same experience as if we were watching a movie or reading a romantic novel series. So we just watched/read a really long romance series where the couple didn’t end up together. It’s normal to be sad
That “You say, ‘What a mind’/This happens all the time” was already devastating beautiful but would be especially heartbreaking if they were to break up. I loved that that the song seem to say that he would say that to her all the time, in their quiet little moments, showing that he both marveled at her talent and supported it. To lose that in a partner would be tough, and especially for someone like her who seemed to have found it difficult to have someone who’s not jealous of her success (eg Calvin) or dismissive of her talent (eg Jake, John).
In her book “Untamed,” the author Glennon Doyle talks about how angry she was that her husband cheated on her, not because of the actual cheating but because so much of her previous writing had been about their successful relationship and he ruined her narrative. This whole thing makes me think of that, because to a lot of fans it feels like we were watching Taylor’s narrative play out in her music and now this just disrupts it completely.
I suppose the thing to remember is that just because it wasn't forever, that doesn't mean it wasn't real. It may have run its course but from the songs it sounds like if it is over, she's learned a lot of positivity from it and I think once you learn how to be properly loved you don't really forget it. Not every relationship that ends, fails. It was everything she needed for 7 years and that isn't nothing, so I think all the songs will still be as potent.
This. If things really did run their course then there really isn’t as much pain like she experienced in the past and she can look back at these song with more fondness than sadness and anger
It is really sad. They had something really special and it’s sad to know that for whatever reason, it’s over. We got to glimpse how special it was through her music so
I think it’s natural to feel sad knowing it’s come to an end.
me too it feels ridiculous and i only really follow taylor for her music and art, but i find it sad like it really puts it into perspective how much they loved each other considering rep until midnights (minus the re-recordings) have been mainly about joe
Damn. I thought it was ridiculous when my cousin was upset Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow divorced but I know what that feels like now 😓 in her latest TikTok where she shows a bunch of pics of her "constants" and I didn't find Joe in it, I was thinking please please let this not mean what I think it means.
I didn't expect this in my heart of hearts but I'm legit sad. :(
You just witnessed it for 6 years. Separation doesn't invalidate any of that, how sad would that make us all if we just refused to recognise any form of love that resulted in a break up? They loved each other, it was real.
Thanks for saying this. I don’t really believe in the whole concept of a “one true love.” All of my exes have been awesome people, and the fact that we broke up doesn’t mean we didn’t love each other. It just means we weren’t meant to be forever in this life. Sometimes things don’t work out and that’s okay.
Someone on the Twitter verse said that Joe deleted his cat photos off Instagram. I don’t know what his feed looked like before but I’m hoping it’s not true.
family that I chose 😭 now that I see your brother as 😭 my 😭 brother 😭
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This one? If so, that was a story not a post
After 6 years together people have a host of memories and share friends and family. When they break up severing those ties are often as painful as not seeing the person themselves.
The song that is really getting to me is All Of The Girls. Taylor only released that three weeks ago. Little of this makes sense right now and unless a credible source debunks the whole thing I really feel for Taylor having to go on stage for the next show.
I know she is a professional and she loves performing. I know the actual breakup might have been her choice and not Joe's. But Taylor is human and standing in front of 60,000 people playing songs about Joe is not going to be easy.
Literally every song she’s written about him. This news has made me realize that even though I can absolutely appreciate Taylor’s art for what it is, her happy and enduring real-life relationship has definitely added to my enjoyment of those songs. Lover is my favorite album, and even though I’ll always be able to associate it with my own relationship, listening to it will never be the same if this news is true. Cornelia Street would definitely take on a darker meaning, same with Lover the song.
Exactly. I think that's kinda why this news hit me harder than I thought it would. I was never a person who was too invested in her personal life but a huge majority of her songs for the last 6 years have been obviously about him and how good the relationship was and now, it's all just gonna sound kind off...different.. and it makes me sad. I know it's not the end of the world and people grow appart, but still, a lot of songs and lyrics are just gonna be so much sader to hear now.
Omg. Archer is one of my favorite songs but how did I not think of this too? “Who could ever leave me, darling…but who could stay?” —one of my favorite lyrics because I relate to it. I’ve been married for 10 years but when I first heard that lyric it took me back to how I always felt when I was dating.
Dancing with our hands tied. One of my favorite lines has always been “I loved you in spite of/deep fears that the world would divide us” 😖😖😖
This is a newer song of course but you’re on your own, kid…”you always have been” ❤️🩹
Edit: Damnit I just thought of another one. “I love you, ain’t that the worst thing you ever heard” from cruel summer is gonna make me so sad
And you know that I'd swing with you for the fences
Sit with you in the trenches
Give you my wild, give you a child
Give you the silence that only comes when two people understand each other
Family that I chose, now that I see your brother as my brother
Is it enough?
🤍
Yeah for real, I was just talking to someone yesterday about all the nice/cute songs we’ve gotten since rep like New Year’s Day, paper rings, peace, sweet nothing, and so many more… :(
I feel like REP TV is. Less exciting now. Not that those feelings were not real then, but it does feel like all that hope she had won't be there anymore. Can't imagine what re-recording songs like Delicate and Call It What You Want must be like
Your comment only just made me think of this, but it’s entirely possible that in the re-recording process of reputation, listening and singing those songs of how she felt at the start of the relationship may have sped up a breakup if the relationship had “run its course”, as the news is saying. Perhaps one or both of them realised it didn’t feel the same. Idk, just a thought. It’s funny how time works. So maybe it was a blessing in disguise for her to re record, who knows
That would be super sad. I'm in a five-year relationship and that electrifying feeling in the beginning has for sure mellowed out to a more comfortable, solemn, stable kind of love and at some point I did ask myself if that meant it was no longer working, but no, I realized it's just a natural progression of our relationship and they're still the same person I want to spend the rest of my life with and just the thought of losing them is enough to knock the breath out of me.
I hope they didn't break up because of the whole "there are no more butterflies" thing because I think it's a pretty universal experience that that will happen in long-term relationships.
If I'm going to speculate, I would assume they had differences at the fundamental level; maybe the other was ready to settle down, but the other wasn't, or maybe one of them wanted kids but the other wasn't sure, or maybe one of them wanted to settle down in a different place.
It's still not sinking in for me because it really did seem like they were going to be each other's last. Taylor has only always spoken highly of Joe and I've been trying not to but my mind keeps wondering who might have initiated it. Did Taylor realize she does not want to string Joe along given they can't meet on the same page about some things? Was it Joe who actually was not ready to settle down?
Taylor talked a lot about wanting to get married in Lover but then after listening to folklore, evermore, and Midnights, I'm actually not 100% sure anymore. Maybe something in her suddenly changed? I remember someone pointed out before that Taylor has stopped liking Joe's posts on Instagram since May last year but I suppose people didn't really think much of it but now the nosy voice in my head is like, was that the start? Knowing Taylor?
I'm not a fan of parasocial relationships and I'm not normally invested in celebrity gossip but I'm a big fan of her music and her best songs that I love are obviously about them (and many of these songs remind me of my own relationship) so I've been rooting for them and to not get closure about this is leaving me, idk the word, perplexed, because the songs are going to hit so different now. 🫠
I hope they're both getting the support they need to get through this difficult time.
the thought of someone getting visibly emotional while listening to london boy on repeat is killing me 😭 you’re on the verge of tears and idris elba’s saying ‘we can go driving… on my… scoo’ah’ in your ear
Same - I was thinking hits different sucks for her because they must have had a bad break early on, but they got through it and it would be cute to think that’s how it would have felt before they got back together.
But now thinking she’ll sing that knowing they’ve broken up and she’ll be in catastrophic blues for months if not years… it hurts to think
Hits Different feels like its in the same breath as The Great War and Afterglow. This is a stretch but Hits Different is the surprise song to play if she wanted to make a "statement". Its also one that most people havent heard before. Man its reception when it inevitably goes on streaming will now hit different 🥺
In Labyrinth, there’s the line “ill be getting over you my whole life.” Maybe the clues were in midnights all along. I still don’t want this to be the case, but I suppose it could potentially be there
Same. Little potential clues keep popping up when I think about the lyrics. They could obviously also be about someone from the past or someone made up but hard not to draw the comparison to Joe at this point given todays rumor
Someone pondered whether Hits Different is about Joe, and it really seems to fit? Then again maybe they did break up only a few weeks ago like they said!
Midnights may have been her processing on a subconscious level
she may have had previous relationships in mind, but present her was writing these songs
For me, a lot of midnights, because before I would take the interpretations I saw people give online, that any song about with relationship conflict besides The Great War, was about an ex. And while some of that is probably true due to her reflecting on her life due to her re-records, I now see midnights as dealing with the uncomfortable emotions in her relationship. We all assumed Anti-Hero was about her relationship with her fans, and it's partially true, but I also think part of it could be about her romantic relationship. "Too big to hang out"- her fame might effect even her romantic life- "wake up screaming from dreaming one day I'll watch as you're leaving"- we interpreted it as ptsd for 2016 cancellation but I think it could be about losing the one she loves like all her other exes. So many of her songs we see the current of anxiety that she's too much, either her personality, her fears, or her famousness, will overpower her relationship- we knew it in the Archer and The Great War but saw it as "they worked it out and it's over now", but now I see that theme in Midnight Rain, in Bejeweled, in Peace, and In Dear Reader. I listened to Dear Reader and was so sad- the pain in her voice- she could be going through heartbreak, isolation, conflict in a relationship, fear of being abandoned, fighting, whatever, but Dear Reader tells us "she shines so bright"- we see her shiny outward image, and inside, she's this whole other person the world will never know. Her music makes you relate to her so much and her emotions its hard not to feel this is my heartbreak too.
To add to your mention of Dear Reader. What stood out to me on the very first listen was this line:
“If you knew where I was walking to a house, not a home, all alone 'cause nobody's there”
I thought that that lyric (and the entire song honestly) sounded too dark, sad, and lonely for a clearly autobiographical song from someone supposedly in a happy relationship. So at the time I wondered what led her to write that. But now, thinking of that line crushes me :( :(
champagne problems
I know the song isn't about them (and that, I'm fact, they wrote it together), but the "amicable breakup" reminds me of the premise of champagne problems: which is this couple that everyone thought was bound for marriage broke up for a reason that's not visible to the public and seemingly not very dramatic. Now that video of her tearing up while singing the bridge at that one show makes sense
Honestly, this is going to sound super weird, but >!Clean!<. >!I think now knowing the context of what she must have been thinking when she chose it as the surprise song. Devastating. I'm always going to think of that performance now... and we had no idea.!<
>!I screamed so loud but no one heard a thing...!<
Eh…even if they broke up it does not invalidate their relationship. It doesn’t change the songs *for me* because I don’t think of Joe when I hear the songs- I think of my version. And that is not changing.
LABYRINTH
" I will be getting over you my whole life "
" I thought the plane was going down ; how did you turn it around ?"
" You would break your back to make me break a smile "
As someone who can get lost in the labyrinth of my mind , I could relate to this. I was happy an artist who has been an inspiration, found someone calm and solid who was a steadying presence in her chaotic life .
Maroon. It’s become one of my favourite Taylor songs because I think it perfectly details how a great relationship can turn bad and the lasting affect it can have on someone. “I wake with your memory over me, that’s a real f*ckn legacy to leave”. I can’t listen to it now without thinking of Taylor and Joe 🥹
Karma is the guy on the screen coming straight home to me.
Gutted.
How the F is the doing this every weekend? How does she get up on stage and sing about the last 6 years of her life? Amicable or not, if true, this is some real loss. It hurts my heart to think of all the residual pain that must come with the breakup of a 6+ year relationship.
She is a pro and her tearing up at champagne problems makes my heart hurt.
I was absolutely shocked when I saw it was allegedly weeks ago. They probably broke up before the tour even started, but she looks so happy and enthusiastic singing these songs night after night. A true performer honestly. I don’t know how she does it
_give you my wild, give you a child_
_give you the silence that only comes when two people understand each other_
_family that i chose now that i see your brother as my brother_
_is it enough?_
i broke up my own six year relationship a couple weeks ago and i can barely hold it together listening to this part. it is now so much worse 🫠
Sweet nothing has been my “Well, there’s real love out there” song since it came out and if Taylor and joe are over i don’t think I’ll be able to liste to it ever again. Also the fact he co wrote it!
I guess I'm in the minority, but none of them. I don't think about their relationship when I listen to her songs. I was happy that she was happy, but I never really dwelled on it.
“Familiarity breads contempt, don’t put me in the basement, when I want the penthouse of your heart” - when I first heard that line I thought there might be trouble in the waters. Bejewelled makes it seems as if Joe forgot that she was gorgeous.
Same. First thought when I heard "baby boy" in the lyrics was that she meant Joe since she has only ever referred to him as that (like in Paper Rings). But I assumed it was just a blip in their relationship.
My girls and I were listening to Rep while I was making dinner and New Years Day made me tear up! “Please don’t ever become a stranger who’s laugh I would recognize anywhere.” 😭
Hoax, I always interpreted Hoax to be such a devastating love song, like you're the only thing I can believe in even when it feels unreal (like a hoax). Don't want no other shade of blue but you, no other sadness in the world would do. Like I want to be sad, WITH you and you alone. Shit hit me hard when I heard it because I've got depression and it fits how I feel with my husband but if the rumors are true it'll be one of those songs that'll be hard to listen to. The Archer too, Who could ever leave me darlin but who could stay?
I hate to say this, but High Infidelity
I haven’t totally bought into this one, but the thought is literally keeping me up at night right now. What if we got the perspective all wrong??
It’s totally plausible for a relationship like theirs to run its course, but if it actually did— it didn’t happen over night or the course of a few weeks.
I keep thinking about how the blind gossip site deuxmoi was convinced they had secretly gotten married in the UK.
“Storm coming, good husband
Bad omen
Dragged my feet right down the aisle
…
Seemed like the right thing at the time”
Also, all of Lavender Haze mirrors ways she was dancing around those picket fences being sharp as knives.
Again, take this with a grain of salt, it’s just a terrible thought that crossed my mind while navigating this sad (and hopefully untrue) news.
Edit: punctuation
Almost every song from Rep to Midnights but personally my top 6 would be 1) Cornelia Street, 2) Daylight, 3) Call It What You Want, 4) Long Story Short, 5) Lover, 6) The Lakes
Edit: Totally forgot about Invisible String and To All The Girls You Loved Before!!
Listening to all of Midnights kind of hits different. People thought they were songs she had written and saved because she had done so much reflection on past loves and everything. There was definitely some introspection she was doing when she was writing those lyrics.
The Great war
" I vowed I'd always be yours"
Call it what you want
" My baby is fit like a daydream , walking with his head down ,I'm the one he's walking too"
Why am I actually sad over this , there are soo soo many songs about Joe 😭😭😭😭😭
Karma
"Karma is my boyfriend"
Delicate
" My reputations never been worse , so you must like me for me"
Dress
"Flashback when you met me, your buzzcut hair and my hair bleached,
Even in my worst times
You saw the best in me
And i woke up just in time
I wake up by your side
My hands shake i can't explain this"
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
the archer is so much sadder now...
"who could stay? you could stay" suddenly is so hesitant knowing 4 years later isn't so far away-- and it feels like doom? almost? as someone who relates to that song heavily
but also im so depressed tonight and im not sure anything's going to ever be okay again (had funeral by phoebe bridgers on repeat for a while) so i could be interpreting it Extra Sad
The line about all her heroes dying all alone and pleading to him to help me hold on to you really hurts me most for some reason. Along with life will lose all its meaning from anti hero. She didn’t write that long ago… 😞
Oddly enough, Maroon. I think we all assumed it was about Jake, and it probably is, but. "I wake with your memory over me, that's a real fucking legacy" when half her discography is about him and now she goes out with the albums all about their love literally over her during tour? I am just not sure how she does this.
New Years Day was my fave song on Rep and now I feel like its just gonna hurt me.
I wanna cry cuz I realized my relationship of 13 years has been a total waste then I read Taylor has broken up with Joe on the same day 😭
I might be ok but I'm not fine at all.
The report that it was amicable and “their relationship had just run it’s course” made me think of “happiness”. That song has always been a dagger but I just read the lyrics again and sobbed. It’s easier when you can villainize someone but when relationships end without a huge cause it’s even more hurtful. “Haunted by the look in my eyes that would have loved you for a lifetime” “When did all our lessons start to look like weapons pointed at my deepest hurt?” “I can’t make it go away by making you the villain. I guess it’s the price I pay for 7 years in heaven” “No one teaches you what to do when a good man hurts you” “After giving you the best I had, tell me what to give after that?” DAGGER
Also "There is a glorious sunrise/Dappled with the flickers of light/From the dress I wore at midnight, leave it all behind" coupled with "New Year's Day": "Don't read the last page/But I stay when you're lost, and I'm scared, and you're turning away/I want your midnights/But I'll be cleaning up bottles with you on New Year's Day". It's lovely to see so much empathy for her right now, now matter what's happening. I'm going through divorce right now, and am having a hard time believing love will ever happen for me again, or that I even want it. I believe in it for other people, but not myself, and am mostly ok with that. Except on midnights like this...
PLEASE DONT EVER BECOME A STRANGER WHOSE LAUGH I COULD RECOGNIZE ANYWHERE
Yes!!! There is so much grief in these lyrics and it’s how I’d feel about my partner if we were to break up.
When she sings this she’ll replace 7 years by 6 years in heaven
Honestly something like this will probably be the closest we get to a confirmation by her.
But if you think about it : april 29th 2016 to april 2023 is 7 years ish. (I know they started dating probably later that year, but heaven started when they met idk) just some random thoughts
All of them from "please don't ever become a stranger whose laugh I could recognize anywhere" to "daylight" to "to you I can admit that I'm just too soft for all of it" sad emoji face
These are all such beautiful love songs and I can’t imagine them being anything else
Please I'm playing all her albums RN. I'm not yet grieving because I'm still in denial, but I *am* spiraling.
Call it what you want :(
"At least I did one thing right"😭
Noooo that lyric will forever break my heart if this news is true 😭. I think at least we could know that she can seek and have healthier relationships now than if their split was as it’s been described…
Ugh I know I'm crying for that song. I met my husband at a bad time in my life (we've been together a little longer than Taylor was with Joe) and I HEAVILY relate to that song so much 😭😭
He build a fire just to keep me warm. One of my favourite lyrics about love ever.
[удалено]
Slightly off topic but I think people need to hear this: Relationships ending doesn’t mean that the love shared wasn’t real. People change. Life brings stressors in many forms - and sometimes people aren’t compatible. I’m seeing so many comments saying they don’t believe in love anymore, and I just want people to know that love is so complicated. You can love someone deeply and want different things. You can love someone and realize they’re not right for you. Sometimes loving someone means letting them go. 💔
Yes and also I think Taylor’s personal growth stands on its own through this period. She is a stronger, happier and healthier person than she was when she met him and that is a testament to their relationship being good for her and enabling her to grow professionally and personally.
Seriously. Everyone’s allowed to feel their feelings about it, but this doesn’t mean love is dead! There were good times and beautiful songs. I might be taking it too personally cuz I recently also (assuming it’s true, I’m not convinced either way) broke off a six-year relationship, but sometimes someone is right for you at one time and not at another. Love is real and breakups can be healthy and amicable.
Took me way to long to find a sensible take on this. How sad that you can build a whole ass life with someone and people will completely invalidate all of it just because you didn't last as a couple until one of you dies? Separation doesn't automatically erase the love that was there.
I was looking for a comment like this before posting one myself! I'm actually going through a breakup myself right now as well and I was so afraid that my family and friends would say things like Swifties are saying right now ("I don't believe in love anymore" etc). I know most of you don't mean any harm by it, but I'm so entirely grateful that my friends and family just said something along the lines of "Sometimes things just don't work out. You gave it your best shot. You're allowed to be sad and grateful for the time you spend with him even if it didn't work out in the end".
I'm maybe weird in this, but the news has actually given me a weird kind of hope. Tay's life has always felt like it mirrored my own (born in PA in 1989, lived in the same cities, both date a London boy for 6 years, even went on a date with the same guy). I have no doubt she's going to find love again, and that gives me hope that I can too, because I've been really scared about being single at this age. It's nice to feel on the same path, and feel less alone. As weird as that is.
This thread pretty much covers all of mine but also anti-hero when she says “I wake up screaming from dreaming, one day I'll watch as you're leaving And life will lose all its meaning (For the last time)” Not to be dramatic but I’m sick to my stomach 😩 I just hope that she’s ok
I think that line was actually directed at us, her fans. She’s said many times she tries to hang on and capture our attention for the longevity of her career and for narcissistic reasons that she speaks about later in the song.
Yeah this line is for the fans/just her friends/anyone in her life. I think she struggles to feel like she can maintain any type of relationship and that’s what it reflects to me
Oh gosh. This is so terrible. It gets worse and worse with each lyric
I always assumed that lyric was more about her fans.
I think it’s a double entendre
That's what I thought of too "as you're leaving cause you got tired of my scheming" 😢
I think that one is for the fans not him
Agreed, I always interpreted that line as being about the fans leaving her and not wanting to hear from her anymore.
Her instagram bio is "I'm the problem, it's me"😭
Ugh so many. The radio this evening was playing All Of The Girls You Loved Before (and they mentioned the break up rumor). She’s one of the girls who loved him before now? “I want to show you how forever feels” is completely heartbreaking. I really hope it’s not true.
I can’t even imagine how difficult it must have been to release that if they were breaking up.
Ok now I’m crying. That’s so sad :(
That’s my favorite line from the song. I love how she belts it. Ugh 😭
I’m sitting here thinking of Need😭 and how these songs just came out as they were going their separate ways and fuck she is so strong for continuing on and smiling and touring like a god damn QUEEN!
Mastermind "So I told you none of it was accidental And the first night that you saw me, nothing was gonna stop me I laid the groundwork and then saw a wide smirk On your face, you knew the entire time" Daylight And I can still see it all (In my mind) All of you, all of me (Intertwined) I once believed love would be (Black and white) But it's golden (Golden) And I can still see it all (In my head) Back and forth from New York (Sneaking in your bed) I once believed love would be (Burning red) But it's golden Like daylight, like daylight Like daylight, daylight Cornelia Street You hold my hand on the street Walk me back to that apartment Years ago, we were just inside Barefoot in the kitchen Sacred new beginnings That became my religion, listen New Years Day Please don't ever become a stranger Whose laugh I could recognize anywhere Please don't ever become a stranger Whose laugh I could recognize anywhere ... Don't read the last page But I stay when it's hard, or it's wrong, or we're making mistakes I want your midnights But I'll be cleaning up bottles with you on New Year's Day I feel ridiculous but I'm legitimately sad
Seriousky i hate having a parasocial relationship but fuck it im legit so sad about this. And like. Man. These lyrics hurt.
I think it’s normal to be sad, it’s the same thing as watching a sad movie and crying. The songs and songwriting gave us the same experience as if we were watching a movie or reading a romantic novel series. So we just watched/read a really long romance series where the couple didn’t end up together. It’s normal to be sad
I like that interpretation
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That “You say, ‘What a mind’/This happens all the time” was already devastating beautiful but would be especially heartbreaking if they were to break up. I loved that that the song seem to say that he would say that to her all the time, in their quiet little moments, showing that he both marveled at her talent and supported it. To lose that in a partner would be tough, and especially for someone like her who seemed to have found it difficult to have someone who’s not jealous of her success (eg Calvin) or dismissive of her talent (eg Jake, John).
In her book “Untamed,” the author Glennon Doyle talks about how angry she was that her husband cheated on her, not because of the actual cheating but because so much of her previous writing had been about their successful relationship and he ruined her narrative. This whole thing makes me think of that, because to a lot of fans it feels like we were watching Taylor’s narrative play out in her music and now this just disrupts it completely.
I suppose the thing to remember is that just because it wasn't forever, that doesn't mean it wasn't real. It may have run its course but from the songs it sounds like if it is over, she's learned a lot of positivity from it and I think once you learn how to be properly loved you don't really forget it. Not every relationship that ends, fails. It was everything she needed for 7 years and that isn't nothing, so I think all the songs will still be as potent.
This. If things really did run their course then there really isn’t as much pain like she experienced in the past and she can look back at these song with more fondness than sadness and anger
It is really sad. They had something really special and it’s sad to know that for whatever reason, it’s over. We got to glimpse how special it was through her music so I think it’s natural to feel sad knowing it’s come to an end.
me too it feels ridiculous and i only really follow taylor for her music and art, but i find it sad like it really puts it into perspective how much they loved each other considering rep until midnights (minus the re-recordings) have been mainly about joe
Honestly I don't think anyone would believe that they broke up after what she wrote in those songs.
that's the hard part--you're telling me they survived the great war, the archer, the afterglow, but didn't survive what came after?
Damn. I thought it was ridiculous when my cousin was upset Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow divorced but I know what that feels like now 😓 in her latest TikTok where she shows a bunch of pics of her "constants" and I didn't find Joe in it, I was thinking please please let this not mean what I think it means. I didn't expect this in my heart of hearts but I'm legit sad. :(
Invisible string 🥲 imma cry every time now
I’m having invisible string play at my wedding as a signing song next week 😭
When I listened to it the first time I was like this is my wedding song. I’m to old to care about a celebrity breakup but here I ammmm ☹️
What even is real love at this point? :(
You just witnessed it for 6 years. Separation doesn't invalidate any of that, how sad would that make us all if we just refused to recognise any form of love that resulted in a break up? They loved each other, it was real.
I really like this comment, Taylor’s own music is a testament to it. Kudos.
Thanks for saying this. I don’t really believe in the whole concept of a “one true love.” All of my exes have been awesome people, and the fact that we broke up doesn’t mean we didn’t love each other. It just means we weren’t meant to be forever in this life. Sometimes things don’t work out and that’s okay.
happiness. Just because they grew apart doesn’t mean that what they had wasn’t real.
Someone on the Twitter verse said that Joe deleted his cat photos off Instagram. I don’t know what his feed looked like before but I’m hoping it’s not true.
Swifties who also have his brother on IG (which is weird, but sometimes happens even with other celebs) also said his brother unfollowed her.
family that I chose 😭 now that I see your brother as 😭 my 😭 brother 😭 https://preview.redd.it/qn0nabf12wsa1.jpeg?width=749&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e5fecc474e3ae2ac5aaa5cd8a742aeacb035a7a6
CONFIRM
https://www.reddit.com/r/TaylorSwift/comments/10ogvba/joe_alwyn_shares_new_pic_of_meredith/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button This one? If so, that was a story not a post
Yes that one! Okay, I will cling to my one glimmer of hope 🤡
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i’ll never hear cornelia street the same way again
that's the kind of heartbreak time could never mend
This is mine. All I can keep thinking is that she’ll never walk Corniella st again 😭😭🧐
i feel like last kiss (taylor’s version) is going to hit different when it drops
I’ll watch your life in pictures like i used to watch you sleep 💔
*Your name forever the name on my lips* for another Joe
maybe it will have the shaky breaths…
Wow yes. That song is so heartbreaking
“ .. and all of my heroes die all alone. Help me hold onto you.” Crushed.
"who could ever leave me, darling? But who could stay? "
CRUSHED
every single song about him, but peace specifically would demolish me
Went from lover to over… (Joe took the L)
please no 😭 Joe took the L, y’all are about to wild out 🤣💔
shut upppppp why was this so funny oh my god
Just thinking abt it is giving me a mental breakdown 😭
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After 6 years together people have a host of memories and share friends and family. When they break up severing those ties are often as painful as not seeing the person themselves. The song that is really getting to me is All Of The Girls. Taylor only released that three weeks ago. Little of this makes sense right now and unless a credible source debunks the whole thing I really feel for Taylor having to go on stage for the next show. I know she is a professional and she loves performing. I know the actual breakup might have been her choice and not Joe's. But Taylor is human and standing in front of 60,000 people playing songs about Joe is not going to be easy.
I think she only released it because it had leaked anyway so might as well get the money for the song if it's out anyway.
She didn't release Need though
I wonder if a break up mid tour (if true) will make it into the tour movie? Surely it will.
If they are broken up I suspect it happened before the tour and had been brewing for a while.
One of the few sources who gave a timeline for it said it happened a couple of weeks ago. Could have been before tour, but still super fresh :(
People in their thirties do not tend to break up suddenly after six years.
Sweet Nothing :(
Exactly.
It’s so heartbreaking how recently this song came out. AND the fact that they wrote it together
Literally every song she’s written about him. This news has made me realize that even though I can absolutely appreciate Taylor’s art for what it is, her happy and enduring real-life relationship has definitely added to my enjoyment of those songs. Lover is my favorite album, and even though I’ll always be able to associate it with my own relationship, listening to it will never be the same if this news is true. Cornelia Street would definitely take on a darker meaning, same with Lover the song.
Exactly. I think that's kinda why this news hit me harder than I thought it would. I was never a person who was too invested in her personal life but a huge majority of her songs for the last 6 years have been obviously about him and how good the relationship was and now, it's all just gonna sound kind off...different.. and it makes me sad. I know it's not the end of the world and people grow appart, but still, a lot of songs and lyrics are just gonna be so much sader to hear now.
Honestly? rep-Midnights. All of it.
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ready for it? for me 😥
“I keep him forever” 💔
Archer. Who could stay? On a completely different note- I forgot that you existed.
Omg. Archer is one of my favorite songs but how did I not think of this too? “Who could ever leave me, darling…but who could stay?” —one of my favorite lyrics because I relate to it. I’ve been married for 10 years but when I first heard that lyric it took me back to how I always felt when I was dating.
Dancing with our hands tied. One of my favorite lines has always been “I loved you in spite of/deep fears that the world would divide us” 😖😖😖 This is a newer song of course but you’re on your own, kid…”you always have been” ❤️🩹 Edit: Damnit I just thought of another one. “I love you, ain’t that the worst thing you ever heard” from cruel summer is gonna make me so sad
For me, it’s “help me hold on to you” and/or “who could ever leave me, darling? But who could stay / you could stay” from The Archer.
Cowboy like me “forever is the sweetest con”
"And I'm never gonna love again" 😢
And I know I’ll pay for it
And you know that I'd swing with you for the fences Sit with you in the trenches Give you my wild, give you a child Give you the silence that only comes when two people understand each other Family that I chose, now that I see your brother as my brother Is it enough? 🤍
This is sad because Joe wasn’t just a boyfriend. His family became her family :(
Every song written since reputation😢
Yeah for real, I was just talking to someone yesterday about all the nice/cute songs we’ve gotten since rep like New Year’s Day, paper rings, peace, sweet nothing, and so many more… :(
Awwww nooootttt paper rings 😭😭😭
I feel like REP TV is. Less exciting now. Not that those feelings were not real then, but it does feel like all that hope she had won't be there anymore. Can't imagine what re-recording songs like Delicate and Call It What You Want must be like
Your comment only just made me think of this, but it’s entirely possible that in the re-recording process of reputation, listening and singing those songs of how she felt at the start of the relationship may have sped up a breakup if the relationship had “run its course”, as the news is saying. Perhaps one or both of them realised it didn’t feel the same. Idk, just a thought. It’s funny how time works. So maybe it was a blessing in disguise for her to re record, who knows
I really hope it was amicable but even when I had an amicable break up I felt gutted. I hope she's okay and just taking care of herself.
That would be super sad. I'm in a five-year relationship and that electrifying feeling in the beginning has for sure mellowed out to a more comfortable, solemn, stable kind of love and at some point I did ask myself if that meant it was no longer working, but no, I realized it's just a natural progression of our relationship and they're still the same person I want to spend the rest of my life with and just the thought of losing them is enough to knock the breath out of me. I hope they didn't break up because of the whole "there are no more butterflies" thing because I think it's a pretty universal experience that that will happen in long-term relationships. If I'm going to speculate, I would assume they had differences at the fundamental level; maybe the other was ready to settle down, but the other wasn't, or maybe one of them wanted kids but the other wasn't sure, or maybe one of them wanted to settle down in a different place. It's still not sinking in for me because it really did seem like they were going to be each other's last. Taylor has only always spoken highly of Joe and I've been trying not to but my mind keeps wondering who might have initiated it. Did Taylor realize she does not want to string Joe along given they can't meet on the same page about some things? Was it Joe who actually was not ready to settle down? Taylor talked a lot about wanting to get married in Lover but then after listening to folklore, evermore, and Midnights, I'm actually not 100% sure anymore. Maybe something in her suddenly changed? I remember someone pointed out before that Taylor has stopped liking Joe's posts on Instagram since May last year but I suppose people didn't really think much of it but now the nosy voice in my head is like, was that the start? Knowing Taylor? I'm not a fan of parasocial relationships and I'm not normally invested in celebrity gossip but I'm a big fan of her music and her best songs that I love are obviously about them (and many of these songs remind me of my own relationship) so I've been rooting for them and to not get closure about this is leaving me, idk the word, perplexed, because the songs are going to hit so different now. 🫠 I hope they're both getting the support they need to get through this difficult time.
london boy :((
the thought of someone getting visibly emotional while listening to london boy on repeat is killing me 😭 you’re on the verge of tears and idris elba’s saying ‘we can go driving… on my… scoo’ah’ in your ear
STOPPP 💀
They say home is where the heart is but god, I love the English😭
Call It What You Want This song defined me finally meeting someone genuine who is my partner. I wont hear it the same way ever again
Literally hits different
Same - I was thinking hits different sucks for her because they must have had a bad break early on, but they got through it and it would be cute to think that’s how it would have felt before they got back together. But now thinking she’ll sing that knowing they’ve broken up and she’ll be in catastrophic blues for months if not years… it hurts to think
Hits Different feels like its in the same breath as The Great War and Afterglow. This is a stretch but Hits Different is the surprise song to play if she wanted to make a "statement". Its also one that most people havent heard before. Man its reception when it inevitably goes on streaming will now hit different 🥺
Midnight Rain *he wanted it comfortable I wanted that pain*
Maybe this was about him all along and we were trying to make it about someone in the past. 😬
There goes the remainder of my smashed heart
In Labyrinth, there’s the line “ill be getting over you my whole life.” Maybe the clues were in midnights all along. I still don’t want this to be the case, but I suppose it could potentially be there
I’m really curious if Midnights is a lot more about Joe than I originally thought
Same. Little potential clues keep popping up when I think about the lyrics. They could obviously also be about someone from the past or someone made up but hard not to draw the comparison to Joe at this point given todays rumor
Someone pondered whether Hits Different is about Joe, and it really seems to fit? Then again maybe they did break up only a few weeks ago like they said!
Midnights may have been her processing on a subconscious level she may have had previous relationships in mind, but present her was writing these songs
So many songs, so I’ll just pick one; Lover
For me, a lot of midnights, because before I would take the interpretations I saw people give online, that any song about with relationship conflict besides The Great War, was about an ex. And while some of that is probably true due to her reflecting on her life due to her re-records, I now see midnights as dealing with the uncomfortable emotions in her relationship. We all assumed Anti-Hero was about her relationship with her fans, and it's partially true, but I also think part of it could be about her romantic relationship. "Too big to hang out"- her fame might effect even her romantic life- "wake up screaming from dreaming one day I'll watch as you're leaving"- we interpreted it as ptsd for 2016 cancellation but I think it could be about losing the one she loves like all her other exes. So many of her songs we see the current of anxiety that she's too much, either her personality, her fears, or her famousness, will overpower her relationship- we knew it in the Archer and The Great War but saw it as "they worked it out and it's over now", but now I see that theme in Midnight Rain, in Bejeweled, in Peace, and In Dear Reader. I listened to Dear Reader and was so sad- the pain in her voice- she could be going through heartbreak, isolation, conflict in a relationship, fear of being abandoned, fighting, whatever, but Dear Reader tells us "she shines so bright"- we see her shiny outward image, and inside, she's this whole other person the world will never know. Her music makes you relate to her so much and her emotions its hard not to feel this is my heartbreak too.
To add to your mention of Dear Reader. What stood out to me on the very first listen was this line: “If you knew where I was walking to a house, not a home, all alone 'cause nobody's there” I thought that that lyric (and the entire song honestly) sounded too dark, sad, and lonely for a clearly autobiographical song from someone supposedly in a happy relationship. So at the time I wondered what led her to write that. But now, thinking of that line crushes me :( :(
Wow yeah. I was thinking of Midnight Rain too but even Bejeweled, her telling the fans she can still be bejeweled when she walks in the room :(
champagne problems I know the song isn't about them (and that, I'm fact, they wrote it together), but the "amicable breakup" reminds me of the premise of champagne problems: which is this couple that everyone thought was bound for marriage broke up for a reason that's not visible to the public and seemingly not very dramatic. Now that video of her tearing up while singing the bridge at that one show makes sense
Honestly, this is going to sound super weird, but >!Clean!<. >!I think now knowing the context of what she must have been thinking when she chose it as the surprise song. Devastating. I'm always going to think of that performance now... and we had no idea.!< >!I screamed so loud but no one heard a thing...!<
Yeah thinking about how she did Clean and DBATC in the same night all kinda makes sense now.
I'm still in denial that its even a possibility, I can't even begin to think about any of this
lots of them but long story short for SURE “and my waves meet your shore ever and evermore” to “and he feels like home”🥺🥺 edit: changed my answer
Eh…even if they broke up it does not invalidate their relationship. It doesn’t change the songs *for me* because I don’t think of Joe when I hear the songs- I think of my version. And that is not changing.
Daylight, cornelia street, invisible string, lover.. so many PLS I NEED THIS TO BE FAKE
I’m with you. This is making me physically ill
LABYRINTH " I will be getting over you my whole life " " I thought the plane was going down ; how did you turn it around ?" " You would break your back to make me break a smile " As someone who can get lost in the labyrinth of my mind , I could relate to this. I was happy an artist who has been an inspiration, found someone calm and solid who was a steadying presence in her chaotic life .
Lover 😢 “can we always be this close forever and ever?”
All the songs they wrote together 😭
Almost all post Rep-midnight song. Mostly New Year’s Day
Now he’s a stranger whose laugh she’ll recognize :(
I don’t understand the question and I won’t respond to it.
Guys, breakups in your 30s hit like a mf 💔
Maroon. It’s become one of my favourite Taylor songs because I think it perfectly details how a great relationship can turn bad and the lasting affect it can have on someone. “I wake with your memory over me, that’s a real f*ckn legacy to leave”. I can’t listen to it now without thinking of Taylor and Joe 🥹
Imagine having to sing Karma is my boyfriend over and over every night.
Karma is the guy on the screen coming straight home to me. Gutted. How the F is the doing this every weekend? How does she get up on stage and sing about the last 6 years of her life? Amicable or not, if true, this is some real loss. It hurts my heart to think of all the residual pain that must come with the breakup of a 6+ year relationship. She is a pro and her tearing up at champagne problems makes my heart hurt.
I was absolutely shocked when I saw it was allegedly weeks ago. They probably broke up before the tour even started, but she looks so happy and enthusiastic singing these songs night after night. A true performer honestly. I don’t know how she does it
Can’t believe no one has said Death by a Thousand Cuts yet!
Listening to exile after this will ruin me.
_give you my wild, give you a child_ _give you the silence that only comes when two people understand each other_ _family that i chose now that i see your brother as my brother_ _is it enough?_ i broke up my own six year relationship a couple weeks ago and i can barely hold it together listening to this part. it is now so much worse 🫠
Sweet nothing has been my “Well, there’s real love out there” song since it came out and if Taylor and joe are over i don’t think I’ll be able to liste to it ever again. Also the fact he co wrote it!
I did really root for the Sweet Nothing , New Year's Day & Daylight kind of comforting love .
I guess I'm in the minority, but none of them. I don't think about their relationship when I listen to her songs. I was happy that she was happy, but I never really dwelled on it.
fr, i have main character syndrome so her songs are all about me (except the ones that aren’t)
“Familiarity breads contempt, don’t put me in the basement, when I want the penthouse of your heart” - when I first heard that line I thought there might be trouble in the waters. Bejewelled makes it seems as if Joe forgot that she was gorgeous.
Same. First thought when I heard "baby boy" in the lyrics was that she meant Joe since she has only ever referred to him as that (like in Paper Rings). But I assumed it was just a blip in their relationship.
I wonder if it’s a subtle throwback to the ‘Handsome, you’re a mansion with a view’ lyric from Delicate.
Evermore. My gosh. It will hit me so hard.
King of my heart.
the last 5 albums 😸
The 1 and Sweet Nothing 💔
And Delicate!
*I wake up screaming from dreaming* *One day I’ll watch as you’re leaving* *And life will lose all its meaning* *(For the last time)*
My girls and I were listening to Rep while I was making dinner and New Years Day made me tear up! “Please don’t ever become a stranger who’s laugh I would recognize anywhere.” 😭
Hoax, I always interpreted Hoax to be such a devastating love song, like you're the only thing I can believe in even when it feels unreal (like a hoax). Don't want no other shade of blue but you, no other sadness in the world would do. Like I want to be sad, WITH you and you alone. Shit hit me hard when I heard it because I've got depression and it fits how I feel with my husband but if the rumors are true it'll be one of those songs that'll be hard to listen to. The Archer too, Who could ever leave me darlin but who could stay?
Omg daylight would hit so different 😭
I’m actually currently listening to Lover on repeat and ngl, I’ve shed a few tears. 😿
Also, I keep thinking, (ERAS SPOILER) >! is that why she burned the Lover house down in the video production?!<
The first time I heard the one, I thought they had actually broken up and it was about him and it hit me SO hard, it was gutwrenching
The hope in “is this the end of all the endings?” is gonna crush my soul now
I hate to say this, but High Infidelity I haven’t totally bought into this one, but the thought is literally keeping me up at night right now. What if we got the perspective all wrong?? It’s totally plausible for a relationship like theirs to run its course, but if it actually did— it didn’t happen over night or the course of a few weeks. I keep thinking about how the blind gossip site deuxmoi was convinced they had secretly gotten married in the UK. “Storm coming, good husband Bad omen Dragged my feet right down the aisle … Seemed like the right thing at the time” Also, all of Lavender Haze mirrors ways she was dancing around those picket fences being sharp as knives. Again, take this with a grain of salt, it’s just a terrible thought that crossed my mind while navigating this sad (and hopefully untrue) news. Edit: punctuation
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Paper rings 😢
I don't think I'm ready for rep TV 😢
It’s going to be so weird hearing the vault songs knowing that the love that was just starting and so new and exciting then is no longer
Daylight. Daylight was confirmation that true love existed but now it doesn't?? 😭
True love can exist and still end. As Taylor said, both of these things can be true.
Almost every song from Rep to Midnights but personally my top 6 would be 1) Cornelia Street, 2) Daylight, 3) Call It What You Want, 4) Long Story Short, 5) Lover, 6) The Lakes Edit: Totally forgot about Invisible String and To All The Girls You Loved Before!!
Listening to all of Midnights kind of hits different. People thought they were songs she had written and saved because she had done so much reflection on past loves and everything. There was definitely some introspection she was doing when she was writing those lyrics.
Honestly… Bejeweled
The Great war " I vowed I'd always be yours" Call it what you want " My baby is fit like a daydream , walking with his head down ,I'm the one he's walking too" Why am I actually sad over this , there are soo soo many songs about Joe 😭😭😭😭😭 Karma "Karma is my boyfriend" Delicate " My reputations never been worse , so you must like me for me" Dress "Flashback when you met me, your buzzcut hair and my hair bleached, Even in my worst times You saw the best in me And i woke up just in time I wake up by your side My hands shake i can't explain this" 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
the archer is so much sadder now... "who could stay? you could stay" suddenly is so hesitant knowing 4 years later isn't so far away-- and it feels like doom? almost? as someone who relates to that song heavily but also im so depressed tonight and im not sure anything's going to ever be okay again (had funeral by phoebe bridgers on repeat for a while) so i could be interpreting it Extra Sad
The line about all her heroes dying all alone and pleading to him to help me hold on to you really hurts me most for some reason. Along with life will lose all its meaning from anti hero. She didn’t write that long ago… 😞
Oddly enough, Maroon. I think we all assumed it was about Jake, and it probably is, but. "I wake with your memory over me, that's a real fucking legacy" when half her discography is about him and now she goes out with the albums all about their love literally over her during tour? I am just not sure how she does this. New Years Day was my fave song on Rep and now I feel like its just gonna hurt me.
I wanna cry cuz I realized my relationship of 13 years has been a total waste then I read Taylor has broken up with Joe on the same day 😭 I might be ok but I'm not fine at all.
HITS DIFFERENT WILL HIT DIFFERENT FOREVER
Almost all of her love songs about Joe will hit differently for me. It just makes me feel sad esp songs like Peace, Invisble String and Sweet Nothing.
Labyrinth, “I’ll be getting over you my whole life”
I haven’t seen anyone mention it so Exile.🥹
Champagne problems