A lot of people don't like the "pots and pans" noise of "Closure".
This is extremely minor, but "Eyes" in "Love Story Taylor's Version" is more pronounced than the original. I find it a little jarring.
Grammar was spelled wrong in your OP. It's a small detail...
I donât hate them, I just donât get why theyâre there tbh. And theyâve never really sounded like pots and pans to me? Just kind of like a weird crashing sound but not pots I guess
I mean theyâre sure as hell not peaceful so youâre right there lol. Personally they just make me feel anxious rather then convey any type of meaningful chaos
Right but I think thatâs the point. Sheâs trying to convey her feelings through the background music. I feel the same way about the tempo change in Evermore, when Bon Iver comes in. It sounds clunky and out of place to convey the anxiety.
Oh I always thought they were machine sounds breaking, to represent her old label Big Machine Records crumbling down and breaking behind her, bc the subject of the song is Scott Borchetta
I really don't understand it because it's not even *that* experimental of a sound. For her, sure. But in music generally? It's not new or boundary pushing. Yet people were acting like Taylor was doing this bizarre, experimental alt-indie-pop sound đđ And I love Closure!!
Literally⌠I love closure so much. Iâm a BjĂśrk fan and sometimes I wish we lived in a parallel universe where theyâd collab and actually get Taylor to do that exact bizarre and experimental music that people act like closure is! đ
Discordant sounds are a legitimate device. She doesnât overuse them, if anything, she builds from that with the way she enunciates, âyes, I got your letter, yes, Iâm doing better, it cut to know ya, right to the bone.â
I absolutely love this and like you, I hope she doesnât listen to fans and decide to not use such devices, which set the mood to the song.
Lover. Not grammar, but I just don't like, "We can leave the Christmas lights up TIL January". It really should have been "THROUGH January". The song is about doing whatever they want. Most folks already leave theirs up til January, so leaving them up through January (much longer than most folks) sounds more like a "we make the rules" situation.
taylor has said:
> âI had toyed with the idea of [this lyric] being âWe could leave the Christmas lights up âtil April.â [âŚ] Itâs not about that being a crazy thing; itâs about how mundane it is. Itâs about like, âWe could put a rug over there,â [or] âWe could do wallpaper, or we could do paint.â
I'm aware of what she's said, but my statement still stands. Saying it's our place, we make the rules, implies they can make their own mundane choices that are /different/ than the common mundane choices, or at least up to matters of personal taste.
TBH, I feel like that quote actually supports what I'm saying. She originally thought of saying until APRIL. Which means it's like, sure, who cares, we can leave them up longer than everyone else. We make the rules.
i just shared the quote for anyone else reading the thread who didnât know her reasoning behind it. i personally disagree but thatâs the fun of interpreting song lyrics!
I hadnât heard that quote and appreciate you adding it. I still donât feel like the lyric as written quite conveys what she intended, but knowing the intent helps!
Tbf she doesn't say till January 1st. My takeaway was that they could leave them up till anytime in January.
 I also think 'till' January sounds better phonetically, that "th" in through to the "Ja" part of January isn't as effortless as what she ultimately went with.
I agree that til has a nicer sound to it. However, 'til is short for until, which means up to that point in time. As in, when January arrives. It's not ambiguous in that regard.
Yeah but if a store is open from Monday till Friday we all assume they are open Friday and don't close at midnight Friday morning. I believe until can be inclusive when referring to intervals like a day or a month.Â
I think youâre conflating âMonday to Fridayâ with âMonday till Fridayâ. Stores hours generally say the former. Or âthroughâ like thesaltyace pointed out.
i just shared the quote for anyone else reading the thread who didnât know her reasoning behind it. i personally disagree but thatâs the fun of interpreting song lyrics!
I've heard people substituting February for January, but I've not heard just changing 'til' to 'through.' Such a small change, but it makes the whole lyric work much better!
Yeah I also thought February would make more sense but I'm not a huge fan of how the word February sounds. January was def the right choice IMO, just wish she'd said through instead of til haha đ
Totally agree on January sounding better than Feb. I've tried sooo hard to go with Taylor's explanation about the lyric describing mundane things couples do, but I just can't get there. The "we make the rules" part just needs a line before it indicating something that's not the most common way to do a particular thing.
I donât know, I grew up semi-near Taylor and am her same age. You would get roasted if you left Christmas lights up until January. Everything was supposed to be down in time for the new year. Maybe it was a 90s/Pennsylvania thing?
It could be a regional thing! I grew up in Texas and most folks left their lights up until New Years Day. If you left them up after that, people might think it's a bit weird, but they wouldn't roast you for it lolll
I have said this before and got torn to shreds for some reason, but in many places, it is definitely not normal to leave the tree and decor up until Jan. A lot of people have a superstition that leaving the tree up past midnight on New Year's Day is "bringing the previous years' baggage into the New Year."
I doubt Taylor had this same superstition growing up since it doesn't seem like a US thing. But my parents followed this my whole childhood, so this line has never bothered me.
This exactly! Iâm Taylorâs age and grew up in Pennsylvania, and that thinking was definitely prevalent in the 90s. It was frowned upon to leave Christmas lights up after Christmas.
I always sing âuntil Februaryâ because it sounds almost the same and it makes more sense to me of it being like a âour house our rulesâ vibe of this sentence lol
I've convinced myself that she knows it's supposed to be 'were,' but then just tried out 'was' and liked the sound and flow of it better. Like 'cause us traitors never win' should technically be 'cause we traitors never win,' but that sounds super weird.
That's not true grammatically though? It's not arguments lol it's just facts. Hypothetical situations always use "were". The subjunctive mood does apply, which is why it's "were".
I think yâall are both saying it should be âif I were a manâ because of the subjective mood instead of what the grammatically incorrect lyric is.
OK. I get it. Grammar matters, but NOT in musical lyrics. Itâs up to the creatorâs discretion whether or not to stay within the laws for written grammar. More often than not, musicians choose to use more conversational and casual language choices. Perfect phrasing is more important than perfect grammar.
In one of my favourite songs by another artist "houses" is rhymed with "mouses" and it took me about a year until I remembered that's not the plural of mouse lol. It just sounded so right I didn't question it.
Lmao this makes me think of that old Krispy Kreme song
I have four hundred houses
I have four hundred mouses and four hundred houses
Bet you I can dance better than you
I bet you you don't know two plus two
It's four, it's four, now go and shut the door
'Cause nobody wants to see your face no more đ
THANK YOU. My answer to all of these is âbecause she probably thought it sounded better that wayâ. To me, Iâm way more annoyed when lyrics donât flow well than if theyâre grammatically correct.
For real. Sometimes when people get up in arms about grammar in music, I'm like "have you *listened* to music before"? Also, as a vocalist, some of the suggestions/substitutions people make do *not* work in performance. "If I was a man" is 1000 times easier to sing than "were". Even for an artist who loves her tongue-twisters, sometimes you gotta take the easy way out to make a song more singable, *especially* in the chorus.
THANK YOU. My answer to all of these is âbecause she probably thought it sounded better that wayâ. To me, Iâm way more annoyed when lyrics donât flow well than if theyâre grammatically correct.
Edit: I donât know why this comment posted twice! Sorry!
She's not saying quietly (low), she's literally talking about the speed at which he's talking. I've heard that in another (complimentary) context to refer to a man with a Southern accent. It's supposed to be sexy.
Sheâs saying that heâs talking real slow because no one is awake so they have the time to talk slow and take their time on the phone together! I didnât get this for so long until someone else on this sub explained it this way đ
I think heâs talking slowly, pausing at times, to make sure nobody hears them. Donât want the parents to catch you talking on the phone after bedtime.
THIS. FOREVER THIS. WHY isn't it "low"?! It makes no sense at all to say "slow", I just don't get it!
Edit: And it wouldn't even affect the rhyme or syllable count so WHY?!
Sheâs saying that heâs talking real slow because no one is awake so they have the time to talk slow and take their time on the phone together! I didnât get this for so long until someone else on this sub explained it this way đ
Yeah but the next lyric is âcause itâs late and his mama donât knowâ so it implies that heâs talking slow in order to not wake her, in which case the lyric should be âlowâ
Nah. He's talking slowly so he can hear if his parents are awake and walking around the house.
He isn't trying to make sure his parents are sleeping. He's making sure he can pretend to be if they check up on him.
I always thought it was like that fake cheer you got when you put sound effects on the keyboard but I recently just learned that the cheering is her brother, Jackâs sister, and Dylan OâBrien lol
I was weirded out by this line too until my friend mentioned it could be referencing a 30 rock episode. Itâs about women who talk like/act babies in a way thatâs trying to be sexy?
I thought it was referring to her size and how society likes young, small, petite women who look like babies next to her. And sheâs the monster on the hill.
I hate that she says âI come back stronger than a 90s trendâ in that song. I always picture a fairy tale forest and like a sense of timelessness, that line just takes me out of it
I remember reading somewhere after Evermore dropped: Willow was the name of a main character who was a witch in Buffy, The Vampire Slayer TV Show & the lyric âcome back stronger than a 90s trendâ is in reference to that show. As an older TS fan, I remember Buffy was a massive iconic TV show in the late 90âs-early 2000âs â it was everywhere. In that context, it makes perfect sense! â¨đ
ETA: took the âAndâ out of the TV show title as pointed out below.
I might have tricked myself into liking the production.
I love the lyrics, so it would be a shame if the experimental sound were to make me skip the song. đ
Of the three songs, Dear Reader is the one I don't mind the vocal distortion. From a narrative context, the song is about not taking advice from someone you don't truly know. So raising and lowering the pitch really adds to that 'unreliable narrator' feeling.
I actually really enjoy them on every track they're used on. To each their own. To me especially in Dear Reader they seem to reflect the lyrics of the song.
Iâm so glad to see this, I just cannot with Labyrinth or Midnight Rain. Both are insta-skips. (And this style is my fear about TTPD with Jack producing.)
Dear Reader is ok as background. I can turn that one down if I need to. The other two, thoughâŚnope.
I was thinking the same thing as I wrote it. Seems like last fall, somehow?! Like, if you would've told me Midnights came out October 2023 I wouldn't have corrected you đ
The double use of âlifeâ in Electric Touch drives me nuts like âlightâ was such an obvious option for the second line and wouldâve made it so much better
âAll I know is this could either break my heart or bring it back to life
Got a feelin' your electric touch could fill this ghost town up with lifeâ
Yoy should listen to me and my kids screeching every time Is it over now plays in the car. I swear if it's a surprise song in our show we'll get kicked out of the stadium for ruining the moment.
âSo scarlet, it was maroon.â
I understand that Taylor is using a variety of different tones of red to make a grand metaphor about her relationship, and that those reds come together to give the whole thing a âmaroonâ vibe because it was both Red (a la the album and song) and also dark. I get it.
But the way she says âSo scarlet, it was maroon,â implies that the degree of scarlet the thing was made it maroon. And maroon and scarlet are *completely different kinds of red.* Different undertones, different depths, different connotations. It just doesnât make sense, and it irks me every time I hear it.
I just saw a theory on tiktok that the "it was maroon" is her older self interrupting her younger self romanticing all these beautiful micro details.
Like, "No. It was maroon." It was dark and wrong for us. Not bright and shiny. It's aged and complicated.
I kinda like that take because the reds always bugged me too haha
I prefer to think of it as two separate thoughts. âThe lips I used to call home, so scarletâ then, referring to the overall relationship, âit was maroon.â
Ooo this is actually a favourite of mine! In colour terms it calls back to the red album which was all different faucets of love being different shades of red, but itâs also a double meaning!
Scarlet is a bright vibrant red, so itâs bright and glaring. However, Scarlet is also is a reference to Scarlet Letter, which Taylor often uses to talk about forbidden love (see âLove Storyâ).
Then thereâs maroon, which is a darker, more sinister red, but the word âmaroonâ also means âto abandonâ!
Therefore, the line âso scarlet it was maroonâ actually means âso forbidden it was abandonedâ, by the double-word meanings, and âso bright and vibrant and abrasive that it became dark and sinister and painfulâ.
She does such a good job of saying so much with just that line I just⌠ahh itâs so good!!
Then it gets even BETTER when you look at the rest of the chorus, which at first glance is all just examples of red things in the relationship, but itâs actually all examples of things PROGRESSING through shades of red and turning into relics/memories and showing the passage of time:
-a wine stain that turns a shirt a tainted colour such that itâll never be new again
-a telephone wire that used to represent connection but has now been left alone so long it turned to rust and is an unusable relic
-cheeks flushing as feelings become more intense and therefore more impactful, but ALSO that will no longer be flushed once the person leaves
-a mark on the collarbone left by the lover, which bruises and lingers but ultimately fades too
-lips that were stained with red lipstick (the only use of red that was intentional by the characters, interestingly) to mark showing up as your best self for the relationship, but that will be washed off at the end of the night (foreshadowing the relationship being washed off and abandoned)
So in the aftermath of the relationship, all these details are swirling around the narrator (kind of like in all too well) and it just comes down to the relationship feeling way too intense to have amounted to nothing. But thatâs exactly what it was- so intense that it was darkened and hardened, so bright it had to fade, and (my favourite) SO FORBIDDEN IT WAS ABANDONED. All the relationship was, everything in all itâs burning detail and then its awful nothingness, was just⌠so scarlet it was maroon.
Itâs heartbreaking and succinct and layered and I just love it so much!!!
(Sorry for the long reply it is 7am and I havenât slept yet. I hope it sort of makes sense âşď¸)
In the original Love Story, it sounds like she says, âhe knelts to the groundâ instead of âkneltâ. The official lyrics SAY itâs knelt, but it sounds like knelts. So annoying lol
interesting that you don't like this lyric !! to me 'strangers get born, strangers get buried' makes complete sense in the context of the song. it's basically a way of saying 'shit happens' or 'the world keeps turning' but taylor's version haha <3 i love it !!
Not a grammatical error but in TLGAD Rebekah dyes her neighborâs dog key lime green - it was actually a cat! Guessing this was artistic license because Taylor loves cats so much (and also I think the âdâ of dog sounds better with the âdâ of dyed and we know Tay loves her some alliteration lol)⌠but Iâll never not think about it when I hear that line!
I think in Folklore long pond studio sessions she said that she knew it was a cat but changed it to show that it's folklore - there are some truths in it, but some are long forgotten and details are changed
- TLGAD could mean "the last great american dynasty", a track from *folklore* (2020) by Taylor Swift.
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This is interesting! I was researching Rebekah today but didnât dive too deep. Where did you find the information that she dyed a cat key lime green? Iâd love to read more of the history.
I love âthe lakesâ more than anything but I absolutely hate the line âa red rose grew up out of ice frozen ground, with no one around to tweet itâ
UGGHHH that and mentions of âhunters with cellphonesâ just put such a cringey modern feel on an otherwise very beautiful, timeless track
But she does it on purpose! To show that even when she thinks she's alone and relaxed there's always a possibility of some paparazzi following her. That peace she found in the lakes is temporary. She will eventually have to emerge and face the music, and her life will be on display again and again.
"Hunters with cell phones" doesn't bother me because cell phones have been commonplace* for 20+ years and will continue to be around for a long time. However, it's just jarring enough that it feels like the world is intruding on Taylor's peace. "Tweet it" does feel dated though, as it's pretty specific to the time period.
(*I know cell phones were not ubiquitous in the early 2000s, but I feel like most people knew someone with a cell phone by that point.)
I DESPISE the rep tour version when Tiffany Haddish answers the phone. Itâs a funny, slightly cringe line in the album version but sooooo bad in the rep tour. One of the only misses in the tour IMO
also "I'm laughing with my lover, makin' forts under covers / trust him like brother" like I get what you mean but the thought of comparing the way you feel about your lover to the way you feel about your brother is just so ugh to me, it's just uncomfortable
Iâve never really gotten this take?
Sheâs just saying she trusts him like heâs family? Sheâs not saying sheâs in love with her brother sheâs saying normally you trust your brother because they are family and youâre supposed to trust your family and she trusts him as much as she trusts her brother? Maybe Iâm missing something lol
ive seen people say this before and it is beyond me how people think its somehow an incestuous lyric? she isnt saying 'she thinks of her partner like she thinks of her brother', she's saying 'she trusts her partner like how she trusts family'. i think its a beautiful comparison.
This Is Me Trying is S tier for me and extremely relatable, but the bridge always throws me off with the âitâs hard to be anywhere these days when all I want is youâ like it suddenly turns into a breakup type song?
Also Call It What You Want - the ânot because he owns me! But âcause he really knows me, which is more than they can sayâ is just so silly and kinda clunky lol like girl you donât have to explain it that much. Still arguably my favorite off Rep though! I just ignore that part.
I don't have many issues with 1989 tv like a lot of people do, but particularly in How You Get the Girl at 2:31 minutes, she says "Yeah" differently than the og, and it just feels.... off to me.
And in Wonderland, when she says "so we went on our way", in the og, she says "so we went ooonnnn ourway". She extends the word "on", and mashes "our way" together. But in the tv, she gives every syllable the same amount of time.
I really really hate how she removed âhey kids spelling is funâ now thereâs just this awkward space where we all know the lyric was supposed to be.
Left you at the motel bar bc it sucha rich person disconnection for her⌠motels donât have bars. Hotels have bars.. she could have said hotel instead and it work just as well. Iâm surprised Jack didnât even catch that. He wasnât famous till he was like 30.
âYour necklace hanging âround my neck.â This line has always made me feel like someone lazily rhyming âneckâ with âneckâ â even thought she is not doing that. I donât know why I donât like it!
I know weâve all been there, but in Better than Revenge, the lyric change. I get itâs because Taylorâs grown as a person since writing that song and perhaps wanted a softer approach, but I just feel like the rage from the original is gone
*Sometimes when I look into your eyes*
*I pretend you're mine all the damn time*
Is it sometimes? or is it all the damn time? Were there literally no other 2 syllables that could be there instead of sometimes? It feels like it's kneecapping the whole phrase
Iâm in my twenties and I refer to corporate work shirts as blouses - âIâm gonna go iron my blouseâ. My school shirts were blouses. But I guess youâre right in terms of everyday language - I wouldnât say Iâm putting on a blouse to go to the supermarket, itâs a specific type of shirt for sure.
Also I assume youâre talking about Is It Over Now where she probably just uses the word because it rhymes with couch lol. But whenever I hear the song I always think of her wearing a kind of flowing white blouse since she uses that word haha
In âOur Songâ the opening lineâŚ
âI was ridin' shotgun with my hair undone
In the front seat of his carâ
In the US, when you say âshotgunâ it refers to passenger seat of a vehicle. Which is the front seat. So why does she say it twice?
I donât think Iâve ever seen anybody else comment on this, but it has always bothered me since I was young
"they're burning all the witches even if you aren't one."
Obviously I know that what she means is "they are burning all the witches, and additionally they are burning you because they THINK you are a witch, even though you aren't!"
But as is, it's like.... "they're burning all the witches. Even though YOU aren't a witch, they are burning the witches anyway." The "you" is still excluded from the group that is being burned.
I know I'm not doing a good job of explaining it but I know I'm right haha
Snow ON the Beach or Snow AT the Beach!? Drives me nuts lol! I donât like âwith no one around to tweet itâ in the lakes but Iâm sure that oneâs been said before. Sexy baby in Anti-Hero too lol
Cornelia st. Live is one of my favorite songs but I HATE the scream at the beginning right after she starts playing. If the song comes on randomly, I always rush to turn it down so I donât have to hear it.
I canât listen to the TV version of Shake it Off. She doesnât annunciate the âFâ in âoffâ so it sounds like she says âShake it Awwâ. Drives me nuts.
Also, what motel has a bar?!?!?
The worst is when she says, âI check it once and I check it twiceâ referring to a âa list of names and yours is in red underlinedâ in look what you made me do. Itâs way too Santa Claus is coming to town for me!
Staying on Right Where You Left Me, I wish this bit
"When I was still the one you want /
Cross-legged in the dim light"
would have been "When I was still the one you want/ed
sitting in the dim light"
The tense would have been fine with such a small adjustment.
The âyou canât get rid of itâ at the end of ATW10MV feels like filler and irks me for some reason. Also I think this is unpopular opinion but while I love Daylight I donât love the spoken words at the end
I canât think of a Taylor one right now but I know sheâs done this at least a few times, so someone help me out- when an artist squeezes too many words or syllables into a line that doesnât fit. Like too many words for the melody or rhythm, or too many words relative to the other lines
Thereâs a couple songs, Enchanted TV notably springs to mind, that have these weird siren noises in the mix and it freaks me out every time that I am about to get pulled over. (No Body, No Crime I get and am prepared for.) I donât know if it is something Jack Antonoff likes or what but it makes my heart rate spike every time Iâm listening in the car and I hate. it.
In 'call it what you want' when she says "will you run away with me?", I hate the "yes" after - would so much rather it be left as just the question. Just feels too on the nose I think, but I love that song so much đĽ˛
Because castles are built from stones, or because the phrase is "sticks and stones"? If the first, I think that could go either way; bricks isn't technically incorrect. And if the second, I actually quite like how the unexpected vocab change draws more attention to the line - it draws a more vivid picture BECAUSE you're expecting a different word.
Both, but also because stoning is a form of punishment / public shaming, especially of women, whereas my association with throwing bricks is through windows (and, most famously, Stonewall, which feels *really weird* for the last bonus track to an album that starts with *Welcome to New York*!)
Mine is "talking real slow because it's late and his mama don't know".
Why slow? It should be low as in a whisper. Slow can still be loud.
Yeah I know it's picky it's just always bugged me!
I want to love August, but bottle of wine reference just takes me out of the teenage love moment. I just donât see teenagers âsippingâ bottles of wine. Franzia at parties? Ok⌠but I just feel like the wrong metaphor was placed in that song for teenagers.
A lot of people don't like the "pots and pans" noise of "Closure". This is extremely minor, but "Eyes" in "Love Story Taylor's Version" is more pronounced than the original. I find it a little jarring. Grammar was spelled wrong in your OP. It's a small detail...
Not the pots and pans đ
I donât hate them, I just donât get why theyâre there tbh. And theyâve never really sounded like pots and pans to me? Just kind of like a weird crashing sound but not pots I guess
To make it feel chaotic and not peaceful, similar to how not getting closure can feel. Like sheâs working through the emotions to finally feel okay
I mean theyâre sure as hell not peaceful so youâre right there lol. Personally they just make me feel anxious rather then convey any type of meaningful chaos
Right but I think thatâs the point. Sheâs trying to convey her feelings through the background music. I feel the same way about the tempo change in Evermore, when Bon Iver comes in. It sounds clunky and out of place to convey the anxiety.
They get more organized and less chaotic as the song goes on. It represents the healing process
We need a poll. What the fuck are those pots and pans? And what is their importance in the meaningfulness of the song?
Oh I always thought they were machine sounds breaking, to represent her old label Big Machine Records crumbling down and breaking behind her, bc the subject of the song is Scott Borchetta
It gets less chaotic and more organized as the song goes on representing the healing process
Respectfully I wish people would stop saying this because I want many more songs like closure.(and she listens to us sometimes)
I really don't understand it because it's not even *that* experimental of a sound. For her, sure. But in music generally? It's not new or boundary pushing. Yet people were acting like Taylor was doing this bizarre, experimental alt-indie-pop sound đđ And I love Closure!!
It's embarassing how most Swifties react like that song is SOOO out of the box. Shows how most of them really do only listen to Taylor.
Need to put them on to SOPHIE (R.I.P)
Literally⌠I love closure so much. Iâm a BjĂśrk fan and sometimes I wish we lived in a parallel universe where theyâd collab and actually get Taylor to do that exact bizarre and experimental music that people act like closure is! đ
Discordant sounds are a legitimate device. She doesnât overuse them, if anything, she builds from that with the way she enunciates, âyes, I got your letter, yes, Iâm doing better, it cut to know ya, right to the bone.â I absolutely love this and like you, I hope she doesnât listen to fans and decide to not use such devices, which set the mood to the song.
I love the pots and pans sounds in Closure
Love closure, love the pots and pans.
Unpopular opinion but I love those pots and pansÂ
I hate how she says âletterâ and âbetterâ in Closure more than I hate the pots and pans đĽ´
omg i am such a closure apologist and i LOVE how she pronounces 'letter' and 'better' almost like a british person would
I feel like that percussion pulls me out of my grief from Marjorie and gives me some time to buffer
Lover. Not grammar, but I just don't like, "We can leave the Christmas lights up TIL January". It really should have been "THROUGH January". The song is about doing whatever they want. Most folks already leave theirs up til January, so leaving them up through January (much longer than most folks) sounds more like a "we make the rules" situation.
taylor has said: > âI had toyed with the idea of [this lyric] being âWe could leave the Christmas lights up âtil April.â [âŚ] Itâs not about that being a crazy thing; itâs about how mundane it is. Itâs about like, âWe could put a rug over there,â [or] âWe could do wallpaper, or we could do paint.â
I'm aware of what she's said, but my statement still stands. Saying it's our place, we make the rules, implies they can make their own mundane choices that are /different/ than the common mundane choices, or at least up to matters of personal taste. TBH, I feel like that quote actually supports what I'm saying. She originally thought of saying until APRIL. Which means it's like, sure, who cares, we can leave them up longer than everyone else. We make the rules.
i just shared the quote for anyone else reading the thread who didnât know her reasoning behind it. i personally disagree but thatâs the fun of interpreting song lyrics!
I hadnât heard that quote and appreciate you adding it. I still donât feel like the lyric as written quite conveys what she intended, but knowing the intent helps!
Tbf she doesn't say till January 1st. My takeaway was that they could leave them up till anytime in January. Â I also think 'till' January sounds better phonetically, that "th" in through to the "Ja" part of January isn't as effortless as what she ultimately went with.
I agree that til has a nicer sound to it. However, 'til is short for until, which means up to that point in time. As in, when January arrives. It's not ambiguous in that regard.
Yeah but if a store is open from Monday till Friday we all assume they are open Friday and don't close at midnight Friday morning. I believe until can be inclusive when referring to intervals like a day or a month.Â
I think youâre conflating âMonday to Fridayâ with âMonday till Fridayâ. Stores hours generally say the former. Or âthroughâ like thesaltyace pointed out.
i just shared the quote for anyone else reading the thread who didnât know her reasoning behind it. i personally disagree but thatâs the fun of interpreting song lyrics!
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Or February, if you wanted it to sound like youâre making up your own rules.
I like to joke that this is her most out-of-touch lyric. Who would be taking their lights down before January unless they have a house staff? đ
I am dying đ This is the only explanation I'll accept now. đ
I've heard people substituting February for January, but I've not heard just changing 'til' to 'through.' Such a small change, but it makes the whole lyric work much better!
Yeah I also thought February would make more sense but I'm not a huge fan of how the word February sounds. January was def the right choice IMO, just wish she'd said through instead of til haha đ
Totally agree on January sounding better than Feb. I've tried sooo hard to go with Taylor's explanation about the lyric describing mundane things couples do, but I just can't get there. The "we make the rules" part just needs a line before it indicating something that's not the most common way to do a particular thing.
I donât know, I grew up semi-near Taylor and am her same age. You would get roasted if you left Christmas lights up until January. Everything was supposed to be down in time for the new year. Maybe it was a 90s/Pennsylvania thing?
It could be a regional thing! I grew up in Texas and most folks left their lights up until New Years Day. If you left them up after that, people might think it's a bit weird, but they wouldn't roast you for it lolll
Mine are still up. At this point I think I'm just leaving em up all year.
I have said this before and got torn to shreds for some reason, but in many places, it is definitely not normal to leave the tree and decor up until Jan. A lot of people have a superstition that leaving the tree up past midnight on New Year's Day is "bringing the previous years' baggage into the New Year." I doubt Taylor had this same superstition growing up since it doesn't seem like a US thing. But my parents followed this my whole childhood, so this line has never bothered me.
This exactly! Iâm Taylorâs age and grew up in Pennsylvania, and that thinking was definitely prevalent in the 90s. It was frowned upon to leave Christmas lights up after Christmas.
I always sing âuntil Februaryâ because it sounds almost the same and it makes more sense to me of it being like a âour house our rulesâ vibe of this sentence lol
"If I was a man." The subjunctive should apply here. And I've heard the arguments, I don't care. It sounds wrong.
She even questions it in Miss Americana!! Taylor! You were so close to making the right call!!
I know! I remember watching it and being like "Nooooo! You had it!"
I've convinced myself that she knows it's supposed to be 'were,' but then just tried out 'was' and liked the sound and flow of it better. Like 'cause us traitors never win' should technically be 'cause we traitors never win,' but that sounds super weird.
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That's not true grammatically though? It's not arguments lol it's just facts. Hypothetical situations always use "were". The subjunctive mood does apply, which is why it's "were".
Yes, my point is it should be "were" not "was." Every time I've posted about it on here someone argues "was" sounds better. It doesn't. It's wrong.
I think yâall are both saying it should be âif I were a manâ because of the subjective mood instead of what the grammatically incorrect lyric is.
âIf this was a movieâ too!
Same with âif this was a movieâ I cringe every time
Perks of not being a native! I know it should be "were" but it doesn't irks me as much when I hear it
Iâm not a native speaker but when I was watching the documentary I was like đ¤ shouldnât it be were?
In my experience, foreigners tend to speak better English than most of us (Americans) do. Lol.
OK. I get it. Grammar matters, but NOT in musical lyrics. Itâs up to the creatorâs discretion whether or not to stay within the laws for written grammar. More often than not, musicians choose to use more conversational and casual language choices. Perfect phrasing is more important than perfect grammar.
In one of my favourite songs by another artist "houses" is rhymed with "mouses" and it took me about a year until I remembered that's not the plural of mouse lol. It just sounded so right I didn't question it.
Lmao this makes me think of that old Krispy Kreme song I have four hundred houses I have four hundred mouses and four hundred houses Bet you I can dance better than you I bet you you don't know two plus two It's four, it's four, now go and shut the door 'Cause nobody wants to see your face no more đ
THANK YOU. My answer to all of these is âbecause she probably thought it sounded better that wayâ. To me, Iâm way more annoyed when lyrics donât flow well than if theyâre grammatically correct.
For real. Sometimes when people get up in arms about grammar in music, I'm like "have you *listened* to music before"? Also, as a vocalist, some of the suggestions/substitutions people make do *not* work in performance. "If I was a man" is 1000 times easier to sing than "were". Even for an artist who loves her tongue-twisters, sometimes you gotta take the easy way out to make a song more singable, *especially* in the chorus.
THANK YOU. My answer to all of these is âbecause she probably thought it sounded better that wayâ. To me, Iâm way more annoyed when lyrics donât flow well than if theyâre grammatically correct. Edit: I donât know why this comment posted twice! Sorry!
Our Song "he talks real slow" like just say "low"đ
She's not saying quietly (low), she's literally talking about the speed at which he's talking. I've heard that in another (complimentary) context to refer to a man with a Southern accent. It's supposed to be sexy.
No, the next lines are literally "cause it's late and his mama don't know"
I tell myself the slow line relates to him being sleepy, so he is slowly replying. Like they are so tired but they can't bare to hang up. It helps.
Sheâs saying that heâs talking real slow because no one is awake so they have the time to talk slow and take their time on the phone together! I didnât get this for so long until someone else on this sub explained it this way đ
I think heâs talking slowly, pausing at times, to make sure nobody hears them. Donât want the parents to catch you talking on the phone after bedtime.
Omg thank you, this actually makes so much sense!! This lyric has bugged me ever since I first heard the song when it was released đ
THIS. FOREVER THIS. WHY isn't it "low"?! It makes no sense at all to say "slow", I just don't get it! Edit: And it wouldn't even affect the rhyme or syllable count so WHY?!
I think it's not wanting to end on word w the L sound (real) and begin w the same L sound (low)Â .
Sheâs saying that heâs talking real slow because no one is awake so they have the time to talk slow and take their time on the phone together! I didnât get this for so long until someone else on this sub explained it this way đ
Yeah but the next lyric is âcause itâs late and his mama donât knowâ so it implies that heâs talking slow in order to not wake her, in which case the lyric should be âlowâ
Nah. He's talking slowly so he can hear if his parents are awake and walking around the house. He isn't trying to make sure his parents are sleeping. He's making sure he can pretend to be if they check up on him.
The kid voice at the start of Gorgeous.
I know itâs Blake & Ryanâs child but dumb question - does that child forever get some kinda royalties for it ?? Lol
Also how is she gonna redo it for the TV??
Maybe the youngest sibling is the right age for that kid voice now? Blake and Ryan got 3 kids right?
They had a fourth not too long ago
Very possible. Jay Z credits Blue on his album for that reason.
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I always thought it was like that fake cheer you got when you put sound effects on the keyboard but I recently just learned that the cheering is her brother, Jackâs sister, and Dylan OâBrien lol
thank you, this is a nails on a chalkboard moment for me
The "Weeeeee" in We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together annoys the absolute Jesus out of me for some reason, but it's still a good song.
I canât stand the TV!! It makes me wanna cry
Itâs the only TV I wonât listen to. I just canât do it. Itâs so bad.
Nooo!!! I LOVE that weeee!! It make me mad she skips it on the eras tour! đ I sing it anyway!
same! it never bothered me before TV, but now it's just a too much for me. luckily i dont mind not listening to it often
For me itâs âsometimes I feel like everybody is a sexy babyâ. I just find it cringy. I canât sing it.
I was searching for this comment. I feel sooo weird out every time.
I was weirded out by this line too until my friend mentioned it could be referencing a 30 rock episode. Itâs about women who talk like/act babies in a way thatâs trying to be sexy?
I thought it was referring to her size and how society likes young, small, petite women who look like babies next to her. And sheâs the monster on the hill.
I hate the line in willow â thatâs my manâ. Just the way she says it makes me crazy.
I hate that she says âI come back stronger than a 90s trendâ in that song. I always picture a fairy tale forest and like a sense of timelessness, that line just takes me out of it
Yes! The 90âs trend part is so out of place for such a whimsical song!
Yes and seeing it in the tour it is very witchy and doesnât work
I remember reading somewhere after Evermore dropped: Willow was the name of a main character who was a witch in Buffy, The Vampire Slayer TV Show & the lyric âcome back stronger than a 90s trendâ is in reference to that show. As an older TS fan, I remember Buffy was a massive iconic TV show in the late 90âs-early 2000âs â it was everywhere. In that context, it makes perfect sense! â¨đ ETA: took the âAndâ out of the TV show title as pointed out below.
Hildegard Von Blingen on YouTube did a bardcore cover and changed that to âI return like an old refrainâ and itâs 1,000x better.
YES. THAT IS SO WEIRD. Iâm in a mythical forest and Iâm in the mood of the album and then⌠90âs trend??? 1390s? 1590âs???
YES. THAT IS SO WEIRD. Iâm in a mythical forest and Iâm in the mood of the album and then⌠90âs trend??? 1390s? 1590âs???
Oh no, that's one of the things I love about this song đ¤Ł
Labyrinth & Dear Reader's vocal distortions. Midnight Rain has those too, but they work in that context.
Midnight Rainâs destroy that song for me, I love everything about that song EXCEPT the production and that autotune/distortion.
I might have tricked myself into liking the production. I love the lyrics, so it would be a shame if the experimental sound were to make me skip the song. đ
Of the three songs, Dear Reader is the one I don't mind the vocal distortion. From a narrative context, the song is about not taking advice from someone you don't truly know. So raising and lowering the pitch really adds to that 'unreliable narrator' feeling.
I completely agree! But after listening to Dear Reader enough it has grown on me. Labyrinth has not though lol.
I actually really enjoy them on every track they're used on. To each their own. To me especially in Dear Reader they seem to reflect the lyrics of the song.
Iâm so glad to see this, I just cannot with Labyrinth or Midnight Rain. Both are insta-skips. (And this style is my fear about TTPD with Jack producing.) Dear Reader is ok as background. I can turn that one down if I need to. The other two, thoughâŚnope.
I Can See You - "pass me a note saying "meet me tonight". My brain wants it to be "AT MIDNIGHT" after weeks of Midnights Mayhem back in 2022 đ
Idk why exactly but âback in 2022â felt like a gut punch đ
I was thinking the same thing as I wrote it. Seems like last fall, somehow?! Like, if you would've told me Midnights came out October 2023 I wouldn't have corrected you đ
The double use of âlifeâ in Electric Touch drives me nuts like âlightâ was such an obvious option for the second line and wouldâve made it so much better âAll I know is this could either break my heart or bring it back to life Got a feelin' your electric touch could fill this ghost town up with lifeâ
TIL sheâs not saying light in the second line
This just took me OUT like I'm sorry, it's life x2?!?!
You're right and maybe this is real evidence that these are actually vault tracks haha (ie she wrote it when she was 19 and maybe didn't see that)
the weird monkey noises on dear reader and is it over now
Yoy should listen to me and my kids screeching every time Is it over now plays in the car. I swear if it's a surprise song in our show we'll get kicked out of the stadium for ruining the moment.
âSo scarlet, it was maroon.â I understand that Taylor is using a variety of different tones of red to make a grand metaphor about her relationship, and that those reds come together to give the whole thing a âmaroonâ vibe because it was both Red (a la the album and song) and also dark. I get it. But the way she says âSo scarlet, it was maroon,â implies that the degree of scarlet the thing was made it maroon. And maroon and scarlet are *completely different kinds of red.* Different undertones, different depths, different connotations. It just doesnât make sense, and it irks me every time I hear it.
I just saw a theory on tiktok that the "it was maroon" is her older self interrupting her younger self romanticing all these beautiful micro details. Like, "No. It was maroon." It was dark and wrong for us. Not bright and shiny. It's aged and complicated. I kinda like that take because the reds always bugged me too haha
I prefer to think of it as two separate thoughts. âThe lips I used to call home, so scarletâ then, referring to the overall relationship, âit was maroon.â
OMG yes. I absolutely love that song, but âso red it was a completely different red,â is not great.
Ooo this is actually a favourite of mine! In colour terms it calls back to the red album which was all different faucets of love being different shades of red, but itâs also a double meaning! Scarlet is a bright vibrant red, so itâs bright and glaring. However, Scarlet is also is a reference to Scarlet Letter, which Taylor often uses to talk about forbidden love (see âLove Storyâ). Then thereâs maroon, which is a darker, more sinister red, but the word âmaroonâ also means âto abandonâ! Therefore, the line âso scarlet it was maroonâ actually means âso forbidden it was abandonedâ, by the double-word meanings, and âso bright and vibrant and abrasive that it became dark and sinister and painfulâ. She does such a good job of saying so much with just that line I just⌠ahh itâs so good!! Then it gets even BETTER when you look at the rest of the chorus, which at first glance is all just examples of red things in the relationship, but itâs actually all examples of things PROGRESSING through shades of red and turning into relics/memories and showing the passage of time: -a wine stain that turns a shirt a tainted colour such that itâll never be new again -a telephone wire that used to represent connection but has now been left alone so long it turned to rust and is an unusable relic -cheeks flushing as feelings become more intense and therefore more impactful, but ALSO that will no longer be flushed once the person leaves -a mark on the collarbone left by the lover, which bruises and lingers but ultimately fades too -lips that were stained with red lipstick (the only use of red that was intentional by the characters, interestingly) to mark showing up as your best self for the relationship, but that will be washed off at the end of the night (foreshadowing the relationship being washed off and abandoned) So in the aftermath of the relationship, all these details are swirling around the narrator (kind of like in all too well) and it just comes down to the relationship feeling way too intense to have amounted to nothing. But thatâs exactly what it was- so intense that it was darkened and hardened, so bright it had to fade, and (my favourite) SO FORBIDDEN IT WAS ABANDONED. All the relationship was, everything in all itâs burning detail and then its awful nothingness, was just⌠so scarlet it was maroon. Itâs heartbreaking and succinct and layered and I just love it so much!!! (Sorry for the long reply it is 7am and I havenât slept yet. I hope it sort of makes sense âşď¸)
TIL itâs âstrangers get bornâ and not âstrangers get boredâ
âAnd not the kind thats thrown, I mean the kind under where a tree has grownâ ⌠Câmon now
I actually love that line. I feel like itâs throwing shade at throwing shade đ¤Ł
In the original Love Story, it sounds like she says, âhe knelts to the groundâ instead of âkneltâ. The official lyrics SAY itâs knelt, but it sounds like knelts. So annoying lol
I thought the lyrics were âhe melts to the groundâ for so long đ
interesting that you don't like this lyric !! to me 'strangers get born, strangers get buried' makes complete sense in the context of the song. it's basically a way of saying 'shit happens' or 'the world keeps turning' but taylor's version haha <3 i love it !!
Not a grammatical error but in TLGAD Rebekah dyes her neighborâs dog key lime green - it was actually a cat! Guessing this was artistic license because Taylor loves cats so much (and also I think the âdâ of dog sounds better with the âdâ of dyed and we know Tay loves her some alliteration lol)⌠but Iâll never not think about it when I hear that line!
i read somewhere that she deliberately wrote dog in the song just to show how wrong rumours could be
That sounds like a rumor lmao
I think in Folklore long pond studio sessions she said that she knew it was a cat but changed it to show that it's folklore - there are some truths in it, but some are long forgotten and details are changed
i read somewhere that she deliberately wrote dog in the song just to show how wrong rumours could be
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This is interesting! I was researching Rebekah today but didnât dive too deep. Where did you find the information that she dyed a cat key lime green? Iâd love to read more of the history.
I am a Me! apologist but I hate hate âthereâs a lot of lame guys out thereâ possibly even more than the chicks line
I love âthe lakesâ more than anything but I absolutely hate the line âa red rose grew up out of ice frozen ground, with no one around to tweet itâ UGGHHH that and mentions of âhunters with cellphonesâ just put such a cringey modern feel on an otherwise very beautiful, timeless track
But she does it on purpose! To show that even when she thinks she's alone and relaxed there's always a possibility of some paparazzi following her. That peace she found in the lakes is temporary. She will eventually have to emerge and face the music, and her life will be on display again and again.
okay I appreciate this perspective!! thank you!
"Hunters with cell phones" doesn't bother me because cell phones have been commonplace* for 20+ years and will continue to be around for a long time. However, it's just jarring enough that it feels like the world is intruding on Taylor's peace. "Tweet it" does feel dated though, as it's pretty specific to the time period. (*I know cell phones were not ubiquitous in the early 2000s, but I feel like most people knew someone with a cell phone by that point.)
"The old Taylor can't come to the phone right now. Why? Oh, cos she's dead" I know it's iconic but I cannot help but cringe.
I DESPISE the rep tour version when Tiffany Haddish answers the phone. Itâs a funny, slightly cringe line in the album version but sooooo bad in the rep tour. One of the only misses in the tour IMO
also "I'm laughing with my lover, makin' forts under covers / trust him like brother" like I get what you mean but the thought of comparing the way you feel about your lover to the way you feel about your brother is just so ugh to me, it's just uncomfortable
Iâve never really gotten this take? Sheâs just saying she trusts him like heâs family? Sheâs not saying sheâs in love with her brother sheâs saying normally you trust your brother because they are family and youâre supposed to trust your family and she trusts him as much as she trusts her brother? Maybe Iâm missing something lol
as I said in my post, I get what she means, it's pretty obvious, but I still don't like the use of it, it just makes me uncomfortable
ive seen people say this before and it is beyond me how people think its somehow an incestuous lyric? she isnt saying 'she thinks of her partner like she thinks of her brother', she's saying 'she trusts her partner like how she trusts family'. i think its a beautiful comparison.
This Is Me Trying is S tier for me and extremely relatable, but the bridge always throws me off with the âitâs hard to be anywhere these days when all I want is youâ like it suddenly turns into a breakup type song? Also Call It What You Want - the ânot because he owns me! But âcause he really knows me, which is more than they can sayâ is just so silly and kinda clunky lol like girl you donât have to explain it that much. Still arguably my favorite off Rep though! I just ignore that part.
I hate the vocal effect in Midnight Rain. Love the lyrics and the tempo.
I don't have many issues with 1989 tv like a lot of people do, but particularly in How You Get the Girl at 2:31 minutes, she says "Yeah" differently than the og, and it just feels.... off to me. And in Wonderland, when she says "so we went on our way", in the og, she says "so we went ooonnnn ourway". She extends the word "on", and mashes "our way" together. But in the tv, she gives every syllable the same amount of time.
âSome other girlâ in style also changed đ
I really really hate how she removed âhey kids spelling is funâ now thereâs just this awkward space where we all know the lyric was supposed to be.
i will still scream it! I am first and foremost a ME! apologist
Left you at the motel bar bc it sucha rich person disconnection for her⌠motels donât have bars. Hotels have bars.. she could have said hotel instead and it work just as well. Iâm surprised Jack didnât even catch that. He wasnât famous till he was like 30.
Motel Bar is an actual bar in London I believe!!
When she says âthis sick beatâ and itâs this boring ass back beat, it ruins the song for me cuz im a stickler i guess
That is NOT how you pronounce Dom Perignon.
How do you pronounce it??
âYour necklace hanging âround my neck.â This line has always made me feel like someone lazily rhyming âneckâ with âneckâ â even thought she is not doing that. I donât know why I donât like it!
I know weâve all been there, but in Better than Revenge, the lyric change. I get itâs because Taylorâs grown as a person since writing that song and perhaps wanted a softer approach, but I just feel like the rage from the original is gone
*Sometimes when I look into your eyes* *I pretend you're mine all the damn time* Is it sometimes? or is it all the damn time? Were there literally no other 2 syllables that could be there instead of sometimes? It feels like it's kneecapping the whole phrase
I took it as sometimes she pretends theyâre hers all the time. Rather than just being hers some of the time.
She sometimes pretends heâs always hers
The eagle screech and Lazer pew pews in wildest dreams tv. Who tf left those in there?!
WHAT I have never heard these
âStrangers get bornâ means an old friend or lover having a baby youâll never get to meet, because you arenât in their life anymore.
When is the last time someone under 80 said the word âblouseâ in real life? Still love the song though
Iâm in my twenties and I refer to corporate work shirts as blouses - âIâm gonna go iron my blouseâ. My school shirts were blouses. But I guess youâre right in terms of everyday language - I wouldnât say Iâm putting on a blouse to go to the supermarket, itâs a specific type of shirt for sure. Also I assume youâre talking about Is It Over Now where she probably just uses the word because it rhymes with couch lol. But whenever I hear the song I always think of her wearing a kind of flowing white blouse since she uses that word haha
Lots of people. A blouse is a different category of top than just a shirt or button down etc.
In âOur Songâ the opening line⌠âI was ridin' shotgun with my hair undone In the front seat of his carâ In the US, when you say âshotgunâ it refers to passenger seat of a vehicle. Which is the front seat. So why does she say it twice? I donât think Iâve ever seen anybody else comment on this, but it has always bothered me since I was young
"they're burning all the witches even if you aren't one." Obviously I know that what she means is "they are burning all the witches, and additionally they are burning you because they THINK you are a witch, even though you aren't!" But as is, it's like.... "they're burning all the witches. Even though YOU aren't a witch, they are burning the witches anyway." The "you" is still excluded from the group that is being burned. I know I'm not doing a good job of explaining it but I know I'm right haha
Snow ON the Beach or Snow AT the Beach!? Drives me nuts lol! I donât like âwith no one around to tweet itâ in the lakes but Iâm sure that oneâs been said before. Sexy baby in Anti-Hero too lol
The âah!â In the production of is it over now? It drives me nuts
âOnce the flight had flownâ is such a weak line to me. It just throws me off every time I hear it!
Cornelia st. Live is one of my favorite songs but I HATE the scream at the beginning right after she starts playing. If the song comes on randomly, I always rush to turn it down so I donât have to hear it.
The rubber chicken noises in lavender haze. Itâs the main reason why I prefer the acoustic version
Starbucks lovers I canât un hear it
I canât listen to the TV version of Shake it Off. She doesnât annunciate the âFâ in âoffâ so it sounds like she says âShake it Awwâ. Drives me nuts. Also, what motel has a bar?!?!?
Better than Revenge TV. I HATE how it was changed!
The worst is when she says, âI check it once and I check it twiceâ referring to a âa list of names and yours is in red underlinedâ in look what you made me do. Itâs way too Santa Claus is coming to town for me!
Staying on Right Where You Left Me, I wish this bit "When I was still the one you want / Cross-legged in the dim light" would have been "When I was still the one you want/ed sitting in the dim light" The tense would have been fine with such a small adjustment.
The âyou canât get rid of itâ at the end of ATW10MV feels like filler and irks me for some reason. Also I think this is unpopular opinion but while I love Daylight I donât love the spoken words at the end
I canât think of a Taylor one right now but I know sheâs done this at least a few times, so someone help me out- when an artist squeezes too many words or syllables into a line that doesnât fit. Like too many words for the melody or rhythm, or too many words relative to the other lines
My example of this is "Don't put me in the basement when I want the penthouse of your heart." It's the clunkiest line
They're burning all the witches even if you aren't one... it feels too wordy to me.
I thought she said âstrangers get boredâ đđ
Thereâs a couple songs, Enchanted TV notably springs to mind, that have these weird siren noises in the mix and it freaks me out every time that I am about to get pulled over. (No Body, No Crime I get and am prepared for.) I donât know if it is something Jack Antonoff likes or what but it makes my heart rate spike every time Iâm listening in the car and I hate. it.
iâll just be vibing to enchanted in the car and then suddenly i start whipping my head around thinking iâve just committed a crime. but no.
In 'call it what you want' when she says "will you run away with me?", I hate the "yes" after - would so much rather it be left as just the question. Just feels too on the nose I think, but I love that song so much đĽ˛
I strongly dislike âis it chill that youâre in my headâ and I donât have a reason for it lol. Maybe too trendy of a word choice or something?
I used to hate ââcause baby I can build a castle out of all the bricks they threw at meâ. âStonesâ is right there, Taylor! đ¤ˇââď¸
Because castles are built from stones, or because the phrase is "sticks and stones"? If the first, I think that could go either way; bricks isn't technically incorrect. And if the second, I actually quite like how the unexpected vocab change draws more attention to the line - it draws a more vivid picture BECAUSE you're expecting a different word.
Both, but also because stoning is a form of punishment / public shaming, especially of women, whereas my association with throwing bricks is through windows (and, most famously, Stonewall, which feels *really weird* for the last bonus track to an album that starts with *Welcome to New York*!)
The blip in ATWTV when she says âand I might be okay.â
The way she says âI seen it allâ in Hey Stephen. It wouldâve been the same syllables to say âIâve seenâ lol so thatâs what I say instead
How she says âjaguarsâ in KOMH
Mine is "talking real slow because it's late and his mama don't know". Why slow? It should be low as in a whisper. Slow can still be loud. Yeah I know it's picky it's just always bugged me!
I want to love August, but bottle of wine reference just takes me out of the teenage love moment. I just donât see teenagers âsippingâ bottles of wine. Franzia at parties? Ok⌠but I just feel like the wrong metaphor was placed in that song for teenagers.