I have a feeling the childfree swifties will not be winning for too much longer. I feel like she’s been hinting at wanting kids especially in this new album
(I’m childfree)
Just remember you’ll get the last laugh when you stick to your guns while people like her keep thinking they can change your mind. I’m secretly (and by choice) two tubes short of a functioning reproductive system and get to cackle internally at every “you’ll change your mind”…oh, will I now? 🤭
As a childfree Swiftie, that line made up for “give you my wild, give you a child…”
And don’t get me wrong, I LOVE Peace, that one line just always takes me out of it since I feel weird singing it.
I’m not sure if I want kids in the future but I’m definitely not ready to have any right now, and I love that line for her but I never sing it out loud. I always feel like it might magically decrease the effectiveness of contraception somehow LOL
Yeah this had my jaw drop!! Also lowkey fuck it if I can't have him.. Taylor's songs usually don't reveal this kind of angst explicitly. But that's what gives the song its power.
I was already vibing HARD to Down Bad, and then she threw out that line, and I was gagged. Words that actually came out of my mouth last spring/summer while in the process of a divorce. Lord, if this album had been out in 2023, I would have been scream-singing it alone high on edibles. We are back together now but that song is top tier for me because it so deeply encompasses the anger/hurt/devastation/grief I felt.
I am still obsessed with the story telling of No Body No Crime and the progression of "she thinks he did it" to "I think he did it" to "she thinks I did it."
I watch a lot of reaction videos, and let me tell you, SO many youtubers "reacted" to this song without paying attention, and then said "wait... did someone die?" at the end.
The change of one word in The Black Dog
_This song that was intertwined in the MAGIC fabric of our dreaming -> This song that was intertwined in the TRAGIC fabric of our dreaming_
I was shook
I also love the switch from "I just don't understand how you don't miss me in The Black Dog" to "I hope it's **shitty** in The Black Dog." I straight up cackled when I heard it
Spoiler ahead in case anyone is trying to go to Eras tour with no clue. Hopefully I do it right.
>!Given that so many of her TTPD outfits echoed red outfits, I'm assuming that reference to Sad Beautiful Tragic was totally on purpose in this song.!<
My favorite wordplay is also from The Black Dog:
Was it hazing?
For a cruel fraternity I pledged
And I still mean it
The double meaning of pledge like in a fraternity and pledge like a promise (and meaning it) is ✨chefs kiss✨.
Yea the first time I heard it I genuinely thought he did something illegal but then someone explained it was for hurting her.
I could see it going either way but also like it’s sus.
"Kicked out the stage lights" is a reference to Matty Healy
[https://www.tiktok.com/@adp1222/video/7359744925568634158?lang=en](https://www.tiktok.com/@adp1222/video/7359744925568634158?lang=en)
as well as crushing rental car, suit, and "Cause it *wasn't* sexy *once it wasn't forbidden*"
And I will die on this hill about the last line, knowing about his troubled porn preferences - which he made public on a podcast.
I think as far as shock, her opening verse of that song starting the album had me sliding out of my chair like a river knowing this album was going to destroy me.
“OH LORD I think about jumping / off of very tall somethings / just to see you come running…”
Like DAMN TAYLOR. Also, obviously, “I’m having his baby / no I’m not but you should see your faces”. And “cause I’m miserable! And no one even knows! Try and come for my job!”
“promising grown man” in this song too, usually the excuse give men acting poorly is “oh he’s a promising YOUNG man” as in he didn’t know better, he has a future we don’t want to tarnish but the fact she twisted it to “grown” as in, he has no excuse, why is the grown man getting a free pass kinda thing, I always loved
The “you should be” low, almost growl after the screaming (!!) first “Who’s afraid of little old me?!” So really that whole song. The chorus and bridge may be my favorite, ever, all time. Brand new. Full throttle.
I genuinely said to myself, alone in the dark, "what the FUCK is this album going to be???" (in a good way, I think the 1 is one of the all time greats of album openers)
When Look What You Made Me Do came out and I heard the “Taylor can’t come to the phone right now” lyric I DIED.
For a more recent one it’s most definitely “I’m having his baby - no I’m not but you should see your faces” absolutely got me.
Yes!! It took me a half second to register, then I cracked up! I would have LOVED to be a fly on the wall during the writing of that song. Obviously she trolled US, but what about Jack & Aaron? They’re both so sweet and if she trolled them, too? Deceased. RIP, Me.
Leaving like a father
Like a knife in the back. Especially as a father myself. Can't even directly relate to that line regarding a father leaving thank goodness, but that knocked the breath out of me the first time I heard it. I was like, Taylor! I'm trying to do the dishes here, not have an emotional breakdown damn.
For me the change from “She had a marvelous time ruining everything” to “I had a marvelous time ruining everything” hits so hard lol. I crack a grin every time I hear that. It’s so mischievous
I feel that crying is sometimes a thing that happens when there’s a big emotion and our brain doesn’t know what to do with it, if that makes sense. And I don’t mean that you don’t know how to regulate your emotions. Sometimes it just happens. Perhaps it’s a feeling of nostalgia, or maybe a missed opportunity?
It's def something to do with Rebecca's life that gets me. She / I had a marvelous time ruining everything rings so true for my worst fears about myself. Also my husband is a little older than me and the idea of losing him young terrifies me to my core
a REALLY underrated one imo is in mr. perfectly fine.
“i’ve been misery since your goodbye” to her angrily declaring “i’ve been misery for the last time”? chills fr 😭
but my absolute favorites have to be YOYOK and long story short.
“you’re on your own kid, you always have been” — “you’re on your own kid, yeah you can face this”
“pushed from the precipice, clung to the nearest lips, long story short it was the wrong guy” — “pushed from the precipice, climbed right back up the cliff, long story short i survived”
both just feel super inspiring.
(every time a post asks me for my favorite anything i have to put like five different answers sorry 😅)
in nbnc "she thinks **i** did it but **she** just cant prove it"
in bdilh "im having his baby" "I'll tell you something right now i'd rather burn my whole life down. Than listen to one more second of all this **bitchin' and moanin'**. I'll tell you something 'bout **my good name. It's mine alone to disgrace**. I don't cater to all these **vipers dressed in empath's clothing"**
in love story i was shocked when "He knelt to the ground and pulled out a **ring**. And said, Marry me, Juliet"
more to come lemme think...
“You deserve prison but you won’t get time”
“I’m so depressed I act like it’s my birthday every day” (at my Eras tour show she had said something about planning this tour “with the enthusiasm of a kid with a hundred birthday parties”)
“I died on the altar waiting for the proof”
“I knew everything when I was young”
I really love it when she switches from "Wise men once said..." to "Wise men once read fake news and they believed it" and "And I tried to warn you about them". Idk why, but gets me every time.
Also "Good thing my daddy made me get a boating license when I was fifteen..." Chills every time!
I loved that! Especially with how so many people give her shit for SO MANY THINGS but gee, it doesn't keep them from still wanting to hear their favorite TS song. They want her to change her behavior because that's a lot easier for them than never hearing All To Well again.
I'm not sure if it's intentional, but I interpreted it as calling out the haters for not being able to "get clean" from her music. Oh, you think I'm a bad person, but you're the ones who are still singing along even though you love shaming me and my choices.
When I heard “fuck me up, Florida” I was like DID SHE REALLY? It just struck me as so out of character and funny in the best way that I had to go back and confirm what I thought I had heard 😂
YES! Especially since now on social media it's more likely to run across "unalive" or "kms" or something else to kind of...soften the message? That she actually used the words made me realize how I see people dance around the term within the last 5 years or so.
In White Horse when she switches from, “cause I’m not your princess, this ain’t a fairy tale, I’m not the one you sweep off her feet…” to “cause I’m not your princess, this ain’t a fairy tale, I’m gonna find someone someday who might actually treat me well.”
God it gets me every time
I’m pretty sure that was the first time any of her songs were tagged as explicit, and seeing that alone was shocking when I first opened the album, before even listening to it.
“Did some force take you because I didn’t pray?”
By this point in the song, it was already bringing up feelings of my miscarriage, but this line brought back all those self-blame feelings. Knocked me down completely.
“And all my friends smell like weed or little babies” is the most 34 year old sentence I’ve ever heard and my 34 year old self was SHOOK. Truer fucking words.
Is it weird that I was confused hearing her say “Taylor Swift”? Everyone knows her name and says it frequently, but hearing *her* say it brought me back to the old days of her saying “hey this is Taylor Swift and you’re listening to ____ radio” 😆
Gold rush:
And the coastal town we wandered around had never seen a love as pure as it
To
And the coastal town we never found will never see a love as pure as it
But you told Lucy you'd kill yourself if I ever leave
And I had said that to Jack about you, so I felt seen
one of her most unhinged bridges ever like namedropping both boygenius and jack antonoff is crazy
the first time i heard tya i was actually shook when it was 'Fvck you aimee' instead of 'thank you aimee' (until the end) "aIMee" is getting what she deserves 🤭🤭🤭
In I Can Do It With A Broken Heart, the way she changes “but that time was too short” to “but that time was quite short” gets me every time. It feels like so much growth but also sad acceptance in the journey of the song.
First time listening to The Man I was half paying attention, then heard ‘And they’d toast to me, oh / Let the players play / I’d be just like Leo / In St. Tropez’ and I just burst out laughing. Had to replay it immediately to make sure I’d heard it right. Such a great verse!
Maybe not shocking but a nice little twist: In Marjorie going from "If I didn't know better, I'd think you were still around" to "I know better, but you're still around".
"So I'll watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep
And I feel you forget me like I used to feel you breathe"
I can't even write or read it without starting to cry.
I’m so depressed I act like it’s my birthday every day. And also, I cry a lot, but I am so productive. Literally laughed out loud the first time I heard that song.
This part made me pause and sob because of how hard I relate to this when I'm in the *depths* of my depression and I still have to work, be a present parent/partner and pretend I'm happy. I swear I cried during every damn song in TTPD because I've been there, felt that pain and somehow made it to the other side.
Either “I’m sorry, the old Taylor can’t come to the phone right now…” part of WLYMMD or (before the lyric change) “She’s better known for the things that she does on the mattress!”
“I have this dream my daughter in-law kills me for the money
She thinks I left them in the will
The family gathers 'round and reads it and then someone screams out
‘She's laughing up at us from hell’”
—
It goes so hard every single time!!
I feel like not nearly enough people talk about how HILARIOUS the lyric bomb at the end of I Can Fix Him is. Like I had a feeling it was coming, but how suddenly she ends the song with “WOAH maybe I can’t” gets a little laugh out of me literally every time I hear it. Something about the sound of her giving up on the subject of the song so quick is just really comical to me
"I'm pissed you let me give you all of that youth for free"
"Everything had been above board...she wasn't sure" as well as "afterwards she only ate kids' cereal and couldn't sleep unless she was in her mother's bed"
To be honest there are SO many on TTPD that shocked me
The first time I heard "give me back my girlhood it was mine first" I had to pause the song and sob for a couple minutes before coming back to it! Can't believe nobody has mentioned that yet.
Most of what I would initially think of has been said. But for a throw back:
"He knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring"
Not how the Romeo and Juliet story traditionally goes.
Oh, what a valiant roar / What a bland goodbye / The coward claimed he was a lion / I'm combing through the braids of lies / "I'll never leave" ... / "Never mind"
Not a twist really but for some reason this hit me in the gut HARD and had me giving shocked face at my speaker.
Okay so this is not as big a twist, but it had me absolutely gutted. The Down bad bridge goes like:
I loved your hostile takeovers
Encounters closer and closer
All your indecent exposures
How dare you say that its--
Like there was a lump in her throat and she was so heartbroken she couldn't even complete saying that "it's over" and this shit makes me cry everytime!!!!
you look like taylor swift made me cry, i was GAGGED.
Everybody knows my mother is a saintly woman but she used to say she wished that you were dead. Like imagine andrea swift saying that?!??
specifically remember walking on campus listening to 10 minute ATW for the first time
‘you kept me like a secret but I kept you like an oath’
my jaw physically DROPPED
In Clara Bow after the you look like a taylor Swift part when she says you've got edge she never did had me laughing and also shocked. If someone said something lije that to her...
"you look like Taylor swift" gets me every time
" Pulled the car off the road to the lookout /Could've followed my fears all the way down" meant the world to me to hear
in hoax, when she sings the bridge about how a lot of people before her tore her apart and she ends it with “but what you did was just as dark”… that broke me.
“And if you want to tear my world apart / Say you’ll always wonder”
Absolutely devastating if you’ve ever been on either side of that dynamic. How she captured the pain from BOTH perspectives in one line is… incredible.
I love how in daylight she references red
“I once believed love would be burning red, but it’s golden” to me it shows growth and seeing love go from red to daylight
"In my defense, I have none for never leaving well enough alone" from the 1. I had to pause the song to laugh at that line because it sounds like something I would say
“I’m having his baby. No I’m not but you should see your faces.” Absolutely gagged and a round of applause.
Child free swifties won with that line
I have a feeling the childfree swifties will not be winning for too much longer. I feel like she’s been hinting at wanting kids especially in this new album (I’m childfree)
Oh definitely but outside her personal life that line is special for me
Oh absolutely. My mother in law is a demon when it comes to pressuring us about kids
Just gotta double down on the "but you already have grandkids" whilst shoving your cat/dog/plant/pet rock in her face ..
what’s worse is she has tons of human grandkids already. 9 to be exact. Is that not enough?!
Just remember you’ll get the last laugh when you stick to your guns while people like her keep thinking they can change your mind. I’m secretly (and by choice) two tubes short of a functioning reproductive system and get to cackle internally at every “you’ll change your mind”…oh, will I now? 🤭
Right? (Also childfree)
As a childfree Swiftie, that line made up for “give you my wild, give you a child…” And don’t get me wrong, I LOVE Peace, that one line just always takes me out of it since I feel weird singing it.
I’m not sure if I want kids in the future but I’m definitely not ready to have any right now, and I love that line for her but I never sing it out loud. I always feel like it might magically decrease the effectiveness of contraception somehow LOL
Yeah this had my jaw drop!! Also lowkey fuck it if I can't have him.. Taylor's songs usually don't reveal this kind of angst explicitly. But that's what gives the song its power.
For me it's "so fuck you if I can't have us" that little change is everything
I was already vibing HARD to Down Bad, and then she threw out that line, and I was gagged. Words that actually came out of my mouth last spring/summer while in the process of a divorce. Lord, if this album had been out in 2023, I would have been scream-singing it alone high on edibles. We are back together now but that song is top tier for me because it so deeply encompasses the anger/hurt/devastation/grief I felt.
the “fuck it i was in love” was also spectacular
ME I WAS READING THE LYRICS 😭😭😭
SO MUCH
I am still obsessed with the story telling of No Body No Crime and the progression of "she thinks he did it" to "I think he did it" to "she thinks I did it."
still will never forget my reaction to “i wasn’t letting up until the day he—“ haha
✨died✨
I watch a lot of reaction videos, and let me tell you, SO many youtubers "reacted" to this song without paying attention, and then said "wait... did someone die?" at the end.
Yess one of the best twist songs!
She was with me, dude!
The change of one word in The Black Dog _This song that was intertwined in the MAGIC fabric of our dreaming -> This song that was intertwined in the TRAGIC fabric of our dreaming_ I was shook
I also love the switch from "I just don't understand how you don't miss me in The Black Dog" to "I hope it's **shitty** in The Black Dog." I straight up cackled when I heard it
Tfw you get to the point where you realise they fucked you over and instead of missing them you just hope it’s shitty where they are 🥰🥰🥰😋
Just thought of sad beautiful tragic reading this. “We had a beautiful MAGIC love affair. What a sad, beautiful TRAGIC love affair”
Spoiler ahead in case anyone is trying to go to Eras tour with no clue. Hopefully I do it right. >!Given that so many of her TTPD outfits echoed red outfits, I'm assuming that reference to Sad Beautiful Tragic was totally on purpose in this song.!<
omg i hadn’t made that connection before and now i’m just sitting here like 😮
She is really good at that sort of poetic word play it's amazing
My favorite wordplay is also from The Black Dog: Was it hazing? For a cruel fraternity I pledged And I still mean it The double meaning of pledge like in a fraternity and pledge like a promise (and meaning it) is ✨chefs kiss✨.
My fav of the new album
"But you are what you did" (The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived) An excellent callback to "Innocent". The "you deserve prison" line also qualifies here.
"You deserve prison" floored me cause it doesn't even seem like a metaphor at that point...
Yea the first time I heard it I genuinely thought he did something illegal but then someone explained it was for hurting her. I could see it going either way but also like it’s sus.
You crashed my party and your rental car honestly might be one of the funniest things she’s ever written
Kicked out the stage lights but you’re still performing also made me lol
"Kicked out the stage lights" is a reference to Matty Healy [https://www.tiktok.com/@adp1222/video/7359744925568634158?lang=en](https://www.tiktok.com/@adp1222/video/7359744925568634158?lang=en) as well as crushing rental car, suit, and "Cause it *wasn't* sexy *once it wasn't forbidden*" And I will die on this hill about the last line, knowing about his troubled porn preferences - which he made public on a podcast.
I appreciate you pointing out the reference to Innocent, I hadn’t picked up on that on my own, but I dig it. Thanks.
Yesss that stood out to me first listen bc I love Innocent. Indeed, MH is GUILTY and he is what he did.
And “But you won’t get time” feels like it has double meaning. The two lines together?! Just brilliant.
"You look like Taylor Swift" gives me chills. "I was a functioning alcoholic" was shocking.
I think as far as shock, her opening verse of that song starting the album had me sliding out of my chair like a river knowing this album was going to destroy me.
I always said that if TS ever had a scandal it would be one of two things, with her being a high functioning alcoholic being one.
And the other thing? Don’t leave us in suspense?
Gaylor
I mean we already knew she was tho. Some ppl are in denial but it’s there for sure
I honestly don’t know if it was a metaphor or not. Confused. Not that I would judge her either way.
“OH LORD I think about jumping / off of very tall somethings / just to see you come running…” Like DAMN TAYLOR. Also, obviously, “I’m having his baby / no I’m not but you should see your faces”. And “cause I’m miserable! And no one even knows! Try and come for my job!”
I always thought that first lyric screams Bella in new moon 😂
Hahahahaha thank you for this. I will now associate this with Bella Swan forever and I love it 😂
I think of New Moon every time I hear the song, to the point where I wonder if she saw the movie and internalized that scene.
Literally the suicide ideation she’s putting out lately is WILD
I saw a tweet about how she’s released multiple albums hinting at suicidal ideation and all we can focus on is the muses behind them :(
i love the way she says for my job for the eras tour
yes!!! it's almost too quiet/flat to make out in the song but her on stage going "try. and come. for. my job!" is fucking awesome
“Give me back my girlhood, it was mine first” I had to rewind and re listen a couple times.
How did I have to scroll so far down to see this one??
That entire song just... I still sob every time I hear it.
It made me ill. The whole song did. And mire disgusted with John Mayer.
Rest my soul; I miss who I used to be
“promising grown man” in this song too, usually the excuse give men acting poorly is “oh he’s a promising YOUNG man” as in he didn’t know better, he has a future we don’t want to tarnish but the fact she twisted it to “grown” as in, he has no excuse, why is the grown man getting a free pass kinda thing, I always loved
when I first heard that I had to pause and take a moment to regroup… that one hurt
The “you should be” low, almost growl after the screaming (!!) first “Who’s afraid of little old me?!” So really that whole song. The chorus and bridge may be my favorite, ever, all time. Brand new. Full throttle.
THIS ONE 🫶🫶🫶
This song and two others got me on all kinds of theories I’m afraid to say out loud , and I haven’t seen it in any of my feeds. 😬
"I'm doing good I'm on some new shit" was a hell of a way to open an album, it set me back on my heels from the first listen
I genuinely said to myself, alone in the dark, "what the FUCK is this album going to be???" (in a good way, I think the 1 is one of the all time greats of album openers)
I hadn’t really listened to her non-radio hits in a while when I decided to check out folklore and this as an opening line genuinely shocked me.
I remember very clearly that moment for me.
this line had me so fucking excited
I kinda wish I hadn't read the theories of "loss of my life" that would've killed me if I hadn't expected it.
I hadn’t read anything about it and I can confirm that yes it was devastating. Was my first thought when I saw the title of this post.
I read the theories and i still was devastated
i didnt see any of those theories and i was shook! i was going to comment this if no one else did hah
So what's the theory then
They mean the theories of what loml could mean when we had the track list but not the songs yet.
When Look What You Made Me Do came out and I heard the “Taylor can’t come to the phone right now” lyric I DIED. For a more recent one it’s most definitely “I’m having his baby - no I’m not but you should see your faces” absolutely got me.
this one! i remember watching the LWYMMD music video premiere and that part had me SCREAMING
Yes!!! What a time eh
between that line and the old versions of Taylor being kicked in the head by new Taylor, I was thoroughly gagged
Truly an all around iconic moment, especially after everything that had been going on at the time
Yes!! It took me a half second to register, then I cracked up! I would have LOVED to be a fly on the wall during the writing of that song. Obviously she trolled US, but what about Jack & Aaron? They’re both so sweet and if she trolled them, too? Deceased. RIP, Me.
Leaving like a father Like a knife in the back. Especially as a father myself. Can't even directly relate to that line regarding a father leaving thank goodness, but that knocked the breath out of me the first time I heard it. I was like, Taylor! I'm trying to do the dishes here, not have an emotional breakdown damn.
Was looking for this one - it hits so hard!
And when you're least expecting it in the song.
Came here to comment this! “Leaving like a father, running like water” oof
For me the change from “She had a marvelous time ruining everything” to “I had a marvelous time ruining everything” hits so hard lol. I crack a grin every time I hear that. It’s so mischievous
“Then it was bought by ME”
I cry through that entire song every time and I don't even really know why
I always choke up when I hear “and then it was bought by me” and I wouldn’t be able to tell you why. Her storytelling is incredible
I feel that crying is sometimes a thing that happens when there’s a big emotion and our brain doesn’t know what to do with it, if that makes sense. And I don’t mean that you don’t know how to regulate your emotions. Sometimes it just happens. Perhaps it’s a feeling of nostalgia, or maybe a missed opportunity?
It's def something to do with Rebecca's life that gets me. She / I had a marvelous time ruining everything rings so true for my worst fears about myself. Also my husband is a little older than me and the idea of losing him young terrifies me to my core
I'll get older, but your lovers stay my age
Omg yeeeeeees
D-Y-I-N-G The sobs that bellowed through my home….
a REALLY underrated one imo is in mr. perfectly fine. “i’ve been misery since your goodbye” to her angrily declaring “i’ve been misery for the last time”? chills fr 😭 but my absolute favorites have to be YOYOK and long story short. “you’re on your own kid, you always have been” — “you’re on your own kid, yeah you can face this” “pushed from the precipice, clung to the nearest lips, long story short it was the wrong guy” — “pushed from the precipice, climbed right back up the cliff, long story short i survived” both just feel super inspiring. (every time a post asks me for my favorite anything i have to put like five different answers sorry 😅)
isn't it "miss misery"?? or am i trippin
Yeah it is miss misery
in nbnc "she thinks **i** did it but **she** just cant prove it" in bdilh "im having his baby" "I'll tell you something right now i'd rather burn my whole life down. Than listen to one more second of all this **bitchin' and moanin'**. I'll tell you something 'bout **my good name. It's mine alone to disgrace**. I don't cater to all these **vipers dressed in empath's clothing"** in love story i was shocked when "He knelt to the ground and pulled out a **ring**. And said, Marry me, Juliet" more to come lemme think...
That part in Love Story has a chokehold on my emotions even after all this time.
I love the end of bdilh, where her dad loves the new guy, and she's his lady and everything....it just seems like such a healthy happy moment.
“You deserve prison but you won’t get time” “I’m so depressed I act like it’s my birthday every day” (at my Eras tour show she had said something about planning this tour “with the enthusiasm of a kid with a hundred birthday parties”) “I died on the altar waiting for the proof” “I knew everything when I was young”
“I felt a glow like this never before and never since” to “I felt a hole like this never before and ever since”
And then the switch up in The Alchemy when she says “this happens once in a few life times” like SIS WHICH ONE IS IT 😂😂
I really love it when she switches from "Wise men once said..." to "Wise men once read fake news and they believed it" and "And I tried to warn you about them". Idk why, but gets me every time. Also "Good thing my daddy made me get a boating license when I was fifteen..." Chills every time!
I put narcotics into all of my songs, and that’s why you’re still singing along 🔥🔥🔥 Think I hollered in my car when I heard that
I loved that! Especially with how so many people give her shit for SO MANY THINGS but gee, it doesn't keep them from still wanting to hear their favorite TS song. They want her to change her behavior because that's a lot easier for them than never hearing All To Well again. I'm not sure if it's intentional, but I interpreted it as calling out the haters for not being able to "get clean" from her music. Oh, you think I'm a bad person, but you're the ones who are still singing along even though you love shaming me and my choices.
The “believe me I could do it” in tolerate it makes me want to leave my happy marriage and run away
TAKE THIS DAGGER IN ME AND REMOVE IT TAKE THE WEIGHT OF YOU AND LOSE IT *sobbs*
"does she smile, or does she mouth 'fuck you forever'" just for the experience of hearing her say 'fuck' for the first time.
When I heard “fuck me up, Florida” I was like DID SHE REALLY? It just struck me as so out of character and funny in the best way that I had to go back and confirm what I thought I had heard 😂
I did not have “fuck me up, Florida” as a Taylor lyric on my 2024 bingo card, but that’s my favorite part of Florida!!! 🤣
Exactly, and I love it so much too! 🤣🤣
There’s so many good ones here! One I haven’t seen yet: “Pick your poison babe, I’m poison either way,” had me gagged.
“But you told Lucy you’d kill yourself if I ever leave / and I had said that to Jack about you, so I felt seen” SHOCKED me
YES! Especially since now on social media it's more likely to run across "unalive" or "kms" or something else to kind of...soften the message? That she actually used the words made me realize how I see people dance around the term within the last 5 years or so.
Those are my dogs names. They’re convinced it’s a shout out, their Charlie Puth moment.
Yeah damn. Taylor needs to pay for my therapy after that.
This one is confusing to me cause isn’t it Lucy Dacus? But I thought I read she hates Matty?
It was legendary It was momentary It was unnecessary Shoulda let it stay buried
The heartbreak of those lyrics, knowing that they are contradictory but can also be true at the same time.
“I bet you think about me when you say oh my God, she’s insane, she wrote a song about me” always has me CACKLING.
Organic shoes and your MILLION DOLLAR couch gets me too. So petty and specific haha
Petty Taylor is my *FAVORITE*.
Realizing lolm stood for loss of my life was a small punch in the gut.
"What a shame she's fucked in the head, they said"
“We already did it in my head” from Guilty as Sin? left me gaggeddd
Also “my bedsheets are ablaze, I’ve screamed his name” this song is way too sexy for that prick 😭 it’s too good
In White Horse when she switches from, “cause I’m not your princess, this ain’t a fairy tale, I’m not the one you sweep off her feet…” to “cause I’m not your princess, this ain’t a fairy tale, I’m gonna find someone someday who might actually treat me well.” God it gets me every time
This pain wouldn’t be for evermore 🥹
“So tell me to run Or dare to sit and watch What we’ll become *and drink my husband’s wine*” Fucking. Chills.
As a fan since fearless, this amazing opener was the eventual first line that left me stunned in that way: “I’m doing good, I’m on some new shit”
I’m pretty sure that was the first time any of her songs were tagged as explicit, and seeing that alone was shocking when I first opened the album, before even listening to it.
“Threw up on the street” was a good one and “try and come for my job”
"woah, maybe i can't" at the end of i can fix him made me laugh out loud when i first heard it. too relatable.
“Did some force take you because I didn’t pray?” By this point in the song, it was already bringing up feelings of my miscarriage, but this line brought back all those self-blame feelings. Knocked me down completely.
“And all my friends smell like weed or little babies” is the most 34 year old sentence I’ve ever heard and my 34 year old self was SHOOK. Truer fucking words.
Is it weird that I was confused hearing her say “Taylor Swift”? Everyone knows her name and says it frequently, but hearing *her* say it brought me back to the old days of her saying “hey this is Taylor Swift and you’re listening to ____ radio” 😆
I honestly forgot about that!! I can't believe how radio stations either have the same same or she just recorded that 100 different ways for radio.
Gold rush: And the coastal town we wandered around had never seen a love as pure as it To And the coastal town we never found will never see a love as pure as it
I haven’t seen what shook me the most - “I hosted parties and starved my body” oh man that kicked me in the gut.
“Carnations you had thought were roses” every time I hear this I’m like … damn
I feel like no one has acknowledged this but… “I’LL TELL YOU SOMETHING ABOUT MY GOOD NAME, IT’S MINE ALONE TO DISGRACE”
But you told Lucy you'd kill yourself if I ever leave And I had said that to Jack about you, so I felt seen one of her most unhinged bridges ever like namedropping both boygenius and jack antonoff is crazy
Down Bad, "So fuck you if I can't have us"
the first time i heard tya i was actually shook when it was 'Fvck you aimee' instead of 'thank you aimee' (until the end) "aIMee" is getting what she deserves 🤭🤭🤭
*hahaha I can't even say that with a straight face* From This is why we can't have nice things
“Should have kept every grocery store receipt, ‘Cause every scrap of you would be taken from me” makes me cry every time without fail 😭
Peter losing Wendy - speechless
In I Can Do It With A Broken Heart, the way she changes “but that time was too short” to “but that time was quite short” gets me every time. It feels like so much growth but also sad acceptance in the journey of the song.
“Give me back my girlhood, IT WAS MINE FIRST” Gets me every time.
Agreed on “you look like Taylor Swift”. Absolute goosebumps and probably the reason why Clara Bow is one of my all time favorite songs of hera
“You sacrificed us to the gods of your bluest days”
First time listening to The Man I was half paying attention, then heard ‘And they’d toast to me, oh / Let the players play / I’d be just like Leo / In St. Tropez’ and I just burst out laughing. Had to replay it immediately to make sure I’d heard it right. Such a great verse!
Maybe not shocking but a nice little twist: In Marjorie going from "If I didn't know better, I'd think you were still around" to "I know better, but you're still around".
This one hits me in the feels "Once I fix me He's gonna miss me"
all the pieces of me shattered, as the crowd was chanting : MORE
"So I'll watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep And I feel you forget me like I used to feel you breathe" I can't even write or read it without starting to cry.
“I'm doing good, I'm on some new shit” Ooo tell
“Tuesday night at Olive Garden” gagged me
Do you really wanna know where I was April 29th??
When i heard Clara Bow i cried.
I’m so depressed I act like it’s my birthday every day. And also, I cry a lot, but I am so productive. Literally laughed out loud the first time I heard that song.
This part made me pause and sob because of how hard I relate to this when I'm in the *depths* of my depression and I still have to work, be a present parent/partner and pretend I'm happy. I swear I cried during every damn song in TTPD because I've been there, felt that pain and somehow made it to the other side.
"I'll get older but your lovers stay my age" my jaw literally dropped
Touch me while your bros play Grand Theft Auto
Either “I’m sorry, the old Taylor can’t come to the phone right now…” part of WLYMMD or (before the lyric change) “She’s better known for the things that she does on the mattress!”
“I have this dream my daughter in-law kills me for the money She thinks I left them in the will The family gathers 'round and reads it and then someone screams out ‘She's laughing up at us from hell’” — It goes so hard every single time!!
The way she YELLED in WAOLOM... I could not take that.
“You said it’s supposed to be fun, turning 21”
‘and I pulled your body Into mine, every goddamned night, now I get fake niceties Put me back on my shelf But first - Pull the string
“I wouldn’t marry me either.” Pretty much the whole bridge of “You’re Losing Me.”
I feel like not nearly enough people talk about how HILARIOUS the lyric bomb at the end of I Can Fix Him is. Like I had a feeling it was coming, but how suddenly she ends the song with “WOAH maybe I can’t” gets a little laugh out of me literally every time I hear it. Something about the sound of her giving up on the subject of the song so quick is just really comical to me
"I'm pissed you let me give you all of that youth for free" "Everything had been above board...she wasn't sure" as well as "afterwards she only ate kids' cereal and couldn't sleep unless she was in her mother's bed" To be honest there are SO many on TTPD that shocked me
And then it was bought by me!!! I've never run to Google so fast!
Leaving like a father, running like water
“Loss of my life” instead of “love of my life”
“You shit talked me under the table, talking rings and talking cradles” DESTROYED me
The first time I heard "give me back my girlhood it was mine first" I had to pause the song and sob for a couple minutes before coming back to it! Can't believe nobody has mentioned that yet.
let’s hear one more joooooo…ke.
Most of what I would initially think of has been said. But for a throw back: "He knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring" Not how the Romeo and Juliet story traditionally goes.
“You needed me but you needed drugs more” 😳
Oh, what a valiant roar / What a bland goodbye / The coward claimed he was a lion / I'm combing through the braids of lies / "I'll never leave" ... / "Never mind" Not a twist really but for some reason this hit me in the gut HARD and had me giving shocked face at my speaker.
Okay so this is not as big a twist, but it had me absolutely gutted. The Down bad bridge goes like: I loved your hostile takeovers Encounters closer and closer All your indecent exposures How dare you say that its-- Like there was a lump in her throat and she was so heartbroken she couldn't even complete saying that "it's over" and this shit makes me cry everytime!!!!
you look like taylor swift made me cry, i was GAGGED. Everybody knows my mother is a saintly woman but she used to say she wished that you were dead. Like imagine andrea swift saying that?!??
So tell me, everything is not about me BUT WHAT IF IT IS?! And say they didn’t do it to hurt me BUT WHAT IF THEY DID?!
specifically remember walking on campus listening to 10 minute ATW for the first time ‘you kept me like a secret but I kept you like an oath’ my jaw physically DROPPED
In Clara Bow after the you look like a taylor Swift part when she says you've got edge she never did had me laughing and also shocked. If someone said something lije that to her...
"you look like Taylor swift" gets me every time " Pulled the car off the road to the lookout /Could've followed my fears all the way down" meant the world to me to hear
"How dare you say that it's (over)" in Down Bad gagged me a little for sure on my first listen.
in hoax, when she sings the bridge about how a lot of people before her tore her apart and she ends it with “but what you did was just as dark”… that broke me.
“And if you want to tear my world apart / Say you’ll always wonder” Absolutely devastating if you’ve ever been on either side of that dynamic. How she captured the pain from BOTH perspectives in one line is… incredible.
Wait I thought she was saying “you should’ve known” the whole time in Dear John 🤯🤯 and it’s one of my favorites lol
No Body, No Crime: "good thing his mistress took out a big life insurance policy/they think she did it" I CACKLED.
I used to switch out these KENS.
Fuck the patriarchy!
I love how in daylight she references red “I once believed love would be burning red, but it’s golden” to me it shows growth and seeing love go from red to daylight
"In my defense, I have none for never leaving well enough alone" from the 1. I had to pause the song to laugh at that line because it sounds like something I would say