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OH MY GOD BRO I WOULD BE SO PIISSSEEEDDD 😭

Honestly I can’t really say anything about your opinion, and I’m not trying to argue, but just try to show you that her songs do have raw feeling and emotions. She just doesn’t write about her experiences with her exes, but she puts us as the listener in her shoes the way she describes it. I have never been emotional to a song before, and the only 4 songs I ever felt this way to was “this is me trying”, “all too well”, and “peter/the albatross”. Individually these songs tell a story that feels literally SO sacred.

take this is me trying for example-the feeling that you’re falling apart. you’re not the same as you used to be. EVERY time i listen to timt (this is me trying), the lyrics and the way she phrases words are SUCH main details. speaking about how you can’t always be the best version of yourself-this song is like a sister of a song named “mirrorball”, which is almost the same concept except timt is more or less of: “i’m dying, but i’m trying” and mirrorball is: “i’m showing you my best version to make you happy”. it’s honestly hard for me to relate to a song like that because me being me, i hate denying i’m not the most perfect person, and that song just like, wooow. expands my mind

all too well, (10 minute version) is honestly SUCH a beautiful song. it talks about a 3 month relationship that felt sacred, private, and honestly just so holy…and the only reason for this is because the person who this was written for (jake gyllehnahal or however u spell it), had took her sacredness. but it was just out of WANTING to take it, not because he loved her. even though i can’t relate to this one in that way, i relate it by losing a person who i thought really loved me, and the way it’s constructed is just so-ugh. she literally uses a SCARF as a metaphor of her innocence-and he does still have that scarf, “but you keep my old scarf from that very first week, cuz it reminds you of innocence’s and it smells like me”…lemme tell u smth, my mom doesn’t cry over songs. but when she listened to the full song she came out crying 😭-and taylor was only TWENTY ONE when she wrote this song, and it has SUCH beautiful writing and emotion 

and lastly, peter and the albatross. i’m doing these combined cuz they’re both off the same album, but also cuz i can’t really like…not, speak about one or the other. peter speaks about a boy (specifically matt healey from the 1975 band?) who can never grow up, and taylor, as wendy from peter pan, was madly in love with. peter always promised wendy to come back…but he never really did-“words from the mouths of babes, promises oceans deep, but never to keep”. this line hits SO hard. we’ve literally all heard somebody tell us something, but they only said it because they knew that’s what we wanted to hear. never to keep their promise. and the bridge in this song as well is so beautiful. every time i listen to it i sorta space out because you just feel so connected, so like, idk how to say it 😭. after the first time i listened to it, it was very engraved in my mind. last year at my award ceremony when i did my speech (i was class pres), i used a lyric from this song because of how much it meant to me: “loves never lost when perspective is earned”, because that is a phrase i’ve lived with for a while…i’d honestly really recommend you’d listen to this song, because it’s so heart felt and so like…IDKKK IDK HOW TO SAY IT BRO

but now with the albatross, ANOTHER great song , actually one of my FAVORITES. a lot of tays exes say that they their reputation was ruined due to the fact that they DATED her, (she writes songs, duh!), which debuts the main focus of this song. “she’s the death you chose, you’re in terrible danger”…if you want to date her, hope to god you treat her well or ELSE you’ll be thrown under the bus like all the other dudes. but this song is more or else dedicated to joe alwyn (partner of 6 years), and i’ll tell you why i think it’s about joe  

according to google, “In one of the most incredible aspects of albatrosses' lives, the fully fledged young birds will spend up to six years at sea before returning to land to find a partner.“ taylor spent her youth years with joe-she thought joe was going to be taylor’s love of her life, but ended up being the loss of her life. another reason why i say this is because joe always wanted a private relationship, and she says this in her documentary “miss americana”-like she has a good 5 minutes about joe on there and how her love life with him reflected off of that years album, “reputation”, of how he was there for her lowest…now, we know that he couldn’t be there for her highest.  throughout the album ttpd, taylor states that she wanted to be married, and that she wasted her time with joe in the song “so long, london”. all of her songs on this album all sorta correlate, but the meaning of this song also engraved in me. when you tie yourself in a relationship with somebody you knew was trouble, it’s hard NOT to be mentioned, and that looks can be DECEIVING. the way she describes herself as this cruel, selfish person is literally such beautiful reiterated that you totally forget that she’s describing herself as this person who’s cruel. who’s DANGEROUS. but after all, they decided to play the game with her-who’s at fault? but all 4 of these songs are the definition of heart-felt. THESE are the songs that should be shown out more. well written, beautiful, songs. there’s also so many i wish i could get to but you’d probably stop responding 🤣-but to top it off, her top 5 albums that have actually like the best heart-felt songs are

1. evermore

2. ttpd

3. folklore

4. ttpd (the anthology$

5. midnights

like all of these have SUCH good songs…of course, i can get kinda sick of the songs that are overplayed, (i can do it with a broken heart, fortnight, ANTI-HERO 😭, CARDIGAN…) but there’s a reason why they’re overplayed. cuz they’re so good…like lowkey when anti-hero hits, the lyrics DO hit…but i am about to listen to the songs you just said cuz i really wanna hear what you feel!!!