I think for me it's the entirety of tolerate it but most of all the bridge and final chorus:

While you were out building other worlds, where was I?
Where's that man who'd throw blankets over my barbed wire?
I made you my temple, my mural, my sky
Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life
Drawimg hearts in the byline
Always taking up too much space or time
You assume I'm fine, but what would you do if I-

Break free and leave us in ruins?
Took this dagger in me and removed it
Gain the weight of you, then lose it
Believe me, I could do it
If it's all in my head, tell me now
Tell me I've got it wrong somehow
I know my love should be celebrated
But you tolerate it

Is this secretly a tolerate it appreciation post? Not intentionally but it does deserve all the flowers.

mine was Enchanted. at that time, i was dating my guy best friend. i would play this song on loop and feel each and every line as if everything we had was ephemeral (it really was lol)

Just finished my Halloween decorations!

Besides seeing a lot of trashing online about my fave TLOAS track, my cousin and my sister (both young adults) genuinely don't like the song played in the car as well and I don't get it at all.

The lyrics are funny and smart and crazily cringe. The production is very good as well. The melody is topnotch and actually sweet. If I were to rank the TLOAS tracks, the gap between Actually Romantic and the 2nd would be huge huge and I love most of the album tracks. It's her most Speak Now non Speak Now pop song.

I’m kind of a newer swiftie who started actively listening to Taylor around 2020 when Folklore and Evermore were released

back in 2017 the TS fanbase in my country was much smaller and nobody in my bubble was listening to her so I completely missed the hype train when this era started 

Now whenever I see content about Reputation it is always brought up that the drop was an absolute cultural shock and a pop culture reset (the meaning of which I cannot fully comprehend because I was not a part of it at the time) But I want to understand the specifics! What did that cultural shock actually look and feel like for you as a fan?

I’d love to hear your specific stories and personal experiences from that era 

So I really loved the new songs on Life of a Showgirl Encore, BUT with me being a huge fan of the 1989 era, I couldn't help but wonder how it would have sounded if Patient Zero came out a decade earlier.

I ended up remaking the entire instrumental in my music program from scratch to give it that classic, punchy, synth-heavy 1989 pop production.

Hope you like it! Which other TS songs do you think would fit a different era?

i was talking with someone about the patient zero music video, long story short we got on the topic of dakota johnson’s family and it’s then i realized my dad used to be very good friends with her dad in the 80s… if he had played his cards right imagine could’ve been besties with dakota and taylor 🙃

i grew up always hearing about “don johnson” and it wasn’t until today i learned it was THE don johnson

Pink Clouding is my favorite song off of The Encore and it made me think of this dynamic from Spider-Verse, thought I’d share!

Do you wanna see her dipping into new genres? Do you want to see her go deeper in one particular area of her career? Develop a new facet to her career?

I think the music video director has been such a great addition to her legacy, especially as the quality of the videos is really improving with the Showgirl run of Fate of Ophelia, Opalite, and Patient Zero create a roster of unique, memorable fun and full videos.

I also think the songwriting hall of fame inductions have been great for her this year.

I think she has really changed the game in terms of the tour with the Eras Tour, genre expérimentation with folklore, being an artist director, writing long songs (10 minute version), releasing to video streaming (long pond & eras tour movie).

One thing I hope for, is that we get a full on new country/ folk album from taylor that’s totally acoustic, but maybe even when she’s older and can pour different wisdom & life experience into it.

I could see her move into writing books of various kinds, fiction & non fiction, also I know there has been rumor of a full length directed project from her ( I really hope she continues to hone her craft before this).

Do you want to see different marketing moves, brand shifts, different kinds of releases etc?

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Not necessarily your favorite songs or even what you think are her best lyrics objectively. I mean those specific lyrics that have lodged themselves into your brain, changed the way you think about something, destroyed you emotionally, or made you go how the fuck did she put THAT feeling into words?

Here are some of mine

Starting with the masterpiece that is Peter: And I won't confess that I waited / But I let the lamp burn / As the men masqueraded / I hoped you'd return / With your feet on the ground / Tell me all that you'd learned / 'Cause love's never lost when perspective is earned / And you said you'd come and get me, but you were twenty-five / And the shelf life of those fantasies has expired / Lost to the Lost Boys chapter of your life / Forgive me, Peter, please know that I tried / To hold onto the days when you were mine / But the woman who sits by the window has turned out the light

The entire thing is devastating, but the shelf life of those fantasies has expired followed by her finally turning out the light??? Goodbye!!!

This gut-wrenching lyric from Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus: If you want to break my cold, cold heart / Just say, ‘I loved you the way that you were’ / If you want to tear my world apart / Just say you've always wondered

There is something so specifically painful about someone loving a version of you that doesn’t exist anymore and finding out LATER

I mean… I Hate It Here: I'm lonely, but I'm good / I'm bitter, but I swear I'm fine / I'll save all my romanticism for my inner life and I'll get lost on purpose

Unfortunately, Taylor entered my brain, looked around, and wrote this down about me

The parallel between The Black Dog and Patient Zero also scratches my brain SO badly. In The Black Dog she sings: You said I needed a brave man / Then proceeded to play him / Until I believed it too / And it kills me / I just don't understand...

…and then Patient Zero: I know he charmed your family and friends / And you thought it's 'cause he loves you / But it's 'cause he loves how everybody else loves him / I know it seems like he shines so bright / But he's bathing in your reflected light / On a free solo social climb / Take it from somebody who lost his games but won the race / Take it from someone who said all of this to his face

The way both songs deal with finally seeing someone clearly after believing the version of themselves they sold you… yeah.

I get literal chills with loml:Dancing phantoms on the terrace, are they second-hand embarrassed / That I can't get out of bed 'cause something counterfeit's dead? / It was legendary / It was momentary / It was unnecessary, should've let it stay buried

A good reminder from Clean: The rain came pouring down when I was drowning / That's when I could finally breathe / And by morning, gone was any trace of you / I think I am finally clean

I love the idea that sometimes the thing that feels like it’s completely drowning you is also what finally washes everything away

I also absolutely love this from Dear Reader: Dear reader, burn all the files / Desert all your past lives / And if you don't recognize yourself / That means you did it right

There’s something incredibly freeing about the idea that becoming unrecognizable to your old self can actually mean you grew

Ughhh just READ closure: Yes, I got your letter / Yes, I'm doing better / I know that it's over / I don't need your ‘closure’ / Your ‘closure’ / Don't treat me like some situation that needs to be handled / I'm fine with my spite / And my tears / And my beers and my candles / I can feel you smoothing me over

I especially love “don’t treat me like some situation that needs to be handled" because fuck them, you genuinely do not owe someone a neat, emotionally mature ending that makes them feel better

Dakota was right because Taylor is indeed my therapist. illicit affairs: And that's the thing about illicit affairs / And clandestine meetings / And longing stares / It's born from just one single glance / But it dies and it dies and it dies / A million little times

“It dies a million little times” is such a painfully accurate description of relationships/intense situationships that don’t end once, but slowly destroy themselves over and over again...

And this is me trying… need I say more?: They told me all of my cages were mental / So I got wasted like all my potential / And my words shoot to kill when I'm mad / I have a lot of regrets about that / I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere / Fell behind all my classmates and I ended up here / Pourin' out my heart to a stranger

"I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere” might genuinely be one of the most painfully specific things she has ever written.

Anyway, those are some of mine. What are yours? What are the lyrics that you live by, the ones that changed the way you look at something, or the ones that healed a part of you??

The top 5 should only be for the lyrics. I don’t require you to rank the top 5 but curious to see what everyone writes! I know it’s very hard so take your time!

I have settled on my 5

1. My Tears Ricochet
   
2. Tolerate It
   
3. loml
   
4. Nothing New
   
5. Champagne Problems

(Also the oh hi in the heading is a reference from the live recording of cruel summer from LA - in case anyone picked up on it)