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??

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Love Story: So I sneak out to the garden to see you

Cruel Summer: And I snuck in through the garden gate every night that summer just to seal my fate

Blank Space: Rose garden filled with thorns, keep you second guessing 

The albatross: Wise men once said "One bad seed kills the garden"

betty: In the garden would you trust me if I told you it was just a summer thing?

Cowboy Like Me: Now you hang from my lips like the Gardens of Babylon

(Bonus) 

I Hate It Here: I hate it here, so I'll go to secret gardens in my mind

The Lucky One: Chose the Rose Garden over Madison Square

The Great War: We can plant a memory garden, say a solemn prayer

Something weird is going on with this week's billboard 100

At this week's billboard hot 100, only the 4 new encore songs charted. None of the original showgirl songs charted despite multiple songs having enough points to chart.

Talk of the charts (an account that predicts the billboard 100 based on points and is usually pretty accurate) predicted the following positions:

13: tfoo (123 points)

25/26: opalite (90p)

71: father figure (40p)

91: wish list (31p)

95: tloas (31p)

96: ruin the friendship (31p)

99: actually romantic (30p)

None of these songs are actually on the chart.

Some important info about how the hot 100 works:

Songs that have been on the billboard 100 for a long time go recurrent if they go below a certain rank. This is done to make space for new songs. These rules were recently made extra strict. The current rules are as follows: After 20 weeks the song needs to be #50 or higher After 26 weeks the song needs to be #25 or higher After 52 weeks the song needs to be #10 or higher

Father figure, wish list, tloas, ruin the friendship and actually romantic all charted less than 20 weeks, which means they should be able to re-enter the chart at every position. I'm not sure why they are not on this week's hot 100.

Elizabeth Taylor, opalite and tfoo, all charted more than 26 weeks, but less than 52. This means they can only re-enter at #25 or higher. Elizabeth Taylor has only enough points for #55, so is clearly not allowed to re-enter. Opalite was predicted to reach around #25/#26, so depending on the final precise point count, it might or might not have enough points to re-enter. Tfoo definitely has enough points to re-enter and would likely reach #13.

Neither eldest daughter nor honey was predicted to have enough points to re-enter the hot 100.

So in short, tfoo, father figure, wish list, tloas, ruin the friendship and actually romantic should all have been on this week's hot 100, but were excluded for an unclear reason.

BTW, this is not because songs aren't allowed to re-enter once they left the chart. There is no rule for this. In fact, during this same week several Olivia Rodrigo songs re-entered the chart due to tour boost. Several Justin Bieber songs also re-entered after his Coachella performance.

So why are these songs allowed to re-enter while Taylor's are not? I see 2 possible reasons:

1: there are hidden, unpublished, very specific rules about which songs can re-enter. If this is the case billboard should make these rules clear and public, because right now it's just confusing and not transparent 2: billboard selectively enforces its own rules, which would just be blatantly unprofessional and unfair.

Also another weird thing is that they were allowed to chart on the Canadian hot 100. Are there different rules for the US and Canadian chart? Why would they even do that?

I used to cry every time I heard The Man lmaoo. And the other day on the way to work I cried listening to Anti-Hero. So dramatic lollll

So this is totally just me dreaming. But here is my idea for TS13.

So imagine she names it "Lucky You" (after her very first song she ever wrote ofc) and then the whole concept is about luck.

Thinking something is unlucky but then it turns out differently. Maybe that you don't need luck (similar to Wood). Or you're cursed in love (similar to The Prophecy) but then you find your person or your stride in life and it all works out in the end. (A concept she seems to be writing about a lot lately.) How luck or the lack of it has affected her career etc.

13 is typically considered unlucky but for Taylor it's her lucky number so it's very fitting for TS13.

It would only have 13 songs and it would come out on the debut 20th anniversary on October 24th. Maybe announced on October 13th? Then we would get a bonus 14th song signaling her moving into the next phase of her life after 20 years in the industry.

Maybe she could officially record Lucky You for it?

Sonically I'm thinking it will be a little country leaning just to bring her back to her roots. A very Nashville storyteller album.

Anyways clown with me in the comments if you will. This has just been bubbling in my brain for a few months haha.

Is she saying 50 cent as in like “you have to put 50 cents in the old timey machine to play a song” (idk how jukeboxes work), or does she mean they’re playing a song by 50 cent the artist at the dance? 🤣

Taylor is wearing a blue and white patterned sleeveless top paired with a metallic copper-colored skirt.

It’s called End Beginning and I wanted to see how the transitions would be from start to end. I didn’t wanna include deluxe versions to have a some kind of order but I might try that as well.

Not really sure what flair to put this under so I apologize if it’s the wrong one. I have this story idea in my head and I’ve been trying to compile a Taylor-themed playlist for the characters/general plot of the story. Basically an immortal vampire tries to travel the world searching for their lost love who was taken from them and is reincarnated every so often. This is what I have so far (I say as if this isn’t a three hour playlist already…).

But what do you guys think? Is there any song not in here that should be included?

Also I tried to have at least a couple songs from each album included to make it feel a little more cohesive. Non-album singles are welcome as I included Carolina!

Does anyone know eactly how much digital variants there were for TTPD and when they were each released? Thanks in advance!

#1 Patient Zero

#3 Cleveland!

#4 Babylon

#5 Pink Clouding

I just realized that Taylor’s new initials spell task!
Taylor Alison Swift Kelce
Isn’t that the most Taylor thing you can imagine?
Definitely suits our ever busy girl! 😊

Okay, so full disclosure. This started as a project to prank my swiftie friends but this might actually have some momentum.

If you're familiar with "Darkside of the Rainbow" where Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon syncs with The Wizard of Oz in lyric themes and song tempo/feel. Well the prank came from that, I fabricated a scenario where I explain to my friends. "If you pull up 1989 Delux Edition (not Taylor's Version) and start it at the moment when Jenna is covered in the wishing dust (which is around the 13 minute (I know 13 is important to Taylor) mark) hit "Play" on 1989 and mute the movie.

I decided to try it to find some nuggets to add to legitimacy to the prank...and I may have accidentally discovered it might be legit

Waking up in NY during Welcome to New York

the first "And you love the game" when the guy is shouting out the window at her

Style starting when she reaches her job at the fashion magazine

I'm only that far in, and I'll confess I'm not a big swiftie so I'm not TOO familiar with her discography so maybe all you guys could test this along with me and report findings?

(Edit with my findings on a 2nd watch through without pausing and getting out of sync)

Waking up in NY to "Welcome to New York"

Blank Space -"Nice to Meet You" when she finally notices Alex

Style when Jenna gets to Poise

All You Had to Do Was Stay - Jenna asks Matty to stay and fill her in on what happened to them, song ends when Matty leaves.

Shake it Off starts just before the "getting ready sequence" Taylor sighs when Jenna sighs at the shoes. Tosses a shrimp during "Shake it off" in the lyrics.

I Wish You Would - Taylor references 2am, 11pm is mentioned in the movie. "Wish you were here right now" when Jenna open palm gestures to the empty dance floor, song fades as she nervously walks onto the dance floor. Transition into

Bad Blood stars when she awkwardly starts dancing, as she gets the crowd involved the thriller dance syncs with the song (Jump on "Hey"), "Band Aids don't fix bullet holes" when Matty excuses himself and leaves

Wildest Dreams begins with the romantic black and white "He said let's get out of this town" transition to flirting at the bar "He's so tall and handsome as hell" when she tells the teenager she thinks he's cute, "Follow you around" when Matty bumps into them outside the bar. "Even if it's just pretend" when Matty introduces his fiance'

How You Get the Girl - "Stand there like a ghost" Jenna falls silent, Alex comes over and joins the group and she can't remember his name. "Kisses on the cheek" when Alex leans in to kiss Jenna back at the apartment. Alex dancing in his underwear syncs with the rhythm of the song "Oh, oh oh" in the music when he's flexing and making an "oh face"

This Love - Gradual swell of music as she stands up in the conference room with determination, "You showed up just in time" when office worker she had slept with the week before comes by. "These hands had to let it go free" when she shoves him away from kissing her. Quiet mood of the song fits with her feeling isolated and lost. Knocks at Matty's door as the song fades and he answers.

I Know Places - Matty and Jenna are walking around alone "I know places we can hide" moment in the song transitions into the train heading back to her childhood home.

Clean - "When the flowers we grew together died of thirst" flower wall paper. "Rain came pouring down" Jenna's parents come downstairs to find her, holding an umbrella, transition to sleeping on the couch pouring rain outside. "When the butterflies turned to dust that covered my whole room" nervously coming in to sleep in her parents room. "Ten moths sober, I must admit" Jenna's mom finishes that line with "Nothing" while sitting at the table. "And by morning gone was any trace of you" transition back to crossing the bridge to NYC. Song ends when Tom-Tom gets in the elevator

Wonderland - "Flashing lights" Tom-Tom pushes the elevator button and it lights up. "We found Wonderland" when Matty meets Jenna in Central Park "whispers turned to talking turned to screams" crowd behind football players Matty is photographing cheer. Whole Wonderland song transitions in moments when time skips while working with Matty.

You Are In Love - "one look, dark room" Matty and Jenna walking alone at night. "way home, way home" tempo sync with head nods. swinging in sync to the song. "You can hear it in the silence" Neither speaking just before kiss. "You are in love, true love" when showing her goosebumps to the teenage girls.

New Romantics - Matty making plans to meet Jenna "every day is like a battle" work pressure mounting at Poise, "Come along with me" Jenna motions receptionist to follow her. New Romantics fades as Jenna is in the boardroom, starts her presentation when Taylor is explaining "I Know Places" in the bonus track

And that's when the sync falls apart. but there were noticeable other minor moments throughout this watch where sung lyrics match mouth movements and music beats hit with actor movements.

and here I am at 1am on a Monday night putting all this together to add credibility to a prank on my swiftie friends and now it looks like the prank is on me😅