Listening again to Taylor Swift\u2019s Red, picked up something I hadn\u2019t - \u201cmemorize\u201d used in two different songs
\n\nIn Stay Stay Stay,
\nyou took the time to memorize me
\nmy fears my hopes and dreams
\nI just like hanging out with you
\nall the time
\n\nand then in Red,
\nmemorizing him was as easy as knowing all the words to your old favorite song
\n\nand I thought on it and realize this downright sapiosexual knowledge-as-intimacy theme is pretty important in Tayswift, it\u2019s the load-bearing element of YBWM\n\n
\nI\u2019m the one who makes you laugh
\nwhen you know you\u2019re \u2018bout to cry
\nI know your favorite songs
\nand you tell me bout your dreams
\nthink I know where you belong
\nthink I know it\u2019s with me
\ncan\u2019t you see I\u2019m the one who understands you
\nbeen here all along so why can\u2019t you see
\nyou belong with me
\n\nit\u2019s even important in negative (which is how interrogators tease personality from pretense) in Red,
\n\nforgetting him was like trying to know somebody you never met
\n\nthinking about that, and also remembering when her transparent brand strategy was accessibility and fans chosen to meet her would gush about her casually referencing something they mentioned on their tumblr long ago, and it\u2019s like\n
\nAWW, she really IS just like us, in that her real output is multilayered invocations of accreted culture but she charms incidental humans by studying up on whatever incidental shit they happen to be and mirroring it back at them
\n\nI just want to know you better"}
\nknow you better
\nknow you better now
\nI just want to know you
\nknow you
\nknow you\n