drethelin:

kontextmaschine:

Kind of surprising that Taylor Swift isn’t more of a writers’ icon, really. If not for her own writing, for the fact that one of her most consistent themes is “people should be rewarded – with money, power, love, sex – in direct proportion to how good they are at understanding things and putting them into words”

(Her fanbase, or at least the part she interacts with on social media, seems to be more theater kids, but maybe that’s just who makes the dramatic, reblog-worthy gestures.)

Like, and I mentioned how another one of her classic themes was the importance of being a good lover, more important than being attractive. But they’re kind of the same thing, she metaphorizes being good at sex AS being good with words – I’ll do anything you say/if you say it with your hands – and marks being a writer as more important in a partner than being attractive – Hey Stephen, I could give you fifty reasons/Why I should be the one you choose/All those other girls, well they’re beautiful/But would they write a song for you?

People don’t realize how much of a Lisa Simpson she is. I think part of it is she never manifested a love of schooling, she not only never went to college but left school to be self-taught after 10th grade. She constantly sings about the importance of knowing or memorizing things, and has a good deal of stuff about school, with no overlap between the two, the latter being posed as a social setting for meeting friends and lovers.

But like, to return again to the symbolism of the You Belong With Me video, sure, the bitchy popular girl wearing shiny dresses in public is Taylor Swift, but the thing is the girl blowing things off to stay home in her room studying is also Taylor Swift.

no one wants to be the max landis of taylor swift 

he did it with CRJ? that’s amazing, I knew I kinned him somehow. yeah, I heard what his friends had to say but I’m here talking up Taylor Swift, obviously I like pain in my personal relationships