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Realizing both Taylor Swift’s “Love Story” and “New Romantics” have “scarlet letter” references, which I guess is about right for someone that writes densely referential work for 9th grade readers

Like I’ve given her shit for writing a sequel to “Memory” that’s about how she has it even worse than Grizabella, but “Love Story” is a fucking retelling of Romeo & Juliet where it gets a happy ending thanks to Joshua Harris-ass ask-her-dad Biblical courtship culture.

Like on the one hand that’s obviously what a 2008 country-pop hit for teenage girls was about, that shit was all over the red states then and her eye for cultural trends is half her thing, but my God, the balls

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