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Dirty Little Taylor Swift Things

If you’re used enough to her songwriting style, you realize that in All Too Well, when she sings

And maybe we got lost in translation
Maybe I asked for too much
But maybe this thing was a masterpiece
´til you tore it all up

the “tore” completely breaks her usual phonemic flow, and even though it’s sung so the word’s kind of spit out for emphasis, it doesn’t even match up with the other cases where she breaks her patterns for effect.

you know what word would have fit perfectly though? “fucked”.

(I also have suspicions about “every one of us has messed up too” in Innocent, even though “messed” doesn’t stand out as much)

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