kushblazer666:

i had to stare at this for a minute to understand what it meant i was like. which part of the taylor swift fan base self identifies as “hitlors”

I actually know a few BPD girls who found a boring guy as their route out, the question is when they get over the rush of no longer having to meet that one criterion all that time what even are they

Well, if we’re already positing I’m connected enough to be getting Taylor Swift Christmas presents, a weekend vacation in Palm Springs with Jenny Lewis.

Amusing that as she tries to tailor her romantic narratives for the normies who grew up with her, Taylor Swift’s sense of How Young Adults Date Now is like

• They do drugs together
• They have roommates

eyesopen:

[old lady voice] when I was your age taylor swift had a country accent 

::hears the “did all the extra credit and got graded on a curve” line from Bejeweled::

Taylor Swift didn’t go to high school or college, that girl’s never been graded on a curve

memewhore:

somewhere-over-the-drainbow:

kontextmaschine:

Flashback to that time 9 years ago I threw a Taylor Swift-themed pinball tournament, where every table represented something particular in her arc with prizes including commissioned poems I hand-printed and framed (yes, I was manic when I came up with the idea)

I’m curious about the theming! You said you themed each machine in the tournament after an aspect of her career/life – that’s awesome. Would you be willing to share some examples?

Dolly Parton because female country crossover star, CSI cause she was on an episode once, 24 ‘cause that’s how old she was at the time, you can see from the pic that Bride of Pinbot represented Speak Now 'cause it was singing about becoming a woman… It was pingolf format.

Flashback to that time 9 years ago I threw a Taylor Swift-themed pinball tournament, where every table represented something particular in her arc with prizes including commissioned poems I hand-printed and framed (yes, I was manic when I came up with the idea)

It’s a good summary of Taylor Swift’s balancing of the spectacular and the everyday relatable; the specific way her care for female autonomy manifests; and her control of her entire image-making apparatus for her own ends that the current Look she has all her style team lined up behind is basically “mid-30something woman Who Fucks”

kontextmaschine:

Taylor Swift Making Feature Directing Debut for Searchlight Pictures

Huh, it’s for a script she wrote herself, that has promise.

(And it retrospectively shows that her expansion of All Too Well into a 14-minute version with an accompanying short film was essentially an audition to prove herself)

(Recall that she essentially became a performer and a celebrity in service of getting her writing produced)

Taylor Swift Making Feature Directing Debut for Searchlight Pictures

Huh, it’s for a script she wrote herself, that has promise.

(And it retrospectively shows that her expansion of All Too Well into a 14-minute version with an accompanying short film was essentially an audition to prove herself)

flakmaniak:

Haters like @official-kircheis will enjoy this one.

Okay I’ve realized my current position is Taylor Swift no longer outranks me, but she still precedes me

fruityyamenrunner:

kontextmaschine:

gaykarstaagforever:

kontextmaschine:

gaykarstaagforever:

kontextmaschine:

Between the increasingly dated midcentury songs and TV specials, the legacy prewar department store stuff like the Macy’s parade, and Hallmark movies about rejecting yuppie urbanity for idealized small-town life, Christmas in the US is increasingly an American Golden Age nostalgia festival

Northern East Coast American Golden Age nostalgia fest. There is always snow at Christmas, but not too much and it isn’t that cold out, really.

Also this “Golden Age” is exactly like 7 years of the late 50s. For white people. Who had money.

And were America.

(It was the “Camelot” early 60s, too. And the now-“Rust Belt” through Chicago to Minneapolis.)

Exactly. (“A Charlie Brown Christmas” was 1965)

both the Christmas songs i remember hearing in supermarkets so far, bearing in mind it is still November, even if we are in Advent, and wanting to get out are ex-Beatles Christmas money spinners

we are not the same

Yeah, original Christmas music these days is cash-in stuff to get some easy sales and maybe airplay in December from people looking for something, anything new. People forget there was a Taylor Swift Christmas EP in 2007. (With an original “Jesus is the Reason For the Season” War on Christmas song!)

Now I’m listening to Fearless with retrospective insight

She was so fucking BPD, huh?

Listen to it by album, as it was originally received?

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

Funniest thing about realizing the old personality was autistic is that Taylor Swift was a “special interest”

And then you notice how heavily her performance style is rooted in mimicry and how many songs she has about how none of it comes naturally, she has to try at it, and you’re like “wait, is she…”

But that’s the Taylor Swift Trick: whatever you are she’ll convince you she is too

Huh, I suppose that’s pretty much BPD “mirroring” put in harness, huh?

Listening to Speak Now when you realize she already found the “country” idiom confining is interesting

I’ve overheard three people in public invoking Anti-Hero in their conversations in the last week. The hooks maybe aren’t as hooky, but if you’re listening to the whole album as a fan there are a shit-ton of references to older stuff sprinkled all throughout, I guess doing the Taylor’s Versions had her thinking about her back catalog, and streaming displacing singles might make that more, ah, album-oriented angle better.