[ SECRET POST #2939 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2939 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

01. http://i.imgur.com/7zsu0aN.png

[(Anonymous)]

You should watch this

http://channelawesome.com/todd-in-the-shadows-blank-space-by-taylor-swift-review/

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Actually, that's how I learned about the song in the first place. (I don't usually listen to Taylor Swift.) Then I saw that secret about John Meyer, and I looked up more about them, and I started thinking.

[(Anonymous)]

Care to summarise? Aint nobody got time for a video that long.

[(Anonymous)]

Uh, it's a review.

[(Anonymous)]

Summarizing the relevant part:

There's a clip from an interview with Taylor Swift where she answers a question launching off of the line "You look like my next mistake."

Her answer is that the song started off as a joke, trying to imagine the over-the-top girl who the media thinks she is, but then she realized that the character that resulted would actually be pretty interesting.

The reviewer still believes firmly that you can't write quality lyrics like "I can make the bad guys good for a weekend" and "be that girl for a month" without tapping into something personal, and that her tapping into something personal and being both self-aware and confident enough to criticize herself made him really like the song.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought the song just meant she had a Death Note.

[(Anonymous)]

...I will never be able to listen to the song the same way again.

Transcript

[(Anonymous)]

Image: Taylor Swift in a tiger print blouse with make-up running in tear streak from her eyes.

Text: Taylor Swift has talked about “Blank Space” as something that started as a joke--the media thinks she’s a psycho hosebeast, so why not play up that character? But I wonder if it’s the natural follow-up to “Dear John.” From the sounds of it, John Mayer was really good at making her feel like she was being unreasonable and their relationship strife was all her fault. That kind of guilt and shame doesn’t necessarily disappear once you’ve wised up and dumped the bastard.

SB: If it’s true, it’s absolutely none of my business.

Re: Transcript

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty sure that's leopard print on her blouse. Tigers have stripes, not spots.

[cushlamochree]

In the sense that Blank Spaces wouldn't be possible without her narrative, and the John Meyer stuff is part of her narrative, I guess.

Other than that, who knows? Her songwriting is weirdly opaque, given how much of it is supposed to have been based on her real life. If you like that interpretation go for it!

[(Anonymous)]

John Mayer, the ultimate Gaslighter?