[ SECRET POST #3909 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3909 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I agree that there are interesting things about the song, but I also don't think that's really an argument for its quality as a pop song. And similarly, if it's the case that the song intends to create a conflation between Taylor and media!Taylor and the speaker of the song, I think that's not something that can really take place within a pop song - because it's intrinsically not really something that's sensible to the pop listener. So, in that sense, I agree that the answer to the question of whether that should change how one feels about the song as a pop song should be a quick and summary "no" but I also think it's a justified "no".

And, second, I'm blowed if I can figure out a viable and sensible reading of the song where the conflation between the personas is intentional. I just don't see it, but I am interested in the reading if you think something is there.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm blowed if I can figure out a viable and sensible reading of the song where the conflation between the personas is intentional.

I’m not sure what you mean by this. I don’t think Swift is conflating herself with this other, dark, vengeance obsessed persona. But I do think she is kind of smearing on into the other, and thus owning that the angriest, pettiest, most distrustful parts of herself are capable of bushing up against the absurd villainous rumor golem the media has created.

Anybody who tells you they don’t get angry, don’t feel distrustful sometimes, don’t occasionally wish they could have the last word and the sickest burn, is probably lying. As one of the Taylors tells another in the video, “Nobody can be that nice all the time.” But it’s even more absurd to believe a lot of the OTT shit the media say or implies about her (hence the Taylor at the end who does nothing but hiss ridiculously at the others like an actual snake). The truth is somewhere in between the absurd extremes, and if anything I think the “Here Lies Taylor Swift’s Reputation” tombstone at the beginning of the video is a testament to the fact that she’s not overly concerned which parts of the video you take seriously and which parts you take as satire/commentary/whatever. She’s just going to shake the fuck out of her public image and let the chips fall where they may.

I dig that.

Would I have dug it a whole lot more if LWYMMD had been a stronger song in general? Yes, yes I would.