[ SECRET POST #6323 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6323 ⌋

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Comments

[feotakahari]

Swift’s done characters before who weren’t just herself.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah-- I forget where I saw it, but I remember someone saying, with regards to TS and other female songwriters, that people always assume when a woman writes a song it's autobiographical, they never just think it's made up. But like... why wouldn't it be? Songwriting, like any other writing, is creative-- sometimes you draw from your experiences, but you also get to make up characters!

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, wrt Swift specifically, she has spent years encouraging fans to hunt for clues and easter eggs in her songs, relating to her irl relationships. So I think it's highly understandable in her case

[(Anonymous)]

Frankly, the majority of the so-called "easter eggs" on TTPD seem a lot more like red herrings scattered around in order to cast doubt and confusion on who the songs are "really about."

I think some of y'all misconstrue honest song-writing with "dropping easter eggs" a lot of the time. The reality is, there's a very limited pool of people each song could conceivably be about, and is she does write a song that's inspired by one particular person/relationship, the manner in which the person/relationship is described is extremely likely to indicate who they are. For someone in Taylor Swift's position, not including any lyrics that could be perceived as indicative would be difficult.

She does sometimes drop real easter eggs in her songs, mind you, but less often than some people seem to believe. Capitalizing the KIM in "Thank You Aimee" was an extremely blatant one, for example (and honestly I think the song is worse for it). But she's never made any bones about the fact that the bad blood between her and Kim and Kanye runs deep, and honestly I don't blame her.

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Honest to god as a fan who isn't in the fandom, I genuinely thought this about most of the songs on the album. Does anyone think she killed a guy and ran to Florida with Florence Welch?

I was really surprised to come across an "explanation" of how the album was supposed to be about destroying Joe Alwyn (I mean I expected some sad songs about the breakup and Goodbye London didn't disappoint) but it was in fact about Mattie Healy who I don't even know she ever even acknowledged dating. He showed up on the first days of the Eras tour and one of the few interviews I watched with Taylor sounded like she'd gotten to know Travis Kelce for quite a while before the tour started. Sounds to me like the old days of her being paired with anything that had a y chromosome within 50 feet of her.

Also, she's 34. She revisited a relationship from 15 years ago on her last album, she can write songs about shit that's happened outside of the last few years in her life.