Taylor Swift - folklore (July 24, 2020) Album • Page 94

I didn’t mean to be rude or anything, this is just an issue that really bothers me. Stan culture is toxic and needs to be called out/taken seriously/torn down wherever possible.

 

finally got a chance to listen

The piano from The 1 sounds like Seasons Of Love which is on brand
as is using sweatshirt and kiss it better as a rhyming couplet, and saturn and pattern
it's interesting how there are things that are just quintessentially Taylor even on this, so much intense imagery where every word matters and it feels like you can look at her diary a little as a treat

 

I think what I enjoy about her last few albums in particular is her introspection. Her first few albums were def very "diary entry" and that's not necessarily bad. It was very from her emotion and perspective and her feelings on everything which again isn't bad, but I like her growth as she's gotten older. I think the "Cold was the steel of my axe to grind for the boys who broke my heart. Now I send their babies presents" line is a good representation of that, as well as

"They told me all of my cages were mental
So I got wasted like all my potential
And my words shoot to kill when I'm bad
I have a lot of regrets about that

I was so ahead of the curve that the curve became a sphere
I fell behind on my class, late until I ended up here
Pouring out my heart to a stranger, but I didn't pour the whiskey"


Like there just seems to be more self-reflection as she's gotten older which seems like such a great natural progression and growth if that makes sense

 

Like her growth and journey as a woman is relatable

 

My fiancee says this to me all the time. That she's the same age as Swift and that her music has grown up alongside her and always feels relatable to where she is in her journey, to an almost eerie level.

 

I love this and know how she feels. I'm a little over a year younger than Swift and I've always felt like her albums come out right when I'm going through something she went through before - it's been eerie at times.

I will never be able to explain how hard hearing "Clean" for the first time hit with the line

"Ten months sober, I must admit
Just because you're clean don't mean you don't miss it
Ten months older I won't give in
Now that I'm clean I'm never gonna risk it"

because it was 10 months almost to the day after I left my abuser.

I think most of her fans who are between 28-32 really feel like we literally grew up together. And given that she's so, frankly, privileged, it's wild that she managed to communicate that to so many people from very different backgrounds.

 

She’s 8 days older than me and truly inspiring as a writer. While our life/gender experiences are vastly different, the emotions she can convey with an economy and preciseness of words truly sets her apart from so many others. It’s what draws you in, even if you’ve never been in her exact shoes. It’s something I wish I could obtain in my creative writing efforts.

 

This is kinda a perfect album

 

I can't argue that

 

Pouring my heart out to a stranger
But I didn’t pour the whiskey

 

epiphany is slowing becoming my favorite on this.

 

excuse me how dare you not mention that these wines better be 75 years or older the dark lord taylor is not pleased

 

I think it may have just overtaken Mirrorball for my favorite. 2 of the most gorgeous songs she’s ever recorded

 

I am going to put my pedantic "from a family of wine snobs" instincts back in its box and merely accept the meme for what it is

but I had to type this out because I'm not so good a person that I could merely not say anything at all, you understand

 

Sometimes I think "my tears ricochet" is my least favorite but then there's that part with the "just not home" and "in your bones"

 

I remember when The 1975 put out ILIWYS and it felt like such an absolute journey of an album that I wanted to go on daily. Couldn’t wait til I got to the end of the day, where I’d set aside an hour to just get lost in it in my headphones. Pretty sure this is the first record since then that I’ve felt that exact same way about

 

When that "stolen lullabies" line comes in... chills

 

Since we know she likes whiskey

Lover= mint julep
folklore= straight over an ice ball

 

and let's be real, on "Mad Woman" it might be straight out of the bottle

 

Something about the three song stretch of Exile, my tears, and mirrorball really does it for me.

 

I can’t believe my favorite Taylor Swift album came out of nowhere. I want to time travel back a week ago and tell myself that I’m listening to an album better than 1989/Red.

 

The second half of exile reminds me so much of Volcano choir