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Idk how it took people long enough till folklore to understand the storytelling skills of taylor when we had love story, enchanted, speak now (song), story of us and practically all of speak now the album!!!
I can’t stop thinking about the lyric parallels and the manifestation caused by castle’s crumbling, mean and long live.
On one hand we have “someday I’ll be long enough so you can’t hit me”… we all know how that turned out to be so drastically true!
Then there’s “if god forbid fate should step in…” and “… please tell ‘em my name” to “ask me why so many fade but I’m still here”
She manifested and worked tf hard for these. But the on other side of the scale you also have “I feel like my castle’s crumbling down and I watch all my bridges burn to the ground”… the anxiety of this happening led her straight to “my castle crumbled over night” and “bridges burned I never learned”.
Okay I’ve made myself too sad over these 😭🥺💔
Foolish One can be connected to many other Taylor songs but the connection that sticks out the most to me is with Speak Now (song) with the lyrics “Cause you got her on your arm and me in the wings, I'll get your longing glances, but she'll get your ring” which can directly be the prelude to the entire speak now (song).
The line in anti-hero “did you hear my covert narcissism I disguise as altruism” is basically her describing Dear Reader in a way. The altruism being the first two verses where she’s advising the “reader” and the bridge being the the “covert narcissism” where she explains how she is essentially just pleading for help