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Taylor Swift donated to 1,400 food banks and community organisations in Edinburgh, Liverpool, Cardiff, and London - the cities she performed in during her record-breaking The Eras Tour!
(October 3, 2024)
they are everywhere
Jack Antonoff on 'The Tortured Poets Department' hate and criticism:
“The best bodies of work are when people drill into the most personal, the most if-you-know-you-know kind of stuff, I think the depth of [Tortured Poets Department] was surprising to people because I think people are constantly surprised when artists continue to be artists. You see so many people take the wrong turn and pander and become terrified of what they could lose. That’s the recipe for all the worst music, and I can only relate to people who don’t give a f–k. That next body of work — it doesn’t matter how big your audience is, it either comes from the depths of you or it doesn’t. And I love that album so much because the whole thing is so remarkably vulnerable.”
(October 4, 2024)
if you’re anything like me - taylor swift
marjorie - taylor swift
TAYLOR SWIFT
Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions (2020)
was listening to taylor's grad speech today... 🥺💕
some quotes:
"we are each a patchwork quilt of those who have loved us, those who have believed in our futures, those who showed us empathy and kindness or told us the truth even when it wasn’t easy to hear. those who told us we could do it when there was absolutely no proof of that. someone read stories to you and taught you to dream and offered up some moral code of right and wrong for you to try and live by. someone tried their best to explain every concept in this insanely complex world to the child that was you, as you asked a bazillion questions like ‘how does the moon work’ and ‘why can we eat salad but not grass.’ and maybe they didn’t do it perfectly. no one ever can."
"sometimes a string of words just ensnares me and i can’t focus on anything until it’s been recorded or written down."
"…life can be heavy, especially if you try to carry it all at once. part of growing up and moving into new chapters of your life is about catch and release. what I mean by that is, knowing what things to keep, and what things to release. you can’t carry all things, all grudges, all updates on your ex, all enviable promotions your school bully got at the hedge fund his uncle started. decide what is yours to hold and let the rest go. oftentimes the good things in your life are lighter anyway, so there’s more room for them. one toxic relationship can outweigh so many wonderful, simple joys. you get to pick what your life has time and room for. Be discerning."
"learn to live alongside cringe. no matter how hard you try to avoid being cringe, you will look back on your life and cringe retrospectively. cringe is unavoidable over a lifetime. even the term ‘cringe’ might someday be deemed ‘cringe.’
i promise you, you’re probably doing or wearing something right now that you will look back on later and find revolting and hilarious. you can’t avoid it, so don’t try to."
"being publicly humiliated over and over again at a young age was excruciatingly painful but it forced me to devalue the ridiculous notion of minute by minute, ever fluctuating social relevance and likability."
"i know i sound like a consummate optimist, but i’m really not. i lose perspective all the time. sometimes everything just feels completely pointless. i know the pressure of living your life through the lens of perfectionism. and i know that i'm talking to a group of perfectionists because you are here today graduating from NYU. and so this may be hard for you to hear: in your life, you will inevitably misspeak, trust the wrong people, under-react, overreact, hurt the people who didn’t deserve it, overthink, not think at all, self sabotage, create a reality where only your experience exists, ruin perfectly good moments for yourself and others, deny any wrongdoing, not take the steps to make it right, feel very guilty, let the guilt eat at you, hit rock bottom, finally address the pain you caused, try to do better next time, rinse, repeat. and i’m not gonna lie, these mistakes will cause you to lose things.
i’m trying to tell you that losing things doesn’t just mean losing. a lot of the time, when we lose things, we gain things too."
"as long as we are fortunate enough to be breathing, we will breathe in, breathe through, breathe deep, breathe out. and I’m a doctor now, so I know how breathing works."
..taylor i don’t know how to express it properly but just thank you so much, from the bottom of my heart.. i think this was just what i needed to hear at this stage in my life. ilysm. thank you for being. here. in general. 💕💕.
(- also quick interlude to mention: your sense of humour is the best thing i have ever witnessed EVER and i would/will gladly listen to you list 50 breeds of cats in one minute—> in fact.. time starts now!! if u want!! or even ever see this ever! :>)
& not to gush and be fangirl y or whatever but youre just so human and yet so well-put in describing the typical human experience(s) and coinciding feelings of & during messes/etc that we all, including you, especially you, as the artist of the describing work, feel, that you also have grown into being such a prolific person for pretty much everyone i would talk to on a regular basis. i feel like some people loose sight of this, but I think for me, um, that at least partially why you are such a looked up to and revered person is for the reason that you are, on base level, an awesome, amazing human being who works hard & tries her best & is then perceived from there on out by others. (others meaning like me right now.) you have shared your art with people and people have connected with it, fallen in love with it and fallen in love with you, maybe not as a personal friend but as someone who can feel like a supporter or constant in their life/a friend or guiding light/loving figure.. so thank you for bearing the pressure of being that person for us.. ILY. SM. !!)
you also will probably never see this but tagging you anyways and just telling you that i love you to absolute pieces.. thank you for being you<333333
@taylorswift @taylornation 💗💗
i think a thing about ‘the manuscript’ is that, more than any other song i think of taylor’s, this one feels most like taylor just singing to me.. like she just sat down at the piano and began to sing me a song she wrote
lesbyler, evermore, 💕.
..that’s me those are my vital innards, sorry.
i fangirl a Lot
… whoops?
..i make too many playlists and use too many pens and notebooks at once.
i am an enthusiast of:
willel, rain, cleradin, old book smell, miwi, cookie dough, forehead kisses, people with pretty eyes and things to say, milo, tea & comfort.
i am consumed by:
BYLER, TAYLOR ALISON SWIFT (:subsections lesbyler, evermore, i hate it here & seven)
sidenotes:
debut deserves better treatment from swifties, she/her (or as taylor first declared: me/he/he), 💗may not talk as much directly to you but i am thinking of you and love you anygays!
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also a Writer ✍️ i guess ✍️
(Ao3 to be shared at some point in the.. future.. possibly (maybeeee)!)
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“my mind turns your life into folklore, i can’t dare to dream about you anymore”
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“im lonely but im good, im bitter but i swear im fine, i’ll save all my romanticism for my inner life”
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“a mess of a dreamer, with the nerve to adore you”
💗
I WAS A FUNCTIONING ALCOHOLIC TIL NOBODY NOTICED MY NEW AESTHETIC
New picture of Taylor at the chiefs game last night! (via zactownsend_ on instagram)
(October 8, 2024)
Will letting go of Mike but still not being over him in volume 2 is so You All Over Me coded.
"Held out, and held on, God knows, too long"
"Found out what it was to turn around see that we were never really meant to be, so I lied
And I cried, and I watched a part of myself die
'Cause no amount of freedom gets you clean. I still got you all over me.
How To Be A Cat /ᐠ｡.｡ᐟ\*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧
We’ll be kicking off the final leg of The Eras Tour this week, which is hard to comprehend. This tour has been the most wondrous experience and I knew I wanted to commemorate the memories we made together in a special way. Well, two ways actually. Excited to announce that The Official Eras Tour Book, filled with my own personal reflections, never-before-seen behind the scenes photos, all the magical memories you guys brought every single night AND …. The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology on vinyl and CD will all be available for the first time ever only at Target starting Nov 29th. 🤍
International info coming soon!
''THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: The Anthology Target Exclusive Vinyl'' will include 4 acoustic bonus songs and a never-before-seen poster!
Available only at Target on November 29! international info coming soon.
(October 15, 2024)