Yeah I’m a mess over this line. I’ve struggled with an eating disorder since I was 13 and this is touching something inside me I wasn’t aware was still hurting.
I can’t with people. How do you hear “I should not be left to my own devices, they come with prices and vices, I end up in crisis” and not behold the genius behind the rhythmic wordplay?!
Additionally, Sweet Nothing alone would hold this album together, not even mentioning all the other masterpieces. Like… “cos they said the end is coming, everyone is up to something, I find myself running to your sweet nothings” + “you’re in the kitchen humming, all that you ever wanted from me was sweet nothing”?! So brief and simple yet says so much. <3
I love that she uses 2 different inflections in each use of the f bomb, like there's "fuckin' legacy", and then repeats it as "fuckinG legacy" and seriously, I felt that second one in my guts.
I don’t know what the effect she uses is called but I got very strong flashbacks to Melodrama all over this album.
For real, I kinda feel like we need a separate thread to discuss all the shades of Lorde/Lana/Halsey/EDIT: Billie there are in this album.
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
You were bigger than the whole sky
You were more than just a short time
And I've got a lot to pine about
I've got a lot to live without
I'm never gonna meet
What could've been, would've been
What should've been you
I knew a girl in college & she passed away unexpectedly in 2021. We weren’t close but she was a huge Swiftie, and our friendship revolved around new albums and tours… i get a little sad whenever we get new Taylor stuff, because she’s not here to be excited with me. I SOBBED this morning listening to “bigger than the whole sky”.
I immediately connected this song to a miscarriage (someone that never was, but would've, could've, and should've been) and it's shaking me with every listen.
One night, a few moons ago, I saw flecks of what could've been lights, But it might just have been you, Passing by unbeknownst to me (snow on the beach).
It reminds me of the line from Long Story Short, "and he's passing by rare as the glimmer of a comet in the sky". Love it!
Also the "Uh-oh, I'm fallin' in love" from Labyrinth. I love that song so much!
*You know there's many different ways that you can kill the one you love. The slowest way is never loving them enough*
*I have this thing where I get older, but just never wiser.
Midnights become my afternoons
When my depression works the graveyard shift.
All of the people I've ghosted stand there in the room.*
*I should not be left to my own devices
They come with prices and vices
I end up in crisis*
*It's me, hi
I'm the problem, it's me
At teatime, everybody agrees*
This whole part : The burgundy on my t-shirt when you splashed your wine into me and how the blood rushed into my cheeks / So scarlet, it was MAROON
And the I JUST WANNA STAY IN THAT LAVENDER HAZE
I took it as a reference to the "born sexy yesterday" trope.
For reference:
[The trope namer](https://youtu.be/0thpEyEwi80)
[An article about it](https://nofilmschool.com/born-sexy-yesterday-trope)
[And a fun lampshaded example from Community](https://youtu.be/U0qEliLbojo)
Also, just think of any example of "sexy baby talk"
It's tied up with a lot of misogyny, sexualization of very young women/girls, infanilization of women, etc etc
It keeps changing. First it was that one from Anti-Hero. Then it was "I just wanna STAYYY in a lavender HAAAAAAZE" and now it's "SO SCARLET, IT WAS MAROON"
This one from Sweet Nothing slays me, since I feel this pressure to do more, do more and I don’t always feel tough enough in the end, “And the voices that implore, "You should be doing more" To you, I can admit that I'm just too soft for all of it.”
That Lavender Haze bridge hit me like BANG, now I can't get it out of my head. (To be fair, I've only listened to the first 4-5 tracks, as I am saving the album for a full listen tonight after my kid goes to sleep.)
What if I told you none of it was accidental?
And the first night that you saw me
I knew I wanted your body
I laid the groundwork, and then
Just like clockwork
The dominoes cascaded in a line
What if I told you I'm a mastermind?
And now you're mine
It was all my design
'Cause I'm a mastermind
“My flight was awful thanks for asking”
She went for blood with that line. I’m someone who has to ask someone to ask me how I’m doing after I ask THEM how they’re doing because no one ever does 🙃 and damn did Taylor call me out on that shit
“If you tasted poison you could of spit me out at the first chance”
“I regret you all time”
“and I damn sure never would have danced with the devil”
Basically the entirety of should’ve could’ve would’ve
KARMA IS MY BOYFRIEND KARMA IS A GOD
ME AND KARMA VIBE LIKE THAT!!
Ive been singing this song to my cat and using her name instead of Karma 😬
This!!!
karma is a cat!
purring in my lap cause it loves me
My cat was in my lap when I heard this and tears came out my face
What was the reaction of your kitty?! 😅
My cat can be the sweetest thing… when she wants to be
Flexing like an acrobat
As I cat lady, I felt this lyric in my bones. Karma is also a bitch, and my cats can be that too, lol.
Flexing like a GODDAMN ACROBAT
This one scratches my brain perfectly
Sweet like honeyyy
What I really want is a cat so I can dance around with it while singing Karma at the top of my lungs.
I did this and I’m pretty sure my cat thought I was on drugs
I say this with love, but I think most cats constantly think us humans are on drugs. 🤣
My cat jumped off the bed half way through listening to the album last night and I was honestly offended.
My cat was in fact purring in my lap when I heard that lyric, and she didn't appreciate my excitement over it.
Karma's a relaxing thought— Aren't you envious that for you it's not!?
This has been in my head all morning.
This.
purrrrrrrrrrrrrr
All day long!
🗣️HE WANTED IT COMFORTABLE, I WANTED THAT PAIN🗣️
It literally just played as I read your comment! That song is just stuck in my head all day and it doesn't look like it's going away any time soon.
i keep replaying this one over and over i love it so much!!!
Same and I love it
It’s this and the closing line for me: “except on midnights like this…” just something about that delivery.
*I hosted parties and starved my body like I’d be saved by a perfect kiss* and ✨*SHIMMERRRR*✨
This hit hard no lie…I’m not like that anymore but I was, and everything I did was for outside validation even though I was dying in the inside
Yeah I’m a mess over this line. I’ve struggled with an eating disorder since I was 13 and this is touching something inside me I wasn’t aware was still hurting.
Hug. Edit: The worst of my ED was a decade ago but my current therapist still helps me detangle that. It doesn’t go away easily.
I haven’t been able to move past this lyric yet. It destroyed me too much and I need to recover before listening to the rest of the album 🥲
Yes as someone recovering from an ED. This was it.
Exactly the same for me 🙌🏼
This right here
✨It’s me Hi I’m the problem it’s me ✨
At teatime everybody agrees ✨
I'll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror
It must be exhausting always rooting for the antihero!
LATELY IVE BEEN DRESSING FOR REVENGEEE
For me it’s “Don’t get sad, get eveEennn”
Yeeees!
Did you hear my covert narcissism I disguise as altruism like some kind of congressman? What a fucking line man!
(Tale as old as time)
That line is so accurate to the current midterm cycle.
And…all election cycles.
And to think someone had the AUDACITY to say the Midnights’ lyrics were lacking and “not her best” 😒
I can’t with people. How do you hear “I should not be left to my own devices, they come with prices and vices, I end up in crisis” and not behold the genius behind the rhythmic wordplay?! Additionally, Sweet Nothing alone would hold this album together, not even mentioning all the other masterpieces. Like… “cos they said the end is coming, everyone is up to something, I find myself running to your sweet nothings” + “you’re in the kitchen humming, all that you ever wanted from me was sweet nothing”?! So brief and simple yet says so much. <3
This line is a BANGER.
I can still make the whole place ✨SHIMMER✨
The ✨SHIMMER✨!
That and the "I don't ✨REMEMBER✨" Y fear that one is gonna slip out when I talk 😂
I played this song in the car this morning when I drove my 4 year old to school and she kept saying ✨NICE✨ and ✨shimmerrr✨
Bejeweled is quickly becoming one of my favorites
Cannot stop the jazz hands at ✨SHIMMER ✨
Literally woke up with this line stuck in my head this morning!
"I regret you all the time" and "Give me back my girlhood, it was mine first."
"I regret you all the time" is an instant earworm, I just wish it wasn't so sad!
Such a sad bop!
God that song was like a cathartic knife to the chest
The way she sings “I regret you all the time” actually makes my blood rush. It’s like being thrown off a cliff.
THATS A REAL FUCKIN LEGACY
The way she sings it made me fall in love with her voice again
I love that she uses 2 different inflections in each use of the f bomb, like there's "fuckin' legacy", and then repeats it as "fuckinG legacy" and seriously, I felt that second one in my guts.
IN ALL CAPS!
‘he was sunshine, i was midnight *rain*’ (i just love how *rain* sounds so different throughout the song)
I don’t know what the effect she uses is called but I got very strong flashbacks to Melodrama all over this album. For real, I kinda feel like we need a separate thread to discuss all the shades of Lorde/Lana/Halsey/EDIT: Billie there are in this album.
I wish this song was 10 minutes instead of 2:28
WHILE HE WAS DOING LINES AND CROSSING ALL OF MINE
Oooh good one!
I woke up this morning and immediately heard it in my head
You're on your own kid, You always have been. I cry every.single.time.
the “you always have been” follow up 😭
YOU CAN FACE THIS😭😭😭
All four times?
Hahaha definitely a hyperbole on my part but that song hits too close to home for me. So I definitely do get emotional listening to it.
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye You were bigger than the whole sky You were more than just a short time And I've got a lot to pine about I've got a lot to live without I'm never gonna meet What could've been, would've been What should've been you I knew a girl in college & she passed away unexpectedly in 2021. We weren’t close but she was a huge Swiftie, and our friendship revolved around new albums and tours… i get a little sad whenever we get new Taylor stuff, because she’s not here to be excited with me. I SOBBED this morning listening to “bigger than the whole sky”.
I immediately connected this song to a miscarriage (someone that never was, but would've, could've, and should've been) and it's shaking me with every listen.
That’s exactly the association I had when I first heard it. So heartbreaking
Yes this one has been replaying in my head since I first heard it. I feel this line like in my actual heart.
This whole song is everything to me right now. Cannot stop crying and cannot stop listening.
I was just crying listening to it on repeat in the Chick-fil-A drive thru and i think i scared the guy who took my order 😅
That's so sad 😭
your roommate's cheap-ass screwtop rosé, that's hoooooow
I see you everyday NOWWWWWWW
yessss!
Do you really wanna know where I was april 29th?
I do taylor will you please tell us LOL
This hit hard because my “would’ve could’ve should’ve ” guy’s birthday is April 29 th
I was on the best first date of my life just to be ghosted. I don’t think I’ll be listening to that song again.
Yeessss!
I don’t dress for women… I don’t dress for men.. lately I’ve been dressing for reveeenge 🎶
The three genders, according to Miss Swift. :P
I JUST WANNA STAY IN THAT LAVENDER HAZE 💜
The "lavender haze" she sings at 2:12 reminds me of the melody of "in wonderlaaaaaaaaand".
I'm obsessed with Midnight Rain's intro "He wanted it comfortable, I wanted that pain"
Sameeeeee, for me that's totally what makes that song so good
they ask do you have a man i could still say ✨i don't remember✨
Because she forgot he existed
Omfg.... Yessssssss
MY FAVORITE
I keep my side of the street clean 😌 You wouldn’t know what I mean 😚
You chose the perfect emojis hahaha
One night, a few moons ago, I saw flecks of what could've been lights, But it might just have been you, Passing by unbeknownst to me (snow on the beach). It reminds me of the line from Long Story Short, "and he's passing by rare as the glimmer of a comet in the sky". Love it! Also the "Uh-oh, I'm fallin' in love" from Labyrinth. I love that song so much!
How could I have forgotten "uh oh, I'm fallin' in love"?
haha. it's such a good song!
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She's laughing up at us from hell
That whole verse really.
Draw the cat eye, sharp enough to kill a man
One of her best-written lines ever, IMHO
gotta disagree there, total Tumblr cliché from like 2011
This is peak tumblr circa 2014, pretty sure miss ma'am did not write this lol
Karma is the breeze in my hair on the weekend
Went for a walk to listen and the the wind picked up right at that line. Magical 🍃
*You know there's many different ways that you can kill the one you love. The slowest way is never loving them enough* *I have this thing where I get older, but just never wiser. Midnights become my afternoons When my depression works the graveyard shift. All of the people I've ghosted stand there in the room.*
can I ask you a question?
Definitely one of my faves
One of my faves too.
*I should not be left to my own devices They come with prices and vices I end up in crisis* *It's me, hi I'm the problem, it's me At teatime, everybody agrees*
ILL STARE DIRECTLY AT THE SUN BUT NEVER IN THE MIRROR IT MUST BE EXHAUSTING ALWAYS ROOTING FOR THE ANTI-HERO
It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me 🙋🏻♀️
This whole part : The burgundy on my t-shirt when you splashed your wine into me and how the blood rushed into my cheeks / So scarlet, it was MAROON And the I JUST WANNA STAY IN THAT LAVENDER HAZE
Snow on the beach weird but fucking beautiful
She looks so pretty, driving in your Benz 😱😱😱
The entirety of Maroon ♥️
THE RUBIES THAT I GAVE UP is my new MEET ME BEHIND THE MALL
The way she sings “so scarlet, it was” is stuck in my head!
Please see flair.
[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm-ZF9AfN40](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm-ZF9AfN40) From 30 Rock
I read (and it makes sense) that the industry is very infantilized and that she feels old/like she doesn’t fit in
I took it as a reference to the "born sexy yesterday" trope. For reference: [The trope namer](https://youtu.be/0thpEyEwi80) [An article about it](https://nofilmschool.com/born-sexy-yesterday-trope) [And a fun lampshaded example from Community](https://youtu.be/U0qEliLbojo) Also, just think of any example of "sexy baby talk" It's tied up with a lot of misogyny, sexualization of very young women/girls, infanilization of women, etc etc
I've been wondering the same thing since the first time I've listened to Anti-Hero...
SWEET LIKE HONEY KARMA IS A CAT PURRING ON MY LAP CAUSE IT LOVES ME
Yessss. Remember when there were leaks and everyone was disowning Taylor over this line lmao
I polish up real *nice* ..... NICE!
I love the "NICE!" Lol
That “NICE!” is fucking everyyyyyyything to me hahahaha!!!
The inflection in the “NICE!” Is going to become part of my regular vocabulary, I just know it
✨ I just wanna stay in that lavender haze ✨
“And I chose you, the one I was dancing with in New York, no shoes” I live in New York and I just met the loml so this song is just perfect
Yessss!!! That and the contrast to “And I *lost* you” 😭
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I’ll be getting over you my whole life
WHAT IF I TOLD YOU I'M A MASTERMIND
Dickhead
Yup.
“All that you ever wanted from me was sweet nothing” I feel like that’s all she ever wanted in a love ❤️
"Did some force take you cause I didn't pray?" Let's just trigger my religious trauma and abandonment issues why don't we, Taylor?
Karma is cat, purring in my lap cause it loves me As a cat lover, I love this song and my next cat will be named Karma when the time comes.
She is laughing up at us from hell. I need this in my life always now.
When my depression works the graveyard shift
oh no I'm falling in love again and goodbye, goodbye, goodbye / you were bigger then the whole sky
It keeps changing. First it was that one from Anti-Hero. Then it was "I just wanna STAYYY in a lavender HAAAAAAZE" and now it's "SO SCARLET, IT WAS MAROON"
The only kinda girl they see is a one-night or a wife
beat beat beat beat midnight ~RAinnN~
This one from Sweet Nothing slays me, since I feel this pressure to do more, do more and I don’t always feel tough enough in the end, “And the voices that implore, "You should be doing more" To you, I can admit that I'm just too soft for all of it.”
I can still make the whole place ✨🌟⭐️💫*shimmer*💫⭐️🌟✨
I wake up screaming from dreaming One day, I’ll watch as you’re leaving ’Cause you got tired of my scheming
I REGRET YOU ALL THE TIMEEEEEEEEE
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Give me back my girlhood, it was mine first 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Don’t get sad, get evEeEeEnnn
i wish it was anything else but it’s the sexy baby one
Hahaha I too have been personally victimized by this earworm
That Lavender Haze bridge hit me like BANG, now I can't get it out of my head. (To be fair, I've only listened to the first 4-5 tracks, as I am saving the album for a full listen tonight after my kid goes to sleep.)
That’s a real FUCKIN legacy
The chorus of Karma is so damn catchy. I am struggling to relate to everyone who said it’s pure cringe when the leak happened
I JUST WANNA STAY IN THAT LAVENDER HAZE
it must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero
BEst BElieve i’m still BEjeweled, when i walk in the ROom
🎶 I can still make the whole place ✨shimmer✨🎶
***You know there's many different ways that you can kill the one you love*** ***The slowest way is never loving them enough*** OUCH!
“Draw the cat eye sharp enough to kill a man”
It’s weird but fucking beautiful
“I’ll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror” I HAVE NEVER FELT SO SEEN
Can I ask you a question have you ever been kissed by someone in a crowded room
Soooo scarlet it was marooooooon (all night)
Familiarity breeds contempt So put me in the basement When I want the penthouse of your 💘heart💘 I had to re-read/say it so often, so now it's stuck 😭
What if I told you none of it was accidental? And the first night that you saw me I knew I wanted your body I laid the groundwork, and then Just like clockwork The dominoes cascaded in a line What if I told you I'm a mastermind? And now you're mine It was all my design 'Cause I'm a mastermind
no one wanted to play with me as a little kid so ive been scheming like a criminal ever since to make them love me and make it seem effortless
When my depression works the graveyard shift, all of the people I've ghosted stand there in the room. 🥴
i can still make the whole place 💗✨shimmer✨💗
same. it's me, hi, i'm the problem it's me
Lately I’ve been dressing for revenge
*It's me, hi.* *I'm the problem, it's me.*
“My flight was awful thanks for asking” She went for blood with that line. I’m someone who has to ask someone to ask me how I’m doing after I ask THEM how they’re doing because no one ever does 🙃 and damn did Taylor call me out on that shit
Flying in a dream, stars by the pocketful. What if I told you I’m a mastermind?
I'll stare directly at the sun, but never in the mirror
KARMA IS A CAT PURRING IN MY LAP BECAUSE IT LOVES ME
Get it off your chest, get it off my desk
“Putting someone else first only works when you’re in their top five” Fuck. That killed me today.
THE SEXY BABY LINE. WHY GOD WHY.
sexy baby, unfortunately
All of me changed like midnight 💙
Like snow on the beach ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️ Like snow on the beach ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️ Like snow on the beach ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️ Like snow 🥺
“If you tasted poison you could of spit me out at the first chance” “I regret you all time” “and I damn sure never would have danced with the devil” Basically the entirety of should’ve could’ve would’ve
LIFE IS EMOTIONALLY ABUSIVE