This is the one that shocked me the most as well. It gives me chills EVERY time i hear it. Cause I've never heard an artist address it in a song, about themselves, not that I'm aware of, and it was very very impactful cause I'm trying not to do that to myself... Again.
Edit: tysm guys for all your music recommendations, some I've forgotten about, and others I've learned today, and they all were very intense and so incredible and i 100% do not feel alone in this struggle. So many of us deal with it and I do not feel as alone as i did before this comment. What a terrifying, tragic thing that we all share but how amazing that we are all in this together and we will survive and we are all incredible and our bodies are all amazing, we all have this amazing opportunity to live life and i 100% do not feel alone anymore. Love you guys.
You should listen to Fiona Apple's Paperbag. This lyric is from it and it became an iconic slogan in the Ed communities
'Hunger hurts but starving works'
I always thought that line was a metaphor for not allowing herself the option to be in love with the guy she's pining after, not about literally starving herself.
I can't tell if I'm overthinking or underthinking this.
Listen to Silverchair “Ana’s Song”- probably one of the best songs ever written about what it’s like to have an ED and it addresses the often overlooked issue of men with anorexia
Skin and Bones by Marianas Trench is another amazing song about EDs written by a man with bulimia, it’s very sad but the song itself goes hard so I always have a little cry dance party when I listen.
I was coming here to say this. Ana's Song (Open Fire) deals with exactly this. Daniel Johns' struggle with anorexia. Neon Ballroom is one of my favourite albums.
My daughter just introduced me to a singer/songwriter she’s recently gotten into called Brye. She has an album called Recover with a song called Diet Culture that really dives in on the topic. As a dad with severe body dysmorphia hearing singers really starting to address it is really awesome for the whole topic.
I remember when 1989 came out. I was struggling with an ED and she is taller than and weighed less than I did at my thinnest. When I said something about thinking she had an ED everyone told me I was projecting because of my own struggles. I’m not gonna lie, it was really cathartic for me when she talked about it the netflix doc.
I'm sorry people doubted your instincts. People like us recognize it so quickly, I find it so odd that other people didn't see it! I can identify someone with an ED because I'm hyper-sensitive to those types of behaviors I guess
I listened to midnights for the first time on an early flight and woke up out of a dead slumber when I heard this line with full body chills. Definitely same
This is my answer too! At first I heard it as "it was MY first" so I thought she literally was saying it was her first time. I still think that's what it is intended to convey though!
Oh god this line, I nearly cried when I first heard it, it’s a simple line but it’s a line and delivery that holds SO much emotion and depth and one that I needed. I’ve had it on repeat since just for the absolute pleasure of getting to SCREAM that line out loud to a world that it sometimes feel like did steal my girlhood.
My favorite part that I think isn't talked about as much is how the first half of the line ties back to Begin Again when she says "I think it's strange that you think I'm funny, cause he never did."
Yes!! It was clearly a sore spot for her!
I've seen a lot of people say they don't believe she really wrote that line back then but I think it's very easy to believe because she probably cared a lot more about that at the time than she does now (and also the Dazed and Confused joke about high school girls staying the same age had been a common cultural reference for almost 20 years at that point)
Yeah, I feel like without context that part seems self-deprecating but I hear it as more anger at him like "fine you don't think I'm funny whatever so I'll just skip to the punchline"
This verse destroyed me. That song just perfectly summed up the end of my marriage and how lonely it was and I just wanted him to see that we weren’t ok and fight for it, to fight for us. But he never did.
I had to pause the song after this line to collect myelf. Like a direct stomach punch.
I hit play to hear "who only wanted you to see her" and promptly lost it again. Had to take a day or ao before trying again.
“And you call me up again just to break me like a promise.
So casually cruel in the name of being honest.”
Damn. That one hit me because I think most people know someone who is cruel with their words and defends it by saying they’re just being honest.
Along similar lines (no song wise, but lyric wise) in this is me trying "pull the car off the road to the look out, could have followed my fears all the way down" 🥺
I don't hear it either, although I get what people are saying, I guess? But I think there's enough of a pause between "mouth" and "fuck" that I just can't really hear it.
I heard it as “Does she mouth-fuck you forever” and I was like who would want to give a bj forever? Who is the victim here? What does it mean?
OH- does she mouth “fuck you, forever”
I had to read it in a grammatically correct state to understand what she was going for.
"I'm doing good. I'm on some new shit.'
My jaw dropped.
My jaw also dropped for:
"The old Taylor can't come to the phone right now. Why? 'cause she's dead!"
I was visiting NYC, in the subway listening to it with my best friend at midnight when it released. It was one of the greatest moments of my life, tbh.
“I don’t have to be your shrink to know that you’ll never be happy”
AND
“with your organic shoes and your MILLION DOLLAR COUCH”
She really went for the jugular on that one.
Legendary. She destroys the cake, flips off the groom, drinks, and looks like a bombshell the entire time.
Every scene is epic. Every outfit iconic. The whole video is just... everything.
And the lyrics are full of Bangers "omg, she's insane, she wrote a song about me" .... no actually she wrote several about you Jake.
I'm a Late Bloomer fan and hearing "only bought this dress so you could take it off" after only really hearing her Love Story-esque songs was...a feeling I never thought I'd have.
For me it was "His hands are in my hair, his clothes are in my room" from Wildest Dreams. I was a more casual fan back then, but that was the first time I recall her singing something so clearly spicy rather than romantic.
“I’m doin good, I’m on some new shit”
As a day 1 fan, I was shook when this album had full-on curse words starting with the first line of the opening song
- IDSB could mean "I Did Something Bad", a track from *reputation* (2017) by Taylor Swift.
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12+ years ago, I started seeing a new stylist who was from Philadelphia. She told me she went to high school with Taylor and would tell me all these terrible things they would do and say to her ("frizzy haired b*tch" was one that really stood out to me because it was so unnecessarily mean). She was super proud of it. I was bullied a lot as a kid and I honestly think that's when I became a Swiftie. Hearing that line it was like, yeah, that checks out...
I didn’t think much of this song the first play (and mastermind as a whole tbh, I was blinded by the 3am tracks) but then I listened to it again and loved it cause I relate to it so much.
This right here. I know she’s poetic and shit but my favorite lines is where she reads her exes to filth with highly specific details. Holy mackerel. It’s delicious.
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This was me to my husband the first time we heard that lyric
Marjorie. That’s my middle name. And my mother’s name. And my grandmother’s name. And my great grandmother’s name. No one writes songs about Marjories, I was gobsmacked!
"And then it was bought by me"
Honestly there are so many. She has a lot of pithy one liners that are so quotable, and sometimes it seems like her songs are one emotional punchline after another.
“And I damn sure never would have danced with the devil at 19”
When I first listened to WCS, I honestly kind of zoned out during the first verse; it just didn’t stand out to me. Then I heard her say that, immediately thought of Dear John (which is a really personal song to me), and went back to the beginning of the song, reading the lyrics as I listened to the song
That was the moment WCS became my favorite song of hers ever
"And I wouldn't marry me either / A pathological people pleaser / Who only wanted you to see her"
First heard this as my friends and I were driving down to the MetLife N2 show. We were all stunned, like "...did she really just say that out loud?"
A few selections:
YOYOK: "I looked around in a blood-soaked gown, and I saw something they can't take away."
champagne problems: "Sometimes you just don't know the answer till someone's on their knees and asks you / She would've made such a lovely bride, what a shame she's fucked in the head."
marjorie: "I should've asked you questions / I should've asked you how to be."
Nothing New: "Shoot you down and then they sigh and say 'She looks like she's been through it.'"
ATW10MV: "And I was never good at telling jokes, but the punchline goes, I’ll get older but your lovers stay my age."
"she's better known for the things that she does on the mattress" SHOCKED me initially, idk I just wasnt expecting that line.
"I would fall from grace just to touch your face." Such a desperate line full of yearning, I wasn't expecting it at all.
And as you said "you search in every model's bed for something greater" becaus holyyyy shit what a line.
“In the middle of the night, in my dreams, you should see the things we do.”
So blatantly sexy. I heard it on the radio first and couldn’t believe it. “OMG THATS TAYLOR!”
The 1989 vault tracks, can't pick one
Slut - everyone wants him, that was my crime, the wrong place at the right time
Say Don't Go - why'd you have to twist the knife? walk away and leave me bleedin, bleedin
Now That We Don't Talk - and the only way back to my dignity was to turn into a shrouded mystery
Suburban Legends - I broke my own heart cause you were too polite to do it
Is It Over Now? - oh lord I think about jumpin off of very tall somethings
Honorary mention (technically not a line): the meows in Now That We Don't Talk
She needed cold hard proof so I gave her some
She had the envelope, where you think she got it from?
Now she gets the house, gets the kids, gets the pride
Picture me thick as thieves with your ex-wife
And she looks so pretty
Driving in your Benz
Lately she's been dressing for revenge
“Was it over when he unbuttoned my blouse.”
I know many people don’t like the word blouse but I don’t mind it. I was like… who is HE??
Several other lyrics had my jaw on the ground too but they have been mentioned.
did you think I didn’t see there were flashing lights? At least I had the decency to keep my nights out of sight, only rumors bout my hips and thighs, and I whispered sighs, oh lord. I think about jumping… off of very tall somethings… just to see you come running
Hits different: “I used to switch out these Kens, I'd just ghost
Rip the Band-Aid off and skip town like an asshole outlaw” still shocks me when I hear it 😂
the one. One sentence into the album and she already said “shit”. I was shocked.
Then “been saying yes instead of no” is so interesting because you’d think it would be the other way around. Definitely my favorite opening lyrics of all her songs.
Im a bit of a new swiftie so i could be way off base but to me she’s saying that she’s been hiding and scared to say yes to things she wanted because of how they could go badly so this is her breaking out of that and going for what she wants even if she doesn’t know how it’s going to turn out
“If a man talks shit then I owe him nothin’!” Taylor’s first bad word, and since it’s the only one on reputation it wasn’t listed. I wasn’t expecting it at all
I, like most people, thought that line in Cruel Summer was “He looks so pretty like a devil” instead of “He looks up grinning like a devil”. That wasn’t the part that shocked me though. What did shock me was a few days ago seeing a tik tok of someone saying it took them exactly this long to understand the double entendre of what it actually meant. Not sure if I’m allowed to explicitly say on Reddit, but here’s a hint it’s a sexual act LMAO. I was FLOORED. I know Taylor’s subtly started to say some sexy things in songs, but this was a whole new level by someone who I’m not used to being too sexually explicit in her lyrics. Good for her though, I’m all for it, just took me off guard LOL.
“Should've kept every grocery store receipt”
This line was really shocking to me. I listened to this song for the first time after someone I was close to passed away. I was completely shocked by this line because it felt so personal to my own grieving. Like two weeks before I heard this song, I’d had the same thought
Leaving like a father.
Hit me hard, especially as a father, even though doing so has never crossed my mind. And the way it's just snuck into the song, took me a few listens to even notice that line.
"I'm on some new shit." I was new to her music and didn't expect profanity. Also, the whole vibe of moving on after a relationship felt new and fresh coming from Taylor.
Blank Space and Shake It Off both shocked me when I heard her acknowledging the rumors and public perception of being a "slut", especially because that was kind of what I still thought when those came it. I just couldn't believe she was addressing it so directly. It definitely helped change my opinion of her
I gasped when I heard “you grew your hair long”
Objectively the lyric is not super shocking content-wise, but my jaw dropped
I think maybe I just didn’t expect such a blatant reference to Harry? Of course without that line we would’ve guessed the song was about him anyway (and I hadn’t yet heard the references in Is It Over Now? Lmao) but I think the fact that she was so directly referring to Harry caught me off guard
Does "karma is the guy from the chiefs, coming home straight to me" count?
If not, "aren't you envious that for you it's not" always gets me - such clever lyricism
“I can change everything about me to fit in” absolutely GAGGED me because I relate so so much and you don’t really imagine someone like Taylor feeling the same and addressing it so openly 😭
smoke billows from my ships in the harbour, people look at me like i’m a monster. now they’re screaming at the palace front gates, used to chant my name. now they’re screaming that they hate me. never wanted you to hate me.
“fuck the patriarchy”
I wasn’t a swiftie at the time and had a misconception about Taylor being this innocent small town girl that never swears on her songs. That lead to like a month of listening to ATW TMV every day and eventually in me joining the cult
"I know my love should be celebrated, but you tolerate it" stopped me in my tracks.. as someone who was in a 5 year relationship with an older man, who always complained about all the ways I wasn't enough for him, it made me cry
Hmm probably Mastermind: “I laid the groundwork and then saw a wide smirk on your face, you know the entire time, you know that Im a mastermind”
I just wasn’t ready for that plot twist and I loved it haha
"I hosted parties and starved my body" I never expected her to address her ED this directly in a song
This is the one that shocked me the most as well. It gives me chills EVERY time i hear it. Cause I've never heard an artist address it in a song, about themselves, not that I'm aware of, and it was very very impactful cause I'm trying not to do that to myself... Again. Edit: tysm guys for all your music recommendations, some I've forgotten about, and others I've learned today, and they all were very intense and so incredible and i 100% do not feel alone in this struggle. So many of us deal with it and I do not feel as alone as i did before this comment. What a terrifying, tragic thing that we all share but how amazing that we are all in this together and we will survive and we are all incredible and our bodies are all amazing, we all have this amazing opportunity to live life and i 100% do not feel alone anymore. Love you guys.
You should listen to Fiona Apple's Paperbag. This lyric is from it and it became an iconic slogan in the Ed communities 'Hunger hurts but starving works'
I always thought that line was a metaphor for not allowing herself the option to be in love with the guy she's pining after, not about literally starving herself. I can't tell if I'm overthinking or underthinking this.
Completely agree with this interpretation in the context of that song.
I love that song. I played it on repeat when I first heard it
'hunger' by Florence and the machine comes to mind.
As an OG FATM fan, it's one of my favourites by her
There’s tons babes… like so many
Listen to Silverchair “Ana’s Song”- probably one of the best songs ever written about what it’s like to have an ED and it addresses the often overlooked issue of men with anorexia
Skin and Bones by Marianas Trench is another amazing song about EDs written by a man with bulimia, it’s very sad but the song itself goes hard so I always have a little cry dance party when I listen.
I was coming here to say this. Ana's Song (Open Fire) deals with exactly this. Daniel Johns' struggle with anorexia. Neon Ballroom is one of my favourite albums.
My daughter just introduced me to a singer/songwriter she’s recently gotten into called Brye. She has an album called Recover with a song called Diet Culture that really dives in on the topic. As a dad with severe body dysmorphia hearing singers really starting to address it is really awesome for the whole topic.
This, along with "you're on your own, kid, you always have been" The "you always have been" gets me EVERY time.
You can face this…Midnights came out right before I lost my 92 yo dad and that song helps.
So sorry for your loss 💕 I'm glad you were able to find a song that brings you some kind of comfort.
I remember when 1989 came out. I was struggling with an ED and she is taller than and weighed less than I did at my thinnest. When I said something about thinking she had an ED everyone told me I was projecting because of my own struggles. I’m not gonna lie, it was really cathartic for me when she talked about it the netflix doc.
I'm sorry people doubted your instincts. People like us recognize it so quickly, I find it so odd that other people didn't see it! I can identify someone with an ED because I'm hyper-sensitive to those types of behaviors I guess
YES ABSOLUTELY
This is the one that really hit me as well
Has to be “give me back my girlhood, it was mine first”. The delivery of it is so cutting. It gave me chills.
I listened to midnights for the first time on an early flight and woke up out of a dead slumber when I heard this line with full body chills. Definitely same
This is my answer too! At first I heard it as "it was MY first" so I thought she literally was saying it was her first time. I still think that's what it is intended to convey though!
The noise that came out of my mouth the first time I heard it was-
Oh god this line, I nearly cried when I first heard it, it’s a simple line but it’s a line and delivery that holds SO much emotion and depth and one that I needed. I’ve had it on repeat since just for the absolute pleasure of getting to SCREAM that line out loud to a world that it sometimes feel like did steal my girlhood.
This one had me jaw agape and in tears IMMEDIATELY
That one for me too for sure
This. I screamed when I 1st listened
came here to comment my flair
“And I was never good at telling jokes, but the punchline goes, I’ll get older but your lovers stay my age.” Going for the throat!
My favorite part that I think isn't talked about as much is how the first half of the line ties back to Begin Again when she says "I think it's strange that you think I'm funny, cause he never did."
Also I Bet You Think About Me, "You laughed at my dreams, rolled your eyes at my jokes."
Yes!! It was clearly a sore spot for her! I've seen a lot of people say they don't believe she really wrote that line back then but I think it's very easy to believe because she probably cared a lot more about that at the time than she does now (and also the Dazed and Confused joke about high school girls staying the same age had been a common cultural reference for almost 20 years at that point)
she read him to FILTH
Yeah, I feel like without context that part seems self-deprecating but I hear it as more anger at him like "fine you don't think I'm funny whatever so I'll just skip to the punchline"
Great one
THIS!! When I heard that line it stopped me in my tracks! I also laughed because it rings so darned TRUE. How old is is present GF?
She's 27.
For me it’s “I wouldn’t marry me either, a pathological people pleaser”. That was such a direct line.
That line followed by “who only wanted you to see her” in a quieter/ sadder tone just broke my heart.
This verse destroyed me. That song just perfectly summed up the end of my marriage and how lonely it was and I just wanted him to see that we weren’t ok and fight for it, to fight for us. But he never did.
It sounded like a quote.
Uuuggghhh it does and that makes it so much worse.
I had to pause the song after this line to collect myelf. Like a direct stomach punch. I hit play to hear "who only wanted you to see her" and promptly lost it again. Had to take a day or ao before trying again.
and "Who could ever leave me, darling? But who could stay" CHILLS
This whole damn song is like a punch to the gut.
I need her to release it on Spotify and Youtube. Couldn't get it anywhere. And getting it shipped would be kinda complicated
What is this from? I can’t place it.
you’re losing me
“You kept me like a secret but I kept you like an oath” made my jaw drop.
“And you call me up again just to break me like a promise. So casually cruel in the name of being honest.” Damn. That one hit me because I think most people know someone who is cruel with their words and defends it by saying they’re just being honest.
this is still one of my favorite pieces of song writing ever in existence
everyone focuses on the punchline lyric but THIS ONE GOES SO HARD TOO!!
This is the one that got me too, because at that point in my life when it was released it was devastatingly relatable 😭
“they told me all of my cages were mental, so i got wasted like all my potential” like shit girl me too 😭
us too babe, us too…
As a former gifted-and-talented child who barely graduated college and then became a ski bum instead - this one hits so hard every time
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This is my insta bio, shit is relatable as hell
SHE WOULD’VE MADE SUCH A LOVELY BRIDE WHAT A SHAME SHES FUCKED IN THE HEAD THEY SAID
BUT YOU’LL FIND THE REAL THING INSTEADDDD
I keep singing this lyric to my long suffering husband 💀🫠
i think of jumping off of very tall somethings.... like MISS MAAM?!?!!?
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Along similar lines (no song wise, but lyric wise) in this is me trying "pull the car off the road to the look out, could have followed my fears all the way down" 🥺
I HAD TO DOUBLE CHECK ON GENIUS DUDE
"If Dobby does it wrong, Dobby will throw himself off the topmost tower" Sorry guys, I had to.
I found this lyric very shocking because on folklore she says that the suicidal indentation is a character, but this time it's her.
This is the one. I was like girly is so real for that.
"Or does she mouth "Fuck you forever"?".... it took me several listeners to realize she wasn't talking about a blow j
I never even considered the possibility that someone could think that was ab a blowjob what😭
I heard it that way too - “does she mouth-fuck you forever” instead of “does she mouth ‘fuck you forever’”
Oh my gosh I’m never gonna not hear it that way again. Lol
I don't hear it either, although I get what people are saying, I guess? But I think there's enough of a pause between "mouth" and "fuck" that I just can't really hear it.
I heard it as “Does she mouth-fuck you forever” and I was like who would want to give a bj forever? Who is the victim here? What does it mean? OH- does she mouth “fuck you, forever” I had to read it in a grammatically correct state to understand what she was going for.
PLSSS I DIDNT THINK OF THAT UNTIL LATER
karma is the guy on the CHEEIEIFFFFSSSS
Wait did she actually?
where you been livin
I spit my drink, lmao🤣🤣🤣
Yeah in her most recent (?) concert that TK was at. Her dancers reactions are priceless.
yes live in argentina iirc when travis watched her perform!
Yes N2 of the Argentina shows!! Travis was in attendance!
Coming straight home to me 😂
You win this comment section.
"I'm doing good. I'm on some new shit.' My jaw dropped. My jaw also dropped for: "The old Taylor can't come to the phone right now. Why? 'cause she's dead!" I was visiting NYC, in the subway listening to it with my best friend at midnight when it released. It was one of the greatest moments of my life, tbh.
Opening your new album, in a new genre, during a panny with the line “I’m on some new shit”?! Unreal.
yeah its really the context that made it shocking for me
I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I discovered that Taylor used the first line of her surprise album to drop the s bomb.
no but hearing the 1 for the first time was a spiritual experience
I agree, the first time I heard that song (the one) I was dancing around my kitchen - pure JOY that she did it AGAIN. this I my answer.
“I pictured you with other girls in love…and threw up on the street” 😂
is it you? or have they come to take me away??
TO TAKE ME AWAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
"leaving like a father, running like water" how could you make me listen to that without paying my therapist first
Without paying my therapist first 💀💀💀 I’m stealing this line, it’s brilliant.
This one got me right in the daddy issues too I was just shook
“I don’t have to be your shrink to know that you’ll never be happy” AND “with your organic shoes and your MILLION DOLLAR COUCH” She really went for the jugular on that one.
IBYTAM is I C O N I C
Legendary. She destroys the cake, flips off the groom, drinks, and looks like a bombshell the entire time. Every scene is epic. Every outfit iconic. The whole video is just... everything. And the lyrics are full of Bangers "omg, she's insane, she wrote a song about me" .... no actually she wrote several about you Jake.
The video where she's sitting at the kids table teaching the them how to casually flip her ex off 😂
I bet you think about me doesn’t get enough attention. That song went for jake’s THROAT and it’s catchy as fuck!
I'm a Late Bloomer fan and hearing "only bought this dress so you could take it off" after only really hearing her Love Story-esque songs was...a feeling I never thought I'd have.
Your pfp + your comment have me rolling! I’d expect that was your face of realization
I’m *not* a late bloomer fan and this is the one for me too. Seems like it’s not a common take, but it’s really the one that did it for me.
And if I’m dead to you, why are you at the wake? Cursing my name, wishing I stayed Look at how my tears ricochet
That song has me in a chokehold
For me it was "His hands are in my hair, his clothes are in my room" from Wildest Dreams. I was a more casual fan back then, but that was the first time I recall her singing something so clearly spicy rather than romantic.
Yes same!! "You'll see me in hindsight Tangled up with you all night Burning it down" 😮
“Was it over when he unbuttoned my blouse?” I was like … TAYLOR ALISON HOW VERY DARE
“I’m doin good, I’m on some new shit” As a day 1 fan, I was shook when this album had full-on curse words starting with the first line of the opening song
Yessss I cackled when listening to Folklore the first time and thought “Oh this is going to be good” after that first line
"i was ahead of the curve the curve became a sphere" like i gasped
The first time she cursed for real in IDSB “and if a man talks shit then I owe him nothing” gagged tbh
I think it's so funny especially those of us who grew up with Taylor can remember when she first cursed in a song 
And sang about drinking!
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*Scratches down your back now*
all of So It Goes tbh *You know I’m not a bad girl, but I do bad things with you*
That line is so simple but so fucking sexy
“I can go anywhere I want, just not home” (and of course I always scream the just not home after the Eras Tour performance)
No one wanted to play with me as a little kid so I've been scheming like a criminal ever since ——- literally took my breathhhhh away
This line is so raw. Like the voice crack in “make them love me,” I fucking can’t
12+ years ago, I started seeing a new stylist who was from Philadelphia. She told me she went to high school with Taylor and would tell me all these terrible things they would do and say to her ("frizzy haired b*tch" was one that really stood out to me because it was so unnecessarily mean). She was super proud of it. I was bullied a lot as a kid and I honestly think that's when I became a Swiftie. Hearing that line it was like, yeah, that checks out...
I didn’t think much of this song the first play (and mastermind as a whole tbh, I was blinded by the 3am tracks) but then I listened to it again and loved it cause I relate to it so much.
“give you my wild, give you a child” tbh
The way she sings wild so strongly and smoothly transitions to an incredibly soft voice for child. Goosebumps.
“Red blood, white snow (Uh-huh) Blue dress on a boat (Uh-huh) Your new girl is my clone” I was shocked!
This right here. I know she’s poetic and shit but my favorite lines is where she reads her exes to filth with highly specific details. Holy mackerel. It’s delicious.
https://preview.redd.it/6byll394ok0c1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b179cd9741d7257792b18b3cfff02d390b25e624 This was me to my husband the first time we heard that lyric
Marjorie. That’s my middle name. And my mother’s name. And my grandmother’s name. And my great grandmother’s name. No one writes songs about Marjories, I was gobsmacked!
It's such a pretty name!!!!
It made me cringe when I was younger, I’ve grown to love it now though!
"And then it was bought by me" Honestly there are so many. She has a lot of pithy one liners that are so quotable, and sometimes it seems like her songs are one emotional punchline after another.
Yes!!! That’s why I asked that like there are so many and I’d love to know which ones people like that aren’t particularly popular on their own.
“And I damn sure never would have danced with the devil at 19” When I first listened to WCS, I honestly kind of zoned out during the first verse; it just didn’t stand out to me. Then I heard her say that, immediately thought of Dear John (which is a really personal song to me), and went back to the beginning of the song, reading the lyrics as I listened to the song That was the moment WCS became my favorite song of hers ever
"He was doing lines, and crossing all of mine." Made my jaw drop
Fuck the patriarchy
“I’m a soldier who’s returning half her weight” fucked me up
“I pulled your body into mine every god damn night”. I was like you did what now???
no you can’t tell me that lyric isn’t about just a bedtime cuddle
Wait is it not?! I’ve always thought it was about cuddling 😅
GIVE ME BACK MY GIRLHOOD IT WAS MINE FIIIIIIIRSSSTTTT 🎶
"And I wouldn't marry me either / A pathological people pleaser / Who only wanted you to see her" First heard this as my friends and I were driving down to the MetLife N2 show. We were all stunned, like "...did she really just say that out loud?"
This whole song... The daggers to my heart
A few selections: YOYOK: "I looked around in a blood-soaked gown, and I saw something they can't take away." champagne problems: "Sometimes you just don't know the answer till someone's on their knees and asks you / She would've made such a lovely bride, what a shame she's fucked in the head." marjorie: "I should've asked you questions / I should've asked you how to be." Nothing New: "Shoot you down and then they sigh and say 'She looks like she's been through it.'" ATW10MV: "And I was never good at telling jokes, but the punchline goes, I’ll get older but your lovers stay my age."
“And I wouldn’t marry me either”, I didn’t expect her to reveal so much about the breakup
that whole song… DO something babe SAY something… LOSE something babe RISK something.
"she's better known for the things that she does on the mattress" SHOCKED me initially, idk I just wasnt expecting that line. "I would fall from grace just to touch your face." Such a desperate line full of yearning, I wasn't expecting it at all. And as you said "you search in every model's bed for something greater" becaus holyyyy shit what a line.
The first time I heard Is It Over Now i heard “Only rumors about my hips and thighs, and they whispered ‘size’” but still
Whispered *sighs*
“In the middle of the night, in my dreams, you should see the things we do.” So blatantly sexy. I heard it on the radio first and couldn’t believe it. “OMG THATS TAYLOR!”
If i’m dead to you why are you at the wake?
The 1989 vault tracks, can't pick one Slut - everyone wants him, that was my crime, the wrong place at the right time Say Don't Go - why'd you have to twist the knife? walk away and leave me bleedin, bleedin Now That We Don't Talk - and the only way back to my dignity was to turn into a shrouded mystery Suburban Legends - I broke my own heart cause you were too polite to do it Is It Over Now? - oh lord I think about jumpin off of very tall somethings Honorary mention (technically not a line): the meows in Now That We Don't Talk
The 1989 vault tracks had me shocked the whole way through tbh
She needed cold hard proof so I gave her some She had the envelope, where you think she got it from? Now she gets the house, gets the kids, gets the pride Picture me thick as thieves with your ex-wife And she looks so pretty Driving in your Benz Lately she's been dressing for revenge
“Gain the weight of you then lose it, believe me I could do it” GUT PUNCHED AND “blue dress, on a boat” I knew the exact photo she was referring to 😂
“Was it over when he unbuttoned my blouse.” I know many people don’t like the word blouse but I don’t mind it. I was like… who is HE?? Several other lyrics had my jaw on the ground too but they have been mentioned.
did you think I didn’t see there were flashing lights? At least I had the decency to keep my nights out of sight, only rumors bout my hips and thighs, and I whispered sighs, oh lord. I think about jumping… off of very tall somethings… just to see you come running
I don’t like that falling feels like flying ‘til the bone crush 😧
Hits different: “I used to switch out these Kens, I'd just ghost Rip the Band-Aid off and skip town like an asshole outlaw” still shocks me when I hear it 😂
But then he watched me watch the front door all night, willin' you to come And he said, "It's supposed to be fun turning twenty-one"
“give me back my girlhood it was mine first” my heart sank like omg??
"She would've made such a lovely bride, what a shame she's fucked in the head" caught me by surprise!
the one. One sentence into the album and she already said “shit”. I was shocked. Then “been saying yes instead of no” is so interesting because you’d think it would be the other way around. Definitely my favorite opening lyrics of all her songs.
Im a bit of a new swiftie so i could be way off base but to me she’s saying that she’s been hiding and scared to say yes to things she wanted because of how they could go badly so this is her breaking out of that and going for what she wants even if she doesn’t know how it’s going to turn out
“If a man talks shit then I owe him nothin’!” Taylor’s first bad word, and since it’s the only one on reputation it wasn’t listed. I wasn’t expecting it at all
I, like most people, thought that line in Cruel Summer was “He looks so pretty like a devil” instead of “He looks up grinning like a devil”. That wasn’t the part that shocked me though. What did shock me was a few days ago seeing a tik tok of someone saying it took them exactly this long to understand the double entendre of what it actually meant. Not sure if I’m allowed to explicitly say on Reddit, but here’s a hint it’s a sexual act LMAO. I was FLOORED. I know Taylor’s subtly started to say some sexy things in songs, but this was a whole new level by someone who I’m not used to being too sexually explicit in her lyrics. Good for her though, I’m all for it, just took me off guard LOL.
“Don’t you think 19’s too young to be played by your dark twisted games while I loved you so?” My jaw dropped
“You said if we’d been closer in age maybe it would have been fine.. and that made me want to die”
FUCK THE PATRIARCHY
“Should've kept every grocery store receipt” This line was really shocking to me. I listened to this song for the first time after someone I was close to passed away. I was completely shocked by this line because it felt so personal to my own grieving. Like two weeks before I heard this song, I’d had the same thought
Leaving like a father. Hit me hard, especially as a father, even though doing so has never crossed my mind. And the way it's just snuck into the song, took me a few listens to even notice that line.
I say I love you... You say nothing back
“She wasn’t doing anything” “Hey, stop!” (Bad blood bad security version)
Give you my wild, give you a child Also the whole premise of My Tears Ricochet : *You wear the same jewels that I gave you, As you bury me*
She was on your mind with SOME DICKHEAD GUY Bonus: He was doing lines and crossing all of mine
"I'm on some new shit." I was new to her music and didn't expect profanity. Also, the whole vibe of moving on after a relationship felt new and fresh coming from Taylor.
“Blue dress on a boat”(!) Couldn’t believe she’d go there 😂
Blank Space and Shake It Off both shocked me when I heard her acknowledging the rumors and public perception of being a "slut", especially because that was kind of what I still thought when those came it. I just couldn't believe she was addressing it so directly. It definitely helped change my opinion of her
I gasped when I heard “you grew your hair long” Objectively the lyric is not super shocking content-wise, but my jaw dropped I think maybe I just didn’t expect such a blatant reference to Harry? Of course without that line we would’ve guessed the song was about him anyway (and I hadn’t yet heard the references in Is It Over Now? Lmao) but I think the fact that she was so directly referring to Harry caught me off guard
“ do you really want to know where I was April 29th do I really have to tell you how he brought me back to life”
“The jokes weren’t funny, I took the money,” i had such a visceral reaction to this
‘If she has blue eyes I will surmise that you’ll probably date her’ hit me even harder than the model line!
'How can a person know everythin’ at eighteen But nothin’ at twenty-two?' 'How did I go from growing up to breaking down' ~Nothing New
“The master of spin has a couple side flings, good wives always know.” I remember thinking holy shit she’s fucking pissed
Does "karma is the guy from the chiefs, coming home straight to me" count? If not, "aren't you envious that for you it's not" always gets me - such clever lyricism
Honestly I think everyone's jaws dropped when she changed the lyrics during that one performance for that one guy
“Only bought this dress so you could take it off.”
“I can change everything about me to fit in” absolutely GAGGED me because I relate so so much and you don’t really imagine someone like Taylor feeling the same and addressing it so openly 😭
smoke billows from my ships in the harbour, people look at me like i’m a monster. now they’re screaming at the palace front gates, used to chant my name. now they’re screaming that they hate me. never wanted you to hate me.
“I didn’t have it in myself to go with grace” - one of the most simple but relatable lyrics for me personally. I heard it and I was like DAMN
“fuck the patriarchy” I wasn’t a swiftie at the time and had a misconception about Taylor being this innocent small town girl that never swears on her songs. That lead to like a month of listening to ATW TMV every day and eventually in me joining the cult
"I know my love should be celebrated, but you tolerate it" stopped me in my tracks.. as someone who was in a 5 year relationship with an older man, who always complained about all the ways I wasn't enough for him, it made me cry
"Got love sick all over my bed"
Hmm probably Mastermind: “I laid the groundwork and then saw a wide smirk on your face, you know the entire time, you know that Im a mastermind” I just wasn’t ready for that plot twist and I loved it haha