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folklore: the Long Pond Sessions (2020) || dir. Taylor Swift 

I’ve told you my stories for years now. Some have been about coming of age. Some have been about coming undone. This is a story about coming into your own, and as a result… coming alive. I hope you know that you’ve given me the courage to change. I hope you know that who you are is who you choose to be, and that whispers behind your back don’t define you. You are the only person who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

6 YEARS OF 1989 - Released 27 October 2014

ok what’s everyones favorite song from each of taylor’s 8 albums?

taylor swift // look what you made me do released date: august 27th, 2017

folklore + favorite lyrics

OUT OF THE WOODS (2014), GETAWAY CAR (2017), CRUEL SUMMER (2019) and AUGUST (2020)

folklore + colors

ok so august is absolutely from the perspective of the girl James cheated on Betty with

the repetition of “cause you were never mine” and the part where she says “remember when i pulled up and said ‘get in the car’” 

and then in Betty, from James’s perspective, there’s “if i told you it was just a summer thing” and “she said ‘james get in, let’s drive’”

the teenage love triangle is cardigan (Betty), august (girl #2) and Betty (James)

TAYLOR SWIFT photographed by Beth Garrabrant for “folklore” Album Photoshoot Part 1.

Initial top 3 discourse in the tags plz

Taylor Swift's new album 'Folklore' pictures

please meet my newest quarantine project: taylor swift playlists categorized by the development of my favorite motifs and themes in her songs!

can you see right through me? : songs about seeing others and being seen or known.

this is a big world, that was a small town : the romanticization of city life from her younger songs, the fresh new excitement of moving to a big city combined with the loneliness, the realization that the city has only become a fishbowl as more eyes are on her, her lover as the city.

i pace like a ghost : songs about being haunted or feeling like a ghost

2 a.m. who do you love? : staying up late, her most romantic moments happening first late in the night because she can’t sleep, then because it’s the most private time she has

i don’t wanna keep secrets just to keep you : beginning with the romanticization of a secret relationship until she realizes just how draining it is to keep secrets

oh, i remember : for better or worse, she’s always remembering!

it rains when you’re here and it rains when you’re gone : ALL the songs mentioning rain!

love’s a game, wanna play? : love as a game, mostly sarcastically

the worthwhile fight : the passion and fighting in her earlier relationships, until she realizes the person she loves is involved in the fight with her not against her.

in dreams i meet you in warm conversation : meeting her lover in dreams

we can follow the sparks, i’ll drive : he drives, she drives, her mom drives. everyone’s driving

would you run away with me? : asking someone to run away with her, find privacy somewhere. first, in fantasies, then asking someone to genuinely follow her around the world

i don’t want you like a best friend : taylor’s take on the friends to lovers trope

up in my room and our slates are clean : taylor’s room starts as a very childish place, and somewhere she goes to fantasize about love. it then becomes the only private place she has between her and her lover, it becomes a sanctuary. 

cruel summer | t.s.