- "Left a small town and never looked back" could refer to him... but it could just as easily refer to her, or both of them. And yes, I realize that since these are her diary entries they must be in the same story, but that doesn't mean the same arc.
- Or the protagonist of "White Horse" is the love interest in "Mine." She never mentions a gender for the love interest.
- You do know that "Speak Now" is fictional where as "Better Than Revenge" is about Camilla Belle, don't you?
- It's Wild Mass Guessing dear. Play along.
- Romeo had a relationship with Juliet. He met Swift at the party, and they had an affair. Her dad found out and said that Romeo had to leave Juliet, and the lines where Swift calls herself Juliet are her convincing Romeo to actually fall in love with her instead of resenting her because of the situation.
- The former song is about her younger, more impressionable self who gets swept off her feet and feels like a princess. In the latter, she's more mature and jaded and realizes she's not a princess.
- To my knowledge, you're most likely correct.
-The first line, "We were both young" if it is considered in a historical context. The song takes place during times when girls were married off at a young age while men waited till they were financially stable. Juliet was married to a much older man that she had no feelings for. Due to her young age, she mistook infatuation for love when she met a handsome young stranger. Her affair was uncovered and she was left by both husband and lover.
-Because she was branded a scarlet letter,no man wanted anything to do with her. When she says, "You were everything to me", she is completely serious. All the begging she does for Romeo to stay is out of desperation, not love. He is pretty much her last chance at marriage, otherwise she's doomed to live as a spinster and we know how well they were treated back in the day.
-Every time her father is mentioned, he is telling Romeo to stay away from Juliet, not vice-versa. He is ashamed of his daughter and is warning Romeo to stay away for his own good.
-Romeo in this song is a lot like Romeo from the play; melodramatic and willing to marry a pretty girl without giving it much thought. Juliet's father tried to talk Romeo out of it but he wouldn't listen. Eventually, the father just gives up and lets them marry.
-Isn't it possible "Love Story" is a simple Re Write of the ending of Romeo and Juliet?
- Word of God confirms the song is about a specific individual.
- This article by Stewart is about as mean and false as one can get.
- The song's bridge refers to its subject as "a liar, and pathetic, and alone in life and mean". This description fits Stewart perfectly.
- As some have pointed out about the song on Swift's official forums, those who are tormented often lead better lives than their tormentors. Mr. Stewart is now suffering severe neck pains and has been convicted of child molestation.
- Jossed - The original WMGer saw on 60 Minutes that the song was inspired by the critics of a particularly off-key performance.
- Yup. From "Treacherous" :I'll do anything you sayIf you say it with your hands.
- This is pretty much fact since it's a response to "Much Better" which is definitely about her.
- "Much Better" was a response to "Forever & Always", so they're just really going back and forth, aren't they?]
- It's about Jake Gyllenhall, who has said he is a fan of Laura before. Laura is an indie folk artist who critics love, and her third album came out at the time that they were dating. It's a possibility...
Either that, or she really likes the fella over there with the hella◊ good◊ hair◊.
Now it's several decades later (either the present or the 1989 of the album title), and the girlfriend singing the song has relived the cycle many times ("Iknow exactly where it leads, but I watch us go round and round each time") and it all feels very familiar. She describes their Jacob Marley Apparel in detail because it's become so familiar, and is aware that it's become dated-looking but loves her boyfriend enough not to care ("we never go out of style"). Both of them hope that each replay will be the time they finally are able to break the cycle (the boyfriend now keeps "his wild eyes on the road" trying to prevent the crash) and pass on to either "burning flames or paradise". (Hopefully the later, the poor kids.)
The singer is a teenage girl (I picture her being seventeen or so), and her boyfriend is in his twenties. He's old enough that they keep the relationship a secret. Hence why he "picks [her] up [with] no headlights" at midnight, and why the whole thing could end "in burning flames or paradise" — she knows it's a disaster waiting to happen, but she loves him too much to break it off. The lines "good girl faith" also give the impression of someone very young and naive. This makes the fact that he's cheating on her with "some other girl" and justifies it by the fact that he was thinking about the singer the whole time even worse — he's basically just using this impressionable teenage girl for sex. Even when they "go crashing down, [they] come back every time", because she keeps crawling back.
The "we never go out of style" part is meant to represent the romanticism of the "older guy / younger girl secret romance" trope. Even though, legally speaking, she can't consent, and some of the lines also give the impression she's afraid of him ("He can't keep his wild eyes on the road", and the bridge where she begs, "Just take me home!"), these relationships get told and retold in movies, TV shows, and books over and over again as a love story — the dynamic never goes out of style. This sort of thing keeps happening to other impressionable teenage girls, and the cycle repeats.
A lyrics analysis:"'Cause, baby, now we got bad blood. You know it used to be mad love. So take a look what you've done. 'Cause, baby, now we've got bad blood." The "bad blood" refers to the fierce hatred between the USSR and Nazi Germany. It could also be considered a reference to the bloodiness of both regimes. Having had "mad love" refers to the Nazi-Soviet Non-Agression Pact, which resulted in Nazi Germany breaking the treaty and attacking the USSR, which is what "take a look what you've done refers to." The repeat of "now we got bad blood" emphasizes the bitterness of the hatred of these two countries.
"Now we've got problems. And I don't think we can solve them. You made a really deep cut. And, baby, now we've got bad blood." The problems are WW2, and not being able to solve them references the way neither country was willing to surrender. "You made a really deep cut" refers to both the anger of the USSR at being betrayed by Nazi Germany and the violence of WW2. Bringing back the phrase "now we've got bad blood" brings the focus back onto the rivalry.
"Did you have to do this? I was thinking that you could be trusted. Did you have to ruin what was shiny? Now it's all rusted. Did you have to hit me, where I'm weak? Baby, I couldn't breathe, and rub it in so deep, salt in the wound like you're laughing right at me." The part about thinking someone could be trusted is about the Nazi-Soviet Non-Agression Pact, mentioned above. "Ruining what was shiny" refers again to the breaking of the treaty. Being hit in a weak spot also references the way Nazi Germany broke the Non-Agression Pact, which caught the USSR off-guard. Not being able to breathe and "salt in the wound" refers to the Salt the Earth tactics used by both the Nazis and the Soviets.
"Oh, it's so sad, to think of all the good times, you and I." This refers to the way the USSR thought it was on good terms with Nazi Germany
"Did you think we'd be fine? Still got scars on the back from your knife. So don't think it's the past, these kinda wounds they last and last. Now did you think it all through? All these things will catch up to you. And time can heal but this won't, so if you're coming my way, just don't." This refers to the way that the scars of WW2 have never really gone away. "All these things will catch up to you" refers to the violent vengeance extracted by the USSR on Nazi Germany at the end of WW2.
"Band-aids don't fix bullet holes, you say sorry just for show. If you live like that, you live with ghosts. Band-aids don't fix bullet holes, you say sorry just for show. If you live like that, you live with ghosts. If you love like that, blood runs cold." The bullet holes both refer to the violence of WW2 and the way the USSR felt when Nazi Germany broke the Nazi-Soviet Non-Agression Pact. Saying sorry "just for show" refers to the USSR's feeling that the western Allies didn't punish Nazi Germany enough. "Living with ghosts" refer to the ghosts of the people who died in WW2. "Blood runs cold" refers to both the hatred of the USSR and Nazi Germany for each other and also for both regimes' cold-blooded brutality.
- I mean think about it, the narrator is begging this person not to leave her, saying that she thought she had him figured out. The "Fragile line" mentioned in the first verse could allude to the fact that the fiancce in "Speak Now" is still very much in love with his ex-girlfriend and she knows it but she "Never thought she'd see it break" as in the ex comes back and confesses her love to the fiancce in which he accepts and runs away with her down the isle as the bride stands there she "stood there and watched him walk away from everything they had" aka their relationship and she still isn't processing it properly
- Ignoring the Word of God said that it is connected to "tis the damn season", the song is about missing a female close friend who can now only be seen on the tiny screen. Since the song was written during isolation of the 2020 Covid pandemic, it can be inspired by Taylor's feeling that she lost touch with Selena and wondering if they are still as close as they used to. Other details that support this theory: Selena mentioned repeatedly that her favorite movie is the Wizard of Oz, whose main character is Dorothy; she also had a pageant queen past that she didn't pursue, Selena also has a Stage Mom, she said that her childhood during the time she met Taylor she was on a very on-again-off-again relationship with Justin Bieber, hence the "making a lark of a misery". Of course, with rewrites and embelishment Taylor realized its similar themes to "tis the damn season" and so she plays it up.