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michaela/mason / 20 / she/they / USA
i love cats, american girl dolls, thomas sanders, taylor swift, my girlfriend, and you.
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is that taylor swift
Am I hallucinating because I’m 70% sure that is actually taylor wtf
taylor swift could make a screamo album all in spanish and she’d still be categorized as a country artist
@taylorswift here’s an idea for TS7
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Tiffany Haddish has a “Blank Space” - and Taylor Swift gave her advice on how to fill it!
“You know what, I’m about to go on Instagram right now and put out an advertisement because I’m very single,” the 38-year-old actress told PEOPLE while announcing her collaboration with Lawry’s Seasoned Salt.
“I was talking to Taylor earlier - she said that’s what I should do!” the comedian added, saying that the two text “every other week or so.”
Haddish also dished about Swift’s Reputation Stadium Tour, where the comedian makes a cameo on screen.
“I loved the show. I was like, ‘Yes! You’re representing a real Sagittarius!’ the actress said of Swift, adding that she loved seeing herself on “the biggest screens in the Universe” during “Look What You Made Me Do.”
“It’s so funny because we did it in like some little motel,” she adds. “It really is so dope. It was a really great surprise.”
Refinery29 // by Justin Ravitz // December 28th 2018
For such an evocative holiday - clocks, Champagne, descending balls, mass kissing and sparklers make a heady mix of joy, grief, regret, optimism, and dread - New Year’s Eve/Day suffers from a dearth of official songs. Other than the corny “Auld Lang Syne” or, maybe, deep cuts from ABBA (“Happy New Year”) and U2 (“New Year’s Day”), few of us could hum any appropriate chestnuts from memory. That’s weird and inconvenient; New Year’s is the ideal, 100% secular, non-denominational, global holiday of November and December, a celebration that alienates almost no one. (Even Thanksgiving offends some.) It deserves a more robust musical catalog - and Taylor Swift’s “New Year’s Day” should top the list.
“New Year’s Day” is a perfect album closer on Swift’s reputation, released last November. As if plunked on an attic piano whose dust cover has just been snapped off one sun-dappled January morning, it’s a gentle, lower-case ballad that Swift and her listeners have earned after the thrilling, electronic cacophony of the LP’s previous 14 tracks. It also hearkens back to the so-called “old Taylor” construct, the country-pop ingenue who never actually “died,” the girl with just a guitar or piano, singing with aching bittersweetness and specificity about time spent with a boy, a man, a lover. Give it some time, a viral moment or a featured spot on a CW show, and “New Year’s Day” should and could, belatedly, become one of her most enduring songs ever - the kind we and our offspring drag out every holiday season alongside the likes of Mariah Carey, Wham!, and Bing Crosby. With the reputation era almost in the rearview (a Netflix concert special which drops, yes, on New Year’s Eve, is presumably the final album product), the campaign to enter “New Year’s Day” into the forever holiday canon starts now.
The unassuming, easy-to-memorize track - soft, muted piano, vocals just above a whisper - captures a holiday moment quieter than midnight on December 31, but no less charged or tenuous: the morning after the big soiree, this one hosted by Taylor and her paramour. “There’s glitter on the floor after the party/Girls carrying their shoes down in the lobby,” she sings. “Candle wax and Polaroids on the hardwood floor/You and me from the night before.” Taylor’s not just nursing a hangover, though. She’s cherishing the cozy, intimate hush of the first morning of the New Year, “cleaning up bottles” with her significant other, praying the romantic contentment isn’t as ephemeral as sense memory suggests, and vowing to stick around for the crappy, boring, domestic times. “Please don’t ever become a stranger whose laugh I could recognize anywhere,” she pleads. Not exactly low key, but who hasn’t been there?
So, will this thing last? Will these good times stick around? Unclear, because that’s how life generally works, and that’s also what makes the holiday season so poignant, so tinged with real and possible pain: “Hold on to the memories, they will hold on to you/And I will hold on to you.”
An exquisitely relatable, timeless, yet seasonably appropriate sentiment - both very Swiftian and universal, too, delivered in a melody perfect for a singalong or contemplative, solo karaoke choice. That’s why “New Year’s Day” - stripped of snake emoji, name-that-boyfriend, aggressive cancel culture or any other Taylor contexts discussed over the past 10-plus years - should pop up on your playlist the day after Thanksgiving and stay on it until January 1. Play it for a slow dance. Sing along in the car when you’re driving to the mall. Turn it on while cleaning up the bottles, confetti, and cheese dip from your own New Year’s party - with or without a loved one. Hold on to it.
Rolling Stone // by Brittany Spanos // December 27th 2018
Ring in 2019 with this warm piano ballad from ‘Reputation’
“Deep cut” isn’t a phrase most people associate with Taylor Swift - her impact is just about everywhere at all times when it comes to pop music. But real Swifties know that her albums are packed with gems that highlight her songwriting and musicianship, including some gems that often go unnoticed.
2017’s Reputation has been her most controversial album to date, for reasons that include her sonic risks and her general snake-heavy promotional imagery. In the context of that LP, “New Year’s Day” feels like it’s from her past. It seems almost outrageous to feel shocked by the placement of a piano ballad on a Swift album, but Reputation was that kind of album. Its big, dark synth chords made the almost naked softness of this ballad feel like a surprise.
As 2018 comes to a close and another New Year’s Day comes up, revisiting this underrated moment of balladry from Swift is a must. This is a pop giant doing the most with very little: The song is mostly just her voice and the delicate piano riff, with some harmonies and light guitar making the chorus feel warm and full. It’s a hot tea for the hangover that followed Reputation - and, now, 2018.
Sooooo back in 2015 I did a mashup of some Taylor Swift songs for a banquet I was asked to perform at in undergrad. I haven’t posted it anywhere except my personal Facebook (mostly because I’m too shy) but my mom encouraged me to put this on here after Taylor sang “Sparks Fly” at the Columbus Reputation show because (in her words) “Taylor must have copied off your video because she mashed up her songs just like you did” lmao I guess you guys can be the judge of that. Anyway I think it would be really cool if Taylor saw this after so many years so if you could tag her in my video it would be much appreciated :))) let me know your thoughts because I want to start recording covers again if I have the time so I would love to hear opinions!!!
“Pet crows give their owners names. This is identified by a unique sound they make around specific people that they would not otherwise make.“
oh my GOD
well shit
Clearly, to the crows, we’re the pets.
STORY TIME:
I work in a decent sized, local, indie bookstore. It’s a great job 99% of the time and a lot of our customers are pretty neat people. Any who, middle of the day this little old lady comes up. She’s lovably kooky. She effuses how much she loves the store and how she wishes she could spend more time in it but her husband is waiting in the car (OH! I BETTER BUY HIM SOME CHOCOLATE!), she piles a bunch of art supplies on the counter and then stops and tells me how my bangs are beautiful and remind her of the ocean (“Wooooosh” she says, making a wave gesture with her hand)
Ok. I think to myself. Awesomely happy, weird little old ladies are my favorite kind of customer. They’re thrilled about everything and they’re comfortably bananas. I can have a good time with this one. So we chat and it’s nice.
Then this kid, who’s been up my counter a few times to gather his school textbooks, comes up in line behind her (we’re connected to a major university in the city so we have a lot of harried students pass through). She turns around to him and, out of nowhere, demands that he put his textbooks on the counter. He’s confused but she explains that she’s going to buy his textbooks.
He goes sheetrock white. He refuses and adamantly insists that she can’t do that. It’s like, $400 worth of textbooks. She, this tiny old woman, bodily takes them out of her hands, throws them on the counter and turns to me with a intense stare and tells me to put them on her bill. The kid at this point is practically in tears. He’s confused and shocked and grateful. Then she turns to him and says “you need chocolate.” She starts grabbing handfuls of chocolates and putting them in her pile.
He keeps asking her “why are you doing this?” She responds “Do you like Harry Potter?“ and throws a copy of the new Cursed Child on the pile too.
Finally she’s done and I ring her up for a crazy amount of money. She pays and asks me to please give the kid a few bags for his stuff. While I’m bagging up her merchandise the kid hugs her. We’re both telling her how amazing she is and what an awesome thing she’s done. She turns to both of us and says probably one of the most profound, unscripted things I’ve ever had someone say:
“It’s important to be kind. You can’t know all the times that you’ve hurt people in tiny, significant ways. It’s easy to be cruel without meaning to be. There’s nothing you can do about that. But you can choose to be kind. Be kind.”
The kid thanks her again and leaves. I tell her again how awesome she is. She’s staring out the door after him and says to me: “My son is a homeless meth addict. I don’t know what I did. I see that boy and I see the man my son could have been if someone had chosen to be kind to him at just the right time.”
I’ve bagged up all her stuff and at this point am super awkward and feel like I should say something but I don’t know what. Then she turns to me and says: I wish I could have bangs like that but my darn hair is just too curly.“ And leaves.
And that is the story of the best customer I’ve ever had. Be kind to somebody today.
I didn’t reblog earlier.
So I am now.
Be kind. It’s worth the effort.
Did Taylor really go from “I’d like to be my old self again but I’m still trying to find it” to “She lost him but found herself and somehow that was everything” to “I’m doing better then I ever was” Because like @taylorswift its not okay to mess with my emotions like that.
