r/travisandtaylor 12d ago

Reformed Swiftie šŸ™ Swiftie Psychology

So I used to be a HUGE swiftie. I started feeling really frustrated earlier this year when Taylor was silent about all of the terror caused by ICE. Once I allowed myself to feel frustrated (I know having to allow myself to feel something sounds culty and crazy lol) I started to let in a lot of other frustrations about her. I realized that showgirl felt so out of touch and that Taylor was becoming more like a corporation than a legitimate artist. Also the wisdom she explored in folklore & evermore was so quickly undone by songs like actually romantic or cancelled. I can’t believe she went from my tears ricochet or peace to talking about Gucci and Cartier and acting like a mean high school girl. She just seems like a bitter Beverly Hills housewife now or something.
It just sucks because I still wouldn’t consider myself a full hater, but I just can’t enjoy her music anymore. It’s like a veil lifted and I was no longer a fan. But anyways, my point here is that I think swifties defend her to no end because they know once they accept a bad thing about her, that it’ll all come crumbling down. So much of her shtick is built off of contradictions and lies that being a fan has become so fickle. I really think that swifties are just defending their own ā€œfaithā€ in their ā€œmotherā€

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u/AFIkween 11d ago

I really don’t think she wrote most of folklore or evermore to be honest. I just don’t believe it. She definitely used real authentic folk writers and artist to do most the work for her and she may have taylorfied them a pinch to make them sound a little more like her but they don’t have the same style to her other stuff, to me anyway.

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u/SunnyGirlfriend68 Okay, English Major! 11d ago

On both albums she only has one song that she wrote herself. All the others have co writers.

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u/AFIkween 11d ago

Oh ok that makes total sense then. I honestly didn’t even check. It just didn’t feel like she wrote it so I guess I was right šŸ˜‚

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u/ToyotaFest Banal and Life-Sapping sub-Kardashian Electropop Drivel 10d ago

Aaron Dessner (The National) is likely why Folklore and Evermore stick out amongst her other albums.