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kerpingtack) wrote2011-02-23 12:54 pm
kerpingtack) wrote2011-02-23 12:54 pm
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makes me wanna take the stairs
I really like Taylor Swift's music and I'm fond of her as a person. I got kinda fed up with her new album though. I really love her voice in it, it sounds like she's improved. And her confessional/uncomfortably personal lyrics work for me, especially when she has these simple turns of phrases that are really endearing. Like "I go back to December all the time," idk, it's the kind of dumb say-nothing that means a lot to me anyway. This tricks me!! I don't like most of these songs, both musically and lyrically/thematically. Poifect example, I think Back to December is completely tiresome. Taylor Swift I hope you grow up by the next album. Which isn't really a dig. Like, I didn't think this album was mature at all lol, but only because she is so exactly her age. Literally, not the nineteen people think nineteen year olds are. It's irritating and endearing at the same time. I'm really excited for her to grow up and write more about herself apart from guys.
On how Tayswift is aaaaall about the uncomfortably personal: I've been thinking about what makes certain fictional/media products that way, like what is it that pings that "okay this is really obviously someone's personal ~thing~/fantasy"? I guess it's something is too specific or just slantways weird. I guess I wasn't thinking too hard about it. There's this fic writer who has this very unusual way of writing Jonghyun and I'm fascinated by it. It's so strange and soft and different from how, like, anyone else in the fandom sees him, ever, not just fic, and it's so consistent, it must be a personal thing. I'm really... idk, it's vulnerable to me. I don't know how self-aware people are about those kinds of things.
Uh bringing it back to topic: Taylor Swift is on some level. I like how she laughs at herself in some of her songs because she knows that it's such a fantasy and that she's going over the top. At first I thought Speak Now was ridic even for her but now I've accepted it, her little pffty haha laughs. What a troll. All her songs are basically her indulging herself with varying degrees of self-awareness. Dear John is mostly boring except for her sad... self-aware (need a synonym) "don't you think I was too young to be messed with?" Oh, darling. I was kinda weirded out listening to Better Than Revenge. Maybe because she's so straightforward and consistent in what she wants to write about, you as a listener like know all her neuroses, and she doesn't give a fuck. I really hope she gets over this violent jealousy/superiority complex over other girls. Mean is also kinda uncomfortably and honestly immature.
It's weird though, I'm fond of her as a person but I'm immature enough to say that I would probably hate the shit out of her if I knew her in real life. LOL I wouldn't even give her a chance. Ugh I can hear her on campus already. stfu Taylor Swift!!111
Actually I don't know that much about her, I like her in an abstract theoretical way. Like tall lanky pretty talented blonde with shit-ton of issues that she is aggressively narrativizing (is this a word??) without the ironic hipster sheen/deliberate slick over-commercialization that's like the de facto bullshit for other talented girls lately. I like Marina and the Diamonds and Lily Allen but apparently I have limits for people obsessed with fame and media. idk! Regardless I'M PRETTY SURE she was never quite the underdog she positions herself as. She also plays herself as a working-class kinda gal what with playing up her accent and like, fucking talking about bills to pay. lolwat. That's overreaching your projection, tayswift.
She also seems to be doing this thing where she's metaing about the narrative she's writing about herself. Like the asides in Speak Now, the ~next chapter~ earmark comments in the Story of Us, If This Were a Movie, and Live Long (I guess? I haven't really thought too much about the lyrics, exactly why I'm writing about it durr hurr). Maybe it's not meta. She's definitely the main character in the story of her life and she's constantly packaging her experiences that way. idk how healthy that is but I've been writing in this gd lj forever so whatever.
Goes without saying but whatever: what a high-maintenance dramawhore.
On how Tayswift is aaaaall about the uncomfortably personal: I've been thinking about what makes certain fictional/media products that way, like what is it that pings that "okay this is really obviously someone's personal ~thing~/fantasy"? I guess it's something is too specific or just slantways weird. I guess I wasn't thinking too hard about it. There's this fic writer who has this very unusual way of writing Jonghyun and I'm fascinated by it. It's so strange and soft and different from how, like, anyone else in the fandom sees him, ever, not just fic, and it's so consistent, it must be a personal thing. I'm really... idk, it's vulnerable to me. I don't know how self-aware people are about those kinds of things.
Uh bringing it back to topic: Taylor Swift is on some level. I like how she laughs at herself in some of her songs because she knows that it's such a fantasy and that she's going over the top. At first I thought Speak Now was ridic even for her but now I've accepted it, her little pffty haha laughs. What a troll. All her songs are basically her indulging herself with varying degrees of self-awareness. Dear John is mostly boring except for her sad... self-aware (need a synonym) "don't you think I was too young to be messed with?" Oh, darling. I was kinda weirded out listening to Better Than Revenge. Maybe because she's so straightforward and consistent in what she wants to write about, you as a listener like know all her neuroses, and she doesn't give a fuck. I really hope she gets over this violent jealousy/superiority complex over other girls. Mean is also kinda uncomfortably and honestly immature.
It's weird though, I'm fond of her as a person but I'm immature enough to say that I would probably hate the shit out of her if I knew her in real life. LOL I wouldn't even give her a chance. Ugh I can hear her on campus already. stfu Taylor Swift!!111
Actually I don't know that much about her, I like her in an abstract theoretical way. Like tall lanky pretty talented blonde with shit-ton of issues that she is aggressively narrativizing (is this a word??) without the ironic hipster sheen/deliberate slick over-commercialization that's like the de facto bullshit for other talented girls lately. I like Marina and the Diamonds and Lily Allen but apparently I have limits for people obsessed with fame and media. idk! Regardless I'M PRETTY SURE she was never quite the underdog she positions herself as. She also plays herself as a working-class kinda gal what with playing up her accent and like, fucking talking about bills to pay. lolwat. That's overreaching your projection, tayswift.
She also seems to be doing this thing where she's metaing about the narrative she's writing about herself. Like the asides in Speak Now, the ~next chapter~ earmark comments in the Story of Us, If This Were a Movie, and Live Long (I guess? I haven't really thought too much about the lyrics, exactly why I'm writing about it durr hurr). Maybe it's not meta. She's definitely the main character in the story of her life and she's constantly packaging her experiences that way. idk how healthy that is but I've been writing in this gd lj forever so whatever.
Goes without saying but whatever: what a high-maintenance dramawhore.