I know she doesn't care about what I think about her life choices, I listened to But Daddy I Love Him. But blurring the lines between her music and real life has been an essential part of Taylor's brand from the very beginning. She literally spelled out which Nashville future frat stars her songs were about in the printed lyrics of her debut album, 18 years ago. She purposefully sends her fans on Easter egg hunts in the lead up to each album. My point is it's hypocritical to actively encourage her fans to follow the interplay between real life and the page, then get defensive when they develop their own opinions.
Taylor Swift, Childers, and Sturgill are all trash but Alan Jackson and Randy Owen are true songsmiths
Fair enough. I just think it's a little harsh. She wrote a song while she was dating a guy expressing frustration with what people were saying about it. She also wrote songs about why that guy was a douche. She writes songs about her life and her feelings. I guess I just don't take the lyrics to that song as her definitive position on the relationship with her fans. It's a song that she probably wrote in the middle of all that shit while she was feeling loyal/defensive of Healy. I don't see any reason to take it as anything more than that and if anyone is being defensive it's people who are upset by it
Got a notice that Ed Sheeran is doing a one off 10 year anniversary of Multiply show in NYC 3 weeks from now. Taylor has shows 5/19 and then not again until 5/24. Odds she will go home vs staying in Europe? She and Ed have a history of surprise performances together