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Wednesday, 21 June 2023

20 Days: 20 Taylor Swift Songs

Taylor Swift JUST announced Australian dates with the amazing Sabrina Carpenter which gives me permission to post back to back Swift posts. So I'm going to tell you my favourite Taylor Swift song for the past twenty days of June. 

02/06/2023:

The Alcott (feat Taylor Swift).

Technically, this counts because she is featured quite a bit in this song. I saw a tiktok edit of How I Met Your Mother and then the song got stuck in my head.

03/06/2023

Hits Different

"I pictured you with other girls in love... then threw up on the street" - a classic example of unhinged lyrics that you can scream along to.

04/06/2023

Ivy

"so yeah... its a fire... its a goddamn blaze in the dark and you started it... you started it" that whole part lives in my head, rent-free.

05/06/2023

State Of Grace

06/06/2023

Come Back... Be Here

"This is falling in love and you are worlds away" "And I don't wanna need you this away" - every relationship ever.

07/06/2023

If This Was A Movie

08/06/2023

Hey Stephen

I have a strong feeling this song will reach my Spotify Wrapped.

09/06/2023

The Last Time (feat Gary Lightbody)

I was in a mood that day.

10/06/2023

Karma

11/06/2023

The Lucky One

12/06/2023

Dear Reader

Such a good song and deserves more hype

13/06/2023

The Story Of Us

begins my speak now era

14/06/2023

Sparks Fly

this entire bridge

15/06/2023 (also my dad's birthday!)

Haunted

this song will remain one of my favourites till the end of time

16/06/2023

Better Than Revenge

in an angry mood

17/06/2023

I Bet You Think About Me (feat Chris Stapleton)

18/06/2023

All Of The Girls You Loved Before

19/06/2023

Snow On The Beach (feat Lana Del Ray)

this song is ethereal

20/06/2023

Delicate

21/06/2023

Our Song

had this tune in my head playing for the entire day

Thursday, 1 June 2023

Taylor Swift Word List: Folklore/Evermore

If anyone has listened to folklore or evermore, they would know the sheer amount of words that Dr Taylor Swift has placed that many don't know the definition of. I'm here to help. 
All definitions are from Oxford Dictionary or Merriam-Webster.

Folklore:

mirrorball:
revellers: a person who is enjoying themselves in a noisy or lively way.

the last great american dynasty:
gauche: unsophisticated and socially awkward

illicit affairs:
illicit: forbidden
clandestine: done secretly
mercurial: subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mind and mood

the lakes:
elegies: a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead
eulogize: praise highly in speech or writing
calamitous: involving calamity; catastrophic or disastrous

evermore:

long story short:
precipice: a very steep rock face or cliff, especially a tall one

dorothea:
lark: a source or quest for amusement or adventure

ivy:
incandescent: strikingly bright, radiant or clear

champagne problems:
midas touch: the ability to make money out out of anything

gold rush:
contrarian: opposing or rejecting popular culture

evermore:
unmoored: (of a person): insecure, confused, or lacking contact with reality