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karissa's avatar

once again clare appears and synthesizes everything i feel about something…i’ve been trying to explain to people that i think the album is fun and taylor is a Better Celebrity when she is dumb and a little cringe and embarrassing!!! and then everyone is like “why won’t she speak on Palestine.” please why do u expect that from her. why. i am baffled. do you not see the same taylor i do.

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Clare Frances's avatar

everyone has forgotten how celebrities of this caliber behave and what they do post britney because there’s been such a long dearth of truly massive celebs

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Fran Hoepfner's avatar

people being mad she talked about investing in beads on graham norton is pushing me into a rage I didn't know I was capable of

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Clare Frances's avatar

-me 3 days ago

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BDM's avatar

i really didn't think it could get more annoying than ttpd but i feel like it's particularly annoying because the album is just like… fun. with ttpd i was like, well, this is a great album, who cares if people are annoying lol. this time it's like well i would be joking around on main about how taylor doesn't know how many people live on a block if i wasn't seeing a bunch of randos call this "eugenics"

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Kyle's avatar

I like Paper Rings...

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Clare Frances's avatar

-fran hoepfner

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sam bodrojan's avatar

Clare are you familiar with Sean Penn’s novel Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff

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Clare Frances's avatar

no - can you share more information ?

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Julia's avatar

“It’s incredibly sad that even the most long-term couples cannot withstand the fact of a woman growing old. Oh, well.”

^^ I read every showgirl take adjacent to embarrassment this way. 20 years into Taylor, is my performed distaste with her “cringe” not a rejection of my own millennial shadow??

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Clare Frances's avatar

exactly how i feel!!!

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BDM's avatar

Can we discuss how stoned Taylor looks in the Father Figure lyric video. I love that her secret vice is weed. it’s like she’s a 1950s bad girl sneaking reefer.

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BDM's avatar
Oct 6Edited

charli is workshopping a diss track with a comment about the weed makin her sleepy eta: i agree with your larger points i just watch the lyric video last night and i was dying

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Clare Frances's avatar

LMAO. i went to the theatrical thing and was DYING she looks ridiculous lmao. she should be holding a vape in a video soon

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BDM's avatar

she tried to softwalk it at that questlove uno party but people were like no she’s clearly playing uno… and only playing uno…

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Michael Mann Facts's avatar

I feel like every Swift melody is a pleasantly infectious brain-worm, whereas when something like “360” re-enters my head it is distressing on all counts.

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Clare Frances's avatar

as much as i don’t care for most of brat i do listen to von dutch to calm down

but you’re right. and i don’t think that’s her goal

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Fiona's avatar

And she’s right that coke is gross and it’s so much cooler to be friends with Blake Lively than, like, Gabriette

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Clare Frances's avatar

coke is so immature to me - much like gabriette putting her hands in the pasta

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Fiona's avatar

Right like grow up...

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Exa Moseley's avatar

this made me want to watch Babygirl again

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Clare Frances's avatar

^^^^^^ on the right track

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Eddie Averill's avatar

Sean Penn: I'll smelt my oscars

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Clare Frances's avatar

never gets old

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Kelc's avatar

Bless you for this.

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Lilly Drury's avatar

This was so good and I could not agree with you more

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Fran's avatar

This was the only hot take I needed on these topics. Like did Pitchfork have a point that Actually Romantic sounds like Kidz Bop Pixies? Yes. But does that matter? Definitely not.

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Clare Frances's avatar

when midnights came out i saw a tweet that was like “vigilante shit sounds like a song lorde made after sustaining a brain injury” - this is true but i like to laugh and dance

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Brandon Singer's avatar

Also, this may be a projection from a 21-year-old worried about trading youthful "zest" for austere adulthood as i age, but since when are 35-year-olds completely evolved past the preoccupations and hang-ups of 20-somethings in terms of romance, friendship, desire, identity, etc??. I feel like our parents and their contemporaries are always tending wounds that are very adolescent, but I've always sensed that's innate to humanity and a totally normal component of being an alive human right now, but I could be way off base and totally misreading the trajectory of healthy psychological growth lolol.

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Rick S's avatar

IDK what she is talking about but she does seem to make it more interesting than it could possibly be...

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hinkema's avatar

glad you id’d the coolest thing about pta

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