Red flags don't have to mean that Joe was some sort of monster. Just that the relationship was doomed.
I just assume a lot of these swifties are very young and have never had a long slow relationship breakdown where it burns out over several years rather than some massive dramatic ending so they feel there must be a big secret reason.
with me it was just that the guy didn’t love me as much as I did him and ‘just’ that undramatic fact ruined me for years.
haha.
The long slow death is even sadder in my opinion, there is something so heartbreaking about just falling out of love and it’s even scarier because it can just happen even if you both behave perfectly and no one does a thing wrong. Even sadder if it’s just one of you and the other doesn’t understand what they’ve done wrong, or why you’re leaving, because they still love you.Yes this really annoys me, like the only way a breakup can be sad is if there’s a clear villain / hero and if someone DID SOMETHING VERY WRONG, like life isn’t like that sometimes. To go back to myself because Taylor has done this to me and made me relive my pain
It also speaks to just generally how we in society have lost the art of nuance - everything has to be so instant, so black and white, nobody seems able to think critically any more or discuss more than one side to something. Apart from us on this thread obv, we are perfect
Imagine the reaction he’d get if he unfollowed..I’d bet he’s secretly turned off her posts from appearing though
People are so weirdly reading into this on Twitter . She directly says with the anger playlist ‘I wrote these songs when I was angry’ she’s not saying she wrote all the songs in the denial playlist when she was in denial, but they are all love songs she wrote about people who it didn’t work out with. Or about people being in love/forgiving (eg Betty). They are not even all Joe songs.
When you are in denial about a relationship breakdown, you romanticise all the good times as why you can’t leave. The songs are proof of the good times. The songs are like looking back at picture/memories and being like ‘but we were so happy, it can’t be over’. Denial/delusion.
People on Twitter like ‘omg she’s rewriting the whole lore/past’ clearly don’t have a single thought in their brains and have to take what she says and turn it into the most simplistic form. Untouchable is on there ffs… she didn’t even write untouchable
I completely agree with this in general, but at this point I sadly do think Taylor is manipulating her naive and young audience in the name of ‘winning the breakup’ . Using the term ‘Red flags’ in this context is loaded and she knows it. She needs to grow up. I think I’m at a point where if TTPD is just a slander album then I’m going to need to rethink the time I give to Taylor, but I’m keeping my hopes up…
She may well mean it as a general thing because some of those songs aren’t necessarily about Joe
I’ve said it before but if people need Taylor to outright tell them not to be a dick, they have issues. I still place 100% of the blame on the people who think it’s ok to go after someone they don’t know with no proof of any wrong doing. They are basing their comments on theories they have made up off of their interpretation. Even things she has said are fictional (folklore love triangle) people are now trying to say isn’t based off their own weird ideas and is somehow about her and Joe. She did say during tour last year before DJ not to go after anyone on her behalf. Maybe she will make a similar statement before she sings TTPD songs but I don’t think it’s necessary.
It’s not the playlists, it’s her dropping subtle shade at him that she knows is going to lead to him being abused online.
The times interview, her choices of surprise songs when certain rumours are flying around, and her not saying shit when Joe is being ripped to shreds on the internet despite being happy to tell people to lay off John Mayer.
