I love villains that are the reverse of the idea that the absence of love makes you evil. Villains that love to the point of paranoia and obsession. Villains whose love for someone corrupts them. Love being used for awful, evil things. Using love to justify horrific actions. Anything that breaks down the toxic idea that people who don’t feel love are monsters and those who feel love are always pure and heroic and morally right.
1989 is taylor’s most experimental album she just pulled it off so well that it sounds basic when you listen to it now. but that rolling stones qoute in miss americana is 100% correct she was making music with almost no contemporary references and literally changed the sound of pop music and to hear people dismiss it as target commercial music or whatever insult they stole from a tiktok screenshot of a tweet is actually insane
op i hope you don’t mind my addition that: not only did it change the pop music sound, it changed the pop music culture. it was a clear, crisp breakaway from 00’s culture. suddenly polaroid pictures were incredibly popular. less bright colors in a neon way and more in a pastel way. the rise of the girl group and the importance of women speaking their minds. the 1989 era was a tidal wave of self-confident-woman-breaks-down-all-pre-existing-standards-and-creates-her-own through the culture of the time.
and the only reason that pop music now sounds like 1989 is because it defined that sound first. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
that article that said that taylor has written songs that describe her devotion as punishment to be endured is sooo insane because its true but i've never seen anyone word it like that before
