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Varsha | she/her | 20 | Previously he-did-it, take-me-to-thelakes, and slytherclaw713 | VERY Multi-fandom | currently obsessing over the MCU and Taylor Swift | feel free to send asks!!
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the barbie movie really does have everything. a utopian barbie society with a portal to our world. car chases. musical numbers. genuinely nuanced conversations around the double standards women are expected to uphold and never address, articulated multiple times by multiple characters establishing that the legacy of barbie (the franchise) is neither wholly positive nor wholly negative. BBC’s Pride & Prejudice (1996). an omnipotent narrator voiced by helen mirren. a second omnipotent narrator voiced by lizzo. ghosts. horses. half the cast of sex education? lesbian subtext. an original soundtrack full of brand new songs that also includes at least three separate needledrops of Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.  sisterhood and also discussions of the difficulty of “sisterhood.” Beach. some of the best set design i’ve seen in a contemporary hollywood movie. existentialism. california. more lesbian subtext. earring magic ken. what a movie

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Just got home from the Barbie movie and wow.

I can't stop thinking about how beautifully the Barbie movie portrays that often times when men (speaking in very binary terms, apologies) are hurt and feel wronged they'll act out in ways that hurt people, may that be purposefully or inadvertently. And society enforces this. Meanwhile women, who are used to living in a hostile world, will often express and process their pains in ways that don't harm others.

But Ken never wanted to hurt anyone. He just was hurt and didn't know how to deal with it. He found the first thing that gave him an outlet and some inkling of comfort and latched onto it. And after Ken has had his supposed "villain arc", Barbie isn't mad at him. She lets him know it's okay to cry.

The villain was never Ken himself, it was the fact that society is built in a way that prevents men from having ways to safely process and regulate their emotions. A society that punishes men for crying and confiding in friends and wanting to be comforted.

The Barbie movie isn't anti men. It's a big fuck you to our society that is hellbent on keeping everyone in an eternal cycle of hurt.

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a friendly neighborhood list of records broken with speak now tv!

  • 12th no. 1 album, surpassing barbra streisand for the most among women and holding third-most of all time
  • largest sales week for any album in 2023, and best since midnights was released
  • 2023's second-top selling album after one week
  • four of the top five biggest sales weeks since 2019
  • first living artist and third ever to have four albums in the top 10 at the same time
  • only artist to have achieved a new no. 1 in each of the last five years and only woman with five consecutive years of no. 1 albums ever
  • largest sales week for a country album since 2013
  • biggest week of the the three re-records so far
  • second-largest vinyl sales week in the modern era, only beaten by midnights
  • only artist with nine albums with over 500,000 sales in a single week
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Anonymous asked:

Aside from the fact that we’ve known about Castles Crumbling since the original Speak Now era (I remember all the fan speculation about what it was about since we only had a title, no lyrics) I think the song is very clearly Speak Now era Taylor’s writing? I understand why people associate the subject matter with 2016 but if you compare it to stuff she wrote on reputation about that experience it just sounds wildly different lyrically. It’s also not specific at all to any particular situation— she doesn’t talk about what has caused her castle to crumble beyond her own feelings of self-loathing, because it’s not something that’s happened, only something she’s afraid of happening. It’s not like on rep, where we get lines like “all the liars are calling me one” and “you said the gun was mine” and basically the entirety of TIWWCHNT, where it’s quite obvious she’s talking about a specific situation

taylorswiftstylequestions answered:

And we also, frighteningly in retrospect, MANY interviews from this time period where Taylor talked about one of her greatest fears as being framed for a crime she didn’t commit, for always being afraid of the rug getting pulled out from under her. Hence the highly regimented good girl behaviour so as to avoid scandal and blame and bad things at all cost and then, well. We saw what happened.

Aka her literal worst nightmare come true.

And tbh I can even see the angle that with all this hindsight that it partially drives her choices for Vault song inclusions. I always try to think about the deeper meanings behind her choices. Sometimes I think it’s a peek behind the curtain of her songwriting process because our ears will perk up at little phrases or words from these cut tracks that were later reconceptualized on other tracks from other albums. Sometimes it’s to provide an entire narrative world behind the world you thought you knew from the presented tracklist that slots the extent of all those emotions into a clearer picture. Sometimes it’s an eerie premonition of her life and events that have happened to her since that completely change the meaning of those original songs.

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i will expound on this tomorrow probably but with every new batch of vault tracks it becomes more clear how the rerecording process inspired and motivated both the concept and the direct lyrics of Midnights

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ok i’ve slept on it so i think i can make slightly more sense with this. i think revisiting all her old music and especially going through songs she felt were too personal or vulnerable or risky to put out at the time has helped her recognize some significant patterns in the different personal demons she’s fought throughout her life. like revisiting Castles Crumbling and Nothing New, or even Long Live and Change, she’s been able to examine all the facets of her fear of the fragility of peoples positive feelings toward her both personally and professionally. You can see how her remembering writing “You don’t want to know me, I will just let you down” for Castles Crumbling led directly to expanding on that concept by writing Dear Reader (which tbh I think she was trying to hint at with including “dear reader” in the SNTV announcement post?). 

Anyway, these rerecordings are making me like Midnights more and more, its becoming clearer as a processing technique. just having to consider the concept of having the same mental struggles throughout the years just in different flavors throughout the years could be the thing that kept her up at night that sparked writing about a whole album of things that keep her up at night, to map it all out. 

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