taylor starting her speech by saying she won’t apologize for living life to the fullest is also a reason why she’s the master of her craft. embracing the full scope of human highs and lows without losing her grip on reality or her sense of self is her songwriting bread and butter
people are obsessed with pushing this narrative that taylor feels threatened by newer female artists (who she ABSOLUTELY paved the way for) & i’m afraid it all goes back to the same misogynistic rhetoric that’s related to wanting women to fade out as they grow older and
the intensity of the fallout from the Haim sisters wearing slightly silly t-shirts is the clearest example I’ve seen in a while of people hating someone for mean girl reasons and backfilling it with political ones to make it seem more important
When Taylor Swift said in her speech last night that she would watch movies and write in the POV of the movie characters. I JUST KNOW IN MY HEART that she wrote HAUNTED after watching New Moon.
A misconception about her songwriting that still bothers me is that she only writes about men and the speech really showed how she writes about the world around her and takes inspiration from many different narratives