So the songs that we all thought were about Joe were really about Matty? |
I think The Alchemy was originally written about Matty and Taylor did some editing. Learning that Taylor and Marty had a fling 10 years ago explains songs like End Game, Dont Blame Me, and others on Rep. Joe never seemed to fit those. |
A lot of Reputation seems to be about Matty. The 1, Cardigan on folklore. |
Agree! |
I get that. I had that. When someone you consider a legendary love from your perspective then acts so cowardly and spineless they quickly become the smallest man who ever lived. The higher they fall the harder they hit ground. |
”I’ll marry you with paper rings…I hate accidents except when we went from friends to this” - Paper Rings, TS, 2019
“We get married, in our heads” - About You, Matty’s band The 1975, 2022 “Wearing imaginary rings” - Out Of The Slammer, TS “Talking rings and talking cradles” - loml, TS “ Whether I'm gonna be your wife, Or gonna smash up your bike (“Smallest Man Who Ever Lived”?), I haven't decided yet But I'm gonna get you back” -imgonnanetyouback, TS. Proceeds to have an imaginary wedding at “But Daddy I Love Him.” 🤯💔😭 |
The same person who writes like this: “And *my words shoot to kill when I'm mad* I have a lot of regrets about that.” - This Is Me Trying, Folklore “Don't treat me like some situation that needs to be handled I'm fine with my *spite* And my tears and my beers and my candles.” - Closure, Evermore “And I cut off my nose just to spite my face.” - The Archer, Lover “Whether I’m gonna be your wife or gonna *smash up your bike* I haven’t decided yet But I’m gonna get you back.” - imgonnagetyouback By the way, I believe all of the above songs, in addition to many others, are about Matty Healy. |
I still think most of Lover (and a big chunk of Rep— Delicate, Gorgeous, King of My Heart, New Years Day, etc) is Joe.
But The 1 and Cardigan are really really looking like Matty-inspired songs now. She said folklore was fictional stories but Invisible String and Peace are definitely Joe songs, so that statement was already a half-truth at best. |
That was then, this is now. |
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Dissecting and bisecting every single lyric of every song is still not going to change the fact that she’s been glued to Kelce’s side for months. Probably best to just move on. She has. |
I think on of reasons I hope this works out for Taylor and Travis is that the sparkle and joy I see between them reminds me of how I felt in the beginning of my relationship with now-DH. They both light up and I like seeing it.
DH and I met when I was 29 and have been together almost 30 years. We don't glow as brightly as we used to but the banked warmth is still there. For someone who thought never to have this, I'm alway appreciative even when in a rough patch. |
I believe she got with Travis to make Matty Healy jealous. Maybe Travis grew on her over time and this evolves into more than what it started as. Maybe she will settle for “long-suffering propriety” after all. Unless music-muse lover-boy decides to answer her calls, and then the plot gets really interesting |
She has lots of sparkle and joy at Gillette Stadium in Boston when she told the crowd on that rainy night that this is the happiest she has ever been in her life, “in all aspects” of her life. How her life finally makes sense. Right before she played her surprise song, Question, which is inspired by guess who? It isn’t Travis or Joe or Harry |
She chose to release the album though, didn’t she? All 31 songs. She could have buried it in the vaults for a later release. No one was expecting an album from her given her crazy tour schedule. She could have released a regular length album with half the Matty Healy sad/love songs cut out. If she was truly over him, that would have been the best snub. It still would been a respectable 12-15 song album. Or she could have tweaked lyrics to make it less obvious who she is tortured over. She’s been doing that for a decade. And yet she chose not to any of those things. Why do you think that is? |