Or it was also opening a door. I don't think she was/is sure. But she knew one result of the album would be to soften the public up to "them." I don't think she has any idea whether she will or wants to be with him, but if they reconcile, there will be people who this time accept them due to the story she told in TTPD of "cosmic love" (and a very small number of people hooked on the story who will cheer them on). At at least home they reconcile enough to write/release songs, even if married to other people. |
write and release songs together - I'll be annoyed if there are more longing back and forth lyrics. |
| I too am curious to see what her next album will hold. More Matty songs - while she’s in a steady relationship and he’s engaged to another woman - is getting a little “I won’t be IGNORED, Dan.” |
Halsey in 2017: “To my lover, I'd never lie He said, "Be true", I swear I'll try.” Taylor on Lover in 2019: “Swear to be…true to my lover.” 🫣 |
It was a desperate cry-out to him: she finally admitted in front of her fans and the world how she feels about Matty. So now we all know who her love songs over the years were about. If she was over him, she would have written The Smallest Man and been done. But there are at least 15 other songs on that album alone that tell a different story. |
| He inspired some great songs, but enough already. It is veering into bunny-boiler territory. |
Getting papped a lot while holding hands with someone is a far cry from a steady relationship. Celebs in steady relationships don't constantly tip off the paps. |
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I am a rational person with multiple science degrees, and at this point even I am convinced that in addition to obvious songs like Cardigan, The 1, Question, Cowboy Like Me, Illicit Affairs, Maroon, and the majority of TTPD, most of Reputation and Lover were secretly written for Matty Healy too. The way he was belting out Lover at all the Eras concerts he attended, hand over his heart: no way someone with a big ego like him would’ve done it if he knew the song was about Joe Alwyn. Besides, Joe is handsome and all, but he is neither a magnetic force of a man nor can I picture him saving any dirty jokes for anyone.
Cruel Summer, The Archer, Death By A Thousand Cuts, Paper Rings, False God, It’s Nice To Have A Friend, Afterglow, Eng Game, Don’t Blame Me, Ready For It, Dancing With Our Hands Tied, So It Goes, King Of My Heart are all Matty Healy coded. |
Agreed and even if those songs are not All That Deep, and rather just using him as a writing muse, she can't really do that now. Well she can but, weird. Other topics and themes she covers are the price of fame, friends, politics, the Kardashians. Maybe we will get more of that. And football. And being a WAG. |
Ugh. Friend songs are always good, but otherwise, UGH |
In other words, without her secret longings for Matty Healy, Taylor is never going to release beautiful love songs again. Ugh, that’s sad! |
Doubtful. More secret longings will pop up on her next album. You don’t drop hints and hidden messages for over a decade and then..poof! Oh, he’ll be back.. |
Exactly this. She knew him better than any of us Sarahs and Hannahs and loved him. It doesn’t matter if he is my type or not. She said in a world of boys, he is gentleman and that he is her tattooed golden retriever. He must have been worthy of all that love and poetry. I wish we’d just stop canceling people online and realize that humans are flawed and complex, and fans need to stay out of their personal lives. |
Oh she’ll be mad, maaad if he marries Gabriette. I expect more scalding songs like TSMWEL. Who knows exactly what promises were made, but “We get married in our heads” -> “wearing imaginary rings” -> Gabriette enters the picture, “my husband is cheating, I wanna kill him.” Imagine if he actually marries her! |
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Don't call it a fight when you know it's war (The City, the 1975)
So yeah, it's a war It's the goddamn fight of my life And you started it (Ivy, Taylor Swift) |