fwahahaha I feel like you must be a new follower or something................ this is known WHIM lore. Or at least by no means a secret, kind of thing (I feel like often enough in my streams, I put on some taytay...) Maybe it seems to contrast all the indie and esoteric stuff (if you're aware of that? I'm actually curious what your impression of my music taste was...) In any case, the explanation is rather simple: I have a broad music taste, and I like many things~ (´ ▽ ` )

Before I get into what I like about Taylor's stuff, I feel like I could add some context... When I was young, I would say that I was rather sheletered and didn't have much of an understanding of what music even... existed? I feel like I only knew what played on the radio, and the one or two CDs that incidentally wound up in my position. (And... I swear said CDs were like, a Paulina Rubio album, and that album that is Disney kidstars doing pop covers of songs from their movies...? wwww)

It took me a long time to realize that you could listen to music On the Internet, and I had to be taught by a friend of mine in middle school. Said friend was a gay guy who listened to a lot of Lady Gaga, Kesha, Marina and the Diamonds etc. When I am close to someone, I tend to absorb their music taste like a sponge, so I wound up listening to a lot of pop girlie music for years. Mind you I don't bemoan this, I genuinely liked what I listened to, but I did not have a real idea of other types of music lolll... I was about 16-17 when my boyfriend at the time + his roommates happened to listen to indie rock, so I was exposed to that. I think around then, I started sniffing around 8tracks playlists for OTPs, and that'ssss when I really start sampling Weird Stuff. Like Whoa... This Music Is Different. *brain gets Slightly bigger*

Then I became friends with Avvy when I was 18 and, I admired Her so much, I absorbed any recommendation she gave me, eagerly. Compared to all my prior experiences, Avvy's music taste was soo unique & stimulating & enriching. She really values lyrics and meaning, which I had not really experienced before! It meant that when she shared me songs, it often came with notes about why she liked it, and what her favorite parts were... So there's this beautiful harmony of, my love and admiration for Avvy giving me a Lot of investment in what she gets out of the song, and the song itself is Unlike Anything I Have Ever Heard, transcendent. After so many years together, I've leeched tons of music from Avvy. So most of the Cooler, more Interesting stuff I like is because of her HAHA.

(Sorry for the ramble, I have an emotion of 'credit where credit is due'. If there is any impression of me being artful or interesting, it's really Because of Avvy. She uhh genuinely has made me a more thoughtful, introspective person. I would say she taught me how to derive more meaning from things, and how to find what it is I even like, for myself... TL;DR I owe Avvy any semblence of my maturity and eccentricness.)

Now rewind again... to a WHIM before Avvy's influence, and, also way before anyone else's influence. Placid baby WHIM listening to the radio in his room by his lonesome self. That WHIM, he just hears Taylor Swift's 'Love Story' come on, and his organic response is... 'Wow, this song is soo beautiful... 🥺 *sniff sniff*' I really just, hear 'You Belong With Me' and I'm like 'ah... I really get why that girl must feel that... she is in love........ *sigh* I want to be in love someday....' ⬅️ I almost dunno what else to say, that's how he was. I would imagine AMVs in my head for my OCs to this. Just spacing out like uhhhrhhh pulled out a ring and said... MARRY ME ahhhhhhh~ [the power of story entering my mind] ... and it's hardly changed since then, I just seem to rawly enjoy her music and lyricism. I'm a simple guy, I like hearing a girl talk about her feelings while she plays guitar. I think her songs cover a range of like... pining, longing, wistfulness.... bitter, wallowing, pettiness... playful, flirty, getting in-your-face... egocentric, crazy, unapologetic, er but also burdened with self-awarenss 'like yeah, I Suck'... I like all these emotions!! :) I am down for all of it, really.

I believe 1989 is the album where I really keyed into liking her, more consciously, not just passive radio listens. But I shrimply really enjoyed the hits from it, Bad Blood, Shake It Off, Blank Space, Style.... I guess this is when they go from being 'I Like It' to 'ughh I like it And it makes me Horny'... I'm basic lol I really enjoy the vibes of Style esp... I guess it doesn't even have to be the most relatable or relevant to my own experiences, to feel such a thing, I can just appreciate whatever Taylor is drawing insp from. These feelings, I enjoy being spectator of. Do go on about wanting a guy and taking off clothes. [folds hands.]

I am Aware of course, that many people find the reputation era very cringe, tasteless or w/e, but I guess this is where idrgaf about music industry drama, so I don't pay attention to that part... It doesn't actually matter to me what celebrities are arguing or who is dating who. I do not......... care, I just engage with music separately from that. It's either an interesting song or it isn't. I can't like research every single thing I listen to and I don't want to omg. (Because in reality I'm sure lots of music gets made surrounding drama... beefs...?? Music is personal like that... It's just a matter of how public some of it is right?) Whatever the case, I live under a rock and barely keep track of pop culture so I kind of have this blissful experience where I'm listening to End Game and I'm just like yeah man I love an egotistical boast... [is vain and egotistical myself] 🎶BIG REPUTATION!! BIIIG REPUTATION!!!!!!🎶🕺 Obviously I like Look What You Made Me Do as just, a song about being evilll and crazy (there was actually a good AMV about Fern someone made to it that I still think about...) I like Ready For It (I enjoy her rapping!), I Did Something Bad (why's it feel so good... yeah girl), Don't Blame Me (VERY FUN and again Yes... LOVE MADE ME CRAZY!!! So true), Delicate (really sweet sounding!)

Getaway Car fsr makes me so manic, I love to work out to it... Go so hard on the exercise bike to this... and conceptually pretty interesting, acknowledging the uh nature of jumping relationships, being unreliable due to having done that in the first place w this person... I respect it. Ugh I get like brain tinglies when I listen... HIT YOU LIKE A SHOT-GUN SHOT TO THE HEART !!!!!! [clutches chest...] us traitorsss never wiinnnn.... [rolling around...] Hm you know, I like musical songs because, I like to 'act out' the lyrics physically, doing hand gestures, posing my body, tuning my expression, and I definitely get this sort of satisfaction from this track....

Dancing With Our Hands Tied, another that makies me horneh... I think it's the pace and feel, makes me think about having intense eye contact with someone across a room, circling each other, lots of tension in the air.... A friend of mine put this on a ship playlist of theirs and it really spun my brain around. 9.9 Like nyuerrrrr... STIMULATES ME! On a similar note, King of My Heart has an energy like that too, though it also gives me heart flutters... 💞 Oscillating between tension and infatuation.... 💞~Change my priorities~...💞 hehhe.... Gives me major zoomies!

.... [becomes self-aware] I'm being too molecular, gomen, I won't keep doing this, because this will be a novel by the end of it... I feel like you Get the Idea now... Uhh. I really enjoyed Lover-!!!!!! Amazing album amazing aesthetic makes me also squeal and kick and binky. I made a Miraculous Ladybug AMV set to The Archer LMAO! I love soo many tracks from this album, 10/10, perfect title song too.. I really enjoyed folklore and evermore both, though I binge folklore hardest between the two. Also oddly good for doing exercise to, the last great american dynasty has that theatrical quality I enjoy, mirrorball can tighten my throat and make me feel like crying... Ugh but I must be extremely grateful for coney island bc it is a collab with The National, who I think meshes really well with her-!! (Not on her album, but their collab on the track The Alcott is also amazing. You could brand and the last thing you wanted, is the first thing I do into my body.) Um umm... Midnights, Good, overall not as Potent as some others for me, but it did give me Anti-Hero (? which might've been my most played song last year...) SO!!!!! I have no critiques. And then The Tortured Poets Department came out this year and I really liked it and binged it all! I would say the first 4 tracks are heaven I want to live in them in a loop.

So there you have it. I really like her! Really for realsies. Not a joke not a bit!! I was in the top whatever percent of her listeners on spotify one year so I got some coupon to buy a shirt from her store and I have that shirt and I wear that shirt regularly! !! !!! I do not really bother to get band/muscician tees but I would get more of hers if the opportunity came my way & the design was appealing. I don't really care about music tours but I've emotionally reblogged clips of her Eras tour. I'm so serious man I am not trolling anyone with this. Because, why would I, it's embarrassing and it makes me feel stupid LOL there's nothing to gain from such a thing............ It is simply my reality.

Destined to be a basic...

[scuttles off to resume my hibernation] 🐛