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Word cloud for Foolish One. Learn more at www.taylorswiftscholar.com #taylorswift
December 1, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Word cloud for Foolish One. Learn more at www.taylorswiftscholar.com #taylorswift
In Electric Touch, Swift argued that a hopeful epistemology is necessary to begin a relationship. When prior relationships have failed, profound optimism is required to tray again In Foolish One, Swift explores the dark side of that approach. #taylorswift
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La-La-La-La-La: How Taylor Swift Blocks Out the Voice of Reason in Foolish One
A few songs back, in Electric Touch, Swift argued that an epistemology of hope is necessary to begin a romantic relationship. When all prior relationships have failed, profound optimism is required in...
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November 29, 2025 at 11:16 PM
In Electric Touch, Swift argued that a hopeful epistemology is necessary to begin a relationship. When prior relationships have failed, profound optimism is required to tray again In Foolish One, Swift explores the dark side of that approach. #taylorswift
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Word Cloud for Castles Crumbling. Read about this track at www.taylorswiftscholar.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Word Cloud for Castles Crumbling. Read about this track at www.taylorswiftscholar.com
"The crowd liked Swift when she was striving, but they do not like who she has become now that she is successful. Indeed, sitting “behind walls of regret,” Swift does not seem to like this version of herself."
I’ve Created a Monster: Taylor Swift’s Philosophy of Power in Castles Crumbling
"The crowd liked Taylor Swift when she was striving, but they do not like who she has become now that she is successful. Indeed, sitting “behind walls of regret,” Swift does not seem to like this vers...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:07 AM
"The crowd liked Swift when she was striving, but they do not like who she has become now that she is successful. Indeed, sitting “behind walls of regret,” Swift does not seem to like this version of herself."
Word Cloud for I Can See You #taylorswift
October 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Word Cloud for I Can See You #taylorswift
I Can See You reads as a grown up version of Teardrops On My Guitar. The school has been replaced by the workplace and Swift’s secret thoughts about her colleague inspire sexy thoughts rather than despair. #taylorswift #speaknow #Icanseeyou
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Teardrops All Grown Up: Hidden Desire in Taylor Swift’s I Can See You
I Can See You reads as a grown up version of Teardrops On My Guitar. The school has been replaced by the workplace and Swift’s secret thoughts about her colleague inspire sexy thoughts rather than des...
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October 11, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I Can See You reads as a grown up version of Teardrops On My Guitar. The school has been replaced by the workplace and Swift’s secret thoughts about her colleague inspire sexy thoughts rather than despair. #taylorswift #speaknow #Icanseeyou
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Word cloud for When Emma Falls in Love #taylorswift
September 11, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Word cloud for When Emma Falls in Love #taylorswift
August 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
"Electricity is a naturally-occurring power that can either kill you or be harnessed to enable technology that is essential to modern civilization. A romantic spark, Swift posits, can similarly lead to harm or true love" #TaylorSwift13 @taylorswift13
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The Shocking Truth: Metaphor Sparking Hope in Electric Touch
Electricity is a naturally-occurring form of power that can either kill you or be harnessed in order to enable technology that is essential to modern civilization. A romantic spark, Swift posits, can ...
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August 18, 2025 at 1:41 AM
"Electricity is a naturally-occurring power that can either kill you or be harnessed to enable technology that is essential to modern civilization. A romantic spark, Swift posits, can similarly lead to harm or true love" #TaylorSwift13 @taylorswift13
#ts3
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Word cloud for Speak Now (including bonus tracks!)
July 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Word cloud for Speak Now (including bonus tracks!)
Word cloud for Superman! Learn more at www.taylorswiftscholar.com #taylorswift
July 22, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Word cloud for Superman! Learn more at www.taylorswiftscholar.com #taylorswift
In Superman, Swift sets the listener up to have high expectations of her love interest. Instead, the careful listener becomes increasingly disappointed. Read more:
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#TaylorSwiftsongs #superman
#speaknowtaylorsversion #speaknow
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Only a Man in a Funny Red Sheet: Anticlimax in Taylor Swift’s Superman
Superman is the final bonus track fromSpeak Now. We find Taylor Swift once again critiquing her own tendency to impose tropes from fiction onto her own life.
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July 21, 2025 at 4:08 AM
In Superman, Swift sets the listener up to have high expectations of her love interest. Instead, the careful listener becomes increasingly disappointed. Read more:
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#TaylorSwiftsongs #superman
#speaknowtaylorsversion #speaknow
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#TaylorSwiftsongs #superman
#speaknowtaylorsversion #speaknow
Word cloud for If This Was a Movie. Learn more at www.taylorswiftscholar.com #taylorswift #taylornation
June 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Word cloud for If This Was a Movie. Learn more at www.taylorswiftscholar.com #taylorswift #taylornation
May 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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"The courtroom metaphor illustrates that Swift’s relationship does not belong to a jury of her peers, but to Swift: “The jury’s out, but my choice is you.” Taylor Swift’s relationship is not within the court’s jurisdiction." #taylorswift #ours
"The courtroom metaphor illustrates that Swift’s relationship does not belong to a jury of her peers, but to Swift: “The jury’s out, but my choice is you.” Taylor Swift’s relationship is not within the court’s jurisdiction." #taylorswift #ours
Objection Sustained: Dismissing the Evidence against Taylor Swift’s Relationship in Ours
The courtroom metaphor, however, illustrates that Swift’s relationship does not belong to a jury of Swift’s peers, but to Swift herself: “The jury’s out, but my choice is you.” Taylor Swift’s relation...
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May 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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"The courtroom metaphor illustrates that Swift’s relationship does not belong to a jury of her peers, but to Swift: “The jury’s out, but my choice is you.” Taylor Swift’s relationship is not within the court’s jurisdiction." #taylorswift #ours
"The courtroom metaphor illustrates that Swift’s relationship does not belong to a jury of her peers, but to Swift: “The jury’s out, but my choice is you.” Taylor Swift’s relationship is not within the court’s jurisdiction." #taylorswift #ours
May 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
We know from Swift’s later work that she was a scholar of Greek philosophy: “You know how to ball / I know Aristotle”. It is thus worth digging into her reference to a group who was deeply upset by her success – the world-denying philosophers the Cynics.
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Diogenes the Dragon: Battling Cynicism in Long Live
We know from Swift’s later work that she was a noted scholar of Greek philosophy during this era of her life “You know how to ball / I know Aristotle” (So High School). It is thus worth digging into S...
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May 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
We know from Swift’s later work that she was a scholar of Greek philosophy: “You know how to ball / I know Aristotle”. It is thus worth digging into her reference to a group who was deeply upset by her success – the world-denying philosophers the Cynics.
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April 22, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Swift’s relationship was a physical experience. Since breaking up, the full-bodied physical experience of another person has been replaced by a flattened, empty version.
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#taylorswift #speaknow
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#taylorswift #speaknow
Oh, Where Oh Where Can My Baby Be: Transforming Presence to Absence in Last Kiss
Swift’s relationship was a physical experience. Since breaking up, the full-bodied physical experience of another person has been replaced by a flattened, empty version. For example, Swift sings: “I’l...
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April 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Swift’s relationship was a physical experience. Since breaking up, the full-bodied physical experience of another person has been replaced by a flattened, empty version.
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#taylorswift #speaknow
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#taylorswift #speaknow
January 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
"The absence of Swift’s relationship has become a presence of sorts as long as she continues to think about it, sing about it, visualize it, etc. Haunted thus effectively explores the afterlife of a relationship by comparing it to a ghost." #taylorswift
The Ghost of Relationship Past: Holding on to a Relationship after it Ends in Haunted
"In literature and popular culture, ghosts generally linger because they have unfinished business from their lives. In this case, Swift’s relationship is haunting her because Swift is clinging to it a...
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January 21, 2025 at 1:18 AM
"The absence of Swift’s relationship has become a presence of sorts as long as she continues to think about it, sing about it, visualize it, etc. Haunted thus effectively explores the afterlife of a relationship by comparing it to a ghost." #taylorswift