Anonymous #5 12w

W

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Anonymous #6 12w

LMAO SAME

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Anonymous #23 12w

Taylor explained in an interview that she changed Ophelia’s fate in this song and had her be saved by her lover rather than drown in heartbreak

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Anonymous #24 12w

Considering 23 songs of this album are on top of Apple’s charts, quite a few

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Anonymous #7 12w

erm actually according to my calculations there a quite a few songs on the chart of thee apple charts 🤓🤓🤓☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️

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Anonymous #27 12w

correct

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Anonymous #27 12w

read this in Simon’s voice haha

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Anonymous #7 12w

There isn’t even 23 songs in the album😭😭

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Anonymous #16 12w

exactly, don’t look at me I’m just a messenger🤷🏼‍♀️

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Anonymous #7 12w

That’s literally hilarious

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Anonymous #14 12w

^

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Anonymous #5 12w

is your name tanka jahari?

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Anonymous #6 12w

LITERALLY right back to midnights i wrny

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Anonymous #33 12w

Me but with the good Lover songs

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Anonymous #7 12w

In other words, the “English teacher” proves once again that she doesn’t understand Shakespeare.

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Anonymous #7 12w

???? 23????

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Anonymous #30 12w

oh PLEASE tonka would NEVERRR

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Anonymous #42 12w

you right

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Anonymous #32 12w

she’s one of the biggest artists rn so clearly people do “gaf”

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Anonymous donald_trump_ 12w

Rare trump w

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Anonymous #7 12w

She turned one of the greatest tragic stories written in the English language into a Hallmark Movie….

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Anonymous #37 12w

The point is “you SAVED me from the fate of Ophelia”… being manufactured by the men in her life, tossed around, I loved you I loved you not, but before she can “drown in the melancholy” her current lover comes in and saves her. That’s what the song is about… “no longer drowning and deceived” being a clear reference not only to Ophelia’s famous death but also “I was the more deceived” in act three scene one, the real turning point towards her madness when hamlet sort of emotionally tosses her

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Anonymous #37 12w

The song made plenty of sense to me and hamlet is my favorite Shakespeare play 🤷‍♀️ she wasn’t singing about Ophelia she was singing about how she ISN’T Ophelia. Listen to the wordssss

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Anonymous #38 12w

As someone who makes lyrical music with my piano, screw you for thinking only your kind of music can have soul to it?? If you don’t connect to the lyrics that’s one thing (I connect to hers tbh especially on folklore and ttpd) and if the sound isn’t your thing that’s an opinion but don’t come for a guitar or piano as the background :/

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Anonymous #37 12w

She didn’t turn it into anything she subverted it 😭 the whole song is “I’m NOT like Ophelia because you came into my life”

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Anonymous #48 12w

bro you’re under everyone’s comments dick riding her, she does not know who you are 😭🙏🏻

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Anonymous #48 12w

Don’t bother they’re committed to being miserable and lack of reading comprehension

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Anonymous #37 12w

How is that her not understanding? Would you like me to send the link to the interview of her discussing the song? She’s been about Shakespeare since she was young and has talked about it multiple times.

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Anonymous #40 12w

Plus the clean versions

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Anonymous #37 12w

The same way she did with Romeo and Juliet and nobody had qualms about it. In fact it’s a generational hit.

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Anonymous #38 12w

You making music holds no weight on this until you’re critically acclaimed this is so funny. It’s like saying sound cloud rappers are real artists 😂

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Anonymous #48 12w

I’m not saying that a guitar or a piano can’t fill the space and I never said only my kind can have soul lol. it’s just that she doesn’t make them fill the space. I have no problem with duet pieces but for the new album there were songs with rather bizarre lyrics paired with pop chord progressions and rather choppy mixing (not bad mixing but it’s fast iykwim)

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Anonymous #7 12w

You do know you just described almost ALL musicians nowadays right? Saying “you can’t criticize her art because your art hasn’t received nearly as much attention as hers has” none of the albums that are my favorites have been nearly as acclaimed as hers and some of these artists have massive fan bases. Her music just feels low effort and low passion to me, especially compared to her previous work (esp folklore imo).

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Anonymous #38 12w

My point being is that you stating you know music literally makes no difference. Your opinion is still just that. An opinion. There’s no weight behind it. People who are critically acclaimed are there because they are just that because they’ve been proclaimed by professionals. You have not been. You can criticize, but your criticism holds no meaning.

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Anonymous #38 12w

Also making a wild guess saying you jumped into Taylor’s music when Folklore came out

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Anonymous #3 12w

Mid. Also silent about the genocide.

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Anonymous #45 12w

i mean i loved her at a point but she’s not what she used to be

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Anonymous #54 12w

There is no “the” genocide. Genocide is occurring in Palestine, Sudan, China, and Myanmar. I think public figures should speak out against all of them, but one is not more important than the others.

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Anonymous #6 12w

PEOPLE DONT SAY THIS ENOUGH 👏 (agreeing with #6 to be clear)

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Anonymous #6 12w

I agree with you, but because the USA is so fiscally involved with those committing a genocide, is it not the responsibility of Americans to speak out against it more? Because our country is actively aiding a genocide we have (somewhat) the power to end it. What are we then, if we fail to speak up? Against any of these human crisis certainly but also against the one we are committing?

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Anonymous #53 12w

Taylor: breaks another record You: who cares she’s irrelevant You know I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say some of those people who cared are the ones who listened to that song enough to break this record…

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Anonymous #6 12w

Saying “other genocide” is gaslighting the issue at hand. Willing to bet in school when they let the Down syndrome kid win in gym class instead of cheering you say “what about the other ones”. Palestine implies elsewhere besides those are civil and not funded by your tax dollars to a country who has free healthcare and education while your country raises those expenses domestically

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Anonymous #48 12w

so she took a character with no agency whose fate is controlled and doomed by men, and “fixed it” so that her fate would be controlled and saved by a man…what a feminist queen.

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Anonymous #6 12w

I have to keep cleansing my palate with music that’s actually good

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Anonymous #37 12w

it’s also funny because she did that before!!!!!! Love Story is a shitty Hallmark version of Romeo & Juliet!!!!!!!

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Anonymous #7 12w

lmao I don’t like that one either

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Anonymous #30 12w

even though he IS tania jahari, he would NEVER order a whole pizza just for himself

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Anonymous #54 12w

For all we know she regularly donates to humanitarian aid without making it public. She has to prioritize her safety and aligning herself with anything political is risky as fuck for her because of the number of threats made on her life

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Anonymous #7 12w

It does make a difference. Me having a producing and writing background makes it pretty obvious how low effort a lot of the songs on this album are. It’s ok to be mad that I have a different opinion than you. Would you rather I talk shit normally or back it up with experience.

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Anonymous #58 12w

The US is linked to the Sudan and Chinese genocides. We are allies and have trade agreements with the UAE who funds the RSF, perpetrators of the genocide in Sudan. We are also major trade partners with China, importing some half a trillion dollars worth of goods.

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Anonymous #54 12w

I am not one of those people who use the other genocides to downplay the Palestine genocide, they are disgusting. I think it is great that there is so much awareness and support for Palestine and I wish the victims of the other atrocities can get the same

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Anonymous #62 12w

did you do well in high school English? this is a genuine question because you are dedicated to lack of comprehension

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Anonymous #38 12w

You have no background🤣 I have a bachelors in biology, doesn’t mean I’m a fucking scientist. Please be serious for a second. Until you’re on an album, or well known or again, a fucking professional, your “background” means nothing and you know that.

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Anonymous #38 12w

Please provide your references for producing and writing I would love to provide some criticism on your work.

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Anonymous #64 12w

You don’t have to! It’s still a generational hit and was well before your time, clearly

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Anonymous #7 12w

girl how old are you? do not quote the ancient texts to me I was there when they were written. I loved it when I was like 7 or 8 but now that I’m older I realize it fucking sucked!

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Anonymous #64 12w

clearly your taste didn’t age like fine wine “I was there when they were written” okay Shakespeare let’s calm down

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Anonymous #7 12w

It’s ok to be angry that I have a different opinion than you, my comment criticizing her music was not a direct attack on you I’m sorry you felt that way <3 also you probably could be a scientist lol don’t diss yourself

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Anonymous #7 12w

Are you saying sound cloud rappers aren’t real artists?? They make music same as you fuckface

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Anonymous #77 12w

are you guys out of good lies like what is this

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Anonymous #7 12w

She hasn’t.

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Anonymous #77 12w

and your proof is where? Not sure when you went to school but reading Shakespeare in high school/college is super common

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Anonymous #77 12w

“No longer drowning and deceived” feels like a reference to Ophelia telling hamlet “I was the more deceived” in act three scene one, the turning point to her loss of sanity (also referenced in the song) before she drowns (referenced a LOT in the song, as expected). Her point with the song is that she could have ended up like Ophelia, because she felt like the men in her life were using her as a pawn and pushing her emotions around and it was driving her crazy, but then her lover SAVED her

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Anonymous #7 12w

She’s definitely read hamlet. Her point with the song is that she ISN’T Ophelia because of the person who is in her life now. Honestly the fate of Ophelia as a song is a much better use of hamlet than love story ever was of Romeo and Juliet. Love story is such a bad use of Romeo and Juliet that it makes me physically revolt and yet it’s a bop and so is the fate of Ophelia. Sometimes you gotta just let a pop artist make catchy tunes. But the fate of Ophelia actually does work as a literary ref

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Anonymous #48 12w

Max has read it, you mean. She hasn’t.

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Anonymous #7 12w

*Assigning it is super common.

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Anonymous #48 12w

She hasn’t read it. Period. I doubt you have, either.

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Anonymous #77 12w

You have literally no good basis for this 😂 “I personally refuse to believe that this cultured woman could have possibly read one of the most famous plays ever, therefore obviously it’s just the producer who had read the play” shut up you don’t even know her, the likelihood that she’s read hamlet is SO high

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Anonymous #48 12w

You have no reason to believe it other than wanting to.

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Anonymous #77 12w

You didn’t read for your assignments? 😭😭

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Anonymous #7 12w

did you not read the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe???

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Anonymous #7 12w

Damn, so you are stupid?

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Anonymous #6 12w

I agree with you and don’t deny our involvement in both, but Israel is the leading recipient of US foreign military aid and are more formerly invested in the existence of Israel that with China and the RSF. I’m just happy we both agree all of these conflicts deserve more of our attention and protest against, and that TS is completely silent in speaking out.

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Anonymous #77 12w

Did you even read my comments at all or just brush over them? What is happening here?

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Anonymous #77 12w

If you are assigned to read Shakespeare, then you read Shakespeare. You replied to my comment of “reading it is super common” with “assigning it is super common.” Meaning you did NOT read Shakespeare in HS/College. In what way does any of that make me stupid, when I in fact, did read Shakespeare in 9th grade English?

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Anonymous #64 12w

What does that have to do with anything? I read all 7 books.

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Anonymous #76 12w

Sound cloud rappers are not real artists I said what I said, the truth can hurt I know

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Anonymous #88 12w

And yet you gaf enough to comment

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Anonymous #58 12w

So u support terrorists?? the people in israel were rapped and killed by terrorists there are innocent people on both sides people

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Anonymous ray_of_sunshine 12w

All of her stuff is

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Anonymous #86 12w

“all” and it’s just brain rot people who live online

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Anonymous #7 12w

anyone with ears

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Anonymous #99 12w

And swallows what’s your point???

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Anonymous #97 12w

she’s terrible and she sucks that’s it, you’d know if you read it bud

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Anonymous #97 12w

what???

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Anonymous #7 12w

So you think every student reads every assigned reading? 😂

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Anonymous #7 12w

I’d read the full folio before junior high. Want a fucking cookie?

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Anonymous #77 12w

You’re just admitting that you’re lazy this is not a flex…

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Anonymous #7 12w

You really are bad at reading, huh?

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Anonymous #77 12w

Buddy no I’m not, what drugs are you on? I read Shakespeare in high school, you didn’t. What are we trying to get at?

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Anonymous #18 12w

there is something called scrolling, you do care otherwise you wouldn’t spend your time on taylor, commenting this.

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Anonymous #55 12w

and where in this post to they ask what you think?

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Anonymous #83 12w

she fucking sucks 🤓👆

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Anonymous #91 12w

That was a tragic terrorist attck, no doubt and I don’t “support” Hamas. BUT I do have an issue with genocide, which Israel is unequivocally committing. Idk how it’s so hard to understand that nuance. You cannot fight terrorism with ethnic cleansing. Besides, if you even understood a shred of Israel and Palestine’s history you would know this didn’t start October 7th. Peace and education to you my friend

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Anonymous #30 12w

they’d never order a whole pizza for themself

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Anonymous #107 12w

Bland music

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Anonymous #112 12w

girl pls b srs

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Anonymous #113 12w

omg r u in her walls

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Anonymous #91 12w

I think every Israeli should be driven from the river to the sea. You make a spectre of Hamas while ignoring decades of genocide. If October 7th happened again I would not cry.

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Anonymous #54 12w

This post is not praising her dawg

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Anonymous #6 12w

YESSS!!! THIS

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Anonymous #121 12w

She’s so corny

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Anonymous #80 12w

Whatever you gotta tell yourself babes

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Anonymous #130 12w

R u stupid

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Anonymous #7 12w

R u a libtard ?

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Anonymous #106 12w

god bless ye

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Anonymous #130 12w

thx for answering my question

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Anonymous #44 12w

Actually a lot of her songs sound like other songs in the album. I saw a whole deep dive about how shes running out of ideas.

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Anonymous #132 12w

Frrrr

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Anonymous #91 12w

Only terrorists in this conflict are the IDF

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Anonymous #137 12w

Only the hate comments

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Anonymous #6 12w

China is not committing genocide

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Anonymous #32 12w

Yes like I know she’s capable of writing great music like wildest dreams changed my brain chemistry at like 10 years old lol but there’s no defending her current music especially THIS album

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“ some genocides are more important than others….” that is such a privileged statement to make. if we speak for one, we speak for all. and what would count as “an important genocide?” because if u ask me, ALL genocides have killed innocent lives. no life should be at the cost of others.

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Anonymous #145 12w

Armenian >

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Anonymous #7 11w

3 more years (:

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Anonymous #7 11w

The proof is in the lyrics lmao Ophelia offed herself because she was being controlled by the patriarchy, Taylor seems to have confused the tragedy of Ophelia with a damsel in distress that needed a man to save her (which is the opposite of what Ophelia needed, she needed to get away from men). If Taylor was trying to make that point she could have literally used any other princess as a reference

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Anonymous #48 11w

No but the point of Ophelia is that a man could have never saved her from her fate. The only way she could have been saved is if she got her own agency. A man saving a woman trope should be nowhere near the name Ophelia

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Anonymous #116 11w

Exactly. Her take is the take that someone would have if their only exposure to Hamlet is the Mel Gibson film. 😂

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Anonymous #48 11w

Fake news

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Anonymous #7 11w

Who tf read for assignments😭😭

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Anonymous #7 11w

If I was assigned to read Shakespeare (I was)… yeah, I have never read Shakespeare😂

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Anonymous #137 11w

That gives you something in common with the majority of American students.

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Anonymous #58 11w

We actually can’t do anything when the government won’t stop sending our money there. It doesn’t matter how much we yap about it, if they don’t care they aren’t doing anything about it.

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Anonymous #146 11w

😄🔫

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Anonymous #6 11w

THIS like why virtue signal just one of them? They’re all suffering it’s not just Gaza

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Anonymous #7 11w

Neither is Taylor swifts fast food music makin ass, she’s a brand that caters to the lowest common denominator

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Anonymous #48 11w

Good for you ig

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Anonymous #53 11w

I fucking hate Taylor Swift, but this is an actual braindead take.

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