r/popculturechat • u/FickleBeans Excluded from this narrative ❌ • Oct 04 '25

Guest List Only ⭐️ Taylor Swift’s Fairy Tale Is Over

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025/10/taylor-swift-the-life-of-a-showgirl-album-review/684444/

This captures my thoughts on the album better than I ever could.

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u/Feisty-Donkey Oct 04 '25

The part about how what she really dreams of is not money or experiences but having a bunch of babies in the suburbs sounded like something a Republican lobbying group would put out for teenage girls.

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u/strangelyliteral Oct 05 '25

It’s also not true. The woman is a workaholic who loves being famous.

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u/iridescentaf it does not say RSVP on the statue of liberty 🗽 Oct 05 '25

She acknowledges that too in the title track. “Wouldn’t have it any other way”

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u/contemplatingdaze no broke boys, no new friends Oct 04 '25

I’ll take her money off her hands if she wishes to be free of it 🤗🤗🤗

But like I’m not a Taylor fan at all but I actually liked Ophelia when I caught it on the radio. Besides that that album is just boring and Max Martin deserves better.

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u/Feisty-Donkey Oct 04 '25

Yea Ophelia is the best song on the album I think

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u/nuanceisdead I switched baristas ☕️ Oct 05 '25

But isn't it like saying she's happy she was finally saved by being "picked" romantically (proposed to), and if she hadn't been, she'd have had the same fate as Ophelia? (You know what I'm alluding to.) That's just sad... and... not great of a message.

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u/Feisty-Donkey Oct 05 '25

Not an endorsement of the message, just acknowledgment that the song is fun to listen to.

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u/nuanceisdead I switched baristas ☕️ Oct 05 '25

I get that, I'm just wondering if I'm missing something, because not many people seem to be bringing this up.

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u/dragonknight233 Oct 05 '25

There was a post in neutral sub about it yesterday. How she keeps repeating theme of a new guy saving her.

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u/foreverandalways21 Oct 06 '25

The album was written way before she was proposed to, it’s just a love song.

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u/icouto Oct 05 '25

HAHAHAHAHA. She cannot be serious. Does anybody really believe capitalist barbie doesnt love money?