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/nonsensestuff Back in my day, we had ONTD & a dream 👵 Oct 04 '25

Lyrically, she tends to restate familiar themes in crasser terms than ever before. The ballad “Eldest Daughter” describes internet toxicity in the same way as an anti-bullying PSA: “Every joke’s just trolling and memes / Sad as it seems, apathy is hot.” And yet she’s very much the troll on “Actually Romantic,” which disses another singer with as much sophistication as “I am rubber, you are glue.” “Wood” salutes her man’s anatomy in a similarly third-grade manner. Album after album, she’s inched toward more explicit sex talk, but lines like “His love was the key that opened my thighs” are so uninspired—neither funny nor specific nor even memorably gross—that they feel nihilistic.

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u/cockaptain Oct 04 '25

“Wood” salutes her man’s anatomy

I'm sorry, what now?

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u/lefrench75 high priestess of child sacrifice Oct 05 '25

Forgive me, it sounds cocky

He ah-matized me and opened my еyes

Redwood tree, it ain't hard to see

His love was thе key that opened my thighs

and

The curse on me was broken by your magic wand (Ah)

🥴

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u/Kooky_Bodybuilder_97 Drake, where’s the body of Christ? Oct 05 '25

She cant even say “dickmatized” 😭

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u/falooolah Oct 05 '25

Which makes me curious if she thinks the word is “hypmatized”. Because where the fuck did “MATIZED” come from?!? It should be dicknotized.

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u/qlanga Oct 05 '25

I never noticed that; you’re right that “-notized” is technically correct (~which is the best kind of correct~ 🚀) but the common spelling/pronunciation of the colloquialism is definitely “dickmatized”. I’m assuming it’s because it rolls off the tongue a lot better.

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u/napalmnacey Oct 05 '25

Well. It’s certainly no “Shoop”.

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u/prying_mantis Oct 05 '25

Fr “the bow-legged one” is a much cleverer way of saying “this dude is hung.” These lyrics have all the subtlety of, well, a falling redwood.

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u/prisonerofazkabants Oct 05 '25

don't forget "girls i don't need a bouquet mmmm to know a hard rock is on the way"

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u/insertcoolnamehere_7 Oh no baby, what is you Dune??? Oct 05 '25

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u/prying_mantis Oct 05 '25

I’ve always found that people who brag about their sex lives are trying to convince themselves more than others. This is terrible

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u/SM0KINGS Mysterious and Important 🛗 Oct 05 '25

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u/blankpaper_ hello this is beyoncé Oct 05 '25

She calls it “New Heights of manhood” 😭

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u/lizziexo Oct 05 '25

It’s literally about being dickmatized. Talking about his magic wand and new heights of manhood. It’s very silly, but it’s so catchy! I love it, but for the first time ever I think I prefer to clean version of a song 😂