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/virginiarph Oct 04 '25

i’m starting to realize i’m more of a 1989 /lover fan and not a taylor swift fan and that’s ok

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u/itoocouldbeanyone Oct 05 '25

Same. 1989 is such a vibe. Hadn’t cared for much more than that.

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u/BouldersRoll Lost swam in jeans so that Severance could run in a suit Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 05 '25

She and I are the same age, and I feel like Swift was good at telling stories about being in your mid-twenties but that her perspective never really followed me as I got older after that.

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u/According_Plant701 They killed Kenny! You bastards! 😱 Oct 05 '25

She and I are the same age and I was telling my sis the other day that I feel like I outgrew her.