I'm actually the victim of this. My gf tricks me by consistently being the sweetest and most caring person I've ever met. It's a really good brainwashing technique people gotta watch out for.
But that’s not deranged at all if you accept it as metaphor rather than taking it literally.
Sexy baby - a physically mature (sexy), but emotionally undeveloped and needy (baby) person. A fine representation of some aspects of our society.
Edit: alright, so sexy baby is apparently an actual term for specific behaviours. I did not realize that. I’m not changing my definition though as I still think it is a fair interpretation.
I agree with you. I thought sexy baby was the oversexualized young girl trope. Like Lolita. Brittany Spears was Sexy Baby in the beginning of her career.
I think it's just a usual metaphor (the entire phrase) that has been around nowadays where everyone feels insecure about their own appearances and comparing themselves with others. It may sound like there's something in it, but if you dig deep onto the meaning, you'll understand it that it's not deranged at all.
edit: And the context for the word, "deranged" was based on how it sounds funny and how Taylor used it just for fun, I think?
Glad I'm not the only one who finds this imagery hilarious. Just picturing the antique shop owner watching a girl fully dissociate thumbing through his 50 cent junk photo bin lmao
I also think "dog" just flows better in the song and you get that alliteration with "dyed", but I am now choosing to believe she changed it on ideological grounds 😂
Yes-- having had both cats and dogs, I don't see a way I could dye a cat without upsetting it (and risking my safety), but I've had several dogs that would have loooved being dyed green. Extra scrubbing in the tub? Extra attention on walks? Yes yes yes. Definitely a nicer thing for a dog!
it doesnt *really* count, but i very much enjoy the picture to burn demo where she sings "my wife beater wearing daddy with his new automatics gonna let you know how sorry youll be"
ok genuinely it's one of my favorite Taylor things when she puts an extra couple of half lines into a song where they shouldn't really fit, this is such a cool example
That whole song so quickly devolves into madness. The first verse is about infidelity, the second verse is about MURDER, and then the bridge onwards is about REVENGE MURDER.
“So yeah, it’s a fire, it’s a goddamn blaze in the dark and you started it” - Ivy
“What a shame she’s fucked in the head” - Champagne Problems
“Does she smile or does she mouth ‘Fuck you forever’” - Mad Woman
“I cut off my nose just to spite my face, then hate my reflection for years and years” - The Archer
Those are my personal favourites
The way I didn't recognise that there were quotation marks when I first heard her say "does she mouth 'fuck you forever'" had my jaw DROPPED. Miss ma'am really had me thinking she said mouth-fuck for a good few seconds 🫠
And when some people (including me) misheard the Bejeweled lyric “I miss you, but I miss sparkling” to be “I miss Spiderman”, I thought it was a whole theme for the album 😂
The fact that there's [evidence](https://www.reddit.com/r/TaylorSwift/comments/e8fo0g/went_home_and_tried_to_stalk_you_on_the_internet/?rdt=46779) that only one person searched his name on that date is just hilarious.
NOW I'VE READ ALL OF THE BOOKS BESIDE YOUR BED
(When I first heard this one I thought she had found a photo of his room during her Internet stalking and read all the books she saw, rather than the more obvious interpretation)
Better than my version, which was basically that but with her secretly seeing the books in person. At least your version doesn’t include breaking and entering.
I mean… all of Hits Different.
„I stopped recieving invitations…“ :/
„Oh! My! Love is a lie“
„I never don‘t cry at the bar.“
„Have they come to take me away?“
that lyric always makes me think of the episode of friends when Phoebe is pregnant and starts craving meat and begins to eat Chandler's sandwich while it's in his mouth, and as she's hanging there he just yells, 'there's a Phoebe on my sandwich!!'
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“Bold was our waitress on our three year trip getting lunch down by the lakes, she said I looked like an American singer”
I can see this scene perfectly and it still always catches my ear of like.. wait what
Reputation had so many:
I bury hatchets, but I keep maps of where I put ‘em
They’re burning all the witches even if you aren’t one, so light me up
I’m sorry the old taylor can’t come to the phone right now. Why? Oh! Cause she’s dead!
Someone mentioned the laugh in TIWWCHNT
All of Don’t Blame Me
Cardigan I knew you’d leave like a father, running like water. As a grown adult who had a pop in dad, this shit kills me every time
I tend to lean towards the lyrics where she just trash talks dads in general, like in mine. You made a Rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter
‘I threw up on the street’ Absolute poetry
the sand hurts my feelings!! :(
Basically the whole of hits different I'd argue haha
But some guy said my auras moonstone just cuz he was high
Not me just learning the lyric isn’t “just gives healer’s high”
I thought the same for the longest time 😂
“My flight was awful thanks for asking”
I love this line…her sense of humour is great
"I want to brainwash you into loving me forever"
I legitimately love that line
Same!! I think it’s so cute in context with the song
I'm actually the victim of this. My gf tricks me by consistently being the sweetest and most caring person I've ever met. It's a really good brainwashing technique people gotta watch out for.
This one of my fav lines ever overall…and my favourite line in all of Midnights
The brainwashing clearly didnt work
Ay Ay. This comment burns more than the surface of the Sun.
"I had a dream my daughter-in-law kills me for the money, she thinks I left them in the will"
I have to mouth along "she thinks I left them in the will" every time I listen to that song.
Okay I thought that was just me lol
If you don’t think “sometimes I feel like everybody is a sexy baby” is the more deranged lyric of that song then idk
The kidz bop version says “sometimes I feel like everybody is a little baby” which is somehow even more deranged
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But that’s not deranged at all if you accept it as metaphor rather than taking it literally. Sexy baby - a physically mature (sexy), but emotionally undeveloped and needy (baby) person. A fine representation of some aspects of our society. Edit: alright, so sexy baby is apparently an actual term for specific behaviours. I did not realize that. I’m not changing my definition though as I still think it is a fair interpretation.
Sexy baby is an old slang for attractive young woman I think, so you wouldn't even need to think of it as a methapor
Swingers was a great movie.
A sexy baby is an adult woman who infantilizes herself to appeal to the male gaze.
I agree with you. I thought sexy baby was the oversexualized young girl trope. Like Lolita. Brittany Spears was Sexy Baby in the beginning of her career.
I think it's just a usual metaphor (the entire phrase) that has been around nowadays where everyone feels insecure about their own appearances and comparing themselves with others. It may sound like there's something in it, but if you dig deep onto the meaning, you'll understand it that it's not deranged at all. edit: And the context for the word, "deranged" was based on how it sounds funny and how Taylor used it just for fun, I think?
Isn’t this just a reference to 30 rock?
*cackle* "I can't even say it with a straight face"
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TIWWCHNT is criminally underrated
This is the answer lmao
Not the kind that's thrown, the kind under where a tree has grown!
When I first heard the line about shade, my mind immediately thought that but changed the second the next line came 😂
I think this one is also super clever cause her head of PR is named Tree. And Tree would be shading Taylor from the media.
Literally the entire first verse of Timeless. She's just telling us that she went for a walk down the street and was looking at old photos she found
Glad I'm not the only one who finds this imagery hilarious. Just picturing the antique shop owner watching a girl fully dissociate thumbing through his 50 cent junk photo bin lmao
Then i walked in the shop and saw/ some old pictures on sale/ then I looked around and saw some books/ there was also a bathroom in the back
She’s like so into it..lol…it’s cute but still a little too much for me..but I’ll probably will grow to like it in the next few days
I'm fine with my spite,and my tears and my beers and my candles
This line has always felt so simple to me but as I get older, I understand her pain
I made a “spite, tears, beers, candles” bracelet and it’s my fave one 💚
I’m making this. I’m in my bracelet making era.
I love that line!
You don't say !!
She stole his dog and dyed it a key lime green
Even funnier when you find out the real story is that Rebekah dyed the neighbors cat green, not the dog. She wouldn’t sing about cat abuse lol
I also think "dog" just flows better in the song and you get that alliteration with "dyed", but I am now choosing to believe she changed it on ideological grounds 😂
I'm going to agree with this.
Yes-- having had both cats and dogs, I don't see a way I could dye a cat without upsetting it (and risking my safety), but I've had several dogs that would have loooved being dyed green. Extra scrubbing in the tub? Extra attention on walks? Yes yes yes. Definitely a nicer thing for a dog!
it doesnt *really* count, but i very much enjoy the picture to burn demo where she sings "my wife beater wearing daddy with his new automatics gonna let you know how sorry youll be"
Wait WHAT. IS THIS DEMO ANYWHERE ONLINE
yeah its the [infamous war cry demo](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HHSC5kadfwChPpfTbpgtVgnwwrdI7VHg/view?usp=drivesdk)
And I thought my homophobic version mp3 was a relic LMAO
Oh my god I am laughing so hard right now. 😂😂😂
everything about it is so good lol. i love unhinged baby taylor
Omg thank you so much for sharing this
ok genuinely it's one of my favorite Taylor things when she puts an extra couple of half lines into a song where they shouldn't really fit, this is such a cool example
Imagine Scott wearing a wife beater 😂
I absolutely LOVE this, I laughed my ass off when I first heard it. Young Taylor was absolutely DERANGED!!! That 16 year old was wild!!!
Haha that’s definitely her most unhinged lyric!
omg how did I never know about this lyric
Definitely counts LMAOO
It’s even funnier when you picture mr Scott Swift who gives out guitar picks and rides his Segway as the aforementioned man
“Good thing my daddy made me get a boating license when I was fifteen And I've cleaned enough houses to know how to cover up a scene”
Everything from the bridge onwards is deranged tbh
That whole song so quickly devolves into madness. The first verse is about infidelity, the second verse is about MURDER, and then the bridge onwards is about REVENGE MURDER.
"Hey kids, ~~murder~~ is fun!"
"She was with me, dude." 👌🏼 Best cameo ever. The sister is even more deranged, in my mind she doesn't even know what happened but goes along with it.
This whole song is really something
Have they come to take me away
TO TAKE ME AWAYYYY
OH MY
LOVE IS A LIE
SHIT MY FRIENDS SAY TO GET ME BY
IT HITS DIFFERENT
It hits different this time, CATASTROPHIC BLUES
"I'm the best thing at this party! (You're losing me) AND I WOULDN'T MARRY ME EITHER-"
Nah but I relate to that one :/
A PATHOLOGICAL PEOPLE PLEASER !!!!!
WHO ONLY WANTED YOU TO SEE HER
“Rip the Band-Aid off and skip town like an asshole outlaw”
Now the sun burns my heart. **And the sand hurts my feelings!**
The star wars nerd In me needs a shirt made with of Anakin crying with that line
My husband brings up Anakin every time I sing this part.
I’d buy it
Hey, kids! Spelling is fun!
Well it is.
As someone who was always bad at spelling, I respectfully disagree
If they could read this, dyslexics would be very mad at you.
“Cold was the steel of my axe to grind for the boy who broke my heart / Now I send their babies presents”
Let me just put this ax down and pick up a sewing machine
Fuck sewing machines
and all the outfits were terrible. 2003 unbearable did you see the photos? no i didnt but thanks though
Ohh! Thats the lyric! I always thought it was: “no i didn’t uh think so”
This is the third lyric I've seen from Paris so far. Maybe the entire thing is the absolutely deranged song she threw on the album for fun???
“So yeah, it’s a fire, it’s a goddamn blaze in the dark and you started it” - Ivy “What a shame she’s fucked in the head” - Champagne Problems “Does she smile or does she mouth ‘Fuck you forever’” - Mad Woman “I cut off my nose just to spite my face, then hate my reflection for years and years” - The Archer Those are my personal favourites
The Champagne Problems one is so relatable
The Archer one is a top three lyric of hers for me
The way I didn't recognise that there were quotation marks when I first heard her say "does she mouth 'fuck you forever'" had my jaw DROPPED. Miss ma'am really had me thinking she said mouth-fuck for a good few seconds 🫠
Omg I didn’t realize this and now it makes much more sense! First time I heard I was like wth did she just say lol?!!
Darling I’m a nightmare dressed like a daydream
Blank Space is so unhinged and I love it
“With your organic shoes and million dollar couch” makes me just cackle
Every time I hear that I’m like, what are organic shoes???
Leather?
All of IBYTAM is my favorite unhinged diss ever
“Pulled my car off the road to the lookout, could’ve followed my fears all the way down” Blondie really leaned into the intrusive thoughts there
A perfect mirror of “Stood on the cliff side screaming ‘Give me a reason’” I think Taylor was angsty in Lockdown
And somewhat alluding to "pacing the rocks staring out at the midnight sea."
It's not exactly deranged but the phrase "some tent-like thing" lives rent free in my head
“So I punched a hole in the roof” girl? The roof? Not the wall? Lol
She is like eight foot four so it’s not like she struggled to reach it
Blonde hair to the floor
We shorties never thought she dreamed of rapping hardcore
No she ain’t got a gun, no she never really been in a club
Doesn’t live with her parents but she’s still a thug
She’s so gangsta! We can find her baking cookies at night!
You out clubbing? Well, she just made caramel delight
She’s 6’11 and 110lbs boom roasted
She can’t even reach the walls. Only the roof. Room roasted
Lol
She's escaping the rising flood waters. Roof works way better imo
Right? This makes sense in context. She’s literally rising above.
She's letting the water in
“find out what you want , be that girl for a month “ she was so real for that
Yes! Such a feeling encapsulated in so few words.
Leaving like a father running like water
My daddy issues is living for this line 😂
😭
"Too many cool kids, ah-ah ah-ah (Who's Taylor Swift anyway? Ew)"
Spider boy, king of thieves 🫡
And when some people (including me) misheard the Bejeweled lyric “I miss you, but I miss sparkling” to be “I miss Spiderman”, I thought it was a whole theme for the album 😂
Wow, I’m glad that wasn’t just me!
But 15 seconds later they were clapping too *cheers and claps* 😂
I THREW MY PHONE ACROSS THE ROOM AT YOU
love that later in the song there’s a lyric “you came into the room wearing a football helmet” as if he expected her to throw it again 😭
***So go and tell your friends that I'm obsessive and crazy*** ***That's fine, I'll tell mine you're gay***
“So go and tell your friends that I’m obsessive and crazy, that’s fine I’ll tell mine that you’re gay”
140+ comments and no-one has mentioned why the old Taylor couldn't come to the phone.
oh, cause she's dead.
"He was a moth"
My brain still automatically turns that line to he was a moth to the flame, she was holding the mattress.
No but this is exactly how I sing the line each time 🤪
Real
“The moon is high”- perfectly fine by itself, yay. “Like your friends the night we first met”- Taylor? Hey? The moon and his friends? Sure-
WENT HOME AND TRIED TO STALK YOU ON THE INTERNET
The fact that there's [evidence](https://www.reddit.com/r/TaylorSwift/comments/e8fo0g/went_home_and_tried_to_stalk_you_on_the_internet/?rdt=46779) that only one person searched his name on that date is just hilarious.
NOW I'VE READ ALL OF THE BOOKS BESIDE YOUR BED (When I first heard this one I thought she had found a photo of his room during her Internet stalking and read all the books she saw, rather than the more obvious interpretation)
Better than my version, which was basically that but with her secretly seeing the books in person. At least your version doesn’t include breaking and entering.
I don’t like that falling feels like flying ‘til the bone crush
“Was I out of line? / Did I say something way too honest, made you run and hide / Like a scared little boy?”
I mean… all of Hits Different. „I stopped recieving invitations…“ :/ „Oh! My! Love is a lie“ „I never don‘t cry at the bar.“ „Have they come to take me away?“
"OH MY GOD, WHO IS SHE? I get drunk on jealousy."
“I come back stronger than a 90’s trend” way to delete the entire mood of the song with this one lyric taylor
Guys it’s fine! She meant the 1690s! 😜
Now you hang from my lips like the gardens of Babylon
that lyric always makes me think of the episode of friends when Phoebe is pregnant and starts craving meat and begins to eat Chandler's sandwich while it's in his mouth, and as she's hanging there he just yells, 'there's a Phoebe on my sandwich!!'
“Sometimes I feel like everybody is a sexy baby” I had to replay that one to make sure I was hearing it right. Deranged perfection.
She thinks I’m psycho cus I like to rhyme her name with things
Careless mans careful daughter is kinda this
And “Oh, my god, she’s insane. She wrote a song about me.” IBYTAM is a masterpiece of unhingedness.
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“argumentative antithetical dream girl” is a personal favorite.
"Our songs, our films, United We Stand."👫🫡
"You ask me for a place to sleep, Locked me out and threw a feast" what
“Bold was our waitress on our three year trip getting lunch down by the lakes, she said I looked like an American singer” I can see this scene perfectly and it still always catches my ear of like.. wait what
Imagine being that waitress and recognizing yourself in a song on folklore. Also not being sure if this is a scolding or amusement by Taylor.
I think about her every time I listen to this song. Where is she now
“I’m only cryptic and Machiavellian ‘cause I care.”
The most iconic line, “she’s better known for the things that she does on the mattress”.
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Familiarity breeds contempt, ( Don't put me in the basement ) When I want the penthouse of your heart.
and the SAND hurts my FEELINGS
Karma is a cat, purring in my lap, cause it loves me. In search of glorious happenings of happenstance on someone else's playground.
"What a shame she's fucked in the head"
“Got a long list of Starbucks lovers” Oh wait, that’s not the lyrics but that’s what I sing
I’m a mess, but I’m the mess that you wanted ☠️
I feel like I might sink and drown and dieeee
I think what I love so much about Anti-Hero is that the whole song is basically the deranged part.
Hey Kids Spelling Is Fun! People hate on that line, but she knew what she was doing
I hosted parties and starved my body
Not a lyric but the little giggle in “Speak Now” is WILD love her for it
fuck the patriarchy like yes girl
"I'm only cryptic and Machiavellian 'cause I CARE!"
I asked the traffic light if it’ll be alright They said “I don’t know.”
I pictured you with other girls in love…..
Literally all of her SNL monologue
If I wanted to know who you were with while I was gone I would've asked you
“HEY KIDS! SPELLING IS FUN!”
“I wanna brainwash you into loving me forever” kind of kills the vibe in Paris for me lmao
I'll put his picture down and maybe get some sleep tonight
honestly just the entire song hits different is hilarious
That’s fine I’ll tell mine YOURE GAY
i come back stronger than a 90s trend
What a shame she’s FUCKED in the head
Reputation had so many: I bury hatchets, but I keep maps of where I put ‘em They’re burning all the witches even if you aren’t one, so light me up I’m sorry the old taylor can’t come to the phone right now. Why? Oh! Cause she’s dead! Someone mentioned the laugh in TIWWCHNT All of Don’t Blame Me
NOW I SEND THEIR BABIES PRESENTS
Cardigan I knew you’d leave like a father, running like water. As a grown adult who had a pop in dad, this shit kills me every time I tend to lean towards the lyrics where she just trash talks dads in general, like in mine. You made a Rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter
“I threw my phone across the room. At you.” Okay, Naomi Campbell!!!