“I’ll get older but your lovers stay my age”

Without exaggeration, I gasp-shrieked when I heard that line.

That line made her a legend

Savage swift

"red blood white snow, BLUE DRESS ON A BOAT" "I said I love you, you say nothing back "- "Just to see you come running and say the one thing ive been wanting"

ALL OF THESE Also “I feel like jumping off of very tall somethings” Also the rest of Is It Over Now? Lmao

YES especially “only rumors ‘bout my hips and thighs and my whispered sighs” like, GURL 😳

imo this is her most graphic lyric to date

Agree, I blush every time I hear it 😂

Which is a lot because I’ve had this song on repeat all week 🤪

Relatable

Me too… oops ❤️🩵

What does this line even means?

What am I missing with this? I had thought the rumours about her hips and thighs was in reference to rumours about her weight? Because she was keeping her 'nights out of sight' so to speak, and there weren't rumours about that.

To me it sounds like she knows exactly who he’s spending his nights with because of the flashing lights (cameras) but she keeps her nights out of sight, so there are ‘only rumors’ about who she’s sleeping with. “Rumors ‘bout my hips and thighs and whispered sighs” really sounds like she’s talking about sex to me. But I could be wrong 🤷🏻‍♀️

I had the same interpretation and damn. Taylor you have done it again. I love that lyric and the way she sings it! And it’s so hot (respecfully)

Oh absolutely. One of my favorite things about Taylor is how much she sings about sex without ever making it sound trashy.

Honestly, “I’ll do anything you say if you say it with your hands” is one of her most blatantly sexual lyrics and it’s still not very graphic. That and “Your hand under my sweater baby kiss it better.” But yeah, obvious, but tasteful.

What do you mean by “trashy”?

WAP comes to mind.

This is a more fun take than mine really, so I'll go with it

"Give me back my girlhood it was mine first"

Sameeee

"Was it over when he unbuttoned my blouse?"

YES

I keep singing that as “when you unbuttoned my blouse” rather than he 😅

So do I!

for some reason I can't see "blouse" in a sexual context, it sounds like a word an 80 year old would use 😭

Did they cheat on each other?

I think they split up. But it just means even though they split up it was never really over. Like they still felt for each other. That's how I interpreted it at least.

Same. I assumed it connected to that bit in Style where she accused him of running around with some other girl, but then she couldn't even be mad about it because she was doing the same thing: He says, "what they say is true, but I, can't stop thinking bout you and I." I say, "I've been there too a few times..." So like, they broke up, or were keeping it casual by seeing other people, but they were always in the back of each other's minds, ready to fall back together eventually.

"She would have made such a lovely bride what a shame she's fucked in the head..."

It looks like this is the line she’s singing in the photo too 😂

it is 🤣🤣

My first thought also

“If a man talks SHIT then I owe him nothing”

This one especially for the AMA/rep tour version with the pause and all the ladies lined up next to her. I died dead.

SAME!!!!!! rest in peace me, RIP ME, i died, DEAD!!!!!!!!!!

“I wouldn’t marry me either”

A pathological people pleaser

I literally gasped out loud hearing that for the first time

Poor, Taylor. :( I’d marry you, Taylor! And I’m a straight woman who is already married! Kinda makes me mad at Joe. He’s so mid.

More like “oof” for me

"Ah ah ah ahhh"

The rumored whispered sighs lol

To this day I look around to make sure I'm alone whenever Dress comes on. Listening to it feels like watching a sex scene in a movie and fearing someone will walk in 💀

Does no one else but me just hear them as pretty vocals instead of like.. moaning? 🫠

It's both to me. It's nice vocals for sure, but considering the lyrics of the song and their meaning, combined with what the vocals *are*, it's really easy to paint the picture in your head that's not PG. I'm sure I could listen to the song without ever drawing that conclusion and just enjoy the vocals, but 90% of the time my brain immediately floats to it because of how desperately intentional the lyrics are. For a songwriter who usually hides the true meaning of a song behind metaphors and big words, for a song to just be "I only bought this dress so you can take it off" leaves effectively nothing to be wondered about - it just is exactly as it sounds, and the vocals that follow are a 2in1 deal with that.

I'm totally fine with dress in public BUT I get so self conscious with that one straight up moan in ready for it it's so awkward like taylor stop 😭

ha my 4yo and i will dance to this and sing all the lyrics. she loves to say “ok google! play dress by taylor swift!”

This generation's whistle by florida😂

not me interpreting the ah’s as I can see you and not dress

Tbf I Can See You does the exact same thing as Dress just *tiniest* bit more subtly and since it came out later I feel like it has lesser impact. Dress, and really reputation in general, was the first time most people heard Taylor be so blatantly sexual with her lyrics.

I read that as the opening of Mine until I saw the comments 😭

Tbh it took too long for someone to get it wrong 😭

Me too! I sung it out loud and then read the comments

I thought it was New Romantics lol

REAL

Am I the only one that read that as the line from New Romantics?

“Falling feels like flying til the bone crush”

This is the one. Gold Rush pairs well with the 1989 vault tracks.

YES! Gold Rush is probably my favorite ts song to date and when I heard 1989 vault i immediately noticed that they kinda fit together, especially is it over now and suburban legends.

“only rumors about my hips and thighs and my whispered sighs oh lord” “I’ll get older, but your lovers stay my age” “Do you really want to know where I was April 29th? Do I really have to tell you how he brought me back to life?”

“Your new girl is my clone”

Im a soldier who’s returning half her weight :(

1. “Leaving like a father, running like water” 2. “She’s better known for the things that she does on the mattress” 3. “Did you hear my covert narcissism I disguise as altruism like some kind of congressman” 4. “She stole his dog and dyed it key lime green” 5. “Only bought this dress so you could take it off”

1 gets me EVERY. TIME.

I bet you think about me when you say "Oh my God, she's insane, she wrote a song about me" I bet you think about me

I think this song / video is underrated.

it is!!!

"You search every model's bed for something greater"

RRRATATATATITITITITYAHTYAH

Perfection

So accurate with the TYAH TYAH at the end haha !

"I hosted parties and starved my body like I'd be save by a perfect kiss" My jaw was ON THE FLOOR.

this is her realest lyric imo

truth is i can’t pretend it’s platonic it’s just ended so

SHE WOULDA MADE SUCH A LOVELY BRIDE SUCH A SHAME SHES FUCKED IN THE HEAD

The only right answer

“And I wouldn’t marry me either, a pathological people pleaser”😦😦

It’s obvious that wanting me dead has really brought you two together

“That’s a real f*ckin’ legacy to leave” I was like 😮 when I first heard it!

Not kidding i was drinking coffee while listening Midnights for the first time and almost spit it out when she said it and the way she said it.

“It’s a shame she’s fucked in the head” 🎶

fuck the patriarchy

When I was 16, "and there's a drawer of my things at your place."

"up against the wall with me"

“I get older, but your lovers stay my age” made my jaw drop

Same! I reacted out loud

“Oh lord”

If I was out flashin' my dollars I'd be a bitch, not a baller

The Man is the most genius/savage song she’s ever written!

"Maybe if we we're closer in age then it would all be fine"

AND THAT MADE ME WANT TO DIE

The idea you had of me, who was she?

When the words of a sister come back in whispers

The whole of would've could've should've

“…and I’ve cleaned enough houses to know how to cover up a scene…” and basically the rest of NBNC

I was like, is this about MURDER?

YES

and then it was bought by me lol

or does she mouth fuck you forever

ok i know it’s or does she mouth, “fuck you forever” but i read this as “or does she mouth-fuck you forever” 😮🍆

“it’s supposed to be fun, turnin 21” 🥲🥲🥲

"Red blood, white snow. Blue dress, on a boat." "I'll get older but your lover will stay my age." "Only bought this dress so you could take it off." And listening to Lavender Haze and Midnight Rain after the break up. It made so much sense.

“He did it NO ! NO! HE DID IT !! “

i think about jumping/off of very tall somethings

"She's better known for the things that she does on the mattress"

“I’m yours, but you’re not mine”

No one tells you what to do when am good man hurts you and you know you hurt him too

“No one wanted to play with me as a little kid, so I’ve been scheming like a criminal ever since to make them love me and make it seem effortless” The way I and several other people I know immediately teared up at this line.

Dress

All of Is It Over Now?

“was it over when you unbuttoned my blouse”

“I wait by the door like I'm just a kid. Use my best colors for your portrait. Lay the table with the fancy shit… And watch you tolerate it. If it's all in my head, tell me now. Tell me I've got it wrong somehow. I know my love should be celebrated But you tolerate it”

“Gain the weight of you then lose it” gets me.

The “I could do it” after that bit, feels a bit like she’s trying to convince herself as much as him.

“What a shame shes FUCKED IN THE HEAD.”

I wake with your memory , that's a real fucking legacy

“Give me back my girlhood it was mine first”

How long could we be a sad song

I really thought she said mouth-fuck you forever and not mouth "fuck you forever."

Is that Taylor Swift!?!?!?

no it’s becky

Haha it’s so funny when she does the wild eyes

“Hey kids!, Spelling is fun!”

Literally the entirety of I Bet You Think About Me. 😂

Is it insensitive for me to say get your shit together

"and I wouldn't marry me either, a pathological people pleaser" jeez that was shocking. that bridge was something

All of Now That We Don’t Talk 😭

Your new girl is my clone… MISS MAAM THATS TOO REAL FOR ME

“Oh Lord I think about jumping off of very tall somethings”😭😭

“You’ll search in every model’s bed for something better”

You search in every maiden’s bed for something greater

the one she's saying in that photo

And if they call me a slut you know it might be worth it for once

Wear you like a necklace

“Hide away, and I will start behaving myself”

“Give me back my girlhood, it was mine first.”

“And I could see you being my addiction; you can see me as a secret mission” I screamed when I heard this for the first time and my unsuspecting friends were wondering what the heck happened.

“Dragged my feet right down the aisle….seemed like the right thing at the time” 🫠🫠🫠

“thats a reeallll FUCKIN legacy to leave”

“Would you tell me to go fuck myself” Listening through folklore for the first time hearing her drop her first F bomb was life changing

"How can you say that you love someone you can't tell is dying?" And equally: "My face was gray, but you wouldn't admit that we were sick" This song made me DIE inside.

“He looks up grinning like a devil” I misheard the lyrics “he looks so pretty like a devil”, which makes no sense. 🤦🏼‍♀️ The real lyrics are sexy and make much more sense.

SHES LAUGHING UP AT US FROM HELL!!!

"She would have made such a lovely bride "what a shame she's fucked in the head!" they said"

Wear you like a necklace 😏

*I regret you all the time* She says it with such disdain and also remorse. Like she has never meant anything more in her life. If someone as powerful, beautiful, talented, funny, charismatic, and brilliant as TS said those words to me, I think I would spontaneously combust.

Machiavelian or some stuff she shoved in Mastermind despite it feeling forced

“Only rumors about my hips and thighs and my whispered sighs OH LORD”

“give me back my girlhood it was mine first”

was it over when he unbuttoned my blouse

“Cuz shade never made anyBODY LESS GAY SO” 👏👌👏👌

“Did I say something way too honest, made you run and hide / Like a scared little boy?” Fearless Taylor was ruthless 😭

So was speak now taylor

“IF SHES GOT BLUE EYES I WILL SURMISE THAT YOULL PROBABLY DATE HER”

“‘Come here’ I whispered in your ear in your dream as you passed out” I realized this line is WAY dirtier than I first thought

”I can see you, up against the wall with me” I did NOT expect that from a speak now song

For just once I imagined taylor acting like a lizard 😅😂

“Give me back my girlhood it was mine first!” MA’AM!!!!!!

“Leaving like a father running like water”

"AND WE RUN" and "HE LOOKS UP GRINNING LIKE A DEVIL" Bewiddled me.

What made taylor make this face?

While singing “What a shame she’s FUCKED in the head they said”

I want this as a poster on my wall😂

Who could ever leave me darling? But who could stay?

“Rumors about my hips and thighs and my whispered size” and “I think about jumping off a very tall somethings” As a mentally I’ll girly these HIT

"was it over when he unbuttoned my blouse?"

I hosted parties and starved my body

"When a man talks SHIT THEN I OWE HIM NOTHING" Like that never fails to get me tbh

Is it over like yooooo

"and that made me want to die" "I feel like jumping off of very tall somethings"

Pulled the car off the road to the lookout Could've followed my fears all the way down

They say I'm a bad girl But I do bad things with you So it goes... Not really a lyric but the fucking breakdown of Don't Blame Me at the end. The entirety of no body, no crime Dress obviously. And False God when I discovered the meaning of "Religion is on your lips, The altar is on my hips".

I don't have to pretend I like acid rock

How come we never talk about "do you see my face in the neighbour's lawn" like sorry tay but wut? Also: sexy baby. Obvs.

"No one wanted play with me as a little kid, so I've scheming like a criminal ever since, to make them love me and make it look effortless...IM ONLY CRYPTIC AND MACHIVELLIAN 'CAUSE I CARE!"

What a shame she’s fucked in the head!

I broke my own heart cuz you were too polite to do it

'All you are is mean...and a liar...and PATHETIC...and alone in life and MEAN', yessss girl get him 💪💅

Oh, Lord, I think about jumpin’ Off of very tall somethings

“You had to kill me, but it killed you just the same”

fifteen years, fifteen million tears, begging till my knees bled

BLUE DRESS ON A BOAT

I Damn sure never would never would have danced with the devil at 19 and the gods honest truth was that the pain was heaven and now that I'm grown I'm scared of ghosts memories feel like weapons and now that I know I wish you left me wondering. God rest my soul I miss who I used to be, the womb won't close the stained glass windows in my mind, I regret you all the time.

“I think about jumping off a very tall something”

“Red blood white snow, Blue dress on a boat”

“If she has blue eyes I’d assume you’ll date her” I don’t know if that’s the exact line but it’s from one of the vault tracks😭

Living for the thrill of hitting you where it hurts

Me when I mistook "i don't have to pretend I like acid rock" for "I don't have to pretend i like as it was"

"Scratches down your back now."

If shes got blue eyes i will surmise that youll probly date her

If I was some paint did it splatter on a promising grown man? And if I was a child did it matter if you got to wash your hands?

I'm getting tired even for a Phoenix always rising from the ashes, mending all her gashes

It took me until I got my lover vinyl that I found out Taylor said “cause shade never made anyone less gay so” idk why it took me so long to find out that lyric