GIRL It Is Time For A Restraining Order 🫣

the fact that the eras tour book sold 814k copies in its opening week alone, making it the biggest opening week for a book in 2024, is actually so insane — especially because it’s exclusive to one store. no one is doing it like her.

#Tayvoodoo

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wait omg

#1 diver in my heart 🤍

Getting parasocial on main again but the fact that she started this tour as the relationship she wrote those songs about was ending while she was embarking on this career-defining journey and EVERYTHING that has happened in the last 20 months both professionally and personally, and now she’s ending the final US show singing those same songs, reframing them to tell new stories about the memories she’s written about, is just so fucking cool and SO creatively fulfilling. She was terrified of if he ever walked away, but as she was leaving it felt like freedom. It’s death by a thousand cuts if we survive the Great War.

Everything changes, nothing stays the same, things you think are going to kill you end up leading to something new that changes your life. It’s pain and it’s joy and it’s loss and it’s growth. It’s just so, so special to see this happening in real time.

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your honor I would die for her

— Megan Fernandes, “Do You Sell Dignity Here?” from I Do Everything I’m Told

she emotionally devastates and then just. swims away. and we let her

happy lover 5th anniversary !! <3

my favorite choice ever at the very end of the black dog is when she whispers the final “screaming”. after literally screaming it the whole song, after she’s gone through all that grief and catharsis, you can hear her voice shake as it barely chokes out the word. And she’s so insistent the entire song that “old habits die screaming” like I will rage against you with my dying breaths! Loss and death and grief have made me angry and vengeful and you will feel the flames of my wrath!!! But in the end, after she goes through all the accusations and the blame and the vitriol and confusion and the cruelty and injustice of it all, she has no more fight left in her. she realizes in real time that this is what grief and letting go actually feels like, the summation of it all at the end. It’s perhaps in conversation with that TS Eliot poem: “This is how the world ends, not with a bang but with a whimper.” The journey through all of that sorrow and pain and grief and loss doesn't end in a blinding magnificent rage and it’s over, as much as she wanted it to, with indignation and vengeful pride. Instead, it’s a long drawn out suffering and when she finally gets to the end of her grief, it has drained everything from her. she may have the last word, but it'll be nothing more than a pitiful whisper.