Chaos Enthusiast ❤️‍🔥

taylor watching travis score a touchdown during his 200th NFL game and immediately jumping up to celebrate is genuinely so sweet and what gets me is how completely unfiltered those little reactions are. for someone whose own performances have been watched and analyzed by millions, she gets to experience the excitement of being in the audience for somebody she loves because she spends so much of her life creating moments for other people to celebrate. i love seeing her have moments where she’s simply the person cheering.

i feel like one of the most overlooked things about taylor’s songwriting is how much range she allows herself. she can write something as emotionally intricate as ‘right where you left me’ and then turn around and make a song like ‘paper rings’ that feels like the most joyful, ridiculous declaration of love imaginable. and neither approach is less valuable. sometimes brilliant songwriting means finding the exact metaphor for a feeling you’ve spent years trying to explain. other times, it means capturing happiness so effortlessly that people immediately want to sing along and i love that she doesn’t treat emotional complexity and playfulness as opposites. she understands that being human involves both. not every song needs to devastate you to demonstrate how talented its writer is.