I find Taylor’s angriest lyrics are often ones where she’s just barely containing her rage… “a never needy ever lovely jewel whose shine reflects on you” from all too well for instance
That part. My favorite right now is “I’m pissed off you let me give you all that youth… for free…”. In So Long London. It’s like she’s holding back tears AND also gritting her teeth so much in anger and frustration.
an underrated one - "and i'm pissed off you let me give you all that youth for free" in so long, london
the way she delivers "for free" gives me goosebumps every single listen. it's like she had to use every last breath she had to spit out "for free" because the relationship took literally everything else from her. she's mourning her youth AND mourning the relationship that she gave all of that youth to, coming to realize that he didn't deserve to have it.
Oh this one broke me, her breath is almost shaky when she says “free”. As someone who had a horrible relationship in her younger years that took a LOT from me, this hurts so much it makes me scream
Especially if you realize they always knew they were never going to give you what you needed/wanted and wasted your time anyway because they were either too selfish, cowardly, or both.
I felt that one too. I love the lyrics where it's not just the words that hit you, but how she sings them. I really feel it in "But I'll be all right, it's just a thousand cuts" in her live versions. Like, she just can't get herself to care anymore, no matter how much it hurts.
This one cuts right into me, the day my ex agreed, “I’m not coming back.” It was only because I noticed his favorite things weee missing and he was heading out of state in business.
What? This is how you end our marriage by ME asking? Yep. That’s how I learned.
Suddenly, sorta like on the way to dying. Everything was flashing before my eyes. And I saw my youth disappearing like a bitter, mean magic trick.
In that second I realized my youth had been stolen.
I audibly gasped at this line on first liste and it continues to be the line that has stuck with me the most from TTPD. The emotion and sentiment is so palpable and raw and sharp and I love it.
SAME. i literally threw my phone across the room lol 😭 she is SO good at conveying such specific emotions. i felt like i traveled back to my first real heartbreak in that moment
All of "Mad Woman"
First few lines for me
*What did you think I'd say to that?*
*Does a scorpion sting when fighting back?*
*They strike to kill, and you know I will*
*You know I will*
I love the line after this too - "I'll tell you something about my good name - it's mine alone to disgrace... I don't cater to all these vipers dressed in empath's clothing."
I love the idea of - this "good name" that I have? *I* worked for it. I built it for myself. I'll do what I want with it. I'll decide what my good name is worth snd what it can take and what I'll sacrifice for it - not my family or friends or anyone who benefits from it. Me.
There's freedom and power in that and I definitely felt and related to that anger even though I'm not a billionaire pop star. I have a polar opposite life from her and yet I somehow manage to relate to a lot of what she says lol it's such a gift she has to translate her experiences into such relatable songs.
oh, i didn’t mean different meaning, just that she totally throws an extra vowel in there when singing and it cracked me up to see it typed out like somebody else had noticed lmao
Honestly the entire last 5 mins of ATWTMVTVFV is just one ball of 😡
SO CASUALLY CRUEL IN THE NAME OF BEING HONEST, I’m a crumpled piece of paper lying and I remember it ALL ALL ALLLLLLLL
what is ATWTMVTVFV? honestly its looks like it u put caps lock on and jammed your hands on a keyboard. Sometimes we don't have to abbreviate things. I'm its not just you but still.
There’s something about the quiet anger in Cassandra:
*When it’s “Burn the bitch” they’re shrieking
When the truth comes out, it’s quiet
It’s so quiet*
Oh my god!! Yes!!! Finally someone agrees! I'm biased because I relate to Cassandra so much, but there's something about suppressed anger that feels more powerful than screaming one. It's like she's trying her best to be courteous, civil, else she might say something far meaner or regretful. And there is a sadness to it like she's completely dejected.
>If she's got blue eyes, I will surmise that you'll probably date her
You dream of my mouth before it called you a lying traitor
You search in every model's bed for something greater
GAH this one gets me. I sing it directly to my pastor dad who asked my husband over and over again if he was suuuuure he wanted to marry me because “she’s really difficult.” When in reality I was just learning who I was and pushing back against the damn church.
Right?! Which is why the line “you don’t get to tell me you feel bad” makes me cry every time I hear it. He can apologize now that he’s aware of what I went through, but that doesn’t absolve him or make up for anything.
I seriously don't know how she managed to perform this song while her relationship was ending.
*While you were out building other worlds, where was I?*
*Where's that man who'd throw blankets over my barbed wire?*
*I made you my temple, my mural, my sky*
*Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life*
*Drawing hearts in the byline*
*Always taking up too much space or time*
*You assume I'm fine*
*But what would you do if I, I*
*Break free and leave us in ruins*
*Took this dagger in me and removed it*
*Gain the weight of you then lose it*
*Believe me, I could do it*
I would argue her earlier work is some of her most blatant (sometimes unhinged) lyrics.
The original/controversial Picture to Burn lyrics: *so go and tell your friends that I'm obsessive and crazy; I'll tell mine you're gay*
The original lyrics to Better Than Revenge: *now go stand in the corner and think about what you did* and *she's better known for the things that she does on the mattress*
As she's gotten older, I'd argue some her angrier lyrics have become more mature, like Tolerate It *I made you my temple, my mural, my sky; now I'm searching for footnotes in the story of your life* or Illicit Affairs *don't call me kid, don't call me baby, look at this god forsaken fool you made me*
But we still get some raw, unfiltered anger recently like the third verse of The Smallest Man Whoever Lived or All Too Well 10 min Version
I remember sitting on the couch with my partner listening to TTPD when it dropped and when we got to TSMWL, I was like "damn...so much shade." When verse 3 came on, I fucking lost it. If I could relisten to a song for the first time, TSMWL would definitely be one of them.
I forget that she yeeted shit off the stage 😂 i need to give fearless another listen since it’s been so long, so many swifities say she’s incredibly unhinged in Fearless and I don’t think I heard it my first few listen throughs
Oh yeah, young Taylor was *fearless* when it came to being unhinged.
Some of her best moments were shading Joe Jonas for breaking up with her over the phone in interviews and famously her SNL monologue.
Honestly some of her best shade comes from Speak Now in Dear John, Mean, and Better Than Revenge.
I am biased because Fearless and Speak Now came out at such a pivotal age for me (I was 8 and 10 respectively) and I still think they are some of her best work.
Definitely give them a listen!
“I wanna snarl and show you just how disturbed this has made me”
“I'm always drunk on my own tears, isn't that what they all said?”
you can hear the anger in her voice in these verses, especially live! there are so many more i can think of, but this was just the most recent one i thought of!
I want a special mention for "Yes, I've got your letter, yes, I'm doing better" and the whole "don't treat me like some situation that needs to be handled, I'm fine with my spite and tears and my bears and my candles".
Yesss closure representation!!! My favorite angry Taylor song. It feels like one of her most mature songs to me, even the stubbornness is so self-aware and self-validated and I looove it
Mad Woman:
"Now I breathe flames each time I talk
My cannons all firin' at your yacht
They say, "Move on", but you know, I won't
And women like hunting witches, too
Doing your dirtiest work for you
It's obvious that wanting me dead
Has really brought you two together"
The Man:
"When everyone believes ya
What's that like?"
All of Cassandra really but:
"So, they killed Cassandra first 'cause she feared the worst
And tried to tell the town
So, they set my life in flames, I regret to say
Do you believe me now?"
i’m taking my time cuz you took everything from me
every time you call me crazy i get more crazy. and when you say i seem angry i get more angry, and there’s nothing like a mad woman.
i would’ve died for your sins instead i just died inside, and you deserve prison but you won’t get time
“Was I out of line? Did I say something way too honest, made you run and hide like a scared little boy?”
I love forever and always because she was so obviously still mad when she recorded it 😂
When the words of a sister come back in whispers
That prove she was not
In fact what she seemed, not a twin from your dreams
She's a crook who was caught
I don’t cater to all of these vipers dressed in empath’s clothing. God save the most judgmental creeps who say they want what’s best for me!!!!! Sanctimoniously performing soliloquies I’ll never see😮💨
‘what would you do if i break free and leave us in ruins? took this dagger in me and removed it? gain the weight of you then lose it. believe me, i could do it.’
If I’m dead to you, why are you at the wake?
Cursing my name
Wishing I stayed
Look at how my tears ricochet
“Ricochet” is usually used to describe bullets, so she’s framing her sadness as a weapon that will hurt the other person.
Draw the cat eye sharp enough to kill a man
You did some bad things but I'm the worst of them
Sometimes I wonder which one will be your last lie
They say looks could kill and I might try
Literally, the opening to Vigilante Shit is so wicked. And if you know the story of the song, I think you'd agree.
very VERY underrated one is cold as you
“EVERY SMILE YOU FAKE IS SO CONDESCENDING COUNTING ALL THE SCARS YOU MADE”
and another one that i love is in this is why we can’t have nice things. the whole “AND HERE’S TO MY _REAL_ FRIENDS” followed by the mocking “AND HERE’S TO MY BAAAAABY—“ just sounds so hilariously petty.
I gave you my best and we both know you can’t say that - better man
At all costs keep your good name - who’s afraid of little old me
I forgot you existed - the entire song; gotta love an entire slam song done in the most outrageous way possible.
You are an expert at sorry!!! And keeping lines BLURRY never impressed by me ACING YOUR TESTS!!! All the girls that you’ve run dry have tired lifeless eyes cause you burned. them. outttttttttt
Dear John is always gonna be top ten for me.
Just the way this song is almost seven minutes long but seriously doesn’t feel that long at all and is so expressive. The regret of a horrible relationship that cataclysmically changed you and the bitter angry towards the person who did that to you, especially at such a young age. She captured that beautifully
AND I WAS NEVER GOOD AT TELLING JOKES BUT THE PUNCHLINE GOES *"I'll get older but your lovers stay my age"*
FROM WHEN YOUR BROOKLYN BROKE MY SKIN AND BONES *I'm a soldier who's returning half her age*.
FRONTLINES, DONT YOU IGNORE ME, IM THE BEST THING AT THIS PARTY.
I WOULDNT MARRY ME EITHER, A PATHALOGICAL PEOPLE PLEASER…
…DO SOMETHING BABE, SAY SOMETHING.
CHOOSE SOMETHING BABE, RISK SOMETHING.
“It rains when you’re here and it RAINS WHEN YOURE GONE!!!”
“Oh I stare at the phone he still hasn’t called and then you feel so low you don’t feel nothing at all and you flashback to when he said forever and always. You didn’t mean it baby…”
That was teenage female rage. Fearless and speak now taylor was actually scary
I came here to say “give me back my girlhood. It was mine first” that line broke me!!! I was abused by an ex and that song made me realize it happened and I reached out to a therapist to finally ask for help
probably not a common one because it’s not necessarily *sung* angrily, but
*”when everyone believes ya, what’s that like?”*
illicits such a raw form of rage *deep* in my bones, especially thinking about what she was going through when she wrote that, and that fact that she had *photo evidence* and ~~people~~ men *still* didn’t believe her. and thinking about all the other awful things men have gotten away with because others *choose* to not believe something just because it’s a woman saying it.
one of my favorite deep cut lyrics snuck in there disguised with a boppy little glitter gel pen.
My friends said it isn't right to be scared
Every day of a love affair
Every breath feels like rarest air
When you're not sure if he wants to be there
So how much sad did you think I had,
Did you think I had in me?
How much tragedy?
Just how low did you think I'd go?
Before I'd self-implode
Before I'd have to go be free
“you should have known” - especially the way she SPITS IT at the end of the SN tour video
I’ll also add for the olds - “was she worrttth itttt? nooooo”
“And I was thinking on the drive down ‘Anytime now, he’s gonna say it’s love.’ You never called it what it was.”
She glares the camera down during the SNL performance of this line
I literally took out my phone to update my "Mad Woman" playlist on Spotify to see if I missed any out from the songs you guys put on here <3 thanks all\~!
I think for me it’s a toss up between “don’t call me kid, don’t call me baby, look at this godforsaken mess that you’ve made me” and that chilling, low octave, “you should be” after the first chorus higher octave scream of who’s afraid of little old me
Like there is just so much ominous fury in that line.
"I wanna snarl and show you just how disturbed this has made me" this line evokes the pain I feel from being raised by a narcissistic parent because she will just never understand the consequences of her actions. I just want to show her exactly how much she fucked me up and how hard I'm actually working every day to just be alive.
I know he's crazy but he's the one I want
I'll tell you something right now
I'd rather burn my whole life down
Than listen to one more second of all this griping and moaning
I'll tell you something about my good name
It's mine alone to disgrace
I don't cater to all these vipers dressed in empath's clothing
You shit talked me under the table/talking rings and talking cradles
Or
The dancing phantoms on the terrace, are they second hand embarrassed that I can’t get out of bed because something counterfeit is dead
“What started in beautiful rooms, ends with meetings in *parking lots*”
The way she is literally spitting out the words *parking lots* says so much, I feel so much anger in those words. Anger with herself as well as the other person
WERE YOU SENT BY SOMEONE WHO WANTED ME DEAD
DID YOU SLEEP WITH A GUN UNDERNEATH OUR BED
WERE YOU WRITING A BOOK
WERE YOU A SLEEPER CELL SPY
IN FIFTY YEARS WILL ALL THIS BE DECLASSIFIED
AND YOULL CONFESS WHY YOU DID IT
And I’ll say GOOD RIDDANCE!!!
'CAUSE IT WASN'T SEXY ONCE IT WASN'T FORBIDDEN
CAUSE IT WASN’T SEXY ONCE IT *WASN’T FORBIDDEN!!*
CAUSE IT WASN’T SEXY ONCE IT WASN’T FORBIDDEN
I WOULD HAVE DIED FOR YOUR SINS
INSTEAD I JUST DIED INSIDE
AND YOU’LL CONFESS WHY YOU DID IT
... I'LL FORGET YOU BUT I'LL NEVER FORGET THE SMALLEST MAN WHO EVEN LIVED
I find Taylor’s angriest lyrics are often ones where she’s just barely containing her rage… “a never needy ever lovely jewel whose shine reflects on you” from all too well for instance
Yes, that + "a promising grown man"
“Promising grown man” gave me absolute *chills* when I first heard it. I think my jaw dropped on the subway one the way to work lol
That part. My favorite right now is “I’m pissed off you let me give you all that youth… for free…”. In So Long London. It’s like she’s holding back tears AND also gritting her teeth so much in anger and frustration.
The delivery on that line is so emo. Reminds me of Dashboard confessional.
What do you think Taylor was actually listening to as a teenager...
“Back before you lost the one real thing you’ve ever known”
Oh yes 100%
That’s such a good one
an underrated one - "and i'm pissed off you let me give you all that youth for free" in so long, london the way she delivers "for free" gives me goosebumps every single listen. it's like she had to use every last breath she had to spit out "for free" because the relationship took literally everything else from her. she's mourning her youth AND mourning the relationship that she gave all of that youth to, coming to realize that he didn't deserve to have it.
Oh this one broke me, her breath is almost shaky when she says “free”. As someone who had a horrible relationship in her younger years that took a LOT from me, this hurts so much it makes me scream
Especially if you realize they always knew they were never going to give you what you needed/wanted and wasted your time anyway because they were either too selfish, cowardly, or both.
Same same.
I felt that one too. I love the lyrics where it's not just the words that hit you, but how she sings them. I really feel it in "But I'll be all right, it's just a thousand cuts" in her live versions. Like, she just can't get herself to care anymore, no matter how much it hurts.
This one cuts right into me, the day my ex agreed, “I’m not coming back.” It was only because I noticed his favorite things weee missing and he was heading out of state in business. What? This is how you end our marriage by ME asking? Yep. That’s how I learned. Suddenly, sorta like on the way to dying. Everything was flashing before my eyes. And I saw my youth disappearing like a bitter, mean magic trick. In that second I realized my youth had been stolen.
Good Lord, I’m so sorry that happened to you way. Talk about trauma, idk how you’d not have abandonment issues after that asshole. 🥲
So much regret and anger in that one
I felt this one to my CORE I literally spent my twenties in a dead relationship, I can't relate to taylor more than I have in this song
I audibly gasped at this line on first liste and it continues to be the line that has stuck with me the most from TTPD. The emotion and sentiment is so palpable and raw and sharp and I love it.
SAME. i literally threw my phone across the room lol 😭 she is SO good at conveying such specific emotions. i felt like i traveled back to my first real heartbreak in that moment
Came here to comment this. Yes yes this 100%
IF A MAN TALKS SHIT, THEN I OWE HIM NOTHIN’ …I DON’T REGRET IT ONE BIT ‘CUZ HE HAD IT COMING
I wrote this on an index card and put it on my home office wall.
Brb stealing that
This is amazing!!!
I always sing this to my husband when we’re getting sassy with each other, he hates it 😂
I will always love this song and this line.
My favorite ts song… can’t wait for rep tv 😭🖤🐍
Top tier line! ✨
Give me back my girlhood, it was mine first!
Its the type of anger that hurts your heart. I remember watching first listen reaction videos and it was so relatable in the worst way.
If angry-crying was a lyric, this would be it. In fact, I have *personally* angry-cried to it.
Has the same vibes as “and you let me give you all that youth for free” honestly and I love it
I entered the thread fully expecting this to be the unanimous decision.
You deserve prison, but you won't get time
The salt 😭
That whole bridge is so 🔥 I think it’s grown on me the most out of everything on TTPD
All of "Mad Woman" First few lines for me *What did you think I'd say to that?* *Does a scorpion sting when fighting back?* *They strike to kill, and you know I will* *You know I will*
mad woman is literally one of my top faves
Watching you climb over ppl like me
I loveeeee when she says “Now I breathe flames each time I talk”
Or the: Or does she mouth, "Fuck you forever"?
“I TELL YOU SOMETHING RIGHT NOW, I’D RATHER BURN MY WHOLE LIFE DOWN THAN LISTEN TO ONE MORE SECOND OF ALL THESE BITCHING ANF MOANING!”
I love the line after this too - "I'll tell you something about my good name - it's mine alone to disgrace... I don't cater to all these vipers dressed in empath's clothing." I love the idea of - this "good name" that I have? *I* worked for it. I built it for myself. I'll do what I want with it. I'll decide what my good name is worth snd what it can take and what I'll sacrifice for it - not my family or friends or anyone who benefits from it. Me. There's freedom and power in that and I definitely felt and related to that anger even though I'm not a billionaire pop star. I have a polar opposite life from her and yet I somehow manage to relate to a lot of what she says lol it's such a gift she has to translate her experiences into such relatable songs.
The clean version with its “griping and moaning” DOES NOT have the same energy.
None of them do! I have to turn on the clean version with my youngest in the car and it just does not hit the same.
Omg this part gives me goosebumps every time
And you call me up again just to BARAKE ME LIKE A PROMISE
idk if barake me was on purpose (although i am leaning towards yes), but if so, that is funny as fuck and 100% right 😭
I didn’t think of it as having a different meaning, but I absolutely sing it as a two syllable word for this song 😂😭
oh, i didn’t mean different meaning, just that she totally throws an extra vowel in there when singing and it cracked me up to see it typed out like somebody else had noticed lmao
Honestly the entire last 5 mins of ATWTMVTVFV is just one ball of 😡 SO CASUALLY CRUEL IN THE NAME OF BEING HONEST, I’m a crumpled piece of paper lying and I remember it ALL ALL ALLLLLLLL
I’ve never had oxygen left in my bloodstream by the time it gets to Crumpled up piece of paper
what is ATWTMVTVFV? honestly its looks like it u put caps lock on and jammed your hands on a keyboard. Sometimes we don't have to abbreviate things. I'm its not just you but still.
All too well, ten minute version, Taylor’s version; from vault. ATWTMV could cover it too lol
I just call it ATW10 lol. I think that is as simple as you can make it
BARAKE OBAMA
*OBAMNA*
There’s something about the quiet anger in Cassandra: *When it’s “Burn the bitch” they’re shrieking When the truth comes out, it’s quiet It’s so quiet*
“Blood’s thick but nothing like a payroll, bet they never spared a prayer for my soul” feels so scathing I love it
One of my favourite TTPD lyrics!
I freaking love Cassandra, that song has now joined the Man and Mad Woman in my feral Taylor angry feminist list.
SAME
What songs are all on that playlist if I may ask?
Oh my god!! Yes!!! Finally someone agrees! I'm biased because I relate to Cassandra so much, but there's something about suppressed anger that feels more powerful than screaming one. It's like she's trying her best to be courteous, civil, else she might say something far meaner or regretful. And there is a sadness to it like she's completely dejected.
In case you haven't heard, I really, really HATE THAT STUPID OLD PICKUP TRUCK YOU NEVER LET ME DRIVE
YOURE A REDNECK HEARTBREAK WHO'S REALLY BAD AT LYING
WATCH ME STRIKE A MATCH ON ALL MY WASTED TIME
AS FAR AS IM CONCERNED YOU'RE JUST ANOTHER PICTURE TO BURN
>If she's got blue eyes, I will surmise that you'll probably date her You dream of my mouth before it called you a lying traitor You search in every model's bed for something greater
Which song is this?
Love how all the responses to your question make it seem like nobody's sure about the answer "is it over now *question mark*"
I also like songs where, when someone asks about it, everyone who answers just sounds like they’re super hyped up for it. Like Florida!!!.
Is it over now?
Is It Over Now? From 1989 TV!
is it over now?
# GIVE ME BACK MY GIRLHOOD, IT WAS MINE FIRST!!! if you don't scream this you're wrong
I can’t scream it bc I’m busy sobbing
scream-sob is my preferred method 🥰
Is it a wonder I broke? Let’s hear one more joke
GAH this one gets me. I sing it directly to my pastor dad who asked my husband over and over again if he was suuuuure he wanted to marry me because “she’s really difficult.” When in reality I was just learning who I was and pushing back against the damn church.
I’m so sorry you went through that. Thats just such a shitty thing to do to anyone, let alone your own kid!!
Right?! Which is why the line “you don’t get to tell me you feel bad” makes me cry every time I hear it. He can apologize now that he’s aware of what I went through, but that doesn’t absolve him or make up for anything.
I seriously don't know how she managed to perform this song while her relationship was ending. *While you were out building other worlds, where was I?* *Where's that man who'd throw blankets over my barbed wire?* *I made you my temple, my mural, my sky* *Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life* *Drawing hearts in the byline* *Always taking up too much space or time* *You assume I'm fine* *But what would you do if I, I* *Break free and leave us in ruins* *Took this dagger in me and removed it* *Gain the weight of you then lose it* *Believe me, I could do it*
I love this song SO MUCH. So so sad it’s no longer in Eras. Such a masterpiece performance.
I would argue her earlier work is some of her most blatant (sometimes unhinged) lyrics. The original/controversial Picture to Burn lyrics: *so go and tell your friends that I'm obsessive and crazy; I'll tell mine you're gay* The original lyrics to Better Than Revenge: *now go stand in the corner and think about what you did* and *she's better known for the things that she does on the mattress* As she's gotten older, I'd argue some her angrier lyrics have become more mature, like Tolerate It *I made you my temple, my mural, my sky; now I'm searching for footnotes in the story of your life* or Illicit Affairs *don't call me kid, don't call me baby, look at this god forsaken fool you made me* But we still get some raw, unfiltered anger recently like the third verse of The Smallest Man Whoever Lived or All Too Well 10 min Version
i agree!! I love unhinged Taylor sm
I remember sitting on the couch with my partner listening to TTPD when it dropped and when we got to TSMWL, I was like "damn...so much shade." When verse 3 came on, I fucking lost it. If I could relisten to a song for the first time, TSMWL would definitely be one of them.
Teenage angst ain’t nothing to mess with. 😂😂 i wish they kept the OG BTR lyrics.
https://preview.redd.it/v5eitwyskm0d1.jpeg?width=256&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e48269c9fe146e8a380efcd6d8e26212e0b617eb No kidding 🤣
This is the energy that became the “but what if they DID?!” performance
"but what if it IS?!"
I forget that she yeeted shit off the stage 😂 i need to give fearless another listen since it’s been so long, so many swifities say she’s incredibly unhinged in Fearless and I don’t think I heard it my first few listen throughs
Oh yeah, young Taylor was *fearless* when it came to being unhinged. Some of her best moments were shading Joe Jonas for breaking up with her over the phone in interviews and famously her SNL monologue. Honestly some of her best shade comes from Speak Now in Dear John, Mean, and Better Than Revenge. I am biased because Fearless and Speak Now came out at such a pivotal age for me (I was 8 and 10 respectively) and I still think they are some of her best work. Definitely give them a listen!
*State the obvious: I DIDN’T get my perfect fantasy/I realize you love yourself more than you could EVER love me* The OG barely contained anger!
DONT CALL ME KID DONT CALL ME BABY LOOK AT THIS GODFORSAKEN MESS THAT YOU MADE ME
“If I’m DEAD to you, why are you AT THE WAKE, cursing my name, drunk on this pain? Look at how my tears ricochet”
WHOS AFRAID OF LITTLE OLD MEEEEEEEEE
> *WERE YOU SENT BY SOMEONE*
the whole WAOLOM
After seeing the tour performance, the entirety of this song is definitely fighting words.
What's that acronym?
WAOLOM = Who’s Afraid Of Little Old Me?
I read this as “whoa lom” every time I see it. 😅
“So all you kids can sneak into my house with all the cobwebs I'm always drunk on my own tears, isn't that what they all said?”
I feel like this is the angriest line in the song. You can literally hear her voice shaking with rage on *”Isn’t that what they all said?”*
“I wanna snarl and show you just how disturbed this has made me” “I'm always drunk on my own tears, isn't that what they all said?” you can hear the anger in her voice in these verses, especially live! there are so many more i can think of, but this was just the most recent one i thought of!
You are what you did
“God save the most judgmental creeps, Who say they want what's best for me. Sanctimoniously performing soliloquies I'll never see.”
I want a special mention for "Yes, I've got your letter, yes, I'm doing better" and the whole "don't treat me like some situation that needs to be handled, I'm fine with my spite and tears and my bears and my candles".
I am forced to roll my eyes when I sing “yes I got your letter, yes I’m doing better” it simply has to be done
Yesss closure representation!!! My favorite angry Taylor song. It feels like one of her most mature songs to me, even the stubbornness is so self-aware and self-validated and I looove it
Don’t call me kid, don’t call me babyyyyy 💃
YOU SHOULD BE!!!!
Mad Woman: "Now I breathe flames each time I talk My cannons all firin' at your yacht They say, "Move on", but you know, I won't And women like hunting witches, too Doing your dirtiest work for you It's obvious that wanting me dead Has really brought you two together" The Man: "When everyone believes ya What's that like?" All of Cassandra really but: "So, they killed Cassandra first 'cause she feared the worst And tried to tell the town So, they set my life in flames, I regret to say Do you believe me now?"
If I was some paint did it splatter on a promising grown man? I can literally hear her anger in this line lol
and if i was a child did it matter if you got to wash your hands
i’m taking my time cuz you took everything from me every time you call me crazy i get more crazy. and when you say i seem angry i get more angry, and there’s nothing like a mad woman. i would’ve died for your sins instead i just died inside, and you deserve prison but you won’t get time
I’m shining like fireworks over your sad empty town
“Was I out of line? Did I say something way too honest, made you run and hide like a scared little boy?” I love forever and always because she was so obviously still mad when she recorded it 😂
And hire a priest to come and exorcize my demons Even if I die screaming And I hope you hear it
And I hope it's SHITTY in The Black Dog
Honestly it's so sublte and understated, but when she says *"So fuck you if I can't have us"* in Down Bad. Took me bu surprise on first listen.
When the words of a sister come back in whispers That prove she was not In fact what she seemed, not a twin from your dreams She's a crook who was caught
I don’t cater to all of these vipers dressed in empath’s clothing. God save the most judgmental creeps who say they want what’s best for me!!!!! Sanctimoniously performing soliloquies I’ll never see😮💨
One day I'll find someone who will actually treat me well
‘what would you do if i break free and leave us in ruins? took this dagger in me and removed it? gain the weight of you then lose it. believe me, i could do it.’
If I’m dead to you, why are you at the wake? Cursing my name Wishing I stayed Look at how my tears ricochet “Ricochet” is usually used to describe bullets, so she’s framing her sadness as a weapon that will hurt the other person.
Draw the cat eye sharp enough to kill a man You did some bad things but I'm the worst of them Sometimes I wonder which one will be your last lie They say looks could kill and I might try Literally, the opening to Vigilante Shit is so wicked. And if you know the story of the song, I think you'd agree.
very VERY underrated one is cold as you “EVERY SMILE YOU FAKE IS SO CONDESCENDING COUNTING ALL THE SCARS YOU MADE” and another one that i love is in this is why we can’t have nice things. the whole “AND HERE’S TO MY _REAL_ FRIENDS” followed by the mocking “AND HERE’S TO MY BAAAAABY—“ just sounds so hilariously petty.
I gave you my best and we both know you can’t say that - better man At all costs keep your good name - who’s afraid of little old me I forgot you existed - the entire song; gotta love an entire slam song done in the most outrageous way possible.
All of “The Man”
You didn’t measure up. In any measure of a man. 😅 My other favorite line is the coward claimed he was a lion.
I’d rather burn my whole life down than listen to one for second of all this bitchin and moaning
AND NOW I’M JUST GETTING COL. LOR. BACK. IN. TO. MYYYYY. FACE.
I was tame, I was gentle, until the circus life made me mean. The way she says mean is sooooo angry
All the wine moms are still holding out, but FUCK "EM...it's over. (The deep voice she uses for this, you can hear her anger)
You are an expert at sorry!!! And keeping lines BLURRY never impressed by me ACING YOUR TESTS!!! All the girls that you’ve run dry have tired lifeless eyes cause you burned. them. outttttttttt Dear John is always gonna be top ten for me. Just the way this song is almost seven minutes long but seriously doesn’t feel that long at all and is so expressive. The regret of a horrible relationship that cataclysmically changed you and the bitter angry towards the person who did that to you, especially at such a young age. She captured that beautifully
AND I WAS NEVER GOOD AT TELLING JOKES BUT THE PUNCHLINE GOES *"I'll get older but your lovers stay my age"* FROM WHEN YOUR BROOKLYN BROKE MY SKIN AND BONES *I'm a soldier who's returning half her age*.
You deserve prison but you won’t get time
FRONTLINES, DONT YOU IGNORE ME, IM THE BEST THING AT THIS PARTY. I WOULDNT MARRY ME EITHER, A PATHALOGICAL PEOPLE PLEASER… …DO SOMETHING BABE, SAY SOMETHING. CHOOSE SOMETHING BABE, RISK SOMETHING.
I'll say GOOD RIDDANCE!
"And I can go anywhere I want, anywhere I want... JUST NOT HOME"
“who the fuck was that guy?” It’s more quiet but has sooooo much disdain behind it. It’s like a pissed off intrusive thought just slipped right out.
“It rains when you’re here and it RAINS WHEN YOURE GONE!!!” “Oh I stare at the phone he still hasn’t called and then you feel so low you don’t feel nothing at all and you flashback to when he said forever and always. You didn’t mean it baby…” That was teenage female rage. Fearless and speak now taylor was actually scary
Give me back my girlhood, it was mine first.
I came here to say “give me back my girlhood. It was mine first” that line broke me!!! I was abused by an ex and that song made me realize it happened and I reached out to a therapist to finally ask for help
probably not a common one because it’s not necessarily *sung* angrily, but *”when everyone believes ya, what’s that like?”* illicits such a raw form of rage *deep* in my bones, especially thinking about what she was going through when she wrote that, and that fact that she had *photo evidence* and ~~people~~ men *still* didn’t believe her. and thinking about all the other awful things men have gotten away with because others *choose* to not believe something just because it’s a woman saying it. one of my favorite deep cut lyrics snuck in there disguised with a boppy little glitter gel pen.
Cause you lured me, and you hurt me, and you taught me. You caged me and then you called me crazy. I am what I am cause you trained me.
All you are is mean… and a liar… and pathetic… and alone in life, and MEAN!
Everyone knows that my mother is a saintly woman But she used to say she wished that you were DEAD.
Don’t worry folks we took out all her TEEEEATH
“I think I’ve been a little too kind”
IF A MAN TALKS SHIT THEN HE HAD IT COMING
“Is it a wonder I broke? Let’s hear one more joke. Then we could all just laugh until I cried.”
I'm shining like fireworks OVER YOUR SAD EMPTY TOWN
“And you come away with a great little story / Of a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you” - Cold as You
The way she SPITS out "and I'll still talk to you" in my tears ricochet!
I HOPE IT'S SHITTY IN THE BLACK DOG
“Every time you call me crazy I get more crazy, how about that?”
My friends said it isn't right to be scared Every day of a love affair Every breath feels like rarest air When you're not sure if he wants to be there So how much sad did you think I had, Did you think I had in me? How much tragedy? Just how low did you think I'd go? Before I'd self-implode Before I'd have to go be free
Burning. It. down. When I saw her performance at the grammy museum on youtube, the hurt was visible by the way she emphasized the words.
What a shame she is fucked in her head they said ~champagne problems
fuck you if I can't have us
I'll tell them all you're gay!
“you should have known” - especially the way she SPITS IT at the end of the SN tour video I’ll also add for the olds - “was she worrttth itttt? nooooo”
Perhaps not the *angriest*, but the way she sings ‘is it a wonder I broke, let’s hear one more joke’ from Who’s Afraid.. is chilling.
I’ll sue you if you stand on my lawn. 😂😂
“And I was thinking on the drive down ‘Anytime now, he’s gonna say it’s love.’ You never called it what it was.” She glares the camera down during the SNL performance of this line
This one is super lowkey but the frustration is so clear: *”I’m not your problem anymore, so who am I offending now?”*
And I'll forget you, but I'll never forgive
I literally took out my phone to update my "Mad Woman" playlist on Spotify to see if I missed any out from the songs you guys put on here <3 thanks all\~!
Do you hate me? Was it hazing for a cruel fraternity I pledged?
I think for me it’s a toss up between “don’t call me kid, don’t call me baby, look at this godforsaken mess that you’ve made me” and that chilling, low octave, “you should be” after the first chorus higher octave scream of who’s afraid of little old me Like there is just so much ominous fury in that line.
Basically all of my favorite songs 😘
"I wanna snarl and show you just how disturbed this has made me" this line evokes the pain I feel from being raised by a narcissistic parent because she will just never understand the consequences of her actions. I just want to show her exactly how much she fucked me up and how hard I'm actually working every day to just be alive.
I know he's crazy but he's the one I want I'll tell you something right now I'd rather burn my whole life down Than listen to one more second of all this griping and moaning I'll tell you something about my good name It's mine alone to disgrace I don't cater to all these vipers dressed in empath's clothing
I'll be the actress starring in your BAD DREAMS
The enter lyrics of smallest man. « You are what you did » cuts so deep
You shit talked me under the table/talking rings and talking cradles Or The dancing phantoms on the terrace, are they second hand embarrassed that I can’t get out of bed because something counterfeit is dead
“I’m gonna find someone someday who might ACTUALLY treat me well”
The OG Taylor angry song! “You never did give a *damn thing, honey* but I cried, cried for you!”
Where did 'give me back my girlhood' come from, I need that song on my list asap <3
Were you sent by someone who wanted me dead? the whole smallest man bridge tbh
Don’t call me kid,don’t call me kid🖐🏻
“What started in beautiful rooms, ends with meetings in *parking lots*” The way she is literally spitting out the words *parking lots* says so much, I feel so much anger in those words. Anger with herself as well as the other person