Taylor comparing love bombing to an alien abduction is just too good. Her mind is amazing

@kcrun

Ай бұрын

Let’s remember it is art, so she has said many times it’s hyperbolic

Waiting for The smallest man who ever lived and So long, London reactions... hands down the best songs on the album

@ninimeggie4771

Ай бұрын

Not a fan of so long , London. But definitely looking forward to the smallest man who ever lived

@haidaryaguare3210

Ай бұрын

And loml 😭

@tom_j.

Ай бұрын

@@haidaryaguare3210 yesss

@13_shades_of_red

Ай бұрын

Are we forgetting "who's Afraid Of Little Old Me" and the masterpiece "loml"

@sarahcarry4037

Ай бұрын

And I can do it with a broken heart!

From an article on internet: Describing the meaning behind the song in her iHeartRadio listening party for 'The Tortured Poets Department', Taylor said: "The metaphor in ‘Down Bad’ is that I was comparing sort of the idea of being love bombed. Where someone…rocks your world and dazzles you and then just kind of abandons you." She continued: "This girl is abducted by aliens but she wanted to stay with them…And then when they drop her back off in her hometown, she’s like, ‘Wait, no, where are you going? I liked it there! It was weird but it was cool. Come back!’" Taylor ended by saying: "And so…the girl in the character in the song felt like, ‘I’ve just been exposed to a whole different galaxy and universe and didn’t know it was possible, how could you just put me back where I was before?’"

@FrancesBaconandEggs

Ай бұрын

I love the story of the song so much. As someone who is obsessed with scifi, I feel like I would very much cry about aliens abandoning me on Earth

@kerrisouth

Ай бұрын

Beautiful!

@icesparklefrost7511

Ай бұрын

I love this so much

@chelsiewaite1606

Ай бұрын

I love this 🤍

@roselamoure

Ай бұрын

That song was definitely about Joe Alwyn. He helped her and took her with him into his world out of the limelight and mostly England and introduced her to his life which she wasn’t accustomed to. She was in this glitz and glam life and Joe was a change and it‘s probably also a metaphor for him helping her escape her mindset, her depressed sad lonely mindset that she always was in but now that they broke up, it‘s gone and the security was gone. I think Joe was the love of her life but who knows.

The fact that you knew it was about love bombing from literally the first lyric let's me know this reaction is going to be good.

When you’re listening to the album know that she’s finally found a guy who LOVES her. All of her. He’s not afraid of her fame. He’s the best at what he does like her. Even her bodyguards put down their guard when he’s with her. Travis would rip anyone apart that came after her. He couldn’t be more different than her other guys. He’s weird and goofy enough to match her but down to earth also. She’s HAPPY. Just remember that.

"for a moment I was heaven struck" chokes me up .💔

@jonesyluvsme

Ай бұрын

I kept hearing it as "having a stroke"

@kennethcarvajal5265

Ай бұрын

Same 😊

@ChessieChess

Ай бұрын

“For a moment I knew cosmic love” chokes me up. My ex and I used to stare at the stars all the time. And he would say that I was “cosmic” because I’m in tune with the Universe. 😢

The twin reference- She also referred to Matty as her twin flame, plus his songwriting/ artistry is on her level

@Eragon2679

Ай бұрын

She also used that term for Jake Gyllenhaal, so there's that. 😅

@yettykitty4893

Ай бұрын

Matty was born 4/8/1989 so he’s an Aries which is a Fire Sign (same as Sagittarius which is Taylor). If you Google Aries, it says they have a “cosmic love”, hence the reference to being abducted by aliens and experiencing “cosmic love” then being left in a field all alone so abruptly but she longs for that cosmic love and doesn’t want to leave and be back to earth without him. When sing “waving at the ship”, she’s referring to the spaceship that Matty “abducted her on”.

@JodiHummel-ty7bu

Ай бұрын

I’m think her and Joe connected musically more than her and matt

"So...... he's a dick" made me spit out my coffee. Accurate.

@mendwithmere

Ай бұрын

😂

I really like the metaphorical imagery of Aliens and alien abduction! The “beam me up” and “do experiments on” but also “wave at the ship” “and come pick me up”

I think most of folklore/evermore/midnights was Taylor coming to terms with the red flags and end of her relationship with Joe. She’s already processed it and was ready to start over and then Matty came along promising everything Joe wouldn’t just to mess with her for a while

@anabelleh2069

Ай бұрын

Exactly, thank you I’ve been feeling the same way every time people react to this amazing album and say wait it’s not all about Joe? It’s about that guy??? How do people not get it?

@khills

Ай бұрын

I mean, I thought Midnights was a breakup album the first time I heard it. 😂 I think they were definitely having issues for years - which makes sense, given when we know she wrote You’re Losing Me. And she talks about ending the entire thing in one swift conversation. But I think there was still a lot of grief - I imagine she didn’t realize, when she yanked the whole sky down, that THAT was the end. And almost immediately, she’s love bombed with someone who appears to be offering everything she was just starting to come to grips with having lost. So she didn’t actually have to deal with the actual end of the long, thought it was forever, relationship, because she has this new perfect rings and babies and everything. Until that disappeared too. And now she has the anger of what Healy did to her, but she also now has to go back and actually process the grief of Joe, too. But now that’s tied to Healy and her manic decisions, not JUST the end of the six years, and it’s all together and that’s why the album is such a mishmash of “wait, who is this one about again?” 🤷🏼‍♀️

@Seldarius

Ай бұрын

@@khills Completely agree with your take. Taylor is one of those people who tend to not be single for long (no judgement there, I am, too). She literally wrote about the „getaway car“ before that she needed to get out of a dying relationship. The problem with jumping out of a six year relationship into the next starry eyed lovey dovey stage was that there wasn’t much room to process. And when that relationship fell through, the grief would’ve been double. She also has added more and more fiction in recent years, so I don’t think deciphering every song for clues to her real life always makes sense. Btw I don’t think Folklore or Evermore were break-up albums, though Midnights had some pretty clear hints that she was ready to move on. Unfortunate. I was truly hoping she had found „The 1“. Maybe Travis is the lucky last? 🤞

@juliameyer10313

Ай бұрын

I think in general one can apply that logic to relationships. A long relationship gives you the chance to see it dying down, getting over the rose tinted glasses. If you're in the honeymoon phase, above the clouds and one party cuts the other off suddenly it can cause a deeper fall

“The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” is kind of the follow-up to this. It’ll make you say “OUCH” in an entirely different way.

I will say that sometimes you are so heartbroken about a long term relationship then if/when you get lovebombed, and they just leave…… that can hurt more. Rubbing salt and hot peppers in that already fresh wound of loss.

This is a super heavy song and people who aren’t trained in recognizing toxic relationships or haven’t had the experience themselves would probably miss a lot of the metaphors. (I’ve seen younger ladies touting this one as something to be attained, which is super disturbing to me.) my favorite line is “They’ll say I’m nuts if I talk about the existence of you” it falls in well with the alien metaphor but also, doubles as meaning for those who’ve dealt with toxic or abusive situations. People are hesitant to believe when you try to explain your experience because either the person has a reputation for being charming/kind or they just think you’re crazy because “omg but they were so nice to you and did all those nice things. How could they be bad? You’re crazy”. It took me a few listens before that line really hit me.

@Sitting_on_a_perch

Ай бұрын

Talking about “the existence of you” can also refer to how one feels after a breakup - I want to talk about it/ process it but I don’t think people want to hear about it - the nuances of a relationship, how confused one feels, I loved you and it’s over, it may have been bad at the end but there good times too. Keeping it to yourself bc people can look at you and judge you for missing someone/ something that was so obviously “wrong” for you, or the “jeez you’re still talking about that?” Breakups/ divorces can be extremely isolating, it’s a death/ loss but the other person is still walking around. Tough all around

@khills

Ай бұрын

Maybe, but it could also be people would think she was nuts for talking about him because by that point in time, he’d made a pretty bad name for himself. It could be along the lines of “you’re crazy, aliens don’t exist” and “you’re crazy, a good version of that person does not exist.”

@samanthaswade7053

Ай бұрын

I understand where you're coming from but I don't think that's entirely fair to judge others for singing to this w passion, Taylor doesn't regret. You live and you learn. Noone actually died. Love hurts, being alive hurts. Not everything's gonna work out. It's good to feel your feelings, it's cathartic. She's aware of how emotional she is and I see that as a good thing.

I found it so fascinating in the album, the difference between the joe songs and the matty songs. The joe songs, even back to "You're losing me ", was a slow painful death which she saw and felt it coming, and is its own kind of terrible grief. But the matty songs, like this, are this horrible in your face heartbreak. She is so brilliant with the song writing, and so brave and strong to do the eras tour with all this loss and heartbreak inside. "I can do it with a broken heart "made me cry.

@that.geek.girlie

Ай бұрын

She seems so blindsided in the Marty songs.

Writing about falling for a mad love bomber as an alien abduction is perfect and further proof of Taylor Swift’s sarcastic wit. I’m now really looking forward to - although with a bit of trepidation - your reaction to The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived.

If she is referencing Matt Healy in this song, she would have started seeing him after Joe. From my understanding, she was feeling ignored and starved for affection after Joe. She would have been going into a relationship with Matt ready for all the attention and love she could get. I think he would have known that and he chose to take advantage of her. I’ve had a similar experience, it sucks when reality sets in. I also completely agree when you said the time frame of a relationship doesn’t always decide its impact on you, no one gets to decide how meaningful something was for another person, regardless of time spent.

@khills

Ай бұрын

She does say she was love bombed by a bad man in her poem that’s in the liner notes of the album.

And teenage petulance could ALSO refer to the way she's received if she says anything. No matter what she felt, if she tries to get express it, she's 'So immature, writes like a teenager..."

Once again with the upbeat catchy, dare I say “fun” feel of the song that is so trivial and sad. She is so good about making a cohesive album. Also, I want to throw out my theory that she makes one song based on multiple experiences that relate to the same topic, which may mean different relationships she’s had and not necessarily just one. It’s a thought I have that I feel is true and makes a lot of sense, as we know she draws from all her experiences. Love the reaction! Thank you! “Delicate” subject matter, as is all this album!! Be well!

@mendwithmere

Ай бұрын

Yes, I think the multiple experiences is very true!!!

@AiSayuriChan

Ай бұрын

That's what I've been saying, too :) TTPD sounds a lot like she mixed different experiences that fit the theme/narrative of the song.

@kerrisouth

Ай бұрын

Only one guy rocked her world that way after many years of a lifeless relationship. Seems easiest to me to just think of the song as about him. After listening to this album multiple times, I feel like I know this man a little better. I respect him. I'd like to listen to a couple of his best songs.

@AiSayuriChan

Ай бұрын

@@kerrisouth I'm sorry but your reply is a little confusing to me. "Many years of a lifeless relationship" is nowhere stated and Taylor spent years writing lovesongs about Joe, so... They were only together for 6 years, so where do your "MANY years" come from? I wonder if we've listened to the same album if you're really trying to say Matty Healy is a good guy? According to her songs he behaved like the most basic f-boy: wanting something that wasn't his ("Mr Steal your girl, then make her cry"), making promises he never intended to keep (all the marriage & kids references), ghosting... I mean, idk his side of the story. But if you respect the man more after listening to TTPD, it just confuses me because the man described on this album doesn't sound like someone I'd respect. Especially not after having had my fair share of f-boys before.

@Seldarius

Ай бұрын

Thanks for pointing that out. I notice a lot of shades of different relationships in some of her songs (along with some fiction, I think). One thing too: I imagine after the rebound with Healy failed spectacularly, the heartache about her lost relationship with Joe would‘ve come back with a vengeance. Nobody gets over a six year relationship in a couple weeks, but you can put a Band-Aid on by jumping into a new relationship. So, the heartbreak from both failed relationships probably happened more or less together - which is bloody awful to even think about, much more to have to perform a massive tour through.

Her 'like I lost my twin' is about Matty and how he likes writing poetic song lyrics (like Taylor, so similar interests), and also how he's known to kinda 'mirror' the vibes of whom he's talking to (see him on chicken shop date to see an example of him doing this, he just 'yes ands' whatever the other party is going for). It's a technique to be 'charismatic', but can make the counterpart wonder after a while where the 'playful' personality that just vibes ends, and his 'real' personality begins. Also, her 'I'll built you a fort on some planet where they can all understand it' is a reference to his controversial quotes and how his defense of the quotes was that he was being 'artistic' and that people who take offense just don't understand him (a defense that personally drives me crazy and seems to mostly be used by a certain type of full-of-himself straight young white guy, imo)

@priiifrg

Ай бұрын

Come on. You don't even know the guy. The only thing we can assume from this line is that she thought they were really similar, kindred spirits you might say. That's it. Anything more is cruel speculation on your part.

@AnjeannetteMarie

Ай бұрын

I agree about the “twin” artistry thing, she saw something creative in him that she could understand and, I assume, he either did or pretended to see in her and that made her feel seen/connected and then poof, he was gone

@FishareFriendsNotFood972

Ай бұрын

@@priiifrg Taylor Swift makes autobiographical art that invites the listener to speculate. That is how many of her fans enjoy engaging with her, including me right now. I am indeed speculating! I think it helps listeners to emotionally engage with the art more, to 'world build' and therefore invest more. I understand your discomfort with that, the public discourse on private lives. I agree there can be big problems with that, like para social idealization, believing you have more intimacy with celebs than people in your own life, online bullying, etc. I guess it's up to every individual as to what level of speculation they deem to be 'cruel', and if you have different levels to which you feel comfortable than I, I respect that! Have a good one 🙂

@ChessieChess

Ай бұрын

I’m all for speculation, especially when it comes to her lyrics, but in all fairness you didn’t use words like I believe, or I think, you wrote “is” more than once, as if your theories were fact. It also didn’t sit right with me that you stereotyped Matty. There’s plenty of people on this planet, that feel misunderstood-it’s not restricted by gender or age. But I do hear you, and I think some of what you said is likely on point.@@FishareFriendsNotFood972

I just became a member, cause your reactions are so good to be missed. I love your work, and your vulnerability (no it's not something bad, as people sometimes say). You seem so strong and I like how you explain things.

@mendwithmere

Ай бұрын

Thank you! This means SO MUCH

you should definitely react to loml! in my opinion its the most devestating song on the album

My situationship dragged out for 9 years, and it messed me up worse than relationships did. Part of it is the idea of what it could be, and the unfulfilled longing. But also the avoidant ‘safety’ of knowing it’s doomed. And you never fully past it while it’s still going on. I didn’t until I saw on Facebook that he got married.

I don't know if this is healthy or not but I'm married to someone who will almost definitely pass away before me (we're the same age but she has cystic fibrosis) and I feel like this and I Can Do It With A Broken Heart are gonna be the songs that get me through that.

@jroundy1067

Ай бұрын

I'm sorry. That must be very difficult. I'm sure you already do this, but remember to try to make the best of every moment you do have with her now.

Cant wait for "i can do it with a broken heart" reaction from you.

i just know you are great at what you do from the way you instantly catch the behaviour patterns and themes of the song! absolutely loved your reaction when she sings f you if i cant have us haha

@mendwithmere

Ай бұрын

Wow, thank you!

hi from brazil!! your videos help me understand my feelings and that’s really beautiful, even more with a ts soundtrack ❤

I always love your videos because you really break the lyrics down from such an emotional standpoint. I’m really happy you also caught on to the fact that she couldn’t say/sing the word “over.” I’ve seen a lot of people react on here or comment on videos and they don’t get what she’s saying. They ask if she forgot the lyric or what she was talking about. I’m not judging them at all. I was just surprised by how many people didn’t catch on to it.

@ChessieChess

Ай бұрын

Yes! I love that. If she says it’s over, it makes it real, and that is too much to bear. I couldn’t say “ex” for a really long time. I said “former partner” 😢😢

Ooh I’d be interested to hear your take on I Hate It Here!

The "like I lost my twin" was a twin flame reference, not a physical twin 😅

@augustllhzn1120

Ай бұрын

Yeah, I think that's what she meant too..

Very surprised that "safe and stranded" was missed and uncommented on

@mendwithmere

Ай бұрын

Can’t get them all. That was an important lyrics.

Not sure if anyone has said this (I’m feeling a little too lazy to look through, sorry) but I would also read her intro to the album that mentions “the tick, tick, tick of love bombs” as well as the epilogue poem by her essentially explaining why most of the songs are (allegedly) about Matty vs Joe. Oh also absolutely agree with wanting reactions to So Long, London and The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived. Also I Can Do It With A Broken Heart will likely break your heart especially if you watch the lyric video and personally I need the commiseration 🫠

Please do Peter I'm super intrigued to know what you think...I think it may be linked the Betty/August/James. It has references in it. It is clearly about a relationship falling apart and we know Betty forgives James but leaves the relationship in adulthood. Peter Pan is a big feature in the song, referenced in Cardigan. As well as suggestions that 'you were gonna grow up and come find me'- James excused his behavior with his age. The song also references how her life was never as easy as his. We can infer Betty isn't the most stable based on the song Betty and Cardigan. And could this be because Betty felt forced into forgiving James? Because everyone else had already forgiven him due to his gesture of showing up at a party?

I LOVE the line "Like I lost my twin." It's such a juxtaposition of how she had him on such a pedestal but he discarded her like she was nothing. The secondhand embarrassment you get from it, but also the empathy for her. 😢

LOVE these videos! Can’t wait to see your break down of more of her songs! ❤

As always, loved your take. My impression of TTPD is that this is sort of a stream of consciousness processing of her more unhealthy, petulant, vindictive, or victim mindset thoughts while she was processing a double heartbreak. So, I'm taking these songs as this is how she felt in a moment and the writing of the song is actually what got her to other side of it, in this case anger (eff you if I can't have us) vs how she starts, hurt, vulnerable and clearly still longing for him. Because she has a whole lotta bath!t crazy in these lyrics, but you can see that she isn't still in this now, that she is apparently very happy and wholly invested in her relationship with Travis, is clearly productive and being appropriately social, so my interpretation is this is voicing the extremes we all feel in immediate grief as she passes through, not her trying to actually prolong a bad relationship or really giving into the unhealthy codependent impulses she probably has. And this could be helpful IMO because I think people in general benefit when we recognize that just because we think or feel something doesn't make it right or valid or worth acting on, but it's ok to think and feel it anyway. Most people think stuff along these lines, but they're too ashamed to admit, and it's when you repress and ruminate a shameful thought that it's damaging. Feeling temporarily enraged or hopeless is just life, but as with most uncomfortable emotions, it's not culturally appropriate to discuss them and Taylor is blowing that out of the water.

@ericalane7220

Ай бұрын

Great view points! I think you are correct. I think TS is very good at holding onto the emotions she goes through in her life experiences without letting them hold her back from moving forward. She seems to be able to look back on her past relationships and see everything she went through from an observers perspective as well as remember the depths of her emotions and thoughts during those times as well. Her song “Memoir” is a perfect example of what I am trying to convey. I hope the very best for her in all aspects of her life.

I cannot wait for more TTPD reactions from you. I really appreciate your thoughts, thanks for sharing!

i was so excited to see another upload :D i feel like it is so easy for a casual listener to miss the depth and really heartbreaking implications of some of these songs on ttpd with the production and hauntingly catchy beats. thats why i really enjoy your reacitons/breakdowns. sometimes they challenge my own interpretations and it's always so intriguing to see it from someone else's perspective. i can't wait to see your thoughts on some of my favs like I Can Do It With A Broken Heart, But Daddy I Love Him, The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived, and Guilty As Sin?, loml, and The Prophecy if you end up doing more!! i dont know if you plan to do EVERY song, but i'll be watching whatever comes next. ty for the video!!

@mendwithmere

Ай бұрын

Oh yes, I plan to do every single one! Thank you for the love!!

@rturney6376

Ай бұрын

@@mendwithmere❤❤❤❤

@actuallysara

Ай бұрын

@@mendwithmere yay i cant wait!! thank you for the videos!!

@icesparklefrost7511

Ай бұрын

@@mendwithmere YAY

Loved your reaction! I love how this song is in the key of B Major and this key at a high frequency (500hz) is said to help with dementia. Might not be an actual intention but if it is then it would definitely tie in with the theme of ‘forgetting’ what’s happened or being unsure what has happened.

Love these videos!! Can't wait for you to do Loml , smallest man, so long London and the prophecy!

You're amazing, thank you for every video and advice and everything

Omg I love your series!!!!

Pantienly waiting for how did it end? reaction I swear the bridge makes me cry every time

Mere! i really love your videos and everything you explain about psychology in such an interesting and easy to understand way. Greetings from Mexico City.

waiting for so long london 😩

I genuinely didn't realize I am still in a way, down bad, after being ghosted by someone when we were together for 8 months. Already had abandonment issues. It has been almost 5 years and I haven't been able to move on. It destroyed me. Not even the f'ing person. The ACTION of inaction was brutal.

@samanthaswade7053

Ай бұрын

I'm so sorry. It does sound like you are healing tho. Life's a bitch. ❤

You should definitely listen to "The Prophecy" from TTPD: the Anthology has a theme that really fits with what you talked about here.

I relate so hard to this song as a teenager. I’ve never had a romantic relationship but I am/was very sui/dal since high school started 3 years ago. This song is something I relate to so much because it makes me feel like I’m not alone and it’s truly resonant with me.

@ginorincon9183

Ай бұрын

please hang in there. I also had a very rough time in high school, but cliche as it sounds, it gets better if you hold on to the slightest bit of hope

@warcatfurever101writeroffanfic

Ай бұрын

@@ginorincon9183 thank you! I have been hanging in there for the past few years. ❤️❤️❤️

I interpreted the "like I lost my twin" more as if she lost her other half, or her mirror. She saw them as fated soulmates, and he was her missing piece because she felt like they had a connection. She also had a 10-year flirtation with this guy, so it seemed like her big comeback with the eras tour lining up with him "coming back for her" was meant to be.

@bramvanderlinden3059

Ай бұрын

Agree. Marry & Taylor have been attracted to each other for 10 years. But it was an impossible love. He was 'the bad guy', she was the sweet girl. But they found each other in their live for writing poetry and songs. He was the guy she always went to after a break-up. To have sex, to cuddle, to talk, ... They kept in touch all the time, communicating also through song lyrics of both of them. And then, after the break-up with Joe, Matty was probably the first one she went to. But this time their relation became public. After a couple of weeks, there must have happened something between them that ended their friendship forever.

BARRRFFF! 🤑🤑🤑 Best reaction EVER Mere! Yes some guys are just BARF!

Love your videos Mere 😍🤩

My second video. This is a pre video comment. Just want to say I'm super excited about this one.

I think you would love the song ‘Robin’ if you haven’t listened to it yet! It’s written about Aaron Dessner’s child and it is so sweet. 🥲

Another beautiful wise reaction, thank you

Just a different perspective on this song: I have a friend who lost her husband and is a young widow. She looks at this song from the position of grief of losing someone who died which is a bit of a different perspective but is definitely something interesting to think about. Loved the video!

I can do it with a broken heart is so dark with such an upbeat beat lol

hope to get more ttpd reactions ❤

I wanna hear you talk about the bolter pls! My fav song and a different vibe and i found the reflection and acceptance refreshing in a way

I love listening from your perspective! I would love to see you reeact "The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived" and "The Prophecy"

I was just wondering what color you painted on your nails-- it's so pretty!!!

Omg I just woke up and I got treated to this! OH HAPPY DAY!

When you said time doesn’t matter is sooo true. My first boyfriend I broke up with after a year and I didn’t feel anything really. The one after was only 2 months and this song explains exactly how I felt. Taylor just knows what everyone goes through at some point. She’s just amazing❤

As someone who lives with passive SI pretty constantly, this (and other songs) have hit so hard but I still can't stop listening to them all.

The prophecy plzz ❤ and this was amazing

There was a guy I really liked last summer. He was my first crush where I got hopeful that things would happen between us but it went didn't work out between us. Now when I listen to Taylor Swift songs I start to understand those feelings.

Thank you for reacting to Down bad. This song just validates what I have experienced in the past and then knowing she is happier now with Travis gives me hope 💖 Can you please react to But daddy I love him and I can fix him (no really I can) Those 2 songs really have an important message and I want to know what you think ❤️

Would love to see you react to Peter or the prophecy :)

"hostile takeover" She also calls him "steal your girl" in another song. Which I think goes back to the really long comment I left on your My Boy only Breaks... Video. I think he felt safe to flirt with a woman in a long-term, committed relationship, not realizing she was looking for a reason to leave. He talked her up, called her his Queen (she mentions being his queen at least twice in the album, so I feel it was significant), then bailed as soon as he realized she was taking his shit-talking (also her words) seriously.

YAY, ONE OF MY FAVS FROM TTPD

The twin reference: in the Fortnight music video she has the same tattoos as Post Melon. Just thinking about it.

@mendwithmere

Ай бұрын

Oooh good point

Do I can do it with a broken heart next! Love your content!

@mendwithmere

Ай бұрын

It’s Essie! 300 play date :)

@alissawilson1068

Ай бұрын

@mendwithmere I can't tell you how much you responding made my day! Hope you have a wonderful day!

Was thinking when she talks about twin its like the twin flame stuff in the new age

I feel like I’ve been slowly building myself up from a relationship like this for almost 4 years now. I can’t even imagine dating someone else yet, I don’t know how she moves on so fast. 😕

@Suprachiasmatic

Ай бұрын

(Which isn’t a judgment towards her choices at all, I just personally couldn’t do it.)

I love this woman

Mere!! Please react to the smallest man who ever lived!! I love your reactions and analysis

I'd love to hear his side. I'd never heard of him or them til now and wow I really love their music. It can't really be as literal as we all want it to be.

@ChessieChess

Ай бұрын

They are amazing. They have sooo many good songs.

The number of times she talks about ending it in this album actually scared me

@khills

Ай бұрын

That and the “covert alcoholism” - because then you start suddenly noticing all the lines about drinking and alcoholism in the last couple of albums, and just… damn.

You should do the whole album

Mere, I felt exactly like that four years ago when my best friend (female, not romantic) abandoned me. Cut ties, blocked me on everything. I was having a hard time with my depression and she too said I would be "better off alone". It literally broke me. I became suicidal, agoraphobic, had to go through so many treatments, like ECT... I am still very sore and confused. But is it weird to think of her and that situation in what's clearly a romantic song? Is there something wrong here? With me? -- just to make clear: I never had any romantic feelings for her, ever. I thought of her like my sister. And that's why it hurts so much when Taylor sings "like I lost my twin"...

You have to do the whole album 🥹

please react to loml, the black dog, the smallest man who ever lived!

Thanks so much

speaking on behalf of my teenage self… the waking up in blood feels a little too on the nose for anyone who struggles/struggled with sh. breakups make that shit wild let me tell you. along with trying to unsubscribe from life.

Mere, i NEED to see your reaction to "The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived"

Oof... this reaction reminded me that we need to talk about The Tortured Poets Department (track) 😬😬

Please remember that we don’t know who these songs are about! The only one who knows is Taylor! On this album she has songs about all types of relationships she’s been in. It’s not a game of Joe or Matty!

@dilafng

Ай бұрын

THIS!!!! 100%. She’s an artist and a creator. We know she’s written many songs about fictional characters. We also know she loves sad songs. Not everything she writes is based 100% on her own personal reality or experience. Or maybe I just tell myself that because it’s too devastating otherwise. 💔

@ZeBeFruity

Ай бұрын

100% agree. Joe, Matty and Kim K are surface level.

And she didn’t say “over” because he ghosted and never said it was over.

Please react to the prophecy and the albatross!

So Long London is tbh my favourite song on the album. Don't know, I feel conflicted about London myself so I somewhat relate to it

I love your reactions to the tourtured poets department album so far! I think some other songs you'd be able to break down well are I Can Fix Him(no really i can), i csn do it with a broken heart, how did it end? and i hate it here but i also think you'll love this whole album :) if you want some happier songs i'd reccomend the alchemy and so high school🖤🖤🤍🤍

next is I Hate it Here Please

The I might just not get up also reminds me of You're Losing Me. "I'm getting tired even for a phoenix", like why get up again and again?

Please, do a video about "i can do it with a broken heart"

for those who’re going through a bad breakup like Taylor is referring in that song, i have some advice to add: think that now you don’t need to step on eggshells anymore just to be loved, and you can give yourself all the love, your precious love, that you wish they gave you and that you put on them. give yourself the unconditional love, the kindness, the acceptance. take yourself on dates, dress up for yourself, do activities that brings you joy, hit friends up and do a girls night. it might be very painful, and there’s nothing wrong in hurting, but the point of doing this is to make you realize that there’s life beyond this relationship. you deserve the best sweetheart, and your love is way too valuable for anyone to take advantage of 🤍

@mendwithmere

Ай бұрын

YES

I just love to listen her music with u mere🫶

So long london Loml How did it end Peter And the manuscript The whole album needs your reaction 😢 but these 5 😭🤯

i love space and space songs yay

See this is why i aint going to therapy cuz i dont have a plan or anything for unaliving myself but ive certainly thought about it so instead of resolving what makes me feel that way they gonna throw me in grippy socks

Please react to The Prophecy and The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived. This 2 give me so many feelings.

Please do ‘Cassandra’ it’s so good, you’ll love it!

Love your channel!! If you have the bandwidth, I think reacting to “Hunger” by Florence and the Machine would hit really hard and be so interesting to hear your perspective.