I don’t want to be superstitious, but I really do believe that Taylor Swift’s arrival on Earth was a little wink from the universe for me.
I woke up yesterday and read her announcement that she had bought the rights to the master recordings of her first 6 albums.
Well on 30 May 2025, “I did something bad”, but my husband, therapist, and actual friends say was something right and brave.
“I never trust a narcissist, but they ‘love’ me”
I’m sick of hearing “don’t blame me, love made me crazy, if it doesn’t, you ain’t doing it right”
I did it for the girl who was told, and the woman who is still repeatedly told today, that she’s worthless, a burden, an ingrate, the problem.
I did it for the “precocious child” who had to escape by reading every night and scream inside “I hate it here”
“I’m lonely but I’m good, I’m bitter but I swear I’m fine”
“Cause for every lie I tell them, they tell me three”
“Cause I can’t pretend it’s okay when it’s not
It’s death by a thousand cuts”
Gave you too much but it wasn’t enough
But I’ll be all right, it’s just a thousand cuts”
“Even on my worst day, did I deserve, babe
All the hell you gave me?”
“Did you think I wouldn’t hear all the things you said about me?
This is why we can’t have nice things”
“I didn’t have it in myself to go with grace
And you’re the hero flying around, saving face
Look at how my tears ricochet“
“… If you wanted me dead, you should’ve just said
… So I leap from the gallows and I levitate down your street
Crash the party like a record scratch as I scream
“Who’s afraid of little old me?”
You should be
… The scandal was contained
The bullet had just grazed
At all costs, keep your good name
You don’t get to tell me you feel bad
… Is it a wonder I broke?”
“Look what you made me do”.
I will be eternally grateful to my husband, children and those who “like me for me” when “my reputation’s never been worse”.
“It was the great escape, the prison break
The light of freedom on my face”
“They say I did something bad
Then why’s it feel so good?
They say I did something bad
But why’s it feel so good?
Most fun I ever had
And I’d do it over and over and over again if I could
It just felt so good, good”
“I’m fresh out the slammer
Now we’re at the starting line, I did my time.
But it’s gonna be alright, I did my time”
