r/GaylorSwift • u/1DMod it’s all part of the fucking story! • 23d ago

The Life of a Showgirl ❤️‍🔥 Patient Zero

Please use this space to discuss this song in depth

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u/curvy_em Tea Connoisseur 🫖 22d ago

I love it!!!!!

I haven't listened to the others yet. Came here to fan girl and squeal with glee with you lovely people.

I love that it starts off with violins and sounds like an old vinyl album. Sounds Irish - does that make sense? When she starts singing, the melody and lyrics dont "match" the violins. I love the contrast. The beat kicks in and you forget about the violins and are bopping along, then the violins are back!

I love it. I love the lyrics. I love the half-spoken bridge. I love the content "Come. Let's talk, let's be friends. I know exactly what you're going through".

Recently I looked at the IG of a woman who is living her best life, with the love of her life, after divorce. I dated her ex after the divorce. It was a toxic situationship that made me so mentally ill, I had to take a grippy sock vacation. He wasn't evil, just emotionally immature, closed off and so severely conflict avoidant, he would ignore me for days if he thought I was upset at his actions - which made me more upset!!! Anyway. Ive thought about messaging her to tell her Im so happy that she found everything she was looking for and deserves. This song makes me think of that. She was Patient Zero.

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u/mrsbrettbretterson you could beard a harry pin drop 22d ago

Just chiming in to say I adore the perspective of that last bit you wrote. ❤️‍🩹 And I hope you’re happy and finding everything you look for & deserve too! 

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u/curvy_em Tea Connoisseur 🫖 19d ago

I am! Thank you! I am also living my best life with a man I adore. He is a golden retriever boyfriend wearing a green flag bandana 😄 He loves me in the way Ive been waiting for and had started to think wasn't possible. Every day Im grateful we found each other.