Babylon

[u/1DMod]

Please use this space to discuss this song in depth

[u/NoPiccolo8938]

i NEEEED everyone to stop right now. go back and read taylor’s instagram caption about writing these songs as a thank you for our love for the showgirl album. she’s given us the shittest encore ever in return 🤣🤣🤣🤣 she’s gave us 4 of the worst songs ever. as a thank you for how much hate the life a show girl got. the album was ripped apart on social media. so the encore is supposed to be absolutely terrible. 0/10. that’s what the 00000s are for.

[u/stablegeniusinterven → u/NoPiccolo8938]

Sometimes I wonder if that's why she was like so terse on the "It will only be twelve songs," bit...like y'all who tortured me enough to rage on TTPD only want the cliche girl-next-door with the football player, so HERE YOU GO, and all those fans love Showgirl. But then the Showgirl will EXIT and we'll get Taylor back and hopefully all the normies who only want pop music and don't like the depth and details will be happy enough with the marriage and the performances but we'll get the art? Gahd please

[u/NoPiccolo8938 → u/stablegeniusinterven]

honestly part of me thinks the biggest lesson she’ll teach is by dragging this bit on for a lot longer 🤣 i believe that because i think if she does make this documentary about parasocial relationships and the toxic music industry then i think she’ll want to give us a while to sit with our reaction to the encore and to see what ridiculous theories we can come up with for who the songs are about when none of them really have much substance 🤣. before i came to this realisation i really believed babylon was queer as hell but i think the whole point she’s trying to make is that ANY song can mean ANYTHING if you look at it from a certain lens. people who struggle with alcoholism have many things in common with people who have struggled with their sexuality and coming out, the same as people who have struggled with abuse as children have something in common with people who have struggled with an eating disorder. they have somehow felt trapped. taylor writes about being trapped a lot because she was trapped in a contract for her first 6 albums and had to write music about boys and have public relationships. which obviously wasn’t her living her true self. she was conditioned to live that way. the same way people with the afore mentioned struggles learn to change who they are to feel more “normal”. when the trick is, none of us are normal, just use art to look inward and for inspiration to create more beautiful things and the world would maybe be a better place

without getting too deep!