<aside> 💡 Rolling Stone October 2019

I’ve heard you say that people got too interested in which song was about who, which I can understand — at the same time, to be fair, it was a game you played into, wasn’t it?

I realized very early on that no matter what, that was going to happen to me regardless. So when you realize the rules of the game you’re playing and how it will affect you, you got to look at the board and make your strategy. But at the same time, writing songs has never been a strategic element of my career. But I’m not scared anymore to say that other things in my career, like how to market an album, are strictly strategic. And I’m sick of women not being able to say that they have strategic business minds — because male artists are allowed to. And so I’m sick and tired of having to pretend like I don’t mastermind my own business. But, it’s a different part of my brain than I use to write.

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Debut

Fearless

Speak Now

• Last Kiss - You can plan for a change in the weather and time But I never planned on you changing your mind

• Taylor Swift in Glamour interview (October 2010)

  GLAMOUR: Many of your songs are about the lessons you've learned in relationships. What's the most important lesson you've learned in love?

  TAYLOR SWIFT: I've learned that you can't predict it or plan for it. For someone like me who is obsessed with organization and planning, I love the idea that love is the one exception to that. Love is the one wild card.

  

  https://www.glamour.com/story/taylor-swift-talks#:~:text=What's the most important lesson,the one exception to that.

Red

• Babe - What a waste Takin' down the pictures and the plans we made, yeah

1989

• Wildest Dreams - I can see the end as it begins my one condition is
• New Romantics
  • We play dumb but we know exactly what we’re doin’
  • We hang back It's all in the timing It's poker He can't see it in my face But I'm about to play my Ace (ah)

Reputation

• Ready For It…? - I see how this is gonna go, touch me and you’ll never be alone
• Why She Disappeared poem - Wary of phone calls and promises, Charmers, dandies and get-love-quick-schemes

Lover

• Cruel Summer - I’m always waiting for you to be waiting below
• Death By A Thousand Cuts - Paper cut stings from our paper-thin plans
• I Think He Knows - He got that boyish look that I like in a man I am an architect, I'm drawing up the plans