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💡 See also: Fake/Pretend/Counterfeit/Hoax/Play It Cool
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Debut
Fearless
- Love Story - This love is difficult, but it's real
Speak Now
Red
- All Too Well - Back before you lost the one real thing you've ever known
- State of Grace - This is the golden age Of something good and right and real
- 13th November 2013 - the day that Taylor VSFS 2013 aired, Taylor tweeted “IS THIS REAL LIFE”
- Instagram post (Feb 11th 2014) Taylor pays tribute to Shirley Temple the day after her death with a quote: “there’s nothing like real love. Nothing”
1989
- Welcome to New York - Like any real love, it's ever-changing
Reputation
- This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things - Here's a toast to my real friends
- Why She Disappeared (poem): When she lay there on the ground, She dreamed of time machines and revenge and a love that was really something, Not just the idea of something.
- Reputation Stadium Tour - Intro to Delicate - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h4gK9FyKzk
If I had to take a guess and say the one thing that probably everyone in this stadium has in common, I think I would say that one thing would be that we all like the feeling of finding something real, like finding real friendship or finding real love or somebody who really gets you or somebody who is really honest with you. I think that's what we're all looking for in life and I think that the things that can scare us the most in life are the things we think will threaten the prospect of us finding something real. For example, having a bad reputation in our mind could get in the way of finding real friendship, real love, real acceptance, people you really fit in with because you think what if they have heard something about me that isn't true, what if they've got these preconceived notions about me that they heard from gossip and then they never want to meet me and then we'll never know what could've happened. And I think that's why some of us…meaning if not most or all of us are sort of afraid of having a bad reputation because we're so scared of something fake, like gossip, or a rumor about you or a name you got called getting in the way of you finding something real. And so, when it comes down to that fear and that anxiety, it's just all really delicate, don't you think Dallas?