"tick tock on the clock" = time spent performing as Taylor Swift(™), the blank space media-created maneater.... i pace down your block = i follow the same path i always have, back and forth, repeating the same love story that you love so much
“I pace down your block” — “I leap from the gallows and levitate down your street”…I’m no longer walking the same path, repeating the same life story you want from me. I’ve been caged for too long, now I’m a snarling beast ready to fight back.
I’ve said this a million times but she showed this brilliantly during the TTPD set. She showed herself burning in a church, while the dancers sat on pews praying for her because of who she loves. Then she literally puts on an overt show of heteronormativity and the dancers go from…
Praying for her to literally cheering her on. And the crowd mirrored this, this moment, especially once she added in the archer pose, was the loudest the crowd cheered every night. Then WAOLOM shows her breaking from having to put on that performance all the time…
This reminds me of how if thou were up above the stage during who's afraid of little old me, the platform she's on has a circle around the post that looks like grass that's been worn away from being walked on over and over again and of course the chained dog imagery throughout
oOOH that's a great notice!! i had likened the circle around her post to a salt ring of protection, but she's so smart. the thing that has been protecting her also serves equally as a prison
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