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Has Taylor Written a Better Song than Butterfly Net?


PoisonedIvy

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The answer is no, but I welcome any attempts!

 


I mean, just look at the material.

 

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Earth went silent
London fell asleep
She dreamed of winter
Where you appeared to me
Perfect timing as new petals in November
A tender creature
A fever
Disarming, fluorescent

 

There you were
With your mirror
Shining the world all over me
There I was
With my butterfly net
Trying to catch your light

 

Literal poetry luv.. 

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Many times. In terms of pure poetry, Mine is an incredible sonnet. In terms of songwriting, Down Bad is eating.

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Wait you're kinda right but a few folkmore songs come close

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no, but she's also not the same kind of songwriter as Caroline (or Natalie but she's just a feature here)

 

it's difficult to really compare tbh

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I mean could Taylor replicate Desire????….spacer.png

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Stay Stay Stay :clap3:

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no but also Mariah can't write a song like "ME!" so :gaycat2:

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2 hours ago, cloudbusting said:

no, but she's also not the same kind of songwriter as Caroline (or Natalie but she's just a feature here)

 

it's difficult to really compare tbh

this :giraffe:

 

from a pure storytelling perspective I could see myself at certain moments preferring to bliss out nostalgically to Seven for its more unfiltered childlike wonder, which Taylor doesn't tap into often unfortunately. in her songwriting she kinda doesn't let herself have that freedom a lot anymore, which is a shame! but there's a stark difference between these two songs: nuance vs directness, abstract vs linear, introspection vs trying to put oneself back into that moment

 

Caroline & Weyes Blood are obviously the former in all those dichotomies, which makes their song more ethereal and progressive. Taylor correlates to the latter, which isn't a bad thing, but it's more… well, for lack of a better term basic. so there are some days when I'm like "oh I wanna relive some childhood nostalgia!" and I'll spin Seven on repeat for a few hours. but Butterfly Net is certainly more all around captivating regardless of my mood

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Not the set up :deadbanana2:

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The Prophecy has kinda similar poetic in it

 

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Hand on the throttle
Thought I caught lightning in a bottle
Oh, but it's gone again
And it was written
I got cursed like Eve got bitten
Oh, was it punishment?

 

Pad around when I get home
I guess a lesser woman would've lost hope
A greater woman wouldn't beg
But I looked to the sky and said

 

Please
I've been on my knees
Change the prophecy
Don't want money
Just someone who wants my company
Let it once be me
Who do I have to speak to
About if they can redo
The prophecy?

 

Cards on the table
Mine play out like fools in a fable, oh
It was sinking in
Slow is the quicksand
Poison blood from the wound of the pricked hand
Oh, still I dream of him

 

Please
I've been on my knees
Change the prophecy
Don't want money
Just someone who wants my company
Let it once be me
Who do I have to speak to
About if they can redo
The prophecy?

 

And I sound like an infant
Feeling like the very last drops of an ink pen
A greater woman stays cool
But I howl like a wolf at the moon
And I look unstable
Gathered with a coven round a sorceress' table
A greater woman has faith
But even statues crumble if they're made to wait
I'm so afraid I sealed my fate
No sign of soulmates
I'm just a paperweight
In shades of greige
Spending my last coin so someone will tell me
It'll be ok

 

 

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