Call It What You Want

And I was listening to my Taylor Maria's version playlist, which is all of my favorite songs.

And Call It What You Want came on.

And she says, Starry Eyes Sparkin' Up My Darkest Nights.

And I'm like, oh my god, the starry eyes again.

yeah this could be it so you dug yourself out of there i did i got right in it and then i was like time to get out because that's no

yeah so i talked about that too so obviously i thought this was her relationship with joe and it being unsettled and gray basically but then i got to thinking about Maybe this was a reflection of her life at the time, because I think it's in Call It What You Want.

She says, I recall late November, holding my breath slowly.

I said, you don't need to save me, but would you run away with me? So November is when she started her relationship with Joe.

She's been replaying everything that has happened over and over.

And this whole thing is about the uneasiness of, of her life, and then Jo comes in at that point.

I had never thought about it before, but the November reminded me of Call It What You Want, and I was like, well, maybe this is it.

I have since changed my mind, and I think you will too.

I don't think I've ever actually, like, gone to listen to those songs then when I'm listening or when I'm reading the book.

Which is interesting 'cause maybe you haven't, but our friend Alyssa D. Regatus included a playlist and says that the Call It What You Want playlist, she still gets follows on Spotify from that playlist, so it's just another marketing tool for her that just she doesn't have to do anything with, but it continues to generate interest.

Did you do a playlist for your books? I don't think you did.

Did you?

Um, and even to the point where people have retconned, like, how in love they were and how healthy a relationship it was.

But, like, you look at how she describes, like, her, her longing in something like "Peace" or "Call It What You Want," and then you see what she writes about Travis Kelce.

It's like, I don't know if I totally buy this she can't write while in love bit, because I think she has written not in love about love, and she has written in love about love, and I feel more [laughs] intrigued by this idea of some sort of legality, um, [laughs] haunting this.

I also think, though, there, there is something to be said about, like, of, of the muse, you know?

you know and right i do love that interpretation of babylon of course over on the patreon you and i had like our big therapy session where we cried our eyes out about babylon there's so many takes there but i do love the interpretation of you know taylor reminding her fans like you wish this album was reputation but when reputation came out you hated it you hate this song You know, and now you're so mad that I put out the life of a showgirl.

You're like, where's reputation? Where's call it what you want? And, you know, I wonder if that was an angle she toyed with while writing those lyrics.

Well, obviously, you know, a larger story than that as well.

But

That's cool.

And

we also can parallel it to some of the what was it? Maybe the call it what you want lyric video or some of the behind the scenes of reputation being made.

There's a video of her driving Joe around, but Joe takes the video and she is driving.

[laughs]

Another one says, "I'd be embarrassed if my wife wrote Would and Cleveland about me, and her ex got Lover, Paper Rings, and Call It What You Want."

Rough.

Period.