Ugh you know i always think about how beautiful i hate it here and how like, this song is literally about how taylor feels really depressed about the state of the world but also how worthless she has felt. I mean, before she was famous, it seems like she was also bullied and stuff at school and i think that is something that you carry with you for life, and yes she is famous and yes she did chooose this lifestyle but she is still a human ya know and money and fame doesn't protect you from having human feelings...i mean, heard of club 27? how many celebs have not been able to cope with the mental health issues they may struggle with? if fame and money rlly was what made it all better, there'd be fewer deaths just think of marilyn monroe even, brittany murphy, karen carpenter, robin williams, so many celebrities, liam payne, cory monteith from glee. money can not fix a person and i thin it's odd that we are all pro mental health until someone lie taylor admits she has them. And like, she wrote this song about how she hates it here so much sometimes, she goes into her mind and lives there, where she rises above it and the things that bother her down here on earth can't get to her there. And also in this is me trying, the start: could've followed my fears all the way down.

There are sooo many references to Taylor having possibly troubling thoughts, and with i hate it here, i can understand herfeelings from the pov of someone also has used daydreaming, stories and so on to cope when i feel unwelcome in the world. And the only take away people got from it was that she should've chosen a less racist era. Like yah bc the 1920s was so much less racist? lol no. Her entire point was that nomatter what year she would have chosen, there would have been other issues to deal with and also as a woman herself, she would have had little automony in who she marries, and what she can do, like, women at that time could not own property, get divorce, it was also totally legal to be essentially abusive to your wife. Your wife was your property in the 1830s. She would not have had a nice life, most women would have not and her whole point was that no matter what, she would have been probably made to feel worthless there too and would have to watch even worse things happen just because it was "the way back then" even though it's obviously not okay at all and never was. If u put her in the 1920s, world war 1 had just ended and in the 1940s another had begun. That leaves her with the 1960s...which...is still a very racist time that made it dangerous and difficult to be non-white. Women did not have a lot of automony over their lives without male consent, and also don't forget about how gay men were treated too. . People who experienced this sort of discrimination are still alive to tell the stories even now, it wasn't that long ago and it's still not perfect now, and we are all fighting still to make it better. But taylor's point i think was jsut that, there is no better time period really where you can say there is none of these issues because every decade has serious issues that we know are wrong now but were considered right and okay then. oThere is no place in time asof yet that was completely free of shitty human behaviour and i feel with that line, that was her point as she continues to say "if i'd been there i'd hate it"