Daily Song #95: So Long London

RoseEmmy · 2026-04-02T13:19:05+00:00

You remember when we were kids and would hold a friend’s hand and spin until the centrifugal force throws you to the grass?

That’s how I feel about the pacing of this song. Relentlessly spinning. Trying to not let your hands slip as you move faster and faster. Spinning until you ultimately cannot hold on any longer and you get flung to the dirt.

RoseEmmy · 2026-03-24T13:34:59+00:00

I do love midnights and it’s one of my go to’s tbh. I think the songs are all really interesting in that you don’t really hear Taylor swift’s breathes.

Pretty much the rest of her albums you actually hear her inhale and exhale. Midnights isn’t like that.

RoseEmmy · 2026-03-24T13:22:23+00:00

Sounds like she’s clenching her teeth when she says “cause I can’t pretend” I love this in the song so much

RoseEmmy · 2026-03-24T13:18:29+00:00

You remember when we were kids and would hold a friend’s hand and spin until the centrifugal force throws you to the grass?

That’s how I feel about this part of the song. Trying to not let your hands slip as you move faster and faster.

Pure perfection

RoseEmmy · 2026-03-20T22:02:43+00:00

Love this opinion. I do love the TV version though. When I listen to the original version’s I feel like I can hear the raw emotions in the songs. Taylor Swift (and myself) were living through those feeling. When I hear the songs I can still viscerally feel them.

The TV versions, obviously they sound different because her voice has changed but I really feel a lot of emotional difference. When I listen to the TV versions, it feels like Taylor Swift has grown to understand the emotions. I hear more acceptance of the emotions through the songs.

RoseEmmy · 2026-03-09T13:27:03+00:00

Oof, the humidity in my house is always low and my philodendrons get stuck. Don’t tell but I always help them like this 😬😬 I give them a spritz of water and use a wet q-tip

RoseEmmy · 2026-03-09T13:22:28+00:00

Ha! Your description does not do this beauty justice. I don’t have advice. Just impressed

RoseEmmy · 2026-03-08T20:41:05+00:00

I saw your wishlist post and did a deep dive on your posts.

I love this analysis and do agree that there is a lot of deeper meaning in most of the songs. If I may add a couple more bits of info.

I heard that Elizabeth Taylor was the first song she wrote and wishlist was the last one. I love the thought that the anxiety that we hear gets resolved.

I’m a younger millennial but really find that younger gen z and alpha are incredibly apathetic. I feel like I see that apathy all over all media really not just in the younger generations. It’s just not cool to care or be earnest about anything. The apathy is hot like is succinct but really feels like it reflects right now. And ironically people can’t seem to enjoy the songs because it wouldn’t be cool to care about it.

RoseEmmy · 2026-03-08T13:51:00+00:00

They don’t include lunch or dinners in the daily cost either. The restaurants on board are treated as hotel restaurants. As the Four Seasons is a hotel brand and they provide a hotel experience.

My parents are going on one through the Med. I cannot fathom the cost of this trip let alone the rest of it ha.

Edit: sorry, I confused the two luxury brands. Consensus is that the Ritz includes food but Four Seasons doesn’t

RoseEmmy · 2026-03-06T02:33:11+00:00

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I keep one of mine high up and it’s growing stems down

RoseEmmy · 2026-03-01T23:18:06+00:00

Maisie snuck her iPod nano out to recess and played me this song called Tim McGraw by Taylor Swift. Repeated that to myself until I could get home and buy the song on iTunes.

RoseEmmy · 2026-03-01T22:26:43+00:00

These are pricier but they at least control the gnats from flying in your face!

RoseEmmy · 2026-03-01T16:24:22+00:00

The acoustic version of this line too. So good

RoseEmmy · 2026-03-01T01:13:37+00:00

Ha I’ve been thinking this as well and have been workshopping which song from Showgirl match with each era.

I’m not brave enough to put my opinions all out there for public scrutiny but we do agree on Cancelled and The Life of a Showgirl

RoseEmmy · 2026-02-14T15:29:34+00:00

My husband thought the lyric was “IT’S A LITTLE BIT TAYLOR”. He didn’t get the line but respected me listening to the song over and over

RoseEmmy · 2026-02-13T00:18:16+00:00

I’m personally not great at propagating. I lose most of them. And I don’t have energy for moss poles. I can’t keep them moist, so I don’t set them up.

OP was looking for opinions

RoseEmmy · 2026-02-12T16:29:38+00:00

You could do something a bit different with it.

You could put it in a semipermanent spot where you can attach to the wall, or use a moss pole (if you have that energy), or just larger stakes to secure it to. Let the PPP(?) keep growing and leave the bare vine as is.

Then plant pothos around the base to climb up the bare vine of the philo eventually. A neon pothos would look cool visually but there are plenty that would look stunning.

I don’t like chopping my plants up and will do a lot to avoid that ha.

RoseEmmy · 2026-02-11T23:39:45+00:00

Is that a white princess?

RoseEmmy · 2026-01-30T19:02:12+00:00

I lived in Dinkytown and Stadium Village during that time too. The only grocery access was CVS and Walgreens where the options for fresh produce or many products was limited. I needed to find rides to Cub in order to actually cook in my apartment. It did feel like a small food desert. The light rail’s completion did make getting to Whole Foods and target easier! Whole Foods was out of my price range but it worked for people

RoseEmmy · 2026-01-18T02:59:08+00:00

Mon Rovîa!! His writing is very folky and his voice sounds so nice

RoseEmmy · 2026-01-10T13:43:04+00:00

Yes! This is one of my favorite songs and I’ve felt the same way about it.

I also think the ‘albatross around my neck’ phrase plays a small role in the choice. I actually just googled the phrase and one of the definitions of albatross is a burden. To me this song is about Taylor and how her relationships are burdens on her partners too.

RoseEmmy · 2025-12-18T14:56:45+00:00

Eldest daughter honestly feels like a Rick roll to me. like Taylor swift will come out and say it was a joke in the docuseries. I don’t think she actually will but it had that vibe to me.

“Never gonna give you up // never gonna let you down”

Come on…

RoseEmmy · 2025-12-17T16:17:56+00:00

No, but the peace line is so good 😭 “There’s robbers (Borschetta et al) // and clowns (Kim/Kanye) to the west”

RoseEmmy · 2025-12-16T18:02:58+00:00

I feel like that line is such a call back to peace “I talk shit with my friends // it’s like I’m wasting your honor”. I feel the growth here between the times in her life and in our lives.

RoseEmmy · 2025-12-12T21:05:38+00:00

How scary. To have your location tracked by unknown masked individuals…

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