On Friday, Taylor Swift surprise-dropped her eighth studio album, folklore, which sent fans into a delighted frenzy.
Since the 16 new songs were released at midnight, Swifties have been parsing lyrics for romantic subtext, stoking the flames of those old Karlie Kloss rumors, and wondering if Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds’ third child is named Betty.
folklore leaves much to digest, unpack, and savor, but I, for one, can’t fully focus on doing that, because I can’t stop thinking about a single lyric on Track 6, “mirrorball,” that’s straight out of a Dashboard Confessional song.
Anyone who knows me knows I’ve been a hardcore, unwavering Dashboard fan since the early 2000s. This explains why I received the following text from my friend and fellow good music lover, Caitlin Healey, on Friday afternoon. Healy explained that when listening to “mirrorball” she couldn’t help but think of a lyric from Dashboard’s 2006 song, “Stolen.” And as someone whose eighth grade MySpace song was “Stolen,” I feel Caitlin came to the right place for this discussion. Read more…
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