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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 2h
like I think if you view the New Romantics as a project with an end date, you will always be disappointed because a movement is about infiltration and change and continuous evolution w a purpose. artists live and breathe through art, and they will keep talking to us and each other until they die.
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 2h
there’s a great yt video on this topic and it shows how the media drove the narrative of what they were . and the movement spread because of connecting people like club bouncers, producers, fashion designers
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1981: Who are the NEW ROMANTICS? | Newsnight | Fashion | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 2h
If you think about it, the original New Romantic era was a counter culture movement primarily connected to fashion. And the terminology was mostly defined by the press and fans, not the artists themselves. Us naming this new group ( @underthepink7.com ) was fan driven and spread through WOM
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 2h
I also think a big part of how artists generally operate is through experimentation and taking creative liberties so while we’d love to believe they’re all masterminds, I think sometimes they’re trying something out to see how the fans react and then course correct or double down on
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 2h
I’m not gonna be able to fully explain myself before I go to work, but I think what’s most important to take away is that if you see something that you don’t like or looks suspicious or doesn’t fit a pattern its because its likely a “movement” that is more organic than it is organized.
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 2h
I genuinely can’t stop thinking about the cats in the stupid song music video
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Your Buzzcut Scapes on your knees changed but those eyes… I still know I used to visit your town like a tourist now I got a local grocery store and favorite… florist
Buzzcut Season
Lorde
The men up on the news
They try to tell us all that we will lose
But it's so easy in this blue Where everything is good
And I'll never go home againScraped up ballerina knees from the stupid song video Liv with a blondie shirt on in a bodega/ grocery store A SOUR album prom photo of olivia holding a lovely bouquet and crying which is a reference to Hole which is a reference to Carrie, the horror film
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 2h
that’s exactly what I’m saying! I think the concept of the new romantics broadly is essentially a giant artistic conversation. Whether there’s a literal note pass, or whether they’re garnering inspirations from each others art I think the majority of the talking they’re doing is essentials winks
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 3h
I do think Taylor is pulling the strings in her own story, has actors hitting their marks, but I think it’s a much smaller circle than the window of artists that we generally keep track of.  but I think it’s a mistake for us to assume that she is like command center leader lol
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 3h
The way I see it is more like a call and response / artistic communication rather than string pulling (at least for the larger group). For example I don’t think Raye & Taylor are having sit down convos but there is NO way that Raye isn’t picking up what she’s putting down and finding her own spin
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 3h
def but I don’t even know how much they have the capacity to communicate in any kind of group i feel like it’s almost a game of telephone and I think producers like Jack play a big role
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 3h
It’s so interesting as a concept
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Revenge Bedtime Procrastination
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 10h
I agree and the sheer volume of people who have not broken their NDAs at all, esp ppl who I don’t think really care about her that much relative to other genuine guests
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 10h
I wanna expand on this tomorrow but need to sleep
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 10h
We know it was part of her storytelling for the audience/tv viewers but we have little to no confidence in what happened for the guests inside, and why there were so many questionable guests alongside allies and other great people in a shared space
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 10h
I knew I should have been more specific as soon as I sent it lol I think I meant specifically executed as real inside and people inside experiencing their own parallax
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 10h
idk how to articulate it fully but I do not think there’s some kind of central command center and everyone is in on the same things. I think it’s more likely that they’re driven by a common set of goals and values and each are deployed to use those goals or plot lines into their artistic approach
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 10h
I don’t think the NRs operate in a stranger things or goonies kind of way the way we often talk about them. but more of a deathy hallows meets breakfast club meets like civil rights era…. aka “wait for the signal and I’ll meet you after dark” kind of vibes. I think they do a lot of call and response
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 10h
I genuinely even wonder if the wedding itself was part of the plot and that too went over 50% of their heads (if the vows etc were performed)
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 10h
do you have adhd by chance? because I know the delayed clock thing is a really common experience but I also don’t know how much is tied to meds/irregular eating but my brain legit lights up at night
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 11h
like why does my brain only function from 11am-3pm and 9pm-1am. I know I shouldn’t look at my phone but I set at least 6 hours of limits a day because my job has gotten super demanding and I just wanna blab at night
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 11h
like idk if I’m stupid or not but did the duffers not directly steal the entire final season plot line from a wrinkle in time…? lol
As the children approach the town they spotted when they first arrived on Camazotz, they notice every house in the neighborhood is a copy and everyone is acting exactly the same as each other. The children stop a boy to question him; he tells them everything is controlled by CENTRAL Central Intelligence and they should head there for information. When they reach the Central Intelligence Center, they are confronted by the Man with Red Eyes, the mouthpiece of IT, a disembodied brain with powerful telepathic abilities that controls the planet. Attempting to discover his father's location, Charles Wallace
allows himself to be hypnotized by the Man with Red Eyes. While he is hypnotized, Charles Wallace explains that Camazotz is the result of all uniqueness being removed from the denizens of the planet and leads the children further into the building. They eventually arrive where Dr.
Murry is being held captive, but Meg and Calvin are unable to access his prison or get his attention.
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 11h
I had to read this book in middle school and I remembered that a girl, her brother, and a friend who travel through space and there’s a CIA component, but what I DID NOT remember is that one of the characters has the same name as henry’s nickname (Mr Whatsit) in stranger things & so many parallels 🙃
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 11h
I deeply hate my propensity for revenge bedtime and the delayed adhd clock
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 11h
I swear this makes his potential for internalized self-homophobia even more likely too. Gay men are still men
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 11h
ended with a….🚪
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 11h
ugh i NEED TO
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 11h
A wrinkle in time like the crease by your eye 😭
A wrinkle in time original 70s inspired cover shows the three main characters on a horse man with a rainbow over them. Published after 26 rejections
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 11h
And I felt you and I held you for awhile but I could still MELT ❤️‍🔥⛽️ YOUR 🫵 WORLD 🗺️📀💫🪩🔫
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 12h
✨DREAMS✨ of your hair ➰ and your stare and sense of belief in the good in the word you once believed in ME!
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 12h
I slur your name until someone puts me in a caaaaaar (pr-pr-pr promises) “you stutter when you lie”
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 12h
this is why they shouldn’t kill off the main guy
Since y'all wanna be assholes for Taylor. Iron man dies in endgame
Written on Apr 26, 2019
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 12h
You made a mess of ME! ☹️
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 12h
sorry the boked here graffiti is actually in Belfast but you get the point
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 12h
I pictured you with other girls in looooooove then threw up on the street
Taylor vomiting from the anti hero video above a quote from taylor talking about the glitter scene “there’s something wrong with me I’m not a person I don’t belong I don’t fit in anywhere.” Taylor boked here graffiti in Dublin ME! in purple glitter The Man wall with blurple glitter dripping
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 12h
but ultimately I think it’s about the FCO unraveling and midnights/eras era scheme and the pain of seeing flickers of your future but being forced to wait. “Afraid to jinx it / I won’t even dare to wish it”
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 13h
LOL if she was ever to do it it would totally have been 1989 era hahaha
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 13h
it’s actually like my least favorite song on the album but I think big picture it’s overall about the FCO lol especially “life is emotionally abusive / the flight was awful thanks for asking”
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 13h
do you mean like if eras tour never happened? I’ve never thought about it but Loverfest haunts me. It was my first set of taylor tickets when I got back into her and I was devastated
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 13h
I also think it’s funny that Joe Jonas is the lead singer of DNCE I always forget that hahahaha literally taylor’s first PR boyfriend. also the mv was co directed by Gigi Hadid and the album it came out on released on Nov 18 bc why not!
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 13h
ok I just looked up the song wiki out of curiosity and it’s interesting that the phrase derived from Swedish producers confusing CBTO with the english phrase S*x OTB (which is also a cocktail). those same guys (MM&Robin) also produced All You Had to Do Was Stay which makes so much sense sonically
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 13h
Okay that makes 🍃 me from last week feel less crazy. I remember when it came out I thought of cake by the ocean but I didn’t have the same lens I have now regarding the coke/drugs metaphor. I also am thinking about the 1989 rebrand
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Haylea🐈‍⬛👻 @hereticforhypatia.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
i keep thinking about the Whore of Babylon "she was never a girls girl she was just a 🤫 "Ended with the slam of a door and he'll call her a whore" "You didnt know it was babylon" "My castles crumbling..use to chant my name, now theyre screaming that they hate me" 🧵
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 13h
I think I was just being dumb tbh but thought you might find it funny hahah
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 13h
one more thing and then I swear I’m shutting up: idk how to articulate it and maybe I’ll change my mind but them liking this feels like an equivalent or comparable move to olivia going on Fantano and absolutely not apologizing or acknowledging it at all and then doing daisy chain like a month later
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 13h
ooooooo I love this. I was recently 🍃 and thinking about it as cocaine and sex (like cake by the ocean?) but in a metaphorical way lmao
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behind the mirrorball @behindthemalllll.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
never not thinking about: if I’m on fire you’ll be made of ashes too my barren land i am ash from your fire from sprinkler splashes to fireplace ashes getting tired even for a phoenix always rising from the ashes get the matches toss the ashes off the ledge how can I be guilty as cin(derella)
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 14h
keep sharing this wherever you can
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 14h
OMG he’s such a baby and an old man. a Benjamin button you might say 😅
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 14h
Not to mention no-fault divorce bans. I was so happy to see Kylie talk about this on her podcast recently, because many Rs have been threatening to implement these state by state as part of pr0ject20
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