given the current discourse about the news “ruining” her past work, i cant stop thinking about how important one of her speeches before performing sad beautiful tragic on red tour is right now:
“this is a song i wrote about how just because something is over doesn’t mean it wasn’t incredibly beautiful. another lesson I’ve learned is that not all stories have a happy ending and you have to learn how to deal with that. this song is about a story that didn’t end so happily, but it was still supposed to happen.”
those songs were about feelings and experiences that were real and just because things didnt have a happy ending doesnt make them any less so. those feelings and experiences were a formative experience in her life and writing them off now doesnt make any sense
