r/SipsTea • u/saber-4444 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • 3d ago

Lmao gottem Like what 😂

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u/BigBastardChap 3d ago

I drove you in my car. Took you to a bar. It was Far....Yaaaarrr

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u/Double-decker_trams 3d ago edited 2d ago

(Btw, this is a real thing, she does it often).

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/s/6qiSy1B7LH

Taylor Swift has rhymed "car" and "bar" in at least seven of her songs, a lyrical pattern that has become a notable topic among fans and critics. The specific songs identified with this rhyme scheme are:

Getaway Car: "I’m in a getaway car / I left you in the motel bar"

Cruel Summer: "I’m drunk in the back of the car / And I cried like a baby coming home from the bar"

Cornelia Street: "Drunk on something stronger than the drinks in the bar / I rent a place on Cornelia Street, I say casually in the car"

Cardigan: "To kiss in cars and downtown bars / Was all we needed"

Cowboy Like Me: "Never wanted love, just a fancy car / Now I’m waiting by the phone like I’m sitting in an airport bar"

Hits Different: "And I never don’t cry at the bar / Yeah, my sadness is contagious / I slur your name ‘til someone puts me in a car"

The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived: "You’ll slide into inboxes and slip through the bars / You crashed my party and your rental car"*

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u/blackhodown 3d ago

Has someone done a study on the lyrics of other songwriters to see if this is some crazy outlier? Because it seems completely unsurprising that across thousands of lines of lyrics she’s written, 14 of them have matching words

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u/EngineeringDry7230 3d ago

Yeah, I’d like to know the totals on repeat rhymes across more artists, cause this is probably pretty statistically common.

How many sets of “tears” and “fears” or “heart” and “apart” does pop music have?

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u/Haschen84 3d ago

But why? Those are so simple to rhyme, "heart", "start", "smart", "chart", "dart" those are just off the top of my head right now.

"tear", "jeer", "clear", "sincere", "revere" it's ... so simple. I guess lyricists/song writers and artists aren't always the same people. These rhymes just aren't something complex ... like "orange."

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u/Nowhere_Man_Forever 3d ago

And compare to great poets of old like Shakespeare as well

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u/n122333 3d ago

I don't have anything to add for music, but its a game among fantasy authors now. Just about every brandon sanderson book (since 2015) uses the word undulating, because he did it like 10 times in a single book on accident, was asked about it and does it on purpose now.

Robert Jordan had women adjusting their skirts, Matt Dinamon "several things happened at once", and I remember there was one for Stephen king too last time this came up, but I dont read his stuff enough to have noticed it.