My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
Summary
**Correction about the SNL theory: there IS a musical guest already scheduled for Dakota Johnson’s appearance on SNL on Oct 3, so …. take that theory we mentioned with a huge grain of salt.
Today we’re covering My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys, one of the only true bangers from TTPD. Did Taylor have Toy Story on the brain while she was writing this one? Maybe … In personal updates we recap our annual Feast of St. Pizza and discuss some new music we’ve been listening to, and then in Taylor Updates we chat about her Emmys sketch and all of the Easter eggs she left for us. Then at the end we get a bonus recommendation from Sara for boxed mac and cheese. Enjoy!
Note for those viewing on YouTube: Sara’s video cuts out a few times due to technical difficulties, but there is no effect on the audio.
Chapters
(0:00) intro
(0:44) what’s on our plates
(15:19) Taylor updates
(26:46) introducing the song
(29:01) personal associations
(30:43) folk’lore’ of the song
(35:36) verse 1: rain + rivulets
(44:46) chorus 1: queen of sand castles
(51:36) verse 2: pull my string
(55:55) chorus 2: smashing up forever
(58:30) bridge and outro: once I fix me, he’s gonna miss me
(1:07:11) music theory analysis
(1:08:53) favorite lyrics and ratings
(1:10:27) this song as a recipe
(1:14:24) signing off
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