Who's Afraid of Little Old Me? ✨️ "You caged me and then you called me crazy, I am what I am 'cause you trained me."⁠
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On The Tortured Poets Department, this is the closest we've come to raw, unfiltered Taylor. As her catalog and success has grown, she's gotten more comfortable in communicating her innermost thoughts through music. Writing about the confines that the music industry and the media put on her, and most successful women, is a vulnerable place to speak from. On this track specifically, the picture Taylor paints of herself is born out of frustration and anger - emotions we rarely see from the sparkly pop starlet.⁠
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We drew many hues together to create a balanced colorway for this song to represent the dichotomy of success. The privilege, joy, and pride in Taylor's rise to fame is represented by neon pink, blush, and ultraviolet. The loneliness, pressure, and stress of that level of achievement is represented by slate blue, indigo, and charcoal grey. Together, they make a striking colorway full of complexity.⁠

Colorway style: poured