Song
Don't Blame Me
Reputation · 2017 · Track 4
Co-written
Written byTaylor Swift, Max Martin, Karl Johan Schuster
Produced byMax Martin, Karl Johan Schuster
Also known as: DTBM
love as addiction
“my drug is my baby”
Angela sets the drug-and-addiction simile of Death by a Thousand Cuts beside Don't Blame Me's my drug is my baby, the two songs reaching for the same dependency image from opposite emotional weather.
Podcast Analysis
poison ivy to daisy
“I once was poison ivy, but now I'm your Daisy”
Uncle Jerry sets ivy beside the I once was poison ivy, but now I'm your Daisy line, the same plant turned from something that stings to something offered up.
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