In Taylor Swift's "All Too Well (10 Minute Version)", a woman addresses her ex: "I was never good at telling jokes, but the punch line goes, 'I'll get older, but your lovers stay my age.'" This echoes a joke in Richard Linklater's 1993 film "Dazed and Confused": Wooderson (Matthew McConaughey), a graduate still hanging around his high school, tells three teenage boys, "That's what I love about these high-school girls, man: I get older; they stay the same age." In this moment of "locker-room talk", the four boys bond together in laughter; in Swift's song, the woman addresses her joke to her ex, but is by herself when she does so. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 1 April 2025)
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