Just Queer Analysis of Taylor Swift’s music and simping for Karlie Kloss
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The 🎃 "business" references and brushing off MH as nothing significant, makes me think TS had a deal with MH before kissgate and he is making her make good on it now. I don't know much about him but if he is as awful as everyone is describing, this would be a dickhead move that aligns with his reputation. He is certainly getting a lot of publicity out of this . Maybe this has already been discussed but it's just a thought...
🎃 Imagine this. You are in a kitchen. Not your kitchen, of course. Your kitchen is soft and cozy and sacred. THIS kitchen is hard and cold and purely functional. You work tirelessly, sweat pooling on your brow, to make this meal, assisted by a team of chefs. It’s an ambitious feast in the making, and everyone must play their role, without flaw or hesitation. You are set to debut an exclusive menu, never before seen. Its value is in the secrecy as much as it is in the flavors themselves. An oven timer goes off. And another. You turn, drawn by the smell of smoke and a spike of worry. Someone is leaving early, abandoning their station. They stuff a recipe card in their pocket as they go. “Hey!” You shout, but their mind won’t be changed. They are bowing out, leaving you with double the workload, now half burnt and smoking. Their duties weren’t finished, and yet there is nothing you can do to make them stay. Shaken by this loss, chaos descends upon the team. Most roll up their sleeves to work harder. You will love these people eternally, unspeakably grateful for their loyalty. Some strip from their aprons and follow the first traitor out the golden door. But you have never been one to lay your armor down. When you fail, you fail gloriously. When you go, you go kicking and screaming. The cherry red telephone on the wall rings, and it is with intuitive dread that you answer the call. You recognize the voice. Of course you do. “If you still somehow manage to serve that secret menu, it won’t be before the entire world already knows every dish. Every ingredient.” You want to call their bluff. This threat has been made a thousand times, by a thousand others, and yet people line up around the block for your restaurant, never swayed. But this time is different. Because you know this person actually has the means to share the secret menu, and that they have enough proof to make the awaiting guests believe them. Of course they do. You saw them take the recipe card with your own eyes. Another oven timer goes off. 🎃
🎃 To those who have requested I give some kind of sign or signal to prove my validity - I see you. In fact, I am one step ahead. If you read my messages closely, and hold them to the light in the coming unfoldings, I think you will find many connections and foretellings. I have a feeling we all share a similar taste in music. Watch for words and phrases I use that might ring a belle. It is a fine line to walk, proving to you that I am here and yet leaving no trace. I am the metaphor. I am the apparition. I am the line of poetry you read years ago, but cannot remember distinctly enough to cite. I cannot force you to trust me, and I admire your discernment and awareness. It is those very traits that have allowed you to see the story you have all these years. The story of two princesses. No place for a prince, despite the spotlight that shines on him. One day, people will say you’re the lucky ones. All I can ask of you is this: To have an open mind, rolling new ideas over in your thoughts and keeping only what feels right. To hear what I say, even if you must hold it gently until things come more clearly into focus. And to have patience as, layer by painstaking layer, the picture is painted. Already, I am grateful for the ways you have read into my messages. Fact and truth can be two different things. For example, this is a pumpkin. And it is also a Jack-O-Lantern. 🎃
🎃 Imagine this. A diamond heist. Dressed in your wife’s black leather and the mask of an illusionist, you’ve impeccably plotted your way into the museum. Somersaulting past ancient artifacts, stopping only to admire a statue or two. On silent feet, you arrive at the display you’ve come for. Encased in glass, there lies a mirror. The reflection inside is rightly yours, and yet you’ve had to immorally earn your chance to claim it, to have and to hold it. Your team works quickly and quietly. You’ve made it unscathed. Almost. Mere feet away from the light of freedom, someone you recognize steps from the shadows, and cruelly removes your mask, revealing your true identity before you intended. Threatening to reveal it to a wider audience before you intended. For all that you are a mastermind, it seems you are not unoutsmartable. And yet you cannot bring yourself to give the mirror back. Your getaway bike begins to leave without you, sparks flying as the tires try and fail to slow down for you. You have frozen in this moment of indecision. But your hesitation was a decision all its own. This person may try to beat you to the punch by revealing your true face to the world. Or perhaps your best laid plans will still fall into place like dominos after all. However, that’s a risk you no longer have the luxury of taking. And so, it’s a good thing you always keep a pack of matches on you. 🎃
🎃 I cannot share my role in this chess game, but friends have friends of friends. I, for one, love my friends and their friends. I wonder if you know any of them? In magic, there is sleight of hand. Redirection of the eye. None of my messages have been about a rumored new boy toy. He is not the pivot. He is not the brake. He is not the parachute. Behind every public figure, every business transaction that makes up its image, there is a human heart that beats red and hot and furious. Sometimes those emotions don’t line up with what is so easily seen. It takes a lifetime to master the art of biting your tongue until it bleeds, all while feeding the world a blinding smile. That is the story these messages portray. The messy story. The metaphorical story. The true, but oh-so shrouded story. The story of the person behind the curtain. And the person that person loves fiercely. Think of these messages as smoke signals. I may not be around this blog for long, but I have my reasons for painting the pictures I do while I am here. In time, all the pieces fall right into place. A Jack-O-Lantern by any other name is still a Jack-O-Lantern. Speaking of, I love Halloween, don’t you? I’m already counting the days until October. 🎃
🎃 Imagine this. You are on the balcony of an ice castle. Pushing and pushing against the railing, slowly trudging toward a horizon that never seems to get any closer. Smashing against the frozen structure that is so solid it feels like glass, so solid it feels like it will never break. The time draws near, springtime sunshine causing small drips and fractures. You strike a match and blow the smoke toward the structure that shelters and protects you. Suddenly, you hear a crack, a crunch, a whoosh. There is a sudden give beneath you, and you tumble through the broken, melting hole in your palace. You have FINALLY smashed through the ice castle! It was so slow, and then suddenly so all of a sudden! You'd thought it would take much longer to arrive in this moment! However, in this suddenness you find yourself still somehow underprepared, kicking yourself for the time you squandered by wallowing in the seeming endlessness of your predicament. All this time spent inching toward a finish line. No time at all spent readying for an end. Shit. In midair, you scramble for a parachute. You will reach the ground either way, whether you float like a feather or freefall like a meteor. But after all this time, you decide you'd like to land softly, rather than crash in a tangle of broken limbs and fiery shock. Dear reader, I'm sure this tale has raised a question...? Why would someone you believe to have wings need a parachute? 🎃
Here is 🎃 earlier message today.
Thank you to that big-brained anon!!
The timeline for early Kaylor is clear but certain people don’t seem to understand it:
Nov 13, 2023: they become close. They have met and interacted before this and there was most likely a mutual crush. They may have been texting before this as well.
Somewhere around Nov 20: they “hang out”.
A few days later karlie says in an interview that they are soulmates. Karlie talks about Taylor in another interview a week or two later saying they hang out and they are just “normal,” indicating she’s had a bit of media training on how to talk about Taylor.
For most of December they may not have hung out at all, but maybe once or twice. They were very busy. The relationship remains undefined and this drives Taylor nuts. They probably both were seeing others during this time.
Jan 6: Taylor writes that dating is awful but she’s now once again considering moving to NYC.
Jan 9: Taylor is in NYC house hunting. The 10th is Andreas bday, and we have evidence Karlie was present for a celebration.
~Jan 21: Taylor writes IKP in the middle of the night, with some urgency. Likely inspired by discussions with Karlie about how they can make a relationship work. They decide to go for it.
End of Jan: offer on Taybeca. A bit of back and forth before…
Feb 4th: …offer accepted
Feb 13: Taylor posts about real love.
Around Feb 20, I forget the exact dates but they are out there, she records Style and Clean. They were probably mostly written a bit before this, but this is when she got into the studio to record them. Everyone thinks style has to be about an on-again, off-again relationship that lasted years because most think it’s about Harry and she needed to make it seem like it’s about Harry. But “a while since I even heard from you” could easily have meant a couple of weeks when she was clearly obsessed and playing mastermind and “we go around and around each time” could have been the handful of times they hooked up without committing (and around and around fits nicely with other kaylor imagery). And, it all fits perfectly with “cat or mouse for a month or two or three.” Yes it’s possible Style is not about her, but it fits just fine, and Taylor has clearly made about her since.
Finally they worked with newly hired Tree to figure out how to go public as besties, and we get the Big Sur photos March 5 and 6th.
so well delineated, anon 😌 it paints a picture
i don't really see how 'dating' matty healy is any better or safer than just coming out with karlie at this point.
Yes!!
Do you guys really think it's Joe? Really?
This Anon was sent to @spade-riddles and it is either trying to mimic something Taylor would send or is an inside source. I am supremely annoyed either way, but I just wanna point a few things out because I can’t stop myself—which was probably the intention because we are all fucking FBI detectives with this shit
1) 🎃—JACK o lantern /pumpkin—Jack A? Halloween? October?
2) HEEL—Matt Healy 🤮
3) sparks fly—Speak Now
4) to be ready—for it?
5) 🎃—why again? Beginning and ending ?
This could all be word salad bullshit and a distraction from the dumpster 🔥
This Anon was sent to @spade-riddles and it is either trying to mimic something Taylor would send or is an inside source. I am supremely annoyed either way, but I just wanna point a few things out because I can’t stop myself—which was probably the intention because we are all fucking FBI detectives with this shit
1) 🎃—JACK o lantern /pumpkin—Jack A? Halloween? October? 31 days??
2) HEEL—Matt Healy 🤮
3) sparks fly—Speak Now
4) to be ready—for it?
5) 🎃—why again? Beginning and ending ?
This could all be word salad bullshit and a distraction from the dumpster 🔥
And at last the mystery is solved, she is singing about the football team's t-shirt
It is exhausting rooting for the anti hero.
Damn, the Swifties are really hating him, huh? The way she's gonna push him so hard in the public. I can't wait until he goes back on tour cause Matty just ain't it. Sorry...
Taylor girl. What is going on...
maybe she wants them to hate someone she’s attached to more than they hate on karlie. that’s what it’s giving.
folklore is the pivot point between Taylor Swift the pop star and Taylor Swift the legend. Before folklore her career had been in an objective "decline", much in line with consumption changes in the industry, with her seeing slowly diminishing success with each successive single and album she'd released after 1989, and that trend halted and reversed with folklore. US pop radio was increasingly reluctant to engage with her singles unless they were perfectly suited to the zeitgeist of the time, like Delicate was in 2018. Her streaming numbers were not terrible, but she was consistently getting out-streamed by the top new names in the industry, much of which was due to her catalogue being absent from platforms which put her on the backfoot. If she had been following a normal pop star path, then that would've been fine and it would've the beginning of her fade from the A-list. Instead, she took a hard left turn and put out folklore. It did unexpectedly massive numbers (including setting the record for the most streamed female album in the first 24 hours, which she broke two more times after that), sure, but what made folklore different was the entire narrative surrounding it. Taylor was no longer just a 'pop star', she was an indie rocker, and for the first time in a very long time, she was at the center of the celebrity discussion because of her music, and not just as a very famous person taking swings at Kanye or jet-setting with Tom. The pitchfork-indie rock dad demographic, who are the ones in the position of deciding which music is legitimate art and not just "pop music" fawned over folklore, and shifted the narrative from 'Taylor makes pop songs' to 'Taylor makes good songs' in communities that would've never seen the light otherwise. Folklore gave Taylor a massive career-jolting shock, and it set her on the path she's currently following.
In the years since, Taylor has clawed her way back to the very very top of the music industry, and with each release she widens the gap between her and everyone below her. Yes, evermore and Fearless TV didn't have the most stellar numbers, they did continue to develop her career arc in an incredibly positive way. Evermore proved to everyone with a toe in the industry that folklore wasn't a fluke, that she was capable of making "artful" music that would satisfy both pretentious indie rockers and her own fans at the same time. Fearless TV proved that Scooter had royally fucked up in his calculus when buying Big Machine, and that Scott Borchetta had royally fucked up when he assumed Taylor's career had peaked and he'd made all the money there was. It proved to executives that the re-recording project could be a success and that she could convince people to seek out the new versions, which is something we take for granted now (just look at the daily streams of each original album versus its re-recording), but was not a guarantee back then. Plus, it was Fearless TV that really lit the match and set the fire under her back catalogue, and got tens of thousands of people who probably had never listened to the original Fearless to go back and listen to her other albums from that era. The numbers weren't huge then, but that was when casual fans and locals started to re-evaluate the depths of her back catalogue. Obviously, Red TV was another step in her career progression, where she proved that a re-recording could be more than just new versions of songs for people to stream in place of the originals. She turned Red TV into a full-fledged era with videos and talk shows, and that a re-recording was able to spawn a ten minute #1 hit that wasn't just driven by fan consumption. Red TV did also act as a catalyst for her massive catalogue growth, but it wasn't the start of it. Finally, Midnights and the Eras Tour have been the true peak of Taylor's career. She's outstreaming the next 4 most popular female acts on Spotify combined. She got an album debut so ludicrously large that it exceeded even the most optimistic of predictions by a significant degree. She was even able to repair her relationship with US radio and turned Anti-Hero into her biggest and most successful song on the Hot 100 since Shake It Off. Taylor can play the pop star game and get the pop star hits and have the pop star tour, but Taylor writes lyrics that appeal to indie rock dads, wields significant power on the indie/alt music charts, and is playing stadiums with crowds so big they're more in line the biggest rocker performances ever than they are with any other pop girl stadium tour. Taylor has moved so far beyond the pop star that she was at the start of the Lover era, thanks to the pivot that happened with folklore. She can be the pop star on the micro-scale, which is seen in how well Midnights is holding up as a current pop album, but she can also be the music legend on the macro-scale, as is seen by the 14 million+ people in line for her concert presale or the immense, immense popularity of her back catalogue that complements the demand for her new music. There's a reason people have started calling this SwiftMania 😉
@9w1ft alert alert 🚨 👁️ 🚨
Taylor Swift releasing a book with Speak Now ?!
Speak Now was released 2010, which is the same year Chely Wright came out publicly. The ATW mv referenced a book release "13 years later"
She mentions July 9 in her Speak Now announcement
A small bookstore just posted this today claiming a book by an unknown author will be released on July 9th with a huge print run.
[source: reddit]
“And now I send their babies presents” 😭
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you guys earlier this year i was in a waffle house and i played a 1975 song on the jukebox queue and i checked out as it was playing and the total was $19.89 and i really think i accidentally manifested all this that afternoon in waffle house i'm so sorry
so, this is gonna be their thing? 👀
Supporting her wife 😍...
March 17 in Glendale, AZ — Mirrorball/Tim McGraw
March 18 in Glendale, AZ — State of Grace/This Is Me Trying
March 24 in Las Vegas, NV — Our Song/ Snow on the Beach
March 25 in Las Vegas, NV— Cowboy Like Me w/ Marcus Mumford/White Horse
March 31 in Arlington, TX — Sad Beautiful Tragic/ Ours
April 1 in Arlington, TX — Death by a Thousand Cuts/Clean
April 2 in Arlington, TX — Jump Then Fall/The Lucky One
April 13 in Tampa, FL — Speak Now/Treacherous
April 14 in Tampa, FL — The Great War w/ Aaron on guitar/You’re On Your Own Kid
April 15 in Tampa, FL — Mad Woman w/ Aaron on piano/Mean
April 21 in Houston, TX — Wonderland / You’re Not Sorry
April 22 in Houston, TX — A Place In This World / Today Was A Fairytale
April 23 in Houston, TX — Begin Again / Cold As You
April 28 in Atlanta, GA — The Other Side of the Door / Coney Island
April 29 in Atlanta, GA — High Infidelity / Gorgeous
April 30 in Atlanta, GA — I Bet You Think About Me / How You Get The Girl
May 5 in Nashville, TN— Sparks Fly/Teardrops On My Guitar
The gaylor of it all. 🥹😫
https://twitter.com/vox_fantasma/status/1654713075025727488?t=wZObQm5tbHEuWKLTnSCB7w&s=19
Damn Taylor 😭😂😂
👀 are there other clips of this out there because it sounded like a he on the livestream i was listening to
Tayobe rise?
Kaylor was the first thing I thought of lol
“this one’s about you. you know who you are. i love you.” ???????????
✨ Again and again, maybe 10 more times, we made a promise, what will come next? Will you be here when the time comes? We will see.
This ask was sent on Monday shortly after Karlie revealed her pregnancy. I had already posted several asks in response to her reveal when this came into my inbox. It felt a bit myserious then, and even more so now.
Thoughts ... I have been discussing it with a mutual and we are stuck.
sometimes i think people on the fence should ask themselves, what’s stopping you from seeing how possible kaylor is? if the answer is that it would mean taylor won’t come out in the way you’d hoped or that she’s not dating the way that you’d like or the person that you’d like, or it conflicts with your internet friendships or Take consistency well i dunno about everybody else but i think that’s more of a you problem than a kaylor problem
So Jack, who just so happened to produce the 1975’s latest album, set Taylor up with Matty…who she’s known for over 10 years…and the article mentions the briefly “dated” before? LOL BFFR.
They’ve been dating for under 2 months, which would’ve been since March, yet she went through a “divorce” with Toe in the middle of closing on an $8.3 million house with him sometime in March (according to “sources”), which was made public in April and from April 9th to May 2nd, she has dated the race car driver, Bradley Cooper, AND Matty, who again, she’s been dating for almost 2 months?
And she still manages to perform a 44 song set list back to back to back whilst bathed in lesbian flag and rainbow lighting with a smile on her face and garter on her thigh with the occasional dinner/outing with her friends squeezed in between?
🤣
Can we talk about the visuals for wildest dreams? How she looks so peaceful… and the implications of her burning it down several times throughout the show? Throughout the last few years… how the cover of midnights is her with a lighter
How she walks into the house, throws a match on gasoline and then walks out?
diesel is desire / you were playing with fire 🔥
See these posts for more fire/gasoline/matches references:
