I think part of what bugs me the most about the Neanderthal storyline Taylor's got going on is that Taylor's much maligned actual partner (KK) is completely her equal. Karlie is so ambitious, intelligent, curious, and well-spoken, among many other positive adjectives. She isn't JUST a famous person who made her name on one talent. Taylor is also special in this way. She's not just a wonderful musician. She's basically a poet and wordsmith, deeply passionate, ambitious and a shrewd business person. TK doesn't even compare, and it's so frustrating to see how so many millions of her fans would rather think of her as his future trad wife than as a full human who deserves an equal.
I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but it just pisses me off on a cosmic level. It pisses me off as a queer woman, but also just as a woman living in this fucking society.
Yes, yes. I agree with all the above. It’s what bothered me about it from the start, but the reaction to it is what makes me cringe. How quickly women will support a boss ass woman shrinking herself to become a man’s cheerleader for their singular talent. And for that to be the main thing they can’t shut up about now.
OMfG!😮 wow🔥☄️
sooooo….. he was apart of the stage hands FORCING her to go on to perform??? in full costume with props and all?
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as they’re getting her ready, the battle-scarred “real” taylor has nothing but resentment written all over her face. she only smiles after when Taylor Swift™️ is performing the number.
i mean cmon, just look at this standstill.
and people are ROMANTICIZING this??
it’s the same shit again—the sarah’s and hannah’s are more enthralled with her “very real relationship” versus actually taking in and analyzing her art & the role he plays
she’s yelling, y’all. and some people really can’t even bother to pretend to listen
i wonder if there’ll be a valentine’s day merch drop this year, i do love a valentine’s day merch drop 🥰
Before anyone comes with that quote that y’all love to dig up from the time capsule:
She’s always been an ally to the LGBTQ community. She just never made it a spectacle as a lot of her peers do. This is the same person who insinuated Joe Alwyn encouraged her to speak up about US politics.
Taylor Swift isn’t stupid—she’s aware of the implications of her actions. This awareness has helped her to be as successful as she is. Why do you think she made that speech about her concerts being a safe space when she got backlash for “dating” MH? Him allegedly being on Slut! and removed?
Y’all love to take that quote and twist it into a narrative about being naive.
Don’t forget how she also said gay pride makes her her.
How she had a gay pride parade in the Me! video.
How she said “spelling is fun” as a way to ask if she has to spell it out, but y’all didn’t get it, so she took it out of the song.
How at TIFF, she gave a veiled statement about closeting and people laughed thinking she was making a joke. Her reaction to the laughter.
Look at how many of y’all say the Lover era was her worst era fashion wise. It’s interesting, because she was wearing a lot of rainbow in that era.
Y’all love to forget that.
Y’all also love to bring up Hayley Kiyoko and Lil Nas X as examples of why Taylor can just “come out” and won’t see any backlash.
When Hayley and Nas began their careers, they began them as out queer artists and not in country music. Nas is an openly queer artist in the hip hop industry and by all really think he has it easy?
Taylor could’ve easily still been dominating country music. But she chose to leave that genre of music. She would’ve never been able to do an album like 1989, folklore or evermore in that genre because she wouldn’t have had the lyrical freedom. She had to fight Scott Borchetta for 1989 to even be what it is.
Exactly this.
Also, I would like to add a question to swifties who refuse to see her.
What do you think this moment during anti-hero on tour is about? Why do you think she has a gigantic version of herself literally screaming at people in the audience to LOOK AT HER while the version of her on stage is performing? What could possibly be the explanation for this?
waiting for @9w1ft come on to see these insane bengal tiger earrings 🐅
Can we talk about how if Taylor had phrased it "lesbian pride makes me me!" they'd still be arguing "SHE JUST SUPPORTS LESBIANS!"
There is literally 0 logic to thinking it's not an identity statement, yet they find a way.
If you're not trans like myself then are you really going to say trans pride makes you who you are just because you're an ally???
Who you support does not correlate with personal identity. Something cannot make you who you are unless you are that something. This isn't a complicated concept
I think it's just one of the biggest proofs that it has never mattered what Taylor says or does, and that is why hairpin drop was dismissed when it has 0 other meaning and she doubled down to use it again 2 years after non-stop discourse about it.
It's simply 1 of 2 things:
1. They know Taylor is queer but will always force an act that they don't believe it simply because they don't want her to be or for that to be normalized.
2. They genuinely will not recognize anything explicity queer as queer because of that deep dislike towards the community even if it stems from internalization.
At this point there is simply not anyone that doesn't have homophobic views that cannot see at the very least that the Lover era was a coming out. I do not believe it.
The same song that she said "gay pride makes me me" about is a song about herself, her own love, characterized by queer pride, music video released on lesbian visibility day, and then you further pair that with all the promo posts for it being captioned the date of lesbian visibility with the pictures solely using the lesbian flag colors as the theme. Nobody is confused, it's just hate.
karlie kloss out in nyc post the met gala
I started with Begin Again because it's one song/music video that is clearly pointing us towards the muse
and then Taylor guided us towards the next song State of Grace where she said
with her saying that she has some songs for that person in between but not in chronological order.
I admit, State of Grace is a song that is not very obvious and clear with regards to clues and I just went with what Taylor said.
It's also a song that has confused many gaylors and I appreciate their honesty in saying (credit to all-my-possessions)
and that she wrote it for a love that felt epic
In this song, there is only one line that quite points us to the person she talks about.
and i also saw many articles talking about Karlie's eyes being blue also sometimes green. but one thing is that she purposely used blue so it does not get confused with hazel which can sometimes look green depending on the light. but it's hard to confuse hazel with blue.
Oop I got distracted there looking at various Karlie eyes
the next lyrics are not just gonna be based on more gay vibes and nothing concrete. just imo parallels with other Kaylor songs, and yes I think Style is for Karlie (more on that later)
The recurring theme of love being a game (CLM), rolling the dice, playing, etc talks about how they are conning people making them believe in public facing narratives, etc
The next line also screams NYC to me, with it's busy people full of busy agendas. And of course, it could also mean LA but these lines evoke the feeling of being in New York
The golden part of the lyrics just make me think of daylight lyrics and how it comes back to this Red album saying love is not Red but Golden. And several other references to gold.
Lastly, I don't consider this proof because it was posted after the song but it's suspicious because Swarovski posted and deleted afterwards. and of course, the double swans (Karlie in London photo with double swans).
Again, this song has been tricky because it's a lot of assumptions and biases on my side with the clues being that Taylor herself said Begin Again and SoG have the same muse and the lines about twin fire signs.
and you knew what it was, she is in love
I cannot emphasize this enough…
I FUCKING LOVE YOU, KARLIE KLOSS
you know how to ball 🏀