If You Were Wearing The Jeans, Who Was Wearing That Little Black Dress Taylor...

um. so i wound up working on a full annotation & analysis essay of this song & all the references it makes to other songs/literature (that i could find at least) & how it ties into the theme of this album being a critique of the music industry and her fans idolization of her & so so much more &&&& it is nearly 4am and i need to sleep butttt should i post it when i finish. yay or nay.

can we talk about 'the albatross' reference to 'candle in the wind'??

"Wise men once said / 'Wild winds are death to the candle'"

like??

I believe that Getaway Car, Cruel Summer and Hits Different are a trio of sorts.

‘Cruel Summer’ is clearly a callback to summer 2014, and with the lyrical parallels in ‘Hits Different’, we can see she’s also referencing that period of time.

Taylor was not in a happy place in the summer of 2014..

The song ‘Getaway Car’ also displays clear motifs and themes that match with ‘Cruel Summer’ and ‘Hits Different’; Specifically crying in the car and leaving someone at a bar.

Nothing good starts in a getaway car

They were driving, but they never got far

She was CRYING in a getaway car

She was DYING in a getaway car…

In my opinion, ‘Getaway Car’ is a metaphor for Karlie convincing Taylor to move to NYC.

Taylor wrote on Jan 6th, 2014:

‘Love is fiction/a myth. I’m over it all’

‘Oh my, love is a lie. Shit my friends say to get me by.’

The cursed “space” that she “needed” was her choice to move to NYC instead of following Di to London.

Evening Standard

Glee star Dianna Agron to be cheerleader for Alexander McQueen in play

 

Taylor did choose to conclude the European leg of her Red tour in London, on Feb. 11th, 2014, which is also the same day that she chopped her hair into a bob 🙃

It was also just days before the release of the ‘best friends’ Vogue photoshoot and Dianna’s response..

So messy!!!

Later in May 2014, Taylor went to The Met Gala with Karlie.

Dianna was also there, photographed being extra warm towards her rumored ex, Leà Michelle, which was unexpected since the two had seemed to be ‘feuding’.

Could you imagine seeing your ex with her ex, while you’re out with your rebound? I would have metaphorically died that night too.

After the Met Gala, Taylor turned up the pap walks.. err.. I mean the “sneaking” through the garden gate (looked more like trying to hurt someone else, if you ask me)

Talk about a cruel summer.

Is it just me or are the new TIME photos giving Marlene Dietrich and Katharine Hepburn?

For the younger crowd, they were old Hollywood sapphics. Huge ass stars of their time

WHOS AFRAID OF LITTLE OLD ME

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I thought after “Hits Different” came out, we all just knew Taylor was some kinda fluid. I remember thinking, “Oh, it’s so cool everyone likes that song, no one cares that she’s singing to a woman!”

But I had no idea until I fell deeper into the rabbit hole how far out of their way people will go to shove her into the straight box. It’s sad.

She’s literally like “Hiiii I have loved a woman dearly” and everyone’s like “Wow it must be nice to be sooooo straight that you can write gay lyrics and they’re still straight.”

the bolter & gorgeous.... 'all her fuckin lives flashed before her eyes / i feel like i might sink & drown & die'

like the tune of these just runs together! & the connections between almost drowning at 6 in the bolter etc etc

Bf Taylor... enjoy...

she was so good to us

Imagine watching THIIS on the big screen 🫣

She did the new version of Lesbian in sign language tonight making sure we see her index finger clearly on her chin oh my god-