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Just because I notice things...thought trail
Chunga munga is the cowardly lion from The Wizard of Oz (bow on his tail)
Which made me think of these red shoes from Taylor’s post
Which reminded me of the Tim Walker shoot Karlie posted last year around this time reminiscing (she was Dorothy)
October 2010 W mag Tim walker shoot
Which made me think of the song Somewhere Over The Rainbow that Karlie added to her “good morning” playlist on 3/8/21
There are only 3 songs on the playlist
The playlist is 13 mins long.
Which made me of course think of this connection
And just throwing these in for good measure
Are we on the Red Brick road right now ?
A PR professional just explained to me why they believe Taylor Swift is queer
They're not particularly a fan or a hater. Because of their job, they state that they're probably more exposed to Taylor's PR flow and the details of it than the average GP person, but less than the fans that consume it and go seek it out.
Here's what they think, from a "cool, detached, professional slash transactional standpoint" (quote):
Taylor Swift™ (the brand, which means Taylor and team. Whoever establishes the communication strategies and help build it in concrete visual coding, statements and appearances, etc) is very good at PR. "people that like or dislike the brand agree on that. Hell, that's the main reason many point out for their dislike. So good it's annoying. So much polished *genuine* that it feels fake".
She's been loud in supporting her causes in the past years. Feminism, acceptance of differences, fighting xenophobia, and loudest of them all, especially lately, her support of the lgbt+ community.
"The difference in the way she's doing it is fundamental." She's been placing herself amongst the queer community as she celebrates it. Repeatedly.
"In PR, there is one thing you can't get away with anymore. It's the I've Got This *** Friend strategy." You can't make yourself look cool and supportive of BLM just by hanging out with a dark skinned person and get ally cred. You will get torn down by backlash. You have to back it up with actions, and you have to shut up about it, so that it doesn't look like you're being supportive of something to get credit for it, that you're doing something good because your interest is how it will be a good reflection on your brand.
"Queer baiting might be a strategy to try to pull audience members and try to save a show, but considering the backlash that ensues, I wouldn't recommend it these days."
So their conclusion is this: Taylor knows much much better than that.
Yet she's being super super loud.
She's putting herself in the middle of it. "She's literally painting herself in it and with it." (in it, the videos, with it, the rainbow dresses and the hair colors)
"She's too smart to make a mistake like making herself the straight ally of the decade. Not this way where she IS being accused of baiting. So I must conclude that... She isn't. She's not baiting. She's messaging. And the message seems pretty darn clear to me."
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So this is what they've said. The parts in italics are direct quotes they've allowed me to share and the rest is context and paraphrasing. I won't share more because they asked me not to. They would like to add this: "I'm straight. I'm what we're supposed to call middle aged. I don't particularly have an interest or investment on whether Taylor is or isn't queer, on whether she does or does not state it out loud. But working in a world where we spin stories, there are some that we don't like. The ones that cover up a closet rarely end well and always masquerade for someone's misery. Or some ones', plural. I can't deny how big an impact a coming out like hers would have if it's well handled. So. While I don't wish for her to go one way or another, I will be cheering loudly for her if she comes out. From a logical standpoint, I believe she's en route. From a more human one, hell yeah, my Spidey senses are tingling." (pause for giggles and discussion on whether Spidey senses should fall under strictly Human categorizing) "In any case, this little discussion dive into the Swift Tumblr PR Analysis Squad has been hilarious and inspiring. You think we're good? You should give yourselves a round of applause!"*
*can't say why they have referenced that we think they're good. But I'm allowed to point it out...
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So! To my fellow members of the Taylor Swift PR Analysis Squad.... Basically this:
Did you ever realize how in the Lover video Taylor 'lassoed' her lover like a cowboy would do? And then how Karlie posted on IG 6/25/19 "My Cowboy" (wyoming stunt that had a bunch of rich business people there, not friends), and then the Lover video came out on 9/22/19 so Taylor was nodding to that? How Karlie's a cowboy like her, conning all the rich folks? I swear to god these women! They've got some tricks up their sleeve, takes one to know one! Bandits riding away into the sunset.
😳 Remember on the Wyoming trip when Derek posted that video of Katy singing ‘one of these things is not like the other’ in a country voice and then panning to Karlie on a horse? Then the YNTCD video with Katy and Taylor coming out days prior on June 17th?
evermore by taylor swift / Taylor Swift: The Rolling Stone Interview (2019) / Taylor Swift: ‘I was literally about to break’, The Guardian (2019) / Taylor Swift on Sexism, Scrutiny, and Standing Up for Herself, Vogue US (2019)
Oohh maybe that's why Taylor used the phrases in her latest ig reel "Fluffy toe beans" and "Overstuffed floof feet" (and not "paws" usually for the cats), because she was referring to their son's toes and feet 😭
Noooo... Taylor can't be talking about those fluffy little feet.
No way are these sentences about that! 😻
And that! 🥰
It's just another Koincidence. It's not?! 😏
🌼☀️🦁❤
Lions, Tigers, and Bears
Oh my.
Taylor’s current tiktok profile pic is the bear photo
And 2022 is the year of the Tiger
taylorswift: Basic autumn lovers RISE 🍂🧣
Hello Pro! In light of the recent easter eggs, I felt compelled to compile them (in addition to the initial T/K baby speculation list I made before, yep I'm the same anon 😅) for us remaining Kaylors. These may vary from very strong to might-be-nothing easter eggs, and a mix of the T/K baby speculation and just plain T/K connections. Here's my little contribution to the fandom! ✨ (this is only for 2021 easter eggs so far):
1. Taylor's "Cancel the DNA test..." tweet (February 2021)
2. Taylor's Grammy dress.. having last minute changes to the original design to include little daisies and sunflowers on it. (March 2021)
3. Lover's crest on Fearless Vault + strikingly "K" outline/design on the vault door + the 13th word from the vault was "BABY" (April 2021)
4. Taylor's Periwinkle nail polish as a possible easter egg/response to your past anon's ask about if they still check your blog/kaylor blogs. (May 2021)
5. Matching Levi's overalls of Karlie (lategram while pregnant) and Taylor's IG post about evermore vinyl. (May 2021)
6. Karlie's IG story with a Santal 26 Candle (Tay's fave) in the frame. (May 2021)
7. Taylor wearing the VSFS angel wing ring on her acceptance speech for NMPA award (June 2021)
8. Karlie's avocado toast with a "13" on it (while pregnant.. lategram) (July 2021)
9. Karlie using a similar bg design for her KWK to Taylor's "Renegade" aesthetic. (July 2021)
10. Karlie reposting an IG story birthday greeting by Lily to K, with a photo from VMAs 2015, and Taylor visibly in the background. (August 2021)
11. Lover's crest still on the RED Vault + "K" outline/design still on the vault door + "KK" on the crossword puzzle (note: the letters were unused ones. Meaning, they weren't needed for any of the song titles. T still chose to put KKs near each other). (August 2021)
12. Karlie releasing/announcing her Adidas "Red" line the same day/timeframe Taylor posted Red Vault. (Her red was almost, if not exactly, the same shade of red Taylor uses for her RED TV era). (August 2021)
13. Taylor starting her Tiktok page, with a caption ".. let the games begins"; The next day, Karlie posted a photoshoot on IG with a caption "What's black and white and red all over" (the answer: Newspaper.. Reputation album cover link? 🤔). The dress she wore also have these race car flag design, which 9sw1ft pointed out, the flags were also used (by taylor) for the Taymoji of RFI, specifically for the line... "Let the games begin". (August 2021)
14. The day before the MET gala, Karlie posted an IG story with a direct line/caption "Let the games begin". (September 2021)
15. Karlie's MET GALA DRESS.. American Rose.. "A red rose grew up, out of ice frozen ground". Also note that The Met gala was on September 13th (9+1+3=13). (September 2021)
16. Taylor releasing Wildest Dreams (same week as the MET) and wearing a sweater (on the cover) that has little KKs on it. Not to mention, the brand/design of the sweater is from a 2014 line (and the brand had connections/collaborations with Karlie). (September 2021)
17. Taylor's announcement of RED being moved to Nov. 12th.. then mentioning in the same post to "Celebrate the 13th". (Note: Taylor and Karlie officially met/bonded on Nov. 13th VSFS 2013) (October 2021)
18. Taylor wearing an obviously similar RED ROSE DRESS to Karlie's Red Rose Met dress on her IG Reel/Video. (October 2021)
I'm aware that there are more (subtler and smaller) easter eggs in betweens, but I'm afraid this'll get toooo long haha! I also heavily emphasized on Taylor's hints more than Karlie's (Karlie has a lot more captions/pics that are sus) because people love to claim that Karlie's just baiting Kaylors. Please feel free to add other easter eggs I've forgotten about 😅 Will be updating these if/when we get more :) Enjoy!
This is amazing and well organized!
hi there. I don't know if this means anything, but I thought it was interesting. I was curious about the phrase "sensual politics," so I googled it. the top (and basically only) result that appears is a book, Claude Cahun: A Sensual Politics of Photography. anyway, it's about her "life as an artist and writer, a woman and lesbian and as a political activist in the early twentieth century." aside from her approach to art, I found some other interesting stories about her and recommend a search!
Oh wow 😳 very interesting. I looked up her work and it’s very intriguing... this article is a good place to start. It wouldn’t surprise me given Taylor’s history with Loie Fuller.
Easter Egg = Hatched
I screenshot these IG stories from Karlie on September 10th and 14th (before and after the Met gala).
I captured the first one because I thought the “double bubble” gum was suspicious and was even chatting with a mutual about it.
When the second one came out, we knew the first was Karlie teasing the inspiration for her Met gala dress before it was revealed. But why she included the “double bubble” gum was still a mystery.
I think I understand it now, though. Karlie was dropping an Easter Egg that Taylor would eventually wear a similar dress. And she did it over a month before Taylor shared her version with us.
In conclusion, that smirk on Taylor’s face makes a lot of sense.
sometimes the universe
...just says it shall be...
i mean seriously... can you believe this pic of karlie existed back in... august 2012?? with a gold heart covering over the other side of her face??? like...?!?! between this and the sweet escape coincidence unearthed by @daydreamlibertine i am truly beside myself
thanks to @blogbeautiffulthings for this truly hidden gem!! i can’t believe i’ve never seen it.
here’s more from the photoshoot that it is from:
karlie seems to be wearing her jennifer meyer initial necklace in this shoot as well.
really i’m just enamored by karlie showing off some very rare left-side eye 😂 and also like, it’s at such a particularly good angle...
...so naturally 🙈 i took the liberty of flipping it, zapping the saturation, and overlapping:
what a fit!
also it kind of reminded me of something
a taymoji of taylor in a hoodie, oddly misplaced within the I Did Something Bad pack
hark...!
is that a crack of the knuckles over a keyboard that i do hear? why yes concerned reader, i am aware this hoodie references a particular preexisting look of taylor’s. no, concerned reader, i am not aiming to say that this taymoji is meant to reference this one time back in 2012 when karlie modeled a black hoodie. after all this is a taymoji quite squarely of the:
BLIND FOR LOVE
gucci look from the lwymmd video.
that’s right.
blind 👁
for love 💛
♪♬♩♫♪♬♩♫
*postscript*
also like, in rewatching the behind the scenes for this scene why does taylor go out of her way to make a scene out of one of the guys that has a hole cut out of his tie?
🤨hmm?? 🤨🤨🤨 hmmmmm???
“Up on YOUR Roof with a Schoolgirl Crush”
In the Making of a Song video for “King of My Heart” Taylor sings the lyrics as “with all these nights we’re spending up on YOUR roof with a schoolgirl crush.”
Video - at 6:30.
So who had a rooftop in 2016 when this song was being written?
Lily’s and Karlie’s addresses were public info.
Lily’s Building
Lily’s building had a rooftop for hanging out.
In a photoshoot she did for Cass Bird and Telegraph magazine, they used Lily’s East Village neighborhood for the shoot, including up on the roof.
Karlie’s Building
Karlie’s two-story building had a garden, garden gate, and balcony but no rooftop to hang out on.
Joe’s Building
Articles report that Joe was living in Crouch End when he met Taylor. I don’t think his place had a rooftop to hang out on from photos of the area.
The Bridge
I’ve written about the “King of My Heart” lyrics in other posts, including the British, model, and wlw references, so let’s just look at the bridge here after the roof lyric.
“Drinking beer out of plastic cups”
Is this a reference to Taylor and Karlie at the Knicks game in 2014? Maybe. But the 2014 era doesn’t seem to match the rest of the song, especially since this line is after “my broken bones are mending.”
“Say you fancy me not fancy stuff”
Another British 🇬🇧 reference in a song with many British references. So this line could fit Lily or Joe.
The Making of a Song video was recorded in September 2016. The Nashville and LA scenes, including the rooftop lyric scene, were filmed September 19-21. (Link) The song appears to have been started in early September from the Cornelia Street scene at the beginning of the video and some people think it may have been started as early as August. All of this is before September 28.
Lyrical Parallels: Sunshine☀️ gone/given away/ down/blocked
“Lived in the shade you were throwin' til all of my sunshine was gone, gone, gone.”
“I'd give you my sunshine, give you my best. But the rain is always gonna come if you're standing with me.” - peace
“When the sun goes down.” - coney island
“My eclipsed sun. This has broken me down.” - hoax
Hiii can you do the pronouns percentage with lover and folklore in? I've just seen the one with rep included but FOLKLORE IS SO GAY. Also you're doing gods work thank you so much 💕
Hi! I’ve updated the charts to include Folklore - there is actually already a post which includes the pronouns from Lover (here) if you’re interested to see what has and hasn’t changed.
As always, the songs not included in these charts are those from Taylor’s unreleased catalogue; those for which Taylor is credited as co-writer, but which were released by another artist (e.g. Kellie Pickler’s ‘Best Days of Your Life’); and her OSTs (Eyes Open, Safe and Sound, Sweeter Than Fiction, I Don’t Wanna Live Forever and Beautiful Ghosts).
The charts are organised as follows below.
Songs with unqualified “male” (pro)nouns — “he” functions as Taylor’s primary romantic interest:
Tim McGraw
Teardrops on My Guitar
Stay Beautiful
I'd Lie
Fifteen
Hey Stephen
Forever & Always
I’m Only Me When I’m With You – “Just a small-town boy and girl”
Today Was a Fairy-tale – ‘You were the prince/ I used to be a damsel in distress’
Dear John
Better Than Revenge
Superman
Red
I Knew You Were Trouble
The Moment I Knew
Girl at Home
Blank Space — “You're the King, baby, I'm your Queen”
Style
Shake It Off
Wildest Dreams
You Are in Love
…Ready for It
I Did Something Bad
King of my heart – “King of my heart, body and soul”
Call It What You Want
Better Man — “I wish you were a better man”
Cruel Summer – “He looks up grinning like a devil”
Lover – “I take this magnetic force of a man to be my lover”
I Think He Knows
Paper Rings – “Wrap your arms around me, baby boy”
London Boy
Songs with qualified “male” pronouns:
Tied Together with a Smile — not autobiographical.
Our Song — uses reversed perspective.
Love Story — uses reversed perspective.
The Way I Loved You – constructs an opposition between ‘he’ and the gender non-specific ‘you,’ who is the true romantic interest.
Haunted — constructs an opposition between ‘he’ and the gender non-specific ‘you,’ who is the true romantic interest.
Speak Now — uses reversed perspective.
Starlight — not autobiographical.
Begin Again — constructs an opposition between ‘he’ and the gender non-specific ‘you,’ who is the true romantic interest.
New Romantics — it is (arguably) unclear whether the single male pronoun refers to a romantic interest of Taylor’s own (or of her fellow new romantics).
Don’t Blame Me — Taylor’s primary romantic interest is the gender non-specific ‘you,’ however note: ‘I’ve been breakin' hearts a long time, and/toyin’ with them older guys.’
Gorgeous — constructs an opposition between ‘he’/ ‘a boyfriend’ and the gender non-specific ‘you,’ who is the true romantic interest.
Getaway Car —constructs an opposition between ‘he’ and the gender non-specific ‘you,’ who is the true romantic interest.
Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince – it is not only arguable that the ‘heartbreak prince’ is independently a gender-neutral epithet (as claimed by Halsey) but also that “me” and “the heartbreak prince” is the proper syntactic pair (“it’s you and me…Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince”)
Songs with “female” (pro)nouns:
A Place in This World — ‘girl’ is self-referential. The song’s subject is not romantic in nature.
Should've Said No — ‘her’ refers to the third party in Taylor’s relationship with a romantic interest whose gender is non-specific (you).
Mary's Song (Oh My My My)
Invisible — ‘she’ refers to Taylor’s rival for the affection of a romantic interest whose gender in non-specific (you).
The Other Side of the Door — ‘she’ refers to the third party in Taylor’s relationship with a romantic interest whose gender is non-specific (you).
White Horse — ‘she’ refers to the third party in Taylor’s relationship with a romantic interest whose gender is non-specific (you).
You Belong with Me — ‘she’ refers to the third party in Taylor’s relationship with a romantic interest whose gender is non-specific (you).
Mine — uses reversed perspective; ‘she’ is self-referential. Taylor’s romantic interest is gender non-specific (you).
How You Get the Girl — ‘her’ may refer either to Taylor herself or to her romantic interest.
This is what you came for
Babe — ‘her’ refers to the third party in Taylor’s relationship w/ a romantic interest whose gender is non-specific (you).
End Game — ‘girl’ occurs only in the featured parts. Taylor’s own romantic interest is gender non-specific (you).
The Man – “what’s it like to brag about…getting bitches and models.”
ME! – “baby girl when it comes to a lover.” Note that “you’re the kind of guy the ladies want” is implicitly contrasted with “and there’s a lot of cool chicks out there” which is the “one of these things” that “is not like the others, like a rainbow with all of the colours.” Taylor has further stated that ME! Is her first song about “baby chickens.”
The Last Great American Dynasty — “she” refers to Rebekah Harkness, the biographical subject.
Mad Woman — “she” is the wife of the subject “you,” rather than a romantic interest of the persona “I”.
Betty — uses reversed perspective, although the argument can also be made that actually “James” is a girl/Taylor herself.
Songs with gender-neutral pronouns:
Picture to Burn
Cold as You
The Outside
A Perfectly Good Heart
Jump Then Fall
Untouchable
Come in with the Rain
Superstar
Fearless
Breathe
Tell Me Why
You're Not Sorry
The Best Day — the lyrics are not romantic.
Change — the lyrics are not romantic.
Beautiful Eyes
I heart?
Sparks Fly
Back to December
Mean — the lyrics are not romantic.
The Story of Us
Never Grow Up — the lyrics are not romantic.
Enchanted
Innocent
Last Kiss
Long Live
Ours
If This Was a Movie
Crazier
Christmases When You Were Mine
Christmas Must Be Something More
State of Grace
Treacherous
All Too Well
22
I Almost Do
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
Stay Stay Stay
The Last Time
Holy Ground
Sad Beautiful Tragic
The Lucky One
Everything Has Changed
Come Back... Be Here
Welcome to New York – note, however: “you can want who you want, boys and boys and girls and girls.”
Out of the Woods
All You Had to Do Was Stay
I Wish You Would
Bad Blood
This Love
I Know Places
Clean
Wonderland
Look What You Made Me Do
So It Goes
Delicate
Dancing with Our Hands Tied
Dress
This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things — the lyrics are not romantic.
New Year’s Day
I Forgot That You Existed
The Archer
Cornelia Street
Death by a Thousand Cuts
Soon You’ll Get Better – the lyrics are not romantic
False God
You Need to Calm Down – (i.) the lyrics are not romantic and (ii.) both “my gown” and “his gown” are subsumed by “our gowns.”
Afterglow
It’s Nice to Have a Friend
Daylight
Christmas Tree Farm
Only the Young – the lyrics are not romantic.
The 1
Cardigan
Exile — in lyrical terms, the love interest is gender neutral (“you”); the pronoun “he” describes this “you’s” new lover.
My Tears Ricochet
Mirrorball
Seven — the pronouns are gender neutral (“you”) but the love interest is, arguably, female coded. Thus “your braids like a pattern” and “pack your dolls and a sweater.”
August
This is me trying
Illicit Affairs — the love interest’s pronouns are gender neutral (“you”). However, they are arguably female coded. Thus, “leave the perfume on the shelf that you picked out just for him.”
Invisible String — the love interest’s pronouns are gender neutral (“you”). Note, however, “for the boys who broke my heart.”
Epiphany — the lyrics are not romantic
Peace
Hoax
The Lakes
just remembering how karlie posted this on october 26, 2014, the eve of 1989's midnight release, kind of implying that she was out of the country (but she was actually snapped by a fan in nyc with taylor)
but the fact that she chose this particular picture... with (her?) hands making our girl's signature heart sign which she became so known for that it's practically unofficially copyrighted by the Taylor Swift™ brand....
just remembering how karlie posted this on october 26, 2014, the eve of 1989's midnight release, kind of implying that she was out of the country (but she was actually snapped by a fan in nyc with taylor)
but the fact that she chose this particular picture... with (her?) hands making our girl's signature heart sign which she became so known for that it's practically unofficially copyrighted by the Taylor Swift™ brand....
so this sweater has been ID’d as Band Of Outsiders, Pre-fall 2014. naturally, i did the google 🥴
🥴 so it seems karlie has a bit of a connection to the brand, as the place that did her cookie collab also collabed with them. she also wore a dress from the brand to the 2014 CFDA awards.
just kinda interesting to think, you know, taylor chose to—for the cover of Wildest Dreams Taylor’s Version—wear a sweater from a collection of a brand that karlie was in and around, in and around the same time 🥴💕
so this sweater has been ID’d as Band Of Outsiders, Pre-fall 2014. naturally, i did the google 🥴
🥴 so it seems karlie has a bit of a connection to the brand, as the place that did her cookie collab also collabed with them. she also wore a dress from the brand to the 2014 CFDA awards.
just kinda interesting to think, you know, taylor chose to—for the cover of Wildest Dreams Taylor’s Version—wear a sweater from a collection of a brand that karlie was in and around, in and around the same time 🥴💕
the archer theory about taylor swift coming out.
well, i've seen some people talking about this song and i had to listen to it again, since it's one of my favorite songs on lover and it also has to do with the theories and the meaning this song has to me.
i don't want to apply this to anyone so feel free to SKIP and NOT READ if you don't agree that this is a LGBTQIA+ song.
pure my own interpretation but you don't have to come to me if you don't like, she has a lot of songs and some of them are free for interpretations and they have different meanings to different people.
the first line it's:
“combat, i'm ready for combat / i say i don't want that but what if i do?”
this line to me has the deepest meaning and it comes along with the one in you are in love “and you will understand now why they lost their minds and fought the wars” and in ivy “this is the goddamn fight of my life and you started it” and both songs are before and after the archer which makes the archer in the middle.
the combat she's (maybe) referring to it's about coming out being (still) the american dream and the woman everyone looks up to when it comes to pop music, she says she don't want it but what if she does? what if she want to fight for it, fight for who she is and who she wants people to see that she really is? it's a combat because you can't come out if you're not ready to start a war against the world.
“cause cruelty wins in the movies / i've got a hundred thrown-out speeches i almost said to you”
cruelty here, to me, it's about how cruel it is to not have the story of your life in the big screen, like, we grow up seeing the bad stories about LGBTQIA+ couples and it's always about how they didn't end up together or how bad they are treated. the “speeches i almost said to you" looks like something she was ready to say to us, her fans, and she didn't had the chance or she wasn't really ready.
“easy they come, easy they go / i jump from the train, i ride off alone / i never grow up it's getting so old, help me hold on to you”
when i first saw the miss americana documentary, i highlighted that part where she is trying to convince her father and the rest of the team that it was a good idea/good move to speak up about the politics and the situation of the trump thing. and it was very hard for me to watch because it was clearly a bunch of old men that grew up and still have in mind their conservatory concepts that goes against what taylor wanted to tell her whole life, they were just trying to silence her and she decided to do it anyway because she is a grown woman and she never spoke up about those things before the reputation era.
the easy they come and easy they go line goes for the fans, they are always in and out and sometimes some of them never want to come back and stay because in the first bad thing that happens to her it pulls them away. she jumps from the train and ride off alone, the train maybe is about her life that never stops and she takes a break from it, the media, the relationships, the image she has in front of the whole world and she ride alone because there's no one in the world that could understand her more than herself. she never grow up when it comes to being more mature when it comes to some things and having the capacity to speak her truth, she's asking us to let her hold on to us when things go harder and when everyone else has left her.
“i've been the archer, i've been the prey / who could ever leave me darling, but who could stay?”
i fucking love this line so much because when you are a LGBTQIA+ kid growing up, you always has to fight against being the bad person and the good person, you grow up seeing in the news that you will die young and that there's people out there that will try to tell you that loving someone of the same sex is the wrong thing to do. being the archer and also the prey is like haunting yourself until you realize who you really are, you have that idea internalized in you, the homophobic jokes you grew up listening and you're also the target and it's like both sides of a coin. who could ever leave her for being a (bi, pan, lesbian) woman? who could ever stay if she's a (bi pan, lesbian) woman? it's like “who could stay in the darkest of the darkest times here with me because it looks like i am lost and i don't know where to go”
“dark side, i search for your dark side / but what if i'm alright, right, right, right here?”
the dark side is not the bad side like people point out, the dark side of someone is like when the moon is half shown and half hidden, and you can only see the part that's out for the light. here the dark side of taylor is the one she haven't showed to us, and to me this line is not about a potential lover but about herself. and this song feels like a mirror, so to me, she's talking to herself and trying to find her dark side in front of her own image. the sequence “alright, right” it's like the dark side saying “i am here and it's good”.
“and i cut off my nose just to spite my face / then i hate my reflection for years and years”
this fucking line is the deepest for me, because it's like, she cut a part of herself to looks like someone who she wasn't made to be, it reminds me of having to hide your true side in despite of being hurt or left aside. how many LGBTQIA+ kids and teenagers has to hide from their parents? we change our way to see the world, we lie to everyone about our love interestings, we hide in the closet and we don't face ourselves because this is not who we are and then we spent the rest of our life hating our reflection because we don't recognize this person but everybody loves this version we created, it's easy, it's very easy to love a straight person but it's the hardest thing to let a queer kid feel loved. it's very easy to not tell a straight person how to be but it's the hardest thing teach a queer kid how to love themselves.
“i wake in the night, i pace like a ghost / the room is on fire, invisible smoke / and all of my heroes die all alone / help me hold on to you”
she's s ghost to the people who live with her so she's not seen, everything is burning and there's an invisible smoke that's where she fades in, and all of her heroes, probably the queer ones that are dying everyday all alone and the ones who died were left alone in their final days. again she's asking if she can count on us to keep going if things go hard.
“i see right through me / they see right through me / can you see right through me?”
seeing through someone means that you see their true version, like if you're looking at their soul and they're so open that you can read anything. it's understanding someone and knowing someone inside and out. just like the lover mv where she's inside the fish tank, it's a metaphor for a thing that can be seen by everyone just like a mirror. and the delicate mv where she's not seen until she enters the bar and sees a person. she can see through herself and people are seeing through her but not in the way she wants to be seen and then she asks (for the fans?) if we can see right through her. could we fight the wars with her? be the shoulder for her to lean on? stay even when she's about to face the fight the biggest war of her life?
“all the king's horses, all the king's men / couldn't put me together again / cause all of my enemies started out friends”
king's horses and king's men also align with the chorus and the universe of being the prey in a world of men. also it can also be the world of a society that lives inside a bubble and cannot accept diversity. not even the men, (her father, team, men she dated?) could put her together again after all that she have been through, and it matches with the “i cut off my nose just to spite my face”. all of her enemies once were friends which implies that she can't trust anyone and as the song goes as (in my vision) a LGBTQIA+ letter to her fans, she's saying that there's no one that could handle this secret and she already tried to tell them but it ended wrong.
that's it. to me this song has a deep meaning and i couldn't put everything i wanted to in this post. also i just want taylor to know that there's a lot of sapphic connotations in her songs and i will always stay.
And what about this red nail polish?!
Something big gonna happen bc this is fishy
First karlie only showing one eye...let the game begin
Yes the phrase "let the games begin" was created
The day she released ready for it?.
. Anyone who uses the phrase is because of Taylor swift #klues
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"I miss us 🥺" #AllIThinkAboutIsYou....
"I miss us 🥺" #AllIThinkAboutIsYou
Then Taylor use this song in which the title had two girl blond karlie and black Taylor when they first met there hair was this color.
Seven years in heaven....
I Wonder who she miss and think about if her boyfriend is with her.... Wtf
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I saw your 1989 rewatch post and i was wondering about your comment: the New York story still continues.
I think in this side of swiftie fandom we can agree new york is karlie. However, I have seen so many analysis and lyric parallels of New York symbolism as proof of a kaylor break up.
I believe kaylor is still together, but I am having a tough time with what new york means after folklore and evermore. “I left a part of me back in New York” “she still is 23 inside her fantasy,” all of coney island paint at not so great picture compare to the new york of Lover.
What are your thoughts?
Sorry in advance if this sounds like rambling
She is still in New York regardless of how sad the songs sound. The story is still tied to New York.
I think there is this weird thing we tend to do when Taylor writes a sad song. We automatically assume it’s about a romantic break up and I think that is a product of her old reputation, sadly.
I think Taylor recognizes love is a lot more complex than Romeo and Juliet and it comes with ups and downs. We saw this on Lover. Riding the highs and treading the lows but all the while just hoping to get back to mundanity and normality. I think Taylor realized the lows and the highs make for a more entertaining story so she takes snapshots and zooms in on specific feelings and moments from her past and explores the stories that can come from them with new perspectives.
I also believe Taylor has been singing about her own personal journey and her struggles with anxiety. As well as her choices that led to a specific place or point in time and fighting her own demons while worrying about how someone could love her with her flaws. These concepts were on Lover as well.
Folklore and evermore honestly feel like purgatory to me, if that makes sense. They exist in a pocket dimension where Taylor is wandering around an old abandon town with no choice but to reflect on her past. She is forced to face her demons. She can’t hide from her thoughts. And sooner or later she realizes that the only way out is through and maybe if requires leaving all the baggage behind because you can’t leave the same way you came in.
“You know I left a part of me back in New York” means exactly that: She left part of herself in New York. (She had to leave something behind but she didn’t want to).
Conclusion:
The story is still in New York. Just on the outskirts of town. Coney Island is still in New York. It’s in Brooklyn. She did her photoshoot for the albums in Upstate New York.
She’s still writing the story:
“If the story's over. Why am I still writing pages?” - DBATC
“Pages turn and stick to each other” - RWYLM
I’m sorry again if this was rambly.
lets check out this timeline, shall we?
may 3rd 2016: taylor “”“"meets”“”“ buzz cut joe, falls for his ”“”“"gorgeous”“”“ face instantly, only to dance w / tom hiddleston - all while having a boyfriend
june 1st 2016: tayvin ENDS and the heavens open up on this glorious day!!!!
june 15th 2016: taylor and tom snog oh so privately on the beach. thus implying the start of their relationship. (despite being secretly in love w/ joe all along i guess??)
all summer long the two fly around the world together. totally a love that’s a “secret im hoping dreaming dying to keep”. joe is apparently her friend throughout all of this - emotional cheating, anyone????
august 3rd 2016: karlie’s 24th birthday
she posts a picture of taylor wearing this outfit:
and later on an “”“unkown”“”“ date, taylor just happens to be recording the back up vocals (implying the vocals are almost done, and thus implying taylor was trying to finish up a demo for SOME REASON on THIS date) wearing the same outfit:
but wait you say: ISN’T SHE STILL WITH TOM????
you right fam. which leaves three choices:
the song is for tom - despite dumping him a month later and having absolutely NO secrecy to hope and dream and die to keep about the relationship, and having met three months ago not “a few weeks ago”
the song is for joe - while she’s with tom. um cheater cheater pumpkin eater miss swift!!!!! do we really want to believe this is the option over her having a beard???
the song (’s demo) is a birthday present for miss kloss
but wait!!! there’s more!!!!
september 7th 2016: hiddlestunt ends. shouldve known she’d be the first to leave!
september 17th 2016: taylor is spotted in nashville wearing this outfit:
which we later see on an “”“"unknown”“”“ date during what sounds like the final production of komh:
(she is wearing a sweater over the shirt, same hat, hair, and makeup doe!!!!!)
sure her and joe could have been ”“”“secretly seeing”“”“ each other romantically a mere ten days after her last relationship ended. sure she decided he was the king of her heart a mere ten days or less into the relationship. or she was cheating long before.
but!!!!!
“we met a few weeks ago”
the met gala was four months and two weeks ago. um. not really a few weeks. (this also seems the most likely as dress says “flashback when you met me / your buzzcut my hair bleached”)
OR if they met on october 12th 2016:
which implies the song to have been written after late november of 2016 (“i recall late november”) which would place their meeting at “a few weeks ago”
OR
implies their meeting was september 28th 2016 (“do you remember the 28th night of september”), widely assumed to be their anniversary, and would place the writing of the song to be in october/november 2016…..(both options which would require us to ignore the meeting lyrics in dress)
then how was she recording the finishing touches on king of my heart on september 17th 2016?
yes miss swift, where was that alone time if the earliest possible date you recorded your love song for joe was a mere ten days after you dumped your last boyfriend? cheater cheater pumpkin eater seems a better option than this
to yall, hmmmm antis?
“There was a huge one (Kaylor photo) in one of the bedrooms down stairs and polaroids of them in the other smaller living room. In the white room there was a blown up framed picture of Karlie kissing Taylor’s cheek the one from their road trip and then when I was waiting to meet her I looked at the top of the stairs and there was a blown up picture of Taylor and Karlie the one that Karlie posted of them on IG where they’re jumping in the air in the sunset. There’s probably more but there were certain rooms we couldn’t go into. And there are Karlie photos in the bathroom too.”
— The amount of Karlie and Kaylor photos in Taylor’s apartment (according to fans who went to 1989’s Secret Session @ NYC)
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okay so we have been talking about how misty goes over to taylor during certain parts of the song but i was just watching a recording online where they distort the sound to avoid copyright conflict and so i was watching the performance purely visually and not trying to think about the connection to the lyrics and it’s quite literally that
the ballerina keeps trying to run to taylor in between stunts
but she always has to go back to the man so they can perform another maneuver..
her performance with the man keeps pulling her away 😣
a bit of resonance with the universe...
i’m just gonna leave this here...
aside from all the things Taylor has shown us about not being straight, I wanna know if this has been discussed.
She's said that her track 5 songs are always very emotional. We know her star sign is the archer. In you need to calm down there's an easter egg for the song with Hayley Kyoko.
A lesbian woman is an archer.
I could discuss the fact that she's dressed in blue and how that can potentially go back to the Mean music video and the girl with a blue ribbon on her dress, whose storyline ends watching Taylor, and how that could be attributed to either gender identity or expression, along with a few more things, but that's for another time.
THATS SO LOUD
BUT
I also recently learned that if a flag is upside down, it's a symbol of danger and distress.
And Taylor's bi hair is upside down. So are the lyrics in invisible string - blue, purple, pink.
But with time, it'll happen. She'll be even louder.
ooh interesting about the flag tidbit i wonder if that’s why she did that 🤔
good notes all around anon!
Taylor Swift’s 2005-2006 MySpace Comments
Taylor’s alleged MySpace comments in a chronological order from 2005 to 2006. (Time of posts on 24h). Pictures of the comments were too blurry, so I didn’t add, but if needed, I have them saved in a file if anyone needs proof.
NB: All the comments are replies to unknown posts by her friends, so the context is unknown.
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Okay, so…
I will make a more detailed post when I have a second, but I needed to get the bare bones of my theory out before Red (TV) comes out.
I don’t know much about Swiftgron and we’re all entitled to our own opinions. Don’t like this theory… keep moving. Leave hate on my page and I will “sting like a scorpion.” Deal? Deal.
Bear with me. It’s all a jumble in my head, but listen back and you’ll see I’m at least somewhat on the right track.
It all starts with ‘Enchanted’..
KK was 17 and T was 20 (almost makes me think Love Story could have been about her, too… but I digress).
My theory is that T and KK hit it off and she was maybe still with Liz Huett (who I feel like is the inspiration for ‘The 1’ (insert link to previous post here).
While I’m at it, I’m also certain Folklore & Evermore are their love story told out.
Cardigan: “chase two girls, lose ‘the 1.’” She was with Liz (“the 1”) and chased Karlie (aka Betty/Dorothea) after they met at the Tommy Hilfiger show, and they had a fling until things got messy (see Red Era fighting, realizing the other person is your one, and not reaching out until months later and you’ve both seen other people (cue Swiftgron & August).
After 10 months she shows up at Karlie’s door and they’re ‘Clean.’ No more animosity, no more holding back. They decide to be seen together, “show their truth one single time” (Kissgate) and decide they’re not ready for the war.
1989, Reputation, & Lover all SCREAM Karlie, and after listening back, I feel like Red does, too. I’m adding screenshots of my ‘notes’ and maybe someone else can unscramble this mess in my head.
“The girl in my story has always been you”
