When You Finally Can Hang Out With Bae 😻💕😻💕😻💕

Wait for the signal, and I’ll meet you after dark Show me the places where others gave you scars

Taylor Swift — Willow (2020)

I really think people are making this scott b narrative way worse than it is. Taylor has always been a career focused person. She has said many times that she knew from her preteens that she wanted to be famous. She knew she was good at songwriting. She knew country music was known for strong songwriting. She knew going to Nashville would lead to her getting better at songwriting. She probably knew she would not have a successful career as an openly queer singer songwriter. Especially in the country music world. She chose to separate her personal life from her public image so that she could become successful. She surrounded herself with a team of adults who were dedicated to creating and maintaining that public image. Part of that maintenance involved playing the Hollywood love connections game and attaching her to other celebs. Unfortunately she didn’t have good long term beards. So there were a lot of jumping back and forth. Early on in her career she was focused on her career not love. So it was easier to play the bearding game.

At a certain point her public image and personal life fell out of alignment and her team of adults dedicated to making this work probably started to have a difference of opinion about how to realign. That’s when the rift caused problems. She chose to be in the closet. Now if you want to have a converation about society and the culture of the entertainment industry as a whole that teaches artists this is the only way to do things that’s cool. But Scott was a symptom of a larger disease. Her disdain for him came later. She has literally said time and time again that he was her best friend and most trusted person who knew everything about her and knew exactly how to hurt her. She wasn’t a prisoner of Scott for 15 years.

Worse than telling her to be closeted at a very young age (we know she also chose this) then selling her entire life’s work to an enemy and announcing it on a day she was going to come out?

No one is saying she’s a prisoner of him.

i’m posting this gay little powerpoint i made ranking potential ts partners due to popular demand…please enjoy my correct opinions :)

"wb is joe" - this claim is disputed.

this is gonna be really long. don’t say i didn’t say i didn’t warn ya.

ok, before talking about wb, let’s talk about nils sjöberg because i’ve seen some people claiming that he was registered as swedish and other people asking if this is real. i just think it’s funny how some people keep saying that nils sjöberg was registered as a swede, but no one shows any evidence to prove it. 

so let’s take a look of all these things, shall we?

taylor used a swedish name but that doesn’t necessarily mean it was registered with swedish citizenship. btw, the fact that she used a swedish name was really clever if you ask me because it diverted the attention from the songwriter’s identity and if it weren’t for calvin and all that drama, i bet the pseudonym would still be preserved today. 

and why it was clever? well, sweden is the third largest music exporter in the world, behind only the usa and the united kingdom. some of the biggest bands we know are from there: abba, roxette, the cardigans. and there are several more current artists in pop and alternative taking their place in the sun, such as robyn, tove lo, lykke li, zara larsson, icona pop, etc. some of the biggest names as producers and composers in pop music are swedish, like max martin, which is the producer with the most #1 hits on billboard for the past 50 years. sweden is also well known for having a lot of edm artists. two of the main streaming platforms are also swedish: spotify and soundcloud. sweden literally shape the pop music. it’s a fact. but that’s beside the point….

so first things first: let’s go back to 2016 and look at the prints about nils sjöberg that have survived time

this is the ASCAP page showing the credits for the composition. however, it doesn’t show the citizenship. because ASCAP, as well as BMI for example (but there are others too), are a Performing Rights Organization (PRO). they collect public performance royalties as stipulated by the U.S. Copyright Act and distributes them. they also ensure that all locations playing music have a license to do so. so, basically they make sure you’re getting paid.

this is what the BMI page looked like right after taylor ditched the pseudonym (7/18/16):

observation: calvin was associated with ascap. taylor was associated with BMI. that’s why we can see it in both sites.

now, let’s see how it looks in 2020 on both sites:

if you look for it in ASCAP, you’ll get this:

and this is the current BMI page:

still no details about citizenship or any other details on either site as these sites are not the copyright database. THIS is the copyright office online database:

as we can see, the catalog only shows the updated version of the record, when she ditched the pseudonym. so, we don’t know how what it was like before, under nils sjöberg.

BUT what we do know is that when you register the copyright of a song, you don’t necessarily need to put along your real name, you can register it as anonymous, a pseudonym or a pen name, but you still need to give your citizenship or your domicile.

for example this is how shellback is registered in black space and in dancing with our hands tied.

registered as a pseudonym (he even gave his real name although he was not obligated to), but his citizenship is from sweden. max martin and oscar holter are also under swedish citizenship, even though they’re not under a pseudonym.

so let’s check on our one and only, william bowery:

as we can see, in public records william bowery is listed as an american citizen. and yes, joe could have dual citizenship etc, but for that he’d have to live in the united states for certain period (at least five years, and not have been absent in this period for more than six months) and it’s widely known and publicized out there that he still lives in london with his parents. and even if they were married (they’re not), it’s necessary that the marriage is already at least three years old and the applicant has not been out of the country for more than six months, in addition to being in the country for at least 18 months.

so if he’s not an american citizen and he’s supposed to be william, the public record should show him registered as a british citizen. that american citizenship doesn’t fit the story at all.

since the release of evermore, i’ve kept an eye on the copyright site to be able to check the new entries on wb there, however the site is apparently outdated and only the betty and exile records appear under “william bowery”. and before you all ask me, there is nothing registered under joe’s name either. there is also no new entry for evermore in taylor’s name, not even jack, justin or aaron. is really outdated. the reason? idk, probably with the pandemic it’s taking longer to update the database -which is totally understandable-, for example, i can’t find some other new realeses too, like wonder by shawn mendes or plastic hearts by miley.

anyway, so i checked BMI and william bowery appears as a songwriter there, but remember that BMI is just an organization that takes care of the royalties, licensing etc, so it doesn’t show details of the authorship. but the credits appear along with betty and exile, which means that it’s the same william from folklore and not another with the same name. and if it’s the same from folklore, it means that his citizenship is the same too: american — as we already saw in the copyright register print up there.

here’s some prints: 1) all songs listed under “william bowery” 2) champagne problems, as an example from evermore 2) exile, as an example from folklore

the only site that mentions joe’s name as a songwriter, is genius. however, just like wikipedia, anyone can edit information on genius. so this claim is literally disputed by official sources.

in conclusion:

nils sjöberg being registered as swedish doesn’t make sense. the pseudonym was just ditched. and last time i checked, taylor was not swedish. then, according to copyright rules, nils would have been registered as an american. it’s mathematics luv.

as far as i know, lying and giving false information on a copyright record (or any other official document) is illegal. therefore, unless you believe that taylor would really commit some kind of felony, the only explanation that exists here is: william is not joe alwyn.

whoever “william bowery” is, is an american.

and why would it be necessary to keep the pseudonym “william bowery” in evermore when supposedly his true identity had already been revealed before evermore was even released? what is so controversial about joe alwyn, a white boy, that he’d need to hide? make it make sense.

@theprologues @iwanthermidnightz i’m tagging you guys because i know you get a lot of asks about this, so i hope this helps in some way :)

Why the two "contradicting" flags? - A story about CompHet

Wow what an emotional Monday! I swear I cried on three different occasions today over different videos of Taylor singing about daylight and being out of the woods and rolling the stone away all whilst draped in pride flag colours and purple glitter (purple is the gayest colour!).

But I see a lot of confusion about the seeming contradiction of wearing a bi flag dress on Friday night and a lesbian flag dress on Sunday. And while we don’t know which of those (if any) labels she identifies with, I don’t see a contradiction at all, I see a progression. She could have worn these dresses in any order, but she specifically chose to build up to the gayest one by wearing

💙💜🩷 -> 💜 -> ❤️🧡🩷

That’s a story of unpacking comphet to me. And before you come at me, no, bisexuality is not a stepping stone identity, it can absolutely be a permanent label. But the journey of slowly unpacking societal expectations and trying on identities, landing on one that maybe fit for a while but wasn’t the right one in the end is also very common, especially for queer women. We get raised into the expectation of centring our sexuality, our gender expression, our whole lives around men. That’s the heteronormative world we live in. If your environment is religious, there’s an added layer of unlearning. Unlearning what you’ve been taught you should feel, and listening to yourself about what it is you actually feel. Unlearning that being anything other than straight is bad or sinful when you’ve been raised to be the good girl. Yes, I went through the same stages. A lot of women seemingly did during the pandemic when we were all having a break from heteronormativity and sitting at home reading Untamed by Glennon Doyle 😉. (Yes, Taylor did too, she tweeted Glennon’s wife to say how much the book had helped her. And there are actually a lot of nods to this book in both Taylor’s lyrics and the June Bates poetry books).

Coming all that way out the other end to where you can fully accept your identity and wear your colours proudly is such a special and joyful moment and happy, visible queer people still bring me to happy tears every time. And for a self-declared people pleaser that’s such a big step. I can’t tell you how many people hate lesbians simply for not centring their lives around men and rejecting the male gaze. Especially in the entertainment industry, you can maybe be bi or unlabelled but don’t ever date or (god forbid) kiss someone of the same sex in public. Rose by any other name is a scandal… and all that. But no more shame, now she’s out there full of smiles and queer joy twirling in those screaming colours. And I’ve not felt this elated on her behalf since she sang Hits Different for the first time in Chicago last year. What a joyful Monday indeed. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Cornelia Street address number is '23' Cornelia St—and she sang Cornelia Street '23' days after KK's birthday, which is also the 5th anniversary of KK's attending the Rep Tour in Nashville. She was also 23 years old at the time of meeting KK at the VSFS in New York.

The universe always finds a way, huh—even if it's unintentional.

😉🤡

8/26 show in Mexico City getting Cornelia Street 23 days after KK’s bday 8/3

And Exactly 5 years after Karlie’s post attending rep tour the night before in Nashville

And just to take it another step further 8/26 was the 4year anniversary of her appearance at the VMAs after Lover Album’s release

Where she performed with this backdrop for Lover. 🌙 Imagery we see numerous times throughout the Eras tour.

And which moment ended up being the closing scene from the Miss Americana documentary

And this was her look for the Lover section of the 8/26 show 🦋🦋

To perform Cornelia Street from TS7 at the second to last show in the month of August 3 days after the 4year anniversary of Lover album’s release 8/23/19 (an album released 20 days after Karlz’s bday) is just something special no matter how you slice it 🤡

There will always be something if you look hard enough lol

Gaylor starter pack

“I'ts aaa a lot of girls…” nodding with that look… + the other moments in that video

https://www.reddit.com/r/GaylorSwift/comments/p8cjfi/this_tiktok_account_is_like_top_tier_gaylor/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

She treats guys as bros and girls as….well she is more touchy, flirty and playful with them, the way she looks at women she finds attractive is very obvious too and she flirts in interviews

https://industryhearts.tumblr.com/post/660738120451588096/twittercomcbssundaystatus1165330513256730625s

“I wanna ‘kiss’ a girl” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ce0qPFXdzQ

I advise you to listen to her work listen to her albums with no preconcieved ideas and look at the presentation letters for her albums, there’s a lot that it’s just there in a more or less obvious way.

The methaphors that other lesbian artist like Melissa Etheridge or Melissa Ferrick + others adopted by Taylor. https://cause1tw4snevermin3.tumblr.com/post/660873958935166976

https://cause1tw4snevermin3.tumblr.com/post/660704153018990592/one-of-the-biggest-lesbians-in-america-and

Tim McGraw: When you think happiness

I hope you think that little black dress

Think of my head on your chest

And my old faded blue jeans

The other side of the door: You carried me from your car up the stairs

And I broke down crying, was she worth this mess?

After everything and that little black dress

After everything I must confess, I need you

Al the He vs You songs Beard vs Real love interest

Her explatation of Love Story: https://acoolchickouthere13.tumblr.com/post/663202428955607040/inkandtype-ohgaylor-ohgaylorlove-story

Her explanation of How you get the girl: https://gaylorsoftwitter.tumblr.com/post/659531744575438848

Her explatation of ME! music video That was released as a single on Lesbian Visibility Daywith a tweet saying “ME! Out now”: https://cause1tw4snevermin3.tumblr.com/post/659713099899764736/i-cant-get-over-how-overwhelmed-by-excitement-she

Her explanation of The Man: https://reysccp.tumblr.com/post/187269721948/i-cant-get-over-the-man

The chorus on Call it what you want to saying “I’m the one she’s walking to” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V54CEElTF_U 2:38

Taylor breaking the fourth wall in the End Game video and winking at us just after saying “here’s the truth from my red lips” and the only red lip moment in the video she is driking from a ‘juice box’ uin a sexy way in the “tip of my tongue” part of the song…

(here’s the meaning of juice box and other terms in case you don’t know what that means) https://cause1tw4snevermin3.tumblr.com/post/660798497527857152/cause1tw4snevermin3-cause1tw4snevermin3

https://cause1tw4snevermin3.tumblr.com/post/663703603184386048/baby-lesbian-taylor-giving-us-a-clue-in-love-story

Cowboy like me: “Now you hang from my lips like the Gardens of Babylon”

Treacherous: And I’ll do anything you say

If you say it with your hands

Driving as a metaphor of…. https://cause1tw4snevermin3.tumblr.com/post/662046528557416448/make-me-wanna-know-that-body-like-its-mine

Dress and the way she sang it when Karlie went to the concert https://cause1tw4snevermin3.tumblr.com/post/662318690727084032/gazelessstare-so-i-merged-the-two-dress

Straight fans noticing and becoming Gaylor: interesting explanations on how they noticed, like they don’t see any credibly manly characteristics on her love interests and other stuff https://www.reddit.com/r/GaylorSwift/comments/psl9kb/straight_gaylors_what_convinced_you/

Her most important ships:

Emily (#Taymily)

Liz (#Tayliz)

Dianna (#Swiftgron)

and Karlie (#Kaylor)

they are the main and most important, they are in chronological order Taylor dated other girls and is not possible to know her current status cause she chose to be more private but for a starter pack this is enough just look at the ship hashtags and enjoy. Here you have the shortest and simplest timeline: https://cause1tw4snevermin3.tumblr.com/post/660696728786337792/gaylor-relationships-chronology

The times she sings female pronouns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GGRdwfhl-U

https://cause1tw4snevermin3.tumblr.com/post/662220996535861248/029

https://cause1tw4snevermin3.tumblr.com/post/660003181599866880/kaylorwelcomecenter-kaylorwelcomecenter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVY8I46dkb0 3:25

https://cause1tw4snevermin3.tumblr.com/post/663679233067040768/nursingstudent-dirtytaylorswift-and-the (she sang this one with ‘she’ lots of times actually)

“all the girls in their expensive cars”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=uHkwThhx1c4 1:33 “She’ll open up the door and say I am insane“

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ8_it4KRYU I want her midnights….

There’s more examples around the internet, here and there.

Reputation is obviously inspired in Dusty Sprienfield’s Reputation album: https://cause1tw4snevermin3.tumblr.com/post/660986944164134912/dusty-springfield-taylor-swift Dusty used the tabloid headlines about her as part of the reputation video a images as Taylor did in her tour.

In the Look what you made me do video she wears a very Dusty Springfield look in the moment she is bossing around and lead dances eight very obviously gay guys that represent her beards. This beards are represented in other Rep era videos too usually faceless.

The trailer park for You need to calm down is called:

and EVERYBODY is gay inside there, one of the protestors going for them has the ME! video rainbow crossed in a sign.

This make one think about the whole picture…. https://terri9274.tumblr.com/post/169486564319

I think this is enough for a starter pack if you are new to all this just explore around the Gaylor communities in Reddit, Tumblr, TikTok, Twitter, etc to find more and there’s a Gaylor Discord if you wanna join just ask.

Imagine living your life believing that Taylor wants this..

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When Kaylor exisits 🥰🍟🌈🍪☀️👸🏼

I kind of feel she purposely tied it more to JG to kinda protect Emily? She has a very “normal” life and I think she’s scared for her to get harassed when people start connecting the dots to women from her past in a few years. ATW became such a huge thing through the years which she obviously didn’t expect at the beginning. and even though I want to think it’s the original version I feel more and more like she changed the lyrics to fit JG to protect Emily and their past. But I could be totally wrong. It’s only been a few hours and there’s still so much to unpack.

I had the same thought. I mean she used the scarf line as a visual to tie to someone (even if I wasn’t that specific scarf and happened with someone else she mimicked it), and that’s her brand especially back then — giving people something they can tangibly tie to someone. It kept people engaged with her music while maybe protecting someone else in the meantime. Tale as old as time. Doesn’t make the song any less special!