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so the last great american dynasty is about the woman who owned taylor’s rhode island mansion before her (the one where she threw all the fourth of july parties) and the song is all the folklore about the woman who lived there and how she was a “mad woman” and then at the end of the bridge taylor says “and then it was bought by me” and switches it to her perspective and how now she’s the mad woman who owns it… i…

okay but what about that huge safety pin hanging on the wall in the scene where Sadie is laying in bed 🤔

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🌋 when your reputation is not a pretty sight, i will tarnish my own image to match your frame; dust coated glass, speckles of stars filling into the cracks. i will meet you down at the bottom, my love.

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i just can’t get over it

“the lips i used to call home” but like in a bestie way

I love your analyzes and your blog. think is a bit offensive the way you demand support for Taylor when she uses queerbaiting as mkt tool only to deny it 15 days later when the money from attention, GP, pink money and general swifties was made. Now she wants the country radio so james is straight. Taylor is a unique case of closeted because she wants to be in and out to profit from both sides. Taylor plans to be cruel and has nothing to with her coming out. I NOW country radio didn't ask for it

I understand that you are frustrated and you have every right to your feelings (yes, even to your offence). I would point out, however, that:

I do not “demand” anything. It is absolutely your prerogative to withhold your “support” financially (you do not have to purchase her music or her merchandise) or as a “fan” (you do not have to participate in her fandom online or at all). I would only ask that if you choose to stay, you consider that “coming out” is contingent not only on an individual’s personal safety and security, but often also on their psychological readiness. This is not only for Taylor’s benefit, but also for the benefit of anyone who is closeted. The only person anyone owes it to to come out is themselves - at their own convenience and only if they believe it to be in their best interest. No one is obliged to come out - ever. We should not be expected to make exceptions of ourselves in order either to correct the ignorance of a society that presumes straight is default or to satisfy other people’s curiosity.

There is an inherent contradiction in your claim that Taylor is both “queerbaiting” and “closeted.” If she is part of the LGBTQ+ community, she is unable to “queerbait” by definition. I will concede the possibility that I am wrong - perhaps she is not “closeted”- but considering that she has never confirmed her sexuality publicly, it is important (again also for the benefit of anyone who actually is in the closet) not to assume in the absence of any clear indiction to the contrary that she is therefore straight. Besides reinforcing the notion that queerness is necessarily performative - in order to be queer you must first announce that you are - as if the closet itself and the process of coming out aren’t first and foremost inventions of the cishetero-patriarchy and we couldn’t exist authentically without them (is Queen Latifah who has a wife and child somehow less queer because she hasn’t stated that she is?), the logical extension of your argument otherwise is that only people who are publicly out ought be allowed to identify themselves with queer culture. This would effectively be to exclude LGBTQ+ people from their own community. It is also antithetical to the stated aims of that community - the acronym LGBTQ+ has historically included anyone in the closet who wises to align themselves with the community without also outing themselves under the umbrella “ally.” As such, it is wrong to assume that all publicly identified allies are straight (or cis).

Whether or not country radio asked for it (and you don’t know for a fact) is almost irrelevant. It is still conservative and it still operates according to certain conventions that apply even without them being consciously articulated. As someone who started their career in country music, I can only assume that Taylor is well aware of these codes of conduct whether they are tacit or not (and, even if times are changing, it is not a stretch to imagine that her previous experiences of homophobia in that industry will have shaped her expectations of it in the present.)  

What she said in no way detracts from our ability to read the song as queer. That she wrote it from the perspective of a seventeen year old boy does not alter the fact that, when the song is performed, it is performed by Taylor, who is a woman singing about/to another woman. This is what most people’s first impressions will be and that by itself is significant. She also immediately followed up her explanation by stating that the protagonists (James, Inez and Betty) were named after her “friends’ kids.” As the lyrics themselves are, therefore, ambiguously gendered - if the actual James is (as far as anyone knows) not a boy, then fictional James isn’t automatically a boy either - I object to the claim that James is necessarily “straight” in consequence. 

Finally, I am not saying that you cannot be critical. But, if you have to fault Taylor for something in this case, let it be her failure consistently to acknowledge that her actions (negatively) affect her LGBTQ+ fans as well as herself. She is allowed to panic or to react instinctively and impulsively to something she has been conditioned to regard as a threat. However, it is imperative that her own internalised homophobia (?) should not be a pretext for homophobic attacks by her fans. 

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Kimby Kloss (or Karlie tbh) liking a folklore meme?! What more do people need?

I just saw this... very fucking loud if you ask me. Besides all the BIG SUR pictures she posted yesterday!

Tbh SR, I think differently than most of your anons/followers. I think that Karlie is already fully done with Jerk or at least by February not March, she is fully done and let me tell you why.

Taylor in Bejeweled MV has a clock that says “exiles ends, 2, 3”. This is clearly their exile. Them finally being seen together in public. Or at least clearing feud rumors.

I think that in Jan Taylor will be either dropping the LH mv, doing something unrelated OR keeping quiet as she is now. Then by February we might see a bit of her, then March as we all guessed is the actual sunrise.

But it won’t be a contract ending, instead a Kaylor reunion. First of all, it’s their anniversary month. Second thing is in the video it says “EXILE ends” that doesn’t sound to me like a contract ending, but their exile ending as in them finally being able to be seen together.

Cause after that scene Taylor takes her cloak off and is walking a runway THEN she meets Dita while wearing a 1989 outfit???? That gives reunion vibes to me.

In my opinion, a Kaylor reunion on tour is the best and most subtle thing they could manage. It’s gonna be the perfect opportunity. It doesn’t have to have any explanation, just one of Taylor’s friends attending one of her shows. Simple. They also pulled it off around 2018. Imo, they will try to do it again. They would kill all the rumors by just one move. Also it’s easier for them cause they won’t be interacting in front of anyone, but just seeing Karlie in the crowd and having Taylor take a photo with her backstage is MORE than enough to give everybody the middle finger.

As Karlie said, Jerk is her last client and her last stunt looks like a last push to the “they tried to work on it” but failed. I think she either will announce the divorce around February or after March, and if I’m right, after her reunion with Taylor on tour.

Also Taylor has been alluding a lot to the “six years” thing since Midnights dropped. First in her LH video she mentioned “six years of weird rumors”. Six years of Kaylor feud weird rumors right?

Then in Glitch “our love blackout”. This all looks like Taylor is definitely reuniting with Karlie to some degree.

I hope I’m right, but I also might be wrong.