I’m About To Fuck Shit Up Yall

Can you believe Taylor started an era entirely about being seen on Lesbian Visibility Day, following up Delicate whose video was about being invisible to everyone except your Lover. Truly the gayest thing ever

god i know………… LESBIAN VISIBILITY DAY!!!! she spent all of lesbian visibility day yelling ME! OUT NOW!! after she’d spent all of rep era talking about being seen for who she truly is and even made the concept of invisibility fully literal in the delicate video in case her saying it in words in the rep prologue wasn’t clear enough for people… after she confirmed that delicate was for the gays and even brought back invisible.mp3 from her fucking debut album as a secret song and made a speech explicitly connecting invisibility with being closeted and coming out. and now the whole bridge and emotional climax of her most emotional and intensely personal song yet is her just repeating “they see right through me can you see right through me i see right through me” over and over… y’all……

Let me start by saying that I’ve loved all of Taylor’s previous albums. They’re magical and fantastic, each in their own way. They each represent a phase/era in her life. I love that. But you know what I love even more? This album feels like such a natural evolution. This album wasn’t focused on singles and touring. It was made purely for the craft of it. This album seems so much more intimate and personal than anything we’ve ever had from her before. This album is full of reminiscing, which is something I’ve really started to do now that I’m older. As soon as I heard this album and the vibe each song has and the lyrics (THE LYRICS!!!), it just hit me right in the feels. This album is MY album. It’s the one I connect to the most. It’s the album that makes me feel so many emotions from start to finish. This album is helping me process my own childhood, difficult feelings from past relationships, and an array of feelings I’ve had when reminiscing on fading memories. Music can mean so many things to lots of people. Music has this stunningly beautiful magic of helping us escape, process or enjoy various periods in our life and the emotions that come with them. All of her albums have helped me in some way. But Folklore is the album that is helping me process the difficult emotions I’ve encountered in my life. This album is my therapy. Folklore will always be my favorite thing she’s ever done. I am so insanely proud of Taylor for writing this album. 

What do people think the en route means?

I took it as en route to Taylor! 😂

"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 :)

Taylor does not approve of this blog and propaganda

You wish, anon ...

so you know how the main Lame Guy from the ME! mv is clearly supposed to be a caricature of skint poor cheater… well now i’m thinkin about how you can read almost all of that song as a fuck you to him

e.g. “I know I never think before I jump / And you’re the kind of guy the ladies want” as a direct throwback to the final chorus of fifteen when she says “Cause when you’re fifteen and somebody tells you they love you / You’re gonna believe them. / And when you’re fifteen, don’t forget to look before you fall” — just in general i’ve been listening to fifteen a lot lately and reading it through the lens of her signing her contract with sc*tt and bmr at 15. so we have this idea of being a young girl with big dreams of making it as a singer (“when all you wanted was to be wanted”), and because all the ladies want for a producer or music executive or whatever to notice them, when he says you’re gonna be a star, kid, you’ll trust him enough to not think before you jump / look before you fall. and like… “I never think before I jump” has always been kind of weird for her to say about herself now because 30-year-old taylor is the queen of meticulously planning everything, but if you consider her thinking about 15-year-old taylor + “wish you could go back and tell yourself what you know now” … it’s a reflection on the naivete of her youth, and it’s a warning [cut to her vogue 73 questions interview where her advice to young artists was “get a good lawyer”]

and then of course we have “But one of these things is not like the others / Like a rainbow with all of the colors / Baby doll, when it comes to a L♡VER / I promise that you’ll never find another like ME!”

when you think about the fact that big machine records IS taylor swift, and that Lover is her first album that is not with bmr and that they won’t be able to profit off of, and the fact that they’ve obviously been searching for The Next Taylor Swift™ for years but haven’t been able to find one because there is no one else like her… it just makes so much sense??? honestly i like it so much more now reading it this way bc tbh thinking about these lines in the context of a romantic relationship is Not The Healthiest Outlook. but her saying fuck you sc*tt, you’ll never get another one of my albums, you’ll never find another taylor swift… OKAY MISS SWIFT!!!!!! GO OFF!!!

AND add on top of that, all of this is because “one of these things is not like the others / like a rainbow with all of the colors” i.e. she’s gay and all you misogynistic homophobic assholes kept her closeted for literally half her life in order to make more money off her, so let’s make it CLEAR that THIS is why you fucking lost her, and why when it comes to a songwriting juggernaut who cranks out record-breaking albums like she was fucking born for it, you’ll never find another like her.

also sidenote, calling a man who has objectified and belittled and controlled you for years “babydoll” as a dig at his clearly very fragile masculinity? POWERFUL.

i mean i should probably mention the apparently necessary disclaimer that songs can be about many things at the same time and ME! is still overall a lighthearted gay bop that’s mainly meant to be about positivity, and taylor singing “babydoll” is still very gay and cute when you take the sc*tt angle out of it, but there is absolutely an undercurrent throughout it of this being a direct response to the whole bmr debacle.

Even in the way she talked about it in interviews, saying it’s a song “that reinforces the fact that we’re different, and obviously there are a lot of songs about ‘I’m special,’ but I hadn’t heard one recently that was about ‘I’m special because of who I am’” … this distinction of I’m special because of who I am really resonates if you think about her losing her masters, i.e. the thing that made her special and Valuable to all the lame guys out there, (and if you think about this alongside her speech at the Time 100 Gala where she talks about how specifically writers have the power to turn their lessons into their legacy), she’s reiterating the idea that it’s not the recordings she’s created in the past or all her awards or success or whatever that made her special, it’s not the fact that some man ~discovered~ her 15 years ago that made her special—she is special because of who she is, because of her goddamn mind and this ability to write that she has inside her, and that is something that no one can ever take away from her.

tl;dr i’m a ME! stan now thanks for coming to my tay talk

Spade, is it true that Taylor used to pick up Karlie from college?

I saw this comment on twitter.

I don’t think there is any evidence of that. Unless I am forgetting something. If so, someone please remind me because I do not recall this narrative.

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.

dancing with our hands tied

In Great War she’s admitting karlie didn’t betray her. That karlie stayed true and took the heat anyway. That it got out of control and hurt karlie but she stood strong and stay true and honorable to Taylor. Holy Crap