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the subtle and not so subtle gayness of red (taylor’s version)

State of Grace (Taylor’s Version)

And I’ve loved in shades of wrong, we learn to live with the pain, mosaic broken hearts. But this love is brave and wild

this is a state of grace, this is the worthwhile fight. love is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right

these are the hands of fate, you’re my Achilles heel this is the golden age of something good and right and real

Red (Taylor’s Version)

faster than the wind, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly

loving him is like trying to change your mind once you’re already flying through the free fall

touching him was like realizing all you ever wanted was right there in front of you

regretting him was like wishing you never found out that love could be that strong

Treacherous (Taylor’s Version)

THE ENTIRETY OF THIS SONG

put your lips close to mine as long as they don’t touch out of focus, eye to eye ‘til the gravity’s too much and I’ll do anything you say if you say it with your hands and I’d be smart to walk away but you’re quicksand

this slope is treacherous this path is reckless this slope is treacherous and I-I-I like it

I can’t decide if it’s a choice getting swept away. I hear the sound of my own voice asking you to stay. all we are is skin and bone trained to get along, forever going with the flow but you’re friction

and I will get you, get you alone

that nothing safe is worth the drive and I would follow you, follow you home I’ll follow you

I Knew You Were Trouble (Taylor’s Version)

and the saddest fear comes creeping in, that you never loved me, or her, or anyone, or anything

All Too Well (Taylor’s Version)

SEE 10 MIN VERSION

I Almost Do (Taylor’s Version)

oh, we made quite a mess, babe. it’s probably better off this way and I confess, baby in my dreams, you’re touching my face. and asking me if I wanna try again with you and I almost do

Holy Ground (Taylor’s Version)

took off faster than a green light, go yeah you skip the conversation when you already know. I left a note on the door with a joke we’d made and that was the first day 

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Sad Beautiful Tragic (Taylor’s Version)

we had a beautiful magic love there what a sad, beautiful, tragic love affair 

in dreams, I meet you in warm conversation and we both wake in lonely beds, different cities and time is taking its sweet time erasing you and you’ve got your demons and darling, they all look like me

The Lucky One (Taylor’s Version)

now, it’s big black cars and Riviera views and your lover in the foyer doesn’t even know you 

and your secrets end up splashed on the news front page 

and they tell you that you’re lucky, but you’re so confused

Everything Has Changed (Featuring Ed Sheeran) (Taylor’s Version)

and all my walls stood tall, painted blue, and I’ll take 'em down, take 'em down and open up the door for you

come back and tell me why I’m feeling like I’ve missed you all this time, and meet me there tonight and let me know that it’s not all in my mind

Come Back…Be Here (Taylor’s Version)

the delicate beginning rush the feeling you can know so much without knowing anything at all

this is falling in love in the cruelest way

'cause it’s not fair that you’re not around

Better Man (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)

I know the bravest thing I ever did was run

Nothing New (Featuring Phoebe Bridgers) (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)

I know someday I’m gonna meet her

it’s a fever dream, the kind of radiance you only have at seventeen

Message in a Bottle (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)

'cause you could be the one that I love, I could be the one that you dream of, a message in a bottle is all I can do

standin’ here, hopin’ it gets to you, you could be the one that I keep, and I could be the reason you can’t sleep at night

Forever Winter (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)

he says, “It’s not just a phase I’m in" 

my voice comes out begging, all this time I didn’t know you were breaking down. I’d fall to pieces on the floor if you weren’t around

Too young to know it gets better 

I’ll be summer sun for you forever, forever winter if you go

Run (Featuring Ed Sheeran) (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)

and run, like you’d run from the law. darling, let’s run, run from it all. we can go where our eyes can take us, go where no one else is, run

and the note from the locket, you keep it in your pocket since I gave it to you. there’s a heart on your sleeve I’ll take it when I leave, and hold it for you

there’s been this hole in my heart, this thing was a shot in the dark, say you’ll never let 'em tear us apart and I’ll hold onto you while we run

The Very First Night (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)

I drive down different roads but they all lead back to you

'cause they don’t know about the night in the hotel, they weren’t riding in the car when we both fell, didn’t read the note on the Polaroid picture, they don’t know how much I miss you

no one knows about the words that we whisper, no one knows how much I miss you

I’m the one on the phone as you whisper "do you know how much I miss you?”

All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)

oh, your sweet disposition and my wide-eyed gaze, we’re singing in the car, getting lost upstate

and you were tossing me the car keys, “fuck the patriarchy” key chain on the ground, we were always skipping town

and there we are again when nobody had to know

you kept me like a secret, but I kept you like an oath, sacred prayer and we’d swear to remember it all too well

just between us, did the love affair maim you all too well?

so you mean to tell me

taylor was seen exiting Waverly Inn with some of her friends on October 11th 2016, bodyguard with infamous “its all part of the f*cking story* paper tablecloth covering in hand

followed by Calamity Joe getting papped (video) for the first time on October 12th, along with the rumored “kings of leon” first meeting with taylor that night...

and then on the following night of October 13th taylor is papped also at the bowery ballroom with karlie kloss and serena williams (and the maker of her sweater is “Elizabeth & James”??)

and upon further inspection now we all see that taylor is wearing the golden neck tattoo that you can also peep her sporting in the “making of” delicate video...

meaning that

taylor got to the point in writing delicate that she deemed good to go ahead and film herself... quite possibly the day after the first documented date that she had with beau de jour...?

with lyrics like these..???

Dive bar on the East Side, where you at?

Third floor on the West Side, me and you

Sometimes I wonder when you sleep

I pretend you're mine, all the damn time

how much could be crammed in to this 24-48 hour period?!

this puts so much weight on the idea that they first met at the met 😂😂 and you all know what i have to say about that...

like... like...?!

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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Looks like GrammyGate 2.0 is about to happen again (if she wins)… Let the games begin?


Submission 👆🏼


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SR: I would be surprised if she (or anyone) would win Album of the Year two years in a row. So I think this one will go by uneventfully.

taylor isn’t stupid

taylor swift is famous for the easter eggs, hidden codes, and secret symbology she leaves for fans, giving them clues as to who her songs are about (or supposed to be about), when new music or content is coming, and other insights into her life and what her art represents.

she posted red shoes on her 22nd birthday in 2011 as a clue to let people know the title of her next album - red:

she posted a picture of herself playing scrabble in the fall of 2018 as a clue that the count down to her new single would start on national scrabble day six months later:

so this brings us to the lover era

taylor hid so many clues in this era that she was not straight and we know taylor hides clues because of examples like the ones i provided.  she’s maniacal and unhinged but it is 100% what she does.

the first big thing is she released her single me! on LESBIAN VISIBILITY DAY:

i don’t even think taylor is a lesbian 😭i think she’s some brand of bisexual but this still feels like a signal that she isn’t straight.  we know taylor knows about which national days are what because she keeps up with it all enough to easter egg national scrabble day plus this is her big “lgbt ally era” (🙄) so you would think she would be keeping up with the days of awareness for members of the lgbt community.

and whether you think taylor was trying to come out that way or not, a lot of the internet did, and they went and wrote articles about it (lots of articles) (more on that later).

then there was the bi flag colored “proud” bracelet she pictured on her wrist and posted to ig:

turns out a fan made this for her because they were bi and proud about it but i don’t understand why she pictured that bracelet, she didn’t have to, she could have turned it so you couldn’t see the word proud.  regardless more articles got written about how people thought taylor was coming out as not straight.

then there was the straightest gayest clusterfuck that was the yntcd music video in which taylor basically made herself the center of a gay pride riot in a gay trailer part.  in the music video she represented all the gay pride flags and she posed with two herself:

the bi pride flag (yeah some people say there’s green at the top of her hair, i don’t care the colors are there):

and the pansexual pride flag:

both these pride flags were not represented anywhere else in the music video - just those scenes with taylor.

this prompted more people to wonder if taylor came out

it also prompted a lot of people to accuse taylor of queerbaiting, appropriating and infringing on gay culture, and overstepping her bounds as an ally.  all responses to yntcd were loud 

are you noticing a pattern? the lover era was just: taylor does something gay.  people write articles about how they think she just came out/otherwise comment on her sexuality.

now you know taylor, who is obsessed with the media’s perception of her would have known about this.  you know her publicist would have been duty bound to let her know, “hey taylor, all this gay stuff you’re doing? it’s making people speculate that you’re gay.”

and you would think that maybe if taylor didn’t like or appreciate this speculation around her she would have toned down the gay for her next project.  instead she aired miss americana in which she listed gay pride as one of the things that made her, her.

as if that weren’t enough the next album she dropped was extraordinarily gay:

in folklore you have betty in which taylor sings about wanting to kiss a girl and yeah maybe it’s “from a male perspective” but 1. that’s a gay thing to do anyway and 2. the character that is the supposed male is named after an irl girl.  we also get seven in which taylor sings to a childhood love who is a girl and she says they’ll have to hide in the closet.  taylor isn’t stupid.  she knows what being “in the closet” means.  she is a writer and a brilliant one at that.  she could have said anything- hide in the corner, hide in the cabinet, she very specifically chose the phrase that means to hide the truth about your sexuality.

and lest we forget about illicit affairs in which taylor sings to a lover who is cheating on a man with her.

and that’s just the explicit stuff, the entire album is laced with queer themes and coding other than just those songs.

many people wrote about and commented on how gay folklore was.

so the next thing taylor does?  drops another super gay album including another love song canonically about a woman.

so antis, take note.  taylor is not stupid.  she doesn’t mind the speculation about her sexuality.  i’m not saying she’s for sure gay.  but if she’s not she absolutely is leaning into stirring on speculation anyway.  and tbh if she’s ok with baiting this heavily and she’s not gay she might just be a terrible person? so reconsider your hetlor stance because a straight taylor = a baiting and unhinged taylor.  so you don’t need to keep policing gaylors and telling them not to speculate about taylor’s sexuality.  she is signalling to us that she is not straight which she 100% does not have to do.  no one made her pose with the pan flag,  no one made her write seven, no one made her include gay pride in a list of traits that define her in a documentary that she produced.  this is purposeful on her part.  it doesn’t mean she’s for sure gay but it does mean she wants people to wonder if she’s not straight.

Dorothea

Dorothea is about a fading relationship between the narrator and an old friend. It references a lot of nostalgia, and makes it clear the narrator would welcome the friend back with open arms. It seems to clearly be about Taylor & Karlie Kloss.

[Verse 1]

Hey, Dorothea, do you ever stop and think about me?

When we were younger down in the park

This is a reference to the Big Sur trip tay & k took, where they stopped in many state parks along the way. This was shortly after they met, and seemed to cement their interest in each other.

Honey, making a lark of the misery

You got shiny friends since you left town

Karlie has been seen with many rich and famous friends, some with lesser morals than others (see icky image below). Many of these “friends” are business connections that are included in the circle due to their money or connections.

A tiny screen’s the only place I see you now

There are a couple of meanings to this line - 1) in pandemic times a lot of loved ones are reduced to an image on tiny screens, as we can only FaceTime with them and not spend real time with them. 2) It could also be a reference to not seeing of talking to someone much, and only seeing them on social media, and keeping up with their life that way.

And I got nothing but well-wishes for ya

However, Taylor doesn’t seem bitter in this song. She’s willing to work things out.

[Pre-Chorus]

Ooh, this place is the same as it ever was

Ooh, but you don’t like it that way

As hinted at earlier in the song, here Taylor indicates that Karlie is the one who has changed and Taylor herself has stayed the same. 

[Chorus]

It’s never too late to come back to my side

The stars in your eyes shined brighter in Tupelo

Tupelo is a town in Mississippi.  Karlie is from St. Louis, which is also a town in middle America, however Taylor already talked about St. Louis in LGAD and she probably figured it would be too obvious to do it twice in six months.

And if you’re ever tired of bеing known for who you know

Karlie’s alleged sister-in-law is Iv@nk@ T*$%# and to the GP she’s married to a Ku$hn3r - so she is closely associated with two high-profile criminal families. Press frequently mentions this relation when reporting on Karlie.

You know, you’ll always know me, Dorothea (Uh-uh)

Dorothea (Ah-ah)

This is interesting because a lot of discussion on tumblr talks about karlie cleaning up the ku$hn3r image, but this twists that idea, focusing on karlie instead and pointing out that because shes always cleaning up someone else’s image, now her own image must be cleaned up, and associating with Taylor would do that.

[Post-Chorus]

Ooh, you'rе a queen sellin’ dreams, sellin’ makeup and magazines

This is the most obvious Karlie line, given that she has been on hundreds of magazine covers and ad campaigns, including work for many makeup brands.

Oooh I’d buy anything from you

This line shows Taylor’s love for her, and also has several meanings (like may of these lines). 1) literally she’s saying that Karlie makes the products that she sells look great but 2) she’s also saying that people will “buy it” as in - buy the narrative that Karlie is feeding the GP.

[Verse 2]

Hey, Dorothea, do you ever stop and think about me?

When it was calmer, skipping the prom just to piss off your mom and her pageant schemes

And damn, Dorothea, they all wanna be ya

Karlie has many accomplishments and an incredible career, that makes her life seem enviable…

But are you still the same soul I met under the bleachers? Well…

…but sometimes success changes people, something that Taylor muses on here. Also (this is a bit of a reach) but Taylor frequently uses sun imagery to represent Karlie, making “soul” a fun little word play - “sol” means sun in mythology and in many different languages, so she’s asking if the current life Karlie is living gives her the same energy and joy as she had when she first met Taylor.

[Pre-Chorus]

Ooh, I guess I’ll never know

Ooh, and you’ll go on with the show

This line has two meanings, first being that Karlie is in many fashion shows every single year. The second being that the complicated bearding love triangle is a “show” in and of itself - it’s make believe and it’s for other people to see and be entertained by.

[Chorus]

[Outro]

Friendly reminder to not punish yourself for creating. 

ive been thinking about the plotholes in the 2016 met gala narrative. Its absolutely crazy that no one seems to question the whole swiftvin-hiddleswift-toe timeline and we obviously know that none of the above relationships are real. but another strange thing i only just noticed is that why was joe alwyn, up and coming new actor with no lead roles or recognition was even doing at THE met gala…how did he even get an invite..i doubt he could pay $30,000 even if he got an invite from somewhere

Yes, this is a curious question that has been discussed previously. I believe he was there with an actor. But someone else can chime in with more details.

Submission: Whether this is true or not, I find it highly suspicious that he says that “her fans are not going to be a problem”, why he is so sure about it? Is he planting the seeds of a rupture? Anyway, very interesting…