My favorite thing about question..? is that taylor singing about what she would say to karli's little gay husband
"Did you every have someone kiss you in a crowded room?" Kiss gate. the 1975 concert. The Matty Healy relationship was to point back to Karli and kiss gate and you are in love. she's trying to scream hey, look at us, this is the lead singer of the band karli and I went to see when we kissed. That why matty had said he wasn't writing songs about taylor, cause it wasn't real, it was a hair pin dropped right on the doorstep of kissgate.
"Do you wish you could still touch ...her?" the dots infer that there was a pause, a secret code between beards
"When (he) says it's too much" whoever was Josh's gay lover (If he had one) felt it to be too much to sneak around, "Did you leave (his) house in the middle of the night?"
"Caught in politics and gender-rolls" exactly what it sounds like. karli and josh had to beard considering how close they are to the trumps.. a known homophobic. they had to keep the fantasy of gender-rolls up
"Did you wish you put up more of a fight?" He tried to fight the gender-rolls and politics. To be openly gay. but the fight wasn't fruitful, he got pushed into the ( very glass) closet
"And what's that, that I heard, that your still with her. That's nice, i'm sure that's what's suitable and right" After all those years they're still bearding. they're still wrapped up in gender-rolls and politics
which, of course, could mean nothing but can I ask you a question...?
I think as a gaylor, the song imgonnatogetyouback is INSANELY queer.
"im going to pull you into the closet" she's going to closet her lover. Taylor cant be out so if they want to be lovers, they have to stay in the closet.
"Say you got somebody, I'll say I got someone too" Taylor is talking about bearding, specifically kaylor bearding. karli has her fruity little husband and taylor has her fruity little football player.
"You knew the price going in" Karli knew they'd have to stay a secret to the general public. they couldn't be out.
"Once you fix your face, I'm going in" she's talking to Karli, theres no quotations around it. she is saying to someone, someone isn't saying it to her.
"Push the reset button, we're becoming something new" Her and Karli are starting a relationship again. Karli was at the LA N2 eras tour and was seen backstage going to Taylor, that's where it started again. Karli is in Paris right now. so is Taylor. it's still new. it's still fresh. they're restarting what could've been.
"we broke all the pieces but we still want to play the game" They can't stay away from each other. The relationship fell apart but they're still going to the other.
Just two women in love on a road trip <3
Happy March 5th and Big Sur road trip week to all who celebrate đ
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Interested to hear your interpretation on Suburban Legends
first off the song and beat sounds so similar to mastermind and gold rush. particularly mastermind. listen to the opening seconds back to back! she sings through a lot of it similarly in my opinion
and it has some of the similar mechanics of mastermind in that it leads you to believe the song is going one way but then pulls a switcheroo on you at the end and the swell in the music aids that at the end which makes it a really sweet and emotional listening experience. iâll get to that in a second.
i think at the beginning of taylor knowing or being aware of karlie (so like, your kitchen or mine times), this was very much the situation. karlie is in her peripheral vision (on her radar) but just as taylor described in gold rush, karlie seemed like something utterly unattainable. in lover as well we get the line âiâm highly suspicious that everyone who sees you wants youâ and i think this fits with this description of karlie.
i didnât come here to make friends echoes their entire conceit of mastermind, and a lot of the kaylor discography that uses the word âfriendâ â another way to say âi donât want you like a best friendâ etc
also this is a sort of throwaway point but âi didnât come here to make friendsâ was a 2000âs reality tv phrase that came into popularity via the show Americaâs Next Top Model. it was iconic and soon every competitive reality tv show under the sun had contestants saying it.. but itâs origins are from a show about models! of which karlie is one.
more importantly, the âyou kiss me in a way thatâs gonna screw me up foreverâ is like the follow up to the gold rush âeyes like sinking ships on waters so inviting i almost jump inâ language. itâs cruel summerâs âsnuck in through the garden gate every night that summer just to seal my fateâ because falling in love with karlie lead to taylor wanting her complications too
mismatched star signs works because fire signs traditionally match best with air signs. also visually, stars mismatched fits in with mastermindâs âthe planets and the fates and all the stars alignedâ â things that werenât in alignment coming into alignment.
thereâs a bunch of story page chapter stuff throughout taylorâs discography, some of which makes its way into kaylor but iâd probably write for way too long so iâm just gonna skip over that for now
this part might be a bit tricky but i sort of blame it on many kaylors not talking that much about really early kaylor possibilities out of (a sort of unearned) respect and the one way street principle of staying in our lane but the idea of taylor saying âi know that when you told me weâd get back together and kissed me that you remember[ed] we were born to be national treasuresâ isnât that too wild of a statement if you imagine them as maybe briefly connecting or talking at some point before taylor made her plans to make karlie hers. indeed, we know their paths crossed several times before they were first connected at the 2013 vs fashion show.
*for posterity, i included the apple music lyrics as the genius lyrics appear to be worded partially incorrectly
this is the part of the song which i just think is so beautifully done. in particular i love the âyou donât knock anymoreâ of it all
at first it sounds like sheâs saying karlie doesnât knock anymore because she come around anymore, or this idea of there having been a breakup or a period of not being together or something sad, which is matched by the tone of how she sings it for the first time. the waves crashing to the shore feels like a storm.
but at the end of the repetition her voice becomes more upbeat and it dawns on you, youâre like, oh wait karlie doesnât knock anymore because she doesnât need to knock anymore, she has a key! (âis that your key in the door?â anyone?)
and suddenly the waves meeting the shore is a pleasant image of unification and happiness. she closes with the thought âyou donât knock anymore and i always knew itâ which makes it feel a bit more like mastermindâs âyou knew the entire time, and now youâre mineâ â always knowing they would get together, taylor always knowing karlie was the one. âand my life had been ruinedâ is sung in a sort of sweet resignation, one that i find throughout a lot of kaylor music, the idea that she knows its complicated but that its what she chose.
so yeah! thatâs why suburban legends is a kaylor song to me đ
only true allies kiss their best friend at a concert, drops so many hairpins about her, and then write multiple albums about her over the span of like 10 yrs, obviously.
Taylor Swift planting the seeds of allyship in 2014
Hi!!! So glad to be here! đ I'm not from Twitter, but I am new to Tumblr. I'm so happy you are all here too!
noticed lots of people from twitter hopping over here to tumblr, some for the first time, some for the first time in a long time, and i noticed people are writing intros in the kaylor tag and i just wanted to make a post tagged kaylor in order to say hiii đ happy to have you all here đ„° shame about twitter these days but i hope you can make yourself at home here đ«¶
Hey yâall, this is my first time posting here but I think I have some stuff to sayâŠ?
So I was just watching old Gaylor videos from really early on in Taylor Swiftâs career when I stumbled across a video of pictures of Tay with a voiceover of Chely Wright talking about being queer and in the public eye. The link is here:
Overall, her words really drove home, at least for me, the very real reality that people in the spotlight are struggling with in terms of their sexuality, and hiding relationships, and not being able to come out because they have so much to loose.
There are a few things that Chely says that really caught my attention. One of these was:
âItâs going to keep going until someone who has something to loose stands up and just says Iâm gay⊠we need a huge, huge star, at the top of their field, the very top, to stand up and say Iâm gay.â
She goes on to say:
âNate Berkus said it so beautifully on the Larry King show the other night when I was on with him. He said , âWhere are our heroes?â
Now, this second quote reminds me of the thoughts of other gaylor creators that Iâve seen on tumblr and tiktok (thank you to those creators youâre amazing keep up the amazingness) talking about how with Anti-Hero, Taylor is telling us that she canât be the queer icon that we need her to be.
I think that itâs possible that this theory ties into this interview with Chely Wright. I mean, Taylor and Chely have known connections, and itâs not a reach to imagine that Taylor has probably heard this interview, right.
So the idea is that Taylor is telling us that she isnât this hero. She canât be this person, this âhuge star at the top of their fieldâ that will say sheâs gay and be our hero. How she will keep baiting us, keep queer flagging and leading us on but never come out. This message really ties in well to the message of Anti-Hero, and I think the lyrics âIâll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirrorâ are extremely telling of that. Sheâs saying that sheâll give us cryptically messages, queer flagging, go the long and painful road, but she isnât going to face the reality of whatâs in-front of her and just come out.
I also think that the line âAll of my heroes die all aloneâ from The Archer may be related to this interview. Again with the use of the word âheroâ, I think Taylor might be referring to how many queer women from history have been closeted until their death. Take Emily Dickinson for example (We know that Taylor draws inspiration from her in her songwriting). Emily Dickinson was secretly in a relationship with her brotherâs wife. She was a sapphic woman and no one was aware until her death when all of her poems and letters were found. I think maybe Taylor is saying that sheâs hopeless in her own journey of coming out because of how historically, all of her âheroesâ never came out and were only discovered to be queer after their deaths.
In my opinion, this lyric also nicely describes how Taylor feels as a closeted queer woman. How she is queer but doesnât feel part of the community as she isnât out, âdie all aloneâ, sheâs worried that she will never have the opportunity to be a part of the queer community because she might not ever have the chance to come out (Iâll talk more on this topic in another post).
A very similar line to this (âAll of my heroes die all aloneâ) is found is âYou knew the hero died so whatâs the movie forâ. Now, I subscribe to the common Gaylor belief that Taylor was originally going to come out during Lover era but her plan was ruined by the Masters Heist, and this line, in my opinion, has failed coming out writen all over it. I believe this lyric reflects how Taylor was going to be the hero, she was going to be the big star that says âIâm gayâ, but then she didnât so âthe hero died.â
Now on the surface, âso whatâs the movie forâ could be interpreted as how Miss Americana may have originally been Taylorâs coming out, or contained scenes and things where Taylor was openly queer but then obviously they had to cut that stuff out. We know that there were things saying that Karlie Kloss was originally listed as part of the cast⊠but weâll never know now.
I think a deeper analysis of this lyric concedes to how Taylor is still queer flagging. Sheâs still giving us these signs. The lyric could also be in reference to how most of her fan base completely ignores and dismissed her queer flagging. She could be asking âwhy am I still doing this if no one is getting it and I canât come out.â
Now there are a heap more mentions of âheroesâ throughout Taylorâs discography, for example:
Long Live âyou held your head like a hero on a history book pageâ
My Tears Ricochet âAnd you were the hero flying around saving faceâ
Tolerate It âI greeted you with a battle heroâs welcomeâ
Now there are more than this but I think these are some of the more likely to be references to queer themes.
So yeah, thatâs my thoughts. Iâve been stewing on this for a long time and I heard Chely Wright say all that and everything just kind of fell into place in my mind. Thank you for coming to my TED talk tonight.
the âjoe suxâ & âgaylorâ & âmeâ bracelets shay mitchell made are phenomenal
So, I was bored and look what I did ....
As you can see this I-C-O-N-I-C photo was from the Rep era so I decided to add Karlie's eyes on the picture ....
You know what's weird when I was adding the eyes, was how Karlie's fits perfectly on the "EYES" of Taylor, well as a Gaylor (I'm still like 50% a Kaylor shipper) I guess we somehow knew about the "eye-theory" on how the right eye (LEFT EYE MY GOSH, well, much like the right *LEFT* side of the face) was Karlie's and the left (RIGHT!!!!) was Tay's ....
This was the final edit .... It's amazing on how they seem to look alike .... Isn't it what they say on soulmates? LOL OR you are just what you eat, jk ....
well, here are the cropped photos for basis ....
This was the photo that I've used and I also made an edit where I put some part of the right (LEFT!!!!) side of the face and an edit where I just put the right eye (WELL, LEFT) from the I-C-O-N-I-C photo on to this picture.
right (LEFT, YOU DIMWIT) side of the face ....
just the right eye (LEFT!!!!) .... I MADE A MISTAKE LOL I'm dumb hahahaha
photos in gray scale ....
guess who has a house in Florida. I'm not surprised she wants to k word josh
does tumblr like kaylor/edits ???đ€
@taylorswift @kimbykloss..
oh my gkd they added karlie kloss to the miss americana cast.
this is just confirming its her voice and shes singing to her in the clips we can't see 'joe'
happy international lesbian day to my favourite lesbians
she wanted to say her so badly
karlie being at the eras tour the other day and the possibility of them talking publicly again is so insane to me i dont think ive stopped thinking about it since she showed up
do you guys think about the rainbow taylor drew đ with âMEâ in it and this IDENTICAL sign in the music video for ME! because i do and i just want to d word đ anyway
the James + Betty carving hiding a T and K in their first initial will never not get meâŠinsane
can we talk about how it is the first time that a cardigan is shown/modelled on someone. the lover is a woman đ©·
i donât see many people talking about this but what i noticed is that taylor references songs from reputation in lowercase ( âdelicateâ instead of Delicate), this applies to the book and in the eras tour movie credits as well. i think this might be a hint towards âi keep these longings locked in lowercase inside a vaultâ. reputation tv + karma ? đ€đ§Ą what are your interpretations?
itâs happening again, youâre losing me, itâs happening again, stop youâre losing međ
the rainbowâŠi canât wait for the moment when she is done with the eras tour and walks through the orange karma door đȘ đđ§Ą
because ofc taylor is wearing carolina herrera
since swifties have been reading and now sharing gaylor theories, how long before they realise taylor is james ? weâve been talking about it since folklore came out. in case they are reading through our blogs here is your evidenceđ
âwhy would taylor need a pr relationshipâ, âall her relationships are REALâ okay then how would you explain that
the first time taylor wore the orange/pink dress everyone said it was not the lesbian flag because it didnât have white. she made sure to complete the flag now đ€ taygracie strikes again
the original âhaunted by the look in my eyes that wouldâve loved you for a lifetimeâ because wdym thatâs how taylor looks at karlie ?? we cannot see karlieâs phone, itâs obviously out of frame, taylor has no idea the picture is being taken since karlie is looking somewhere elseâŠi should stop breaking my own heart
i don't wanna live forever, 'cause i know i'll be living in vain and i don't wanna fit wherever i just wanna keep calling your name until you come back home i remember how we felt sittin' by the water and every time i look at you, it's like the first time i fell in love with a careless man's careful daughter she is the best thing that's ever been mine
this sounds like a gaylor made up thing but itâs actually because taylor is the biggest gaylor herself damn
yes, taylor is hinting towards the wizard of oz, however, letâs do research and see what it symbolises. itâs not coincidental and she knew what she was doing when she sang the mashup itâs nice to have a friend x dorothea.
so apparently everyone is catching up with the dorothy/oz theory (weâve been talking about it for years) still people ignore the fact that itâs queer. anyway in 38 years they may finally figure it out. now take a look at this collage i found on twitter âđ»
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