so the page turning thing taylor is doing made me think:
'Cause there were pages turned with the bridges burned/Everything you lose is a step you take'
like. burning bridges. burning the lover house. burning her past.
'Spring breaks loose, but so does fear/He's gonna burn this house to the ground'.
what if 'he' is the heteronormative view she has had to pander to? and by coming out, by turning the page to reveal her truth, her queerness, she is allowing her past to be burned and destroyed in the name of love? BUT. ivy ends with
'My house of stone, your ivy grows/And now I'm covered/In you'
her house is STONE. you Cant burn STONE. her Real self is safe, and covered in the growth of love and new beginnings. she was afraid of coming out bc she was afraid of losing Everything, but realized somewhere along the way thats ok. she has what matters. besides:
'So make the friendship bracelets/Take the moment and taste it/You've got no reason to be afraid'
after all!! i'm not saying comingoutlor but...
The fact that articles about which songs are about who were published not even an hour after the album was released infuriates me. This album is so clearly about Taylor and her story; not the men who may have inspired her writings. Never has a Taylor album been so centered around her and her reflecting on herself and people trying to attribute which songs belong to what muse misses the entire point of the work.