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how many people cannot fully appreciate her genius because they do not understand all the layers and references in her work

I find myself regularly searching for analysis posts I’ve made in the past so I’m putting together this list to keep track of some of my favorites. I’m essentially making this for myself but if anyone else finds these old posts interesting then that’s great too. 😊

Song + Video Analysis

10/20/20 Ready For It As A Roadmap for Taylor’s Coming Out Journey

8/23/20 Mirrorball / Don’t Take The Money (Connections)

8/8/20 The Lakes: Taylor Takes Us to Bridge City And Hints She is Through With Bearding

11/13/21 All Too Well Short Film: 7 of Spades is Highlighted, Perhaps Calls for Patience

11/15/21 IBYTAM: The Bride Is Pretending to Love the Groom While the Spotlight is on

11/15/21 IBYTAM: Taylor Knocks the Groom Over then Breaks the Chains

Social Media + Other Analysis

10/18/21 Rethinking Spade’s Final Messages

10/22/21 Karlie Leaves Easter Egg in her IG Stories for Taylor’s IBYTAM Rose Dress

11/15/21 SNL Promo Calls Back to Night Taylor and Karlie Met

12/12/21 Taylor’s t-shirt is of the Friends pilot episode where Rachel leaves a man she doesn’t love then Monica takes her in as a roommate!

2022

8/2/21 Was Spade Trying to Tell Us 2022 is Important? (I believe this is the first 2022 theory)

11/28/21 New Year’s Merch Celebrates 2022 and Possibly Hints at Jerklie Breakup

I'm proud of you

Let me show you the full clip! After ‘You are in love’ we chanted 'Kaylor’ & 'Taylor’. Then big screen showing 'Kaylor’ sign, Tay said 'I love you’ in Chinese! Enjoy it!

god i still can’t get over how she’s wearing the vsfs ring during this clip

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…

Question I could use some help on! Trying to convince a friend that Kaylor are still together and she said what about the lyrics of "It's Time To Go". What's the best, most concrete evidence to counter that? And, what's a good explanation for the song it's time to go that isn't a jab at Karlie? Would love people's thoughts!

Can someone answer this for the anon?

Make an analysis of Lover and it’s MV. I would especially love to hear your thoughts about the bridge. It’s so heartbreakingly beautiful. 😭🤧

Ok ok. Let’s settle in because I’m going to talk about a lot of stuff in this post.

It’s starts out with the girl sitting on the living room floor of a modest, sort of suburban house on Christmas morning, alone, looking at her new snow globe. Inside the snowglobe is a large house. Taylor said this was inspired by the snow globe mentioned in YAIL, about “her friends” falling in love. Of course I believe YAIL is about when she and KK fell in love. The snow globe metaphor doesn’t really make sense being about anyone else. But it fits kaylor perfectly (VSFS13, and also the glass closet.)

Home is an important theme is this album, especially in this song but I’d also argue that it is what Cornelia St is about. And it’s referenced in INTHAF. Home is a place, but it’s also a feeling. Feels like home. And I think that her person is what feels like home to her. And since they have a secret love, home is the only place they can truly be themselves. Wherever that home is at any given moment.

So having this video for this song, which is the title track of the album and TS has said is her favorite song she’s written, take place in their imaginary home (and a future home with a family) I think is very important.

As we enter the house our first visual is a long zoom into a long hallway full of doors covered in Christmas lights.

I almost immediately thought of the 1989 tour visuals for IKP:

 https://youtu.be/mfIuMrXxkcI.

I just reblogged a couple of posts about this tour visual which I think is extremely interesting. To summarize, it represents the surreal nature of the closet. IKP was written in Jan 2014 and I believe it is about how she would approach her new relationship with KK, and the tour visuals would have been created after kissgate. When you watch it, please note the Magritte imagery and the panther wearing a Magritte bowler hat, and that there are no panthers anywhere in this song (KK’s fashion nickname is the panther, and Magritte’s main theme in his art is playing with perceptions and the bowler symbolizes hiding in plain sight.)

Another thing I noticed in this tour visual is the hallway turns upside down toward the end: 

This reminds me of the orange room in the Lover video, which is also a very surreal place.

Ok, so now that we’ve established a link to IKP and that is set in Jan 2014, let’s move into the rest of the video.

We start off with the two of them hanging pictures in the green room. Green represents newness and hanging pictures is symbolic of settling into a new place. In this case, the home represents their early relationship. Next we have them in the surreal orange room, playing games on the ceiling. I’ve mentioned before we have multiple references to them playing games at the start of their relationship. And here they are literally playing games in this upside down, surreal world of the closet. I would also argue that orange girl from the YNTCD MV represents a closeted lesbian who lives in the gaylor park but who doesn’t participate in any of the activities, because she can’t, and she is eating oranges whole, which adds a surrealism to the scene. And of course we have Taylor in orange in the giant cage in the LWYMMD video. So orange=closet. Closet=surreal.

Next we move into the Red room. But first we glimpse the two of them frolicing up the stairs. They are giddy. You can really see the excitement of a new relationship. This is the sort of mood captured in I Think He Knows.

On the wall is a painting of…a fox hunt.

HANG AWN, is that a IKP reference? 

They dance in the red room and TS sings happily on her guitar. The love interest is wearing a yellow tie and pants that matches TS’ yellow dress. The red room is the only room where their clothes don’t match the color of the room. So I think the yellow clothes are an important symbol of happiness (sunshine/golden) and this may indicate that even though they are in the red room, this love isn’t red, or at least not all red. It’s golden.

And then we cut to a…blue sink?

What the heck? why would you show a sink? Just a sink. A close up and a long shot of. a. sink. It must mean something. HANG AWN is that a reference to ships sinking? Well not this time! Ha, you see what I did there? So we’ve moved into the blue room, which contains the fishbowl. TS agreed this room represents 1989 era and that the fishbowl represents her lover jumping into her fishbowl life without hesitation. So what we’ve seen so far is the implementation of the plan from IKP (glass closeting, Tree was hired, they are BFFs to the public.)

We continue switching from room to room showing various scenes of domestic bliss. There’s a lot of dancing. Remember TS called KK her favorite person to dance with.

But then, a change. Instead of just the two of them, now there is a party. It’s new years and they’ve invited others into their home. The love interest’s yellow tie has turned orange

and Taylor seems to get jealous as another woman hits on him. His reassuring smile should calm her jealousy but instead it leads to a fight. I believe this represents them hiding their relationship from the public. Again, orange represents the closet. So someone is hitting on her love right in front of her because no one knows they are together. I don’t think this is an actual New Years Party scene that happened. In fact I think the whole New Years party theme from NYD and here is a metaphor for the party that was the 1989 era. Gazelessstares did a wonderful post about this over a year ago. It’s also a metaphor for how they don’t necessarily get to spend time together at big events like New Years eve anymore, but they get the metaphorical new years day (the quiet, private day that represents the future.)

So they have a fight. This seems to be a big one. Does it represent one fight or an ongoing argument they have about how to handle things? Either way, the middle part of the video shows this difficulty. The love interest tries to reason with her in the bedroom, but TS is not having it. She goes off to be by herself. We see her in every room playing music alone, while her love interest is agonizing over things in the Red room. Finally the love interest joins TS in the attic. She is surprised and happy he joined her, they reconcile and reflect on all their happy times (watching the home movies.) Once again, we have joy in the relationship. This episode solidfies their status and the rest of the video continues with happy domestic scenes in their home, while they are still sometimes seen in the upside down orange room playing PR games.

Finally, we pull out from their rainbow home and come out of the snowglobe and see that the modest home from the opening scene shows the future. They now have a child and are continuing their domestic bliss as a family.

So in summary, I believe this video is telling the chronoglical story of their relationship, from early 2014 to sometime recently, with a lovely glimpse at what they hope for in their future. The brilliant thing about this is that it almost fits just fine with the Toe narrative. This is of course because the Toe narative was designed to mimic kaylor. But one thing I always find fascinating about I Know Places is that she wrote it in the middle of the night and recorded it the next day, with an urgency to make sure it got on the album. In Jan 2014. And yet, she was publicly single at the time. And then when she got into a public relationship more than a year later, she did not follow the advice from IKP. Nor did she for her next public relatioship, 2.5 years after writing IKP. It was only when she was ready to take a break from public life that she got herself a public secret relationship (an oxymoron, but it’s what we have.) 

This video makes me so soft.

Karlie = Wildest Dreams, Kimby Kloss and Kariann Kloss = Karlie's twin Sisters, Kimby = Kimberly, Kim = Kimberly, Kim = Kardashian, not the twin from your (wildest) dreams = Kimberly Kardashian instead of Kimberly Kloss... Taylor is a goddamn genius and so is @milelarissa-blog!

Also, I remember Taylor saying that This Love started as a poem that she had written about somethimg that happened in her life a year before 1989 dropped.

I can't imagine what happened! 😭🥺

Of course it was a poem l—and yes... my emisue heart melts with this video. I'm crying with you friend.

Yeah, according to the lover diaries she wrote This Love in October of 2012. These lyrics hit a certain nerve for me…

🐿: 💃

🐿: 🦃

🐿:

🐿:

🐿: 🎂 🎥

🐿: 🎄 📷

🐿: 🎆 🎶

🐿: 👩🏼💔👱🏻‍♂️, 🔴

🐿:

🐿:

🐿:

🐿: 💿

This is too much for me 😩

what the actual fuck?

It’s the truth. 

Taylor & Karlie backstage at the 2013 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show

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.

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.

WAIT A MINUTE! she just deleted the video! WHAT!!!

Hahahah well good thing I saved it 💀

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.

!!!!!

“and that’s how you’ve changed the song all too well for me”

SR - do you know the muffin man iykwim 😉😉

Huh?

What do people think the en route means?

I took it as en route to Taylor! 😂

Ohhh KK grabbing lunch with Ryan Reynolds makes total sense now. Their wives were busy directing and filming a music video together, parts of it in their NYC home. so they probably figured why not hang out with each other till their wives have time for them 😂🤪🤡

👀

So, grain of salt and all that. But there's a Redditor claiming that Taylor and Jo have been broken up since October and plan to announce it in the first week of January. It'll be interesting to see if that really does happen.

I'm also interested in seeing how swifties will take it if the announcement includes that they've been split since October. Because I mean, Taylor Swift intentionally misleading people on the status of her relationship because it benefits her album promotion needs? Why, she'd never! 😂

This November 13th has truly been a celebration.

How it Started:

How it’s going:

‘Twas a happy Kaylor anniversary. Cheers to many more years.

“love is so short, forgetting is so long”

All Too Well: The Short Film

Happy anniversary, girls!!!

Karlie was fascinated from the first moment. See the stage assistant take her out of her hypnotized little moment. 😍

☀️❤🌼