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Alex, any pronouns, Lesbian 🏳️‍🌈✌🏻 Exploring music, media & LGBTQIA+ culture through the queer lens | Homophobes & Terfs DNI

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📌 Analysis highlights

Queer Themes in Taylor Swift’s Music Masterdoc (x)

No pap photos, mentions of official or assumed relationships, just lyrics, music videos and public performances, with the occasional interview or social media picture for context.

Celebs speaking out about homophobia in the Entertainment Industry (Part 2)

A response to the “don’t label her” argument

Exploring the Queerness of Seven through connections to Unreleased Songs

More on Seven x, x

Betty was a lesbian code word

Clean / Style Visuals

Midline Rhyme Scheme in Red

A Brief History of Queer Visibility from Masquerade to Modern Day

New Romantic Movement

New York Times Article (Jan 4 2024) x

See also: Swiftgron Analysis Side Blog

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Hey Alex! Did you do a cleanup of the subreddit members? I noticed the number of mad hatters dropped a lot

It seems to be showing the number that have visited in the last week instead of total members.

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It’s funny how among my swifty friends, I am the only gaylor but also the only one who loved the album. I mean, if you listen to it without attributing it to travis, it’s not as cringe to me, someone who denied wanting simple things in life and acting all strong and stuff. But also, I can’t stop but think of the lirycs being related to Dianna, which I am not sure is the case in reality. Do you think any of the songs are about her?

I definitely do.

Elisabeth Taylor is the most obvious one. That was Dianna’s nickname.

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elizabeth taylor is so dianna coded

100% agree!

Gonna work on some analysis as I can find time.

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Remember this interview from when they were both in / near Montana? Dianna opens it by saying The Life of an Actor in French with a smug little grin before she emphatically ends it with “a new era! ERA!”

Safe to say she wanted us to know she knew what was coming. 😀

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Good catch anon! 🤔

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I just tricked my mom (who is low key swiftie and Tayvis supporter but doesn't use social media and didn't know the album track list) that The Fate of Ophelia was Rep vault track and most likely was written about Joe and she ate it up😭 she said "it's track cause it's same theme with rest of Reputation album angel boyfriend saviour, oh Joe loved her so much why they broke up😭" now she pissed at me when i said the song is not rep vault but from her new album 😂 now she believes it's about Travis saving her from melancholy 🫠🥴

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I dunno if you listened Taylor's new album yea she got songs about herself and some fan service songs (Tayvis shippers) but i think Honey is the only song that can't be attributed to anyone it's kind of neutral (of course swifties already making it about Travis ) but this particular line "Buy the paint in the color of your eyes And graffiti my whole damn life" makes me side eyeing certain former ex gf who is obsessed with art galleries and painting and 🐰🐇🐱

I caught that too. Who do we know that likes graffiti on the walls?

There are quite a few references sprinkled in. I’ll be teasing them apart for a while.

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Streets say Taylor finally made an album that will be understand and accepted by Sarah's and Hannah's in their Sunday best 😅😂

Oof. They sure will 😭

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Some people are joking that Taylor wrote into chat GPT "Write an album about how the public perceives who I am and what I want". It was mass-pleasing, at best. some songs were almost sarcastic, mocking, like Wish list, Wood. its like, yall wanted basic, here it is.😅

I have been amused by a few top tier roasts on twitter. It’s all pretty much as I expected unfortunately. Love that she couldn’t bring herself to say dickmatised. But she sings MY DICK’S BIGGER with her whole chest.

& her first explicitly sexual lyric is about a woman getting her wet? Eating out her exes!!? 🗑️

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Hi manuscript anon again — showgirl is the manuscript. “One last trip to your shores” holy shit I feel my brain broke Starting showgir now

Enjoy! And do report back with your thoughts. 💕

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I haven’t yet listened to showgirl (it’s been out 12 minutes) but I was thinking about the manuscript and the line “and then she dated boys who were her own age” and it hit me: could she mean working with Jack/that team, vs working with these older men who didn’t take her seriously?

Maybe. I took that one at face value.

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I was listening to Chloe et al from a “Taylor to queer fans” (“all to outrun my desertion of you / you just watched it happen”) pov and I got to the line

“So if I sell my apartment / And you have some kids with an internet starlet”

and I’m *sure* this wasn’t a dig at Kaylors but it feeeeeeeelt like a dig at a group of fans who are super obsessed with someone who’s current claim to fame is as a model who posts on ig…. (Besides of course being a Kushner and Trump)… and whose children that group of people are obsessed with to a really unsettling degree

Interesting theory 😂

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this is kind of silly lol but I was thinking about taylor using 'green eyes' pretty early/before ? dianna and was googling about queerness and green eyes symbolically, since in a lot of classic lit, green eyes represent mystery and magic and 'difference' (see: Gone with the wind, every novel hero/ine ever. and this article from 2014 made me laugh: https://www.curvemag.com/blog/blogger/girls-with-green-eyes/

(so ahead of THE CURVE (lesbian mag???) lol)

A striking element of lesbian romances is the prevalence of a green-eyed heroine.

I do love a green eyed heroine. 😍

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For some reason I can’t directly respond to you anon, but yes it seems so. I suppose lavender feels safest right now.

I’m glad you’ve managed to move on from this often punishing special interest of ours. I appreciate you coming back to drop me an ask.

My life is busy but full and a lot healthier these days. I hope you’re happy and well.

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Everyone is posting about Taylor's engagement, but all I can think about is Dianna.

Greece to Italy now, hope baby girl is living her best life.