Spring 2012 - The Swiftgron Spring
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Taylor writes Holy Ground some time in February 2012:
Never missing a chance to be unbearable, Dianna takes this proto Folklore aesthetic photoshoot with Ashley and others at the beginning of March (the 4th?) (which makes me think Taylor and Dianna may have started something up at or around that February Oscars party, she’s certainly spending a bit of quality time with Taylor’s two best friends at this point):
And Dianna’s in a good mood:
The Speak Now Tour ends March 18, 2012 and right after it seems like Swiftgron is inseparable. I think mid March is the official beginning to their relationship though it’s possible they had been in touch on and off since 2010 and it’s also possible that they started a long distance flirtation in the fall of 2011 (or perhaps at the end of February 2012 given Dianna starts hanging out with Taylor’s friends while she’s back on tour - but Taylor hasn’t followed Dianna on Twitter yet) but all I know for sure is they hang out constantly starting at the end of March 2012.
March 25, 2012 - Hunger Games Movie Date
The first Swiftgron solo hang that we know of Dianna and Taylor go to see The Hunger Games - Taylor had two songs on the movie soundtrack! There’s no press there to see them so it really does appear they just went to catch the film together. Dianna tweets about it but doesn’t mention Taylor but some fans take a picture of them so we know they were there together.
Also right before or on this day Taylor start to follow Dianna on twitter:
A couple other things to note about this day:
It rains rarely in LA but I think this was the inspiration for the lyric “all I know is pouring rain and everything has changed”
This was also a Sunday and a matinee which of course Taylor sings about later in the song The 1.
March 28, 2012 - Dianna is feeling grateful:
So grateful she writes out a list and tweets Taylor (among others) about it!
The first thing she is grateful for is, “My heart, which is open!”
She also mentions “new” and “exciting” which Taylor perhaps references in the Swiftgron anthem Wonderland with the lyric “didn’t it all seem new and exciting?”
March 30, 2012 - Dinner at Il Pastaio
Two days later after Dianna’s happy tweets she is having dinner with Taylor and Taylor’s mother Andrea (meeting the parents for the first time?)
It seems that Dianna leaves out a side or back door to avoid being spotted but this article notes that she was there:
If their first date was the Hunger Games (which the pouring rain lyric in EHC makes me think it was), Dianna was meeting Taylor’s mother less than a week later! “Didn’t they tell us don’t rush into things” indeed!
That night Dianna is tweeting about someone with a great attitude and a funky spirit:
March 31, 2012 - Kids’ Choice Awards and Dianna’s House Party
This guy tweets a bunch proving that Taylor was at Dianna’s house party after the 2012 Kids’ Choice Awards.
This is significant because everyone made a big deal about Taylor dancing a bit to You Don’t Know You’re Beautiful (and she is dancing around in an adorably dorky manner with Selena, Claire, lesbian icon Sharpay Evans [she’s come a long way since East High School! Go Wildcats!], and Katy Perry):
Here’s the full performance:
The camera pans over to Taylor five times. Haylor shippers sometimes point to this as the start of their romance but to me it reads as though a PRomance is in the works or perhaps fans’ reactions to Taylor enjoying 1D (of course we all know how she loves to sing about women from the male perspective) prompted the idea of Haylor.
All I know is that she went to Dianna’s house that night not out with Harry so who do you think was important to her at that point?
April 1, 2012 - Taylor is at the Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas - she wins entertainer of the year and please look at Ashley’s reaction to suggestions that Taylor is dating Tim Tebow:
Then all the girls go to NYC together (even though it appears as though Taylor has no work related reason to be in NYC - Dianna is there to do some press.)
April 7, 2012 - Dinner at Otto:
April 8, 2012 - Spending time together at the Bowery (eye twitches) Hotel
and for all the Haylor shippers? Harry didn’t show up…
Dianna stays behind in NYC and appears on The VIew.
April 11, 2012 - Taylor posts about recording Red (it appears to be Nashville due to the tweets surrounding it)
(Who’s got her so happy?)
April 12, 2012 - Taylor is still in Nashville
Dianna on Jimmy Kimmel (in NYC)
Jimmy decides to get cute and brings up the “love triangle” between Dianna, Taylor, and Tim Tebow. When she denies anything is going on with Tim he asks her if she’s dating Taylor. Dianna says “Noooo!” in what appears to be a brief split instance of surprise and panic but recovers smoothly and plays it off as a joke. She quips, “Wouldn’t that be juicy?” and turns to the camera to blow a kiss before saying, “Hi Taylor.”
Conclusion - Swiftgron is now traveling together. Dianna and Taylor’s friend groups have completely meshed. Taylor appears to go to New York simply to accompany Dianna since Taylor had no work related reason to be in the city that we know of.
The “I guess you’re in New York today” part of Come Back… Be Here (to be written later this spring) may be inspired by the period time where Taylor had to leave New York to work on Red while Dianna had to stay in NYC for work.
ALSO! Sometime this Spring Dianna answers a question about Taylor on her YM&C Blog and says she’d like to sing Ours on Glee:
Very cute since Ours is so soft and about choosing to love one another even though other people may object.
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