this is a fragment of a thought but, do you ever think about how the only real lilac short skirt presented to us is the one that taylor included in the youtube short that she put out in conjunction with ttpd’s release?
if the insinuation in the song is that the skirt was a present for taylor, and, since that clip is mixed in with footage of her and trav cooking and her holding a chiefs pickleball paddle while wearing the skirt (and given the many many articles telling us that he loves getting her presents!) i would venture to guess that the base assumption to be made by all is that he bought her the skirt.
but it’s just a little funny because, imgonnagetyouback is a song that suggests a history between her and the person who bought her the skirt. it’s someone she’s singing about getting back or getting back at etc. does he really fit the bill?
and we also got glimpses of this skirt in the i can do it with a broken heart music video, which shows footage of her putting together the ttpd set to add to the eras tour shows. so while this footage lines up with the idea that it’s a recent purchase, i also thought it’s interesting for the skirt to be tied to eras tour practice in general. that is to say, optically, the skirt sort of ties imgonnagetyouback to the eras tour.
and indeed, it’s been pointed out before that the line “bygones will be bygone eras fading into grey” is reminiscent of eras tour. so it isn’t new ground i don’t think.
but anyway it made me think about how a narrative could be crafted, wherein taylor might have been gifted this skirt by someone while practicing for eras tour, and getting all flustered by it —oh the nerve of this someone! oh but i like it!— and then, during practice, she’s wearing this skirt and thinking about how she’s going to get back this person via eras tour.
and it just… conjures up the image of someone in particular. someone taylor could push the reset button on, someone who they’ve lost all the pieces to their game together with (and someone who kept instagramming with pics of a chessboard missing pieces), but who still wants to play. i dunno, i just think…
