Emily wore a red scarf to her wedding this is crazy
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Emily wore a red scarf to her wedding this is crazy
Today has been the best. Tβs actual lover will be at her fake wedding and now this! πππ₯³
Did you anyone notice kk castle π° pic? Long grassβ¦look just like Tay new standing cover for ts5. The long grass behind Tay. Could be same place?
"She ghosted but kept the castle"
Yep, and Karlie has much bigger feet too!
Exhibit 1 - not K βοΈ
Exhibit 2 - probably K πΈ
The castle!! π°π
Just as we thought, the only way Karlie gorgeous Kloss and Taylor James Swift could be OUT in the open again, would be if they had plausible deniability. Both being fake married sure fits that narrative!
Taylor said happy pride month to ALL my gaylors and kaylors π π₯Ίπ
SO happy that I could π₯π
@taylorswift
Kaaaarrrlllieee friggin Kloss π
James makes an appearance, so she posts π
A Scottish castle π° with all the damn piecesβοΈ
Leviβs card π¦
Itβs not fall but π
I donβt know who those first slip-on feet belong to but itβs not Karlie.
Donβt forget what Kurt said, they usually post after the visit, never live locations .. for security reasons. Who knows when this happened?!
The next chapter is here πͺ½πͺ½
Thatβs a direct threat!
Dat cloud kinda looks like a spaceship to ME πΈ
Taylorβs "spaceship" refers to the highly publicized UFO and alien abduction imagery associated with her The Tortured Poets Department era, specifically the hit song "Down Bad".The theme has been prominent in multiple aspects of her work and public appearances:The Eras Tour: During her performance of "Down Bad," Taylor incorporates an elaborate alien abduction theme. A hovering UFO graphic appears on stage, and a targeted spotlight creates a stunning optical illusion of an alien tractor beam shining down on her.
The 2024 MTV VMAs: Taylor made waves by wearing a glittering UFO-embellished mini dress at the awards show, directly paying homage to her alien abduction metaphors.The Metaphor: In "Down Bad," She uses the whirlwind experience of being briefly "abducted" by a celestial being and dumped back on Earth.
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Iβm a big fan of all of these images. They are all truly masterpieces.
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i slur your name til someone puts me in a caaaaar (kar) is literally blatant kaylor evidence and itβs insane how hetlors just ignore it!
βi came straight from romeβ/βtree, taylorβs gonna yell at me if i donβt take her right nowβ
imagine seeing this and still thinking karlie and taylor arenβt/werenβt β¦ wellβ¦ you know
When your wife and sister-in-law are the MOST important guests π
If Taylor Swift releases, wears or mentions anything related to Madonnaβs βLucky βοΈβ lyrics .. Fyi a lucky green βοΈ debut also counts; a bee or ladybird ref.
Even if Stella McCartney designs Taylorβs wedding dress for her fake marriage .. Iβm taking any of these as irrefutable confirmation, THEY are either still hooking up or married. TSβ€οΈKK ππ©ββ€οΈβπβπ©
As if the matching bags werenβt enough. Cuties π₯° πππ
"Lucky Star" is a song by American singer Madonna from her 1983 self-titled debut album. Written by Madonna and produced by Reggie Lucas.
Sirius (brightest), Antares (red-hued), and Canopus. Antares is a massive red supergiant star, ranking as the 15th brightest in the night sky and the brightest in the constellation Scorpius. Known as the "heart of the scorpion" and a "rival of Mars" Life Stage: It is a dying star in its final stages and expected to end in a supernova in the near future (astronomically speaking). It is on average the fifteenth-brightest star in the night sky. Antares is the brightest and most evolved stellar member of the ScorpiusβCentaurus association, the nearest OB association to the Sun. Telepathy: Antares could communicate telepathically with his fellow Monarchs. Dragon's Fear: Antares could release a mana-infused shout from his soul that would drive those weaker than him into a state of intense despair and panic. Breath of Destruction: Antares could spit torrents of fire from his mouth. Antares is the component of the divine tetramorph initiating change and the metamorphosis of form life; in this sense its qualities are healing or destructive. In some early Christian traditions, the star was known as one of the four βArch-angel starsβ, and it represented Oriel, the βWatcher of the Westβ.
13 days later - Confirmed! π©ββ€οΈβπβπ© π°ββοΈπ€΅ββοΈππ
Taylorβs hottest fit this year π₯
Confirming the confirmation, itβs confirmed! ππππππ
Thank you Taylor Swift. Even though weβve had to endure endless pap walks with the beer chugging gorilla.
Is it over yet? Letβs hope so.
I refuse to feature fugly. Instead .. Taylor and Karlie during much happier times
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The way Sam looks at Karlie while theyβre all cheering for Taylor on stageβ¦ he knows what the fuck is up. π
And just what were they doing all night? π€π€
Thatβs real love right there π
If Taylor Swift releases, wears or mentions anything related to Madonnaβs βLucky βοΈβ lyrics .. Fyi a lucky green βοΈ debut also counts; a bee or ladybird ref.
Even if Stella McCartney designs Taylorβs wedding dress for her fake marriage .. Iβm taking any of these as irrefutable confirmation, THEY are either still hooking up or married. TSβ€οΈKK ππ©ββ€οΈβπβπ©
As if the matching bags werenβt enough. Cuties π₯° πππ
"Lucky Star" is a song by American singer Madonna from her 1983 self-titled debut album. Written by Madonna and produced by Reggie Lucas.
Sirius (brightest), Antares (red-hued), and Canopus. Antares is a massive red supergiant star, ranking as the 15th brightest in the night sky and the brightest in the constellation Scorpius. Known as the "heart of the scorpion" and a "rival of Mars" Life Stage: It is a dying star in its final stages and expected to end in a supernova in the near future (astronomically speaking). It is on average the fifteenth-brightest star in the night sky. Antares is the brightest and most evolved stellar member of the ScorpiusβCentaurus association, the nearest OB association to the Sun. Telepathy: Antares could communicate telepathically with his fellow Monarchs. Dragon's Fear: Antares could release a mana-infused shout from his soul that would drive those weaker than him into a state of intense despair and panic. Breath of Destruction: Antares could spit torrents of fire from his mouth. Antares is the component of the divine tetramorph initiating change and the metamorphosis of form life; in this sense its qualities are healing or destructive. In some early Christian traditions, the star was known as one of the four βArch-angel starsβ, and it represented Oriel, the βWatcher of the Westβ.
13 days later - Confirmed! π©ββ€οΈβπβπ© π°ββοΈπ€΅ββοΈππ
Taylorβs hottest fit this year π₯
Hi Spade, I was just wondering this morning, if people really, really understood the "Tea" Taylor shared with her fans, when she opened The Eras Tour with "Cruel Summer", a song that includes lyrics like:
"I'm drunk in the back of the car (...I slurred your name, and they put me in a carπ)
And I cried like a baby coming home from the bar (oh)
Said, "I'm fine, " but it wasn't true
I don't wanna keep secrets (hmmm ... really?) just to keep you
And I snuck in through the garden gate ( a West Village gate?)
Every night that summer, just to seal my fate (oh)
And I screamed, "For whatever it's worth
I love you, ain't that the worst thing you ever heard?"
He (She) looks up, grinnin' like a devil!"
AND she did this to 10+ million attending people world-wide. How much more CLEAR can she be???
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.. Karlieβs βlesbianβ short film - βHigh heels and sharp knives,β Karlieβs girlfriend is stored in her contacts as β¦ βLOVER.β 22nd November 2013 btw π
i know this is silly but i love when taylor gets to do normal stuff. especially having lived so long thinking she could only do normal things when her life was a shrunken, hollowed-out version of itself, and now it's big and flourishing and she's STILL able to do normal stuff like go see her friend's play. just makes me so happy for her idk idk
If she doesnβt want to be seen, she isnβt. Also, celebs disappear in public all the time. Michael Jackson used full prosthetics and shuffled around dressed as an old man. Adele literally entered an Adeleβlookalike contest in a fake nose and nobody clocked her.
Taylor would only require a false nose, no make-up, glasses, baggy clothes and a wig for people to not give her a second glance.
This was PR stunt βweekend.β
Hey Spade! I saw on E! News that Hayden Paniettiere came out as bisexual. Look at these quotes:
Because for much of the 36-year-oldβs life, she didnβt feel she was able to share her truth with the world.
βIt was just never the right time,β she explained. βIt was either I was too young, and I was being forced to be perfect at all times. I was not encouraged to just be myself. Then came the period where it felt like people coming out, especially women, saying that they were bisexual or liked girls, was a fad.β
She continued, βI was afraid that if I was honest, it was going to be like me jumping on the bandwagon. It was a very difficult topic to articulate properly. Itβs sad I had to wait until I was 36 years old to share that part of me, but better late than never, right?β
Hayden also shared she has dated women in her private life, but that her celebrity status made things more challenging.
βIt was scary,β she said, βbecause there were paparazzi always waiting for me outside, to follow me everywhere. I had very little privacy. I have dated women. I was much more into women even as a child than I was men.β
So for antis who love to harass or bully this corner of the internet/fandom, and say things like βif Taylor were gay, she would just come outβ, just know itβs not as easy as you seem to think it is. There are a lot of celebrities βhiding in plain sightβ so to speak.
Thank you for sharing this.
The Life of a Showgirl is a satirical musical and the entire album is one big Rick Roll. She warned us of this in many ways and a lot of people seemed to have missed the clues so I'm here to break it down!
Starting off strong, she said, and I quote, "A showgirl knows what the crowd wants, and the crowd is your king"
She then gave us an entire video showing that she is behind the camera intentionally directing a shitshow. A version of herself that is so bad at performing she's even stumbling trying to pose for a photoshoot. Taylor the person then makes fun of Showgirl brand Taylor and heckles her by saving "it's giving no girl, not showgirl". Essentially breaking the fourth wall and clueing us in that she knows the album is bad. But that IS the concept behind the album. It is not suppose to be good, it is suppose to be as of Poet Taylor left the scene, and only Showgirl Taylor is in full control. And she made sure we knew of this concept because at the start of this album rollout Taylor liked a post confirming that in the Anti-Hero MV the 2 Taylors are Poet Taylor and Showgirl Taylor and that usually for her albums the 2 Taylors work together. This is symbolic of her songs being written mainly by Taylor the person and then brand Taylor sprinking in something to fit the public narrative such as how Dress is clearly about a woman, but she sprinkled in the buzzcut line as the "bait and switch" balance confessed in Willow. HOWEVER, for this album we were made aware that original recipe would be abandoned and brand Taylor would SOLELY be in charge of this album, which as we've seen Taylor depict multiple times, brand Taylor aka Showgirl Taylor is nothing on her own without Taylor the person, the mastermind pulling the strings.
Hence why just about everything on this album feels so hallow, lacking genuine emotion or storytelling, missing crucial details, no cohesion, and above all the lyrics are extremely forced to be cringy and terrible writing compared to what she's known to deliver.
This is extremely obvious when you look at the juxtaposition between the lyrics on the album, and the Poems released alongside it. Her caption itself on her post about the album was far more poetic and better writing than anything on the album, going to show she didn't lose her spark or forget how to write good, everything is apart of the role she's playing, and she's on the sidelines directing it.
This was her way of saying this album is NOT for "us" and she would by no means be making any art that SHE as Taylor the person would want to put out. The Showgirl album is handmade specifically for the swifties that only love her when she makes her life about a man, and that's why she goes as far as to take back Lavender Haze, because while Taylor the person agrees with it Showgirl Taylor never would. In fact, the tracks themselves are very obviously based off of narratives that have gone around on both Stan Twitter and within Travis obsessed spaces.
That is why the album ends with rhetoric that implies the entire album was a Performance. Track by track she's literally just playing into fan believed narratives or referencing things that were viral during the time of the Eras Tour. It is crowd focused. The crowd is her king, this is what they want, she hopes they get what they want, they deserve what they want, and this is her biggest performance art piece yet. So let's now look into some of the tracks so we can see what within them indicates that she is Trolling.
Beginning with Wood, I immediately knew what meme she was playing off of and now that interpretation is currently going around on the internet. There was a viral meme in 2021 between stan wars that was about comparing how Taylor describes "doing it" so poetically while other artists don't, specifically the resurfaced one was comparing But Daddy I Love Him to Ariana Grande's "yes and?" And here is the meme below for context:
Now the joking lyrics clearly mock that Taylor would describe it as "Wood" in her "Redwood Forest" and then Taylor proceeded to release a song exactly about that called Wood including the lyric "Redwood Tree". Now in what world would that be romantic for her to write this song off the back of a joke? It wouldn't, it's purely birthed from satire. And the extra layer that confirms nothing about the song "Wood" is serious is the fact that Max Martin produced it but he also produced on Eternal Sunshine.....
Next we have "Actually Romantic" which is Taylor intentionally playing into the fan narrative throughout Eras that Charli XCX and her have some kind of crazy beef. I promise you they don't, there's a lot of evidence they are in association with each other, and to think that out of just 12 tracks she wanted to write about THAT reflects a deep disconnect, but the fans aren't questioning it because as the whole point of this album is this is what THEY want to hear. The crowd is her king, and they're getting what they want.
Next we have Father Figure and there is actually 2 things for this one. For starters the obvious, during Eras it was a huge viral trend to make thrist trap edits of Taylor to George Michael's Father Figure, so again she is directly taking from what the fans want. In addition, fans are claiming that she wrote it about Olivia Rodrigo because some of the lyrics talk about the subject reminding her of a younger version of herself, needing to rid of her to be successful in their own career etc, and these are the kind of points that have been viral in discussion of swiftie spaces in regard to Taylor and Olivia allegedly having beef. She is feeding right into everything they love to talk about as IF it's facts, and within this album she's handing them a sense of false validation. The funniest part about this is that it's a bit of bait and switch because she addresses the subject as a guy and yet still has fans saying she must be talking about Olivia. Going to show they don't actually believe when Taylor uses "he/him" or says "man" that that actually means the real muse or subject is a guy despite the fact they love to use that as an argument. It also is important to mention that George Michael was gay, and closeted, his song Father Figure is about that, and she interpolated it into her own. But of course that went over "their" heads and all they took from it was the narrative they wanted, hence the point. Ignoring lyrics like "this love is pure profit" which implies a fake relationship, "step into my office" because it's contractual, etc.
The Fate of Ophelia, Honey, and Wish List straight up play into the fan narrative that Travis saved her and that a man defined her happiness and it really lyrically pushes on that point which is arguably one of the most common narratives of how Tayvis stans kept talking about her, especially the desire for her to have kids with him, the fantasies of what their like physically, etc. Like the lyric about having the whole block looking like him when that would imply.... no chance anyone genuinely thinks she's serious but that's what the crowd wants, and they get what they want.
Eldest Daughter literally has the lyrics "trolling and memes" before talking about people being cutthroat in the comments and sending hate and this was her way of saying she knows most real fans are going to hate the album but every track is really just trolling and memes. She even says "when you found me I said I was busy, that was a lie" just to say in an interview last night when asked if her closest friends would come to her wedding with Travis that she doesn't know because "they are busy" implying that's a lie. The fan narrative this song plays into is the infantilization of Travis which is that Travis was just a sad lost puppy troubled bad boy that Taylor came and fixed saving him from Kayla Nicole. Because the song also implies shade at her and hear me when I say, that's something that crowd REALLY wanted with the hate they've sent her way.
The Life of a Showgirl wraps it up by revealing anything that came prior was a performance, she was on a stage, sets of a play, hitting her marks as the showgirl. Taylor and Sabrina thank the crowd they designed the performance based on and say their goodbyes before exiting the stage. It's most repeated lyric keeps thanking a more experienced showgirl for the Bouquet which is her way of contradicting Wood where she said "I dont need a Bouquet". Because again, it was satire. Catching a Bouquet is also about luck and that whole song calls back to the Lucky One, you know the one where she's stuck as the Showgirl in Hollywood where your lovers don't even know you. Cuz the relationships aren't real, yeah that one.
In conclusion, the purpose of this showgirl character has been the same thing she's been teasing for years but more specifically since Midnights. She's burning down the brand, which means no more characters, no more Eras. The Eras Tour wasn't a goodbye to music, it was a farewell to the concept of Eras themselves and redefining herself every album to something brand suitable. We know this because in that same ad where she's directing Showgirl Taylor, the showgirl quite literally kicks a bucket, which is an expression for dying. She said in hits different "this is why you shouldnt off the main guy" because the brand keeps her protected but she's outgrown it. In the aftermath we will only get albums solely as Taylor the person, something we have never truly gotten before, hence the "This is not Taylor's Version" shirts. Same way how we had never truly gotten a solely Brand Taylor album till now. The 2 Taylor's are parting ways, with 1 final goodbye from the Showgirl, and when all is said and done, and the slow cracking that has been going on finally shatters, the curtain will be pulled and Taylor TM will cease to exist. (Captured by the fact that she called the cracking Hatching like an egg, and in Anti Hero inside the egg was the same purple glitter that was cracking through her pfp and we all know the purple glitter represented her inner truth seaping on the outside)
And the reason she posted regular orange hearts instead of the firey ones after the album was out is because Karma, the album her statements had actually been about like "the record she's been wanting to put out for such a long time" and the album the orange door and everything conceptually is actually for, is still on it's way. She said the poems have hidden messages that are very important but all they do is count One Two Three Four Five. Karma was originally the Sixth album. This is the final act. It's all apart of the story.
Encompassing it perfectly ππ»
If every Gaylor died tomorrow, there would STILL be more fans that find their way towards believing Taylor is queer because she has spent her entire career using hundreds of queer symbols, metaphors, flags, shibboleths, & more in her work. These things explicitly exist so closeted artists can signal to their community that they're part of the community, without suffering the oppression, abuse, and career limits that coming out to straight people's standards causes.
There has never been a time in US history where out queer people could achieve the same things as closeted or straight people. Closeted people are everywhere, and have always made a lot of our films, music, literature, etc.
There are many reasons celebrities don't come out: safety, morality clauses, having career goals they still want to achieve, fear of familial or religious rejection, and having a lot of conservative fans who they seek to help deconstruct through their work are just a few.
Pointedly: queerflagging is done voluntarily by people who are TRYING TO BE SEEN by their community, and the idea that noticing it is disrespectful or disgusting does not make sense.
Y'all are happy to say you value lesbian or sapphic or gay or queer visibility when the holiday hits, but when you arent LEARNING AND UTILIZING knowledge about how queer people have found each other even when being heavily oppressed, YOU DON'T KNOW how to see people in these communities and in that failure you deny them visibility.
The reason you have been told speculation is disgusting or intrusive is because it benefits a patriarchy that suffers the more people realize that queerness is normal, healthy & more common than they want you to think.
When you invent circumstances where queerflags are not interpreted as queer, you dilute the value and utility of these symbols for other queer people, and you separate an artist from their community and vice versa. This is committing violence against someone we are in community with and against the sanctity of queer communication.
The idea that celebrity queerbaiting is more common than legitimate queerflagging is not backed up by basis of fact. The idea that celebrities who spend lot's of time around queer people could be flagging queerness without realizing it just does not make sense. If they were signaling something they didn't mean, someone would tell them.
And with Taylor, so many of the signs of symbols that Gaylors have glommed onto are things Taylor has used again and again, demonstrating that she not only used them deliberately but also that she knows what they mean and she wants to convey that meaning. Hairpin drops in both lyrics and literal hair pins, constant lesbian flag colors, friend of dorothy/dorothea are just the most obvious things Tayloe has come back to over and over across many eras.
The word queerbaiting is one disproportionately leveraged against people who will one day come out of the closet.
The idea that Taylor hates Gaylors is not out of any basis of real statements from Taylor. The arguments used against Gaylors are most commonly segments of larger passages that are targeted at the media. When Gaylors are made the scapegoat of every wrong in the community, the people who actually harm Taylor, such as the media, are allowed to continue to get away with that harm.
The idea that Taylor talking about hating paternity testing is against Gaylors is cope from fans who dont want to accept that they ARE doing something Taylor explicitly has called out: making her music about one or more men, when those men didn't make those songs. Taylor is trying to get more fans to focus on HER story and who SHE is and what her music says about HER and the only subsegment of fans regularly doing that are Gaylors. And the fans who constantly try to derail our discussion by saying, "No, this songs about Matty," or whoever their fave male muse of the moment is, ARE the ones paternity testing by inferring that song has one man who was instrumental in its creation.
The nasty things haters say about Gaylors ALSO MEAN TAYLOR because SHE is the Gaylor putting all of these signs and symbols in her work. So maybe before flagging Gaylors off, Swifties should pause for a minute and think: "If Taylor is #1 Gaylor and sees this message, how would it make her feel?"
Amazing work! π
How we know Taylor will π» the wedding π ...
Because of the π« riddle we got 8 days before the engagement announcement:
Okay, so the first section in white always gave me ghosting the wedding vibes but I wanted to untangle the second half before I posted anything AND NOW with the new countdown pointing to the 20th anniversary of Tim McGraw.....I feel like my decoding skills are working overtime...
If we can just jump to the last line in the riddle real quick:
"So look in the past with palimpsest extrospection..."
If you're not aware, a palimpsest is a re-writting of text on top of the old text. See below ππ»
And extrospection is the opposite of introspection -- so instead of being an analysis on why your brain does the things it does, it's an exploration of what external contributing factors make up a story. This of course in the beginning made me think of a re-recorded album.
As y'all know, I believe the re-recorded version of Taylor's debut album will be released on its 20th anniversary in October BUT I had forgotten Tim McGraw was released as a single first. In June.... πβ¨
I did an analysis last year (before deleting it) on the acoustic version of ruin the friendship where there is a very "blink and you'll miss it" lyric change.
"Wilted corsage dangles from OUR wrists" -- Meaning the muse of the song was also wearing a corsage. And sure, I'm sure guys can wear corsages....in 2026. But you really think a country boy would be out there wearing one in the 00s. In case you're too young to know/remember, the answer is an overwhelmingly strong NO.
Also, if we could just use our brains and recall this ol' gem...
Moving on...
Tim McGraw and Ruin the Friendship have a lot of lyrical similarities. If Taylor was still performing the Eras tour, it would be a no-brainer to weave these two songs together. Example:
"September saw a month of tears And thanking God that you weren't here To see me like that But in a box beneath my bed Is a letter that you never read From three summers back Glistening grass from September rain Grey overpass full of neon names You drive (mm-mm) 85 (mm-mm) It's hard not to find it all a little bittersweet And lookin' back on all of that, it's nice to believe Gallatin Road and the lakeside beach Watching the game from your brother's Jeep Your smile (mm-mm) Miles wide And it was not An invitation Should've kissed you anyway Someday you'll turn your radio on I hope it takes you back to that place The one we danced to all night long The moon like a spotlight on the lake When you think happiness I hope you think that little black dress Think of my head on your chest Wilted corsage dangles from our wrists And it was not (and it was not) Convenient, no (convenient) Would've been the best mistake Should've kissed you anyway, hey..."
And everyone on this tag knows who Ruin the Friendship is about:
ANYWAYS, the Toy Story-esque countdown was deleted pretty soon after release so people are unsure whether this means she's on the soundtrack BUT if she's not, it could definitely be a nod towards the 20th anniversary of Tim McGraw. I'd love a re-release with the correct pronouns.
She said the way my blue eyes shined Put those Georgia stars to shame that night -- I said, "That's a lie"...
Back to the riddle:
"4t7 steps ahead with practiced leers."
This line in hindsight is the wedding date: 4/7
"Practiced leers" tho immediately made me think of every time Taylor has poked fun at the idea of 'traditional' marriage...
Which brings us back to the top of the riddle.
"They named her violet (violent) but not for the bloom (flower) for the bruise left after a silent room (run away bride)" -- In order to really 'burn down the lover house and rebuild it's Taylor needs to do something drastic. Because she's been so loud before and it hasn't gotten through to the fanbase. Look at Sabrina getting harassed for Queerbaiting -- Sabrina "girl kisser" Carpenter -- people don't see what they don't wanna see so Taylor has to not just be loud, but megaphone loud π’π’π’
"A cut-glass eye veiled lace and light." The use of the word 'veiled' really cemented this idea of a battered and bruised lace-covered bride walking down the aisle which is why many Gaylors including myself weren't shocked at the proposal news ποΈπ° We got a clear heads up from π« The cut-glass eye ποΈ obviously points to the one eye theory but cut glass makes me think that Taylor plans to shatter her glass box (...are you ready for it? MV)
"Watching the watchers watch out of spite" -- If she doesn't show up to the wedding -- she can lounge around at home and watch as the news slowly sinks in for everyone that she's not coming. The tabloids will go crazy. The homophobic fans will be distraught. Everyone at the venue is gonna be like....now what? And then in my mind vision π turns to 𦀠and goes "we should get married instead"..... And they do.
The next paragraph makes me really think that Taylor intends to double-down on her ghosting with chaotic "mad-woman" behaviour.
"She wove her rage through braids and seems, hid it in hems and half-truth screens. Claimed she'd just learned what rose in the dark, yet in years forlorn, an old remark"
Look, the truth is Taylor coming out is going to raise a lot of questions about previous beards - most of whom are closeted and wish to remain that way. So "what rose in the dark" to me is the closet πͺ And the narrative will either be that Taylor has only recently discovered her sexuality which gives everyone in her past an out OR it'll be a hard launch "I've been gay this whole time and led on these Kens who had no idea" which also gives everyone an out but makes Taylor look like the bad guy....which could lead to some juicy vault tracks from reputation. I think the 'rage' comment links more to option 2.
"She hummed like a girl in a marching band, but every note was sweetly planned." Again, this line makes me believe that Taylor is really going to go hard with the re-writting of the narrative (something I think she's been waiting to do until she for sure owned her masters). The marching band theme (performance costume) goes all the way back to fearless too βͺ
And has been reinforced with both the ME! Music Video and the live performance of the smallest man who ever lived...
This has all been planned since the beginning. Taylor was quite loud pre-debut (I mean the MySpace was loud π)
BUT, that doesn't work when you've got a record deal and you're representing a company. So many artists who are out have spoken about the way they were forced into the closet at the beginning of their careers -- sometimes having it dangled cruelly over them. So, Taylor would've had a plan. We saw it all begins to unfold in 2019 but it was interrupted by her masters getting sold. Why did this interrupt the plan? Because there's no way Taylor would've been given the opportunity to buy them back. They'd be dangled above her. She'd have to jump through waayyyy more hoops. Without the re-records and the Eras tour, Taylor wouldn't have been able to get them which she even acknowledged in her statement.
"You belong with more than reflection" -- At first I thought of a mirror πͺ but now I interpret the line as more of a "reflecting on the past" -- as in, you (Closeted Taylor) belong with more than a verbal reminiscing of the past. You deserve something tangible. Something real -- solid proof you existed. And what better way to do that than with debut (Taylor's Version).
To be honest, this whole ordeal has felt like:
But I feel like we're almost at a white flag of surrender. This is almost over. I guess that's why I'm posting this. As we move closer towards the π date, some of you might panic, and that's understandable. But hold steady. We were warned it was happening in the above riddle. BUT the riddle also lays out the aftermath. We will be okay.
TLDR: Taylor will ghost the wedding OR show up and ruin everything like a mad-woman. Either way, they're not getting married. Everyone will be confused. Debut (Taylor's Version) will fill in all the blanks -- she's gay and has been this whole time and not even the 'perfect football man' could "fix" her. Then, when the dust settles, we'll get the reputation vault tracks which will be extra gay. My guestimated date for these is Valentine's Day 2027 or T&K's anniversary 2027.
I like this too much not to repost.
The most powerful female artist using her platform to out the homophobic machine, would change the very fabric of the industry forever.
Now that would be BRAVE, a real legacy!
After sheβs done with that, the gaylors sure would appreciate an invite only βsecretβ session!
Psst Taylor, our DMβs are always open, most of us have passports and can keep a secret βοΈπ«