FOLKLORE IS NOT AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL, IT’S NOT ABOUT HER! IT’S FROM MADE UP CHARACTERS POVs!1!1!1!
In this essay I will explain why I think it’s quite the opposite. For the record I don’t think there has ever been a more personal, emotionally transparent and intimate album.
- Lyrical reference to ME! “I never leave well enough alone”
- TIWWCHNT aesthetics (Roaring twenties, jumping in pool from the trampoline, feeling so Gatsby for that whole year).
- Curiously associated to “the 1”, Big Sur highway or the Subway Line in NYC
- Reference to High Line in the West Village. Because when it’s like 10 minutes from Franklin Street or Charles Street, MUST be about other people right?
- Once in 20 lifetimes, 20 is almost the new 13 lately.
- “Loves me like I’m brand new” CIWYW vibes/main concept
The last great American dynasty
- Explicit parallels between Rebekah’s life and Taylor’s and the way the neighbors judged both of them. The parties, loud women, pack bitch friends.
- Interesting St. Louis reference
- Interesting “wedding was charming if a little gauche” (gauche defintion by dictionary.com: lacking social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness; awkward; crude; tactless) ...........ring any bell?
- I’m just going to leave these here and not even gonna waist my time explaining
- Obvious reference to BMR, SBX2
- Very suspicious at the diamond ring but I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt
- On the pressure that the desire to always be liked, appreciated, validated, approved by others please watch Miss Americana.
- On the pressure of double standards in the music industry for women, her words: “Be new to us, be young to us—but only in a new way and only the way we want. Reinvent yourself but only in a way that we find to be equally comforting and a challenge for you. Live out a narrative that we find interesting enough to entertain us, but not so crazy that it makes us uncomfortable. This is probably one of my last opportunities as an artist to grasp on to that kind of success, so I don't know. As I'm reaching 30, I want to work really hard, um, while society is still tolerating me being successful."
- Chilhood memories in Pennsylvania under her, are there still beautiful things?
- Won’t comment on braids like a pattern or the hide in the closet lines.
- Guest starring the recurring theme of hiding and keeping things secret, let’s make it a regular character because it’s here to stay.
- Will you call when you’re back at school. CAN name of someone who was attending school while having a relationship with Taylor. But won’t.
- Pulling car off the road to the lookout. Now there’s some suggestive photo reference for this line. Google it: Taylor Swift Big Sur
- “It's hard to be anywhere these days when all I want is you. You're a flashback in a film reel on the one screen in my town.” I’m sure everybody has to live with the face of their ex lover on screens all over your town, especially when the city screams their name. Very common.
- “You showed me colors you know I can’t see with anyone else” AND “you taught me a secret language I can’t speak with anyone else” sound very autobiographical but I will give this the benefit of the doubt as well.
- “And you know damn well for you I would ruin myself” is the big sister of “And baby, for you, I would fall from grace just to touch your face”, fight me on that.
- Centennial park in Nashville.
- Bad blood, Yogurt shop.
- Blues and then purple-pink skies.
- Dive bar reference. Dive bar where you at.
- Cannons firing at a yatch. Sure it’s a fictional Betty here talking.
- Witch hunt makes yet another appearance.
- This actually is too personal for the whole world.
- Wondering if Betty’s garden has a gate you could sneak through.
- Inez and James, Blake and Ryan’s daughters. BOTH female. But sure take only what you need from Taylor’s personal life inspiration.
- So the person who’s writing is convinced that danger and troubles are always going to come to them and their lover because of their very identity, because of who they are and who they represent. Archer anyone? “Who could ever leave me baby but who could stay”.
- Robbers to the east. Clowns to the West (capitalized).
- Your brother as my brother.
- Love for show and dying for the same love in secret.
- My best laid plan....“I am an architect I’m drawing up the plans”
- “You knew the hero died so what's the movie for?” Is “And all of my hero died all alone”‘s cousin. Study that family tree.
- “You know I left a part of me back in New York”
- Your faithless love is the only hoax I believe in. Either you feel this or you don’t. I don’t make the rules.
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