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Sent by a mutual and we have been discussing—look dats a baby crying. The little hitch in the cry is not something a meowing cat does, it IS what a baby does when it’s trying to catch its breath
Apparently the Twitter kaylors discovered this a while ago but haven’t posted for fear of retaliation
The fact that anyone could convince themselves that that’s a cat 🤣
This furthers the theory that in this song Taylor is singing about running “back home” in the sense of having her in her public life/focusing on her love and family instead of hiding and chasing the affections of her homophobic fans (whatch me daily disappearing/for just one glimpse of his smile”). She and Karlie are already together but she wants to be able to be seen with her - (“camera flashes, welcome bashes/tods the ashes off the ledge”). The fact that they were still together while this bearding relationship was happening is also made evident with the bridge, which reveals that the metaphor in the chorus (“running back home to you”) is actually literal as well - “I’m running/ To the house where you *still wait up* and that porch light gleams”.
RECLAIMING THE MUSE
To anyone who thinks that Karlie Kloss was PR to cover for Diana (or Lily- who like Dianna -has been out of the picture for years.)
What ? Are there 7 photos combined of both of them (and 2 of them aren’t even Lily)
please seek help.
Karlie Kloss has had gay/ bi rumors circulating about her since …forever.
It was kind of known /unspoken knowledge among her inner circle and folks in the industry.
She’s been connected to Toni Garrn, Jourdan Dunn, Leigh Lezark among others before she was involved with Taylor.
She’s never really dated men
Her best friend Derek is gay.
Derek introduced her to Josh
Josh was rumored to be involved with Mikey Hess…it goes on and on
Let me remind you of one of Karlie’s hilarious early slips of the tongue and gay panic that followed…
…”my exxxxxxx, well SHES a top manicurist now”
Now please tell me why Taylor Swift and her PR machine would get a rumored gay woman ( kk) to cover for the fact that Taylor was gay or involved with another woman.
Hiding a secret gay relationship with another secret gay relationship?
ARE YOU FOR REAL?
It makes absolutely zero sense not to mention how in most of Taylor’s discography the songs are clearly about Karlie.
If that was PR they need about 7 Oscars awarded to them.
AND…
New York City wasn’t screaming Diana’s or Lily’s name nor are they “tall and handsome as hell” or” fit like a daydream.” Or the West Village” “Argumentative, antithetical dream girl” “ the one I was dancing with in NY” Gold Rush” etc …
Karlie Elizabeth (Betty) Kloss
Who else besides Karlie Kloss had a garden gate ????
I could go on but you get the point
Seriously whoever “thunk” this one up needs a day or two off.
STOP TRYING TO REWRITE HISTORY BECAUSE YOU DONT LIKE KARLIE.
ITS ALWAYS ANYONE BUT KK WITH THESE PEOPLE WHO I HAVE LITERALLY ACCUSED HER OF MADE UP WAR CRIMES WITH ABSOLUTELY ZERO EVIDENCE.
My money is on “Karlie Kloss is a better human than most …” Taylor actually told us…”Dreams of your hair and your stare and sense of belief in the good in the world”
Flat Earthers move over
I think about this video of the lights in the audience from the 1 i got from singapore n5 a lot
#kaylor #gaylor
Hear me out…
If we are all listening to the SAME songs and catching the SAME Easter eggs, but the Gaylors have predicted everything from Lover being a sad album to James being Taylor to the Midnights to Joe breakup pipeline to the love triangle being real then why are you STILL adamant that we don’t know anything and insisting that we’re crazy and we’re weird?? Y’all are just now coming to conclusions we’ve been drawing for years and screaming at you about. When will y’all shut up and start actually listening to Taylor?
If we feel aggravated, imagine how she feels…you’re letting your favorite pop star down lol
Casually listening to Guilty As Sun and
Lowercase…
Inside a vault…..????
Longing for someone (during rep era) that you have to hide. That makes you feel guilty, like you’re sinning….
Didn’t she say in an interview that the reputation vault songs were “fire”?
Will those songs be what burns it down?
OMGGGGG
Unsure if I have posted this yet or not but its my favorite
I’m just gonna keep reblogging this.
‘Cause fuck it, they were IN LOVE. 😭
This is going to be very long and sound a little crazy at first, and maybe a little mean but please hear me out…
I’m convinced that Taylor sometimes purposefully includes one line or multiple lines of poorly written or clunky lyrics in specific songs to make a point.
We all have seen some version of this with bearding songs like London Boy, a simple bop whose lyrics were immediately detected as sounding disingenuous, even with the general population (the locations she was signing about were the most touristy and too far away from each other to visit on the same day, etc, basically implying that she doesn’t actually have a long term local bf there that she spends a bunch of time with exploring the city with, etc).
But just like everything else on the album, I think she’s doing maybe a more in your face version of that. No holds barred.
So High School is an obvious example of this, with all of the early 2000’s hs imagery, she seems pretty blatantly to be mocking the idea the public has of her “living out every American girl’s high school fantasy” of dating the tall popular football player. With lyrics like “touch me while your friends play grand theft auto” (barf), etc, shes being clear enough that this is not a serious song.
This is the possibly controversial part, but I’m so curious to see what others think about this - I think another iteration of this on this album is the title track, The Tortured Poets Department. Hear me out.
(First, I want to reassure you that there are lines in this song that I really like and think are well written, like: “you’re in self-sabotage mode/throwing spikes down on the road” and “but you awaken with dread/pounding nails in your head/but I’ve read this one/where you come undone/I chose this cyclone with you”. And I fully agree with the idea that these sentiments are from Karlie’s perspective. Basically, when you take out the chunks I’m about to talk about this song makes way more sense and has a beautiful sentiment of undying love behind it - which makes the following parts stick out that much more!)
The first time I listened through the album, and this was the second song, I got terrified because I didn’t understand its place in the whole narrative and when I heard the first clunky line “scratch your head like a tattooed golden retriever” I got the ick. Then the bridge with no structure and no wit and no clever turns of phrase, no metaphor, just “you put my ring on the finger people put wedding rings on” and “that was the closest I’ve ever been to my heart exploding”. So over simplified and cheesy, and doesn’t sound anything like her writing, especially the caliber of her recent lyrics
I know art is largely subjective, but I insist there is no way that the same person who wrote Cowboy Like Me wrote these lines into her title track if she didn’t have a reason and a point to make. To make it clear that this isn’t a matter of genre personal taste, because I know CLM is a very specific sound and a style that music snobs often take more seriously - I love SO many of her candy pop bangers, they are infinitely more clever, articulate, and overall works of art by a true wordsmith than this. Karma, The Very First Night, etc are all a master classes in clever words and tight writing being tucked into an “unserious” pop song.
The lyrics I cited above to me sound like what haters believe her writing sounds like, even fans who make little jokey TikTok’s about her and make up a spoofy something to sing while in character - that’s what these lyrics sound like.
Im worried im being too harsh, but please stay with me because the more I think about the more genius I think it actually is.
In the context of the themes of rest of the album, (her being trapped, miserable, manipulated, ready to burn it all down, screaming to be seen) this theory became clear to me. I think she’s leaning into her public persona (in more ways than one, we’ve already seen it with the stunting), in a way setting a “trap” for her fans and the public, that will essentially call them all out on how they ignored the real her in favor of her pr narrative, making the album about paternity tests, etc, all of which I’m guessing will become very clear in retrospect, possibly after she comes out? (Of course it’s already clear to us now, which is another purpose of the beard songs including clunky writing - to signal to us that these are not serious and that she knows that we know that she knows (like Phoebe on friends lol))
Ultimately, this is (along with So Highschool) a classic beard song. When she writes in this voice, she embodies the most extreme versions of her public persona, not just the one she has cultivated on purpose, but also the one that people have of her that don’t know her (as she did in Blank Space), including those that don’t take her seriously - because her identity as a boy crazy psycho ex girlfriend is directly tied to people dismissing her art as vapid because, they’ve only ever heard her singles, they don’t know the full her.
That voice is the straightest, the most boy crazy, the most one note, and sometimes the most unsophisticated writer version of her that people have in their minds, including her fans - the fans that refuse to see her as a whole person, the real, that believe she is head over heals for big football boy, that believe “he knows how to ball, I know Aristotle” is a romantic line about how opposites attract, the fans that say they don’t “get” some of her most beautiful and well-written songs, the fans that don’t see her and haven’t been seeing her.
They didn’t see giant Taylor on the eras tour, they refuse to see all of her queer signaling, etc, and I think she’s making the bearding songs obvious to underscore the difference between her Taylor(TM) and Taylor(person) personas.
She knows that despite the fact that the lyrics don’t even come close to measuring up to the rest of the album, the public, and many of her fans, will make this song one of the most listened to simply because they are looking for evidence of her relationships from the past year. We’ve all commented on how insane it is that this layered, complex, devastating album is being reduced to the usual paternity tests. This is currently one of the top songs precisely because it is “about Matty”. And of course, So High School is one of the tops songs along with it because it’s “about Travis”.
The juxtaposition of the bearding songs alongside her beautifully written poetry of Prophecy, Peter, Whose Afraid of Little Old Me, Cassandra, How did it end, The Albatross, etc mirrors the juxtaposition of her two selves during the Midnights era.
She has proven the point that if they think she wrote every line of this song completely in earnest, then they see her largely no differently than her haters do, as a subpar writer who writes absurdly cheesy love songs praising trashy to mediocre, problematic men. By eating it up they tell her that’s what she’s good for, for being the subject of tabloids and warring fans who make this entire album about two (purposefully) mediocre songs and the men who “inspired” them.
She has proven her point - that a subset of her fans will be distracted by a lesser song simply because they think it’s about one of the greasy men that’s she been seen holding hands with. That they will ignore once again all of her pleas to be seen, that she’s in pain and caged, and has been driven insane by their willful ignorance. That they don’t appreciate her full potential and talent, that they don’t even see it, and just want to be confirmed in their ideation of her.
This song is essentially the “forget him(her)” pill at the beginning of the fortnight mv, but it’s a sedative for the fans, who are addicted to her straight narrative. Similar to Willow’s 13 chants of “that’s my man” that started off evermore, casting a spell of heteronormativity over everyone who wanted it, so that they could choose to just completely ignore the following 14 gayest songs ever written. Don’t pay no mind to her singing directly about women with zero male perspective - she said “that’s my man!” We’re good! She’s still straight!
Taylor in the fortnight mv had to a take a sedative to be able to go into the next room and write her bearding songs - ie she self medicates to deal with keeping up the straight persona and to get through having to release dumbed down songs to feed the masses. (I also see the pill as something forced on her, I think it represents both layers)
From the first time I watched the music video I thought the writing Taylor looked so miserable and the bearding songs are why.
In this room she’s trapped, churning out the songs that her fans expect of her, the songs that make her team money, the songs that make her money, but that she has to compromise her truth to create.
But when she frees herself she’ll burn the stories that weren’t true, the filler that doesn’t represent her.
I’m curious to hear other’s thoughts on this - have you ever felt like Taylor purposefully inserts off-sounding lyrics that are written in a different voice to make a point?
I want to reiterate that it’s not the entirety of either song that I think is terrible, I genuinely love bopping along to both So High School and TTPD (track). Like I said above, when you remove the clunky lines from ttpd (track), the song has another layer and likely gives voice to some Karlie insight that is beautiful and tragically profound. It’s the red herrings, the pieces specifically meant to tie this song to a bearding narrative, that I’m dissing, and the only reason they are suspicious in the first place is because I know how gifted Taylor is with the written word.
Taylor is such a skilled writer that she can embody the voice of the bad writer that dismissive ignorant idiots believe her to be, just to make a point!
I even wonder if maybe there is a second version of this song locked away in one of those drawers in the fortnight writing room that leaves out the red herrings and is a thousand times better than the bearding version we got.
I hope one day we get to hear it.
Another great tiktok find 😍
me core 🫡
Hetlors: They’re just friends omg!!
Gaylors: “I hate accidents except when we went from friends to this”
Hetlors: Don’t sexualize her friendships!
Gaylors: “I don’t want you like a best friend”
Hetlors: Stop speculating on her sexuality!!
Gaylors: “I want *her* midnights”
Hetlors: She only says stuff like that to make gay people feel included!!
Gaylors: “She is the best thing that’s ever been mine”
Hetlors: She’s dated men publicly!!
Gaylors: “I loved you in secret”
Hetlors: She’s dated LOTS of men publicly!!!
Gaylors: “Privacy sign on the door / And on my page and on the whole world / Romance is not dead if you keep it just yours”
Hetlors: She likes men!!!
Gaylors: “All the boys and their expensive cars…never took me quite where you do”
Hetlors: You’re delulu if you think any of her lyrics are gay!!!
Gaylors: “I swear you could hear a hairpin drop”
Hetlors: The garden gate is at Joe’s parent’s house!!!!
Gaylors: “I don’t wanna keep secrets just to keep you”
Hetlors: She’s straight jesus christ!!!
Gaylors: “Can’t walk straight / Can’t talk straight”
Hetlors: She’s on top of the world! She doesn't have to hide anything!!
Gaylors: “For you I would fall from grace”
Hetlors: She has to HIDE from the MEDIA because PAPARAZZI!!
Gaylors: “We’re a crooked love in a straight line down”
Hetlors: Look how PUBLIC and HAPPY and HETERO she is with Travis!!
Gaylors: “All these people think love’s for show / but I would die for you in secret”
Hetlors: Read her lyrics!!
Gaylors: “The lips I used to call home / so scarlet it was maroon”
Hetlors: Bearding isn’t real!!!
Gaylors: “I used to switch out these Kens / I’d just ghost”
Hetlors: Queer flagging isn’t a thing!!!!
Gaylors: “Takes one to know one”
Hetlors: Saying she dated Harry and Joe and Jake isn’t speculating on her sexuality because that’s NORMAL!!!!
Gaylors: “We broke the status quo and then we broke each other’s hearts”
Hetlors: It’s only okay to speculate on her sexuality when it’s straight!!!!
Gaylors: “So we went on our way / too in love to think straight”
Hetlors: She would tell us if she was gay!!!!!
Gaylors: “So I wander through these nights / I prefer hiding in plain sight”
Hetlors: It’s FICTIONAL!!!
Gaylors: “I loved you in spite of / deep fears that the world would divide us”
Hetlors: THE PROLOGUE!!!!!
Gaylors: “TRUTH IS I CAN’T PRETEND IT’S PLATONIC”
Hetlors: SHE HASN’T SAID SHE’S GAY SO SHE’S NOT GAY!!!!!!
Gaylors: “SHADE NEVER MADE ANYBODY LESS GAY!”
Hetlors: I HATE GAYS SO SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UPPPPP!!!!!!!
Gaylors:
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Gaylors: “Haven’t you heard what becomes of curious minds?”
The straightest Taylor Swift songs
1.Betty: Writing a song about yearning for a woman is such a hetrosexual thing to do.
2. Marron: Yes because most straight men have scarlet lips.
3.Wonderland: It’s a complete coincidence that Diana had her wonderland tattoo removed right after this song was released.
4.The Man: Because most straight women wish they could brag about getting bitches and models.
5.Don’t Blame Me: I don’t know what you're talking about being in a straight relationship is totally falling from grace.
6.Hits Different: Because wanting to melt another girl's world is extremely straight.
7.Dress: Wanting to date your best friend is such hetrosexual behavior right? Right?
8.Gorgeous: Because it makes total sense why it would be worse for a man to not have a girlfriend than to be single.
9.Now That We Don’t Talk: Because it’s completely logical for “Truth is I can’t pretend it’s platonic it’s just ended” to be written by a straight woman about a straight man.
10.Daylight: “I used to think love would be black and white but it’s golden.” is such a straight lyric to write.
11.I Know Places: Because every straight person has to worry about people finding out about their relationship with their partner.
12.End Game: Because her being in a relationship with a man no ones ever heard of would be a big conversation.
13.Illicit Affairs: Again having to hide a relationship is such hetrosexual behavior.
14.Question: Because a hetrosexual relationship is totally going against gender norms and is not at all considered suitable and right
15.Ours: Because most hetrosexual couples have to deal with people disapproving of their relationship.
16.How You Get The Girl: Because most straight women are extremely familiar with how to get the girl.
17.Out Of The Woods: “The rest of the world was black and white but we were in screaming color” is such a straight lyric you guys.
18.All Of The Girls You Loved Before: Because “all of the girls you’ve loved before made you the one I’ve fallen for” makes total grammatical sense for it to be about a man.
19.Glitch: Because it’s so common for a straight relationship to start off as them supposed to be just friends.
20.The Very First Night: Because there is no reason as to why “they don’t know how much I miss you” breaks the whole flow of the song.
Woman is one of the key reasons for my theory that Dianna is writing with Taylor using the William Bowery pseudonym. Let’s start with Mumfor
To The New Kaylors
Please stay away from Kaylors who believe they are still together and the children are hers and Taylor’s
The significant consensus, I believe, is that Kaylor existed. They had a very passionate/Romantic Relationship that ended when Karlie chose the safer option of marrying Josh and Having a family and kids.
Taylor went on to write the devastating Folklore/Evermore Albums.
Till this point, it is accepted as happened.
The fandom is pretty divided on all other matters after this.
Joe was always a beard or Not. Some believe that it started as a bearding but turned into an actual relationship.
The Miss Americana Documentary was a coming-out documentary, and it was actually Karlie or some other Woman (lots of speculation on that) in many of those scenes. Still, it was all thwarted by the big Coming-out failure during the Lover Era due to her masters being sold.
Some lore is that, yes, they broke up but are now back together, pointing to Great War and Several Songs on Midnights.
Some believe that since Karlie showed up at the eras tour, they are now on a path to reconciliation, whether as friends or something more remains to be seen.
In Conclusion, take everything with a grain of salt and don't lose your mind (it's very easy to do so). Always remember that she is a real person and not a fictional character like SwanQueen and SuperCorp. We can ship to our heart's content. Recognizing that distinction is important because we can all take it a bit too far sometimes. She does not owe us anything.
Listen to her lyrics, pick up the coding in it, and analyze it as it's meant to be, but keep a healthy distance, and you should be fine.
The biggest pitfall of being a Gaylor is forgetting boundaries and becoming too defensive to the point that we forget she is a human being.
Speculate, but don't ship her with everyone in sight. You don't date all your friends, and she doesn't, too.
Accept that we might all be wrong, and she is straight. Accept that even if she is queer, she might never come out.
Be respectful. Keep perspective and enjoy the rabbit hole that it's the Gaylor Community. It's been waiting for you.
Isn’t it the swifties who always say Gaylors are weird for assuming that reputation songs are about a certain woman… 😜
In other news, I bet there is a blonde woman who used to have a wonderland tattoo out there today who is pretty happy that Harry Styles is taking the fall for how she treated Taylor Swift 😂
Interested to hear your interpretation on Suburban Legends
first off the song and beat sounds so similar to mastermind and gold rush. particularly mastermind. listen to the opening seconds back to back! she sings through a lot of it similarly in my opinion
and it has some of the similar mechanics of mastermind in that it leads you to believe the song is going one way but then pulls a switcheroo on you at the end and the swell in the music aids that at the end which makes it a really sweet and emotional listening experience. i’ll get to that in a second.
i think at the beginning of taylor knowing or being aware of karlie (so like, your kitchen or mine times), this was very much the situation. karlie is in her peripheral vision (on her radar) but just as taylor described in gold rush, karlie seemed like something utterly unattainable. in lover as well we get the line “i’m highly suspicious that everyone who sees you wants you” and i think this fits with this description of karlie.
i didn’t come here to make friends echoes their entire conceit of mastermind, and a lot of the kaylor discography that uses the word ‘friend’ — another way to say “i don’t want you like a best friend” etc
also this is a sort of throwaway point but “i didn’t come here to make friends” was a 2000’s reality tv phrase that came into popularity via the show America’s Next Top Model. it was iconic and soon every competitive reality tv show under the sun had contestants saying it.. but it’s origins are from a show about models! of which karlie is one.
more importantly, the “you kiss me in a way that’s gonna screw me up forever” is like the follow up to the gold rush “eyes like sinking ships on waters so inviting i almost jump in” language. it’s cruel summer’s “snuck in through the garden gate every night that summer just to seal my fate” because falling in love with karlie lead to taylor wanting her complications too
mismatched star signs works because fire signs traditionally match best with air signs. also visually, stars mismatched fits in with mastermind’s “the planets and the fates and all the stars aligned” — things that weren’t in alignment coming into alignment.
there’s a bunch of story page chapter stuff throughout taylor’s discography, some of which makes its way into kaylor but i’d probably write for way too long so i’m just gonna skip over that for now
this part might be a bit tricky but i sort of blame it on many kaylors not talking that much about really early kaylor possibilities out of (a sort of unearned) respect and the one way street principle of staying in our lane but the idea of taylor saying “i know that when you told me we’d get back together and kissed me that you remember[ed] we were born to be national treasures” isn’t that too wild of a statement if you imagine them as maybe briefly connecting or talking at some point before taylor made her plans to make karlie hers. indeed, we know their paths crossed several times before they were first connected at the 2013 vs fashion show.
*for posterity, i included the apple music lyrics as the genius lyrics appear to be worded partially incorrectly
this is the part of the song which i just think is so beautifully done. in particular i love the “you don’t knock anymore” of it all
at first it sounds like she’s saying karlie doesn’t knock anymore because she come around anymore, or this idea of there having been a breakup or a period of not being together or something sad, which is matched by the tone of how she sings it for the first time. the waves crashing to the shore feels like a storm.
but at the end of the repetition her voice becomes more upbeat and it dawns on you, you’re like, oh wait karlie doesn’t knock anymore because she doesn’t need to knock anymore, she has a key! (“is that your key in the door?” anyone?)
and suddenly the waves meeting the shore is a pleasant image of unification and happiness. she closes with the thought “you don’t knock anymore and i always knew it” which makes it feel a bit more like mastermind’s “you knew the entire time, and now you’re mine” — always knowing they would get together, taylor always knowing karlie was the one. “and my life had been ruined” is sung in a sort of sweet resignation, one that i find throughout a lot of kaylor music, the idea that she knows its complicated but that its what she chose.
so yeah! that’s why suburban legends is a kaylor song to me 😌