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Lauren Michelle. Keep strong. You know what you're doing. And even if you dont, as long as you know in your heart that you're doing the right/good thing? it will all be worth it in the end. Always watching you little girl. 😋 Waiting for yer album still you fucker.
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the "fucker" did me 😂😂😂😂
what the odds that the kaylors and the camrens are in a turmoil with lauren and now reportedly karlie being pregnant? it’s unbelievable
It’s astronomically unbelievable that we’re both in a crisis right now but at least the Kaylors hold onto things a lot better... the camren’s not so much. They’re a little more gullible in that department
some people, especially lauren fans, are blaming camila for what lauren suffered. because camila never denied camren and always fed CS. do you think camila was responsible in any way for increasing lauren's trauma and suffering?
Camila didn’t ALWAYS FEED camren shippers. THEY BOTH FED CAMREN SHIPPERS. We wouldn’t still believe in them, if they both weren’t still giving us reason to. Lauren literally FEEDS us, as she is denying us, and calling us names. We forgive her, because we understand THE GAME!!!
Blaming the fans, is an Industry tactic. This isn’t the first time fans have been blamed for everything, and it won’t be the last.
WE were not to blame for picking up signals Lauren was trying to hide. She didn’t hide them good enough...AND WE WERE RIGHT!!!
WE are not to blame for LAUREN CHOOSING to read Camren fanfic, watch Camren videos, and look at Camren manips. If they made her uncomfortable, simply IGNORE them.
Let’s get this straight, the only blame to be placed for Lauren’s discomfort, is the heteronormative society that brainwashed her into thinking her feeling were WRONG, and invalid. The only blame to be placed, is on the homophobic Industry, that kept telling her, she would ruin her career if she came out.
The only fans, that can be blamed for anything, was those idiots that would bombard the girls’ social media with bullshit, hate, and stupidity. I have always said, the girls owe us NOTHING of their personal life. They are not our little puppets. The only thing they “owe” us, as Artists, is good music. THAT’S IT.
Me writing theories and opining, or others writing fanfic, making manips, or fan videos, do NOT hurt them one little bit. If they did, they wouldn’t read them, or watch them. Period!!!
Being disrespectful, is mean. Being vile is wrong. Being threatening is traumatizing. People using their own imagination to write beautiful stories, is none of those things. WE, nor Camila, made Lauren suffer, or caused her trauma. Homophobia, and heteronormativity did!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gay culture is watching every single show just because there’s 10sec of lesbian action in it.
Peace Lyric Parallels
Whether or not some of these are coincidental parallels, I’m in awe of how Taylor can reference parts of her lasting relationship across albums and have strong connections made to her previous lyrics!
You know that I'd swing with you for the fences, sit with you in the trenches - New Year’s Day
Give you my wild, give you a child, give you the silence that only comes when two people understand each other - You Are In Love
Family that I chose now that I see your brother as my brother - Call It What You Want
Is it enough? - Delicate
But there's robbers to the east, clowns to the West - Call It What You Want
I'd give you my sunshine, give you my best - Daylight
But the rain is always gonna come if you're standing with me - I Know Places
But I'm a fire and I'll keep your brittle heart warm - Call It What You Want
If your cascade ocean wave blues come - Dancing With Our Hands Tied
All these people think love's for show, but I would die for you in secret - Dancing With Our Hands Tied
The devil's in the details but you got a friend in me - It’s Nice to Have a Friend
Would it be enough if I could never give you peace? - Delicate
My top 1 in folklore is peace 💓💓💓. I felt like it really encapsulates her story. Her great love story ❤
“betty”, queer literary theory, and too much time on my hands: an essay
a.k.a., i’ve been out of school for a month & i miss in-depth literary analysis.
I’ve been seeing a lot of stuff about how we shouldn’t think too much about the queer implications of “Betty”, and as an aspiring queer literary studies phd I just… cannot vibe, u guys. Cannot vibe. So here is me, in my academic chaos, discussing the queer literary history of what Taylor Swift does in “Betty”. I’m going to start with the assumption that James is male. You may disagree with this - maybe I even do - but Taylor Swift’s pattern of speaking as a guy to a girl in her songs is what I’m considering here; “Betty” is the most blatant example of this.
In literary theory, there is something called “the triangulation of desire”. Rene Girard is considered one of the pioneers of this, and he explains it as three roles: the subject, the model, and the object. The subject does not desire the object directly, as this is, for some reason or another, non-normative desire. This can mean that the subject desires the model, who desires the object (think of a woman desiring a man who desires another woman; she obsesses over their relationship because her real desire is the woman.) This can also be a way to create a boundary between subject and object - the subject is not queer, the model is queer and the subject is merely paying attention.
One of my favorite examples of this is Walt Whitman’s poem Song of Myself, XI. In this poem, a woman watches twenty-eight men bathe from inside her house. The woman is hardly mentioned; the poem is focused on the erotic and sensual details of the male body. Whitman uses the woman as the model, so as to not directly describe his non-normative desire. It is a kind of defense so he is exempt from judgment for expressing this desire.
Considering “Betty” on its own, outside of the other two songs, it is the perfect example of a triangulation of desire. Taylor is the subject, James is the model, and Betty is the object. While James might be male (thus making the relationship a normative one), Taylor is not. She is singing/writing from his point of view, yes, but it is still Taylor singing/writing. If we take the song as “from her imagination”, she is telling a fictional story from the point of view of a guy who wants to kiss a girl – this is still a triangulation. Taylor is singing about kissing a girl and James as a male voice is not the subject, but a defensive model so she can safely desire the object.
Taylor has done this throughout her career, by switching the pronouns in the final stanzas of her songs: “she is the best thing that’s ever been mine” / “marry me juliet” / “man i didn’t kiss her and i should have”, or by making the whole song from a male point of view in “How You Get The Girl”. (I’d argue that “Betty” is more direct than HYGTG, because the former is speaking to a woman, whereas the latter is aimed at “you”.)
I’m not saying you have to believe that Taylor Swift is queer, or that this is definitive proof. I’m saying that if her lyrics were studied, outside of any context of who she is, in any kind of academia, it would be assumed that she’s queer. So maybe, before you dismiss this, consider what exactly you’re bringing to the table that makes you certain she isn’t.
if u actually read all of this… holy shit. thanks. ily
taylor and karlie have such a beautiful and complex love story and everyone deserves the experience of listening to taylor’s discography from that perspective.
and yes i do intentionally mean kaylor!
because of the political angle.
it is an incredibly specific and *essential* part of the story. there is a whole earth shattering world that is revealed by understanding that taylor likes women. yes.
and in addition, understanding her relationship with karlie specifically, placed in the timeframe of late 2013 to now, makes even more moments ring truer.
what is Miss Americana without kaylor? what are taylor’s tweets against trump without kaylor? they are important but also more universal messages of political awakening. taylor being with karlie when suddenly trump wins the presidency and karlie’s beard gets a direct line to the whitehouse and a mandate to humanize the k*shner name one paparazzi photo at a time? this adds a locality and personalization and added depth to taylor’s pain and passion as expressed through her music from rep through lover and i just truly will not stand for people having to settle for the narrative that taylor has been playing cutesy love games for the past 5 years.
@fearlyssa im surely jumping into shark infested oceans with a bloody gash on my body by saying this but, i would actually argue that it’s different, as i mentioned in my reblog above.
knowing that she likes women is absolutely revolutionary in terms of shining a light on all of her music. no doubt.
but, there is something very directly personal and specific about the impact that the election of the trump had on her relationship with karlie, because karlie’s beard has been a kushner. that unique context adds another level of gravity to her music, and where she is pushing her music and her public voice.
and i think it makes songs like Call It What You Want and New Year’s Day and Lover and Daylight that much powerful, because despite everything—a word which here holds uniquely heavy connotations—they stay.
inside the cardigan music video
We open on a piano with a broken key: B. The key is just left of center, or “Middle C,” and Taylor begins her opening chords very close to put not quite touching or using the broken key.
This is our first hint that our narrator or protagonist is not whole and is creating her story while dancing around and tracing scars that keep her from some form of true self or full authenticity.
That this is “B” and is almost centered, immediately creates a close connection with the character Betty who appears later on folklore and who is in possession of a cardigan.
Taylor begins to play, using music to explore herself and her world. The magical and beautiful possibilities she discovers and creates within her art pull her in, and in wonderment, she climbs inside the music. This is framed by lyrics that underscore both her naivety and that all along, she has known herself.
Once fully inside the world her music creates, the songs flow from Taylor like water, the lifeforce sustaining everything around her, making everything lush, green and full of possibility. The space feels beyond the reach of time and private, secret almost.
See also: the conspicuous fallen tree
At some point, just as she begins to sing about the only things the lovers ever really needed, she notices something is going on and peeks into her piano bench. She answers the call, and finds herself lost at sea, in danger of drowning in a storm we can’t help but wonder if she made. The flood of her music, the expanse of emotions - each became overpowering, isolating, and felt dangerous.
But she finds a life raft: a piano. We know the piano is the symbol of her art, her ability to explore life and feelings both hers and not. She swims through the storm to reach the piano and clutches it, as the camera zooms out to reveal she is alone in the middle of a storm with no shore or help in sight.
Then we see the piano is named folklore.
In order to process the storm and sea, which she has had a hand in creating, in order to save herself, she has to dive into folklore, creating a narrative that makes whole the fragments, images, and melodies of her memories, her history, the image she has created for the public, her loves, and her pain in a carefully constructed web of truth and fantasy.
Taylor made folklore for herself, to reconcile all she has made and all that has happened in her life and career in a gathering of threads.
For those of us who listen, it is a clear statement that we will never know everything about Taylor, but the little truths have always been there. She has written her own folklore, about herself, as the ultimate reclaiming of her narrative.
When you see them back to back like this...very compelling in my opinion 😂💕🌼
HOLY SHIT, IT WAS THE ORIGINAL ONE
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I WAS EXPECTING IT TO BE A REMAKE OF SOME SORT HOLY FUCK
WHO THE FUCK KEEPS BRINGING THIS BACK
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Do you think Camila needs to apologize through video or an interview? I see many people not satisfied with her apology for not finding it genuine or enough
Absolutely not. The written statement was more than adequate to address the transgressions from her youth. People should accept the apology and move on, or unstan and move on.
That’s the thing. Folks act like all this shit happened last month. It didn’t. It happened the same time the Obama tweet took place. When that came to light, she addressed it, apologized, and NEVER USED THE INSENSITIVE LANGUAGE AGAIN. She learned the harsh truth about just how hurtful racist language and racial stereotypes are, and she put that part of her past behind her…as did everyone else. We forgave her, and moved on with her.
If her apology was good enough back in 2013, why isn’t it now. It’s the same stuff, from the same age, she already addressed. But, because it’s just now coming to “light”, people are equating the behavior to her now. Just because someone chose to “expose” it now, doesn’t mean she still uses the inappropriate language and stereotypes in her life today. She has shown absolutely no racist behavior AT ALL since we have known her.
Judge her on her current behavior, not on her past. People grow and learn from their mistakes. Camila should be allowed to do the same.
Honestly the implications of Taylor turning 30 on a Friday the 13th, at the end of the decade while being named woman of the decade.......... fate is strong
Bad Kind Of Butterflies...........
I will admit, upon first listen I thought this song was about something else entirely. No, I never thought it was about the PR’s or “cheating”. I know that’s what we are supposed to think, but it just really never crossed my mind.
When I first heard it, my initial thought, was she was coming out to her parents. To be honest, that still works with the song as a whole, but there was one part that kept making me unsure about that thought. The bridge just didn’t make sense to me, with her coming out to her parents.
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Camila amazes me. I’m so in love with her mind. All the things she did this year shows me how much she cares about the one she loves. She knows exactly what she’s doing. You wanna her to act like she’s in love with some white dude? Watch her put a hole show of her being the affectionate girlfriend. Do we like it? Hell no. But that doesn’t matter. She ain’t putting a show for us or for her teenagers fans, she’s doing it for those who constantly put her through hell. For the past few months we saw Camila all over her “boyfriend”, following him around, being extra clingy, making him seem like a cool guy and what did she get in return? A fucking gay album. She’s about to release a fucking gay album and all the people will say is how much “end game” their relationship is. She almost kissed a woman in national television and all the people could talk about was her performance with her boyfriend or how cute they were watching Billie’s performance. I’m not expecting nothing big from her next year since she’ll promoting her album and movie. They won’t put her through all this shit again. After CC3 release she’ll come out as bissexual. She will not let them lock her in the box for 10 years. They won’t play her like they did in her 5h. I’m really proud of her.
Manifesting this shit 🌌🌌
When u see ur girlfriend in the audience
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i’m pretty sure laurne is actually in that direction lmfao
