Welcome. You’re probably here because you’ve started to think that pop superstar Taylor Swift is… Shall we say… A teeny bit fruity… And you know what? You’re not alone. Many people think that. In fact, over the course of her illustrious career, gay rumors have continuously cropped up linking her to various women. Do I know for a fact that this is what happened? Lmao no. But I (with the help of various friends but mostly importantly @adastrabella) tried to explain what might’ve happened.
We thank you for reading this Magnum Opus:
1) Welcome to the first “Realistic” Kaylor Masterpost
2) Debunking Joshlie’s Reasons to “Beard”
3) Joshlie starts
4) Back in Tay’s World
5) Kaylor Rises?
6) Things Get Messy
7) Taylor Showmances
8) Kaylor Reunited?
9) Joshlie Back for Good
10) 2016′s Summer of Mess
11) Debunking Late Stage Kaylor Myths
12) Late Stage Kaylor and Beyond
What will the various essays above prove? (Gd I wish there were thirteen instead of twelve because it’d be SO MUCH MORE I C O N I C). Well, nothing seeing as how we don’t know these people. But here’s what we think maybe happened:
My vibe is: Kaylor was real in some way, but Joshlie was very very real and flawed too, making things far more complicated than traditional Kaylor narratives would have had you believe. We’ve only shown a portion of Joshlie evidence - this is the realest relationship I’ve seen online. Kaylor started as a real friendship from a few encounters pre-November 2013, then became a PR alliance to help both girls promotion during the 1989 #GirlSquad era. However, when Joshlie went on break, Karlie and Taylor went to Big Sur together, starting the relationship that would bring us into this mess. It was a hot mess for a few years, until the end of 2016, when, after a summer of spiraling due to Karlie choosing Josh and a number of professional difficulties, Taylor ran away to London and cut Karlie off. Taylor and Karlie have been on different paths ever since, except for the Reputation tour in Nashville, and the Masters Heist, neither of which is a particularly good or happy event for either of them. folklore’s track hoax is for Karlie. Kaylor is now dead and Karlie is very pregnant and having a baby with her husband, Josh. Mazels 🦒 and 🦖!! Taylor is re-recording her masters. Everyone has moved on. Except maybe us (but now we’ve read this, maybe we can too). So.
This song has so many parallels to Delicate (2017) and both songs are centered around a friends with benefits situation. (there is no disputing this i’m sorry but it’s a fact at this point)
“It’s cool, that’s what I tell em, no rules” = let’s keep this casual, no strings attached
“I love you ain’t that the worst thing you ever heard” = Taylor caught feelings, making them no longer casual
“I’m always waiting for you just to cut to the bone” = the ~cruel summer~ has made Taylor jaded and pessimistic. She’s waiting for the other person to hurt her by not feeling the same way
“I don’t wanna keep secrets just to keep you” = Taylor wants to confess her feelings, but if the other person doesn’t feel the same, they’ll have to end their casual relationship.
“It’s new, the shape of your body” = Cruel Summer is about the beginning of a relationship. How can the song be about Kaylor when they met in November, which was in winter?? I know what you’re thinking.
“But it can’t be about toe because the timeline doesn’t make sense!!”
The Hiddleswift breakup article came out on the 6th of September 2016. Most people think they broke up before that and i agree but let’s just go with early September for argument’s sake.
The summer of 2016 ended on the 22nd, 16 days after the Hiddleswift breakup announcement, therefore the taylor and joe timeline makes perfect sense.
This masterpost is going to contain a collection of articles that reference Karlie and Taylor and/or suspicions that Taylor might not be straight - starting in April of 2019. Also here’s the link to the website version. Enjoy!
APRIL 2019:
VULTURE:
What the Hell Do All These Taylor Swift Clues Mean? An Investigation
“My personal favorite theory hails from the Kaylor shippers, the faction of Swifties that believes that Taylor Swift and her former BFF Karlie Kloss were romantically involved. The theory is that Swift has been dropping hints about her love for Karlie Kloss since the Reputation era. On Tuesday night, Kaylor shippers picked up on something crucial: During Taylor’s performance of “New Years Day” at the TIME 100 Gala, Swift seemingly changed the lyrics from “I want your midnights” to “I want her midnights” not once, but twice. “New Years Day” is the final track on Reputation, which, in theory, could segue into the “next chapter…”
Also, the Reputation CD skin pictures a collaged photo of the pop star — but Kaylors think it’s actually a dual image of Swift and Kloss, which sends the incognito message that they are one. That collage-image theme is bleeding into this new album cycle, too — we’ve seen it used again in photos from her Elle U.K. photo shoot. In the Reputation song “So It Goes,” Swift sings, “Cut me into pieces, gold cage hostage to my feelings, and our pieces fall right into place.” Swift loves a puzzle, and these images actually look like puzzle pieces. Plus, some Swifties hilariously posit that her Instagram of chickens wearing sunglasses was a reference to Taylor and Karlie in sunglasses — the “chicks,” if you will. She wants us to solve the Kaylor puzzle, you guys.”
Okay, So Now What Is Taylor Swift’s Giant Butterfly Mural Supposed to Mean?
“It would be nothing short of irresponsible if I didn’t begin with the Kaylor drama. Swift has a faction of superfans called the Kaylors, which is also the “ship name” or portmanteau of her and Karlie Kloss’s names; the Kaylor shippers believe the two were romantically involved in secret. There are many theories swirling that whatever Swift has been teasing for a big 4/26 reveal will heavily allude to her relationship with Kloss. Just look at the mural.
Painted by Kelsey Montague (you’ve seen her other wing murals in every IG influencer’s photos, surely), the butterfly mural is bleeding bisexual lighting and brimming with rainbows — the official sigil of the Queers — and cats — the mascots of Lesbianism. As one Twitter user pointed out, the mural also looks impossibly similar to a giant set of rainbow butterfly wings that Karlie Kloss rocked at the 2013 Victoria’s Secret fashion show — you know, that same year she and Taylor walked the runway together. The mural also contains two ladybugs in the top-left corner — ladies, noted. *loosens tie*”
NYLON:
Is Taylor Swift Trying To Tell Us That Kaylor Was Real?
“When Twitter user @mckinneykelsey said "it has never been a better time to be a long-time Kaylor conspiracy theorist," she wasn't wrong. The larger-than-life wings look oddly similar to a pair that Kloss wore on the 2013 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show runway. Additionally, their matching tie-dye shirts in IG pics? Super-gay, and I'm super into it.
Mckinney also pointed out that Swift's potential single dropping at midnight shares the same date as Lesbian Visibility Day, and this sounds exactly like the kind of dramatic plan Swift would concoct if she were to ever plan a public coming out.”
BUZZFEED NEWS:
Taylor Swift Unveiled A New Song And Music Video After Teasing Fans For Weeks
“There’s also the long-standing conspiracy theory about Swift’s relationship with model Karlie Kloss that suggests the two were more than just best friends. Fans speculated based on a series of photos, song lyrics, and tabloid-recorded moments that Swift and Kloss were romantically entwined, shipping the two on the internet as “Kaylor.”
Then when Swift performed at this year’s Time 100 Gala, she apparently switched the lyrics in her song “New Year’s Day” from “I want your midnights to “I want her midnights.”
In addition to her colorful aesthetic on Instagram, Swift also unveiled a butterfly mural in Nashville on Thursday, painted by street artist Kelsey Montague. Inside the butterfly are rainbows, hearts, and other colorful symbols. Some fans thought it could also be a metaphor for Swift’s sexuality. One journalist even pointed out the similarity between Swift’s butterfly mural and a butterfly costume Kloss wore in a 2013 Victoria’s Secret runway show, further alluding to the “Kaylor” conspiracy theory.
Fans also pointed out that April 26, the date that Swift had been counting down to for her big reveal, is Lesbian Visibility Day.”
Why So Many Of Us Believed Taylor Swift Was Coming Out
“For years — years! — we’d gathered every clue.
Kissgate. All those rainbows! Swapped lyrics featuring female pronouns. Lyrics that just seem really gay. The cats. The donations to LGBT causes. That performance with Hayley Kiyoko. Today, April 26th, the day of Taylor Swift’s long-awaited announcement, is literally lesbian visibility day.
I can’t claim to be nearly as much of a #Gaylor diehard as the true champions who’ve dedicated themselves to combing every last social media post, every public appearance, every exchange — however brief or seemingly insignificant — for evidence of Taylor’s queerness (and/or evidence of a romantic relationship with her sometimes-bff Karlie Kloss). But there’s always been a deep, deep part of me that suspected one of the century’s biggest pop stars, as maniacally loved as she is deeply loathed the world over, plays (at least some of the time) for the girl’s team.
But particularly in the last few days, I’ve lost my head completely. I wouldn’t even call myself a Taylor fan, but I became a full-on #Gaylor truther, yelling at all of my colleagues that, surely, this famous lady was going to come out — as bi, as gay, as something. Jill Gutowitz’s investigations at Vulture had me hooked. The mural Taylor commissioned, revealed in Nashville yesterday, could not look more like the wings Karlie wore at the Victoria Secret show in 2013 — the year both she and Taylor walked in the show. Why would Taylor change some lyrics to “her” this week, of all weeks? Why???”
AUTOSTRADDLE:
Taylor Swift Didn’t Come Out But She Sure Did Make a Gay Music Video
“Taylor Swift sure did whip up our frenzied speculation that she was going to come out tonight with the release of her new music video. First of all, she showed up at the NFL draft in Nashville wearing a pansexual pride flag as a dress to talk to lesbian icon Robin Roberts who was wearing pantsuit, okay? And then she announced the new single was going to be called “ME!” and there’s a butterfly on the album cover and also the song is a collab with Panic! At The Disco pansexual heartthrob Brendon Urie. Gay, gay, gay, gay!
Alas! She did not come out!
But the music video is gay as all hell. Rainbows, a thousand women in suits and ties, unicorns, cats on cats on cats.
Anyway, that song “Dress” from Reputation is still gay and you won’t convince me otherwise.”
A literal timeline. Built from receipts from many Kaylor blogs.
You can see the innocence and hurt of first love with Emily the first two albums (after debut cuz it doesn’t count lol) and a tiny bit of Red…then the toxicity of dianna(like wow that was a fucked up relationship lol) and then (on/off)again into 1989 a bit, then how taylor dealt with Getaway Car(speculates to be written long ago, about Dianna and “him” being her publicist at the time and breaking the heterosexual narrative that Dianna accidentally took her seriously on, since she proposed and Taylor declined out of fear) and then blaming Diana’s commitment issues and taylor’s PR public mess of how she’s viewed in the world (blank space and OOTW with Harry who was apparently a depressing mutual bearding contract cut short out of guilt)…to her meeting Karlie with Gorgeous and the rest of 1989 to their story written accordingly thereafter month by month, meaning a lot of Lover was written before Rep but the timelines do intermingle.
So many receipts and empathy and relatedness now all so much clearer and homegirl is STRONG. and human. And super clever lol
