#multayverse

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I wonder if people will notice all the red and white 87 jerseys that appear in Heated Rivalry when Scott Hunter is on the ice or when Shane starts bearding with Rose?

Or the social media comments about Shane and Rose that are a literal copy/paste of Swifties gushing about Tayvis?

Nah, probably not.

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Reminding myself that Taylor Swift does not own disco balls or the word “ME” in capital letters… but talk to the wall, Harry Styles’ album announcement is the most New Romantics thing ever. 🪩

That whole rollout with “We Belong Together” all over London is also giving “You Belong with Me.” And the fact that everyone has been posting these 2016 throwbacks this week… 🩵🧡

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Adding this photo from the new Vogue issue to the Olivia Rodrigo New Romantics discourse.

And the color of her ME! outfit matches the background in Olivia’s photo - and also the color of the outfit that Taylor wore to the iHeartRadio awards.

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Cute necklace! 🐍 ❤️‍🔥🏒🥅

Very interesting considering the show was first announced using the Eras Tour transition from Don’t Blame Me to Look What You Made Me Do….

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I saw Wuthering Heights last night and was blown away by the cinematography and its very clear parallels with Taylor Swift’s own imagery and storytelling. In particular, Thrushcross Grange - the house where Catherine goes to live after marrying into wealth and opulence - was quite literally depicted as the Lover House, and it wasn’t subtle. Architectural Digest and HGTV both did a tour of the house and discussed it in depth.

The most obvious parallel was having each room dedicated to a different color - a bright red library and staircase, light blue drawing room, gray dining room, Edgar’s green velvet bedroom, Isabella’s purple pleated bedroom, and Catherine’s pink bedroom made out of her own skin. The use of red is particularly prominent, which is interesting since that color can symbolize elite power structures and selling your soul.

The dining room features a dollhouse, which is an exact replica of the main house. Isabella even made a voodoo doll of Catherine to live inside it, using hair that she collected from Catherine’s hairbrush. Isabella showed an obsession with Catherine (which didn’t exist in the book) that makes me think of the way she’s often played with to sell a fairytale. All the elaborate gowns added to that feeling, like swapping outfits on a paper doll. Casting Margot Robbie as the lead adds an extra layer since she also played Barbie. It shows the darker side of Barbie’s dreamhouse and Taylor Swift in the Lover house (or the Ivy house, hiding an affair from her husband).

The gardens are also intriguing. In some places they’re very manicured with twisting hedges and outdoor tea parties, evoking Alice in Wonderland. While in other scenes they’re a bit more overgrown with ivy and tree swings like in the Secret Garden. The stairs up to the drawing room (i.e., the light blue room) even had a fishbowl on each side like the 1989 room.

The production designer (Suzie Davies) and Margot Robbie both said that it was designed so that “anything living is caged in something.” There are high walls and hedges encircling the property, and all the creatures are trapped in some way (in fishbowls, a birdcage, a lamb inside a display case, a fish suspended in jelly).

As for the Wuthering Heights house, everything is brutalist and cold, but there was some evocative imagery there too, like a giant crack through the house and the chessboard mastermind floor. (There was also an elaborate chessboard in the drawing room at Thrushcross Grange).

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Anyone familiar with the story knows that Catherine dies halfway through the book after going mad from having to choose between Edgar (high society, comfort) and Heathcliff (wild, untamed, raw emotion). The movie made this scene much more macabre than it was in the book, as she’s literally closed inside walls made out of her own skin. It was Barbie dying in her dream house. It was Taylor trapped inside her own skin, dying behind the facade of the showgirl.

All of this was hinted at in the lead up to the movie, with Charli xcx’s soundtrack singing about the chains of love, and “I’m gonna die in this house.” Margot Robbie wearing Schiaparelli and Elizabeth Taylor’s necklace to the premier also set off some alarm bells (I was going to post about some cool Schiaparelli connections but haven’t gotten around to it!) Overall, such a fascinating story that’s being told, ultimately quite horrifying.

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Uh oh, looks like the Rep snake has gotten loose inside Tumblr. 🐍

From the End Game music video ^