#pr artlor

[aerinmoriarty]

I woke up and chose violence so lemme give my thoughts on Performance Artlor:

I believe one of the points of the current PR spectacle is how much people will happily eat up TNT because it’s being posited as this perfect relationship based on appearances alone.

Taylor very often clothes herself in his team, his color, his numbers. And while he’s worn eggs, we don’t see consistent support of her career. The media claims he knows every lyric. The only song he seems to care about is the bearding one and the one people think is about him and the one she re-wrote a line in to refer to him (but Scott Swift has to move him onto his mark for his big moment)

We hear promises of him throwing big parties for her, celebrating her, “he’s going to spend the whole Europe leg with her,” only for him to spend most of it drunk with his coworkers, and when he is in the same place as Taylor he spends most of his time with Ross.

The Eras Tour party. A wrap party for that performance.

Him coming on stage in the most problematic role she could place him in, and the fans RECONTEXTUALIZING THAT SCENE to be romantic, instead of wondering if Taylor is trying to convey something about TNT

Her accepting awards for her work, work that she poured so much blood, sweat and tears into… and getting some cheers…

Her saying… “my boyfriend Travis” and the room erupting with excitement…

So many of her fans being glad Eras was done so now she can be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen or on the sidelines…

If you cannot see Taylor’s validation in her own achievement, career, friends and family, and you can only see validation when she’s accepting THE BARE MINIMUM from this AGGRESSIVELY MEDIOCRE MAN…

… how can you demand better for yourself?

If you cheer when your favorite pop star subjugates herself and submits herself to a man, are you going to demand ANYTHING for yourself?

I believe the story she’s telling is a tale of how many EXCEPTIONAL women get eclipsed by the most mediocre, low effort of men….

And how much media and what we see in the media impacts our own beliefs about our own lives and happiness.

And because of that I also believe it’s an attempt to impart media literacy on people; to teach us to pay more attention when media narratives don’t add up with the evidence we’re seeing.

[aerinmoriarty]

Wait wait wait... holy fucking shitballs y'all, is this right??

Did Taylor Swift sincerely do a Leaping Lesbian before climbing The Ladder to her Lavender Haze every night? LIKE EVERY NIGHT?! Are you seriously fucking with me!?

(The Ladder is one of the first lesbian publications)

WE CAN'T KEEP LETTING HER GET AWAY WITH THIS lol

I saw this image together as one blurb in this article and I literally spit my drink.

she did this every fucking night y'all i just cant with her lol

I hope she is out of the well of loneliness 😭

[aerinmoriarty]

Albatross Magazine & a Funny Coincidence

If you were unaware, the song "The Albatross" is quite possibly a reference to the Lesbian periodical by the same name, or at least... Albatross' are a super gay symbol that inspired both Taylor and the periodical.

But when I went to put that in a Gaylor video I'm working on, I realized this was on the cover:

It seems like there was a nickname for the Albatross: 'tross.

And I'm certain this is just a coincidence but it is hilarious to me that one of the ship names for Ross Travis and Travis Kelce is Tross.

(tho I personally prefer TNT or Ross Travis Kelce)

The fates align for Taylor in ways that are patently gay as hell.

[aerinmoriarty]

I've added all of my longform videos that include Gaylor theories into a single playlist.

First off, Taylor Swift Loves Women, which is designed as an introduction to Gaylor and contains a lot of evidence and debunking of common arguments against Gaylorism. It's great for people who are open-minded about Taylor but who might not fully be Gaylors yet.

My Swiftcraft video explains the analytical perspective that i take when analyzing Taylor's work. It includes a long segment on Gaylorism but also has 20 or so other theories and mindsets I use when analyzing her work. This one is especially good for people who want to improve their own theories and get more out of Taylor's work.

A Tale of Two Taylors is an extended breakdown of TTPD as an album, looking at the two major facets of Taylor's personality that exist in constant opposition to one another: Taylor Swift (tm) the Perfectly Perfected Pop Princess and Taylor Swift the Normal Human with Flaws.

The Erasure of Taylor Swift breaks down the current PR relationship between Taylor and Travis, and how Taylors own "fans" regularly ignore Taylor and her work the moment she's in a relationship with a man. I also examine the story she's telling with Performance Artlor.

The Gaylor Perspective on New Romantics is the first episode in a series I'm working on called Lens of Dorothea, where I go through various songs and present a deeper Gaylor interpretation. For this song, I'm specifically relating New Romantics back to New Yorks history as a queer haven, esp during the AIDS epidemic and during the Stonewall Riots.

Finally, Why I'm a Gaylor examines the reasons why I'm Confident Taylor is LGBTQ, why I'm Confident she WANTS Gaylors theorizing about her, and it also overcomes some of the objections to Gaylorism that have emerged since the first video in this series, including "Prologue Prolapse," or the moment Taylor's most virulently bigoted fans showed off their inflamed gaping assholes. It also discusses the Gaylor community and how many of us have made so many great connections and learned so much about Taylor's work via queer history.

And if you like any of these videos, please feel free to share them wherever you may congregate with other Gaylors.

[aerinmoriarty]

In the current cultural climate of “eat the rich,” more and more ultra-wealthy are turning away from recognizable luxury brand logos in favor of subtle quiet luxury. And in fairness, the ultra wealthy have always tended to be less flashy in their flaunting; they keep their money because they don’t waste it on garish trend cycle pieces that convey a desperate need to be seen as rich.

There is no way Taylor is unaware of that fact.

Likewise, there is no way she doesn’t realize that a LOT of her fans would prefer it if she toned down some of the more obvious displays of wealth. Taylor knew which shots were going to go viral, which angles would be visible.

Why, then, come to so many recent coworking events… I mean romantic evenings with Travis in such obvious displays of brand? Especially since her fashion (or at least her logo flaunting) seems to err away from plastering herself like a NASCAR car most of the time.

Again, I have to assume this is to try and force her more critically-minded fans to look at her involvement with Travis, and the way she’s molded herself into a wholly different person for him and for the NFL games especially.

And that’s not to mention the number of times she’s shown up to events with Travis, red-nosed and glassy-eyed, head craned back in the “fawning posture” Fundie-wives like the Ofduggar’s affect.

People have such a powerful ability to fall in love with the idea of something; it’s how I was able to beard the way I did. I didn’t love the men, I loved the idea of the relationship. No one around me loved the men either, but they fell in love with the idea of the relationship. And so they didn’t pry, even as it became ever more obvious that things were not as happy as they seemed.

The idea of Taylor and Travis is powerful in a way the details we can see are not; it is a polished turd, a gilded cage. But a polished turd is still a turd, and a gilded cage isn’t even gold, it’s just gold plated. And it’s still a cage.

And her relationships with men often function as cages too, especially when even her own fans will cheer louder for Travis than Taylor, get more excited about his brief appearance than her extended performance, and view the career that she loves more than most other things in her life as something she should treat as secondary to her “real priorities” of pushing out babies for a man who cannot convince me he likes her that much.

And there’s this interplay, where often her fan’s internalized misogyny prevents them from liking Taylor as much as they like the man she’s dating. Or they like Taylor more while she’s with the man because she’s doing what she’s supposed to do: being a Good Girl. They want her to settle down and get married and have kids because that’s what’s been expected of THEM.

And as a Gaylor, as someone who has observed the fandom’s opinion of Travis, Karlie, Dianna, etc… I believe one of the points of the performance art is that many of her own fans would be much happier with her entirely submitting herself to a man and engulfing herself in his image than being happily accepted as herself with a woman.

They would rather Taylor chisel off the points of her star until she’s a cog who can fit a man’s plans than find another star in a woman and exist in one another’s orbits.

And I could go on for thousands of words about why that is, but I do think it is emblematic of the fact that a good number of women in our society are accepting less than they should from their relationships. When Taylor does the same, it makes them feel more comfortable about the decisions they’ve made.

And people don’t typically like being pushed out of their comfort zone.

[aerinmoriarty]

World Trade Center?

Jfc how long before the bad 911 jokes begin...

[aerinmoriarty]

Gaylors, I think People Magazine did a sneaky in their reporting about the IHeartRadio Awards:

She "rocked what has basically been her uniform recently?"

I admit we have seen the lying outfit a fair couple of times, but I wouldn't necessarily go so far as to call it her uniform unless someone on her team told me to... because I firmly believe we've seen her in several other outfit combinations more frequently than we've seen the lying outfit combination. We've seen her in blazers a number of times recently, for example.

That makes me think more attention is being brought to the lying outfit and what it symbolizes. What do yall think?

[aerinmoriarty]

Where do i start with this one?

The People Exclusive?

Details on the EXACT TIME

Ok Performance Artlor we see you bitch.