Wait wait wait
Are the chefs in the kitchen using fruit as a signal?
Ok so
my pet crazy rabbit hole and the reason I’m here is bc I think there is a group of famous and influential people who we sometimes refer to the New Romantics or chefs in the kitchen,
who I was calling the koi pond for a while before I found others with the same theory, who are friends of Taylor’s who share the same scar and are always at risk of getting cancelled for it - some kind of queerness.
They have all agreed to be part of the fucking story.
And part of being in this group means you have access to a set of flags, material, content, that you can use in your life and work that seems wholly innocuous to any normal person but shows to the ones looking that they are on the team.
Please please please and the story of us are recipe cards. One chef’s plan performed by another. (I wonder sometimes if Calvin was the thief with that rhianna song, but I mostly think it’s Joe now and leaving before the tour and this grand finale, I still waffle on this)
Things like the color orange and 🏹arrows and koi fish are ingredients. The chefs each make their own dishes with their own flare, or they can use the recipes granted to them by their fellow chefs, but all the food is coming from the same restaurant kitchen.
Carly Rae (ahem) has a song called Julian which I thought was Juliet until I looked at the spelling that I think may be the song that started this journey for me. It just sounded, to use a term I don’t really like, kaylor coded (everything is something-coded these days it’s annoying lol but there’s not a better way to say it)
This Carly Rae song below that I had never heard before came on today while Spotify shuffled after playing tloas this morning. I almost choked look at these lyrics. I know all music shares the same themes but come on.
I didn’t even put the Rae connection together until I started writing this post. It’s so fucking cute.
Anyway, after sweating about these lyrics (western wind is in Gaga’s abracadabra tooooo see my post about that if you’re curious) I saw the cover with the pears. And the colors.
There has been so much orange, mandarins, orange peel flagging in our little kaylor corner, but the ancient post where Karlie made an eye on a plate out of fruit next to citrus and the post of taylor and jack in a kitchen with a variant pressing we thought was for midnights but was really for a later album has a bowl of limes and lemons that I always felt was conspicuous.
What if it’s just fruit in general as an ingredient it doesn’t have to be orange (although orange is seeming to be the most significant of the colors and fruits, you can flag with any of them)
Jfc. I’m also just putting fruit and fruit together.
Anyway that’s my version of the story as I see it so far.
The Rae in Carly Rae is making me giggle so hard rn. Ah
Fruit 🙃
Carly Rae 2022
California, it crossed my mind
Once we were pressed into the
Love, we were pressed into the breeze up on the mountain
I was by your side
Do you remember a conversation
With our heads against the pillow?
Dust my shoes before I enter through your doorstep
I was on your side
Comin' in like a western wind
Do you feel home from all directions?
First bloom, you know it's spring
Remindin' me, love, that it's all connected
(What is love?)
Comin' in like a western wind
A jubilation, a celebration
Take me back into your corner
To the center of the room
We made a dancefloor
I was charmed to let go
Comin' in like a western wind
Do you feel home from all directions?
First bloom, you know it's spring
Remindin' me, love, that it's all connected
(What is love?)
Comin' in like a western wind
But could you give me peace of mind?
If I return to you in time, my golden arrow, mmm
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Comin' in like a western wind
Do you feel home from all directions?
First bloom, you know it's spring
Remindin' me, love, that it's all connected
(What is love?)
Comin' in like a western wind
Comin' in like a western wind
Do you feel home from all directions?
First bloom, you know it's spring
Remindin' me, love, that it's all connected
(What is love?)
Comin' in like a western wind
Comin' in like a western wind
Do you feel home from all directions?
First bloom, you know it's spring
Remindin' me, love, that it's all connected
(What is love?)
Comin' in like a western wind
