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I Bet You Think About Me [Josh Kushner]

Brought to you by Oops!-You-caught-me -I-couldn’t-help-but-eat-the-cake-first Taylor 😏

First of all, not this man whose vows are so lame all he can say of his bride is:

“Wowzers that is the most beautiful girl in the world”

…almost like he was only with her because she is one of the most beautiful girls in the world…whose job it is to sell things as a supermodel 🧐

But it’s the set up of the shot that matters…

Then we have Taylor, The Man:

After knocking the groom out of the way (the cake topper) she swoops in to give a toast outfitted in a suit (notably not a dress).

As the lyrics note you can’t help who you fall for, she gives the Bride a present—a scarf! The bride looks on adoringly as chaotic Taylor talks.

Then we have The First Dance

This moment is theater at a wedding. After the groom yanks the bride in close, we get a stoic, reserved dance until the bride can get away…and reveals sneakers under her dress (Runaway Bride vibes at a minimum! She doesn’t wanna do it!).

But if you’re not brand new this frame will remind you of something more…

One Karlie Kloss in (not cute or bridal) sneakers in her CUSTOM DIOR WEDDING DRESS on her alleged wedding day.

If you are a world-famous supermodel, I don’t care how long your photo shoot is, you aren’t wearing these shoes on your wedding day. You might wear them if it’s just for advertising shots in the woods that are taking a while, though.

After the bride walks away, we see her appear only as a vision or an idea of a bride… not so much a real portrait of someone beloved. 

vibes tho

Throughout all of this, Taylor is the only person in (screaming) color.

We also get a nice shot of Taylor the Wayward Flower Girl at the kids table, goofing off and then eventually revealing that behind all her playful, mocking exterior there is a serious message for the groom: F*CK YOU. But is it meant for more than just the groom???

During this scene, we see her playing at making walrus teeth, which brings to mind the phrase “long of teeth” which means something is getting old. What’s getting old, Taylor?

Is it being relegated to the Kids Table (by public who still look down on her songwriting and image)?

Is it never appearing to or feeling that she has “grown up” and gotten married or started a family?

Is it this marriage charade between Josh and Karlie?

Is it being closeted and pretending everything is just fine?

Is it entertaining naive children* with illusions and magician’s tricks (see rabbit out of the Red hat) that are too often accepted at face value?

*fans

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https://youtu.be/HZqLWb58GHc

Found via TOOMUCHMETIMELOL on ONTD:

“…when he was asked if he approved of Joe Alwyn, her boyfriend, because apparently his opinion matters or something, he said "yes" at first but the result was 'deceptive' — which means he was lying. And so, he came clean about his true feelings, and this is what he had to say:

"I'm lying? A little bit? Yeah, I mean, he's kind of got a little bit of a villain look about him. I mean, he looks like a nice guy - but he, at any movement, could turn into a villain. He's got really blue eyes and I struggle with eyes that blue. I find it easier to trust brown eyes."

lol Shawn we know why you tripped the lie detector 😉

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If we’re looking at the decision to have the next Taylor’s Version recordings be Red, let’s think about how Taylor might market this moment.

Because she is very good at what she does—the best, I think we can say—and she is never not marketing to maximize the impact of a release. Clearly she wants these re-recordings to be absolutely twirl-on-them-haters, record-breaking historic events.

So if I am Taylor, and I’m releasing the iconic Red in fall… we are swan diving into heartbreak from the highest board. And the way Taylor has always sold her music to us is by alluding to her personal life and her real emotions.

She wrote her announcement in a way that sounds nostalgic but also has an undercurrent of immediacy. She’s not holding Red and heartbreak at arm’s length here. And you need to remember everything Taylor Swift writes is crafted to make you feel what she wants you to feel. And it’s another brilliant marketing strategy:

If you believe Taylor is dating Joe Alwyn, and you are invested in that idea of her happiness, you are immediately concerned she might be going through a breakup. You’re tuned in and keyed up because you just want her to have her Fairytale Ending ™️ already.

If you believe Taylor is or was in a relationship or entanglement with Karlie Kloss, you’re searching for signs on which way things have gone or are going. All the allusions to loss and secret loves and betrayals and sapphic yearnings of Evermore and folklore! On top of everything Lover revealed through Cornelia Street and False God! And now Karlie is… happily (?) married (?) with a baby? What went wrong?!

…either way, Taylor’s got you. Same hook, line and sinker—just dressed with different feathers.

And if you believe everything is part of a very long road to Taylor owning her music and being the only one to profit off of her coming out, and that the two women are in the mind boggling position of public smokescreens to keep a private love private, you can see Taylor’s marketing and PR decisions since summer 2019 seem to track with all of this.

The only way to plausibly protect Karlie and Taylor and not out any showmances or closeted people is to really offer a very visible and believable narrative that they were in love and the [homophobic] world got in the way. They have to walk the line of planting the seed of their romance while keeping details and timelines fuzzy for the public.

It can’t be easy, but it’s masterful if that is what is happening here. She continues to create a narrative that tracks whether you believe she has dated all of the men in headlines or you believe she is still in the middle of a lifetime of chess, playing to win ownership of a life, voice, and art that are hers alone.

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Posting the largest version of your “ex’s”famously favorite scented candle (simple google search gives dozens of quotes on this with excellent SEO results) when lots of eyes are on you due to wanting more photos of your newborn as you stay more absent from social than usual...

...in her city

...right before your new ADIDAS collection drops

...in the midst of rampant speculation about 1989 re-recordings

...as folks wait for the third installment of the folklore trilogy

...that’s werk, honey. TEXTBOOK.

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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Not another Blake & Ryan Easter egg 👀

Popular nail artist @nailsbymei posted this fresh [Welcome to] New York set she hand painted for Blake Lively recently and, well, we see some sights:

Classic skylines, the Bklyn Bridge, quintessential snacks, iconic yellow cab...

The ever-present I 🍎 NY, used for tourism campaigns like the one Taylor did for the city during the 1989 era...

And the intersection of East 57th St and 5th Ave, a major, two-way thoroughfare of Manhattan surrounded by city iconography such as designer shops and department stores.

A NY Yankees hat, which, lol we know a London Boy can try to pull off but ends up making him look like a certified tourist (and not like someone who IS New York City)...

Reference to Pearl Oyster Bar, located in the middle of Cornelia Street in the West Village...

🦪🦪🦪

You know, oysters, symbolizing Aphrodite the goddess of love, fertility, pleasure, and sex all through antiquity? Oysters, the symbol of obstacles to be overcome in order to get to hope (the pearl)? Oysters that can symbolize something you have kept deep within you for a long time? Oysters like the expression “the world is your oyster!” which is a remark about going out and getting what your heart desires?

Those.

They also happen to be really important to the history of NYC... so even though Pearl isn’t as iconic as the other illustrations, the fact that it’s on Cornelia Street, is associated with oysters which are for lovers (and in much art allude to erotic yonic energy and female genitalia), and is the literal bedrock of the history of New York...

I think we might have a new Taylor Swift Easter egg.

s/o SLF you know who you are 😏

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If you think Harry Styles and Olivia Wilde are really dating

The simple fact that they are both in Olivia’s first major studio wide-release blockbuster opportunity should be enough for you to be skeptical — the project had to have some kind of press heatscore attached as a matter of marketing principal. It’s her project, and she isn’t yet really a household name, so she had to be 1/2 of the equation and Harry is the perfect golden boy to add sparkle to a scandal that shimmers but never burns.

Plus Florence Pugh is publicly very much attached to Zach Braff so she wasn’t gonna be in the mix.

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T.J. Osborne Is Ready to Tell His Story

“I want to get to the height of my career being completely who I am,” he says.

Time notes TJ is now the first openly gay man in country radio to be out at the height of his fame and commercial success — and details just how few openly queer artists the genre and all its facets have elevated.

The interviewer drops what I can’t help but feel is an allusion to some of Taylor Swift’s most heartbreaking new lyrics:

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When Taylor Swift writes and sings about hometowns and homecomings, she’s talking about coming home to oneself, y’all.

“Ooh this place is the same as it ever was// Ooh but you won’t like it that way”

“....but it’s never too late to come back [to my side]” - dorothea

“And the road not taken looks real good now//And it’s always leads to you and my hometown” - tis the damn season

these evermore songs show that the two characters are connected by “home” as a place, “home” as the heart of their love, and “home” as a return to or embracing of their true selves... which they have both resisted at different times.

And all the references in Taylor’s previous albums that mention homelands, hometowns. These are just a few.

— “exile” is a loss/hurt so deep it is an alienation of the self

— “seven” finds Taylor so in tune with her true self that wondering if there are still beautiful things implies there is some element of herself she cannot fully embrace or return to

— “my tears ricochet” has Taylor lamenting that the only place in the world she cannot go is home in a song about the sale of her masters by her former mentor to her nemesis — written to reflect the tragic loss of hone at the end of a marriage (or death of a lover)

— “lover” claims home as wherever Taylor and her lover can make their own rules and posits that her lover is the only person who can return her to herself with “take me out / and take me home”

— “the archer” has Taylor jumping off the train and heading off in a new direction rather than heading home and fully returning to herself and as a result feels she can never grow up (Peter Pan themes)

— “Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince” has Taylor fleeing her moment of crowning hometown glory, running for her life, after she sees politics’ alienating and hostile effect on her home team

— “Cornelia Street” opens with the first homecoming for Taylor and her lover as she brings them to a place she rents that only is referred to as home once we see the lover’s inclusion in the scene

— “Death By A Thousand Cuts” is closing off the lovers’ home to those who would peer in on their love (which is still there, but now effectively undetectable) and having to act like the act of boarding up their home, their true selves, is death by a thousand cuts with every time they have to hide themselves and their love

— “False God” ... do we need to get into the seduction of New York City? And seeing her lover everywhere there? Because not only are there memories everywhere... but also ads? Nah. IYKYK

— “Daylight” Taylor opens by saying her previous loves were cruel and “cities she lived in” which is a contrast to her home and hometown and connects cruel love (ie not fully committed, present, authentic, all-in, fickle) to not being at home with herself (and/or her lover). Later she locates her lover and herself as “in this town” signifying that with this person, she is ready for things to be different.

See also: the “Lover” music video reveals Taylor’s music — represented by her albums being rooms of a house — to be her Home. Her music is the home she built for herself in which she can be herself.

While the theme of homecoming is universal, Taylor’s work ties the inability to come home or the need to leave home to a core, hidden element of her life and her love and her identity.

Which speaks to Taylor being a member of the LGBTQ community.