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sabrina | 19 | br

[tallcurlygirl-deactivated202307]

“Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.”

— Unknown (via thoughtkick)

[whitepeopletwitter]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[cknd]

I spend so much time alone that if I was ever falsely accused for a crime I would never have an alibi

[theyoungthedisinterested]

[suspend]

[somebodytodiefor]

Taylor Swift ✿ ME! Behind The Scenes

[artchipel]

[kloxical]

[megglations]

cardigan = betty

high heels on cobblestones = broken cobblestones

i felt like an old cardigan…you put me on = standing in your cardigan

cause i knew everything when i was young = i’m only 17 i don’t know anything

i knew i’d curse you for the longest time = would you tell me to go fuck myself

i knew you’d miss me = i know i miss you

baby, kiss it better = if you kiss me … will it patch your broken wings

standing in my front porch light = will you kiss me on the porch

i knew you’d come back to me = i’m here on your door step

to kiss in cars = kissing in my car again

haunt all of my what ifs = what happens when you see my face again

tried to change the ending = the only thing i wanna do it make it up to you

bonus: august = betty

twisted in bedsheets = slept next to her

pulled up and said get in the car = she pulled up…said…get in, let’s drive

august slipped away…cause you were never mine = i dreamt of you [betty] all summer long

so much for summer love = it was just a summer thing

[ttomlinsonsgf]

Gaylor deniers for betty and seven really think she is like

[susiephone]

a non-comprehensive list of taylor swift songs that belong to the gays, so sorry heteros except not really

betty (obviously)

illicit affairs

delicate

seven

treacherous

out of the woods

gorgeous

breathe

sparks fly

dancing with our hands tied

so it goes…

getaway car

dress (actually we should just take all of reputation and call it a day)

august

the way i loved you

cruel summer

it’s nice to have a friend

enchanted

ours

mirrorball

wonderland

i know places (fuck it, we’re taking all of 1989, too, goodnight everybody!)

[lucytara]

Lover In Plain Sight: Taylor Swift and the Dichotomy Between Inherently Queer Female Experiences and Heterosexual Romantic Idealization

“We’re a crooked love in a straight line down / makes you want to run and hide.” –I Wish You Would, 1989

“Life makes love look hard.” –Ours, Speak Now

“I knew there was no one in the world who could take it / I had a bad feeling.” –Dancing With Our Hands Tied, Reputation

“Running scared, I was there, I remember it.” –All Too Well, Red

Secrecy, fear, and the fragility of love are consistent themes throughout most of Taylor Swift’s discography, starting with Speak Now. (Her self-titled debut album is widely understood to be more about the idea of love itself, rather than personal stories of her own.) But why? For a straight white girl from Pennsylvania, who has historically dated the same type of interchangeable white man, Taylor Swift has objectively never been oppressed in the act of love. Her love has never had to fight for its rights. In fact, for all intents and purposes, Taylor Swift’s love is the type of love that is celebrated: it’s straight, and it’s white. Yet her music tells a different story: looking at her lyrics, one would think and Taylor Swift spent the majority of her life being persecuted for her love. She writes about her love being “wrong.” She writes about hiding her love until the dark hours of the night, the only time she believes it to be safe. She writes about being afraid of love almost as much as she writes about enjoying it.

As a straight, white girl from Pennsylvania, Taylor Swift’s narrative of love makes absolutely no sense - unless one of those descriptions isn’t true. And she’s definitely white. 

I propose that the love Taylor Swift writes about - falling in love with your best friend; the raw vulnerability of realizing you’re in love with someone you shouldn’t be in love with; and the ever-present, wildly intimate and intense levels of emotion in the relationships she’s portraying - is actually a near-perfect representation of how queer women experience love and relationships, and the “heterosexuality” straight people perceive is the exact same kind of Hollywood-type romance that they’ve spent years deeming as rare and idealized. It is neither of those things. It’s just female and queer.

Rather than subscribing to the notion that Taylor Swift has been able to write almost bizarrely passionate love songs about men she “dated” for three months apiece, in this essay I will

[taylorswlwift]

king princess also out here making points.

[meetmebehindthemall13]

FOLKLORE IS NOT AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL, IT’S NOT ABOUT HER! IT’S FROM MADE UP CHARACTERS POVs!1!1!1!

Ok. Sure Jan!

In this essay I will explain why I think it’s quite the opposite. For the record I don’t think there has ever been a more personal, emotionally transparent and intimate album.

The 1

- Lyrical reference to ME! “I never leave well enough alone”

- TIWWCHNT aesthetics (Roaring twenties, jumping in pool from the trampoline, feeling so Gatsby for that whole year).

- Curiously associated to “the 1”, Big Sur highway or the Subway Line in NYC

Cardigan

- Reference to High Line in the West Village. Because when it’s like 10 minutes from Franklin Street or Charles Street, MUST be about other people right?

- Once in 20 lifetimes, 20 is almost the new 13 lately.

- “Loves me like I’m brand new” CIWYW vibes/main concept

The last great American dynasty

- Explicit parallels between Rebekah’s life and Taylor’s and the way the neighbors judged both of them. The parties, loud women, pack bitch friends.

- Interesting St. Louis reference

- Interesting “wedding was charming if a little gauche” (gauche defintion by dictionary.com: lacking social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness; awkward; crude; tactless) ...........ring any bell?

Exile

- I’m just going to leave these here and not even gonna waist my time explaining

My tears recochet

- Obvious reference to BMR, SBX2

- Very suspicious at the diamond ring but I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt

Mirrorball

- On the pressure that the desire to always be liked, appreciated, validated, approved by others please watch Miss Americana.

- On the pressure of double standards in the music industry for women, her words: “Be new to us, be young to us—but only in a new way and only the way we want. Reinvent yourself but only in a way that we find to be equally comforting and a challenge for you. Live out a narrative that we find interesting enough to entertain us, but not so crazy that it makes us uncomfortable. This is probably one of my last opportunities as an artist to grasp on to that kind of success, so I don't know. As I'm reaching 30, I want to work really hard, um, while society is still tolerating me being successful."

Seven

- Chilhood memories in Pennsylvania under her, are there still beautiful things?

- Won’t comment on braids like a pattern or the hide in the closet lines.

August

- Guest starring the recurring theme of hiding and keeping things secret, let’s make it a regular character because it’s here to stay.

- Will you call when you’re back at school. CAN name of someone who was attending school while having a relationship with Taylor. But won’t.

This is me trying

- Pulling car off the road to the lookout. Now there’s some suggestive photo reference for this line. Google it: Taylor Swift Big Sur

- “It's hard to be anywhere these days when all I want is you. You're a flashback in a film reel on the one screen in my town.” I’m sure everybody has to live with the face of their ex lover on screens all over your town, especially when the city screams their name. Very common.

Illicit affairs

- “You showed me colors you know I can’t see with anyone else” AND “you taught me a secret language I can’t speak with anyone else” sound very autobiographical but I will give this the benefit of the doubt as well.

- “And you know damn well for you I would ruin myself” is the big sister of “And baby, for you, I would fall from grace just to touch your face”, fight me on that.

Invisible string

- Centennial park in Nashville.

- Bad blood, Yogurt shop.

- Thread of gold.

- Blues and then purple-pink skies.

- Dive bar reference. Dive bar where you at.

Mad woman

- SBX2

- Cannons firing at a yatch. Sure it’s a fictional Betty here talking.

- Witch hunt makes yet another appearance.

Epiphany

- This actually is too personal for the whole world.

Betty

- Wondering if Betty’s garden has a gate you could sneak through.

- Inez and James, Blake and Ryan’s daughters. BOTH female. But sure take only what you need from Taylor’s personal life inspiration.

Peace

- So the person who’s writing is convinced that danger and troubles are always going to come to them and their lover because of their very identity, because of who they are and who they represent. Archer anyone? “Who could ever leave me baby but who could stay”.

- Robbers to the east. Clowns to the West (capitalized).

- Your brother as my brother.

- Love for show and dying for the same love in secret.

Hoax

- My best laid plan....“I am an architect I’m drawing up the plans”

- “You knew the hero died so what's the movie for?” Is “And all of my hero died all alone”‘s cousin. Study that family tree.

- “You know I left a part of me back in New York”

- Your faithless love is the only hoax I believe in. Either you feel this or you don’t. I don’t make the rules.

[yourorganicshoes]

We already been knew that James is a girl but

On cardigan, Betty says, “High heels on cobblestones”

and

On betty, James says, “I was walking home on broken cobblestones”

Case closed!

[ohgaylor]

Taylor has literally been like:

maybe reputation’s themes of love in secret and secret moments no one knows about and stolen stares and pining for someone gorgeous will convince them. no?

okay maybe lover’s crystal skies, rainbows eeeverywhere, gay pride parades, gaylor park, marrying your childhood friend, and stepping into daylight motifs would work. no? that didn’t do it?

fine. here’s an album about childhood love, about loving a girl with braids who has to hide in closets and a girl named betty who I just want to kiss in the garden in front of her stupid friends. how about now? do you get it yet?