GUYS I PUT THE FOLKLORE TAYLOR IN A FOREST AGAIN !!!

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DON'T WANT NO OTHER SHADE OF BLUE BUT YOU

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It's not about kaylor but I really want to know about the song all too well. Who is it about? I think Jake G was PR. And the lyrics doesn't fit the Taymily narrative either. This song and the relationship seems very important to her. It hurt her badly. I am asking you because you always make very informative and reliable post that makes sense and closest to the truth.

Also who is Dear John about? Is it really John Mayer? Her only straight relationship I believe in is Joe Jonas.

Hi!

Thank you sooo much for saying that! It means a lot. I really can't claim that my theories are always 1000% right, but I do make a lot of research before posting, and try to cross check everything.

2. I must admit that when you asked the question, I did not have real solid theories or evidence to give you. I was even bending toward telling you that the song might be about Lizz since the timestamp of the song on Spotiy is 5:27 = Lizz birthday.

3. Considering that Taylor wrote this during Speak Now Era and that Lizz was present during that Era, well it doesn't fit the narrative of the song being about a relationship that has ended some time ago. And also, it would have been really weird to write this song during rehearsal where Lizz was present, if it was about her...

But thanks to you! I did a lot of research to try and find evidences (I read all the timelines but I'm not that well verse in what came before Kaylor and Swiftgron).

I asked what my groupchat thought about this.

Re-read the Taymily Masterpost (X)

Read and watched Taymily interviews

And now! I can say with more confidence, that I'm pretty sure this song is about Emily Poe, her fiddle player that worked with her from 2006-2008.

Now. Here's the evidences:

First. As pointed out by my group chat, the song does not seem to fit Tayliz dynamic. It seems to be talking about a complicated relationship with someone older.

As by the lyrics "you said if we were closer in age, maybe it would have been fine"

So first thing I did is look back as to when it was written.

Here's a piece of interview I found:

Thanks to this post: (X)

We know that she wrote it during her reheasal in 2011.

Because here's when David Cook started working with her:

And here's the date of his first show in the Phillipines:

February 2011....

Then, I did a little digging on what was going on with Emily at the time:

And oh does it get interesting!!

Here's an Emily's interview I found (X)

And here's what she was doign in February 2011!!! (I'm excited of the evidence I've found, does it show lol) :

"Two thousand eleven was a big year for me. I became engaged in February, graduated law school in May, took the bar in July, and Eli and I were married in November.”

What did Taylor said?: "I was feeling terrible about what was going on in my personal life"

What if she just learned about Emily's engagement???

And to make it even more interesting. Here's a journal entry with the first lyrics of All Too Well:

Confirming that it was written in 2011.

This is inchteresting.

But it gets better!

Because, before last year, Emily's Pinterest was public. And on her wedding board, she did save a picture with a red scarf....

It's not Emily, it's just a picture that she had saved in her Pinterest. Thanks to Kate for giving me this!

But what if the red scarf was really just to tie the song to Jake???

Here's another interesting thing I've found in the Taymily timeline:

This letter is from the video she made to Emily when she left, with everyone having "I love you Emily" signs.

It says:

“Emily– I feel as if our relationship has been taken to the next level over the past few months and with much contemplation I decided I would bestow upon you one of my most prized possession: my flamingo bandana. This is a 3rd generation family heirloom and i suggest you frame it. I think it will look perfect in your apartment with the cat pillows. Enjoy”

Inchteresting....is the red scarf a bandana??

Also. We know that All Too Well was really significant for Taylor and that for a long time, she was not able to sing it without crying...

So it's about a relationship that had a big impact on her life.

Very recently. Like in June, Taylor performed the song Breathe as a surprise song and very clearly cried during that performance.

The next day, we learned that the day before the show, Emily did this post on Facebook:

Breathe was heavily rumored to be about Emily back when Fearless came out. But Colbie confirmed it with Fealess Taylor's Version in an interview when she said that it was about something that was going on with one of Taylor's band membre.

So yeah... this would make way more sense being about Emily and having Taylor be emotional singing it for a long time.

Than the song being about a relationship that lasted 3 months.

Of course I can't know for sure for all her relationships...

But most of them I believe was PR. Like the one she had with Jake.

Thanks for the question! It was really interesting doing all those research!

ADDITION!! : It just hit me but! The line "And you call me up again just to break me like a promise"

Fits perfectly with Emily calling her to tell her about the engagement! omg...

SECOND ADDITION: This morning when I woke up, I thought about two things that points to Emily!

1. Taylor turned 21 in 2010, 2 months before writing All Too Well.

"And you call me later and say sorry I didn't make it and I say I'm sorry too" from The Moment I Knew

to two months later:

"And you called me up again just to break me like a promise"

2. The night Taylor sang Breathe and looked devastated after Emily's Facebook post. She also sang All Too Well looking REALLY MAD.

People have all noted it.

Look: (X)

This solidifies even more that All Too Well is about Emily for me...

There goes the gayest woman this town has ever seen 🥵🏳️‍🌈🧡🧡

Down Bad

This is admissible as evidence, as the chairman published the lyrics herself and I'm free to interpret and dissect as I wish. This song would make 99% more sense if the pronoun was "her"

"Did you take all my old clothes? Just to leave me here naked and alone"

there's no manly-man-boy who would be nicking her clothes, that does happen in a wlw relationship tho.

"They'll say I'm nuts if I talk about the existence of you"

no reason to call her crazy about a guy, but you sure can get called crazy for talking about fancying a woman

"Like I lost my twin"

...

"I'll build you a fort on some planet Where they can all understand it"

why would people not understand a relationship with a bloke? there would be a lot of people who didn't "understand" if it was a woman

"How dare you think it's romantic Leaving me safe and stranded"

ending a relationship on the grounds that "it's not safe for you for us to date right now" is the least heterosexual thing I've ever heard.

I’m not crazy, the stage lighting has really gone incredibly orange 🧡🤨

(Also noticed that the bracelets just went orange and white during BDILH)

so i saw this thread on twitter talking about how the song Florida!!! references the truman show...&& realized...the sky in the ME! music video...is literally a glass dome...

so the page turning thing taylor is doing made me think:

'Cause there were pages turned with the bridges burned/Everything you lose is a step you take'

like. burning bridges. burning the lover house. burning her past.

'Spring breaks loose, but so does fear/He's gonna burn this house to the ground'.

what if 'he' is the heteronormative view she has had to pander to? and by coming out, by turning the page to reveal her truth, her queerness, she is allowing her past to be burned and destroyed in the name of love? BUT. ivy ends with

'My house of stone, your ivy grows/And now I'm covered/In you'

her house is STONE. you Cant burn STONE. her Real self is safe, and covered in the growth of love and new beginnings. she was afraid of coming out bc she was afraid of losing Everything, but realized somewhere along the way thats ok. she has what matters. besides:

'So make the friendship bracelets/Take the moment and taste it/You've got no reason to be afraid'

after all!! i'm not saying comingoutlor but...

I thought after “Hits Different” came out, we all just knew Taylor was some kinda fluid. I remember thinking, “Oh, it’s so cool everyone likes that song, no one cares that she’s singing to a woman!”

But I had no idea until I fell deeper into the rabbit hole how far out of their way people will go to shove her into the straight box. It’s sad.

She’s literally like “Hiiii I have loved a woman dearly” and everyone’s like “Wow it must be nice to be sooooo straight that you can write gay lyrics and they’re still straight.”

Oh my god!!???