…so Was This A Fifth Tear Easter Egg? 😂

It’s the “askew” AND “raining lipsticks” that’s a neon sign for me. 🤭

Before y’all go insane, I just thought this was fun to make. I’m not saying anything is 100% intentional

Lots of connections what else is new

sometimes the universe

...just says it shall be...

i mean seriously... can you believe this pic of karlie existed back in... august 2012?? with a gold heart covering over the other side of her face??? like...?!?! between this and the sweet escape coincidence unearthed by @daydreamlibertine i am truly beside myself

thanks to @blogbeautiffulthings for this truly hidden gem!! i can’t believe i’ve never seen it.

here’s more from the photoshoot that it is from:

karlie seems to be wearing her jennifer meyer initial necklace in this shoot as well.

really i’m just enamored by karlie showing off some very rare left-side eye 😂 and also like, it’s at such a particularly good angle...

...so naturally 🙈 i took the liberty of flipping it, zapping the saturation, and overlapping:

what a fit!

also it kind of reminded me of something

a taymoji of taylor in a hoodie, oddly misplaced within the I Did Something Bad pack

hark...!

is that a crack of the knuckles over a keyboard that i do hear? why yes concerned reader, i am aware this hoodie references a particular preexisting look of taylor’s. no, concerned reader, i am not aiming to say that this taymoji is meant to reference this one time back in 2012 when karlie modeled a black hoodie. after all this is a taymoji quite squarely of the:

BLIND FOR LOVE

gucci look from the lwymmd video.

that’s right.

blind 👁

for love 💛

♪♬♩♫♪♬♩♫

*postscript*

also like, in rewatching the behind the scenes for this scene why does taylor go out of her way to make a scene out of one of the guys that has a hole cut out of his tie?

🤨hmm?? 🤨🤨🤨 hmmmmm???

I am now convinced that this part of the Apple Music interview was an Easter egg 🐣🐥

My theory: 6 months from December 15, 2020 Taylor is going to drop Long Live and maybe a hint for the Speak Now album rerelease.

Evidence in support: She said “everything is made out of confetti” and touched her face

Connected reference: we know from Taylor’s diary of song interview with NYT that she did this exact hand gesture when asked about the importance of a bridge

Evidence continued: After Taylor gives the signal, Zane gets tripped up and needed to read the prompt given to him by Taylor’s team to ask about august.

We know from the Long Pond sessions during the discussion of august that taylor said she had that “meet me behind the mall” line written down in her phone “years ago”. (It is at the very end of the discussion before they cut to the performance).

When Zane asked the question he pointed to the LPSS to ask about the “meet me behind the mall” line and in response Taylor said she had the line for “like 6 months probably.”

Now coming back to the confetti set up line:

The bridge of Long Live says:

In conclusion

I believe Taylor is dropping Long Live and maybe the hint for speak now’s release date on June 15th.

Hiii can you do the pronouns percentage with lover and folklore in? I've just seen the one with rep included but FOLKLORE IS SO GAY. Also you're doing gods work thank you so much 💕

Hi! I’ve updated the charts to include Folklore - there is actually already a post which includes the pronouns from Lover (here) if you’re interested to see what has and hasn’t changed.

As always, the songs not included in these charts are those from Taylor’s unreleased catalogue; those for which Taylor is credited as co-writer, but which were released by another artist (e.g. Kellie Pickler’s ‘Best Days of Your Life’); and her OSTs (Eyes Open, Safe and Sound, Sweeter Than Fiction, I Don’t Wanna Live Forever and Beautiful Ghosts).

The charts are organised as follows below.

Songs with unqualified “male” (pro)nouns — “he” functions as Taylor’s primary romantic interest:

Tim McGraw

Teardrops on My Guitar

Stay Beautiful

I'd Lie

Fifteen

Hey Stephen

Forever & Always

I’m Only Me When I’m With You – “Just a small-town boy and girl”

Today Was a Fairy-tale – ‘You were the prince/ I used to be a damsel in distress’

Dear John

Better Than Revenge

Superman

Red

I Knew You Were Trouble

The Moment I Knew

Girl at Home

Blank Space — “You're the King, baby, I'm your Queen”

Style

Shake It Off

Wildest Dreams

You Are in Love

…Ready for It

I Did Something Bad

King of my heart – “King of my heart, body and soul”

Call It What You Want

Better Man — “I wish you were a better man”

Cruel Summer – “He looks up grinning like a devil”

Lover – “I take this magnetic force of a man to be my lover”

I Think He Knows

Paper Rings – “Wrap your arms around me, baby boy”

London Boy

Songs with qualified “male” pronouns:

Tied Together with a Smile — not autobiographical.

Our Song — uses reversed perspective.

Love Story — uses reversed perspective.

The Way I Loved You – constructs an opposition between ‘he’ and the gender non-specific ‘you,’ who is the true romantic interest.

Haunted — constructs an opposition between ‘he’ and the gender non-specific ‘you,’ who is the true romantic interest.

Speak Now — uses reversed perspective.

Starlight — not autobiographical.

Begin Again — constructs an opposition between ‘he’ and the gender non-specific ‘you,’ who is the true romantic interest.

New Romantics — it is (arguably) unclear whether the single male pronoun refers to a romantic interest of Taylor’s own (or of her fellow new romantics).

Don’t Blame Me — Taylor’s primary romantic interest is the gender non-specific ‘you,’ however note: ‘I’ve been breakin' hearts a long time, and/toyin’ with them older guys.’

Gorgeous — constructs an opposition between ‘he’/ ‘a boyfriend’ and the gender non-specific ‘you,’ who is the true romantic interest.

Getaway Car —constructs an opposition between ‘he’ and the gender non-specific ‘you,’ who is the true romantic interest.

Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince – it is not only arguable that the ‘heartbreak prince’ is independently a gender-neutral epithet (as claimed by Halsey) but also that “me” and “the heartbreak prince” is the proper syntactic pair (“it’s you and me…Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince”)

Songs with “female” (pro)nouns:

 A Place in This World — ‘girl’ is self-referential. The song’s subject is not romantic in nature.

Should've Said No — ‘her’ refers to the third party in Taylor’s relationship with a romantic interest whose gender is non-specific (you).

Mary's Song (Oh My My My)

Invisible — ‘she’ refers to Taylor’s rival for the affection of a romantic interest whose gender in non-specific (you).

The Other Side of the Door — ‘she’ refers to the third party in Taylor’s relationship with a romantic interest whose gender is non-specific (you).

White Horse — ‘she’ refers to the third party in Taylor’s relationship with a romantic interest whose gender is non-specific (you).

You Belong with Me — ‘she’ refers to the third party in Taylor’s relationship with a romantic interest whose gender is non-specific (you).

Mine — uses reversed perspective; ‘she’ is self-referential. Taylor’s romantic interest is gender non-specific (you).

How You Get the Girl — ‘her’ may refer either to Taylor herself or to her romantic interest.

This is what you came for

Babe — ‘her’ refers to the third party in Taylor’s relationship w/ a romantic interest whose gender is non-specific (you).

End Game — ‘girl’ occurs only in the featured parts. Taylor’s own romantic interest is gender non-specific (you).

The Man – “what’s it like to brag about…getting bitches and models.”  

ME! – “baby girl when it comes to a lover.” Note that “you’re the kind of guy the ladies want” is implicitly contrasted with “and there’s a lot of cool chicks out there” which is the “one of these things” that “is not like the others, like a rainbow with all of the colours.” Taylor has further stated that ME! Is her first song about “baby chickens.”

The Last Great American Dynasty — “she” refers to Rebekah Harkness, the biographical subject.  

Mad Woman — “she” is the wife of the subject “you,” rather than a romantic interest of the persona “I”.

Betty — uses reversed perspective, although the argument can also be made that actually “James” is a girl/Taylor herself.

Songs with gender-neutral pronouns:

Picture to Burn

Cold as You

The Outside

A Perfectly Good Heart

Jump Then Fall

Untouchable

Come in with the Rain

Superstar

Fearless

Breathe

Tell Me Why

You're Not Sorry

The Best Day — the lyrics are not romantic.

Change — the lyrics are not romantic.

Beautiful Eyes

I heart?

Sparks Fly

Back to December

Mean — the lyrics are not romantic.

The Story of Us

Never Grow Up — the lyrics are not romantic.

Enchanted

Innocent

Last Kiss

Long Live

Ours

If This Was a Movie

Crazier

Christmases When You Were Mine

Christmas Must Be Something More

State of Grace

Treacherous

All Too Well

22

I Almost Do

We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together

Stay Stay Stay

The Last Time

Holy Ground

Sad Beautiful Tragic

The Lucky One

Everything Has Changed

Come Back... Be Here

Welcome to New York – note, however: “you can want who you want, boys and boys and girls and girls.”

Out of the Woods

All You Had to Do Was Stay

I Wish You Would

Bad Blood

This Love

I Know Places

Clean

Wonderland

Look What You Made Me Do

So It Goes

Delicate

Dancing with Our Hands Tied

Dress

This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things — the lyrics are not romantic.

New Year’s Day

I Forgot That You Existed

The Archer

Cornelia Street

Death by a Thousand Cuts

Soon You’ll Get Better – the lyrics are not romantic

False God

You Need to Calm Down – (i.) the lyrics are not romantic and (ii.) both “my gown” and “his gown” are subsumed by “our gowns.”

Afterglow

It’s Nice to Have a Friend

Daylight

Christmas Tree Farm

Only the Young – the lyrics are not romantic.

The 1

Cardigan

Exile  — in lyrical terms, the love interest is gender neutral (“you”); the pronoun “he” describes this “you’s” new lover.

My Tears Ricochet

Mirrorball

Seven — the pronouns are gender neutral (“you”) but the love interest is, arguably, female coded. Thus “your braids like a pattern” and “pack your dolls and a sweater.”

August

This is me trying

Illicit Affairs —  the love interest’s pronouns are gender neutral (“you”). However, they are arguably female coded. Thus, “leave the perfume on the shelf that you picked out just for him.”

Invisible String — the love interest’s pronouns are gender neutral (“you”). Note, however, “for the boys who broke my heart.”

Epiphany — the lyrics are not romantic

Peace

Hoax

The Lakes

Taylor didn’t incorporate her tour outfits …AGAIN to be veeery similar with the ones karlie wore for me to be a weak kaylor

so swiffers really don’t get that when Taylor says “you know i love a london boy” she doesn’t mean 🦶 at all. she doesn’t mean a specific british boy, she means “you know i love a British beard to promote my music in the uk ;)”

like.... it’s a hilarious song. nothing romantic abt it. if i were someone’s boyfriend and she wrote me a song like this i’d be confused af. “he likes my aMeRiCaN smile” like girl? what do you want 😪

and can we talk about the line “iN tHe pUb wE aRe wAtChInG rUgBy wItH HiS sChOoL fRiEnDs”? ummmm tfu taylor i came here expecting a love song but you’re being funny

SHOW ME A GREY SKY LOOOOOOL A RAINY CAP RIDE LMAO ok it’s more of like “you make me f***ing depressed boy”

and like she mentions Stella McCartney for no absolute f***ing reason??? in a song about her bf? she is like “imma mention my girl stella cause i luv her”

I absolutely love London Boy it’s the funnier version of Blank Space

guys there are so many parallels to her other songs in mr. perfectly fine

all too well: “so casually cruel in the name of being honest”

mr. perfectly fine: “mr. casually cruel”

last kiss: “you told me you loved so why did you go away?”

mr. perfectly fine: “mr. looked me in the eye and told me you’d never go away”

how you get the girl: “when you left her all alone and never told her why”

mr. perfectly fine: “mr. never told me why”

I knew you were trouble: “no apologies, he’ll never see you cry”

mr. perfectly fine: “mr. never had to see me cry”

dear John: “long were the nights when my days once revolved around you”

mr. perfectly fine: “mr. everything revolves around you”

the story of us: “I used to know my spot next to you, now I’m searching the room for an empty seat”

mr. perfectly fine: “sashay your way to your seat. it’s the best seat in the best room”

white horse: “it’s too late for you and your white horse to catch me now”

mr. perfectly fine: “someday maybe you’ll miss me but by then you’ll be mr. too late”

Remember that time…

KK tagged TS as a Daisy, then TS said that she is the love of her life’s daisy, and then drew a picture of the daisy in her liner notes, where she historically gives clues about who her songs are about?

Most of the Renegade lyrics link back to songs on reputation through evermore, but there is one linking back to 1989’s New Romantics (bJ) which has one of the most under the radar stanzas ever!

Like how is she going to say “we team up then switch sides” in one breath and then “the rumors are terrible and cruel but honey most of them are true” in the next and NO ONE SAYS A DAMN THING ABOUT IT?! 🤯💀

I switched teams too… when I was 22! 😂