Did Anyone Else Think It Was Weird That Karlie Was Asked About What's In Her Bag And Started Talking

The Bejeweled music video hints at a major transformation...

The visuals in this scene are clear references to a moment in Frozen 2 where Elsa makes a major transformation.

Elsa is singing the song "Show Yourself." The lyrics are very reminiscent of Taylor's "meet me at midnight" sentiment.

I have always been a fortress

Cold secrets deep inside

You have secrets, too

But you don't have to hide

The song builds and builds with the theme of meeting your true self.

The scene shows Elsa aligning all the jewels just right while singing "don't make me wait one moment more!"

And the entire world opens up

It is at this point that she transforms.

Show yourself

Step into the power

Grow yourself

Into something new

You are the one you've been waiting for

All of my life

All of your life

Oh, show yourself

So let's assume the sparkle represents Taylor's true self (as she's shown us again and again in other mvs) and the cloak references reputation (using a self made shield to hide your true self), then on floor 3 she removes the cloak and affixes larger colorful jewels directly to her body. When she enters floor 5, she's already super confident and dripping in diamonds.

My theory is that Taylor will transform herself in the public's eye during the Speak Now tv, to allow her to fully step into 1989 tv era with confidence, and as her true self.

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???

“There was a huge one (Kaylor photo) in one of the bedrooms down stairs and polaroids of them in the other smaller living room. In the white room there was a blown up framed picture of Karlie kissing Taylor’s cheek the one from their road trip and then when I was waiting to meet her I looked at the top of the stairs and there was a blown up picture of Taylor and Karlie the one that Karlie posted of them on IG where they’re jumping in the air in the sunset. There’s probably more but there were certain rooms we couldn’t go into. And there are Karlie photos in the bathroom too.”

— The amount of Karlie and Kaylor photos in Taylor’s apartment (according to fans who went to 1989’s Secret Session @ NYC)

Never forget

(via icouldshowyouincrediblethings-13)

❤

(via oliro9)

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???

okay but actually, she’s being very loud with this “forever is the sweetest con” chapter. loud about bearding and façades and being duplicitous. these songs allude to mirages of many kinds. (see also this great tag by @all-my-possessions). Let’s look at how:

cowboy like me (also re: this analysis) 

I’ve got some tricks up my sleeve

Telling all the rich folks anything they wanna hear

Hustling for the good life

And the skeletons in both our closets plotted hard to fuck this up

Forever is the sweetest con

mirrorball:

I’ll show you every version of yourself tonight

Spinning in my highest heels, love, shining just for you

I can change everything about me to fit in

The masquerade revelers

I’ve never been a natural, all I do is try, try, try

evermore:

motion capture put me in a bad light

sending signals to be double-crossed

long story short:

Fatefully I tried to pick my battles ‘til the battle picked me

Misery like the war of words I shouted in my sleep

The knife cuts both ways

And I fell from the pedestal

Long story short, it was the wrong guy, now I’m all about you

And he’s passing by, rare as the glimmer of a comet in the sky

invisible string:

Gave me no compasses, gave me no signs. 

Were there clues I didn’t see?

Cold was the steel of my axe to grind for the boys who broke my heart. Now I send their babies presents

willow:

Every bait and switch was a work of art

hey for the life of me i can’t find the pants but i’m pretty darn sure that’s an adidas track suit

don’t you think it works with this top?

like, same color same white piping

plus, the three stripes

so not only is it the same color scheme as this,

it’s also, you know, adidas brand 🙈🙈🙈

so this sweater has been ID’d as Band Of Outsiders, Pre-fall 2014. naturally, i did the google 🥴

🥴 so it seems karlie has a bit of a connection to the brand, as the place that did her cookie collab also collabed with them. she also wore a dress from the brand to the 2014 CFDA awards.

just kinda interesting to think, you know, taylor chose to—for the cover of Wildest Dreams Taylor’s Version—wear a sweater from a collection of a brand that karlie was in and around, in and around the same time 🥴💕

in conclusion, enchanted is about emma stone

I saw your 1989 rewatch post and i was wondering about your comment: the New York story still continues.

I think in this side of swiftie fandom we can agree new york is karlie. However, I have seen so many analysis and lyric parallels of New York symbolism as proof of a kaylor break up.

I believe kaylor is still together, but I am having a tough time with what new york means after folklore and evermore. “I left a part of me back in New York” “she still is 23 inside her fantasy,” all of coney island paint at not so great picture compare to the new york of Lover.

What are your thoughts?

Sorry in advance if this sounds like rambling

She is still in New York regardless of how sad the songs sound. The story is still tied to New York.

I think there is this weird thing we tend to do when Taylor writes a sad song. We automatically assume it’s about a romantic break up and I think that is a product of her old reputation, sadly.

I think Taylor recognizes love is a lot more complex than Romeo and Juliet and it comes with ups and downs. We saw this on Lover. Riding the highs and treading the lows but all the while just hoping to get back to mundanity and normality. I think Taylor realized the lows and the highs make for a more entertaining story so she takes snapshots and zooms in on specific feelings and moments from her past and explores the stories that can come from them with new perspectives.

I also believe Taylor has been singing about her own personal journey and her struggles with anxiety. As well as her choices that led to a specific place or point in time and fighting her own demons while worrying about how someone could love her with her flaws. These concepts were on Lover as well.

Folklore and evermore honestly feel like purgatory to me, if that makes sense. They exist in a pocket dimension where Taylor is wandering around an old abandon town with no choice but to reflect on her past. She is forced to face her demons. She can’t hide from her thoughts. And sooner or later she realizes that the only way out is through and maybe if requires leaving all the baggage behind because you can’t leave the same way you came in.

“You know I left a part of me back in New York” means exactly that: She left part of herself in New York. (She had to leave something behind but she didn’t want to).

Conclusion:

The story is still in New York. Just on the outskirts of town. Coney Island is still in New York. It’s in Brooklyn. She did her photoshoot for the albums in Upstate New York.

She’s still writing the story:

“If the story's over. Why am I still writing pages?” - DBATC

“Pages turn and stick to each other” - RWYLM

I’m sorry again if this was rambly.