Hi There. I Don't Know If This Means Anything, But I Thought It Was Interesting. I Was Curious About

So... umm... is this not crazy that Taylor played a show in Paris on March 6, 2013.

https://youtu(.)be/8W_278Mc0Lo

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KK: March 6, 2016: "Love Locked Down"

TS: March 6, 2016: Locket—"3.6.15 one year down."

Karlie is in was in Paris every 1st week in March up until Coronavirus happened.

She always stopped by The Seine bridge too.

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https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf6TwlbHrmV/?igshid=b6t3fnymz1zh

March 4th is one of the Big Sur-versary days too.

Also, if you remember The City of Lover murul. It also had the dice that showed March 6th.

No idea what it all means... if anything at all. I just find it all ironic how Paris links up so perfectly for these two.

interesting 🤔

“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

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But wait SR, what if, WHAT IF, KK attends SNL tomorrow because they actually met in the Red era and it’s the 13th! I will literally die, dead 💀 like my soul will leave my body, if she makes an appearance at the show or the after party.

C’Mon Taylor honor your vow and be over dramatic to commemorate the day you met your lover! 🥰 we have full faith in you!!!

how is lover about karlie? "ive love you 3 summers now honey"?

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taylor nations post oh my god "looking the sun and the mirror right in the eye" ... karlie aka sunshine looking camp right in the eye... the mirror... i-

OH MY GOD this is so loud 😭👀

What are the top three things that happened in the last year or so that make you so confident they are still together? No “sources”. No small coincidences. Real things that make sense. No eye theory allowed! Go!

ok anon, i’ll bite!

-taylor’s sudden and sustained use of baby, child, and father imagery and language from lover era through folklore and evermore and now. karlie has done some of it too.

i could list it all up but this post would get very long and it’s, you know, a touchy subject. but i think it’s been pretty noticeable if you’ve been open to it. plus idk, taylor creates a whole album about a secret love and talks about wanting to be her lover’s end game but somehow it’s not supposed to include starting a family? and if it does it needs to be done publicly?

-taylor’s continued use of the crest symbol (something kaylors identified far earlier than swifties)

beyond the Lover music video, we see it in the evermore album photos, and she’s now used it on The Vault. it’s the snake looking like an S and the butterfly looking like a K, for me. plus.. crests are made for *families*

-social interactions with mutual acquaintances.

for example, cara delevigne going to see taylors SNL performance and also publicly sending karlie bottles of wine. misty copeland dancing for taylor’s AMA performance and then also posting a pic wearing a LIKE A KLOSS tshirt to instagram. lily aldridge wishing karlie a happy birthday using a pic where taylor’s right there in the frame. the haim sisters hanging out both with taylor and with karlie on multiple occasions. etc. and then brandon maxwell adding taylor swift songs to his runway shows, and christian siriano often featuring pics on instagram of taylor in dresses he’s designed. all this while karlie hosted project runway with them as judge and mentor. if you believe taylor and karlie were ever together, these kinds of sustained moments should give you pause because they just wouldn’t happen if there was a breakup.

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honorable mentions:

-taylor making the noticeable public pivot towards “fictitious songwriting” with folklore and evermore.

this isn’t so much a proof as something that i think really sets her up well for the future. for me, trying to wean the public off of searching for connections between lyrics and her real life is a way of protecting what she has. plus it has allowed her to write about a greater variety of things.

-the red rose dresses

i’m sorry say what you will about twinning being abstract (yes sometimes it is) but, this kind of thing is just obvious. what’s more, we can deduce that taylor started working on that video before karlie started designing her dress, and karlie then designed hers, debuted it, and taylor then went and did the video without change. to a similar extent you could argue a similar pattern with the yellow dresses in 2019 (elle cover/off-white runway) and the orange thing (yntcd/carolina herrera vogue cover/adidas/match.com) that went into 2020. there’s a pattern of one of them debuting a look, the other puts out a similar look, then it gets revealed the other was working on it earlier, etc… plenty of opportunities to course correct these bold primary color twinning moments if they didn’t want anything to do with one another.

-taylor continuing to wear the vsfs ring (which is undeniably a kaylor bat signal)

on significant days such as kissgate anniversary in 2019, while accepting an award in 2021, and at her birthday party just this month. honestly i could write a dissertation on other jewelry things (karlie wearing the cartier necklace through the pandemic onset and her pregnancy, the alison lou of it all… or the awe le duo necklace lolol, but the angel wing ring takes the cake)

moreover, it’s just all this and every other thing, in aggregate. they’ve both maintained my attention!

Louis & Taylor are best gay besties.

Here’s why:

Louis’s infamous “if that” expression of distaste towards Haylor was immediately followed by him saying “I’ve met her before, she’s a lovely girl.”

Not only that, he mentioned how great she is UNPROMPTED at least twice in his interview with Forbes and Telegraph.

They literally partied together.

Taylor’s AT&T NOW commercial ft. Her locked in the closet, her climbing out of the closet through the air vent before arriving in the studio to record music.

Taylor’s AT&T NOW commercial also included her googling the picture she saw on a guy’s shirt.

Louis wearing MJ’s Billie Jean t-shirt in Back To You teaser for everyone to Google the lyrics: Billie Jean is not my lover. She's just a girl who claims that I am the one. But the kid is not my son

In another commercial, Taylor wore rainbow, and rode a unicorn cat. (Hint: What word did Harry use to call a cat and got grounded for being inappropriate?)

There is no subtlety in this household.

Louis’s rainbow Apple t-shirt which led to the Bullshit 2.0 and the dagger tattoo, probably.

Oh yeah, let’s talk about tattoos.

1. Harry, birds don’t have eyebrows. (They kinda do. But it’s a meme at this point.)

2. Louis, Kevin is a pigeon, not a swift bird. HOW COULD YOU?

What a coincidence that Louis randomly picked the name DIANA as promo song for Midnight Memories. Almost like a tribute to Dianna Agron who was once aboard SS Swiftgron with Taylor while Haylor was happening on paper. Or that Harry’s Fine Line theme colors being 🏳️‍⚧️ a trans flag and STYLE music video from Taylor’s 1989 included a scene of this man looking at himself in the mirror only to see a reflection of a woman.

Or that Louis’s song Fearless seemingly referenced Karlie Kloss as the second wife of Taylor in (colourful) Suit & Tie era, aka Lover. Just for the first Taylor’s Version album to be FEARLESS.

It’s almost like they’re all closeted queers in the same industry or a Copy of A Copy of A Copy or something.

aside from all the things Taylor has shown us about not being straight, I wanna know if this has been discussed.

She's said that her track 5 songs are always very emotional. We know her star sign is the archer. In you need to calm down there's an easter egg for the song with Hayley Kyoko.

A lesbian woman is an archer.

I could discuss the fact that she's dressed in blue and how that can potentially go back to the Mean music video and the girl with a blue ribbon on her dress, whose storyline ends watching Taylor, and how that could be attributed to either gender identity or expression, along with a few more things, but that's for another time.

THATS SO LOUD

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I also recently learned that if a flag is upside down, it's a symbol of danger and distress.

And Taylor's bi hair is upside down. So are the lyrics in invisible string - blue, purple, pink.

But with time, it'll happen. She'll be even louder.

ooh interesting about the flag tidbit i wonder if that’s why she did that 🤔

good notes all around anon!

THE 13 QUEER TROPES OF TAYLOR SWIFT

[I am reblogging this to address formatting issues in original post]

I’ve quantified 13 different queer tropes (yes, 13, that actually organically happened) that can be found in Taylor Swift’s discography. Because I’m an academic, and that’s what we do.

None of these tropes are definitive. They don’t definitively say the text is queer, or that Taylor Swift is queer, but they do suggest queer readings. In other words, they reflect queer experience and queer expression, regardless of intent, or the author’s actual identity or desires. And while many of the tropes overlap with other kinds of readings– for example, female agency is also a feminist trope– when we see them all together like this, well, it’s quite suggestive (and marvelous).

Created by: So Many Signs-So Many Times

1) FORBIDDEN LOVE – Love that is secret because it would be judged or cause harm to those who love were this love to be revealed; Love that is dangerous. 

•This love is different difficult but it’s real (Love Story) [“different” was the original lyric]

•Seems like there’s always someone who disapproves, They’ll judge it like they know about me and you (Ours)

•I would fall from grace just to touch your face (Don’t Blame Me)

•I loved you in spite of deep fears that the world would divide us (Dancing with our Hands Tied)

•I don’t want to keep secrets just to keep you (Cruel Summer)

•This love is treacherous… nothing safe is worth the drive. (Treacherous)

2) PRONOUNS (OR LACK THEREOF)  – Many uses of “you” and terms of endearment; Fewer uses of “he,” “him,” and “his” than one would expect. [I did not run the data but my hunch is that if you compared TS lyrics with other songs written by (straight) women, you’d notice that he/him/his are used far less in Taylor Swift’s work.

3) ASSUMING THE MALE PERSPECTIVE AND/OR MALE GAZE– Shifts the POV so she is singing from the an explicitly male perspective; Assumes the role of the looker and positions love interest as object of desire (historically the female position in a hetero diad– male looks, woman has “to-be-looked-at-ness” (related to Feminization of Object of Desire); TS narrator is the “doer,” object of desire is the receiver.

•Marry me, Juliet (Love Story)

•I don’t wanna hurt you, I just wanna be / Drinking on a beach with you all over me (End Game)

•Wrap your arms around me, baby boy (Paper Rings)

•Betty – entire song

•How You Get the Girl (entire song)

•I Hit You Like Bang (End Game)

4) FEMINIZATION OF OBJECT OF DESIRE– Related to Male Perspective and Male Gaze; Presumed male love interest is feminized by describing him in ways that are more feminine, or usually feminine; Describing presumed male love interest by what he’s wearing (overlap with Male Gaze), using diminutive terms of endearment.

•Baby doll, when it comes to a lover (ME!)

•Wrap your arms around me baby boy (Paper Rings)

•And the fella over there with the hella good hair… (Shake it Off)

•Cause I can’t help it if you look like an angel (Hey Stephen)

•Stay beautiful, every little piece love (Stay Beautiful)

•You got that James Dean, daydream, look in your eyes [This one is interesting because it also evokes homo-erotic imagery]

•Lipstick on your face (So It Goes)

•Come here, dressed in black now (So It Goes)

5) DOUBLE ENTENDRES– Words or phrases that have double meanings or clear references (related to Phrasing);

•Then you won’t have to cry, or hide in the closet (Seven)

•We need love but all we want is danger / We change sides like a record changer (New Romantics)

•We’re a crooked love in a straight line down (I Wish You Would)

•Too in love to think straight (Wonderland)

6) WLW Sex or desire– Clear or highly suggestive descriptions of WLW sex or desire

•Wear you like a necklace (So It Goes)

•I’ll do anything you say, if you say it with your hands (Treacherous)

•All the boys and their expensive cars, with their Range Rovers and their Jaguars, never took me quite where you do (King of My Heart)

•Religion’s in your lips… The altar is my hips (False God)

•You did a number on me…I did a number on you, But, honestly, baby, who’s counting… 1, 2, 3 (So It Goes)

•You showed me colors you know I can’t see with anyone else (Illicit Affairs)

7) EXPLICITLY GAY

•Why are you mad when you could be Glaad? (You Need to Calm Down)

•You can want who you want, boys and boys and girls and girls. (Welcome to NY)

8) TENDERNESS – Focus more on emotional connection, tenderness, sensuality, friendship– Feels more sapphic than straight.

•Hand under my sweatshirt / Baby, kiss it better (Cardigan)

•Strange look on his face / Pauses, then says, “You’re my best friend” / And you know what it was, he is in love (You Are in Love)

•Whispers of “Are you sure? Never have I ever before” (August)

•Something gave you the nerve to touch my hand.  (It’s Nice to Have a Friend)

9) PERFORMATIVE OR CONSTRUCTED NATURE OF REALITY –Stories within Stories – References to everything being a text (movie, song, etc.) / describing reality as a text– Conjures queerness in how it foregrounds the constructed or performative nature of reality, pointing to a disruption in things like compulsory heterosexuality, the gender binary, etc.

•Music starts playing like the end of a sad movie / It’s the kind of ending you don’t really wanna see (Breathe)

•I think I’ve seen this film before, and I didn’t like the ending (Exile)

•The story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now (The Story of Us)

•Don’t read the last page, but I stay (New Year’s Day)

10) ODD OR INTERESTING PHRASINGS / REFERENCES– Kind of a catch-all; Things that just seem off, or alert my gaydar; Sometimes it’s hard to explain, like how I responded to Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” or Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” before I knew they were queer.

•Building forts with my lover, trust him like a brother (Call it What You Want) [This just feels off – I don’t think straight women ever compare their lovers to their brothers. Ew, David.]

•Staring out the window like I’m not your favorite town / I’m New York City, I still do it for you babe (False God) [Strong Karlie references here]

Also, queer references such as “road less traveled” (Robert Frost).

And things that just wouldn’t be that clever if it weren’t about Karlie (or a woman)

•You’re so gorgeous, can’t say anything to your face, coz look at your face.” [Really only clever if it’s about Karlie, someone who, as a model, literally makes a living being gorgeous; Totally pedestrian if it’s about a guy]

11) FEMALE AGENCY– Girl power, Strong sense of self and ownership of one’s sexulity.

•Bad, bad boys. Shiny toy with a price. You know that I bought it (Cruel Summer)

•He said the way my blue eyes shined / Put those Georgia stars to shame that night / I said “that’s a lie” (Tim McGraw)

•You should have said no, baby, and you might still have me (Should Have Said No)

•We Are Never Getting Back Together – entire song

•Does a scorpion sting when fighting back? They strike to kill, and you know I will (Mad Woman)

12) OUTSIDER – Focus on being an outsider, not fitting in. Of course everyone feels like they are on the outside looking in at times, but I’ve often wondered why someone who is traditionally beautiful, feminine, able bodied, smart, white, affluent, etc. would write so much about not fitting in, especially in her early work

•How can I ever try to get better, Nobody ever lets me in (The Outside)

• She wears short skirts, I wear t-shirts / She’s cheer captain and I’m on the bleachers (You Belong with Me)

•We show off our scarlet letters, trust me mine is better (New Romantics)

13) FEELING UNSEEN– Related to Outsider trope; Lyrics that position TS/narrator as not truly seen for who she is. 

•Been here all along, so why can’t you see me? (You Belong with Me)

•You just see right through me, but if you only knew me (Invisible)

•They see right through me… Can you see right through me… I see right through me (The Archer)

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