Taylor Isn’t Stupid

♠️ The blue will remain true. - 12/30/2018

I believe this riddle was a hint that Taylor’s truest songs about her current situations (relative to the time they were made) will reference blue.

Examples:

“And it's new, the shape of your body/ It's blue, the feeling I've got” - cruel summer

“I blew things out of proportion, now you're blue/ Put you in jail for something you didn't do/ I pinned your hands behind your back, oh/ Thought I had reason to attack, but no” - afterglow

“I'm with you even if it makes me blue” - paper rings

“Time, wondrous time/ Gave me the blues and then purple pink skies/ And it's cool, baby, with me” - invisible string

“But I'm a fire and I'll keep your brittle heart warm/ If your cascade ocean wave blues come/ All these people think love's for show/ But I would die for you in secret” - peace

“Don't want no other shade of blue but you/ No other sadness in the world would do” - hoax

“Did I paint your bluest skies the darkest gray? A universe away” - Coney Island

“Gray November/ I've been down since July/ Motion capture/ Put me in a bad light” - evermore

“Show me a gray sky, a rainy cab ride/ Babe, don't threaten me with a good time” - London boy

There is very little blue in evermore. I believe the use of gray in Coney Island is tied into the use of gray in evermore and London boy. In the LPSS Taylor describes the love part of hoax as who would you want to stay with gray skies everyday. So if we understand gray skies as storm clouds blocking the blue skies then I’d compare it to a beard maybe blocking the truth. Like a true face hiding behind the beard.

Taylor: You are what you love.

Yes, Taylor. YOU are what you love.

If anyone has more of these, feel free to add them. I want to see how many we can come up with 🌼☀️

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…so was this a fifth tear easter egg? 😂

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!!!

the subtle and not so subtle gayness of folklore

the 1

You know the greatest films of all time were never made

And if my wishes came true, it would’ve been you

You meet some woman on the internet and take her home

It would’ve been fun if you would’ve been the one

cardigan

Chase two girls, lose the one

I knew you’d linger like a tattoo kiss

I knew you’d come back to me

seven

THIS FULL SONG

And though I can’t recall your face, I still got love for you, your braids like a pattern

And I think you should come live with me, and we can be pirates, then you won't have to cry, or hide in the closet

And though I can't recall your face, I still got love for you, pack your dolls and a sweater

august

And I can see us twisted in bedsheets, August sipped away like a bottle of wine, 'cause you were never mine

I remember thinking I had you

illicit affairs

Leave the perfume on the shelf that you picked out just for him, so you leave no trace behind

You showed me colors you know I can't see with anyone else

You taught me a secret language I can't speak with anyone else

betty

THE ENTIRE SONG JUST GO LISTEN

Betty, I won't make assumptions about why you switched your homeroom, but I think it's 'cause of me

Betty, one time I was riding on my skateboard when I passed your house. It's like I couldn't breathe

Would you have me? Would you want me? ... Or lead me to the garden? In the garden, would you trust me?

Slept next to her, but I dreamt of you all summer long

Will you have me? Will you love me? Will you kiss me on the porch

peace

All these people think love’s for show, but I would die for you in secret. The devil’s in the details but you’ve got a friend in me

family that I chose

I’d give you my sunshine, give you my best

my sweet tender lovely friends I think I made a breakthrough. so we know that orange has something to do with kaylor and representing Karlie (context here and here), but we’ve always wondered WHY. well I think I’m on to something!!

i was in a bookstore the other day, walked down the aisle, and BAM out of nowhere saw this book:

??????????!!!!!!!?!? OBVIOUSLY kaylor has all sorts of Big Sur references (road trip, Taylor saying you should take your wife to Big Sur, etc.), so this PLUS oranges?!

And most importantly we have the meaning of the oranges here:

We know that paradise comes up a TON in Taylors music, and there are even a lot of theories that her 6th album was going to be titled Paradise, before she changed plans and created Reputation. (see here)

What is SO interesting is Miller’s view of paradise - said beautifully in this quote:

Karlie is paradise for Taylor, but their love has some BIG flaws….mostly being the bearding and the k*$hnerds. But it’s their hurdles that keep drawing them in more and more, and making them commit again and again, and keeping things interesting. 

(fyi that is not healthy relationship behavior!!! obstacles dont equal chemistry)

It’s also worth noting that the artwork referenced, the garden of earthly delights, is positioned between heaven and hell, again imagery that Taylor uses a lot 

“Hell was the journey but it brought me heaven”, etc.

So that brings us to the orange girl in YNTCD. She is in her garden of earthly delights, surrounded by her oranges, but she is alone, the flaw of her paradise.

Also want to include this wonderful quote that I think really relates to Taylor’s battle with her masters and generally how she is beholden to the business side of music (including bearding) rather than the art side of it:

idk if we already figured this out?! but I was excited @spade-riddles​

folks...

real talk

whose eye praytell

whose eye is it

honestly

she’s tr👁ing to tell you

lets check out this timeline, shall we?

may 3rd 2016: taylor “”“"meets”“”“ buzz cut joe, falls for his ”“”“"gorgeous”“”“ face instantly, only to dance w / tom hiddleston - all while having a boyfriend

june 1st 2016: tayvin ENDS and the heavens open up on this glorious day!!!!

june 15th 2016: taylor and tom snog oh so privately on the beach. thus implying the start of their relationship. (despite being secretly in love w/ joe all along i guess??)

all summer long the two fly around the world together. totally a love that’s a “secret im hoping dreaming dying to keep”. joe is apparently her friend throughout all of this - emotional cheating, anyone????

august 3rd 2016: karlie’s 24th birthday

she posts a picture of taylor wearing this outfit:

and later on an “”“unkown”“”“ date, taylor just happens to be recording the back up vocals (implying the vocals are almost done, and thus implying taylor was trying to finish up a demo for SOME REASON on THIS date) wearing the same outfit:

but wait you say: ISN’T SHE STILL WITH TOM????

you right fam. which leaves three choices:

the song is for tom - despite dumping him a month later and having absolutely NO secrecy to hope and dream and die to keep about the relationship, and having met three months ago not “a few weeks ago”

the song is for joe - while she’s with tom. um cheater cheater pumpkin eater miss swift!!!!! do we really want to believe this is the option over her having a beard???

the song (’s demo) is a birthday present for miss kloss

but wait!!! there’s more!!!!

september 7th 2016: hiddlestunt ends. shouldve known she’d be the first to leave!

september 17th 2016: taylor is spotted in nashville wearing this outfit:

which we later see on an “”“"unknown”“”“ date during what sounds like the final production of komh:

(she is wearing a sweater over the shirt, same hat, hair, and makeup doe!!!!!)

sure her and joe could have been ”“”“secretly seeing”“”“ each other romantically a mere ten days after her last relationship ended. sure she decided he was the king of her heart a mere ten days or less into the relationship. or she was cheating long before.

but!!!!!

“we met a few weeks ago”

the met gala was four months and two weeks ago. um. not really a few weeks. (this also seems the most likely as dress says “flashback when you met me / your buzzcut my hair bleached”)

OR if they met on october 12th 2016:

which implies the song to have been written after late november of 2016 (“i recall late november”) which would place their meeting at “a few weeks ago”

OR

implies their meeting was september 28th 2016 (“do you remember the 28th night of september”), widely assumed to be their anniversary, and would place the writing of the song to be in october/november 2016…..(both options which would require us to ignore the meeting lyrics in dress)

then how was she recording the finishing touches on king of my heart on september 17th 2016?

yes miss swift, where was that alone time if the earliest possible date you recorded your love song for joe was a mere ten days after you dumped your last boyfriend? cheater cheater pumpkin eater seems a better option than this

to yall, hmmmm antis?

champagne problems

The definition of “champagne problems” is that this expression is used to refer to a problem that’s insignificant… worthless, compared to so many other worse situations (such as world hunger, wars, a pandemic).

My view of this song is that Taylor used problems she experienced involving marriages that, at first, seemed to have ended her world. But even though they were troubled moments, she realized after a while that they were not so bad compared to so many other problems in life.

The song portrays 3 times that Taylor was personally involved in thing relative to weddings. 1) The wedding blow that KK had to participate in (white letters); 2) Once Tay refused a marriage proposal (red letters); 3) Confirmation that Taylor and Karlie are married (yellow letters).

That’s what happened after Karlie told Taylor personally about the marriage maneuver. What is obvious, at first, must have triggered a HUGE fight between them.

This is Taylor’s reaction after the news. She seems to have been shocked and then they fought. Tay returned her engagement/wedding ring to Kar. And apparently, after KK left for some other home their, when Tay was calmer, she seems to have realized that she wasn’t the only one who was suffering from what was going to happen, and Taylor kind of regretted having “dropped” Karlie’s hand at a time that must have been one of the most distressing in her life (can you imagine how terrifying it must have been for her? Probably KK must have been “cornered” to participate in this scam and thought that because of this, she would lose her fiancee/wife). Taylor then realized that, in the grand scheme of things in the world, this was nothing more of a “champagne problems” compared to so many other things that they, or even people close to them, have already gone through in life.

Karlie told the family everything that happened, the future wedding coup that she would have to do, the fight with Taylor and nobody was happy with what would happen. I think Kaptain Kimby got drunk with sadness that the girls were in that situation.

Taylor is recalling an ex-girlfriend’s proposal that she once refused. And talking about the reaction of people close to this ex who commented that Tay’s refusal was nothing big. Just a silly “champagne problem”.

I don’t know if you capture that same vibe that I do, but the first times I heard this excerpt, it seems that the person who is proposing marriage is someone who is always surrounded by friends, someone who is the center of attention of the group, a person popular. It also seems that this ex-girlfriend took it for granted that Taylor would accept her engagement proposal. And after being refused, the girl wanted to know why Taylor had said “no”, but Tay did not know the reason for her negative response to this proposal. Taylor just knew it was “no”.

This passage is the most interesting and revealing to me.

“Midas touch” is an expression used to refer to someone who can make something prosper.

Chevy is short for Chevrolet, the famous car brand. Do you know what awards Chevrolet sponsored in 2017 and even had a commercial with Luke Bryan? Link

The 51st CMA Awards. The one in which KK participated and presented the music award of the year, which went to TS’s “Better Man”. That is, Taylor thinks she only won that prize, because KK was presenting and brought her good luck. And I believe that Tay put this moment here, to try to show us, when more or less this fight because the wedding blow happened. Sometime in 2017. OMG! That woman’s mind… 🤯;

Taylor reveals how her insecurities were on edge when she made a joke that she was crazy. Because after so many people said that to her, and other bad things, Tay believed them for a while (pre reputation period);

She also talks about how loyal and true their friends are, and that, from that moment on, they could no longer say “our friends” (feud’s public narrative was in progress) and soon these friends will be decorating the corridors (the friends will participate in the fake wedding to try to give credibility to the coup) that they’ve already crossed;

THEY’RE MARRIED!; 🥰♥️🥰

Taylor mentions the two stunts, and how she was never ready for that to happen, despite knowing that this blow was coming;

Once again, Tay remembers the refused marriage proposal, now justifying to the ex that sometimes, all you know is that you need to say “no”. Until you meet the right person who will make the proposal;

Taylor remembers again that she was called crazy for having refused the proposal and consoles her ex-girlfriend, saying that the ex will find the real thing, from experience.

Taylor reassures that there’s still hope for her ex to find the one, her true love. That special person that will be there to collect/mend your “pieces” when you’re broken. Just as Taylor found Karlie. And when that person arrives, Tay’s refusal will just be “champagne problems” in ex’s life.

In other words, the main theme of the song, talks about how, at certain times in our life, there’re situations that seem to be the worst thing that has ever happened to us, or that is going to happen to us, but then you realize that it was a “champagne problems” compared to so many other worst realities in the world, such as the pandemic we’re experiencing, for example. And Kaylor is still together.

👸🏼♥️☀️

P.S.: I only came to the conclusion that this disagreement occurred in 2017, after I tried to think of a time when Taylor was using a “flannel cure” + a moment of prosperity that occurred in November + and that Kar was present (since Midas is associated to gold, and the gold color is attributed to Karlie). It was then that I remembered the video of Tay watching Kar giving a CMA award for “Better Man”.

And despite this disagreement, because of the marriage scam, it seems to be, and maybe it’s classified by the girls as, the worst fight of their relationship, I think that they never ended it. I think they probably fought for a few days. But they didn’t go to the extreme of finishing their relationship.

As soon as I started peeking at the fandom in 2014, at times, some Kaylor blogs would comment more frequently on questions regarding Taylor’s possible ex girlfriends, or direct people to blogs that specifically talked about the subject or a certain “ship”. I confess that I was never interested in knowing about the subject and, therefore, I never entered these blogs to learn more.

So, about the identity of the ex-girlfriend who had her marriage proposal rejected by Taylor, I believe it’s Dianna Agron.

Because someone commented to me about it once (in person), and I remember reading it a few times, on a kaylor blog, that the Swiftgrons (is that how you write it?) believed that after many comings and goings in their troubled relationship (apparently toxic), and full of betrayals by Dianna (I’m not sure about that), at a time when they were separated, Dianna in a final attempt of Taylor getting back with her, proposed to Tay. Which of course, now seems to have been confirmed that such an event actually happened through the letters of “champagne problems”, and Taylor refused DA’s proposal. As I said before, I’m not sure if this is true or not, because I never tried to confirm what I heard and read a few times. But perhaps someone who knows more aboutthis whether this can confirm if my assumption is real or not, in the comments.