“That’s My Man”

Basic clownery

hmmm in Miss Americana and the heartbreak prince these lines really pop out to me:

they whisper in the hallway she’s a bad bad girl (okay!) 

miss American and the heartbreak prince (okay!) 

To me, it sounds like she's agreeing with what they’re saying, even though she thinks it’s stupid...Even the tone she sings these phrases sounds super sarcastic to me, emphasized with the “okay!” I almost wonder if she’s singing as if Miss Americana iw Karlie and heartbreak prince is jerk. Tay’s singing  about the flaws in society with our standards of relationships and gender roles and how we give labels to everything...

She’s telling Karlie to come home, that she doesn’t want to go up against the forces that hold them apart because it’ll be painful and messy but she knows the struggle is going to be worth it. It would be so tempting to run away together, but they have too much riding on it all and they have to hold out and fight the good fight! 

maybe :-)

In Bejeweled music video, Pat McGrath is the Queen and judges the contest.

Pat McGrath is Taylor’s make-up artist. Thus: The Queen of Make-Up, or…the Queen of Make Believe.

She picks the performer with the best make-believe story as the winner of the contest!

Taylor learns her winning performance with Dita Von Teese - the Queen of Burlesque.

Burlesque definition: an absurd or comically exaggerated imitation of something, especially in a literary or dramatic work; a parody.

Hmmm…An absurdly or comically exaggerated imitation of something 🤔 Such as the Taylor Travis spectacle, maybe?

For me, this sneaky footage is hella more platonic than kissgate was...Just saying! 🌈

Joe & Taylor at the BFTA awards. ❤️

when she says she doesn’t send nudes

are you okay?

so...

not a lot of civility out there in the world these days but *adjusts tinfoil hat* let me try and lay this out a civilly as possible...

what is this? can you guess?

looking at the picture to the left, accessible to anyone on google maps right now, you may be able to see that it’s a view from above of construction of a property on a hill towards the bottom. and the charred remains of something towards the top.

what the image to the right shows is the same spot as existed in photos taken recording the woolsey fire, a brushfire that ravaged southern california at the end of last year: November 9th-21st, 2018. you may remember it as the fire that destroyed many a celebrity home in malibu.

sadly... in looking at sentimental and meaningful places to stay while visiting for lover fest west, i came to learn that this property also fell victim to unreported flames:

*i say unreported because, after spending far too much time looking for three maps (one from a review of a guy who stayed there on vacation, one from a statistics-style report of the woolsey fire, one from a news article to confirm the positioning of both images) to superimpose, it would seem that the location of the legendary vogue kaylor photoshoot airstream (as seen below, within the blue encircled area, according to the reviewer) was not included on the map of reported buildings in the area that took damage (represented in yellow and red). but i digress.

i just felt like writing this all out because... i just feel awful for having gone to taylor’s concerts on November 20th and the 21st without having know that but a week prior, this important landmark had bit the dust... although the other day while i went through the stages of processing, i realized i was not entirely sure when exactly taylor found out.

so i tried to see if i could suss out anything and... i found some things.

first... allow me to work backwards here... there was this taymoji gift that was given out on december 4th, from the Picture to Burn Pack:

then i went through my phone and it turns out i happen to have a screen grab of a peculiar instagram story that kristine posted from late november. i captured it because it was unique... though nothing came of it at the time. here’s a gif of me recording it on my camera roll so you can see the date at the top

and wouldn’t ya know, the dynamic duo also posted from california that week (i added the goldfish to the post to the right because that’s one of his kids) and i know count olaf was also posting from there on account from him tagging jaime in his post, who posted something a bit smokier from LA the month before, which she herself points out the connection to.

(please allow for the possibility of rolling each post date back a day due to the big time difference between where i am and they are)

and, the biggest tell of all, that i talked about on my blog oblivious to what it probably was signaling, this post from our dutiful friend atticus, posted November 14th:

i don’t know exactly when the flames hit the trailer... there was no filed report but i can assume it was after November 10th due to news reports from that day showing the barrier of the fire as not including Point Mugu yet... and it should have gone down before the 14th if we were to assume atticus caught wind of it via gossip in the kloffice...

which brings me back to the point about sentimentality.

it seems a tad... erm.. on the nose... don’t you think? awfully dire, awfully grim and dreadful, awful unfortunate, that after all taylor has sung about kaylor (and i include style *because* it was included in the medley during rep tour not because i think it was originally written about karlie) using these themes:

Long drive / Could end in burning flames or paradise

You'll see me in hindsight, tangled up with you all night / Burnin' it down

I'd kiss you as the lights went out / Swaying as the room burned down

that the vogue photoshoot airstream might have gone up in flames on the thirteenth of november? the canonical day that taylor and karlie first met....? like how stomach wrenching is that?

allow me take a step back

i don’t think we will ever know when the malibu dream caught flame, but, i have a good idea of when and how taylor may have found out about it.

taylor looking at her phone, throwing it on the bed, and from that phone blew sparks... i think someone(s) sent photos to her on that important day. how they got the photos? hard to say... but, that’s not the point. i’d rather think about who. who, you may ask, would want to tell her about this with cruel intentions?

someone who can’t help themselves from

at every turn

marking sentimental territory

ripping up sidewalks

appropriating special days

and special locations

and turning lyrics into twisted party favors

and buying up her life’s work

and celebrating it as if she was land to conquer

🤔 who was in the area that week?

now, how dare you suggest i’m pointing a finger. i’m not saying it might have been partially him, why, how could i be? because hey, if we want to judge his righteousness, he said it in a tweet, so he’s a good guy, right?

🤒

All those other girls are beautiful but would they write a song for you haHA 💕🤗💕🤗

I’m dying over here, this is so beautiful. Stephen is so Karlie 👍🏼

Crowned or martyred...

Either way, the revolution is in motion 🌈

Yess, Taylor is definitely like NO, you can’t have this! You’re not going to break me. Love that. Hope she wins in the end, they’ll have to sit and watch her being crowned.

This makes me think of when she hits the bullseye for track 5 🎯

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