(Pandemic) We all needed our methods of escapism, and that was one of mine. I just kind of needed to create, not just an album, but... folklore was a state of mind for me. It was like... In my imagination, I could just escape to this sort of wooden cabin, in the middle of the forest, and I could just pretend like what was happening wasn't really happening. So that was basically the first step, was envisioning this album, and so it kind of became this imaginary vacation spot I would go in my head, you know?
(See post by @badgalazzie) The cabin where Kaylor stayed on their Big Sur trip
The folklore cabin is located at a vacation spot. 💜 🥹
👇 Full Speech. More Folklore speeches @corneliastvendor
Transcript by cages-boxes-hunters-foxes. "So we have brought the folklore cabin to Detroit! So folklore, folklore is an album that I started writing about two days into the pandemic. I just, we all needed our methods of escapism, and that was one of mine. I just kind of needed to create, not just an album, but folklore was a state of mind for me. In my imagination, I could just escape to this sort of wooden cabin, in the middle of the forest, and I could just pretend like what was happening wasn't really happening. So that was basically the first step, was envisioning this album, and so it kind of became this imaginary vacation spot to go in my head, you know? And when I was writing these songs, I also kind of took a little vacation from the way that I usually write. I usually write about something I have personally gone through, and exactly how I felt about that, you know? So it was kind of fun to be able to write an album and sort of be like, 'Okay, maybe with this one, we'll sort of fictionalize it a little bit. I'll create characters. I can name them different things, and maybe we can have these different story arcs.' And there are a few songs that go together. There's this like, teenage love triangle threesome arc. And so I. created a story between those three characters, and you know, when I would try to come up with names, it was just easiest for me to pull names from my real life, so the names that were actually named after real people that I love very much were James, Inez, and Betty!"
— Taylor before playing betty in Detroit, MI on June 10th
HERE is the Booksmart s*x scene with the song.
"In this house we support Olivia Wilde 🙌" (that's nice because she is one of Dianna Agron's best friends. See this link)
London Boy... the legend you are! 🙌
"There is a pond, complete with koi fish, in the middle of Swift’s astonishing, many-colored Nashville condo." "Swift gave the condo a heavy dose of well-funded OCD whimsy. The ceiling is arranged in multiple motifs – billowing curtains here, a painted indigo night sky there. In one corner, under hanging crystalline stars, sits a giant bunny made of moss. He’s wearing a hat. ‘It’s a whole Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland structure here,’ she says, welcoming me the next morning. 'It’s what the inside of my brain looks like, essentially.'" (Rolling Stone 2012)
Maybe the koi fish are not only Speak Now Easter Eggs. My personal Lavender Haze interpretation (Kaylor's version):
koi fish, Alice in Wonderland = HOME
First scenes with trans actor and Taylor dancing alone. > She pushes her TV REMOTE. She "skips" the first moments because "in reality" she is on her couch.
She is cozy on her daisy-design couch (*cough*). > She shows us the TV REMOTE again. Is the TV REMOTE important, Taylor? The trans actor is the weatherman on the TV screen.
She smokes her Alice in Wonderland pipe.
> She pushes the TV REMOTE again, the "drug pipe" seems to work, she starts to see her HOME on the TV screen!
But we go back one more time into the Smoke & Mirrors world. "Talk your talk and go viral. I just need this love spiral"
In the end, she is ready to open the curtains and to push her boundaries. Finally she is relaxed at HOME.
6 - Saoirse Ronan and Lucas Hedge's answer to the fan-question: "Did Taylor Swift ever stop by the set ['Mary queen of scots'] to visit Joe Alwyn?"
1 - Teen Vogues asks Shawn Mendes about Joe Alwyn and the lie detector shows he is lying about something
See full vide below:
2 - The infamous interview with Jack Antonoff talking about how much he loves working with gay women. Here is the link to the audio from @thekaylordiaries:
3 - "Allegedly" - Jack at long pond studios
4 - Calvin Harris goes OFF about his beard
5 - Martha Hunt & Taylor Hill not knowing who Joe is
This is all I could think of right now but please add more
Taylor and Karlie have the same friends 🖤🖤🖤
"I will be your invisible bride any day" - Keleigh
☝️ Derek ("Karlie's brother") & Keleigh 👇 Mikey & Misha
Mikey and Karlie at The Eras Tour. Mikey, Misha and Taylor at a Super Bowl Party.
It's just a coincidence... right? 👀🤷
Open e.g. the website of the ANONYMOUS bestseller poet. Jewelery, lost poet wine and merch!? Karlie Kloss is a testimonial. And Fletcher knows her/him as well?!
"I'm obsessed with Lost Poet." - Karlie Kloss
See blairhuddy for a lot of Atticus coincidences.
Is Atticus the masked guy, or...? 🤔
Met Gala 2023? Prepare for THE WORST.
J*sh in Katy Perry's outfit - Met Gala 2019.
Katy and Celine Dion - Met Gala 2019. And Katy in the "You need to calm down" music video.
Hope for THE BEST. 🙏
Grab some tissues. It hits different 😭 ____________________________________
In May 2015, a blind item came out that said Karlie was moving things out from Taylor's apartment.
2020: Five years later in the song EXILE, Taylor referred to this fight that they supposedly had in the same way.
In 2019, Taylor on the album LOVER made it clear that her muse is from the USA, that New York screams her muse's name and that her muse has a garden gate in the West Village Karlie is from the USA, New York screams her name and she had a garden gate in the West Village.
That place was very special for their relationship because Taylor was seen there very often and she moved to New York and bought an apartment near there to hang out with Karlie in her apartment.
2019: A month after the album LOVER came out, Karlie sold her apartment in the West Village which has a garden gate.
👇👇 READ ON 👇👇 READ ON
And a year later (2020), in EXILE Taylor refers to this by saying that this person was her town, but that she is now in exile watching this person out (??selling their special place and moving out??)
I think I've seen this film before. And I didn't like the ending. You're not my homeland anymore. So what am I defending now? You were my town. Now I'm in exile, seein' you out. I think I've seen this film before.
YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN single was released on June 14, 2019
On June 25, 2019 a blind item came out saying that if Taylor wanted to come out, she couldn't mention Karlie:
And also Karlie did an interview about how much she enjoyed her new life and Taylor is briefly mentioned in it as one of her "friends", as if she was just a wrinkle
And a year later - 2020 - Taylor would refer to this in CLOSURE saying that her lover is now enjoying a new life and how Taylor feels that she is a wrinkle or something that could ruin the new life that person has built without her
RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT ME (2020): I could feel the mascara run. You told me that you met someone. Glass shattered on the white cloth. Everybody moved on. I, I stayed there.
In 2018 and 2019, Karlie had two weddings and even though Taylor was invited, she didn't attend, she said absolutely nothing about it and Taylor's team just said she was too busy
October 2018: But the same day or the next (it's confusing because of the time zones) of the first wedding Taylor sang I KNEW YOU WERE TROUBLE completely sad as a surprise song. Taylor and Karlie met when Taylor was performing that song
Two years later - 2020 - Taylor would refer to these weddings in EVERMORE. In RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT ME Taylor sings about how the person she used to love left her and shortly there after married and built a new life without her
In this song there is a clear reference to a tradition in Jewish Weddings. Glass shattered on the white cloth. Karlie converted to Judaism and had a Jewish Wedding
"Hair pin drop": We all know that this line is gay and what it means in this context is that Taylor's silence and her not attending Karlie's two weddings was something that confirmed that there was something more than a friendship between them
Did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen? Time went on for everybody else, she won't know it. She's still 23 inside her fantasy. How it was supposed to be. Did you hear about the girl who lives in delusion? Break-ups happen every day, you don't have to lose it. She's still 23 inside her fantasy. And you're sitting in front of me.
Taylor was 23 when she became Karlie's bff.
CHAMPAGNE PROBLEMS (2020) is about how Taylor lost her golden muse because she wasn't ready to get married and how she watched this person walk away not knowing what to do
"One for the money two for the show" Karlie had two weddings and this phrase appears in the photoshoot they did together in 2014
In HAPPINESS (2020), Taylor tells how she spent seven years with this person and how she felt like she was in heaven. Taylor wrote this song a month after it was seven years since she met Karlie
This is a clear reference to Karlie because in REPUTATION and LOVER, Taylor relates heaven and religion to this person. Karlie was a Victoria's Secret Angel
HITS DIFFERENT (2022): Dreams of your hair and your stare and sense of belief. In the good in the world, you once believed in me. And I felt you and I held you for a while. Bet I could still melt your world. Argumentative, antithetical dream girl. // Movin' on was always easy for me to do. It hits different (Yeah). It hits different 'cause it's you.
Are all the Eras tour BETTY stories true? Taylor already said Betty is the love of James' life. James had to fight to get Betty back! And she believes in a Happy End. (SEE THIS LINK)
Are we getting a Kaylor reunion or was that it...?! Anything to add?
(most parts by lavenderfishboy!)
Taylor + Joe Jonas || July to October 2008
Dianna + Alex Pettyfer || August 2010 to February 2011
Karlie + Joe Jonas + Alex Pettyfer || July 2011
Toni Garrn + Alex Pettyfer || 2020 until now
Karlie + bff Toni Garrn
Small world.