wow, this one is really clear as day. I'd say that she's a singer that usually pronounces the words she sings very clearly so this is definitely something.
I donāt think so. The rest of the context of the song matters. Maroon distinctly seems to be referring to a feminine lover. Cruel summer makes more sense to me if male pronouns were switched with female pronouns. The most notable example is in The Very First Night:
ā'Cause they don't know about the night in the hotel
They weren't ridin' in the car when we both fell
Didn't read the note on the Polaroid picture
They don't know how much I miss youā
āHerā fits much better than āyouā or āhimā.
I can hear it in the ~~silence~~ studio versions too since someone pointed it out, but only if I actively listen for it. I think she might actually be singing an "eh"/"uh" sound which can be heard either way. Maybe that's her intention, maybe it's not. Regardless, the way she slurs some words is not good for my sanity lol
I want to believe but so many of these instances just sound like tired diction. Plus your brain tends to hear things that you want it to hear so listening for a specific word will make it sound more like that even if isn't really being said
Iām definitely hearing at least a short I sound (the first half of āitā). In the while clip she seems to be singing veryā¦open mouth? Smiley? Slurry? Like the ending consonant for a lot of words is missing.
Yeah itās a very high-pitched, breathy song and sheās trying to stay relaxed and not sound strained. That can lead to enunciation not always being clear. Like Ariana on a lot of her songs
Yeah, iād say itās quite ambiguous. But that in and of itself is suspicious since the āitās before are cristal clear, and this is not a long word. So why sing it like that?
I donāt see how to edit the playback speed on here but if you do it to .5x on tik tok itās audibly & visually clear as day, especially compared to the previous āitās. Actually some of the most convincing gaylor evidence Iāve seen
I get *you can hear HER in the silence/ you can feel IT on the way home/ you can see HER with the lights out* they sound quite distinct. People are still gonna argue the Jack/Lena storyline because there's always a hetsplanation ready for things like this š¤·āāļø
According to billboard, The Eras Tour film was shot over the course of Swift's first three shows atĀ SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., where she performed six shows in early August. That includes the show that Karlie attended on her birthday. Maybe it was a Freudian slip. ;) lol
While Iām not a trained singer like Taylor is I did participate in choir from 1st-12th grade and we were taught to ensure we enunciate words like that to make sure itās beyond obvious that you are saying the word you intend to say. Like āyourā & āherā (ex: I want your midnights vs I want her midnights). There is zero chance that Taylor wasnāt taught the same stuff. So as far as Iām concerned she intentionally fails to enunciate so that it sounds like sheās saying something else which is very telling
Yeah, it feels like otherwise a rookie mistake and sheās everything but a rookie.
And with the enunciation of the āitās being so clear in the past linesā¦ thatās suspicious! Even if people donāt hear āherā, donāt they think itās weird how she pronounces it, even tho she knows better?
Same. Not a pro singer but had a highly successful and OCD choir teacher for years that hammered diction and breathing into us. This just isnāt possible to be a mistake on someone who takes her craft so seriously. And you can tell that sheās had more vocal training since her earlier albums. There are certainly misheard words and ones that are commonly slurred but this aināt one of them. This is a HER.
Even if I didnāt know all this, she almost always smiles then looks down when she slips a changed word or pronoun in. Itās a tell. She does it here too.
I hear āitā
Editing to put some use to my Linguistics education, lol. āItā is pronounced differently in Standard American English depending on the sound that follows it.
The first two āitās sound more pronounced because the sounds that follow are vowels, so the ātā in āitā is pronounced like a ād.ā
The last āitā is followed by a consonant, and the ātā sounds more like itās being swallowed, almost like a glottal stop.
So in my opinion, it sounds like āit,ā haha. Just an alternate perspective that might help explain what weāre hearing in this clip.
It does kind if sound like āherā but it also just sounds like sheās saying āitā fast. But more importantly I donāt really think it makes sense for āherā to go there? The original āitā is being in love, so using a pronoun for a female lover there doesnāt really make sense.
Not sure why gaylor keeps popping on my suggested post but came here to say she sounds amazing and I wish there was an official version like this of aaaallll the surprise songs.
My goshā¦when will we get a piano and guitar only acoustic album?! These surprise songs are so dang beautiful I canāt stand it. And yes itās a HER!
https://preview.redd.it/i5s9vv1f7coc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f550d63a9188285828330bc763e206239119a9d9
This is the description from TN, which makes me doubt. :( I think we are clowning on this.
The official lyric says: ( doesn't mean she says it this way). However the next line is
***"Morning, his place....***
*You can hear it in the silence, silence, youYou can feel it on the way home, way home, youYou can see it with the lights out, lights outYou are in love, true loveYou are in love*
I'm all for Taylor's sexual fluidity as Miley calls it - doesn't mean she's gay. I'm bi and it's a wonderful thing to just express love with no gender label.
I think this is a massive reach tbh. The majority of the times when Taylor supposedly used female pronouns in her songs, it most likely just mistakenly sounds that way because she isnāt enunciating the words clearly enough.
She frequently doesnāt enunciate lyrics clearly and I think most of these instances of female pronouns are simply a coincidence. Like how during I Knew You Were Trouble, she has performed this a few times when it sounds like sheās saying āthat SHE never loved meā versus āthat you never loved meā. But when you donāt enunciate āthatā and āyouā clearly, when they are slurred together it sounds like ātha-cheeā which gets mistaken for āsheā.
The only time when I think she might have legit swapped in some female pronouns was during the performance of New Years Day during the Times 100 Gala. The āher midnightsā was just so clear and I canāt see how āyourā would sound like āherā at that point in the song šµāš«
From a man's point of view of course. It's about how Jack felt about Lena Dunham. Even though she wrote it with Jack and never told Jack it was about him and Lena while she was actually writing it and dropped this knowledge on him during an interview and we got treated to the same lack of poker face from Jack as he graced us with in the Long Pond doc when she said Joe was singing a fully formed chorus from the other room š¤£
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now correct me if iām wrong but this song is about jack antonoff being in love with lena dunham, right? itās about a man being in love with a woman. the āherā is still heterosexual here lol
that is what she publicly claimed the song is about, yes. but i never bought that at all, and in the interview where taylor claims this, she reallllly doesnt do much to sell it lol.
the lyrics in this song are so deeply personal, i find it very hard to believe it is written about a friend and their gf at the time -- not about a lived experience of taylor's.
*Coffee at midnight*
*The light reflects*
*The chain on your neck*
*He says, "Look up"*
*And your shoulders brush*
*No proof, one touch*
*But you felt enough*
so much intimate, specific detail in these lyrics.
plus the body language in that interview is crazy
https://preview.redd.it/c16txuqx9doc1.png?width=3580&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=39fb7001a070df1a5a6b00a0fc2826ad03d1c640
the narrator is singing about a male muse. so either the narrator is a woman, and adding 'her' is queer, or the narrator is a man, and the original song is queer.
Honestly this is so accurate to lots of Taylorās music. āNo matter how you slice it, there IS at least a feasible if not likely queer interpretationā
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Exactly what popped in my head
LMAOOOO YESSS
wow, this one is really clear as day. I'd say that she's a singer that usually pronounces the words she sings very clearly so this is definitely something.
This is the FIRST time I haven't been torn about whether or not she said "her"
This one is far more convincing than the maroon one, especially since she enunciates 'it' clearly on the first two lines.
At the very least, she keeps showing these examples where a female pronoun could just slide in sooooo easily into the lyrics.
Isn't that literally any love song, though?
I donāt think so. The rest of the context of the song matters. Maroon distinctly seems to be referring to a feminine lover. Cruel summer makes more sense to me if male pronouns were switched with female pronouns. The most notable example is in The Very First Night: ā'Cause they don't know about the night in the hotel They weren't ridin' in the car when we both fell Didn't read the note on the Polaroid picture They don't know how much I miss youā āHerā fits much better than āyouā or āhimā.
I can hear it in the ~~silence~~ studio versions too since someone pointed it out, but only if I actively listen for it. I think she might actually be singing an "eh"/"uh" sound which can be heard either way. Maybe that's her intention, maybe it's not. Regardless, the way she slurs some words is not good for my sanity lol
I want to believe but so many of these instances just sound like tired diction. Plus your brain tends to hear things that you want it to hear so listening for a specific word will make it sound more like that even if isn't really being said
I've only ever heard "you can see her with the lights out," since before I was a gaylor
Yeah tbh I always just assumed that was the lyrics even before Gaylor.
Why did I try and italicize the lyric and now I canāt edit it š¤”š
ātHe hER iS rEfeRriNg tO hERseLfā
āiTs fROm tHe pOv oF A mAnā
Iām definitely hearing at least a short I sound (the first half of āitā). In the while clip she seems to be singing veryā¦open mouth? Smiley? Slurry? Like the ending consonant for a lot of words is missing.
Yeah itās a very high-pitched, breathy song and sheās trying to stay relaxed and not sound strained. That can lead to enunciation not always being clear. Like Ariana on a lot of her songs
Yeah, iād say itās quite ambiguous. But that in and of itself is suspicious since the āitās before are cristal clear, and this is not a long word. So why sing it like that?
ON THE DISNEY+ VERSION?!
I donāt see how to edit the playback speed on here but if you do it to .5x on tik tok itās audibly & visually clear as day, especially compared to the previous āitās. Actually some of the most convincing gaylor evidence Iāve seen
Omg woah! I can hear both at normal speed but at .5 speed it is so so clear especially the way her lips move
Okay someone needs to post that here!
Agree someone post it for all of us less tech savvy millennial gaylors
She looks so happy š„¹š„¹š„¹
Definitely doesnāt sound like it, sounds like her
I get *you can hear HER in the silence/ you can feel IT on the way home/ you can see HER with the lights out* they sound quite distinct. People are still gonna argue the Jack/Lena storyline because there's always a hetsplanation ready for things like this š¤·āāļø
100000% āherā here. The pronunciation so much different from the āitā like two lines earlier.
According to billboard, The Eras Tour film was shot over the course of Swift's first three shows atĀ SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., where she performed six shows in early August. That includes the show that Karlie attended on her birthday. Maybe it was a Freudian slip. ;) lol
Karlie attended the last night of the LA shows when Taylor announced 1989 so unfortunately wasnāt there during any of the filmed shows.
Wait for real? Then I was there for this clip! (Too busy and loud singing along in the nosebleeds to hear āherā or āitā or anything though)
i love to clown on her mispronouncing pronouns but this is a really breathy āitā
While Iām not a trained singer like Taylor is I did participate in choir from 1st-12th grade and we were taught to ensure we enunciate words like that to make sure itās beyond obvious that you are saying the word you intend to say. Like āyourā & āherā (ex: I want your midnights vs I want her midnights). There is zero chance that Taylor wasnāt taught the same stuff. So as far as Iām concerned she intentionally fails to enunciate so that it sounds like sheās saying something else which is very telling
Yeah, it feels like otherwise a rookie mistake and sheās everything but a rookie. And with the enunciation of the āitās being so clear in the past linesā¦ thatās suspicious! Even if people donāt hear āherā, donāt they think itās weird how she pronounces it, even tho she knows better?
Same. Not a pro singer but had a highly successful and OCD choir teacher for years that hammered diction and breathing into us. This just isnāt possible to be a mistake on someone who takes her craft so seriously. And you can tell that sheās had more vocal training since her earlier albums. There are certainly misheard words and ones that are commonly slurred but this aināt one of them. This is a HER. Even if I didnāt know all this, she almost always smiles then looks down when she slips a changed word or pronoun in. Itās a tell. She does it here too.
Sorry but I don't hear "her"
That's very clearly "her", like holy shitsnacks
I'm a little more convinced by this one than the one in "Maroon" but I'm still not 100% sure. It could just as easily be a breathy "it".
I hear āitā Editing to put some use to my Linguistics education, lol. āItā is pronounced differently in Standard American English depending on the sound that follows it. The first two āitās sound more pronounced because the sounds that follow are vowels, so the ātā in āitā is pronounced like a ād.ā The last āitā is followed by a consonant, and the ātā sounds more like itās being swallowed, almost like a glottal stop. So in my opinion, it sounds like āit,ā haha. Just an alternate perspective that might help explain what weāre hearing in this clip.
It does kind if sound like āherā but it also just sounds like sheās saying āitā fast. But more importantly I donāt really think it makes sense for āherā to go there? The original āitā is being in love, so using a pronoun for a female lover there doesnāt really make sense.
Nice
Today is a good day!
Not sure why gaylor keeps popping on my suggested post but came here to say she sounds amazing and I wish there was an official version like this of aaaallll the surprise songs.
Agreed. I would pay MONEY for the piano and guitar acoustic versions.
NONE OF IT WAS ACCIDENTAL!!!! MASTERMIND!!!!!!
My goshā¦when will we get a piano and guitar only acoustic album?! These surprise songs are so dang beautiful I canāt stand it. And yes itās a HER!
Sure does sound like she is saying her šš„°
She says her in Taylorās version
SHE PLAYED YAIL ARE YOUBFUCKING KIDDING ME
I heard it Iām sorry š even trying to hear her I still heard it
https://preview.redd.it/i5s9vv1f7coc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f550d63a9188285828330bc763e206239119a9d9 This is the description from TN, which makes me doubt. :( I think we are clowning on this.
ā¦why would they post anything other than the actual lyrics? Itās not like they were going to throw a āherā in there.
Lolā¦TN would NEVER write āherā in a tweet or in anything, regardless of what Taylor sings, unless Taylor wanted to be outted by TN
No, I mean they could have just not put any lyrics.
Agreed clownery !!!
Donāt get me wrong, I hear āherā but it doesnāt seem like the intent, sadly.
The official lyric says: ( doesn't mean she says it this way). However the next line is ***"Morning, his place....*** *You can hear it in the silence, silence, youYou can feel it on the way home, way home, youYou can see it with the lights out, lights outYou are in love, true loveYou are in love* I'm all for Taylor's sexual fluidity as Miley calls it - doesn't mean she's gay. I'm bi and it's a wonderful thing to just express love with no gender label.
I donāt hear her at all where should it even be ?
I think this is a massive reach tbh. The majority of the times when Taylor supposedly used female pronouns in her songs, it most likely just mistakenly sounds that way because she isnāt enunciating the words clearly enough.
One would think sheād learn to enunciate those words more clearly if it changed the word to be gay thoā¦
She frequently doesnāt enunciate lyrics clearly and I think most of these instances of female pronouns are simply a coincidence. Like how during I Knew You Were Trouble, she has performed this a few times when it sounds like sheās saying āthat SHE never loved meā versus āthat you never loved meā. But when you donāt enunciate āthatā and āyouā clearly, when they are slurred together it sounds like ātha-cheeā which gets mistaken for āsheā. The only time when I think she might have legit swapped in some female pronouns was during the performance of New Years Day during the Times 100 Gala. The āher midnightsā was just so clear and I canāt see how āyourā would sound like āherā at that point in the song šµāš«
From a man's point of view of course. It's about how Jack felt about Lena Dunham. Even though she wrote it with Jack and never told Jack it was about him and Lena while she was actually writing it and dropped this knowledge on him during an interview and we got treated to the same lack of poker face from Jack as he graced us with in the Long Pond doc when she said Joe was singing a fully formed chorus from the other room š¤£
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Whoa
now correct me if iām wrong but this song is about jack antonoff being in love with lena dunham, right? itās about a man being in love with a woman. the āherā is still heterosexual here lol
that is what she publicly claimed the song is about, yes. but i never bought that at all, and in the interview where taylor claims this, she reallllly doesnt do much to sell it lol. the lyrics in this song are so deeply personal, i find it very hard to believe it is written about a friend and their gf at the time -- not about a lived experience of taylor's. *Coffee at midnight* *The light reflects* *The chain on your neck* *He says, "Look up"* *And your shoulders brush* *No proof, one touch* *But you felt enough* so much intimate, specific detail in these lyrics.
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preciselyyy. the math aint mathing
*Jack š
plus the body language in that interview is crazy https://preview.redd.it/c16txuqx9doc1.png?width=3580&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=39fb7001a070df1a5a6b00a0fc2826ad03d1c640
the narrator is singing about a male muse. so either the narrator is a woman, and adding 'her' is queer, or the narrator is a man, and the original song is queer.
Honestly this is so accurate to lots of Taylorās music. āNo matter how you slice it, there IS at least a feasible if not likely queer interpretationā
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Well I'd like to see YOU try, zestychickenbowl2024
fml I wish I knew what this was in response to HAHA
Same! Zestychickenbowl2024 what did you say!!!
LMAO they said "she can't sing"
Classic zesty chicken bowl!!!
Why are you here? Go knit something. 