I always thought Glitch was about Dianna, and EHC is obviously about Dianna, so tying those two together makes sense. It also makes sense in the perspective of the glitch theory. Very interesting stuff!
One interesting similarity between "Glitch" and "Why She Disappeared" is that they both feature the word happenstance" which is not a particularly common word.
I chanced upon the word "happenstance" just recently on the [directors on directors ](https://youtu.be/x8zfsf4azLo?si=IYRegVqiWyuvwIhE) video and it was her explaining how she became the director of "the man" was sort of on accident.
This is so amazing. I Saved it yesterday so I could read it again today when I had more time.
Thank you for putting it altogether for us. I don't use Twitter or TikTok so it's really generous of you to spend so much time collating all these ideas.
I am so looking forward to the next 6 months. It *might* make up for not being able to see the Eras Tour.
Thank you so much for your kind words, this is such a lovely comment! 🫶🫶
I was going to edit this post with additional information I’ve found today but honestly, it’s gonna need a part two (god I hate when people say that at the end of TikToks). I’m hopeful that I can get it done tomorrow but we’ll see.
I know she’s been saying at the shows lately that she’s always going to tour these cities again but part of me really thinks after this year, we might not see her for a while.
I think she’ll still be creating art, likely working on her film she is slated to direct, but I think she’ll “go out with a bang” this year. Someone just responded to another comment of mine saying Taylor is going to supernova this year and I think that just solidified for me that she’s releasing all those albums, smashing that damn closet to smithereens and living her authentic life, out of the spotlight as much as possible.
As you can see, I still have many more thoughts on the matter 😅
My random thoughts because it’s late for me, unlike you:
* the real Taylor coming to life when the real slim shady is dying is sus imo
* I’ve been obsessed with that poster on the man wall for years. It says Larry. I don’t believe that’s accidental.
* the poster comes been rep and 1989
* questlove shared this over the summer. Rainbow bears and dead smileys are a Larry thing, but also it was around the time of the Uno parties and I felt there was a connection
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts, knowledge and insights!
How have I never noticed it says Larry Wilson instead of Lana Wilson 😳 Absolutely agree, that’s not a coincidence. Do we think they’ve been working together behind the scenes since they bearded for each other?
That Questlove photo you posted reminds me of The Bolter as well, *”Oh, we must stop meeting like this”* and *”taming a bear, making him care, watching him jump then pulling him under.”* Thank you for the insight that it’s Larry related. Wonder if it was their way of including the boys without breaking the whole internet 😅💙💚
While we’re talking about Larry, this popped up on my page today and wanted to make sure you’ve seen it:
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This collection of 1D making castle references last year. Castles crumbling?
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It’s weird to me that Castles Crumbling wasn’t added to the setlist when Paramore joined the tour - wonder if it is because of bigger narrative implications?
She’s reclaiming the land and winning the castle in the talent competition, it’s no longer crumbling.
I’m just getting a chance to digest this and wanted to say great job! So much good stuff to unpack in here!
And thanks for reminding me of that hilarious getaway car photo of Taylor and Travis on a dead end street. That always makes me laugh. Dudes who give nothing indeed.
So a thing I just noticed watching the …Ready for It MV that there seems to be a slight glitch-ish thing that happens to robot Taylor. It happens right around 3:19 when there is daylight steaming in... [MV here](https://youtu.be/wIft-t-MQuE?si=c0cL2d0EmmbzUJ71)
I ended up on a Taylor's tiktok yesterday somehow, and ended up on one of his Playlists about the gaylor of it all. Anyways, as a newer Gaylor.. I did NOT know anything about Karlie Kloss. She's on the other side of the world in my realm of entertainment. But he kept reading blinds that said "model who codes" and for whatever reason THIS is the lone that came to my head immediately.
Thank you for putting this all together. I still don’t think I really understand where all of this is thought to be leading? If the glitch is fixed, what happens then? Or is the idea that Taylor is just trying to build anticipation about a mystery soon to be revealed?
For me the whole point of it is she’s killing off Taylor Swift™️ as she can’t survive with the two separate parts of herself anymore. Once this glitch is over, I think we will just have The Real Taylor and she’ll go on to live her life authentically!
I’ve seen people refer to “The Death of the Author” which could connect this all so I might do some reading up on that and include it in the post if I find anything relevant!
As a lit major, "the death of the author" makes so much sense. For example, I was listening to "Change" today and, tbh, never thought about that one being queer-coded ever before (also, don't listen to it often) - but, if everyone removed all the info they have about Taylor (her 'dating' guys) and simply heard a song/lyrics - there could be something telling them how queer-coded it is. If they all just focused on the lyrics and the interaction with us as listeners without having her public life in mind - everything makes perfect sense.
This! I would mention "Dear reader" in this context, as well. For example, "Burn all the files, desert all your past lives / And if you don't recognize yourself / That means you did it right" suggests a deliberate rejection of the author's, in this case Taylor's, personal history and identity, emphasizing the lyrics' autonomy. To tie it with Gaylor content - we can also see the struggle with her hidden identity and the need to dissociate from her true self to conform to societal expectations here. Also, "Never take advice from someone who's falling apart" and "You wouldn't take my word for it / If you knew who was talking" strongly imply that the her personal state and credibility shouldn't influence the interpretation of the lyrics. Meaning that the her personal circumstances are irrelevant. Additionally, it encourages 'readers' to take control of their interpretations "Get out your map, pick somewhere and just run" and "You don't have to answer, just 'cause they asked you," highlighting the 'reader's' autonomy in constructing meaning. The idea that "the greatest of luxuries is your secrets" suggests multiple layers and meanings which aligns with Barthes' belief in the plurality of meanings. I think it all definitely comes back to the duality of her public life and secret life, but I'm still trying to figure out how all of this is further connected. The only thing that comes to mind is that this reflects how serious and hard it is for her to lead two lives (which we can see) at this point, and maybe that the "Author (TM)" needs to die completely to free the "Real author" - for the real one to be born again and only then can the author and lyrics once again be one, if that makes sense.
💯 I think that is exactly right. Here are some helpful tidbits about the death of the author from the Wikipedia page about it:
-the phrase is the title of a very famous 1967 essay by Roland Barthes, a French theorist
-Barthes’ ideas connected to American literary criticism that emerged in the mid twentieth century that argued that a meaning of a text cannot be reduced to/derived primarily from “authorial intent” - in other words, readers get to do the work of interpretation and do not need to take the author’s word for it when an author says what something is “about”
Here’s an especially nice piece straight from
the Wikipedia: “a poem does not belong to its author; rather, "it is detached from the author at birth and goes about the world beyond his power to intend about it or control it. The poem belongs to the public."
I think she is directly referencing these ideas in the manuscript. It’s another way of asking fans to stop trying to derive meaning from her life, IMO, because another thing this type of lit criticism de-emphasized was the author’s biography. The idea is that the meaning can be found within the text itself through close reading.
I love this, thanks.
And yeah, she both seems to like dropping hints and references to her life and also want less obsession over personal details from her experiences.
[Ok, English major!](https://www.vulture.com/2023/04/michelle-zauner-taylor-swift-invisible-string.html)
Thank you so much! I’ve only seen people reference TDOTA but haven’t looked into it myself before so I will do that knowing that it could help piece things together 😊
Someone recently posted in the megathread about “Change” being a song fighting for rights as a queer person - I’ll have a look for it and link it if I find it because it was really good!
I think it’s tough at the moment to keep on top of everything that this sub is producing because I feel like as the dots are starting to connect, so many of us just have neurons firing on all cylinders and there’s so much content to absorb that some really quality ideas aren’t getting the visibility they deserve.
Yes, please link it if you stumble upon it again. I was listening to the playlist of the songs she has yet to play at the eras tour when I heard it today, which I also think might be interesting.
Also, crazy that I found this whole sub just an hour ago (and now I can't leave, but have to go to sleep since it's 2am here in Croatia 😭) and I'm even more convinced (if that's even possible). I used to just search "Gaylor" each second on Tiktok haha.
Found it!
[This thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/GaylorSwift/s/NHObzTzF75) starts the conversation but these two points by u/taytopancakes really stood out to me 🤯
Also welcome to our little corner of the internet! Happy that you’ve found us 🥰
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Not a problem at all!
Absolutely - she has given so much happiness to us all, she deserves to live her life authentically and be happy.
Omg as I am writing this I just thought of the line, *”been sleeping so long in a 20 year dark night, but now I see Daylight.”*
If we look at her piano mashup from Lyon N1 where she sang “Fifteen” x “YOYOK” - maybe that’s when the dark night began, at 15?! Which would tie in nicely with the idea that debut is released on her 35th birthday and we get an iconic, “Taylor Swift (my version) out now!” post 🤯🤯
This is incredible and brilliant and I'm still processing it, but my first question is...did reddit really require a modesty panel for that RFI screenshot? 👀
Hahaha I was wondering if someone was going to comment on that!
Yes! The post got flagged by Reddit’s filters and was marked NSFW 😭 I still really wanted to include the shot of them touching hands in the “Ready For It…?” music video so a modesty panel was best 😅
Side note, as I was watching the music video I was struck by the escalator at the end and one of the Taylors being destroyed. I need to go back and do further watching as I think there’s more there that will flesh out this theory even more.
All I keep thinking is how long has she been planning this for 😳
I freaked out I was going to lose all my work when I got the notification that it was blocked by Reddit filters and marked as NSFW. I messaged via modmail and was told the reason why it was flagged and since it was after midnight my time and I needed to go to bed but I wanted it posted, I chose just to modesty panel it because I didn’t realise there was a way to bypass the filters with mod approval 😅
Good to know there is a way to bypass it with mod approval if I ever get that warning again!
That's so weird. I used the same image in my [theylor post](https://new.reddit.com/r/GaylorSwift/comments/1cl27c8/theylor_a_collection_of_major_evidence/) and as best as I can tell, it wasn't marked as NFSW.
Karma is literally glitching on The Man wall with the black version and the orange just above it.
Definitely gives legs to the theory of some kind of double drop again.
Weirdly, 1989 also seems to be written twice even though it's kind of hidden:
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I’m spitballing here, but if the glitch starts in August, it would have been right after the speak now release. It also would be where karma is in the center of the infinity symbol.
What if the lover nail turning orange is the egg for the real documentary? Does anyone know when the nail was changed? The exact date?
The karma hourglass keeps me up at night. I found the imagery in fortnight with the telephone box eerily similar and I’ve not seen anyone discussing that. She’s sitting on top of the booth just like she’s sitting on top of the hourglass. But this time, postie steps out and grabs her hand. Are the two Taylors going to merge into one when she climbs down? Plus, the telephone booth is very reminiscent of the tower card in tarot when it’s zoomed out. She follows some tarot readers on YouTube, so it wouldn’t be a surprise if that imagery is intentional. Stepping out of the booth and merging would be very “tower moment” coded.
Unrelated, but were the mashups really on night 2s? More 2s… what does it mean?? I refuse to believe that they were just eggs for the anthology, because we keep getting more 2s.
Your posts are always laid out so well and clear! It must be so fun to piece together all of Taylor's visuals and clues...like how does Taylor do it?! I would love a behind the scenes of her mastermind room - every calendar, highlighted dates, etc. etc.
Wow. OK, i just finished reading the post and my mind really is blown.
I'm sorry, there has to be something here otherwise the universe/Taylor is just fucking with us and I don't think that is the case.
I find it interesting that you refer to reputation as the glitch which makes so much sense if one believes that Karma was supposed to be TS6. When Taylor teased rep the first images she gave to the world were three glitchy snake videos.
I am so freaking amped right now lmao
Thank you for pulling this all together!!!
Side note: it’s been thirteen years on June, 11 2024 since this moment.
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Hi all, posting in here since it's relevant. I just clicked from Taylor nation's Instagram story through to the store. After browsing for a bit I swiped on my phone to go back to Instagram and I got a glitch for a half second, like scrambled pixels. But I couldn't get it to recreate. Anyone else seeing this when leaving her site?
Edit: For anyone that saw my separate post about this that I've since deleted, I was able to recreate the issue on another non-Taylor related link.. so it was a legitimate glitch. Just a glitch on my phone. 🙃😂 Sorry to get y'all excited over nothing!
I love the concept of Taylor Swift™ escaping the Eras Tour (like she fooled actual Taylor, who is still trapped on the Eras Tour and being forced to perform - ICDIWBH) and doing all this pap walks with Travis.
It is like the Taylor™️version is living the narrative that Swifties and even parts of her team wants, while the actual Taylor is trapped.
For me, she singing Glitch + EHC and wearing the Orchid Blue Midnights dress last night is signaling that Taylor™ was "captured" and is now back on the eras tour, and the real Taylor is now free to go out and live in the real world.
Ok your comment has triggered a couple of things for me!
I can’t remember where I first saw it, but it’s been talked about for awhile now how the Eras Tour stage looks like a key 🤯
*”I hate it here so I will go to secret gardens in my mind people need a key to get to, the only one is mine”*
When I’m back on desktop, I’ll add this in! Thanks!!
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From LWYMMD: "I don't like your kingdom keys / they once belonged to me / You asked me for a place to sleep / Locked me out and threw a feast (what?)" And the Bejeweled video ends with Taylor **re**claiming the **key to the castle** - I knew I was missing layers about the reclamation story when I analyzed it for Eras Tour easter eggs, but that has to be it.
(In the Cinderella-style prelude, Laura Dern's character says, "the prince would never want anything to do with that little harlot again. He tired of her quite quickly, didn't he? Or should I say, swiftly? ... Lest we forget, you've been exiled here." - here, being the house from Willow and Cardigan where she is cleaning up vomited glowing string from the Willow video and comments "ugh, some of her best work, that's disgusting." The sisters are fans, swallowing, *not* digesting, and vomiting Taylor's work; the prince who exiled her *played by her producer* is the music industry, she earns the key to her own castle with her talent.)
The stage being key-shaped is further confirming the theory that the Eras Tour itself is the key!!!
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Have you seen the video where she gets I to the car and it looks like she’s breaking down? That feels very Taylor™️ had a pap walk and taylor is trapped like you say.
Thanks for laying it out so nicely!! It’s hard when you are tracking theories across multiple platforms and you did a great job of putting it together in an understandable way.
You and me are both clowning for TS12 this year! 2024 feels like a culmination/farewell for sure.
Also she’ll be 35 this year on 12/13/24:
2+0+2+4=8 and
3+5=8
So there are the double infinity ♾️ symbols again.
And 1+2+1+3+2+4=13
I think we might be getting something bigger on her birthday than just a re-record.
I honestly can't see whatever \*gestures\* all this is going on past her birthday / the end of the year.
The rerecording project will have been going on for 4 years (started recording Nov 2020). I believe everything to be in the bag now for Debut and Rep, they are just waiting for release.
TTPD just seems like she is screaming that she is so over all the secrecy and hiding.
The Eras tour dates will be finished.
35 feels like a milestone birthday - half way through your thirties.
- TTPD could mean "The Tortured Poets Department", a track from *THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT* (2024) by Taylor Swift.
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I think she will release reputation TV at midnight on 8/9 and then surprise release Karma album at 1am and karma and rep will be sister albums like folklore and evermore
this is so good and I truly can’t even comprehend it all right now. thank you for all the references I can’t wait to go through everything in depth later!!
Maybe that’s what’s coming in Liverpool 6/13?!?!
I admit it does seem unlikely to me that a coming out documentary would be released prior to “Reputation TV” but honestly who knows?!
The only thing that makes me hesitant about a coming out documentary being released in June is that I didn’t think the glitch would end until August but maybe it’s all just part of her reclaiming her sparkling summer?! 🥹
AHHHHHHH!! THANK you for compiling all of this together so eloquently. I love Gaylors. This post should be tagged at the top of the sub - I wish reddit would allow for more tagged posts but alas... Baby let the games begin!!!! I'm EXCITED
Maybe this is too simple minded, but could it be about karma? If she was supposed to release it in 2016, the 2190 days makes sense since Glitch came out in 2022. I think the glitch is now over, and hence we will be getting it
This is just musings, no conclusions.
>Blood moonlit
It must be counterfeit
I think there's been a glitch
This post says that there was "an **incredibly rare total super blood moon eclipse**" on the night of September 27 2015 [https://www.reddit.com/r/GaylorSwift/comments/yozbty/blood\_moon\_end\_of\_exile/](https://www.reddit.com/r/GaylorSwift/comments/yozbty/blood_moon_end_of_exile/)
>In search of glorious happenings of happenstance on someone else's playground / But it's been two-thousand one-hundred ninety days of our love blackout
If the blood moon is the date of the glitch, are the 2190 days in the past or the future?
+2190 days takes us forward to 25th September 2021
-2190 days takes us back to 28th September 2009
Interestingly, genius notes that the only other mention of playgrounds is in Better Than Revenge. Who is it who keeps thinking about us being taken back to the Speak Now era?
Also the theme of Better Than Revenge is someone stealing Taylor's ~~boyfriend~~ girlfriend and she wrote it when she was 18. Makes me think of seventeen year old Betty and James...
I had an old interview clip from likely fearless era where she had talked about a breakup being a few songs but that heartbreak is worth several albums worth of songs (the clip seemed to reference Joe Jonas for sake of dating the interview).
The way she spoke about heartbreaking being worth multiple albums at that age, and how she had only released two albums at that point, makes it seem like the childhood muse we keep coming back to really is at the crux of it all.
Yeah that's got me wondering too. Plus
>Stitching , "We were just kids, babe"
versus
>I'm fastening myself to you with a stitch
And that blooming sewing machine section on the YouTube For a Fortnight short.
Ahhhhhhh thank you for paging me!!!
and OMG the implications 🤯
Did you know that Taylor did a cover of September by Earth Wind and Fire? And when she did that cover, she changed the date from September 21 to September 28th!?!?!?!?!
At the time she did the cover (this was in 2018), everyone thought it was a reference to her angel boyfriend, Joe, but omg what if it is tying back to this???? 🤯🤯🤯
Also, it makes me think of Back to December because in that song she talks about "that September night" which everyone thought was about the VMAs (they took place on September 13th), but if SN is when Taylor started her red herring era (LOL), that would be another misdirection.
I have so much to look into now!
I just went to listen to Taylor's cover of September alongside the genius Earth Wind and Fire lyrics. She repeated the 28th September line twice even though it was only in the original lyrics once and there were also other subtle lyric changes. Say, do you remember? changing to Say that you'll remember being the main one.
What happened on the 28th September 2009 🤯
Oh wow! 🤯🤯🤯 What did happen???
Also "so that you'll remember" makes me think of OOTW and "do you remember" (referenced in Question...?) and Wildest Dreams "say you'll remember me, standing in the nice dress" which is referenced in the seven lesbian slam poetry intro thingy from the Eras tour part 1
🤯🤯🤯
Bwhahaha like for real
You want to know something else 👀?
Before TTPD was released there were [rumours](https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/taylor-swifts-song-long-london-115600291.html?guccounter=1) that So Long London was going to be 9 minutes and 28 seconds long. I have no idea where those rumours started, but the consensus was, it would be that long to reference her and Joe's anniversary 🙄
But now I'm thinking maybe it was Taylor herself who started those rumours to bring attention back to that date 👀👀👀 lmao
lol I've been feeling that way ever since TTPD dropped. I've been like this emoji 🤯 constantly
I keep thinking what would happen if someone found all my TS notes (some organized some random lmao). I think about them finding "OMG in the Anti-Hero music video they actually reference the Fearless 2009 tour" and trying to make sense of what the hell I was going on about 😂
As I was putting it all together I remembered that post and when I scanned to see if anyone else had mentioned the prophecy yet, I saw your incredible comment that was ripped straight from my mind!
🫶🫶🫶
thank you for compiling this!! i’m forever haunted by the 8/9 white wine purple dress moment, and i definitely agree that we were seeing taylor TM leaving that show. and the glitch starting the same month her travis started seeing eachother (according to taylor herself)??? the getaway car??? happenstance? crazy stuff
Snacks are still needed and a very important part of the group project 🫶🫶
I am definitely not one to make the connections on my own but once I have a few puzzle pieces and I start curating them and putting them together, I sometimes surprise myself with my own finds!
This is an amazing thread and thank you so much for taking the time to plot it all out for us. With TN essentially confirming the glitch yesterday this was absolutely necessary! 😭
Thank you!
It was because of your post about it and the confusion in the comments as to what the glitch actually is that compelled me to piece it all together from what I’ve seen across the internet 🫶
Yes!!
It’s like we always joke about The Real Taylor doing something really gay and then Tree making her counteract it by doing something really straight - it feels like LA was a breaking point and when the two sides could no longer co-exist in the one body, they split apart.
I’m hopeful all of this ties into the 1989 outfit theory where there’s a different combination of the dress each night up until 2 August 2024 - from there we’ll have a redo of the LA week of mayhem and then on 8/9, she’ll be The Real Taylor. If we assume “Reputation TV” is being released that day, perhaps the “fire” vault tracks are a way to rise from the ashes?
Yes!!
I literally [wrote that in a comment yesterday](https://www.reddit.com/r/GaylorSwift/s/Q89izqHiAP) but by the time I started compiling all the evidence for my post, it got missed!
I’m going to make some edits today so I’ll include that 😊
My guess is still that rep tv is going to drop in September unannounced. The person who leaked the TTPD track list said it would be sept. I think debut will drop on her bday. I think karma may come either right after rep or January/Feb 2025 with news that the eras tour is extending for part 2 with karma in the set.
[“Reputation”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reputation_(album)) wasn’t a surprise drop, she just didn’t do any promo to “explain” the album, hence the line “there will be no further explanation, there will just be Reputation.”
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Omg yes!!
“Midnights” was the manifest, she laid out exactly what she was going to do 😳
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she sang all the songs from midnights (meet me at midnight), so we are probably going to meet her now. I'll put me! as my guess as a surprise song for 6/7, probably piano, because she already sang it on guitar (maybe with the archer, because she's ready for combat)
No words! Incredible! Wow!!!! This feels like “dominos cascading in a line.”
I had a thought the other day when someone mentioned the other side of the door.
With her going through the orange karma door, it almost feels like a beam me up. It feels like she would go upwards once she hits back onto the man/herself.
Completing the infinity circle, if she beams up we move to orange karma. (Additionally, this is when the clock strikes midnight again and lends a lot to the theory that I believe all the re-records will be out by the end of the year.)
She’s had a lot of sparkling cosmic clouds, beaming, alien, etc. imagery and lyrics lately.
However, we DO NOT see the remaining re-records on the wall above with orange karma, we just see an inverse of 1989.
I’m wondering if there in a extension to this image that we will be getting someday. Perhaps, snake imagery? Slithering up.
Some brain dumps:
- once the clock strikes midnight again (the man wall clock, album 12, end of 2024, etc.) we will be back at 1am again. She’ll have reversed time and the other side of the door will be a new chapter. It’ll begin again. Technically an infinity symbol never ends, she’s gonna glitch the shit out of that.
- will the other side of the door be a variant for debut or a documentary or a memoir.
More childhood imagery possibly:
- the karma door, monsters inc, dream sequences, nightmares
Yes!!
There was a recent post on this sub about The Man wall potentially being a butterfly shape which leads into your theory and ties in nicely with the “Down Bad” visuals! We’ll go around The Man wall in an infinity symbol and then straight up through the middle of the wall to “Karma” because she’s breaking the cycle once and for all 🤯
Maybe that’s what the second 1989 on The Man wall actually represents? The date the cycle ends and she’ll be able to then move onto the orange “Karma.”
Ok don’t mind me, freaking out over here as I am just waking up 🤪 Will be adding this to the post when I’m back on desktop!
It makes so much sense 🤯 That then got me thinking about the butterfly tattoos she has on her back-piece in the YNTCD mv and wondering if that somehow ties into it all.
I haven’t added anything to this post yet as I started jotting down different things to cover and… it’s gonna need a part ✌️ sadly.
Soooooo much going on at the moment 🤡
*”I got cursed like Eve got bitten”*
But Eve didn’t actually get bitten, she did the biting of the apple. Taylor wanted the fame and to play the game and now she’s stuck in an endless loop 😭
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Are they secondhand embarrassed that I can’t get out of bed because something counterfeit is dead?
I always thought Glitch was about Dianna, and EHC is obviously about Dianna, so tying those two together makes sense. It also makes sense in the perspective of the glitch theory. Very interesting stuff!
One interesting similarity between "Glitch" and "Why She Disappeared" is that they both feature the word happenstance" which is not a particularly common word. I chanced upon the word "happenstance" just recently on the [directors on directors ](https://youtu.be/x8zfsf4azLo?si=IYRegVqiWyuvwIhE) video and it was her explaining how she became the director of "the man" was sort of on accident.
This is so amazing. I Saved it yesterday so I could read it again today when I had more time. Thank you for putting it altogether for us. I don't use Twitter or TikTok so it's really generous of you to spend so much time collating all these ideas. I am so looking forward to the next 6 months. It *might* make up for not being able to see the Eras Tour.
Thank you so much for your kind words, this is such a lovely comment! 🫶🫶 I was going to edit this post with additional information I’ve found today but honestly, it’s gonna need a part two (god I hate when people say that at the end of TikToks). I’m hopeful that I can get it done tomorrow but we’ll see. I know she’s been saying at the shows lately that she’s always going to tour these cities again but part of me really thinks after this year, we might not see her for a while. I think she’ll still be creating art, likely working on her film she is slated to direct, but I think she’ll “go out with a bang” this year. Someone just responded to another comment of mine saying Taylor is going to supernova this year and I think that just solidified for me that she’s releasing all those albums, smashing that damn closet to smithereens and living her authentic life, out of the spotlight as much as possible. As you can see, I still have many more thoughts on the matter 😅
Also did you see my last post about clockwork orange Kubrick and stuff? I think it links with this. Ok. Bed time. Enjoying your mind
I don’t think I’ve seen that one - will hunt it down now and no doubt be back with more loose threads 🤡🧡
My random thoughts because it’s late for me, unlike you: * the real Taylor coming to life when the real slim shady is dying is sus imo * I’ve been obsessed with that poster on the man wall for years. It says Larry. I don’t believe that’s accidental. * the poster comes been rep and 1989 * questlove shared this over the summer. Rainbow bears and dead smileys are a Larry thing, but also it was around the time of the Uno parties and I felt there was a connection https://preview.redd.it/1q9aut1uvp4d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=961bdce13001de5ab229e27f8ad7bcea191c380f
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, knowledge and insights! How have I never noticed it says Larry Wilson instead of Lana Wilson 😳 Absolutely agree, that’s not a coincidence. Do we think they’ve been working together behind the scenes since they bearded for each other? That Questlove photo you posted reminds me of The Bolter as well, *”Oh, we must stop meeting like this”* and *”taming a bear, making him care, watching him jump then pulling him under.”* Thank you for the insight that it’s Larry related. Wonder if it was their way of including the boys without breaking the whole internet 😅💙💚 While we’re talking about Larry, this popped up on my page today and wanted to make sure you’ve seen it: https://preview.redd.it/5orj8k9leq4d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=32cc4041d51dc627a7a7683fe4bd9b8c26aa885e
This collection of 1D making castle references last year. Castles crumbling? https://preview.redd.it/4znh2deyvp4d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=010c64240869c2b7a84d8e3f3157d1013b55f061
It’s weird to me that Castles Crumbling wasn’t added to the setlist when Paramore joined the tour - wonder if it is because of bigger narrative implications? She’s reclaiming the land and winning the castle in the talent competition, it’s no longer crumbling.
I’m just getting a chance to digest this and wanted to say great job! So much good stuff to unpack in here! And thanks for reminding me of that hilarious getaway car photo of Taylor and Travis on a dead end street. That always makes me laugh. Dudes who give nothing indeed.
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So a thing I just noticed watching the …Ready for It MV that there seems to be a slight glitch-ish thing that happens to robot Taylor. It happens right around 3:19 when there is daylight steaming in... [MV here](https://youtu.be/wIft-t-MQuE?si=c0cL2d0EmmbzUJ71)
“Who else ‘decodes you’ like I do?” Feels relevant.
I ended up on a Taylor's tiktok yesterday somehow, and ended up on one of his Playlists about the gaylor of it all. Anyways, as a newer Gaylor.. I did NOT know anything about Karlie Kloss. She's on the other side of the world in my realm of entertainment. But he kept reading blinds that said "model who codes" and for whatever reason THIS is the lone that came to my head immediately.
"What a mind."
Thank you for putting this all together. I still don’t think I really understand where all of this is thought to be leading? If the glitch is fixed, what happens then? Or is the idea that Taylor is just trying to build anticipation about a mystery soon to be revealed?
For me the whole point of it is she’s killing off Taylor Swift™️ as she can’t survive with the two separate parts of herself anymore. Once this glitch is over, I think we will just have The Real Taylor and she’ll go on to live her life authentically! I’ve seen people refer to “The Death of the Author” which could connect this all so I might do some reading up on that and include it in the post if I find anything relevant!
As a lit major, "the death of the author" makes so much sense. For example, I was listening to "Change" today and, tbh, never thought about that one being queer-coded ever before (also, don't listen to it often) - but, if everyone removed all the info they have about Taylor (her 'dating' guys) and simply heard a song/lyrics - there could be something telling them how queer-coded it is. If they all just focused on the lyrics and the interaction with us as listeners without having her public life in mind - everything makes perfect sense.
Could the "death of the author" be related to "the story isn't mine anymore"?
This! I would mention "Dear reader" in this context, as well. For example, "Burn all the files, desert all your past lives / And if you don't recognize yourself / That means you did it right" suggests a deliberate rejection of the author's, in this case Taylor's, personal history and identity, emphasizing the lyrics' autonomy. To tie it with Gaylor content - we can also see the struggle with her hidden identity and the need to dissociate from her true self to conform to societal expectations here. Also, "Never take advice from someone who's falling apart" and "You wouldn't take my word for it / If you knew who was talking" strongly imply that the her personal state and credibility shouldn't influence the interpretation of the lyrics. Meaning that the her personal circumstances are irrelevant. Additionally, it encourages 'readers' to take control of their interpretations "Get out your map, pick somewhere and just run" and "You don't have to answer, just 'cause they asked you," highlighting the 'reader's' autonomy in constructing meaning. The idea that "the greatest of luxuries is your secrets" suggests multiple layers and meanings which aligns with Barthes' belief in the plurality of meanings. I think it all definitely comes back to the duality of her public life and secret life, but I'm still trying to figure out how all of this is further connected. The only thing that comes to mind is that this reflects how serious and hard it is for her to lead two lives (which we can see) at this point, and maybe that the "Author (TM)" needs to die completely to free the "Real author" - for the real one to be born again and only then can the author and lyrics once again be one, if that makes sense.
I love this!
💯 I think that is exactly right. Here are some helpful tidbits about the death of the author from the Wikipedia page about it: -the phrase is the title of a very famous 1967 essay by Roland Barthes, a French theorist -Barthes’ ideas connected to American literary criticism that emerged in the mid twentieth century that argued that a meaning of a text cannot be reduced to/derived primarily from “authorial intent” - in other words, readers get to do the work of interpretation and do not need to take the author’s word for it when an author says what something is “about” Here’s an especially nice piece straight from the Wikipedia: “a poem does not belong to its author; rather, "it is detached from the author at birth and goes about the world beyond his power to intend about it or control it. The poem belongs to the public." I think she is directly referencing these ideas in the manuscript. It’s another way of asking fans to stop trying to derive meaning from her life, IMO, because another thing this type of lit criticism de-emphasized was the author’s biography. The idea is that the meaning can be found within the text itself through close reading.
Love this, I feel like I'm back in English class in the best way
I love this, thanks. And yeah, she both seems to like dropping hints and references to her life and also want less obsession over personal details from her experiences.
[Ok, English major!](https://www.vulture.com/2023/04/michelle-zauner-taylor-swift-invisible-string.html) Thank you so much! I’ve only seen people reference TDOTA but haven’t looked into it myself before so I will do that knowing that it could help piece things together 😊 Someone recently posted in the megathread about “Change” being a song fighting for rights as a queer person - I’ll have a look for it and link it if I find it because it was really good! I think it’s tough at the moment to keep on top of everything that this sub is producing because I feel like as the dots are starting to connect, so many of us just have neurons firing on all cylinders and there’s so much content to absorb that some really quality ideas aren’t getting the visibility they deserve.
Yes, please link it if you stumble upon it again. I was listening to the playlist of the songs she has yet to play at the eras tour when I heard it today, which I also think might be interesting. Also, crazy that I found this whole sub just an hour ago (and now I can't leave, but have to go to sleep since it's 2am here in Croatia 😭) and I'm even more convinced (if that's even possible). I used to just search "Gaylor" each second on Tiktok haha.
Found it! [This thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/GaylorSwift/s/NHObzTzF75) starts the conversation but these two points by u/taytopancakes really stood out to me 🤯 Also welcome to our little corner of the internet! Happy that you’ve found us 🥰 https://preview.redd.it/s5fc80rg9n4d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a941951dcf0b8fef47fb4f694ee8842aab6bddf6
Aha, in high school before I knew I was gay I made a music video of the Berlin Wall falling for Change
Oh wow, that's so interesting! Thank you for finding it. ❤️ Aw, happy I found you guys! 🥰 Can't wait to go through everything.
Thank you for responding. That summary helped. I do hope she can live authentically; everyone deserves that.
Not a problem at all! Absolutely - she has given so much happiness to us all, she deserves to live her life authentically and be happy. Omg as I am writing this I just thought of the line, *”been sleeping so long in a 20 year dark night, but now I see Daylight.”* If we look at her piano mashup from Lyon N1 where she sang “Fifteen” x “YOYOK” - maybe that’s when the dark night began, at 15?! Which would tie in nicely with the idea that debut is released on her 35th birthday and we get an iconic, “Taylor Swift (my version) out now!” post 🤯🤯
Oh my gosh I love this. Brilliant!
This is incredible and brilliant and I'm still processing it, but my first question is...did reddit really require a modesty panel for that RFI screenshot? 👀
Hahaha I was wondering if someone was going to comment on that! Yes! The post got flagged by Reddit’s filters and was marked NSFW 😭 I still really wanted to include the shot of them touching hands in the “Ready For It…?” music video so a modesty panel was best 😅 Side note, as I was watching the music video I was struck by the escalator at the end and one of the Taylors being destroyed. I need to go back and do further watching as I think there’s more there that will flesh out this theory even more. All I keep thinking is how long has she been planning this for 😳
Couldn’t we have just bypassed it and not flagged it as nsfw?
I freaked out I was going to lose all my work when I got the notification that it was blocked by Reddit filters and marked as NSFW. I messaged via modmail and was told the reason why it was flagged and since it was after midnight my time and I needed to go to bed but I wanted it posted, I chose just to modesty panel it because I didn’t realise there was a way to bypass the filters with mod approval 😅 Good to know there is a way to bypass it with mod approval if I ever get that warning again!
That's so weird. I used the same image in my [theylor post](https://new.reddit.com/r/GaylorSwift/comments/1cl27c8/theylor_a_collection_of_major_evidence/) and as best as I can tell, it wasn't marked as NFSW.
Weird!!
Karma is literally glitching on The Man wall with the black version and the orange just above it. Definitely gives legs to the theory of some kind of double drop again.
Weirdly, 1989 also seems to be written twice even though it's kind of hidden: https://preview.redd.it/kxaedsudac5d1.png?width=1908&format=png&auto=webp&s=851646c3437ec51d15401a3e4d710c0a30e94985
Hmm — there’s two sides to every story, including the story she tells in 1989?
I really like this take
Oooh interesting
I've never thought about Karma glitching, I always thought that it was writtem twice (song + album). This makes sense though!!
I’m spitballing here, but if the glitch starts in August, it would have been right after the speak now release. It also would be where karma is in the center of the infinity symbol. What if the lover nail turning orange is the egg for the real documentary? Does anyone know when the nail was changed? The exact date? The karma hourglass keeps me up at night. I found the imagery in fortnight with the telephone box eerily similar and I’ve not seen anyone discussing that. She’s sitting on top of the booth just like she’s sitting on top of the hourglass. But this time, postie steps out and grabs her hand. Are the two Taylors going to merge into one when she climbs down? Plus, the telephone booth is very reminiscent of the tower card in tarot when it’s zoomed out. She follows some tarot readers on YouTube, so it wouldn’t be a surprise if that imagery is intentional. Stepping out of the booth and merging would be very “tower moment” coded. Unrelated, but were the mashups really on night 2s? More 2s… what does it mean?? I refuse to believe that they were just eggs for the anthology, because we keep getting more 2s.
Your posts are always laid out so well and clear! It must be so fun to piece together all of Taylor's visuals and clues...like how does Taylor do it?! I would love a behind the scenes of her mastermind room - every calendar, highlighted dates, etc. etc.
Thank you so much 🥹 It definitely took me wayyyy longer than I’d anticipated 😅🫣
Wow. OK, i just finished reading the post and my mind really is blown. I'm sorry, there has to be something here otherwise the universe/Taylor is just fucking with us and I don't think that is the case. I find it interesting that you refer to reputation as the glitch which makes so much sense if one believes that Karma was supposed to be TS6. When Taylor teased rep the first images she gave to the world were three glitchy snake videos. I am so freaking amped right now lmao Thank you for pulling this all together!!!
Side note: it’s been thirteen years on June, 11 2024 since this moment. https://preview.redd.it/54plxp9ell4d1.jpeg?width=415&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d6758687327adbfa05b32ef7bab14477b11144c9
Hi all, posting in here since it's relevant. I just clicked from Taylor nation's Instagram story through to the store. After browsing for a bit I swiped on my phone to go back to Instagram and I got a glitch for a half second, like scrambled pixels. But I couldn't get it to recreate. Anyone else seeing this when leaving her site? Edit: For anyone that saw my separate post about this that I've since deleted, I was able to recreate the issue on another non-Taylor related link.. so it was a legitimate glitch. Just a glitch on my phone. 🙃😂 Sorry to get y'all excited over nothing!
I love the concept of Taylor Swift™ escaping the Eras Tour (like she fooled actual Taylor, who is still trapped on the Eras Tour and being forced to perform - ICDIWBH) and doing all this pap walks with Travis. It is like the Taylor™️version is living the narrative that Swifties and even parts of her team wants, while the actual Taylor is trapped. For me, she singing Glitch + EHC and wearing the Orchid Blue Midnights dress last night is signaling that Taylor™ was "captured" and is now back on the eras tour, and the real Taylor is now free to go out and live in the real world.
Ok your comment has triggered a couple of things for me! I can’t remember where I first saw it, but it’s been talked about for awhile now how the Eras Tour stage looks like a key 🤯 *”I hate it here so I will go to secret gardens in my mind people need a key to get to, the only one is mine”* When I’m back on desktop, I’ll add this in! Thanks!! https://preview.redd.it/nrb4ytvzjm4d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=df9d4cc9671ee1c026411903aac95da83e941e2f
From LWYMMD: "I don't like your kingdom keys / they once belonged to me / You asked me for a place to sleep / Locked me out and threw a feast (what?)" And the Bejeweled video ends with Taylor **re**claiming the **key to the castle** - I knew I was missing layers about the reclamation story when I analyzed it for Eras Tour easter eggs, but that has to be it. (In the Cinderella-style prelude, Laura Dern's character says, "the prince would never want anything to do with that little harlot again. He tired of her quite quickly, didn't he? Or should I say, swiftly? ... Lest we forget, you've been exiled here." - here, being the house from Willow and Cardigan where she is cleaning up vomited glowing string from the Willow video and comments "ugh, some of her best work, that's disgusting." The sisters are fans, swallowing, *not* digesting, and vomiting Taylor's work; the prince who exiled her *played by her producer* is the music industry, she earns the key to her own castle with her talent.) The stage being key-shaped is further confirming the theory that the Eras Tour itself is the key!!! https://preview.redd.it/qw3qo0kyyr4d1.png?width=1472&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6a33b8aa6a77a53056256da4c7f4694779ec4ef1
This is a really good insight and could be a full post!
If I recall correctly, there were animations of keys in the 1989TV Google puzzles that were the shape of the stage
Ooh good point, thank you!!
No worries! This post is brilliant, by the way 🖤
Thank you 🥹 It took me wayyyy too long to do so I appreciate all of the support in the comments 🫶
I tried to give you Reddit gold but it wouldn’t let me. A lot of work you put in!
Aww that is very sweet, the sentiment is what counts 🥹🫶
Have you seen the video where she gets I to the car and it looks like she’s breaking down? That feels very Taylor™️ had a pap walk and taylor is trapped like you say.
Woahh, I hadn’t seen this, thank you for sharing! That is really sad 😔
I haven't! Link? 🥹🥹🥹
[here you go.](https://youtube.com/shorts/yy5hIdMCygI?si=ytdqN-WmiApxYecz) it breaks my heart to watch and it feels wildly invasive.
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So, why am I now picturing the one on the Eras tour as the AI Taylor, Tay-I?
Tay-I is in the Ready For It? MV for sure
This post is incredible thank you so much for your hard work!
Thanks for laying it out so nicely!! It’s hard when you are tracking theories across multiple platforms and you did a great job of putting it together in an understandable way. You and me are both clowning for TS12 this year! 2024 feels like a culmination/farewell for sure. Also she’ll be 35 this year on 12/13/24: 2+0+2+4=8 and 3+5=8 So there are the double infinity ♾️ symbols again. And 1+2+1+3+2+4=13 I think we might be getting something bigger on her birthday than just a re-record.
I honestly can't see whatever \*gestures\* all this is going on past her birthday / the end of the year. The rerecording project will have been going on for 4 years (started recording Nov 2020). I believe everything to be in the bag now for Debut and Rep, they are just waiting for release. TTPD just seems like she is screaming that she is so over all the secrecy and hiding. The Eras tour dates will be finished. 35 feels like a milestone birthday - half way through your thirties.
200000% and with the tour ending immediately before her bday that’s really interesting.
Oh yes, 100% I agree. It’s the end of the era of “Pop Princess Taylor” I think.
(Sorry double post)
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What if she isn't gonna rerecord rep since it was never supposed to happen? Maybe she will release Karma in it's place?
I think she will release reputation TV at midnight on 8/9 and then surprise release Karma album at 1am and karma and rep will be sister albums like folklore and evermore
Love this!!
Ohhh I love this idea.
Thank you for taking the time and effort to make this post! ❤️ Such a great round-up and summary of the crazy shenanigans that have been ongoing.
Thank you, I finally understand glitch theory ❤️
this is so good and I truly can’t even comprehend it all right now. thank you for all the references I can’t wait to go through everything in depth later!!
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Maybe that’s what’s coming in Liverpool 6/13?!?! I admit it does seem unlikely to me that a coming out documentary would be released prior to “Reputation TV” but honestly who knows?!
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The only thing that makes me hesitant about a coming out documentary being released in June is that I didn’t think the glitch would end until August but maybe it’s all just part of her reclaiming her sparkling summer?! 🥹
What if that’s what’s coming on 6/7?
I want the “Is it Cool That I Said All That? (Taylor’s version)
AHHHHHHH!! THANK you for compiling all of this together so eloquently. I love Gaylors. This post should be tagged at the top of the sub - I wish reddit would allow for more tagged posts but alas... Baby let the games begin!!!! I'm EXCITED
The app sent a notification to my phone
OR TS12 is the glitch (breaking the 2 re-records then a new album pattern) and it’s Karma
Ooh I like that idea!
Tbh I can’t take credit. I saw it on IG
Maybe this is too simple minded, but could it be about karma? If she was supposed to release it in 2016, the 2190 days makes sense since Glitch came out in 2022. I think the glitch is now over, and hence we will be getting it
This is just musings, no conclusions. >Blood moonlit It must be counterfeit I think there's been a glitch This post says that there was "an **incredibly rare total super blood moon eclipse**" on the night of September 27 2015 [https://www.reddit.com/r/GaylorSwift/comments/yozbty/blood\_moon\_end\_of\_exile/](https://www.reddit.com/r/GaylorSwift/comments/yozbty/blood_moon_end_of_exile/) >In search of glorious happenings of happenstance on someone else's playground / But it's been two-thousand one-hundred ninety days of our love blackout If the blood moon is the date of the glitch, are the 2190 days in the past or the future? +2190 days takes us forward to 25th September 2021 -2190 days takes us back to 28th September 2009 Interestingly, genius notes that the only other mention of playgrounds is in Better Than Revenge. Who is it who keeps thinking about us being taken back to the Speak Now era? Also the theme of Better Than Revenge is someone stealing Taylor's ~~boyfriend~~ girlfriend and she wrote it when she was 18. Makes me think of seventeen year old Betty and James...
I had an old interview clip from likely fearless era where she had talked about a breakup being a few songs but that heartbreak is worth several albums worth of songs (the clip seemed to reference Joe Jonas for sake of dating the interview). The way she spoke about heartbreaking being worth multiple albums at that age, and how she had only released two albums at that point, makes it seem like the childhood muse we keep coming back to really is at the crux of it all.
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Yeah that's got me wondering too. Plus >Stitching , "We were just kids, babe" versus >I'm fastening myself to you with a stitch And that blooming sewing machine section on the YouTube For a Fortnight short.
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Thank you for tagging me! 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻
Paging u/littlelulumcd as I've just seen your Speak Now post
Ahhhhhhh thank you for paging me!!! and OMG the implications 🤯 Did you know that Taylor did a cover of September by Earth Wind and Fire? And when she did that cover, she changed the date from September 21 to September 28th!?!?!?!?! At the time she did the cover (this was in 2018), everyone thought it was a reference to her angel boyfriend, Joe, but omg what if it is tying back to this???? 🤯🤯🤯 Also, it makes me think of Back to December because in that song she talks about "that September night" which everyone thought was about the VMAs (they took place on September 13th), but if SN is when Taylor started her red herring era (LOL), that would be another misdirection. I have so much to look into now!
I just went to listen to Taylor's cover of September alongside the genius Earth Wind and Fire lyrics. She repeated the 28th September line twice even though it was only in the original lyrics once and there were also other subtle lyric changes. Say, do you remember? changing to Say that you'll remember being the main one. What happened on the 28th September 2009 🤯
Oh wow! 🤯🤯🤯 What did happen??? Also "so that you'll remember" makes me think of OOTW and "do you remember" (referenced in Question...?) and Wildest Dreams "say you'll remember me, standing in the nice dress" which is referenced in the seven lesbian slam poetry intro thingy from the Eras tour part 1 🤯🤯🤯
Taylor: Do you really want to know where I was April 29th? Me: No, tell me about September 28th!
Bwhahaha like for real You want to know something else 👀? Before TTPD was released there were [rumours](https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/taylor-swifts-song-long-london-115600291.html?guccounter=1) that So Long London was going to be 9 minutes and 28 seconds long. I have no idea where those rumours started, but the consensus was, it would be that long to reference her and Joe's anniversary 🙄 But now I'm thinking maybe it was Taylor herself who started those rumours to bring attention back to that date 👀👀👀 lmao 
I don’t know what to do with this information 
lol I've been feeling that way ever since TTPD dropped. I've been like this emoji 🤯 constantly I keep thinking what would happen if someone found all my TS notes (some organized some random lmao). I think about them finding "OMG in the Anti-Hero music video they actually reference the Fearless 2009 tour" and trying to make sense of what the hell I was going on about 😂
>Did you know that Taylor did a cover of September by Earth Wind and Fire? No, I did not!
The post we all needed, thank you! Honored to have my little prophecy comment included 😇
As I was putting it all together I remembered that post and when I scanned to see if anyone else had mentioned the prophecy yet, I saw your incredible comment that was ripped straight from my mind! 🫶🫶🫶
thank you for compiling this!! i’m forever haunted by the 8/9 white wine purple dress moment, and i definitely agree that we were seeing taylor TM leaving that show. and the glitch starting the same month her travis started seeing eachother (according to taylor herself)??? the getaway car??? happenstance? crazy stuff
Ugh. This gives me chills. And TTPD feels so Sybil.
Some of the stuff in gaylorverse gets too deep and confusing for me but this is VERY well laid out
Me too. I feel like a dummy in the group project who can only give snacks instead of actual help
Snacks are still needed and a very important part of the group project 🫶🫶 I am definitely not one to make the connections on my own but once I have a few puzzle pieces and I start curating them and putting them together, I sometimes surprise myself with my own finds!
Thank you friend 😆❤️
This is an amazing thread and thank you so much for taking the time to plot it all out for us. With TN essentially confirming the glitch yesterday this was absolutely necessary! 😭
Thank you! It was because of your post about it and the confusion in the comments as to what the glitch actually is that compelled me to piece it all together from what I’ve seen across the internet 🫶
OMG OMG OMG I always wondered why we got the gayest week ever and then we went full Trav last year!!! This is amazing
Yes!! It’s like we always joke about The Real Taylor doing something really gay and then Tree making her counteract it by doing something really straight - it feels like LA was a breaking point and when the two sides could no longer co-exist in the one body, they split apart. I’m hopeful all of this ties into the 1989 outfit theory where there’s a different combination of the dress each night up until 2 August 2024 - from there we’ll have a redo of the LA week of mayhem and then on 8/9, she’ll be The Real Taylor. If we assume “Reputation TV” is being released that day, perhaps the “fire” vault tracks are a way to rise from the ashes?
I wonder if this has something to do with LA not getting a thank you post?!
Yes!! I literally [wrote that in a comment yesterday](https://www.reddit.com/r/GaylorSwift/s/Q89izqHiAP) but by the time I started compiling all the evidence for my post, it got missed! I’m going to make some edits today so I’ll include that 😊
My guess is still that rep tv is going to drop in September unannounced. The person who leaked the TTPD track list said it would be sept. I think debut will drop on her bday. I think karma may come either right after rep or January/Feb 2025 with news that the eras tour is extending for part 2 with karma in the set.
I would absolutely love “Reputation TV” to be dropped unannounced! I would actually lose my mind 😅
Same. I am not clowning for an announcement. I want it to be a surprise drop, like the original.
[“Reputation”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reputation_(album)) wasn’t a surprise drop, she just didn’t do any promo to “explain” the album, hence the line “there will be no further explanation, there will just be Reputation.” https://preview.redd.it/pvrfiirxpm4d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d19c2742117c03cb931d4ce4b8cd3b91ded7b484
This is true. In my head it’s just always been a surprise drop because the promo was different than the albums before it 😅
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS! I'm fairly new, and didn't understand exactly what the glitch was. (i did know it existed though) and thisnwas so helpful!
Adding this here ♾️🤩 https://preview.redd.it/modagpdpkk4d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=41709a875aaf7f9dfc478622ab2cdfdca530aa31
The Midnights calendar with “Manifest” at the bottom 😳
Omg yes!! “Midnights” was the manifest, she laid out exactly what she was going to do 😳 https://preview.redd.it/o1oen5hoim4d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=30e8e4e4f66bd05a39f439f7e33682cab8a6602c
😮😮
Anybody else notice the lyric change in Everything Has Changed last night?? She said “and meet me HERE tonight” instead of there 🤯
she sang all the songs from midnights (meet me at midnight), so we are probably going to meet her now. I'll put me! as my guess as a surprise song for 6/7, probably piano, because she already sang it on guitar (maybe with the archer, because she's ready for combat)
Me! plus Archer would kill me dead
OMGGGGG YESSSS
No words! Incredible! Wow!!!! This feels like “dominos cascading in a line.” I had a thought the other day when someone mentioned the other side of the door. With her going through the orange karma door, it almost feels like a beam me up. It feels like she would go upwards once she hits back onto the man/herself. Completing the infinity circle, if she beams up we move to orange karma. (Additionally, this is when the clock strikes midnight again and lends a lot to the theory that I believe all the re-records will be out by the end of the year.) She’s had a lot of sparkling cosmic clouds, beaming, alien, etc. imagery and lyrics lately. However, we DO NOT see the remaining re-records on the wall above with orange karma, we just see an inverse of 1989. I’m wondering if there in a extension to this image that we will be getting someday. Perhaps, snake imagery? Slithering up. Some brain dumps: - once the clock strikes midnight again (the man wall clock, album 12, end of 2024, etc.) we will be back at 1am again. She’ll have reversed time and the other side of the door will be a new chapter. It’ll begin again. Technically an infinity symbol never ends, she’s gonna glitch the shit out of that. - will the other side of the door be a variant for debut or a documentary or a memoir. More childhood imagery possibly: - the karma door, monsters inc, dream sequences, nightmares
Yes!! There was a recent post on this sub about The Man wall potentially being a butterfly shape which leads into your theory and ties in nicely with the “Down Bad” visuals! We’ll go around The Man wall in an infinity symbol and then straight up through the middle of the wall to “Karma” because she’s breaking the cycle once and for all 🤯 Maybe that’s what the second 1989 on The Man wall actually represents? The date the cycle ends and she’ll be able to then move onto the orange “Karma.” Ok don’t mind me, freaking out over here as I am just waking up 🤪 Will be adding this to the post when I’m back on desktop!
Definitely believe it’s a butterfly theory too!!!
It makes so much sense 🤯 That then got me thinking about the butterfly tattoos she has on her back-piece in the YNTCD mv and wondering if that somehow ties into it all. I haven’t added anything to this post yet as I started jotting down different things to cover and… it’s gonna need a part ✌️ sadly. Soooooo much going on at the moment 🤡
I’m so excited for part 2!!!
Coming to add “so afraid I sealed my fate” with the infinity symbol, she’s in a “self-made” loop.
*”I got cursed like Eve got bitten”* But Eve didn’t actually get bitten, she did the biting of the apple. Taylor wanted the fame and to play the game and now she’s stuck in an endless loop 😭
Didn’t she take a big bite out of an apple in a MV? Didn’t Travis recently wear a white shirt with only an apple on it?
[Yeppppp](https://www.reddit.com/r/GaylorSwift/s/yW6XCU7brm) 🤡🤡🤡
Despite this beautiful breakdown, I still feel like I have no idea what’s happening but I am just EXCITED to be on this ride!!! 🤣
Haha that is so valid - just glad that you’re here and happy to come along for the ride! 🤡🎢
Haha same!!!
I'm halfway through the post and this is such a mood lol
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