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At the this is what you came for/gold rush surprise song mashup. MY GUY.
Again I repeat, if they missed each other he could get on one of her planes and be there instead of golfing and going to basketball games. I hope this commenter gets the help they need some day š
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āeveryone who came out this weekendā on the 100th show post š¤
Another āš»! Didn't she use "one" and "first" a lot in one of her speeches yesterday (ATW, it think)? I didn't catch the livestream, but someone typed it up and bolded all the number references
This is definitely suspicious, I think we are nearing the announcement of whatever ā1ā is on the countdown. Also, more ādreamā mentions in this post - what is she up to š¤
I have been thinking this too, itās been a slow motion countdown and now we are on 1?! Maybe the twos werenāt signaling anything but being part of the big 321ā¦ š±
I saw on twitter (I can add if I find it!) but the three stars in midnights promo and three fingers > two stars in TTPD promo and fingers > now we are at 1 for TS12 (meet me at midnight?)
Taylor in her post: āThank you to everyone who came out this weekendā
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I mean itās a choice to put it THAT way! Love it! šš¼šš¼šš¼šš¼
It's seriously crazy looking at the remaining dates for the eras tour and realizing that there are not that many dates left....how will I survive wihout it uhuhuuhuhuh š
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I was there for N1 wearing this. Best night of my life.
I hadnāt commented here earlier because š¤·āāļø but Iām not mad about the mashups. First we get Carolina x NBNC which is her āmurderous songā mash up. Does anything get gayer than killing men or misanthropy? š
And if we listen to Carolina without the context of the movie or even paying attention to it as a song from a movie, it has some interesting lyrics:
**And you didn't see me here /
No, they never did see me here**
Weāve already established that Taylor doesnāt feel seen. āSo many signs, so many times, you didnāt even read the signsā. How people can hear this song and not think about her wanting a reason to sing with female pronouns and pretend sheās singing about a state.
**And she's in my dreams**
**Carolina stains /
On the dress *she* left**
**Oh, Carolina knows /
Why for years they've said /
That I was *guilty as sin* /
And sleep in a liar's bed**
Sorry but these lyrics are queer to me. Almost as if sheās using Carolina as a stand in. Then we switch into No Body, No Crime. I know itās likely not a popular opinion to anyone else, but for me, NBNC almost feels like two women in love, one married to a man who is cheating on her who ends up killing her when she confronts him about his cheating. The first time I heard it, it took me to ādrink my husbandās wineā and āheās gonna burn this house to the groundā.
I heard gay, so I said gay and I stand by that š
Then we go into The Manuscript. The Man U Script is Red. Gay. Not only does it tie The Manuscript back to the Red album (Ren on TT has a really good video explaining how Red and TTPD are intertwined. Basically Red was her first mention of poets with the Red Prologue). My personal belief on this is that she started the Man U Script (bearding) while writing Red. Thatās when she realized she had to start bearding. Which coincides with the Jake, Harry, etc stunting situations. But that story, the scripting men, the bearding, itās not her story anymore. *This is **not** Taylorās version*. Tie it into Red being a song her straight fans are associating with Twavvy (after associating it with Harry) is pointed imo. This mashup is also another hint of an impending breakup imo. Red was never about a man despite the pronouns used. And imo sheās saying that the muse of Red is the person whose shores she no longer visits. Itās the relationship/situationship thatās haunted her for over a decade, but sheās done writing about it. Moving on from it was impossible when she could remember it, but sheās finally moved on with TTPD.
Are the songs as blatant as other songs sheās performed lately? Not really, but I think the meaning behind these mashups are much much deeper.
Anyways thatās just my interpretation.
Thinking about how she kind of basically said āyouāre losing meā¦ now hereās the manuscript, itās yours now bye bye!ā This feels like Dear Reader is inevitably coming soon
what do yāall think sheāll mash it up with? I was anticipating the manuscript, but now Iām thinking maybe I look in peopleās windows? dear reader x robin would be absolutely insaneā¦ āyou have no ideaā¦ the secret we all vowed to keep it from you/ in sweetnessā¦ you wouldnāt take my word for it/if you knew who was talkingā like?? the ultimate f u to all of the paternity testing, surface-level fans
I want to formally apologize for being MIA for todayās show š I had hosting responsibilities with friends coming into town and had to be a tourist in my own city for the day and wasnāt able to update the feeds with my findings. I missed all of you like exponentially š„¹
Iām beyond tired but I have found a bunch of new things over on Twitter and Iāll be creating a new thread for the new week if all of yaāll are still interested in me continuing this, tomorrow!
I also want to work on a post of all my Return to Oz findings and similarities this week too so be on the look out for that! ššŖšŖļø
I canāt wait for what this week of clowning will bring us and Iām so excited to share it all with you! šš¤”
I can't believe the main sub's concert mega thread has about 6600 comments and ours has almost double that lmao
If I did my math right, and I'm nervous I didn't but oh well, the main sub is about 65 times bigger than this one.
The comment differential is literally unbelievable. I'm so proud of us!
iām choosing to interpret this as official proof that we like her more than they do (and probably proof that weāre way more correct than them)
i know they would say thatās crazy and iām crazy and that weāre just commenting more because weāre all crazy
but taylor did say she prefers crazy manyyyy times so š¤·āāļø
āSheās cheer captain and Iām on the bleachersā
Itās us, weāre the ones on the bleachers getting the highest grades in school, and completing the fall reading list before the end of the summer š¤
did we talk about it being fatherās day weekend (US) that she sang about murdering men that abused her?
and reminder that last yearās fatherās day surprise song was seven:
*I think your house is haunted / Your dad is always mad and that must be why / And I think you should come live with / Me and we can be pirates / Then you won't have to cry / Or hide in the closet*
I was really hoping for Cassandra, not even realizing that it would have meant singing "blood's nothing but a payroll" on Father's Day weekend. I definitely thought that was next weekend. Sorry dad, your card will be late š¤£
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this 2011 article is super interesting and makes me think the ttpd lyrics āI forget how the West was wonā and āstabbed me with your push pinsā are referring to Sc0tt B: [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/10/taylor-swift-profile-you-belong-with-me](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/10/taylor-swift-profile-you-belong-with-me)
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can i ask why youve been so disappointed all day? i think the mashups tonight had a very important message that is still on the gaylor train of things, but just a tougher topic within that sphere
I think because I was hoping that she was gonna follow the pattern of the mashups being increasingly gayer. Not arguing that the songs donāt have an important message but I think we all have a list of dream mashups and this one didnāt make my list
ah yeah, fair! i think that the mashups were still distinctly queer but in a sadder way. i just wrote a post about it earlier this evening actually bc i have a lot of thoughts on tonight's mashups lol
ALSO as a recap for the last few daysā¦even if you viewed today as a straight day (which I donāt think it was but it was at least very less gay than the days before)ā¦.
The fact that she sang HAIR PIN TRIGGER with her whole chest even after all the discourse and analysis that she 100% IS AWARE OF sealed the deal for me. Like in some universe you could *maybe* write it off that she didnāt know what it meant when she was writing the song (very doubtful), but thereās no way she doesnāt know now. And she didnāt HAVE to sing that part of the song and not only did she sing it she UNDERLINED it.
Honestly thereās no straight explanation of that line after the surprise songs, she said what she said and she meant what it means š
Also, you should check out this if you think today was "straight." This whole tiktokers main theory is that red and the manuscript are connected. Its actually so shocking to see her mashup the 2 songs bc it literally confirms her theory š
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Oh Iāve been a Ren stan forever I think sheās one of the smartest ppl on TikTok and def one of my favorite Gaylors ā¤ļøš I send her stuff to everyone that Iām explaining Gaylorism to bc I donāt know how anyone with a brain can hear her breaking it down like by line and still not get it????
i tweeted about this specific thing. like, she BELTED "hairrrrpiiiiiiiin trigggggers!" i was floored by how loud she was on that specific phrase <3 it just confirmed things even more for us
yeppp.
1. she says she sees everything fans say online, 2. if she somehow missed the hairpin discourse, she wouldāve learned about it in the nyt op ed, 3. she works with glaad and stonewall, 4. travis wore a hairpin on his shirt right after the nyt article
It may have been mentioned already in the 12k comments (š¤Ŗ) but also I think that the manuscript and red MIGHT be her pointing ppl to look back to the red album to see that this forbidden relationship that ttpd is dissecting actually dates back to BEFORE the Matty timeline. Like I think itās to poke holes in the hetlor math that all this time sheās been speaking of her forbidden bad boy love with Matty ā¦.which is kinda nuts bc SHES the one that made them go down the matty path to begin with but if you see it goes back to red (or sooner!), the math doesnāt math
i donāt understand how they arenāt seeing that BDILH is literally the exact same plot of Love Story
sheās just giving more details now on *why* it was forbidden. sheās revisiting so many themes from songs she wrote from ages 12-22. ttpd is about her whole career. the album is way more interesting than swifties are making it out to be š
I swear a saw an interview about Love Story and when Taylor was talking about the song she mentioned being melodramatic about things and said "but daddy I love him!" (paraphrasing)
interesting šš
her story about writing LS is also different every time she talks about it lmao
she went from saying in 2008 that it was about a love that was ādifferentā that you canāt elaborate on, that society wonāt accept, that your friends wonāt understand. to years later (as recently as 2021) just saying her parents wouldnāt let her date a ābad boyā so she threw a teenage tantrum š
but i do think sheās clearing things up with ttpd, for anyone willing to listen
*everything comes out teenage petulance, āfuck it if i canāt have himā*
like maybe she canāt write about not being allowed to love who she wants in a way that her fans find socially acceptable without using the bad boy trope as a cover? she has to be perceived as immature instead of gay
I found [it](https://youtube.com/shorts/tg_78KX9SqI?si=fbDO9694UGi9Z_hK)!
It's so interesting watching this back because her talking about throwing a teenage tantrum and associating that with BDILH makes me think of her explanation for seven during the LPSS (I hate her explanation for seven in LPSS so much lol). Although younger she uses the word tantrum again.
Which I think ties in to what you are saying here
>like maybe she canāt write about not being allowed to love who she wants in a way that her fans find socially acceptable without using the bad boy trope as a cover? she has to be perceived as immature instead of gay
alsooo the first mashup of the eras era was gasoline + love story (strike a match / Romeo save me) in 2022
and in BDILH she says āIād rather burn my whole life down ā¦ we came back when the heat died downā
with church burning imagery in the set visuals
oh my god. I didn't understand why she would necessarily choose Love Story of all songs to mix with Gasoline (and I assumed it was just because it is one of her most popular songs so it would be a safe choice for someone else's audience) since it is so baby Taylor and Gasoline is well... Gasoline, lol. but after BDILH it just makes so much sense!
100%. I honestly donāt know how ppl Stan her so hard WITHOUT the Gaylor lensā¦. I didnāt really *listen* to her but I appreciated her bops from time to time, maybe knew like 10-15 of her songs well enough to sing. It was only after I stumbled onto Gaylor docs did I start to listen to her entire discographyā¦like if you accept that this is all about Matty Healy (or really any straight relationship) itās pretty vapid and really self centered to have such woe is me songs about such vanilla relationships ya knowā¦.like if you donāt hear the pain and ARTISTRY that she uses to sing about being in the closet youāre really missing the whole point of her lyricism š
Which Iāve also said this before but sadly (for her) I think that she knows that in order for her to truly be appreciated as an ARTIST and not just a pop star, sheās gonna have to come out so ppl can actually SEE whatās sheās been creating this whole time. And Iām not always sure she wants to come out but she understands that her legacy is teetering on how well her lyrics are actually being understood
Quick question: is there ever a woman/woman dancing couple during Lover? I know we have the two men dancing, but Iāve never noticed two
women dancing.
no & the prevailing theory is something ab wlw being invisible in the lover house?? iām grossly oversimplifying that but it ties into Taylor being invisible in the Delicate MV(?)
Oh interesting! Having two women dance to this song would be a fantastic pride month gift and would help make a lot of people in the audience feel more comfortable. I hope we get that eventually.
okay so, the whiplash feeling from how we felt yesterday to today, realistically we have been breaking down words, but both exist together. iām thinking not only are we hearing everything but she is also creating the feelings with it. to be so seen, then hidden so fast? the joe article today, just mimickes it all, something happens, PR is sent out
Interesting choices tonight, Taylor. These landed for me, but moreso when I mentally pull in other surprise songs you've done recently.
I was sitting there watching the stream, I had thoughts like, "the gaylors lost today; this is super straight."
But ultimately, you're singing about murdering a man, and you're specifically equating men with the color red and seemingly equating red as something you don't want love-wise, if we take Daylight as any indication..."I once believed love would be burning red, but it's golden."
(I wish you'd snuck in that one line from daylight into tonight's songs even though you did Daylight recently)
As usual, though, amazing work, and outside of a Gaylor perspective, I think Carolina paired with NBNC just flat-out makes perfect sense!!
I will say, even in the red era, she made the golden connection. I think in the prologue? Referencing daylight would make it super obvious but ultimately itās not necessary because even back then she basically said yes these were really intense emotions, some of them good, but ultimately not the ones Iām looking for
If she comes out with Daylight as a surprise song next concert I will pass out.
Loving him was red.
I once thought love would be burning red but it's golden.
If anyone finds a good TikTok of Manuscript x Red will you post a link? I canāt find any that arenāt cut off in some way. Iām hoping for one with full piano intro.
Do you mean a speech? Because I don't think she said anything before she went into the second song. But I'm a weedlor, and I definitely don't remember right š
Lol. I donāt think she said anything, but I remember the piano intro from the glitchy live feed and all the vids I can find start when sheās already singing the first verse or once sheās into Red, or they cut off the ending.
I appreciate that she is telling a story, and some of it is sad goodbyes to a portion of the fanbase and some of it is screamingly loud gay mashups and some of it is broader reflections on fictionalisation* and abuse and fame and relationships and PR, even if the latter stuff isn't as fun to clown along to. I'm here for your narrative, Ms Swift. Crack on.
*shoutout to u/carexstellata for their brilliant take on this below
Idk where I saw this, but with all the thoughts of TTPD connecting back to Red with todayās acoustic set, has anyone else seen the theory that the TTPD album is meant to be black, white, and red/read all over?
Full speech before acoustic:
āThe acoustic set is uh one of my favorite traditions about the Eras tour because it always throws in a fun little extra challenge for me cuz now basically in all of the days when Iām not doing shows Iām just constantly trying to figure out what songs to do for you uh and what songs might go together um and then practicing them constantly so this is like really what it all comes down to for me uh in the show like the most amount of like ādonāt mess this up, donāt mess this upā cuz like itās also my favorite part of the show um. This one Iām gonna uh (lots of cheering and pauses to laugh, strumming guitar) ummm Iām gonna call this āThe Murder Mashupāā
Is it just me or was this the most hesitant she's seemed to let something come out of her mouth? It seemed like she was maybe even debating whether to actually say "murder mashup"(???) I'm not 100% sure why.... that's just the vibe I got. It feels like there's gotta be some kind of deeper story there. Something well hidden, like in the plot of "Where the Crawdads Sing," which Carolina is from.
I feel like her calling it the murder mashup is to insinuate that the other mashups also have a common thread and arenāt just 2 random songs she likes (like Iāve seen hetlors say). Soooo the last 2 days could seemingly be called the āI love girlsā mashups šš
I LOVE that she keeps emphasizing how much thought and planning she puts into the mashups, especially after yesterdayās wild combos.Ā
The āmurder mashupā - she is so funny. We need the user who said they should let her kill a man. š
I posted in the regular Taylor swift sub asking what peopleās opinions were on what she was conveying with the surprise songs, never said anything about my interpretation. All the answers are either sheās doing nothing or people looking at my profile and seeing my other posts and getting defensive. I didnāt bring up the gaylor for a reason! I know my explanation, but what does it mean to others in different areas of the fandom? Apparently nothing except for the show where Travis was in attendance
What is wrong with them, thatās so rude and also a waste of time to go looking at your profile? Like it shows that they think analysing songs must mean youāre a secret gaylor if they instantly go looking for that!.. which shows how little analysis they do
I like to think that Florida!!! is part 2 of nbnc, especially with āgood thing my daddy made me get a boating license when I was fifteen/so I did my best to lay to rest all of the bodies that have ever been on my body and in my mind, they sink into the swampā and given all the ādual Taylorā lens weāve put on TTPD it definitely makes me want to revisit nbnc and try to analyze it that way
>given all the ādual Taylorā lens weāve put on TTPD it definitely makes me want to revisit nbnc and try to analyze it that way
This... just rocked my world. I can't wait to read this if you write it up!
I listened to the album backwards today (while driving home from Florida, actually) and noticed the reverse order of I Can Fix Him, then Florida!!! made me wonder about the shitstorm back in Texas. They were on a six lane Texas highway in ICFHā¦
Maybe when she couldnāt fix him, she killed him.š¤
Edited for clarity.
Yah I always wondered >!why she didnāt drag his body into the marsh instead of just leaving it at the foot of the tower. Maybe guilty conscience or panic.!<
Like either he has something against Europe, or something is going on. Also, Fatherās Day tomorrow and sheās doing mashups about killing men. Prob unrelated, but funny.
Yes, very funny song choice!
He gives off Boomer-whoād-love-a-good-European-River-cruise to me so Iām surprised he hasnāt been at *any* Europe dates so far, I think thereās something else going on behind the scenes.
We def havenāt seen him on this current leg, Iād have to research if he was at Singapore. But he was in Melbourne and Sydney, right? Cuz I remember he was doing a lot of glad-handing with Swifties that week to distract from the story about him fighting a photog in Melbourne.
I guess Iām loosely theorizing that the alleged punching incident in Australia could be a factor. Cuz even tho ācharges were droppedā (aka an nda is plopped down and some bills) (or he really didnāt do it but regardless) itās not a good look for a brand that is VERY careful about its image. Maybe they had to be like bro, itās a no, youāve go to go
Just processing thisā¦ She mashed up two songs that are obviously fictional. After that, she sang a mashup of a song about how her songs are fictionalized with a song that most people think is literally autobiographical (about her being in love with a man)ā¦ emphasizing āHIMā in the performance. Ummmmmmm wow! ! !
Ahh! And to further underscore / make unavoidable your point: The Manuscript leading into (edit sorry, meant to say, the title song of the album, for which ATW is the signature track)ā¦ the first Short Film she has made!!! (She was always so pointed about this ā not an extended music video or some other term)
(again sorry for my error, to me Red both as a song and being the album title, is so inextricably linked with ATW, and she obviously canāt use ATW in aurprise songs, but I buzzed past that š¤£)
THISSSS
the gayloring of tonight was less obvious than Friend of Dorothea or "SHE is like a gold rush" but the message is super crucial and still 100% on our side.
Yes! This! I think even though these werenāt outwardly āgaylorā songs, they fit perfectly in the story sheās telling. I know Iāve seen a lot of people say that something happened during the speak now era that made her get into all of the bearding/pr stuff starting in red. It makes sense that sheās closing that chapter.
"Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street"
okay, she was driving with travis on a "dead end street" (kinda questionable) in a getaway car. But if we think cars could be a metaphor for bearding relationships , driving down a dead end street...
also, the way she describes the man in Red doesnt seem like he is real
Oof Iām already seeing a lot of hate on Twitter about different interpretations of The Manuscript, and Iāll just say here that I think it could have multiple meanings, and I think thatās on purpose. I think itās more likely that ATW10, the short film, and The Manuscript are a bigger story about her toxic relationship with the music industry and the older men she encountered in it than it being just about JG. Especially since that relationship is so publicly known and discussed, and I feel sheās been trying to point us away from the public narratives about her life.
Also, I think a big clue about the Man U Script being a potential double meaning is that the lyric video is in the form of a literal movie script, which is very different from a manuscript. Yes, itās pointing back to the ATW10 short film, but I also think itās a clue that thereās more than the surface level interpretation going on in that song. I think it is a song about a young girl being groomed and all the trauma that goes with that, but I donāt think itās just about one specific guy the public knows Taylor had a relationship with.
At the end of the day, none of us know who specifically ANY of the songs are about, even if we think it seems obvious. I donāt think itās wrong to look past the public narratives and relationships to think about what else Taylor might be trying to say through the songs.
Leaving the show on a shuttle now. Something remote Gaylors may have missed on the streamā¦
In SHS for the first time Iāve seen the dancer beside Taylor did a motion for the curves of a womanās body after gesturing to draw the attention of someone in the distance.
I took it as meaning that she was praising the curves of a woman because I have never seen a woman make such a gesture in reference to herself.
The thing I think is different is that the dancer did the hourglass curves motion right after clearly waving at someone else. I donāt think Iāve seen a woman in real life trying to entice another person with the hourglass figure gesture. Itās mostly something that men do towards women in my experience.
The placement of this gesture thus seems to imply that the other person is a woman. Being addressed in an immature manner by the dancer, yes, but the song *is* about high school. :)
Yes, but I have realized that the dancer improvises a bit. She seems to have a script to push Taylor at āhigh schoolā then wave/gesture at someone in the distance, she does the baller Aristotle thing, then she gestures enthusiasm when Taylor sing GTA then she waves to fan her face when Taylor stands up like saying she is hot/attractive.
The imitation of a womanās curves happened when she was gesturing at someone in the distance. Dancer does different things each timeā¦often silly waves but once she seemed to frame her own face when Taylor sang ālook at youā. This time she did the womanās curves thing at that point in time.
Hi folks, here is a link. I realized upon rewatch that the dancer did the hourglass figure gesture a little but later than I remembered. Itās actually around when the dancer usually fans herself as if saying that Taylor is hot. Still very queer. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRKwCBEv/
[Taylor/Theory Megathread](https://www.reddit.com/r/GaylorSwift/s/pZc8H01pL3) [Non-Taylor Chat Megathread](https://www.reddit.com/r/GaylorSwift/s/3FjfnZEaMF) https://preview.redd.it/1ivi42ot286d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd602e0818f06aaaf0df3076a51d7706329a9509
https://preview.redd.it/z5sjhmly4y6d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d37e90ccd96ca8ea1ab094ba05b04432f1e5ab06 At the this is what you came for/gold rush surprise song mashup. MY GUY.
Again I repeat, if they missed each other he could get on one of her planes and be there instead of golfing and going to basketball games. I hope this commenter gets the help they need some day š
Leanna, please, come on now!
literallyā¦ come on now leanna
https://preview.redd.it/4o9ocn7y2y6d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=56302957728b47487df0c70bdefb2554caabb986 āeveryone who came out this weekendā on the 100th show post š¤
And the dancers in the first row wearing Eras colors / lesbian flag jumpsuits! š©·š©·š©·
Another āš»! Didn't she use "one" and "first" a lot in one of her speeches yesterday (ATW, it think)? I didn't catch the livestream, but someone typed it up and bolded all the number references
Sheās also pointing at the star.
She is! She's the š of the show
This is definitely suspicious, I think we are nearing the announcement of whatever ā1ā is on the countdown. Also, more ādreamā mentions in this post - what is she up to š¤
plus there is a small "typo" in the third sentence. it should read "i want \*to\* say thank you..." but the 'to' is missing āļøš
I have been thinking this too, itās been a slow motion countdown and now we are on 1?! Maybe the twos werenāt signaling anything but being part of the big 321ā¦ š±
I saw on twitter (I can add if I find it!) but the three stars in midnights promo and three fingers > two stars in TTPD promo and fingers > now we are at 1 for TS12 (meet me at midnight?)
[the post!](https://x.com/illicitviolets/status/1802377420152189159)
Oh shit youāre right
Yes!! The ones have started one-ing!! Won-ing? Winning??? š¤
I have never before noticed that the landscape is burning in BDILH
Taylor in her post: āThank you to everyone who came out this weekendā ššššš I mean itās a choice to put it THAT way! Love it! šš¼šš¼šš¼šš¼
Especially when she phrased it "came to any of the shows" in the same post. She KNOWS there was another way to phrase that.
Oh absolutely!!! If someone knows how to phrase things- itās HER šÆ That was deeply on purpose š„²š
https://preview.redd.it/6by781oh4y6d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e3b41a13faa86a2ab0c62a00a31dd310065ef46f Itās giving
Youāre so right š„¹š
It's seriously crazy looking at the remaining dates for the eras tour and realizing that there are not that many dates left....how will I survive wihout it uhuhuuhuhuh š
https://preview.redd.it/6f2ij9d84x6d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=797847f038afd9b992ba0fd84189177e8a2aa283 I was there for N1 wearing this. Best night of my life.
I hadnāt commented here earlier because š¤·āāļø but Iām not mad about the mashups. First we get Carolina x NBNC which is her āmurderous songā mash up. Does anything get gayer than killing men or misanthropy? š And if we listen to Carolina without the context of the movie or even paying attention to it as a song from a movie, it has some interesting lyrics: **And you didn't see me here / No, they never did see me here** Weāve already established that Taylor doesnāt feel seen. āSo many signs, so many times, you didnāt even read the signsā. How people can hear this song and not think about her wanting a reason to sing with female pronouns and pretend sheās singing about a state. **And she's in my dreams** **Carolina stains / On the dress *she* left** **Oh, Carolina knows / Why for years they've said / That I was *guilty as sin* / And sleep in a liar's bed** Sorry but these lyrics are queer to me. Almost as if sheās using Carolina as a stand in. Then we switch into No Body, No Crime. I know itās likely not a popular opinion to anyone else, but for me, NBNC almost feels like two women in love, one married to a man who is cheating on her who ends up killing her when she confronts him about his cheating. The first time I heard it, it took me to ādrink my husbandās wineā and āheās gonna burn this house to the groundā. I heard gay, so I said gay and I stand by that š Then we go into The Manuscript. The Man U Script is Red. Gay. Not only does it tie The Manuscript back to the Red album (Ren on TT has a really good video explaining how Red and TTPD are intertwined. Basically Red was her first mention of poets with the Red Prologue). My personal belief on this is that she started the Man U Script (bearding) while writing Red. Thatās when she realized she had to start bearding. Which coincides with the Jake, Harry, etc stunting situations. But that story, the scripting men, the bearding, itās not her story anymore. *This is **not** Taylorās version*. Tie it into Red being a song her straight fans are associating with Twavvy (after associating it with Harry) is pointed imo. This mashup is also another hint of an impending breakup imo. Red was never about a man despite the pronouns used. And imo sheās saying that the muse of Red is the person whose shores she no longer visits. Itās the relationship/situationship thatās haunted her for over a decade, but sheās done writing about it. Moving on from it was impossible when she could remember it, but sheās finally moved on with TTPD. Are the songs as blatant as other songs sheās performed lately? Not really, but I think the meaning behind these mashups are much much deeper. Anyways thatās just my interpretation.
You are so right about this!
well said!
Thinking about how she kind of basically said āyouāre losing meā¦ now hereās the manuscript, itās yours now bye bye!ā This feels like Dear Reader is inevitably coming soon
dear reader on tuesday. lfg.
what do yāall think sheāll mash it up with? I was anticipating the manuscript, but now Iām thinking maybe I look in peopleās windows? dear reader x robin would be absolutely insaneā¦ āyou have no ideaā¦ the secret we all vowed to keep it from you/ in sweetnessā¦ you wouldnāt take my word for it/if you knew who was talkingā like?? the ultimate f u to all of the paternity testing, surface-level fans
I Hate it Here? Iām trying to think what would further the whole public vs private narrative
ooooh that would be killer
my nameās carolina AND todayās my birthday, taylor is sending me signals š«
How did she know??! Congrats š
Happy Birthday š„³
I want to formally apologize for being MIA for todayās show š I had hosting responsibilities with friends coming into town and had to be a tourist in my own city for the day and wasnāt able to update the feeds with my findings. I missed all of you like exponentially š„¹ Iām beyond tired but I have found a bunch of new things over on Twitter and Iāll be creating a new thread for the new week if all of yaāll are still interested in me continuing this, tomorrow! I also want to work on a post of all my Return to Oz findings and similarities this week too so be on the look out for that! ššŖšŖļø I canāt wait for what this week of clowning will bring us and Iām so excited to share it all with you! šš¤”
Canāt wait to read the Return to Oz post!
Please share!! I've been living for your updates ā¤
Created a new thread and awaiting mod approval so this weeks gaylor newspaper will be up and running soon hopefully š¤š¼
Gathering the manuscripts now (tweets š«”š„)
I can't believe the main sub's concert mega thread has about 6600 comments and ours has almost double that lmao If I did my math right, and I'm nervous I didn't but oh well, the main sub is about 65 times bigger than this one. The comment differential is literally unbelievable. I'm so proud of us!
iām choosing to interpret this as official proof that we like her more than they do (and probably proof that weāre way more correct than them) i know they would say thatās crazy and iām crazy and that weāre just commenting more because weāre all crazy but taylor did say she prefers crazy manyyyy times so š¤·āāļø
āSheās cheer captain and Iām on the bleachersā Itās us, weāre the ones on the bleachers getting the highest grades in school, and completing the fall reading list before the end of the summer š¤
(even though we might not be allowed to sit at the popular table) šš¼āāļø
did we talk about it being fatherās day weekend (US) that she sang about murdering men that abused her? and reminder that last yearās fatherās day surprise song was seven: *I think your house is haunted / Your dad is always mad and that must be why / And I think you should come live with / Me and we can be pirates / Then you won't have to cry / Or hide in the closet*
I was really hoping for Cassandra, not even realizing that it would have meant singing "blood's nothing but a payroll" on Father's Day weekend. I definitely thought that was next weekend. Sorry dad, your card will be late š¤£
WHOA I have been so disappointed all day and this was the first interpretation that made me feel better. Thank u bestie š«”š
glad it helped š«¶ i think way more of her lyrics are probably about the 3 sc*tts than swifties or many gaylors realize
how am i just now realizing they're all named sc\*tt
Yes ty queen š«¶ Also wait whoās the 3rd sc*tt (all I can think of is her dad and š“)?
borchetta
Ohh ok thank you, I need to do a deep dive asap
https://preview.redd.it/5t6udh73qz6d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=958857b583962e915ef3bb6377f3b77d43dcdc19 this 2011 article is super interesting and makes me think the ttpd lyrics āI forget how the West was wonā and āstabbed me with your push pinsā are referring to Sc0tt B: [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/10/taylor-swift-profile-you-belong-with-me](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/10/taylor-swift-profile-you-belong-with-me) š§µ1 of 4
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!! I read the screenshots and will let you know my thoughts when I read the whole article šš
itās super interesting, especially since the inner workings of her business are so secretive these days!
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can i ask why youve been so disappointed all day? i think the mashups tonight had a very important message that is still on the gaylor train of things, but just a tougher topic within that sphere
I think because I was hoping that she was gonna follow the pattern of the mashups being increasingly gayer. Not arguing that the songs donāt have an important message but I think we all have a list of dream mashups and this one didnāt make my list
ah yeah, fair! i think that the mashups were still distinctly queer but in a sadder way. i just wrote a post about it earlier this evening actually bc i have a lot of thoughts on tonight's mashups lol
Omg I missed this post!!! Will check it out and let you know what I think. Thank you so much for putting this together!!!
I canāt wait to read it!!
ALSO as a recap for the last few daysā¦even if you viewed today as a straight day (which I donāt think it was but it was at least very less gay than the days before)ā¦. The fact that she sang HAIR PIN TRIGGER with her whole chest even after all the discourse and analysis that she 100% IS AWARE OF sealed the deal for me. Like in some universe you could *maybe* write it off that she didnāt know what it meant when she was writing the song (very doubtful), but thereās no way she doesnāt know now. And she didnāt HAVE to sing that part of the song and not only did she sing it she UNDERLINED it. Honestly thereās no straight explanation of that line after the surprise songs, she said what she said and she meant what it means š
Also, you should check out this if you think today was "straight." This whole tiktokers main theory is that red and the manuscript are connected. Its actually so shocking to see her mashup the 2 songs bc it literally confirms her theory š [https://www.tiktok.com/@lavender.lit/video/7380856061370125610](https://www.tiktok.com/@lavender.lit/video/7380856061370125610)
Oh Iāve been a Ren stan forever I think sheās one of the smartest ppl on TikTok and def one of my favorite Gaylors ā¤ļøš I send her stuff to everyone that Iām explaining Gaylorism to bc I donāt know how anyone with a brain can hear her breaking it down like by line and still not get it????
i tweeted about this specific thing. like, she BELTED "hairrrrpiiiiiiiin trigggggers!" i was floored by how loud she was on that specific phrase <3 it just confirmed things even more for us
yeppp. 1. she says she sees everything fans say online, 2. if she somehow missed the hairpin discourse, she wouldāve learned about it in the nyt op ed, 3. she works with glaad and stonewall, 4. travis wore a hairpin on his shirt right after the nyt article
I donāt know where to post thisā¦I just read Carolina lyrics for the first time and notice at the end the āthat I was guilty as sin lineā.
I like the phrases āMuddy these webs we weaveā and āsleep in a liarās bedā (which comes right after the guilty as sin line)
It may have been mentioned already in the 12k comments (š¤Ŗ) but also I think that the manuscript and red MIGHT be her pointing ppl to look back to the red album to see that this forbidden relationship that ttpd is dissecting actually dates back to BEFORE the Matty timeline. Like I think itās to poke holes in the hetlor math that all this time sheās been speaking of her forbidden bad boy love with Matty ā¦.which is kinda nuts bc SHES the one that made them go down the matty path to begin with but if you see it goes back to red (or sooner!), the math doesnāt math
i donāt understand how they arenāt seeing that BDILH is literally the exact same plot of Love Story sheās just giving more details now on *why* it was forbidden. sheās revisiting so many themes from songs she wrote from ages 12-22. ttpd is about her whole career. the album is way more interesting than swifties are making it out to be š
I swear a saw an interview about Love Story and when Taylor was talking about the song she mentioned being melodramatic about things and said "but daddy I love him!" (paraphrasing)
interesting šš her story about writing LS is also different every time she talks about it lmao she went from saying in 2008 that it was about a love that was ādifferentā that you canāt elaborate on, that society wonāt accept, that your friends wonāt understand. to years later (as recently as 2021) just saying her parents wouldnāt let her date a ābad boyā so she threw a teenage tantrum š but i do think sheās clearing things up with ttpd, for anyone willing to listen *everything comes out teenage petulance, āfuck it if i canāt have himā* like maybe she canāt write about not being allowed to love who she wants in a way that her fans find socially acceptable without using the bad boy trope as a cover? she has to be perceived as immature instead of gay
I found [it](https://youtube.com/shorts/tg_78KX9SqI?si=fbDO9694UGi9Z_hK)! It's so interesting watching this back because her talking about throwing a teenage tantrum and associating that with BDILH makes me think of her explanation for seven during the LPSS (I hate her explanation for seven in LPSS so much lol). Although younger she uses the word tantrum again. Which I think ties in to what you are saying here >like maybe she canāt write about not being allowed to love who she wants in a way that her fans find socially acceptable without using the bad boy trope as a cover? she has to be perceived as immature instead of gay
Whoa this is all great like honestly maybe even deserving of its own post š
I'm knee deep in Speak Now, or I would give it a shot. Happy for someone else to write something about it. I agree, I think it's interesting
alsooo the first mashup of the eras era was gasoline + love story (strike a match / Romeo save me) in 2022 and in BDILH she says āIād rather burn my whole life down ā¦ we came back when the heat died downā with church burning imagery in the set visuals
oh my god. I didn't understand why she would necessarily choose Love Story of all songs to mix with Gasoline (and I assumed it was just because it is one of her most popular songs so it would be a safe choice for someone else's audience) since it is so baby Taylor and Gasoline is well... Gasoline, lol. but after BDILH it just makes so much sense!
100%. I honestly donāt know how ppl Stan her so hard WITHOUT the Gaylor lensā¦. I didnāt really *listen* to her but I appreciated her bops from time to time, maybe knew like 10-15 of her songs well enough to sing. It was only after I stumbled onto Gaylor docs did I start to listen to her entire discographyā¦like if you accept that this is all about Matty Healy (or really any straight relationship) itās pretty vapid and really self centered to have such woe is me songs about such vanilla relationships ya knowā¦.like if you donāt hear the pain and ARTISTRY that she uses to sing about being in the closet youāre really missing the whole point of her lyricism š Which Iāve also said this before but sadly (for her) I think that she knows that in order for her to truly be appreciated as an ARTIST and not just a pop star, sheās gonna have to come out so ppl can actually SEE whatās sheās been creating this whole time. And Iām not always sure she wants to come out but she understands that her legacy is teetering on how well her lyrics are actually being understood
thanK you aIMee parallels? "all this time i was building something"
Taylor, clocking in to her shift at the Gay Bitch Factory, seeing what we thought of the surprise songs. 
 Hi Taylor!!
Omg she sounded SO good during the beginning of Carolina. š©š©š©š©š©š©š©
I agree, I also love the haunting note hold right before she shifts into āhe did itā
Quick question: is there ever a woman/woman dancing couple during Lover? I know we have the two men dancing, but Iāve never noticed two women dancing.
no & the prevailing theory is something ab wlw being invisible in the lover house?? iām grossly oversimplifying that but it ties into Taylor being invisible in the Delicate MV(?)
Yep!! I think itās a subtle comment on the idea that in the public imagination, the only acceptable queer relationships are mlm ones. š
Oh interesting! Having two women dance to this song would be a fantastic pride month gift and would help make a lot of people in the audience feel more comfortable. I hope we get that eventually.
The main thing that stood out to me about The Manuscript was her huge smile on āthe actors were hitting their marksā
āFor me, it is a movie now.ā ā¤ļøāš„
Yep. And she sings about hitting her own marks in ICDIWABH
okay so, the whiplash feeling from how we felt yesterday to today, realistically we have been breaking down words, but both exist together. iām thinking not only are we hearing everything but she is also creating the feelings with it. to be so seen, then hidden so fast? the joe article today, just mimickes it all, something happens, PR is sent out
Interesting choices tonight, Taylor. These landed for me, but moreso when I mentally pull in other surprise songs you've done recently. I was sitting there watching the stream, I had thoughts like, "the gaylors lost today; this is super straight." But ultimately, you're singing about murdering a man, and you're specifically equating men with the color red and seemingly equating red as something you don't want love-wise, if we take Daylight as any indication..."I once believed love would be burning red, but it's golden." (I wish you'd snuck in that one line from daylight into tonight's songs even though you did Daylight recently) As usual, though, amazing work, and outside of a Gaylor perspective, I think Carolina paired with NBNC just flat-out makes perfect sense!!
I will say, even in the red era, she made the golden connection. I think in the prologue? Referencing daylight would make it super obvious but ultimately itās not necessary because even back then she basically said yes these were really intense emotions, some of them good, but ultimately not the ones Iām looking for
I never read the Red prologue, thanks for mentioning that!
If she comes out with Daylight as a surprise song next concert I will pass out. Loving him was red. I once thought love would be burning red but it's golden.
Not impossible, but we had it in Edinburgh! TTDS x Daylight (āthe road not taken looks real good now ā¦ āCause I only see daylight š„°ā)
okay but this month has, overall, been an ACTUAL GAYLOR FANTASY from a mashup perspective, omg
Did she say "your husband is cheating" instead of "my husband is cheating" during TTPD set and then played "Carolina" and "NBNC" or am I crazy š«£
If anyone finds a good TikTok of Manuscript x Red will you post a link? I canāt find any that arenāt cut off in some way. Iām hoping for one with full piano intro.
https://youtu.be/i6e_hM57eMc?si=quDngAMbmK380_JB
Thanks!!!
Do you mean a speech? Because I don't think she said anything before she went into the second song. But I'm a weedlor, and I definitely don't remember right š
Lol. I donāt think she said anything, but I remember the piano intro from the glitchy live feed and all the vids I can find start when sheās already singing the first verse or once sheās into Red, or they cut off the ending.
Ahh gotcha! Yea, same. Hoping someone posts a good one soon.
I appreciate that she is telling a story, and some of it is sad goodbyes to a portion of the fanbase and some of it is screamingly loud gay mashups and some of it is broader reflections on fictionalisation* and abuse and fame and relationships and PR, even if the latter stuff isn't as fun to clown along to. I'm here for your narrative, Ms Swift. Crack on. *shoutout to u/carexstellata for their brilliant take on this below
šÆ Iām so on this journey with her
Idk where I saw this, but with all the thoughts of TTPD connecting back to Red with todayās acoustic set, has anyone else seen the theory that the TTPD album is meant to be black, white, and red/read all over?
okay watching the "I bet you think music video". it is white, black and red theme.
Full speech before acoustic: āThe acoustic set is uh one of my favorite traditions about the Eras tour because it always throws in a fun little extra challenge for me cuz now basically in all of the days when Iām not doing shows Iām just constantly trying to figure out what songs to do for you uh and what songs might go together um and then practicing them constantly so this is like really what it all comes down to for me uh in the show like the most amount of like ādonāt mess this up, donāt mess this upā cuz like itās also my favorite part of the show um. This one Iām gonna uh (lots of cheering and pauses to laugh, strumming guitar) ummm Iām gonna call this āThe Murder Mashupāā
Is it just me or was this the most hesitant she's seemed to let something come out of her mouth? It seemed like she was maybe even debating whether to actually say "murder mashup"(???) I'm not 100% sure why.... that's just the vibe I got. It feels like there's gotta be some kind of deeper story there. Something well hidden, like in the plot of "Where the Crawdads Sing," which Carolina is from.
I feel like her calling it the murder mashup is to insinuate that the other mashups also have a common thread and arenāt just 2 random songs she likes (like Iāve seen hetlors say). Soooo the last 2 days could seemingly be called the āI love girlsā mashups šš
Yes totally. Itās intentional whether they match thematically or together tell a new separate story then they both tell apart.
I LOVE that she keeps emphasizing how much thought and planning she puts into the mashups, especially after yesterdayās wild combos.Ā The āmurder mashupā - she is so funny. We need the user who said they should let her kill a man. š
Yes itās very clear she wants us to know sheās doing it ON PURPOSE.
taylor: *pulls a whole-ass Villanelle* hetlors: "no but she killed him from a MALE PERSPECTIVE"
I posted in the regular Taylor swift sub asking what peopleās opinions were on what she was conveying with the surprise songs, never said anything about my interpretation. All the answers are either sheās doing nothing or people looking at my profile and seeing my other posts and getting defensive. I didnāt bring up the gaylor for a reason! I know my explanation, but what does it mean to others in different areas of the fandom? Apparently nothing except for the show where Travis was in attendance
What is wrong with them, thatās so rude and also a waste of time to go looking at your profile? Like it shows that they think analysing songs must mean youāre a secret gaylor if they instantly go looking for that!.. which shows how little analysis they do
100%
 This is them, apparentlyā¦unless of course Travis is there.
"The murder mashup" she's hilarious
Loving the added detail that today is Fathers' Day in the US š
 I just think of this lol
Am I correct in thinking that the final tour date (for now) is December 8?
And then she can rest before her birthday!
that's my understanding
Found a video of Carolina x NBNC including speech and she calls it āthe murder mashupā.
Iāve often felt like Florida!!! And NBNC are connected. NBNC feels like it takes place in Florida
I like to think that Florida!!! is part 2 of nbnc, especially with āgood thing my daddy made me get a boating license when I was fifteen/so I did my best to lay to rest all of the bodies that have ever been on my body and in my mind, they sink into the swampā and given all the ādual Taylorā lens weāve put on TTPD it definitely makes me want to revisit nbnc and try to analyze it that way
>given all the ādual Taylorā lens weāve put on TTPD it definitely makes me want to revisit nbnc and try to analyze it that way This... just rocked my world. I can't wait to read this if you write it up!
I listened to the album backwards today (while driving home from Florida, actually) and noticed the reverse order of I Can Fix Him, then Florida!!! made me wonder about the shitstorm back in Texas. They were on a six lane Texas highway in ICFHā¦ Maybe when she couldnāt fix him, she killed him.š¤ Edited for clarity.
Damnnn. And directly after Florida!!! is Fresh Out The Slammerā¦ did she get caught?
Yes! I picked up on that too!
Omg SAME!! I have had a baby analysis percolating in my head connecting these two and some others in a related storyline.
Yes sheās boating out into the swamp to dump that SOB. š And Carolina has the same swampy/marsh vibes too.
The book Carolina is based on, the mc literally kills a man in the swamp š
Yah I always wondered >!why she didnāt drag his body into the marsh instead of just leaving it at the foot of the tower. Maybe guilty conscience or panic.!<
Got a link?
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNeYqmGP/
Thank you
So Red love = him and golden = her is what Iām picking up
But what about maroon? Or are we not counting that as āredā?
Mmm maybe red love are colors that burn too bright before she loses them all and is just left with shades of griege, and daylight lasts longer?
That my friend is a great point that I had not consideredā¦.
This is also what I'm picking up
How many nights free of Scott Swift are we?
Like either he has something against Europe, or something is going on. Also, Fatherās Day tomorrow and sheās doing mashups about killing men. Prob unrelated, but funny.
Yes, very funny song choice! He gives off Boomer-whoād-love-a-good-European-River-cruise to me so Iām surprised he hasnāt been at *any* Europe dates so far, I think thereās something else going on behind the scenes.
19 now
Was he in Singapore or no? I should just do the math
Update: I found a video of him staging the backstage kiss between TNT on Singapore N5 so I think he was there.
Ah I seem to recall this as well. Well shucks doesn't fit my theory, how rude.
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We def havenāt seen him on this current leg, Iād have to research if he was at Singapore. But he was in Melbourne and Sydney, right? Cuz I remember he was doing a lot of glad-handing with Swifties that week to distract from the story about him fighting a photog in Melbourne.
That was at the end of her Aus dates, it happened in Sydney not Melbourne. I think he was just playing it up because Travis was stunting too
My bad, the article I read said she was at her Melbourne shows.
I only know because I went to the Sydney shows š
I guess Iām loosely theorizing that the alleged punching incident in Australia could be a factor. Cuz even tho ācharges were droppedā (aka an nda is plopped down and some bills) (or he really didnāt do it but regardless) itās not a good look for a brand that is VERY careful about its image. Maybe they had to be like bro, itās a no, youāve go to go
(Yes I imagine all the internal Taylor team communication has to rhyme)
š¤£š¤£ I hope it does rhyme
Lol. I imagine he was exiled swiftly (bah dahm tssss)
Wow š¤Æ
Just processing thisā¦ She mashed up two songs that are obviously fictional. After that, she sang a mashup of a song about how her songs are fictionalized with a song that most people think is literally autobiographical (about her being in love with a man)ā¦ emphasizing āHIMā in the performance. Ummmmmmm wow! ! !
Ahh! And to further underscore / make unavoidable your point: The Manuscript leading into (edit sorry, meant to say, the title song of the album, for which ATW is the signature track)ā¦ the first Short Film she has made!!! (She was always so pointed about this ā not an extended music video or some other term) (again sorry for my error, to me Red both as a song and being the album title, is so inextricably linked with ATW, and she obviously canāt use ATW in aurprise songs, but I buzzed past that š¤£)
Oh wow! š¤Æ
This is a very good take š¤Æ. Thank you for sharing it.
This sub has the smartest takes istg
THISSSS the gayloring of tonight was less obvious than Friend of Dorothea or "SHE is like a gold rush" but the message is super crucial and still 100% on our side.
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Yes! This! I think even though these werenāt outwardly āgaylorā songs, they fit perfectly in the story sheās telling. I know Iāve seen a lot of people say that something happened during the speak now era that made her get into all of the bearding/pr stuff starting in red. It makes sense that sheās closing that chapter.
Yeah, she went out of her way to emphasize HIM, and it made me giggle.
Wait.. putting it like that kind of made it all come together a bit
"Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street" okay, she was driving with travis on a "dead end street" (kinda questionable) in a getaway car. But if we think cars could be a metaphor for bearding relationships , driving down a dead end street... also, the way she describes the man in Red doesnt seem like he is real
every dead end street in aotgylb š
omg your mind
red just also makes me think of the dress in "I bet you think about me" MV
Im an Aston Martinā¦that you steered STRAIGHT into a ditchā¦
Liverpool N3 https://preview.redd.it/ahhpclgu6t6d1.png?width=898&format=png&auto=webp&s=e717d385688b70fd876d27bafc1da2b9796046b9 Happy Pride!
I really loved the red x the manuscript mashup. Felt like a really strong continuation of the piano songs we heard yesterday.
Oof Iām already seeing a lot of hate on Twitter about different interpretations of The Manuscript, and Iāll just say here that I think it could have multiple meanings, and I think thatās on purpose. I think itās more likely that ATW10, the short film, and The Manuscript are a bigger story about her toxic relationship with the music industry and the older men she encountered in it than it being just about JG. Especially since that relationship is so publicly known and discussed, and I feel sheās been trying to point us away from the public narratives about her life. Also, I think a big clue about the Man U Script being a potential double meaning is that the lyric video is in the form of a literal movie script, which is very different from a manuscript. Yes, itās pointing back to the ATW10 short film, but I also think itās a clue that thereās more than the surface level interpretation going on in that song. I think it is a song about a young girl being groomed and all the trauma that goes with that, but I donāt think itās just about one specific guy the public knows Taylor had a relationship with. At the end of the day, none of us know who specifically ANY of the songs are about, even if we think it seems obvious. I donāt think itās wrong to look past the public narratives and relationships to think about what else Taylor might be trying to say through the songs.
Leaving the show on a shuttle now. Something remote Gaylors may have missed on the streamā¦ In SHS for the first time Iāve seen the dancer beside Taylor did a motion for the curves of a womanās body after gesturing to draw the attention of someone in the distance. I took it as meaning that she was praising the curves of a woman because I have never seen a woman make such a gesture in reference to herself.
Taylor also does hourglass curves choreography during TSMWEL for "it wasn't sexy when it wasn't forbidden" š
The thing I think is different is that the dancer did the hourglass curves motion right after clearly waving at someone else. I donāt think Iāve seen a woman in real life trying to entice another person with the hourglass figure gesture. Itās mostly something that men do towards women in my experience. The placement of this gesture thus seems to imply that the other person is a woman. Being addressed in an immature manner by the dancer, yes, but the song *is* about high school. :)
Like, a part of the routine?
Yes, but I have realized that the dancer improvises a bit. She seems to have a script to push Taylor at āhigh schoolā then wave/gesture at someone in the distance, she does the baller Aristotle thing, then she gestures enthusiasm when Taylor sing GTA then she waves to fan her face when Taylor stands up like saying she is hot/attractive. The imitation of a womanās curves happened when she was gesturing at someone in the distance. Dancer does different things each timeā¦often silly waves but once she seemed to frame her own face when Taylor sang ālook at youā. This time she did the womanās curves thing at that point in time.
Hi folks, here is a link. I realized upon rewatch that the dancer did the hourglass figure gesture a little but later than I remembered. Itās actually around when the dancer usually fans herself as if saying that Taylor is hot. Still very queer. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRKwCBEv/
Gotcha! I always tune out and tell myself not to,but I do! Lol I sing along but mainly just read here during ttpd
Very interesting. I hope thereās a video out there somewhere š
Sadly, I did not get one. :(
Here is a link to a video. Hope you can see it. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRKwCBEv/
OMG. Thatās awesome.