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TAYLOR SWIFT at the 2023 Video Music Awards

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taylor reactions at the vmas: a thread

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Dancing With our Hands Tied last night with Karlie in the crowd gave me all the feels.

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Tell me more about New Year’s Day

Ok, it is a long read, written half drunk (excellent  Monbazillac straight outta Dorgogne)  not gonna edit the train of thoughts, so here you go:

When Taylor talked about this song, she said she found the “inspiration” in new years eve parties and how the day after you stay with the one you share your life with to clean the mess and spend the day in peace, in private which is a huge contrast with the partying.Here is how I read it. This song wraps up the album. But imo, in taylor private life it describes her transition from NYE its glitter and polaroid aka the 1989 era with the social media and media overexposure, the girls squad, the friends, the parties, the outings. “you and me from the night before”: everything they lived during this phase in life that she is about to put behind her.She is scared because she doesn’t know what the reaction of the person she’s singing for would be if they get to the last page of the book she is about to close, will that person stay for the next one?This is almost the only song in which she talks about doubts coming from the other person because they are both scared. She says she wants the celebrations but she’d also stick to do life’s mundane tasks when the lights are out, and by that I think it means the beginning of her blackout phase.Verse 2 is where they start putting this plan en route, their taxi ride. It is a very interesting non verbal exchange, the other person squeezing her hand is a sign of reassurance, one that is done by someone who doesn’t need words to say what you need to hear, your long term SO, your BFF or a close family member. She replies that even if this trip is long, she is not going anywhere and will be there for the worst and for better times alike.In the post chorus and the bridge, I think she is preparing her love interest for a difficult part. A part where they will probably be physically separated from each other for longer periods than they are used to before. Thus asking the person to hold on to the memories they shared together (3 times. you can stretch and reach and say it corresponds to 3 years relationship before the blackout if you feel like it, I don’t make the rules). And then she tells her love interest that if they hold on to these memories she will hold on to them as a pair. She is not leaving, she is just retreating.She is asking them not to forget her and this relationship she is trying to keep during this new phase of life, where their separate lives would probably be less in sync than before. She knows her lover like the back of her hand and could not stand the idea of them becoming strangers.Overall, at first I did not pay attention to the depth of it I really just thought she was describing the aftermath of a party. But she is not. Wouldn’t you expect a mention of alcohol here (in Taylor’s most alcohol-drenched album)? well surprise, there is none. Because it is not describing an actual party, but her transition from the 1989 to the Rep era and wanting her partner to cross that bridge with her. Some sort of “through thick-and-thin promise” in a form of a soft ballad. It also strikes me as a narrative of a long term relationship where two people are settled in a certain lifestyle and they are about to make a drastic change due to what life throws at them and they are maybe hesitantly walking to their destination but holding hands firmly.So that’s my meta-analysis and very liberally done interpretation of this song. It was a head-scratcher for me, she wrote it and recorded it quite fast and felt that THIS is the song that should wrap up an album she called reputation with and that she is releasing after she completely turned her public life around. And this is how it made sense to me.

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hey fam

care to reblog with moments that you found where taylor was looking up to the right side bleachers of the stadium, where karlie was sitting? i’m hoping we could all work to compile a masterpost of them.

*this is a live under construction post meaning i will be updating this post for a bit as i add / edit

i’ll start with the examples i found. please add on!!

🟦 THE ONE

🟦 BETTY

🟦 AUGUST

🟦 MASTERMIND

🟦 KARMA

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Dozens of NYC Subway riders, fresh off a Robyn concert, singing “Dancing On My Own” while waiting for the E train. (Video by Triszh Hermogenes) 

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renaissance in the 21st century

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Amen to that little dude

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You realise a lot of things when you listen to Evermore after an entire month of being consumed by Midnights. One of them being how "happiness", the last song written for Evermore, brings so much context to the new tracks :

"Past the blood and bruise

Past the curses and cries

Beyond the terror in the nightfall

Haunted by the look in my eyes

That would've loved you for a lifetime"

Just brings me back to the Midnights prologue. And I think we finally met the new her.

Which leads me to the EMA and how Taylor hasn't been seen wearing color in a while. Except from blue and gold (👀). But she wore green...on november 13 of all dates.

Would that be the green light of forgivness she refers to in happiness ?

"All you want from me now is the green light of forgiveness

You haven't met the new me yet

And I think she'll give you that"

Thinking thoughts

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Be our voice. Help spread the news.

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11/21 So It Goes… Rep Tour Tokyo Night 2 🖤

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Thinking about "Midnights" lyrical parallels and trying to make sense of it all.

Starting with "The great war". How it refers to both "Renegade" and "closure".

"I drew curtains closed / Drank my poison all alone"

"Tears on the letter / I vowed not to cry anymore / If we survived the Great War "

In "closure" : "Yes I got your letter / [...] Don't treat me like / Some situation that needs to be handled / I'm fine with my spite / And my tears / And my beer and my candles"

We've got both the tears on the letter, the poison (spite and beer) and the candles which could either illustrate she's in a dark place or, from a religious pov, that she's seeking help from above.

In "Renegade" : "We've come a long way / Open the blinds let me see your face / You wouldn't be the first renegade / To need somebody"

"You fire off missiles 'cause you hate yourself / But do you know you're demolishing me? / And then you squeeze my hand as I'm about to leave"

Curtains closed -> blinds closed.

You squeeze my hand... -> "my hand was the one you reached for".

The bombs that were close and the burning embers from the great war -> the missiles hurting her in Renegade.

Then the definition of a renegade : A person who has changed faith, been disloyal to a cause or a friend. "Somewhere in the haze / Got a sense I've been betrayed".

Does it make sense ? Or am I crazy ?!??

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My queer history readings just flashed before my eyes this morning while seeing a thread about "Paris".

"Somewhere the culture's clever" ? See, apart from being know as the city of love, Paris also holds an immense importance in queer history, much more so in female queer history. All thanks to "La belle époque" an era were the most proeminent queer artists converged to the city. Where an american poet called Nathalie Barney (openly lesbian) hosted litterary salons which leds to rumors about Marie-Antoinette's lesbian affairs, influenced the writing of "The well of loneliness" a book which increased the visibility of wlw in british and american culture (go read a résumé, it's worth it) and saw the birth of Burlesque.

And you know what else ? Loïe Fuller, the woman Taylor dedicated her Dress number to everynight during rep tour was part of that small circle.

Make what you will of that information but to me....that is loud.