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https://x.com/erodalighthouse/status/1860862311830823179?t=9bAYbirsdaUQhKPjN-8D4A&s=19

What does this mean????? Is it original or some song or some poem??????

It’s original I think, posted at 1:45am London time.

Dean and Old Compton is in London SoHo, on that corner is:

The Groucho Club which is a private members club that Harry went to *a lot* in 2012-2013, usually with Nick Grimshaw. It’s also where Taylor went with Tom O’Dell after the 2013 Brit awards which Harry was also at. Harry was there a week before it seemed to be a favourite of his at the time so... interesting.

More likely is the Dean Street Studio - Bowie recorded there as well as Florence and Adele who worked with Kid Harpoon on those records. When Harry, Tyler and Kid were photographed in SoHo in October 2023 they were a 6 minute walk from that studio.

The silhouette stands out to me too, it reminds me of “she sits beside me like a silhouette. Hard candy dripping on me till my feet are wet”

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pleasing 🧶

Eras Tour ~ Toronto, Canada

Night 4 ~ Surprise Songs

11 / 21 / 2024

11/ 13 / 2024,

Pleasing posts:

The "pleasing • Original audio"

was to the tune of

"elevator music"

and if you'd like your own

"perfectly pleasing" merch,

you can find it on Pleasing's website

~ not affiliated, lol, but I've come dangerously close to purchasing the nail polish, however it better make my nails have magic powers for $18 (!!!)

and while we're on the subject of nails:

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edit: The bunny in the purse is a LOT bunny! 😂 Taylor's purse looks like a Top Hat 🎩 - she's the magician with the Rabbit (Harry) in her hat ... tricks up her sleeve!

🪄 🐇 🎩

🎶 I thought the plane was going down

How'd you turn it right around 🎶

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sounds very much like a "touch down"

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Beasts Tee

BeASTs Tee

Bestee TAS

Also $70 is entirely too much for a shirt that appears cropped, imho

But I still love looking and scrolling through all this merch 🫶🏼

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hi! i noticed that you didn't do an analysis on harry's song "him". when he sings "i was with you when you wrote that line", which taylor song do you think he's refering to?

Hi, to me, this is a reference to Wildest Dreams lyric “say you’ll remember me standing in a nice dress staring at the sunset” because it goes on to refer to wildest dreams. And it was his wildest dreams, that’s a lyric from Best Song Ever. Harry and Taylor have also both posted photos of looking at a sunset, first both at Cannes and then Taylor shared a similar one when Cruel Summer was released as a single.

Amazing eyes is also a 2012 song that was out when they were dating and refers to loving a girl who doesn’t trust the singer, that he didn’t do the things she suspected of him.

To me this song is about not wanting to hear about other BFs and being annoyed there was talk to wildest dreams being about Calvin or Alexander and the way it references Best Song Ever it’s clearly about Harry.

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SPOT the "H"

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Patchwork...

Harry's is a knit crochet CARDIGAN

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Harry's knit cardigan created such a craze that the designer shared the pattern on the website

JW Anderson Colour Block Patchwork Cardigan / Knit pattern

Often duplicated never replicated

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You (U = 21) + Me was Us

mUSe

Okay she confirmed in my eyes Us is about Harry then continued on, using YOYOK and Long Story Short… 🥲 I mean LK talks about November referencing evermore and then she proceeds to sing evermore songs 3 nights in a row. 🤷🏼‍♀️🫢🥹

Don’t hate on me. I will block 🤔

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I don't wanna live forever

In the video Zayn arrives in a classic convertible, similar to Blank Space. She 'called out' Harry's cars in KoMH "'Cause all the boys and their expensive cars / With their Range Rovers and their Jaguars"

Then the hotel looks a lot like the Bowery Hotel where Harry stays in NY. Also, not to sound flippant... but it's Zayn and Taylor.

Harry and Taylor refer to Hallways in 10 songs and in the Perfect MV.

There are white roses throughout which Taylor pulls apart. Since Red, TS Roses have been about Harry, he has a rose tattoo. On their May anniversary in 2013, she posted roses saying she thought something would grow. She threw white roses in the Blank Space MV.

The people in the background are dressed like Harry and Taylor at the Victoria Secret show, which is also the subject of So it Goes.

They trash the hotel room, which mocks Perfect's MV. 1D's made a mess, Taylor and Zayn smash a mirror and a lamp.

i don't wanna live forever came together very quickly. wrote it with taylor and sam dew and produced it at home mostly on paper sounds. recorded taylor at my house. zayn sent parts from LA – we did it in a week basically. i've never had something come out that quick — jackantonoff (@jackantonoff) December 9, 2016

Zayn said that Jack approached him, then Zayn spoke to Taylor who already knew the track. I think given the importance of Jack and Taylor's relationship it's more likely Taylor choose Zayn and Jack was an intermediary than Jack raising it.

The collaboration itself is enough to confirm who it is about and caused a directioner-swiftie Twitter fandom storm. Many viewed it as a way for them both to mess with Harry, I think in part it is a response to Perfect. To suggest it's not about Harry for either is... a choice.

When was it written

Jack and Taylor were in the studio recording the bulk of Reputation in September 2016, Zayn was was in LA then, so maybe. But Fifty shades wrapped in April 2016 and it was likely wanted then.

Live performances

Taylor performed it 7 times in promotional events and then only twice in concert, interestingly both times was it the first week of June:

June 9, 2018, Manchester's Reputation Surprise Song. They were in a good (and maybe more) place then. Also Harry's hometown (he was in Florida)

June 3, 2023, Chicago Eras surprise song. It is sadder that above, the MH split announcement was 2 days later so maybe related. Haylor relations seemed warm before and after that.

Taylors split from CH and Harry left to shoot Dunkirk in June 2016. From I did something bad / High Infidelity / Ole we know CH was over earlier and they had spent some time together in February and April 2016. Playing this in June, when Harry left for Dunkirk and his IG going colour after the 2016 Met Gala has me side eyeing the end.

Lyrics

[Verse 1: ZAYN] Been sittin' eyes wide open Behind these four walls, hopin' you'd call It's just a cruel existence Like there's no point hopin' at all

Eyes wide open is a reference to Eyes wide Shut, the Stanley Kubrick erotic psychological drama. Like Fifty shades is features a masquerade party.

Harry and Taylor refer to waiting for calls in: AYHTDWS "Here you are now, calling me up, but I don't know what to say" August "Cancel plans just in case you'd call". Maroon "the rust that grew between telephones" FTDT "Even my phone misses your call, by the way"

Cruel existence is a theme of referring to their relationship as something they are trapped in. Cruel Summer "It's a cruel summer with you", MMIH "Cause once you go without it / Nothing else will do" and others. Taylor also had no hope in Treacherous "This hope is treacherous"

[Pre-Chorus: ZAYN] Baby, baby, I feel crazy Up all night, all night and every day Give me somethin', oh, but you say nothin' What is happening to me?

Taylors pre-chorus is the same but "I gave you somethin', but you gave me nothin'"

IWYW has a similar line "You always knew how to push my buttons / You give me everything and nothing" and Say "don't go" "I said, "I love you" (I said, "I love you") / You say nothin' back"

[Chorus: ZAYN] I don't wanna live forever 'Cause I know I'll be living in vain And I don't wanna fit wherever I just wanna keep calling your name Until you come back home x2

Taylor has referred to not wanting a life without Harry in Is it over now? "Oh, Lord, I think about / Jumping off of very tall somethings" Hoax " Stood on the cliffside / Screaming, "Give me a reason"" This is me trying "Pulled the car off the road to the lookout / Could've followed my fears all the way down"

In Where do broken hearts go "Now I'm searching every lonely place / Every corner calling out your name / Tryna find you but I just don't know / Where do broken hearts go?"

I don't want to fit wherever seems a response to Perfect "Or the arms that hold you any time you want them / But that don't mean that we can't live here in the moment / 'Cause I can be the one you love from time to time". HS had not been available because of the band, but wasn't in 2016 when Taylor wanted someone there for her but I expect was focused on his solo career and Dunkirk so not in the band or available. To me this line could be why it still didn't work out.

[Verse 2: Taylor Swift] I'm sittin' eyes wide open And I got one thing stuck in my mind Wonderin' if I dodged a bullet Or just lost the love of my life, oh

In second Verse Taylor has let it go, dodged a bullet/lost the love of her life is pretty straight forward - but it's an interesting link to Love of my Life on Harry's House which was still 6 years away. (yes I know his only 13th track on the album he released on their 10th anniversary is about England.... ....)

[Bridge: Taylor Swift, ZAYN, Both] I've been looking sad in all the nicest places Baby, baby, I feel crazy I see you around in all these empty faces Up all night, all night and every day I've been looking sad in all the nicest places Give me somethin', oh, but you say nothin' Now I'm in a cab, I tell 'em where your place is What is happening to me?

Looking sad in all the nicest places reminds me of:

This is me trying: "And it's hard to be at a party / When I feel like an open wound/ It's hard to be anywhere these days / When all I want is you"

Hit's different "Freedom felt like summer then on the coast / Now the sun burns my heart and the sand hurts my feelings"

Take the cab to his place is also similar to other times they go to each others house:

DBATC: "I Take the long way home"

Wish You Would. "It's 2 A.M. in your car / Windows down, you pass my street / The memories start" and "It's 2 A.M. in your car / Windows down, I pass my street / The memories start"

[Outro: Taylor Swift, ZAYN] I just wanna keep callin' your name Until you come back home Until you come back home

Finally, home is an important concept to them. Generally, they refer to each other as home. However in this song and Sweet Creature, "Wherever I go, you bring me home Sweet creature, sweet creature When I run out of road, you bring me home"

Sweet Creature and IDWLF were both written in 2016 they refer to HS coming home to her.

The lyric 'And I don't wanna fit wherever / I just wanna keep calling your name / Until you come back home". Is a hope that eventually they will be together, but accepting not yet. This idea is in several songs:

HYGTG "Broke your heart, I'll put it back together / I would wait for ever and ever (I want you for ever and ever)"

Suburban Legends " When you told me we'd get back together / And you kissed me in a way that's gonna screw me up forever"

Someday "Someday maybe when we're old and gray / We could be in love once more / Till then I won't give my love away / Darling, I'm forever only yours"

Something Great: "One day, I'll come into your world and get it right / I'll say we're better off together here tonight"

Happily "We were meant to be but a twist of fate / Made it so you had to walk away."

Satellite "Spinning out, waiting for ya to pull me in / I can see you're lonely down there"

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check out the new pleasing holiday promo on their site. "Bejeweled beasts"!!!

There’s so much there, the roses, “welcome dreams” bejewelled beasts, a glitch, the clock, midnights asthetic TV with the programs “Emma’s dilemma / TV shopping bonanza / A ?tale? As old as time / Always ?pleasing?”

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Mine...

I have so many thoughts,

But it's not time to share just yet.

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https://x.com/Kaaaaatie_x/status/1857644409539416149?t=CbUTUTsIHSed350K7Zj9cQ&s=19

March 2023 was the only one that wasn’t a mash up, she doesn’t sing whole songs in mash ups. The love of my life line is after a kind of long chorus so I think that’s why she has replaced it, interesting it’s been replaced with a song about getting someone back every time.

Chicago, Sat, Jun 3, 2023: Piano: I Don't Wanna Live Forever

Singapore, Sat, Mar 2, 2024: Piano: I Don't Wanna Live Forever x Dress

Munich, Sun, Jul 28, 2024: Guitar: I Don't Wanna Live Forever x imgonnagetyouback

Toronto, Fri, Nov 15, 2024: Guitar; I Don’t Wanna Live Forever x Mine

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apologies if you’ve answered, but what are your thoughts on the reveal that FOTS was written and recorded on the 13th of December 2022. Does that line up with Harry at all?

It does, I included it in the two posts below as the studio is in the credits and was in media at the time she visited, she also posted it to Insta herself. It’s interesting that it was trending with swifties in October, I guess because she was back there.

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Watching this Space ⌚️👀

One more...from the last collection...

Times Pleasing was Haylor af

The perfume launch

Harrys nail artist using Sweet Disposition for insta reel and Pleasing liking it.

Vogue World London

Taylor lookalike in Pleasing promo

Used Style in a TikTok (now deleted)

Nail polish names

Swans

Swans part 2

The Love Knit sweater

Insta Reels

Close Encounters of a Pleasing Kind/Down Bad

Close Encounters part 2

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Business as usual...

it's giving, "The Man" vibes

andddd she's covered in V's

Versace, Victoria's Secret & Vuitton

V = 5 ~ TS 5 ~ 1989

She's wearing a laced corset

She's laced her songs with "narcotics"

🎶 Put narcotics into all of my songs 🎶 Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?

Narcotics are Drugs

🎶 my drug is my baby 🎶 Don't Blame Me

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Taylor's Versace Tweed MASCULINE BLAZER has a Buffalo Plaid pattern, called micro windowpane pattern website

The Buffalo Plaid pattern has a DEEP history, I quickly found/read this article from HGTV on the history of the Buffalo Check, here's my quick takeaway...

National Records of Scotland, registers this pattern as:

"Rob Roy MacGregor tartan" and worn by the MacGregor clan beginning as early as the proscriptions when, following the Jacobite uprisings of the 17th and 18th century, wearing certain forms of traditional Highland dress was prohibited

The pattern was traded in the Americas to the Sioux and Cheyenne warriors, who coined the term Buffalo Plaid 

Others point to Pennsylvania and the Woolrich company, which released a red and black shirt in “buffalo check” in 1850. “Legend has it,” the company says, “that the designer of this iconic fabric owned a herd of buffalo, so he named the black and red checkered fabric after his beloved herd.” Source

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My thoughts continued:

MacGregor > McGregor aka Conor McGregor who starred in the 1989 remake of Road House

also starring Jake Gyllenhaal...😏 see where this is going?

Both Road House movies, the 1989 and 2024 versions were heavy HAYLOR - I picked up on the clues when watching...

If this invisible string is connected,

then I get the idea that Taylor is ready for a fight?

Idk, I could be totally wrong...this is just the string that my mind sees and follows

If you've stuck with me up until this point...go to @taylahschildoffical on IG and peek at the embroidered number on that baby's onesie. . . 17

Just one more thought...Versace called the pattern a micro window pane

Windows are mentioned so many time throughout Taylor's discography....I'll have to continue to collect my thoughts on this...

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Is it just me or is she dressed as if she's about to give a speech at a trump rally? 😭😭 the whole outfit is just not it.

IDK, she has always worn red to the games and in general but it did remind me of this

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Chris Martin better not play with my heart like that

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https://www.tumblr.com/foxes-that-run/766708526517305344/the-fact-that-no-one-sees-harry-in-the-album

there’s so many lyrics that screams harry and it surprises me that a lot of people don’t see it. especially peter!!

“you said you were gonna grow up then you would come find me” — i mean, if it were about matty it doesn’t makes sense because technically, he did comeback to her so why would she be sad about him not fulfilling his promise and telling him she doesn’t wants to wait anymore? i don’t see 25 year old matty (i highly doubt they even dated in 2014 anyway) saying something like that, but i CAN see a 25 year old harry (who was about to release fine line on her birthday) promising her that.

also, the spotify canvas being that part of the fortnight music video where she’s wearing a dress that looks like the dress she wore at TIFF it’s a huge hint too

She also had a Toronto safe in the Spotify room, though maybe she announces a re-record there

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hi, interesting theory with the clothing and vivienne westwood collection. You said you have more about this on your TT account. Can you share the link please?

Of course 😸

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Taylor wearing VIVIENNE WESTWOOD

the self-proclaimed Queen of Fashion PLUNDERING 👑🛡️⚔️🪐

"plundering" is a synonym for "HARRY"

Vivienne Westwood's website

writing about their experience with Westwood Heritage Tartan...

The two collections first written about are the 88/89 "Time Machine"

and the 93/94 "Anglomania" collection

every time Taylor is wearing

VIVIENNE WESTWOOD,

TARTAN / PLAID

"LACED" CORSETS

she is wearing Harry....

I have a video on my TT that goes into more detail...

Taylor out and about in NYC last night!

(On November 8, 2024)