#she’s a 1989/midnights stan so far

[lunar-years]

I got my boss to watch the eras tour film yesterday and she never really listened to Taylor’s music before that but now she’s listened to all the Taylor Versions + Lover onward and is slacking me her favorites from every album hehehehe

[everytaylorswiftsongisaboutcats]

What’s one more day of clowning?…

Here we go final leg of the Eras Tour😭

(RIP my hope of tickets☠️)

Miami Florida N1

— (I’m gonna update this as I go cause I need somewhere to speak in hyperspeed Swiftie screams) while streaming —

Lover Creamsicle/Lava Girl (despite the Twitter debates (yes I said Twitter😂) it looks the usual coral to me at least) though possible new necklace? w Normal speech + addressing the final leg & fantastic crowds to celebrate these albums

New Fearless dress! (Possibly my favorite thus far)

— I’m thinking Elsa for a “Mastermind” name? … trying to come up with some pasta suggestions for “Swiftbowl” but honestly all I can think is “buddy the elf spaghetti”😂

A lot going on at the moment for Red with usual ATW speech & announcing the confirmed ✨RAIN SHOW💖

Swirls for Speak Now enchanted

NEW REPUTATION SUIT WITH MATCHING MIC & DIFFERENT SNAKE (its giving Karen… which @taylornation is of course trolling the clowns with)

— Maybe more green snake intro? (otherwise normal) It seems to be more green lighting?🤡 Normal Rep setlist (I guess I’m going with Christmas themes today… cause all I want is Debutation?😂) also lwymmd has red Rep suit box… idk if it’s new? Mostly just afraid new suit is from “old stinky” (who I love) having holes…

Berry Folkmore/Everlore dress, basic Betty & Champagne problems speeches (or at least nothing officially big?⬇️), + usual setlist (the rain pausing & beginning in Marjorie was beautiful though) & while I see some Tweets saying Willow has new synths I personally did not hear them or see lighting differences in coloring (maybe it’s my screens? It seems usual green & coloring) OKAY BUT THAT SPEECH DANCING RAIN (dancing with our hands tied?⬆️)

Was hoping for a new combo with an all green set for 1989, we got red & green which is both rep colors, usual set, bikes are green not blue!

Hoping for Florida during TTPD, seems more red and green lit, Florida is in setlist WITH FLORENCE!!! (I’m getting snake eye lighting vibes which is me clowning for sure). Malfunction: she was literally running with her dress unbuttoned.😂 The crowd screaming again tricked me w Postie😭🖤NOTHING HAPPENED (but hey I love Jan so) Hoping for all Gold set (or black for Rep?) Set is white! Currently: Who’s Afraid Of Little Old Me? dress w White gloves & usual rest of set (aside from earlier ⬆️ Florida)

It’s all waiting on surprise dress now… I’m hoping new green, brand new black (maybe even silver/gold) or at least orange? Surprise songs o clock (coming in right after ICDIWABH which were on as I type this lol): HERE WE GO — THE DRESS IS RED AND GREEN AND BLUE AND LOOKS LIKE BLACK MIDNIGHT STARS OR HOLOGRAPHIC OR RAINBOW WHAT??? ITS RAINING?? ITS TIME!! ITS TIM MCGRAW & TIMELESS — ITS PIANO TIME (I AM CONFUSED) ITS THIS IS ME TRYING & DAYLIGHT — SHES JUMPING — UNLESS MOTHER DOES SOMETHING NEW AND ANNOUNCES AT MIDNIGHT WE HAVE BEEN CLOWNED🤡 but hey def my new fav dress for surprise songs (excited for high quality full pics)

It seems this has been dubbed the beta, paint splatter, sleeping beauty make it blue make it pink, lover hair or rep dress reference of Surprise Song dresses

Midnights: purple CORRECTION NEW ANTI HERO DRESS —

— & MoonStone🌙 bodysuit (don’t think it’s new guys) normal setlist & Kam love! Loving the rainy curls😍 & new crowd YES YOU ARE chants (haven’t heard that one for going out tonight before… maybe I’m just lost lol clowning fried my brain) if nothing else thankfully Vigilante Shit will always be scream worthy and heart stopping for mother🥵🤣👏 we Stan a good ✨Chicago✨ moment Magenta jacket & a wonderful night! Thanks for clowning!

[greatestwizardofthisage]

assigning each of the bad kids a taylor swift era because i am feeling deprived of tswift content now that she's on break from the eras tour

Kristen: Fearless. I can't even explain why, but to me that album is just so sunny and in my mind it fits Kristen perfectly. I think maybe it's because Fearless was one of the first album I ever really loved, then when I was older the rerecording is what got me back into tswift and I can totally see Kristen going through a similar journey with it where maybe she loves it as a kid but then stops listening to it as she distances herself from her childhood/family, only to fall in love with it again later on. Also I feel like the country vibes fit her well. (She would also LOVE betty but she would pretend it's a lesbian anthem)

Gorgug: Ok this feels controversial but he's a Lover stan. I just fully belive that to his core Gorgug is a lover not a hater and he would un ironically love Lover. Like to me that album is all about having gone through some bad shit and choosing to only carry forward the best of it? And that fits with my perception of Gorgug. ALSO the end of afterglow 'I want to be defined by the things that I love, not the things that I hate, or the things that haunt me in the middle of the night' just feels very Gorgug coded to me dont ask me why. However if you've seen any of my other posts about music and the bad kids you know that I wholeheartedly believe Gorgug loves all music so I think he'd be hard pressed to choose a favourite album.

Riz: Midnights. And not just because this kid never sleeps. Bassically I really couldn't decide which album he would listen to because none of them really fit, but then I started thinking about specific lyrics and I think Midnights has the most that he could relate to. I mean 'no one wanted to play with me as a little kid so I've been scheming like a criminal ever since' is about him. You can't change my mind. I do think though that Riz is definitely more invested in all the easter eggs and firguring out which album is coming next over actually listening to her music. Like he would for sure be among the first to figure out all her clues.

Fabian: 1989 and Folklore. I fully to the bottom of my heart belive that until his sophmore year Fabian would exclusivly be listening to pop music, sea shanties, and weird elven music. So obviously he would love the greatest pop album ever made. He wouldn't listen to Folklore until post sophmore character development. Also he would For Sure learn the choreography for the dance in the background of Dress on the Rep tour and recreat it perfectly using his sheet.

Fig: Speak Now. I mean do I even need to explain this? It's the perfect album for Fig. It's the kind of thing she would have loved when she was in her Preppy Cheerleader phase, but it has just enough of that pop punk influence that I feel like she could still appreciate it when she's older. I feel like she would definitly take issue with some of the misogynistic lyrics used in some of the songs, and would be all for the lyric change in Better Than Revenge. Also as I've mentioned many times before, Fig would love Paramore, and would LOVE Castles Crumbling. Like you're going to sit here and tell me that lines like 'They used to cheer when they saw my face, Now I fear I have fallen from grace' + 'Their faith was strong, but I pushed it too far, I held that grudge 'til it tore me apart' + 'Ones I loved tried to help, so I ran them off, And here I sit alone, behind walls of regret' + 'People look at me like I'm a monster, Now they're screaming at the palace front gates, used to chant my name, Now they're screaming that they hate me, Never wanted you to hate me' weren't written by Figueroth Faeth? I also just think songs like Never Grow Up and Long Live would perfectly fit with her not so secret sentimental streak.

Adaine: Evermore and Folklore. I think theres just a sort of elegence to these albums that really reminds me of Adaine. I also think theres so much vulnerability in them and a lot of the songs touch on feelings of not being good enough for others (mirrorball, tolerate it, this is me trying, right where you left me) that I think she could relate to not from a romantic relationship standpoint but from all the expectations placed on her by her parents. I also think that although these are probably the most low key of tswifts albums, they have some good angry songs (no body no crime, illicit affairs, mad woman) that she would definitly love. But yeah this is mostly based on aesthetics. Evermore and Folklore were albums written with a quill and Adaine is the kind of girl to appreciate this.

[no-barbies-for-quitters]

my mom has told me many times that she would know if i wasn’t myself by asking me what my #1 taylor swift album is.

she would know it wasn’t me if i didn’t say 1989.

and it’s always been this way. i was 10 years old when it was originally released. it took over my life as the first album i ever listened to fully.

around middle school i realized there was something about me that had irreversibly melded with 1989 when reputation came out. i wasn’t the biggest fan at first, and people (bc it was middle school) decided that it would be fun to say that taylor’s music was going to be exactly like reputation forever.

you couldn’t say 1989 was your favorite anymore and as a middle school girl who, looking back on it, was probably just as mentally ill as i am now if not worse, i had the great idea to stop telling people i liked taylor swift at all. i didn’t listen to a single one of her albums from reputation through evermore all the way through and only listened to midnights once the hype had kinda calmed down.

back in june my dad realized that for someone who, as far as he knew, didn’t really like taylor swift i sure did know a lot of stuff about her and apparently decided to tell him all of it. he surprised me and sent me and my mom to denver for the eras tour. before it even started i was joking with my mom about “oh i probably won’t cry during the songs everyone else does but watch me cry through like shake it off or something”.

apparently i had been given the gift of prophecy because not only did i cry through shake it off, but also the entirety of the 1989 part of the concert.

i realize now that both of my parents probably knew why i suddenly stopped liking taylor swift in middle school, because i went to a very small school so the same people who decided that 1989 wasn’t what real taylor swift fans listened to then were the same people who decided that folklore and evermore were the greatest things under the sun and hyped up midnights so much then claimed they hated it when, at least for me, it reminded me of 1989 a little bit.

when 1989 tv was announced all i saw on all my social media was “repost this to claim being a 1989 stan before taylor’s version releases!”

i didn’t repost a single one because why should i? everyone i knew who was reposting those were the same people from middle school and high school. i don’t need to claim something that i spent way too long trying to hide from people.

today marks one of the most important days in my life. not in a way like “oh i got into college” or anything. it’s an important day for me because it’s “acceptable” to like 1989 again.

the thing is, i don’t care if it’s acceptable or whatever. i just get an excuse to be as annoying as i want about this album. i’ve never been so excited for an album to drop. i feel like i’m going to explode from excitement. and if people ask why i’m so excited about this when i clearly never cared about any of her other albums (lies. they just weren’t my favorite), i just get to say that this is my album. everyone has an album they think of as theirs. this is mine and it always has been.

this is not only the day that 1989 tv drops. it’s the day i bring back a core part of myself and live it the way i should have been able to 9 years ago.

and by that i mean i’m not going to hide it for any reason ever because god knows that wasn’t good for me.

anyways, happy 1989 tv release to all who celebrate!

[itsdelicate]

my fav album is rep too!!! fav era prob lover? 1989 was great too but I wasn't on tumblr at the time (or a swiftie tbh). ooh evermore for me!! folklore is amazing too though ofc. what are ur top 5 from each?

OMG REALLY?? that's amazing I would do anything to meet bash he's so funny, love him sm. yea ive seen ppl say that about him too which is so ugh. love tao forever <3 I have!! I loved it too so you definitely should. tell me how you like it after!! ahh I watched a few eps of the good place then just stopped. idk why though cause I really liked it. I'll prob start it again, I'm so free rn lmao. ME TOO!! I'm such a huge kate sharma and simone ashley fan. she's everything akdbsjns. also kathony are just so very. yes that's always okay I'd love to answer them!! ooh that's tough idrk cause I don't watch a lot of movies but i mainly just love comedy movies and anything w sandra bullock skdjsj also the breakfast club, and the 2000s and 2010s movies like clueless and legally blonde!! wbu? do u have a fav movie?

just a random question: whats ur top 5 from midnights (3am included)?

it's my friends bday and she's having this sleepover party w some other friends too. haven't seen them in a bit so I'm excited!! well that's good and I'm happy u get a little trip!! hope you have fun!!

xxx ur secret santa

rep stans unite!! oooh lover era was cute it got caught up in the pandemic 😔 when did u become a swiftie! oh omg okay i’ll have to do top 3 cause i don’t know my top 5 ahdjfj i hope that’s okay but for folklore it’ll have to be seven, invisible string and hoax and for evermore it’s willow, ivy and rwylm <3 what are yours!

he really is omg and he’s so lovely i gave them all little handmade gifts and showed them a pic of what was inside it on my phone so they wouldn’t have to rip open the packaging and bash looked at the pic and went 😮 and proceeded to open it up right there and then to gush over it ahdjfj also no literally tao’s just a kid who loves his friends and is afraid of losing them!! omg okay i will and the good place is sooo good 💞 yes oh my gosh!! simone was actually at the convention too shdjf she’s so pretty i maybe died seeing her in person

i love comedy too! omg love legally blonde (the musical is also great since u asked about musicals the other day!!) my fav movie is tangled :’) but for non-animated it’s kingsman! which is so far from my usual genre of movies tbh but it’s so good and also the greatest showman is up there!! the songs 🤧 speaking of movies my friends and i usually do a movie night every friday since i’ve moved to stay connected and we watched klaus today and it was so good 🥺

omg okay i’ll try to do an actual top 5 for midnights: the great war, karma, would’ve could’ve should’ve, yoyok and sweet nothing ❤️ your turn! 👀

oh that sounds so fun!! i hope you have the best time 🥰 thank u so much!

[maybebitterxox]

What I Think ST Character’s Fav Taylor Swift Album + Song(s) Would Be

Will: Folklore or evermore definitely. And I think he would like cardigan, though I Knew You Were Trouble is another good candidate

El: As much as she gives off folklore vibes, I feel like she’d adore Lover. Love Story or invisible string would be her fav

Max: She’d vibe with Fearless, and I just know that she’d fuck so hard with You Belong With Me. She’d be dancing around her room at 2am using a hairbrush as a mic screaming the lyrics and you can’t convince me otherwise

Mike: He’d lie and say he doesn’t listen to her but secretly he’s a Speak Now stan. He would probably know all the lyrics to Afterglow and Enchanted

Lucas: Lover stan, though 1989 is very close. His #1 is definitely Karma but he also loves Death By A Thousand Cuts

Dustin: Loves Fearless. Sing-screams You Belong With Me with Max and also really likes Look What You Made Me Do

Nancy: She would have the lyrics to every Midnights song memorised. It’s difficult for her to choose her fav, it’s a three-way split between The Man, Anti-Hero and Bejeweled

Jonathan: Toxic folklore stan. He knows all the lyrics to All Too Well 10 minute version

Robin: Very difficult for her to choose a favourite, but she would have a soft spot for 1989 and Red. And she’d vibe so hard with We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together

Steve: A major Debut stan and will defend it with his life. He also loves We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together and him and Robin just have it playing on repeat 24/7 while they’re working

Joyce: She’d love Red, and she would also be an avid All Too Well enjoyer like Jonathan

Hopper: Will never admit it but he always listens and vibes along when El plays her songs. Fearless has been his fav so far and he secretly knows all the lyrics to You Belong With Me

Chrissy: Folklore enjoyer. She’d really vibe with Bejeweled

Eddie: Midnights stan 100%. Used to pretend to hate her music but now he just listens to Bejeweled and Look What You Made Me Do on repeat

Argyle: Hardcore toxic Fearless Stan, and Shake It Off is just playing in his brain 24/7

Erica: Reputation girlie. She fucks so hard with Look What You Made Me Do, Bad Blood and I Did Something Bad

[iwanthermidnightz]

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/gaylor-taylor-swift-gay-rumor-midnights-1234585574/

Queer narrative/gay rumors from an official publication has started!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ROLLING STONES

OH MY GOD??

AUGUST HAS OFFICIALLY slipped away, which means Taylor Swift fans are now counting down the days until the release of her 10th studio album, Midnights — but stans are already using the time, and subsequent new content, to re-earth some of their most beloved conspiracy theories.

From what Swift has released, the album concept is focused on music written at night that grapples with fears, worries, and other things that keep you from peaceful sleep. Swift called the album the “stories of 13 sleepless nights” throughout her life, and encouraged her fans to meet her at midnight — which immediately sent fans scurrying to see all the clues leading up to the announcement they had missed.

One stan that remains year after year is #Gaylor. An ever-growing contingent of fans believe that Taylor Alison Swift is secretly gay. And after seeing the concept for Midnights, they’re convinced this might be the album where she finally admits it to the world.

#Gaylor has remained a steadfast theory since Swift gained her international level of stardom. A long-standing theory is the pop star’s rumored relationship and subsequent breakup with Glee alum Diana Agron. Agron and Swift were spotted together on outings and at birthday parties, making the gossip so mainstream that Jimmy Kimmel asked Agron if she was dating Swift during a 2012 appearance on his late-night show. She replied “No, but wouldn’t that be juicy,” before saying “Hi, Taylor” and blowing the pop star a kiss into the camera. Following the release of 1989, fans linked lyrics from the song “Wonderland” to Agron’s Alice in Wonderland themed tattoo.

The theory gained an even bigger foothold during the pop star’s 2015 “Girl Squad” era, when she was often surrounded by a plethora of leggy, mostly-blonde, famous best friends like Cara Delevigne, Gigi Hadid, Hailee Steinfeld, and Karlie Kloss. In 2015, a Vogue spread of Kloss and Swift gave fans a decidedly not best friends vibe which sparked rumors of a whirlwind but secret love story. Around 2017’s Reputation, the most prevalent theory was that a collaged photos of eyes used in promotional material and on the album’s physical CD contained a singular photo of Kloss’ eye instead of Swift’s. After Swift debuted Folklore‘s Betty, fans went wild over the song’s premise, which is a love song full of hope sung to a girl named Betty — an energy that couldn’t be dissuaded even after Swift said it was written from the perspective of a male narrator.

Now it’s Midnights’ turn. The prevailing theory is linked to clips of Swift singing her 2017 track “New Year’s Day.” The song includes the lyrics, “But I stay when you’re lost and I’m scared and you’re turning away/I want your midnights.” Besides the heavily implied clock references in the song, which depicts lovers who stay together even after the party ends when the clock strikes midnight, fans are focusing on live clips of the song’s performance, where they claim Swift is using the words “I want her midnights.”

Pronoun game aside, fans have also pointed out that this song matches the vibe of recent promotional material, in which Taylor speaks about self imprisonment and mistakes that could have the possibility to either end her fate or help her find herself.

“We lie awake in love and in fear, in turmoil and in tears,” she wrote in her album announcement. “We stare at walls and drink until they speak back. We twist in our self-made cages and pray that we aren’t — right in this minute — about to make some fate altering mistake.”

For any other artists, such specific theories might seem a little far-fetched, but T-Swift is notorious for indulging her fans’ most intense detective urges. In past projects, easter eggs have been as large as placing her album title and next single in the music video for “ME”! and as small as including a 1989 Mercedes-Benz S-Class in All Too Well: The Short Film, as a reference to her 1989 album.

Given that Swift’s career has been marked by public reaction to her relationships with very famous men, Swift fans who believe she’s straight discount the theory with interviews of her with male partners, or lyrics they believe are dedicated to Swift’s longtime boyfriend Joe Alwyn. Some even say it’s rude to equate Gaylor theories to the good fun of finding references and hidden secrets in Swift’s body of work.

But underneath the fan edits, compilations, and conspiracy theories is the genuine desire Swift fans have to understand her music as thoroughly as possible. The defining factor of Gaylor — which allows fans who believe it to remain so attached to the pop star year after year, project after project — is that the pop star has been there for them.

Swift engages with her fandom in a way that is extremely unusual — and borderline terrifying — for her level of fame. She still hosts meet-and-greets, she’s hand-delivered merch to fans’ houses, and she even threw away a years long strategy of being apolitical when her fans asked her to speak out on what she believed in. So even if Midnights isn’t the gay album of their dreams, they won’t give up the theory. They’ll play it, then pick out small bits and references they think Swift is giving them, all to let her know that when, or if, she ever decides to come out, she knows they’re there to listen.

[ughgclden]

good morning love! or afternoon, i suppose,

i hope you slept well, and your day so far has treated you kindly.

as for bits of information, my two favourite comfort movies are dead poets society (1989) (which you already knew but i like referencing it like that), the little prince, and pixar’s luca, actually. i know all of dead poets society word for word, and once i finished a five hour test in two, and simply,,, watched it in my mind for the remaining three. something about it makes me feel understood. in the same vein, while i love meeks, neil and i, we’re almost the same, and frankly, the almost is wavering some days. not to be emo or anything /hj

to give you an extra piece, i watched it chapters one and two in the same night starting at midnight one night, and i’m also a richie tozier kinnie, which i use to justify my button up collection

in truth, my coffee habit is slightly worrying, but i haven’t ventured to energy drinks, at least (or, not since the night i had four monsters in an hour in addition to my coffee) but thank you for saying that black coffee fits me, i’ve been told it makes me intimidating that i can drink it, but something about the bite is comforting, strangely. my order used to be a london fog tea, and on rainy days i still get one, it makes me calm.

you know bee i heard somewhere you like these, can’t remember where for the life of me though… /j i hope we both get our futures too, and any and everyone tattoo your poetic gold heart could desire. i’ve been thinking about getting a band around my wrist that looks like neil’s crown, and the one time i mentioned to my therapist she said it sounded like a good idea.

i push boundaries because so many of them are so goddamn arbitrary, like the rules my school used to impose about same sex couples. about jackets in gym class. what’s the reason, right?

bee in her rebellious phase is something i’d pay money to see actually /hj

honestly i would both read and write a mob!star au lmao (not like i have italian family in new england… not at all….)

i LOVE model un, honestly, an excuse to dress up, and feel like i’m making a difference, prepare for when i have the option to? unparalleled. the little kid in me who dreamed of running for office and changing the world is indulged in it.

i’m glad i can help with your worries, love, i’m always here to try and help, to remind you that you’re important and good and loved, and that no matter what, i’m so so so proud of you.

i actually taught archery at a summer camp last year because of my narnia phase, and when i was clearing out my room, and one of my oldest stuffed animals i have, is this big lion, and i’ll give you three guesses what his name was /j (my younger sister cut his mane when she was around six, i remember breaking over it. i’ve since gotten over it, for the most part) also,,, i know you did. not just say i was BETTER than Susan Pevensie omg /j the movies are so comfy, so so comfy, and love, oh my god, prince caspian is my favourite too!! i???? i used to have a book of dawn treader postcards, i don’t think i ever actually used any, but they were sO PRETTY

the book is one of my favourite possessions, and one year, i think year 3 or 4, i carried it everywhere, for comfort. something about the pevensies made me brave.

i mean… i suppose it does…… /hj

all my love, bee!! i hope you have the best day!!

star<3

p.s. turns out my friend was,,, not joking???? she asked me to be her partner yesterday while walking me to rehearsal

good (very late) afternoon star! i deeply apologise about the timing of this response; that meaning how incredibly late this is. my tendency to get ill in the colder months has taken its toll

i love all of those films - i can't believe i didn't mention dead poets society, which i too can quote word for word. but being able to watch the whole thing in your head is insanely incredible, as is finishing a five hour test in TWO HOURS !!! THATS SO FUCKING COOL !!!! i'm sending you all my love star, i'm sorry the neil kinnie also comes with the bad parts, and i'm here whenever you'd like, no matter the reason <33

that's SO GREAT!!!! i went to a midnight premier of chapter two where they played both chapters in one go - it was so so good. i then had to go straight to college but, i think it was worth it. a richie kinnie?! im in love w you even more /hj. im a stan kin myself, surprise surprise.

four monsters.. in one hour... you scare me star /lh black coffee certainly fits you, it's elegant but comforting and cosy, much like yourself.

oh my god, you noticed?! how?! /j that is such a lovely idea, and i bet it would look great. i actually love that, holy shit. as soon as i get some money and figure out which of my (many) tattoo ideas i would like to give the privilege of being my first, i'm booking an appointment straight away

so true!!! those rules sound so fucking stupid?? i swear schools just like to exorcise control for no reason at all other than to feel powerful - the rules imposed on same sex couples however sound so abhorrent ugh.

it was certainly interesting. a lot of skipping classes with notes we convinced our tutor to write for us - why he agreed, i have no idea. jumping over the fence to go to mcdonalds was certainly a highlight however.

mob!star au, 200k words, i can see it now. the italian family in new england.. it's all coming together

i know for a fine fact that you could really change the world, star. you have the drive, the eloquence, the intelligence. everything. and i have every faith in you.

you taught archery?!? im in love?!?! /hj i did used to go to archery lessons but it only lasted a year :( and omg,,, was it called aslan by any chance 😳😳😳 and YES as much as i love susan,, you reign supreme my love <3 PRINCE CASPIAN SUPREMACY YUP YUP!! and they sound so pretty already, i dont doubt they were beautiful

all my love, star. tu me fais tourner la tête <3

ps; thats incredible?!?! omg!?!? what did u say!!!

[jennyboom21]

AUGUST HAS OFFICIALLY slipped away, which means Taylor Swift fans are now counting down the days until the release of her 10th studio album, Midnights — but stans are already using the time, and subsequent new content, to re-earth some of their most beloved conspiracy theories.

From what Swift has released, the album concept is focused on music written at night that grapples with fears, worries, and other things that keep you from peaceful sleep. Swift called the album the “stories of 13 sleepless nights” throughout her life, and encouraged her fans to meet her at midnight — which immediately sent fans scurrying to see all the clues leading up to the announcement they had missed.

One stan that remains year after year is #Gaylor. An ever-growing contingent of fans believe that Taylor Alison Swift is secretly gay. And after seeing the concept for Midnights, they’re convinced this might be the album where she finally admits it to the world.

#Gaylor has remained a steadfast theory since Swift gained her international level of stardom. A long-standing theory is the pop star’s rumored relationship and subsequent breakup with Glee alum Diana Agron. Agron and Swift were spotted together on outings and at birthday parties, making the gossip so mainstream that Jimmy Kimmel asked Agron if she was dating Swift during a 2012 appearance on his late-night show. She replied “No, but wouldn’t that be juicy,” before saying “Hi, Taylor” and blowing the pop star a kiss into the camera. Following the release of 1989, fans linked lyrics from the song “Wonderland” to Agron’s Alice in Wonderland themed tattoo.

The theory gained an even bigger foothold during the pop star’s 2015 “Girl Squad” era, when she was often surrounded by a plethora of leggy, mostly-blonde, famous best friends like Cara Delevigne, Gigi Hadid, Hailee Steinfeld, and Karlie Kloss. In 2015, a Vogue spread of Kloss and Swift gave fans a decidedly not best friends vibe which sparked rumors of a whirlwind but secret love story. Around 2017’s Reputation, the most prevalent theory was that a collaged photos of eyes used in promotional material and on the album’s physical CD contained a singular photo of Kloss’ eye instead of Swift’s. After Swift debuted Folklore‘s Betty, fans went wild over the song’s premise, which is a love song full of hope sung to a girl named Betty — an energy that couldn’t be dissuaded even after Swift said it was written from the perspective of a male narrator.

Now it’s Midnights’ turn. The prevailing theory is linked to clips of Swift singing her 2017 track “New Year’s Day.” The song includes the lyrics, “But I stay when you’re lost and I’m scared and you’re turning away/I want your midnights.” Besides the heavily implied clock references in the song, which depicts lovers who stay together even after the party ends when the clock strikes midnight, fans are focusing on live clips of the song’s performance, where they claim Swift is using the words “I want her midnights.”

Pronoun game aside, fans have also pointed out that this song matches the vibe of recent promotional material, in which Taylor speaks about self imprisonment and mistakes that could have the possibility to either end her fate or help her find herself.

“We lie awake in love and in fear, in turmoil and in tears,” she wrote in her album announcement. “We stare at walls and drink until they speak back. We twist in our self-made cages and pray that we aren’t — right in this minute — about to make some fate altering mistake.”

For any other artists, such specific theories might seem a little far-fetched, but T-Swift is notorious for indulging her fans’ most intense detective urges. In past projects, easter eggs have been as large as placing her album title and next single in the music video for “ME”! and as small as including a 1989 Mercedes-Benz S-Class in All Too Well: The Short Film, as a reference to her 1989 album.

Given that Swift’s career has been marked by public reaction to her relationships with very famous men, Swift fans who believe she’s straight discount the theory with interviews of her with male partners, or lyrics they believe are dedicated to Swift’s longtime boyfriend Joe Alwyn. Some even say it’s rude to equate Gaylor theories to the good fun of finding references and hidden secrets in Swift’s body of work.

But underneath the fan edits, compilations, and conspiracy theories is the genuine desire Swift fans have to understand her music as thoroughly as possible. The defining factor of Gaylor — which allows fans who believe it to remain so attached to the pop star year after year, project after project — is that the pop star has been there for them.

Swift engages with her fandom in a way that is extremely unusual — and borderline terrifying — for her level of fame. She still hosts meet-and-greets, she’s hand-delivered merch to fans’ houses, and she even threw away a years long strategy of being apolitical when her fans asked her to speak out on what she believed in. So even if Midnights isn’t the gay album of their dreams, they won’t give up the theory. They’ll play it, then pick out small bits and references they think Swift is giving them, all to let her know that when, or if, she ever decides to come out, she knows they’re there to listen.