#swiftie theory

[bitstitchbitch]

I know we keep clowning over rep tv, but i really don’t think it will be this year. If anything, we MIGHT get an announcement in December with the actual album coming out 2025.

just look at the pattern:

2020 - 2 original albums (folklore, evermore)

2021 - 2 TVs (fearless TV, red TV)

2022 - original album (Midnights)

2023 - 2 TVs (speak now TV, 1989 TV)

2024 - original album (TTPD)

2025? - 2 TVs? ( rep TV, debut TV)

2026? - original album? (TS12)

This lets her keep up her insane release cycle for another 2 years. I’m assuming too that rep TV is already recorded, if not debut TV as well, and she’s just sitting on them to give herself time to work on new stuff while keeping up the fame momentum. She’s a marketing genius, so she knows she has to keep our attention after the eras tour in some way, plus TTPD is still topping charts so she doesn’t want to steal its thunder quite yet.

[mujhe-kya]

my swiftie theory:

i am thinking that Taylor Swift will announce something today because she sang new year's day as a second suprise song when she announced 1989(taylor's version)

or I'll be walking down clownelia street again

[imamirrorballxoxo]

Fan theory!

‪Taylor was teasing Speak Now TV since last year. Specifically with the Midnights music videos with the koi fish guitar, “speak not”, the elevator, and the SN tour balcony. I’m sure there were other Easter eggs before this that I don’t remember, but my point is that it was 7 months of teasing and hinting. Which means the hint of “5 car washes” is just the start of months of 1989tv Easter eggs and and nods until its announcement.

I think that Speak Now TV will be released and given full attention and love, but 1989tv is going to be teased and hinted at a lot these next few months. They won’t be released together, but I bet 1989 will be announced Jan/Feb 2024 and released May/June 2024‬. 💙💜

[graciesguitar]

i figured out taylors scheming (sorta)

ok but hear me out: taylor released speak now tv on the 7th of july, right? july is also the 7th month of the year, riiiiiiiight?

so 7+7=14

and yes, 13 is a significant number for swifties not 14, i know. BUT the original, non-deluxe, stolen version of speak now by taylor alison swift has 14 SONGS.

i just cracked the code (not) taylor:)

[oh-my-damn]

The Eras Tour (Folklore Set) - A Lyrical Conspiracy

Okay so I've watched The Eras Tour movie three times in cinemas and now finally had the time to properly watch it without being in the cinema in a space where I had time to properly analyze and reflect

And I've realized something regarding the Folklore set. I don't know if everyone else has realized this already - maybe I'm just really slow - but watching it tonight gave me a certain clarity regarding the set and why it's in the order it is, and what purpose each song that is in it, serves.

So the actual set in the concert (not the movie because Cardigan was cut out) goes as follows:

invisible string/The 1 (The 1 replaced Invisible String from march 31st and onwards. The 1 is the song included in the movie)

betty

the last great american dynasty

august

illicit affairs (shortened)

my tears ricochet

cardigan (Not included in the movie but is in the set permanently)

So here is where my conspiracy comes in, considering not just the order, but also what she sings from each song....

Her doing Invisible String as the first song for the first month and a half (or so) is a hint that there is a string, it makes a shit ton of sense. Then it's replaced by The 1.

The 1, in this set, is sung from Betty's perspective. So is The Last Great American Dynasty (this is Betty imagining her life in the future without James)

Then we go straight into Betty. That song is self-explanatory, it's written from James' (the cheater) perspective and the placement of it directly relates to Betty singing about how "it would have been fun if you could have been the one" and her imagining what her life will now be like without him.

This is when it gets interesting.

Betty pivots into August, which is written from Augustines perspective. August is a song about how you fall in love with someone who isn't fully there, who sees you as a summer fling while you see him as an eternal love. How you can fall in love with someone who still loves someone else.

And then the set continues in Augustines perspective.

Because after August, we go straight into a shortened version of Illicit Affairs, most importantly the lyrics "Don't call me kid, don't call me baby, look at this godforsaken mess that you made me," and "and you know damn well, for you I would ruin myself, a million little times. That's the thing about illicit affairs."

This is Augustine dealing with the aftermath of their summer fling/affair, once learning that James is now actively working to get Betty back. He doesn't want her, he never did, she was just a distraction, but she truly adored him.

Then it goes from Illicit Affairs once again directly into My Tears Ricochet, STILL from Augustines perspective. The lyrics that stand out is "And if I'm dead to you why are you at the wake" and "you know I didn't want to have to haunt you, but what a ghostly scene" which tells you that James, as a surprise to no one, still had one foot in with Augustine while he was trying to get Betty back (as August alludes to) and that he tarnished what they had and downplayed it a lot (which is again proven in Betty)

Sidenote: I know My Tears Ricochet is probably about the sale of her masters but I truly believe it is being used in a different context for the Eras set.

Then we pivot into Cardigan, which is from Betty's perspective (again) and famously hold the lyrics "I knew you'd come back to me."

But once analyzing I do truly believe she is singing August, Illicit Affairs and My Tears Ricochet from Augustine's perspective. Which is just so incredibly deep and profound in a way I can't even explain, because I'm sure those songs have deeper meanings, too. But the fact they can be so effortlessly applied to the love triangle she created?

And maybe they were always meant to be interpreted this way. I don't know. But I haven't seen anyone talk about it, if that's the case. I've always seen that people believe My Tears Ricochet is about the sale of her masters.

Either way I absolutely adore this set, Folklore and Reputation are my fave sets of the Eras Tour, and even if no part of my theory is true, it's still so fun to imagine!!

[ella-taylor-swift]

Would’ve Could’ve Should’ve/ Bigger Than The Whole Sky

Of course BTTWS is ultimately about grief- it’s a beautiful song and resonates deeply with me. However, the parallels with WCS have struck me since the first time I heard them and I wondered how many people had had the same thought.

“would’ve been could’ve been should’ve been you” is the most obvious parallel of course and not something taylor would’ve done accidentally

“did some force take you because i didn’t pray” links to the religious/ prayer imagery in WCS

Therefore, what I’m wondering is if one interpretation of the song is Taylor grieving her past self, and who she would’ve been had she not met certain men at a young age.

[truthdarespinbottles]

Thinking about this post and thinking about tour dates... she had words in Japanese, Swedish, Portuguese (possibly Spanish as musas and tinta are cognates for the two languages), Irish, Dutch, Latvian, Danish, Latvian, German, and Polish

Theory under the cut

SOMETHING will be happening at the following places:

Tokyo Japan - Feb 7-10

Stockholm, Sweden - May 17-19

Lisbon, Portugal - May 24-25

Madrid, Spain - May 30

Dublin, Ireland - June 28-30

Amsterdam, Netherlands - July 4-6

My theory falls apart here because she's not going to Denmark or Latvia BUT

7 shows in Germany (Gelsenkirchen July 17-19, Hamburg July 23-24, Munich July 28-28)

3 shows in Warsaw, Poland - Aug 1-3

Between the Netherlands and Germany she's visiting Switzerland and Italy. Danish is not an uncommon language in Switzerland but it's not one of their official languages. I don't know of any connection between Italy and Latvia.

I also find it very interesting that the languages are in the order she's going to those locations (sans Denmark and Latvia) but MAYBE Danish and Latvian fans will get something????

My swiftie senses are tingling she definitely chose those languages for a reason (probably the specific words too!!!!)

[klaine21forever]

People just a quick thought…

What if she make a BIG release on the ONLY midnight that people use to celebrate? Like the 31/12/2022 at Midnight sharp ?

Just…

What if… 🤯🤯🤯

[whiskeyswifty]

GOD THIS IS INCREDIBLE!!!!! Marys Song AND So High School AND Everything Has Changed like yeah!!!! It's always about that feeling like you're 16 and looking at them like the stars that shine and cheeks pink the the twinkling light and eyes that look like coming home!!! The core of swiftieism romance!! Across fifteen years of her life she always finds it again!! you're never too old to dust off your highest hopes!!! this mashup fucking smashed it out of the park!!!!!! THIS IS IT!!!!! HELL YEAHHHHHHHH!!!!!

[the-cards-she-wont-show]

And so I enter into evidence

File #31 - Flagging

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Eras Tour Outfit - 1989

First night in Stockholm

Swifties: It’s the Swedish Flag colours! 🙌

Second night in Stockholm

Swifties: What do those colours mean??? 🤔

Gaylors: It’s the Lesbian Flag colours! (again!) 😍

Taylor: “Lookin’ backwards might be the only way to move forward”. “None of it was accidental”. 😏

Swifties… are you ready for it? Taylor WANTS us to know that she is dressed in the colours of the Swedish flag! It is an Easter egg for us to read into what the following night’s outfits may mean. By doing this, we are looking into the past, to assist in deciphering the now. And only then, can we see the bigger picture.

Queer flagging has been around for decades as a way of signalling our sexuality to other queer people without fear of judgement and to keep us safe. There are many ways in which this can be done and this is just one Taylor’s most obvious examples.

If you take a close look at her visuals, you will notice that the shades of the lesbian flag ❤️🧡🤍💗💜 are used together quite frequently, especially during the Eras Tour!

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

[crumblinggothicarchitecture]

Someone smarter than me needs to do an in-depth analysis on how swift weaponizes sex. So many of her lyrics involve cheating as revenge and picking fights with her partners about other girls. She makes it sound like some godly privilege to be with her and if she masterminded her way into your life you're just soooo lucky. Even "touch me while your bros play GTA" plays into that. Like "why would you want to have fun and game with your friends when ill let you finger me". (Sidenote a bunch of her lyrics and all of Me! sounds like an abusive partner daring you to leave and dare to find someone better) It's creepy how she's so juvenile and egotistical at the same time. She's mastered the "any mention of my bfs, even the underage ones, is slutshaming" move and uses it to get out of any criticism. Like, have all the sex you want be safe whatever but don't act like some sad little girl who got taken advantage of when the game you started goes poorly.

Ask, and ye shall receive. Because this a very insightful observation! Thanks!

It is true that Swift clearly uses sex and sexuality like a "gotcha" moment. I was always quite perturbed by her songs that glorify cheating. It's just so strange, but I think it ties into her enjoyment of revenge fantasies. Anyway, I was planning to write about how Swift's music often engages with and reinforces heteropatriarchal social standards. I think your idea adds an interesting new layer to the ways in which she manipulates through sex- both in the performance of passivity to masculine authority, as the patriarchy, and the ways in which she commodifies female sexuality by weaponizing it.

You're right it's incredibly egotistical and juvenile.

Also, I have a major bone to pick with the way Taylor Swift uses feminism to shut down criticism- like OMG do I have a problem with her there. She's only ever spent her career crying about how "women who talk bad about me are bad women" yet, she never really does or says anything actually feminist. In fact, most of her music, like I said above, reinforces the patriarchy. She herself is guilty of so much slut-shaming, too. I will go into detail, with a real argument, in a separate post soon. And I thank you for pointing out the weaponized sexuality aspect of her, often, overtly patriarchal tone.

BTW- "ME!" is Such a weird song -> "I know that I went psycho on the phone" uhh... excuse me?

[taylorsmidnights14]

To me it's the fact she deliberately sang her heart out, her fears, perceptions, anger and deceptions.

But what strikes me the most is that, despite everything, she's now left it all behind. She went through the stages of grief, accepted the story as it was, and now she's leaving everything behind.

It's done, it's not something she can change, and she's ok.

And so the healing begins.

[buttacake80]

📣 And this muthafucka 📣

That is what Kamala wanted to say, but she's a Black woman, and the expectations of decorum and professionalism are much higher for her than Trump.

Numerous instances during the debate, Trump spoke over the muted microphone 🎤. And the moderators allowed him multiple times to address the question he PREFERRED to address rather than the question posed him.

They did not extend that same privilege to Kamala.

Women are expected to concede space to men. To center their grievances over our own. And, for Black women, there is an even bigger expectation that we are subservient to everyone else.

Any Black professional woman of a certain age knew and felt that moment when Kamala adjusted her strategy.

📣 She couldn't cut up in front of the white folk. 📣

She quieted & allowed the moderators to do their job because if she had broken character, like Trump was permitted to, she would have become the Angry Black Woman.

I know that feeling so very well.

Plenty of times, I have been the smartest and most competent person in the room, yet all the white folk deferred to the loud, boisterous white man with the Ivy League degrees. They'd blame "facial expressions" or "defensiveness" as reasons why I couldn't lead. No substantial criticism of my work; just that I was "difficult" to work with because I made them uncomfortable with my competency.

A white man can be assertive. A white man can look you in the eye. A white man can grasp your hand firmly in a handshake. A white man can command a room. A white man can claim the seat at the head of the table.

But, a Black woman who exhibits such behavior is difficult to work with because she refuses to play into white gender roles.

Did anyone else catch when Trump even said, "quiet woman" or something like that?

I love that moment when white men reveal their fear. Their vulnerability and insecurity.

The reason white men hate Black women so much is that they know the stereotype they created for us is actually the archetype of the *men* they aspire to be.

Not only could Kamala meet his energy, she would have done it in a far more entertaining way, but she chose not to. And that was purposeful.

I think it’s something unique to Black Gen X women.

Our parents were the kids of the Jim Crow Era. Our parents attended segregated schools. Our parents sat at the back of the bus.

Our grandparents survived race riots. They survived lynchings and ethnic cleansing of entire Black communities.

So, we carry their scars. Like they were fresh to us.

But, we were going to school in the 70s/80s/90s when schools are desegregated, but there were still policies and laws that discriminated against women & girls.

So, we grew up punching little boys just so we could play on the tetherball, too.

And as a little Black girl, I punched a whole helluva lot of white boys who got in my way of the tetherball.

[letters-adressed-to-the-fire]

so this is why i think peter is the one looking in people's windows

A few days ago, I saw a swiftie on TikTok talking about how I look in people’s windows could be taken as the other perspective of the same story narrated in Peter, and I just couldn’t stop thinking about it. So, I decided to go in-depth and start a self-assigned quest to look for any clue that could interweave these two stories in a way that made sense.

I know this could sound a little absurd or could be taken as a stretch of some sort, but I believe, and I’m sure most of her fans would agree, that most of the beauty in Taylor’s writing comes from the countless different interpretations people bestow on her lyrics. I’m not asking you to take this analysis as absolute truth because I’m genuinely just having fun with it, and I hope you do too.

I’ll analyze “I look in people's windows” from Peter’s point of view and “peter” from the other character’s pov, whom we’ll call Wendy given the obvious parallelism to Peter Pan.

Well, the main and obvious connection is given by the “window” element. While Wendy is waiting for Peter by the window, Peter is looking for her from outside that window. If you look at this through very literal and rational eyes, I believe you’d think it doesn’t make sense that they were both looking for each other through the same window but never met again. So HERE is where I want to insert my interpretation.

There are two options I can think of that would explain the failed meeting. 

Peter intentionally avoided Wendy while still looking for her every day.

Every time they were looking for each other, it happened at different moments.

The first case presents a lot of questions, like, is the pledge to grow up what is stopping Peter because he knows he can’t do it? Or was he cruel enough to wait for Wendy to move on and then come back? Either way, the conclusion remains the same. In this scenario, Peter was a coward. If it was because he didn’t want to grow up, if it was because he just wanted Wendy to never move on, or if it was because he never gave her a real answer.

On the other hand, the second case talks about something that’s closer to a tragedy. They were always doomed by the narrative. While Wendy was waiting for him, Peter was looking for her, but Wendy never saw him—not when she waited or when Peter was looking for her. We would need to assume some things here tho. Either it all comes back to the first option and Peter had been avoiding her the entire time, or he thought she had already forgotten about him. The first option shows us, once again, that Peter is a coward, but the second one also tells us something important: he may be too scared to grow up, but he’s not selfish enough to stop her from moving on.

“Northbound I got carried away As you boarded your train South, south, south, south, south, south A feather taken by the wind blowing I'm afflicted by the not knowing so”

Based on this verse, we can design a new theory. He watched her leave and he was aching for her to come back to him. So he started looking for her in other people’s windows, wondering if one of them was gonna be her. Even when he had already said goodbye to her.

And here’s where another verse of peter will acquire significance:

“I thought it was just goodbye for now”

With both songs in mind, it sounds like he said goodbye to her, hoping they were gonna see each other again, but he also knew he had to let her go at the time and that he was condemned to miss her. But what Peter didn’t know was that Wendy was gonna go through the same thing, but she wouldn’t have the comfort of knowing what he did (wait for her).

“promises oceans deep, but never to keep”

This is why we get two completely different endings for both songs. While Peter is still addicted to the what-ifs, Wendy has turned off the light; the fantasies have expired for her. Wendy grew up; Peter didn’t. While I look in people's windows gives you the feeling of being running from house to house in a neighborhood you don’t recognize anymore, trying to fit into a routine you were used to in the past; peter reads like the last chapter of a book you’ll never touch again.

[folksyswift]

My favorite Easter Egg of Taylor Swift is that she put a Slaughterhouse 5 (a book about PTSD from war) reference in Rep. when someone dies in the book the narrator says “so it goes…” and after Taylor says the old Taylor is died the next song is “So It Goes…”

[comfybirdie]

5 REASONS WHY I REFUSE TO BELIEVE THIS IS JUST ABOUT A TOUR

I don't think I'm smart enough for plausible theories, so this is just a vent of a long time fan. I also have not read many posts, because I've been busy with life, so sorry if someone also said these points.

1. The concept.

I hope this is an album, but I wouldn't pledge my life on it. What I think, however, this is going to be something that brings all the storylines together from previous albums. At least from the Black Parade and Danger Days definitely, but I'm also thinking a bit about Conventional Weapons, too. This is because while yes, the tour does carry the Black Parade name and comes right after everybody spent time crying about not being in the select few to attend the WWWY Fest, the Secretary was not part of the Black Parade storyline. The closest thing we had eas the Director of BLI in Danger Days. And I think we all knew who this woman was the moment she popped up on the screen:

So what if Gerard's costume for the tour was the now undead Director, who became the Secretary of the Dictator?

2. The storyline itself.

I know every word to every album, from the singles to the B sides to leaked ones. But there may always be a chance that I misinterpreted the whole thing, maybe we all did, but the Black Parade is about the afterlife. Whether you got there because of illnes, war, it doesn't matter, you become part of the Black Parade when you die. I believe it to be a celebration of life, or carrying on even after the end.

What the Black Parade has never been, was a personal celebratory National Band, which is exactly what the post writes as the story. I'm going to insert a screenshot with the story.

I saw a theory that the entire concept is going to be revamped, which it might as well be, but even it doesn't make sense.

3. Because that's not what My Chemical Romance is.

And right now I'm thinking about the captions under the pictures.

After seeing the Secretary, my first thought about these captions was that we - The Black Parade - originally must have answered by wanting to be killjoys, the rebellious ones, but eventually we broke and stood in line, becoming the Dictator's beloved National Band, to which the Secretary replied: "Good boy."

However, My Chemical Romance never stood for that. They would never reward us with a tour for standing in line and shutting our mouth. They would never become the corporate machine they stood against since the very beginning. They would never lead the Black Parade in this manner and for this purpose.

And maybe it's just my naivety, the long lost teenager somewhere deep in me saying this, but I still believe they would never do that.

4. Foundations of Decay.

Has it been 2 years since this song came out? Yes. Am I going to bring it up? Absolutely.

(This is definitely overthinking on my part, but I was a history major and with the current events, the parallels are unmatched.) So the thing about wars is, you need people to fight it for you. You need soldiers and military leaders and all of them have to be loyal and obey the orders. The easiest way to achieve that, is by building an ideological foundation you can use to sway their judgement and decision making. The mustache man started with the theory of the back stabbing of the nation. During the middle ages, Christianity provided this foundation for the crusades in the middle east. If you give people something to fear or you give them something to idolise, they will be willing to fight against or for what you want.

And this is the Foundation of Decay.

"you must build an altar where it wells"

"Take his body as a relic to be canonised"

"You stumble through your last crusade"

And is you ask me, this is why this one song came out so much earlier than the rest of the project. Because they lay the ideological foundation first, and you need people to absorb it and truly believe before you can lead them with it. So you tell them again and again and again. Play it at every show on a tour. And so that reunion tour is when the Black Parade became the National Band, instead of the Killjoys. Because we sang along to every word, we absorbed it and not just believed it, but lived it as we attended the tour and sang when they told us to, cheered if they just came on the screen. We became conditioned to follow Gerard's orders as he walked on the stage, just as we will follow the order to play for the Dictator, instead of standing against him.

5. But empires and dictatorships never last, do they?

Rome fell apart. There is a reason there was a Third Reich, because the first 2 also fell. The Ottoman Empire also eventually weakened and fell apart. And just because the Communist Party always said that life is great and everyone is happy "In the Concrete Age", everyone who has lived in a ex-soviet occupied country (hello to my fellow Eastern and Central European MCR fans), we can all tell you, it was everything but true.

And so it is only a matter of time before Dictator's reign has to see its end? Perhaps maybe even bought on by his beloved band, put together from the misfits who the Secretary had to break to stay in line.

But, this is all just my theory. Thank you for clowning with me and my tinfoil hat if you read it this far.