#taytay knew EXACTLY what she was doing

[oblitum]

Taylor Swift's show last night was UNHINGED and I could not be more excited for next year!!!!!!

[justiceformeredith]

I’ve spent a good whole half an hour doing this so read it pls

hello Swifties, so since the iconic Look What You Made Me Do music video was out I knew that the ending with all the Taylors (15 exactly) meant something more. (so did everyone, but I haven’t seen anyone analyzing it).

That’s why today I’ve decided to put out my theory in hopes of starting a debate :) 15 Taylors 15 songs on Reputation, (I assumed the correlation was scenes involving the Taylor with lyrics from the songs) here we go:

starting from the left we have a new Taylor, Bad Girl biker -getaway car

she’s fierce, she’s shady aaaand she gets away, getaway car. I feel this is kinda a reach, for me this one is kinda hard to decipher, she could also be I did something bad (bcos being the one that resembles the most Big Machine I hate u) but IDK.

next is “Blind for love” Tay- Don’t blame me

thanks for keeping it so easy, the “blind for love” quote is very similar to “don’t blame me, love made me crazy”. I love it.

REP Taylor-End Game

it’s the only song she says REPUTATION besides delicate, and I mean “Reputation precedes me” is very on-brand.

RED Tay-Call it what you want

I’m again reaching BUT this Taylor on the mv says “you’re so fake” which I’m kinda getting out of context sorry BUT this song says

“All the drama queens taking swings, All the jokers dressing up as kings”

or because of fire=burning RED

“He built a fire just to keep me warm”

fearless shiny silver guitar Taylor-Delicate

she’s sentimental and Delicate too. period.

Katy Perry lookalike Tay- I did something bad

“light me up” metaphorically and figuratively speaking, not only the car gets on fire but the paparazzi are taking pictures with the flash on.

VMA’s Taylor-This is why we can’t have nice things

an obvious song about Kanye gets the “I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative” iconic declaration ending.

MET gala Tay- Dress

she’s wearing a beautiful dress. that’s it. Also, Joe and she met at the MET gala so I feel it’s very fitting.

I <3 TS boyfriends Taytay-...Ready for it?

I mean... “Some boys are tryin' too hard, he don't try at all though, Younger than my exes, but he act like such a man, so”. Pretty obvious.

Junior Jewels Tay- Gorgeous

I’m very convinced about this one. She’s the only one of the Taylors who’s exited and pretty much what gorgeous is about. I mean, look at her face here, don’t you see her saying to herself “I can’t say anything to your face, cause’ look at your face”

Zombie Tay- Look what you made me do

“Honey, I rose up from the dead, I do it all the time” she’s a zombie. she’s dead. I feel that explains it.

ballerina Taylor- Dancing with our hands tied

she’s a ballerina and ballerinas dance... at this point I’m brain dead so leave me alone.

Kween of snakes tswift- King of my heart

“I’m your American queen” :) I.think.this.is.enough.explanation.

Orange is the new Black TS-so it goes...

“gold cage, hostage to my feelings” she’s in a gold cage. Spot on.

last but not least, real Taylor Allison Swift herself-New Years’s day

“You want a song to sound like itself. You don’t want to get the perfect tune.” Jack Antonoff said this about this song and I feel it matches well with Taylor. The Real Taylor. Not riding a motorcycle, covered in snakes or with tons of fake friends and expensive jewelry. The real deal, with virtues and weaknesses.

Well, that’s it. Blame Taylor for what she made me do. I know this is kinda bad, but I feel good that I have done it.

pls don’t let this flop. Talk to me

[be-free-just-live]

I thought I’d jump on the age-old blogging bandwagon this month and pop up a post about my current faves. 2020 has sucked so far, and we all know it, so I thought I’d gather up everything I’m enjoying right now and create a nice lil list to look back on!

I’m really not a skincare person, despite being in my mid 20s and being told by every social media influencer that at this age I really should be, but the small bits of skincare I do do include the using the Clinique Take the Day Off cleansing balm and the balanceme Rose Otto Facial Oil.

I received a miniature of the Clinique cleanser in a gift bag and since then I’ve been in love. I treasured the tiny miniature for the whole month (the full-size product is like £40!), but finally treated myself to a 125ml pot for a bargain £18 from a shopping outlet nearby. Not only did I snag a bargain, but the Take the Day Off cleanser has been a godsend for my skin throughout the stresses of lockdown – it leaves my face feeling soft, fresh and clean, and is also super moisturising – winner!

Along with my lack of care for skin care routines, I also only have a half-arsed evening routine, and depending on how my skin feels in the evening I like to top up my face with a swish of the Rose Otto Facial Oil. After taking off my makeup (a rare occurrence these days), my skin will literally drink up the oil and feel fancy and plump af. When I first tried it I thought it smelled of oiled baking paper, but having used it for the past month, the scent has grown on me, and now I happily get into bed feeling like a freshly baked piece of cake.

Have I mentioned at any point that I’m engaged?! We got engaged in December and of course I jumped on the planning train immediately (sorry Ben) and it’s been really fun so far. Luckily, we’d already picked 2021 as the year for our wedding, so we’ve not had to postpone anything, and me being super impatient has meant we’ve got all the important bits booked up before the mad rush of next year arrives! Bring on the day drinking and bottomless cake trials!

In another wild attempt to act like grown-ups, we bought a tonne of grow bags right at the start of lockdown (all those millions of years ago) and dug over the vegetable patch to start growing our own produce, in the hope that it’d help us avoid shopping and having to mix with people! Obviously, vegetables don’t miraculously appear overnight (no one told me this), but we’re finally gathering the fruits of our labour and eating fresh homegrown veggies! Someone please point me in the direction of the creche, I’m getting way ahead of myself now…

I hate to say it, but normally I’m not a massive Taytay fan. If I need a mood boost, I rarely head to Spotify and start up a Swifty playlist, and its unlikely that I’d pick her for a jam sesh or a long car ride. However, on the 24th, Taylor bought out her new album folklore, and honestly? How dare she. Folklore?! It’s as if she knew exactly what I needed in an album – its witchy, its spoopy, and its right up my alley. All praise Taylor.

I’ve waffled on enough – what sort of things have you been loving this month? Let me know!

G x

Monthly Favourites: July I thought I’d jump on the age-old blogging bandwagon this month and pop up a post about my current faves.

[into-control]

I always die a little when I remember the "Your kitchen or mine? :)" tweet lol. Sweet baby Karlie making her moves🙈💕// that was the dyke move of 2012// imma go ahead and guess taylor knew exactly what she was doing. she saw kk walking at that show WAY back and heard from somewhere that kk was into girls too then made her move. very smooth, taytay

in 2008 taylor said 👀 and then dated dianna and then in 2012 taylor said 👀 again

[roleweplay13]

Kaylor, an undeniable truth

So i’ve seen a lot o Kaylors posting about their experience regarding taytay and kaykay. Since its a new year, and dare I say a promising one, I want to share mine. So please join the ride and saddle up:

To be honest I didn’t know much about Taylor before 2014, I knew Love Story, but come on that song is a living legend and even my mother knows every word to it. To be fair, I’m from Spain, and country music isn’t exactly what you’ll call a popular genre among young people and the average consumer of Top 40 music. But 2014 came along, and 1989 arrived with its eighties throwbacks, and what can I say i fell in love. I looked for info everywhere, I wanted to know who this woman was and why on earth was she such a big deal??? 

I’m not ashamed to say I found out about Karlie thanks to Taylor, because I was enchanted by her, a young model, humble, who loved coding!!! Ok growing up I only thought of models as silly dolls with too much hunger in their bodies and too much room in their heads, which made me face the hard truth of how shallow was I to begin with.

So i watched this friendship, and for some reason it didnt sat right with me. I coundt shake off the feeling that something was off. Dont get me wrong, they were freaking cute together, but they were suddenly everywhere, and it seemed so random. So i read their interviews, how they’d became fast friends, very best friends, set up to be friends ( HELLOOOO I’VE BEEN SET UP ON DATES NOT TO BE FRIENDS!!!), having my own room in my best friends brand new apartment because I spent there half my nights, even though i live ten minutes away and have a steady boyfriend kind of friend  (this article on Rolling Stone was the very first red flag for me)

And Kissgate happen, and my friends and I talked about it, they knew I was a fan, and they asked me if this unfathomable idea of Taylor kissing another woman was remotely possible. And i actually didnt care if it was true, my family is catholic but me and my cousins have been raised to be very open minded and just kind to one an other, but still heteronormative is something very real, so around that time unless it was with proof and acknowledgement I wasnt easily sell on the idea. And that infamous tweet came along and i went with it, see it was just the media with their abrasive and violating ways. How, how ignorant and naive was i then.

And then came the fall out. How powerful is the media, how much control it has over us, when we are just mere rooks in their wicked and crafted game of perception. I fell for their trap, started hating taylor for the same inexistent reason stan twitter shields behind of now. I saw my perception of Taylor during 2015-2016 so brilliantly portrayed in the LWYMMD music video, that I’m still amazed by Taylor’s brain. I did kept up with Karlie mostly because my cousin is in finances and in love with her because of her brain, which mind you is a gigantic achivement, so I thought she was worth caring about. ( See told you, shallow much, still working on that)

i didn’t think much of tayvin and hiddelswift, Calcium has always been a mystery to me, cause i dont feel any attraction towards him, always has my skin crawling, and had a look on his face, that kind of made me feel sorry for him. Hiddleswift was a joke, and i thought either she was filming a music video, or had gotten pregnant and was recreating every relationship milestone in three months to make everything easier. Now i know why, but back the  i dindt know why watching taylor with her boyfriends always made me uncomfortable ( not guys, come on she and ed a disgustingly cute together in an asexual kind of way).

And finally this april, during my worst week of finals, looking for an inmature, totally irresponsable, but necessary scape I went to wattpad to procrastinate and waste my parents collage money. I was reading, when I thought  “lets see if there is someone as crazy as I was when i thought karlie and taylor were in love and in a secret relationship” Well hello TIMELINE. And I was so elated that i went to tumblr, to see if there was a community who shared my hopeless romantic dream that perhaps they were together at some point in 2014.

I spent three days on tumblr, read all the masterpost, found out about the VSFS, the AMAs, YAIL, cookies, Swiftgron, Taymily, everything....

I got out with a failed exam ( dont worry I passed it later on June), and too many hours of sleep lost, but I was happy, overwhelmingly happy, because the woman i once admired, and now hated and thought of as shallow and a snake, was someone much more complex and brave than i thought possible. Kaylor opened my eyes to how the world, the media, the perception controls us, and I was so so sorry for being naive.

So no I wasnt betrayed by Taylor, or thought of her as a fraud. I saw two resilient women who fought and did what they had to do to survive in a world and industry that otherwise wouldnt bow to.