#ts7 wax seals

[still-beautiful-things]

someone finally posted all the months w/ stamps again thanks

“one of these things is not like the others like a rainbow with all of the colors”

AKA JUNE GUYS SHE IS LITERALLY WEARING A RAINBOW DRESS AND ALL THE OTHERS ARE DIFFERENT THAN THAT ONE I—

((it’s also pride month but STILL i think it’s a clue))

[still-beautiful-things]

TS7 princess theme

I didn’t come up with this, I’m pretty much just putting it all in one place and then adding my thoughts and some more ideas.

So lately, in every public appearance of Taylor’s, her outfit has resembled that of a Disney princess’s. Let’s go through them.

This is the first princess-matching outfit that we got. Anastasia is a more obscure princess movie with a cult following, so only some people could have recognized the similar outfit. It was subtle while also being obvious. I wasn’t super sure about the whole princess theory until I saw this comparison. The hat is literally the same, and so is the coat even if it’s a different color. Anastasia has a scarf too but I couldn’t find a great picture of that.

Could it be a coincidence? Of course. But when combined with all the others, it seems very likely that it was on purpose.

Taylor very clearly dressed up as Ariel for her New Year’s Eve party. People don’t typically wear costumes to NYE parties, but Taylor had a “come as your childhood hero” theme. A princess being Taylor’s childhood hero makes sense with her obsession with love and happy endings back then.

She purposely created a situation where she could dress up as a princess and remind us of her childhood fondness of them, setting the stage for TS7--which will be a callback to her childhood?--and have us connecting it to princesses. Without this at the beginning we probably wouldn’t have connected most of the others, even with the spot on Anastasia outfit.

The next time we saw Taylor out and about was in the new year presenting at the Golden Globes. To me this feels like the last of the reputation era. We only got three awards show looks for this era and there had to be one that was edgier and showed how she could really pull that image off (and wow, she really does here). While this look doesn’t call to mind any princess, it does have a villain-y vibe...

...which fits much better with reputation. So it’s like a final goodbye to the villain image before transitioning back to the softer princessy looks. Also, of note, this is the only public look out of these that Taylor didn’t post to social media. Of course she didn’t post her outfits from her street outings because that would be a little too obvious, but she did post dresses she only wore to after-parties because we couldn’t get a great look at them otherwise. And the Golden Globes was the most public recent event for Taylor because of her presenting an award. Yet it’s the only awards show look from 2018 and 2019 that she didn’t post at all, because it’s the only one after rep era ended that didn’t fit with the princess theme.

Next came another stroll with Joe, where she wore a brownish-reddish scarf over her head and a black coat, to keep away from the rainy day. She could have just worn a regular hood, but she instead opted for this head scarf which is similar to Briar Rose’s in Sleeping Beauty. It at least definitely calls to mind more medieval vibes.

The rumors really started circulating with this soft blue-white dress, especially when she was alongside Joe. As the couple exited the building they looked just like Cinderella and Prince Charming on their wedding day.

Most recently, we saw Taylor’s dress for an Oscars after party. She struck a pose on her steps that was very reminiscent of Tinker Bell. Tink usually wears a leafy green little dress while Taylor’s was gold fringe, but the dresses have the same general shape and magic to them. (I’m pretty sure Tinker Bell isn’t actually a princess, but she is an iconic Disney character and a fairy fits into the magical fantasy theme.)

Now the question begs to be asked, what does this all even mean for TS7?

Personally, I believe the album will have themes of a mature adult fairy-tale romance. Taylor has “[gone] through phases when it comes to love” and her perspective on it has changed over the years and the eras and albums. In her early days, she was wide-eyed and dreamed about the perfect romance. Soon learning that seemed unattainable, her love life shifted around the Red era and she started going more for the bad boys, the exciting passionate relationships, which ultimately still led to heartbreak. The 1989 era saw her taking on a whole new perspective as illustrated in Style, Wildest Dreams, New Romantics, and a bunch of other songs. She knew nothing would last forever anymore, so she decided to just enjoy the “fragile little flame” while it lasted. This was a time of carefree summer flings. Finally, after a rough patch of unhealthy relationships and rebounds, Taylor found Joe at her lowest time and he helped her to get back up through all the hate thrown at her. She found real abiding love in him. She was at first scared of the love crumbling because of pressure from the media, as is heard through most of reputation. But she eventually settled in and committed to stay with him through the hard times in New Year’s Day. This time, she’s serious, because every time before Taylor has begged the other person to stay, while here she promised “I stay.” She’s willing to make an extra effort with him and put in the work to keep the relationship alive.

Taylor is not so naive anymore to believe that everything will magically fall into place, but her view of love has definitely been restored to something closer to what it once was. She believes in happy ever afters again, but she knows that it takes work on both their parts to get there. This is what I mean by an adult fairy-tale. Of course the Old Taylor did wore a lot of princess-y outfits too, as seen in this article: https://hellogiggles.com/fashion/taylor-swift-dressed-like-a-disney-princess/  I think in TS7 Taylor will explore the themes of her past ideas of love, and how fairy-tales compare to real life. I also think TS7 will reflect a lot on her childhood and growing up in general.

Another thing I think supports the princess theory is the wax seal motif that keeps popping up. We all know about the wax seals found on the 2019 calendar. These are of course important and could very well relate to TS7, since we all think they’re placed on specific dates that things will be dropping. Taylor also released the TS wax seal necklace somewhat recently, and the wax seal image was also found in the VIP rep tour boxes and the reputation magazines.

You can read this post for tons more information and theories on the wax seals and how they could be connected to TS7. But I think mostly the wax seals are a call back to medieval times, which of course fits with the princess theme.

Anyway, even if this is all a huge coincidence, I’m excited for TS7. And either way, Taylor definitely seems to be living a fairy-tale right now. She’s doing better than she ever was, slowly but surely living happily ever after.

[vigilantestef]

This is exhausting you know, we are never going to know what the 5.13 seal means, like ever.

[bogiswiftie-blog]

wait for it

-if may 13th were a song

could you explain @taylorswift 👀💗

[still-beautiful-things]

@taylorswift @taylornation I'll DM you my address???

taylor is sending us all individual letters with wax seals announcing the album

[cool-chill-delicate]

YOU CALL ME UP AGAIN JUST TO BREAK ME LIKE A PROMISE

[innocent-mess-you-wanted]

@taylorswift @taylornation IT’S A STAMP STORY, baby just say yes 😉

[rachlou86]

I can’t decide whether Taylor’s started being more active again right before April 13 because she’s laughing at us or because we’re right

[longlivetheluckyone]

raise your hand if you’ve been personally victimised by a certain wax seal

[swiftliv]

Raise your hand if you feel personally attacked by the may 13th wax seal 🙋🏼‍♀️ @taylorswift @taylornation

[still-beautiful-things]

reputation magazine Volume 1's wax seals:

From more research, "variegated colors are supposed to show conflicting emotions," variegated meaning "exhibiting different colors, especially as irregular patches or streaks." Here we see End Game, IDSB, and LWYMMD all have swirled streaky colors, and all these songs could have some conflicting emotions (End Game: I wanna be your end game but I have a bad reputation, and IDSB and LWYMMD are both addressing media situations and her side of the story but with some satirical lines).

Now some color association theories:

1. RFI's red/ruby/light red seal could respectively signify business, engaged lovers, or a happy lover for Valentine's. I also found something that says red is "the color of energetic transformation and fiery creativity" which describes reputation and this song's sound well.

2. End Game is both red and purple. Purple can symbolize condolences/sympathy or royalty. ("You and me, we got big reputations" purple contrasted with "I wanna be your end game" red)

3. DBM is light blue, which means love, constancy, and passion, fitting for a love song.

4. So It Goes is also a love song with a gold wax seal. I haven't found anything about gold wax seals, but it calls to mind Taylor's association with gold and love. In Red's prologue she said, "Real love shines golden like starlight, and doesn't fade or spontaneously combust." There are a few references to gold on reputation too. SIG is about staying in her relationship through bad times (so it goes = life goes on), showing a love that doesn't fade or combust, but lasts.

5. IDSB and LWYMMD both have swirled gold and red seals, I'm not really sure what this means but they're songs with very similar themes.

Just fyi the Delicate and Gorgeous lyrics are in this volume too, but they don't habe wax seals. I don't have Vol. 2 so I don't really know what's in there lol

TS7 WAX SEAL THEORY💌

Okay guys, ever since Taylor liked that post about dropping hints about TS7 I can’t get the wax seals everywhere out of my head!!!

I know we’ve commented on the seals being placed on specific dates etc etc but then there’s also the necklace she released recently???

So I decided to look into the history of wax seals and symbolism / what different coloured seals mean and I have some interesting findings…

TO KEEP A LETTER CLOSED AND ENSURE IT HASNT BEEN TAMPERED WITH?? ENSURE IT WAS WRITTEN BY THE SENDER?? AN UNBROKEN WAX SEAP MEANING A LETTER HAD BEEN SUCCESSFULLY DELIVERED??

We’re about to get the most personal album yet!!! Taylor’s unfiltered, untampered version of events. Straight from her to us - delivered sealed in an envelope - (she has always referred to her songs as being like her diary!!)

Destroyed after the owner died to prevent posthumous forgeries??? Oh I don’t know… like the OLD TAYLOR? And “In the death of her reputation, she felt truly alive” - this is Taylor ensuring that nobody can claim her words, her story, her views - she is back, alive and this time she has a new symbol to authenticate her wishes - so that we know it is really her. She started this in the reputation era with her lack of interviews, she isn’t going to let anyone else take credit for her work, to pick apart her songs and allocate them to being about certain people, she isn’t going to let the media change and misconstrue her words / her actions / her music - everything is on her terms and is her real story.

An INTIMATE WAY OF COMMUNICATING WITH LOVED ONES????? WE ARE GETTING A LOVE ALBUM ERM!!!!

And if you look into the meaning behind the different coloured wax seals!!!! You will notice that 3/5 are light blue - meaning either graduations of passion or constancy!! AKA A LOVE THAT WAS REALLY SOMETHING NOT JUST THE IDEA OF SOMETHING

TO CONCLUDE - I think that the wax seals are a massive hint about TS7, not only about the content and the feelings of passion and constancy but I think Taylor will be going a step further than reputation in terms of the honesty in the album - it’s no longer “there will be no further explanation, just reputation” this time we’re actually going to be getting Taylor’s story, free from interference, tampering and outside influence - straight from her to us, sealed.

Stop sleeping on the wax seals, thank you for attending my tedtalk x

(Ps I’m still calling it that the album is called 13)

[rosalieswiftie]

I feel like we, as a fandom are collectively holding our breath right now

[bogiswiftie-blog]

@taylorswift is rlly quiet recently so I had to-

[kristianaandtheheartbreakprince]

In anticipation for Lover Release Week (!!), I decided to write (love) letters to friends I haven't spoken to in a while

I ended up writing 8 tonight!

I've had a wax seal, courtesy of a friend, for nearly 10 years now - and it makes me so feel so fancy!! Purple is my colour, so I always use purple wax.

I used to write letters all the time, so this was fun!

But now it is bed time!

[thisdamnreputation]

taylor watching us making a fool out of ourselves because of the wax seal stamp

[itsnicetohaveafriendx]

what if we should just ASSUME ~~hear me out~~ that we’ll get the second single on May 26th and we should start the countdown rn