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Karlie foreshadowing Taylor's work - Midnights (rough list) Click on links for original posts!!

Midnights album (announcement day)

Labrinth songs - Track 11 Labyrinth

Juliet balcony - Bejeweled mv

Paris at 15 Hits Different - Track 16 Paris + Bonus Track Hits Different

Tiktok "I've been awake since 3am) - 3AM tracks

Revenge dress - Track 8 Vigilante Shit

Lavender IG stories - Lavender Haze announcement/mv (next day)

Seriously.

Ah, so this whole cabin thing is a THING with them. ;)

*thinks about the cabin in the Never Grow Up lyric video*

(And that’s just the most recent one.)

The 66 degrees on the map looks to be Kaylor, South Dakota.

🤣🤣

She’s unhinged with a degree of plausible deniability 💀

…built a fire just to keep me warm…

Both of these tweets are from 2017, prior to the release of Reputation / Call It What You Want that November.

The Alcott Analysis

So now that The Alcott has officially been released I wanted to do an analysis of some of the lyrics and how I think they might relate to Taylor. Disclaimer: I know Aaron said Matt wrote the main parts of the song and Taylor only added the dialogue parts so many of these connections might be a coincidence, but I also think it’s possible Taylor could have had more input on the song than they’re letting on since there are so many themes and motifs that perfectly relate back to Taylor’s music. This is just meant to be a fun clown theory

Like many others pointed out, the whole first verse is very “Help I’m still at the restaurant, still sitting in a corner I haunt, cross legged in the dim light, they say ‘what a sad sight’” and seems like the opposite pov of RWYLM

“It’s the last thing you/I wanted, it’s the first thing I/you do, I tell you that I think I’m falling back in love w/ you” // “I love you ain’t that the worst thing you ever heard” // “Uh oh I’m falling in love, oh no I’m falling in love again”

“I had to do something to break into your golden thinking” // “Lost in the labyrinth of my mind…you would break your back to make me break a smile”— this is directly related to the following ⬇️

“And there you are sitting as usual w/ your golden notebook, writing something about someone who used to be me…I sit there silently waiting for you to look up” // “Did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen, time moved on for everybody else, she won’t know it, she’s still 23 inside her fantasy, how it was supposed to be…and you’re sitting in front of me” -> Taylor is stuck in her own head reminiscing and writing about the past (the golden age) and this person sitting in front of her is trying to break her out of this nostalgic escapist mindset. I think this may be a direct reference to the film Midnight in Paris which is all about nostalgia and escapism–much like the song Paris on the Midnights 3am edition–and specifically to golden age thinking, a phrase used in that film. Here are some tidbits that I think are worth noting

@chickawah23​ made a really great post about the possible Midnight in Paris connections. Here’s a screenshot from that post that does a good job summarizing the important parallels

There definitely seems to be a connection between Midnights, the stories of 13 sleepless nights, and the folklore chapters that were released in Aug 2020, specifically the sleepless nights and escapism chapters. I think it’s interesting that exile is the last track of the first chapter and first track of the second chapter–almost like the second chapter is a direct continuation of the first which again links Midnights to this escapism theme. And there’s been a lot of exile references lately (exile ends, doors, 8/3, etc)

Even though the back and forth dialogue between Taylor and Matt at first sounds argumentative, I think it could also be read in a positive way. This person is going to ruin and wreck Taylor’s plans and Taylor is going to gladly let them. She welcomes the curse on their house. “I’m begging for you to take my hand wreck my plans that’s my man” // “For you I would ruin myself a million little times” // “I wish to know the fatal flaw that makes you long to be magnificently cursed…He’s gonna burn this house to the ground…So yeah it’s a fire it’s a goddamn blaze in the dark and you started it” // “Dear reader, burn all the files, desert all your past lives” // Taylor is the one that chooses to burn the lover house down. She’s the one holding the lighter on the Midnights album cover and striking the match in the lavender haze mv (here’s a really great post about what that might signify). Furthermore, the willow performance and description make me think that the curse on Taylor’s house was actually her own doing–she’s not only letting this person wreck her plans but is helping them do so. So the burning, wrecking, ruining, cursing/spell casting are all metaphors for the same thing—destroying Taylor’s closet and possibly her career as a result of that

Honorable mention: The beat almost sounds like a heartbeat no? Wildest Dreams??

TIMELESS

Let’s talk about these dates shall we??!

They still have fallen in love with this person even if they met on a crowded street in wartime.

As sweet as that is just like that, let’s break it down more, the narrator says she would’ve fallen in love with this person despite meeting on a crowded street in 1944, whats so significant about it?

Wasn’t a very accepting time was it? Nope, not at all. Not in the slightest. Make a little more sense now? On why “even if” implys it would be more despite meeting in front of all these people in a public where homosexuality isn’t approved of at all?

Moving on to another date: 1958

Wonder why 1958 is significant??

Pretty self explanatory-

A dusty romance that was torn apart before this time by outside forces/fate, simply because there was no acceptance yet??

So so gay

Don’t even get me started on this😭👏

Here’s a short clip to highlight the clearest “Karlie” at the end of the song.

sweet nothing | mexico city | august 24, 2023

Karlie Kloss on CBS Mornings today talking about Kode With Klossy and how this summer will be their biggest yet, providing 5,000 coding scholarships for free in 19 U.S. cities, and soon to be expanding to London!