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The Gold / Invisible String in Bejeweled mv?

Ok i got to re-watching Bejeweled to start my weekend, and idk if this is intentional but i love how when the prince's portrait was shown, a white thread (not gold/yellow) was also in the shot:

Which is the contrast to the (golden) invisible string string shown in Willow, which ofc we already know had a callback here at the beginning of the Bejeweled music video:

The "Gold" that she followed here was when the golden pocket watch appeared in front of her. "Exile expires in 3.. 2.." leading to a Golden elevator, which takes her to each floor, different eras. (Eras tour egg? also does this mean speak now will be released before the tour..)

On her journey after following the "Gold" she stops at the 5th floor (1989 era / 2014) and meets a woman.. (which also reminds me of the fishbowl scene/blue room in the lover house)

As already mentioned by people before, the scene with the cocktail drinks, might be a callback to Delicate's lyrics:

This ain't for the best / My reputation's never been worse, so / You must like me for me / We can't make any promises / Now can we, babe? / But you can make me a drink

Oh, damn, never seen that color blue

But let's not forget that Delicate also connects to Invisible string's lyric!

Delicate (2017):

Dive bar on the East Side, where you at? / Phone lights up my nightstand in the black / Come here; you can meet me in the back

Invisible String (2020):

A string that pulled me / Out of all the wrong arms right into that dive bar / Something wrapped all of my past mistakes in barbed wire / Chains around my demons, wool to brave the seasons / One single thread of gold tied me to you

So yeah, to summarize, she met her "Gold" / Invisible String at a Delicate time during the (pre) 1989 era?

Has anyone done a masterpost of the blurry background home clips from the Lover MV? I know the sparklers with Karlie as well as the guitar KIWYW performance have been identified. I was watching it again today and when the lyric "take me home" comes on, there's an owl/bird in the background and I seem ti recall something with owls related to the Big Sur trip?

i am positive someone did at the time but i can’t remember who and i can’t locate a reblog

anybody have a link to a post?

i was able to recover these

bi rice crispies ↓

big sur falcon pic ↓

it is thought there might be a daisy (maybe not the daisy but a daisy) in this ↓

here’s the sparkler one ↓

and this is just something i pointed out about the union jack symbol that makes an appearance ↓

ah what the heck i’m feeling festive i’ll add this too ↓

i think it was also pointed out that there’s a pic of taylor jumping off a dock, and karlie had recently posted a pic of her similarly jumping off a dock

'Cause we never go out of style!!! 😎

Wait for it!!! 🌼❤☀️

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None of these images belong to me.

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I once again come to you as the Kaylor jewelry expert with a detailed question.

When did Karlie start wearing the Cartier onyx necklace? I know she wore it to the rep tour show in Nashville in August 2018, but was she seen wearing it before that?

hi anon! thank you for the question 😌

back in june 2018 karlie went on a back to back trip to japan and then shanghai. she can be seen wearing the amulette de cartier in japan (josh was there) from june 11th, if you look closely through her instagram stories. she’s more clearly documented wearing it in shanghai starting on june 15th (she was alone for this leg).

her engagement was announced a little more than a month later. iirc, there was word on the street (online rumors) a few weeks before it was announced on july 24, that they were getting engaged. i guess that if you were to believe this official narrative, you might think the amulette was an engagement gift from josh that she could wear without the news getting out by wearing her ring. but my goodness, a symbol of protection during difficult times seems to be an odd choice as an engagement present (who pops the question with a necklace that’s a lucky charm made for times that require strength of heart against all odds?!)

so I’m sure you can see how this lends itself perfectly to the kaylor narrative.

*to provide some meta context, their trip to japan was at the time very painful for kaylors. the two were acting lovey dovey at a time when many were convinced they were about to break up, and they appeared very intimate (had holding/cheek kissing) with each other in ways they really hadn’t in years prior. i think at the time, some saw this bump in pda as writing on the wall that an engagement rather than a breakup was coming. at the time i was a holdout but in hindsight, given the symbolic value of the amulette, it feels that way. btw all this was happening right after taylor got very very loud in spring 2018, when rep tour started and she debuted the rainbow dress and delicate pride speech and we had the caticorn rainbow ad, and so it was distressing at the time how it was like one step forward, two steps back for kaylor. but in hindsight, sheesh, simpler times!

so karlie wore the amulette a whole lot between the end of june and end of sep 2018. most memorably, i would say, to NYC pride and of course when she went to rep tour nashville.

iirc the last time she was seen wearing it in 2018, on sept 28 2018? and she changed her IG profile picture to a picture with her wearing it, and it stayed like that for what feels like it was about a year. then of course we have taylor’s october 2018 AMA performance where there was this big set piece that looked so much like the amulette.. and a nod to it in 2019 as the little peephole on the door to the lover house

while it remained karlie’s profile picture for a long time, karlie didn’t post new photos of her wearing it again until march 2020, another time of difficulty for her with her fans (controversies about her kushner/white house connections in the early days of the pandemic and in an election year) she continued wearing it off and on, notably during her pregnancy, including in the pregnancy announcement video.

so yeah, you can see how these two periods of time have some thematic similarities for her—pivotal life moments both taking things to a new level—and how the amulette and everything it stands for just adds to the symbolism of it all… 🫠

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"... 'Cause we lost track of time again

Laughing with my feet in your lap

Like you were my closest friend..."

"...You'll find me on my tallest tip-toes

Spinning in my highest heels, love

Shining just for you..."

"I want auroras and sad prose

I want to watch wisteria grow

Right over my bare feet

'Cause I haven't moved in years

And I want you right here"

🌼❤☀️

at the show that her "ex-pal's" best friend/big brother attend...

...did she really say that Betty is the love of James life? And asked to the crowd to LITERALLY shout her name?

yeah, she did it...

and this ⬇️ btw lives rent-free in my mind so...

what do we think is karlie's gayest fit ever? 😆 can be from a photoshoot or her streetwear- i wanna see y'all's thoughts🧐

I’m never good at narrowing down anything so I put together just a few of the outfits that really did it for me over the years (I have a feeling I’ll add more later bc these simply aren’t even half of them). Would love to see all of your favorite Karlie outfits 🥰👀

same energy??!!! 😝

😜

i just can’t get over it

I took a pic of joe and well these aren’t his feet.