The amount of Swifties defending Joe’s alleged insecurity over Taylor’s fame is too damn high. They say it’s rude to speculate and believe gossip and rumors and to just leave the man alone. I would, of course, agree with this.
But we see the hypocrisy there, right? We know the rumors they did choose to believe, and the woman they still to this day will not leave alone…right?
Why in this world are we so quick to defend an [allegedly] straight white man who couldn’t handle his girlfriend’s success, and why are we so quick to condemn a self-made business woman like Karlie who has been nothing but supportive and respectful to Taylor all along? Why is that the priority? I know I’m not the first to point this out, but I just can’t wrap my head around feeling so moved to come out in his defense almost in favor of the patriarchy—on the Taylor Swift subreddit no less.
“Don’t use her as a pawn against the patriarchy” as if Taylor would not LOVE that (and as if she hasn’t orchestrated these “rumors” about Joe being insecure about her success). Taylor didn’t write FUCK THE PATRIARCHY into ATW10 for you all to defend Joe Oatmilk Alwyn.
Also I think this to myself all the time but, Karlie never gets to tell her side of anything, she just takes everything that comes her way. At least Taylor has a release through music. Imagine that must be hard on a person after a while.
Meet me at midnight…
…for the Lavender Haze music video premiere (!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
taylor.lnk.to/lavenderhazemusicvideo
Taylor protecting her "Nirvana" ?
(Special mention: Kaylor's matching Nirvana + Fearless bag)
By using an Evil Eye bracelet:
"Protection braid":
Rainbow Aura Quartz:
Taylor Swift really said “oh, this private life you’ve been watching? Yeah, its never not a performance from inside my fish bowl!” when she blew this popsicle stand.
“The only way for me to disappear (even while in said endless fishbowl that my life has become) is for me to envelop myself in this lavender haze.”
(Which she tells us is synonymous with her melancholia… so, sometimes that haze can loom over her as persistent sadness and ill-founded fears…)
But Taylor has been telling us that despite the sadness, fear, and sense of doom that comes with it, being with her star-crossed lover is the only shade of blue for her.
And gang, she recently framed this singular blue for us. It’s a “midnight blue,” according to Taylor.
Everyone lost their minds after she said the glitter puke and blood in the “Anti-hero” music video is “midnight blue,” but it wasn’t exactly just gaslighting.
It’s Taylor meditating on a theme in her life and art—a blue, a sadness,a melancholia that she feels most deeply in the dead of night, lying awake wondering about love, life, and who she is.
It’s also a blue in which she is submerged, in a fishbowl, in a haze, that is the only thing she really believes in despite the big hoax surrounding her (the idea that her lover’s love is faithless being the “Hoax”).
It’s the “true blue” of someone who knows her for her, is loyal, and dives into this life with her despite it all.
It’s the true blue she bleeds and the true blue that pours out when she spills her guts or the walls come down.
And it’s lavender.
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!
Speech before singing Mine (talking about Speak Now)
I talk a lot about how folklore was the first time I was writing about characters and stuff, but actually Speak Now I was inventing scenarios that definitely weren't happening in my life. I wrote this song Speak Now about interrupting a wedding of an ex and like.. I was 18 when I wrote that. None of my exes were getting married. I never interrupted a wedding, it was just a fantasy. And I think that's one of my favorite things about Speak Now, it was so fantasy, it was so fantastical, I think it was the first time I was thinking in cinematic, you know 'this isn't my life', but what if it were? Like watching a movie, and trying to write what those characters might be feeling. I say this because I wanna play a song, that when I wrote it I was writing about all these relationship things that haven't happened to me. There's drawer of my things at your place, and thing like that. And working through fights and not just breaking up. Anyway, so those were things I was not par-taking in at 18 and 19, when I wrote these songs. It's been such a privilege and such a treat to go back and re-record them 'cause relating to them now.. it's really crazy to go back and listen to these songs that at the time were a fantasy but now feel really relatable to me. And um... this is called MINE.
“I wrote about moving to the loudest and brightest city in the world, the city I had always been overwhelmed by… until now. I think you have to know who you are and what you want in order to take on New York and all its blaring truth. I wrote about the thrill I got when I finally learned that love, to some extent, is just a game of cat and mouse.” - Taylor Swift (1989 album liner notes)
One of the loudest things to me is how in Paper Rings (a song about wanting to marry someone), Taylor referred back to a line in her 2014 1989 album notes where she says she learned that love is just a game of cat and mouse. Lover came out a whole 5 years later….. like hello?