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In May 2015, a blind item came out that said Karlie was moving things out from Taylor's apartment.
2020: Five years later in the song EXILE, Taylor referred to this fight that they supposedly had in the same way.
in 2019, Taylor on the album LOVER made it clear that her muse is from the USA, that New York screams her muse's name and that her muse has a garden gate in the West Village Karlie is from the USA, New York screams her name and she had a garden gate in the West Village.
That place was very special for their relationship because Taylor was seen there very often and she moved to New York and bought an apartment near there to hang out with Karlie in her apartment.
2019: A month after the album LOVER came out, Karlie sold her apartment in the West Village which has a garden gate.
And a year later (2020), in EXILE Taylor refers to this by saying that this person was her town, but that she is now in exile watching this person out (??selling their special place and moving out??)
I think I've seen this film before. And I didn't like the ending. You're not my homeland anymore. So what am I defending now? You were my town. Now I'm in exile, seein' you out. I think I've seen this film before.
YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN single was released on June 14, 2019
On June 25, 2019 a blind items came out saying that if Taylor wanted to come out, she couldn't mention Karlie:
And also Karlie did an interview about how much she enjoyed her new life and Taylor is briefly mentioned in it as one of her "friends", as if she was just a wrinkle
And a year later - 2020 - Taylor would refer to this in CLOSURE saying that her lover is now enjoying a new life and how Taylor feels that she is a wrinkle or something that could ruin the new life that person has built without her
RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT ME (2020): I could feel the mascara run. You told me that you met someone. Glass shattered on the white cloth. Everybody moved on. I, I stayed there.
In 2018 and 2019, Karlie had two weddings and even though Taylor was invited, she didn't attend, she said absolutely nothing about it and Taylor's team just said she was too busy
October 2018: But the same day or the next (it's confusing because of the time zones) of the first wedding Taylor sang I KNEW YOU WERE TROUBLE completely sad as a surprise song. Taylor and Karlie met when Taylor was performing that song
Two years later - 2020 - Taylor would refer to these weddings in EVERMORE. In RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT ME Taylor sings about how the person she used to love left her and shortly there after married and built a new life without her
In this song there is a clear reference to a tradition in Jewish Weddings. Karlie converted to Judaism and had a Jewish Wedding
"Hair pin drop": We all know that this line is gay and what it means in this context is that Taylor's silence and her not attending Karlie's two weddings was something that confirmed that there was something more than a friendship between them
Did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen? Time went on for everybody else, she won't know it. She's still 23 inside her fantasy. How it was supposed to be. Did you hear about the girl who lives in delusion? Break-ups happen every day, you don't have to lose it. She's still 23 inside her fantasy. And you're sitting in front of me.
Taylor was 23 when she became Karlie's bff.
CHAMPAGNE PROBLEMS (2020) is about how Taylor lost her golden muse because she wasn't ready to get married and how she watched this person walk away not knowing what to do
"One for the money two for the show" Karlie had two weddings and this phrase appears in the photoshoot they did together in 2014
In HAPPINESS (2020), Taylor tells how she spent seven years with this person and how she felt like she was in heaven. Taylor wrote this song a month after it was seven years since she met Karlie
This is a clear reference to Karlie because in REPUTATION and LOVER, Taylor relates heaven and religion to this person. Karlie was a Victoria's Secret Angel
HITS DIFFERENT (2022): Dreams of your hair and your stare and sense of belief. In the good in the world, you once believed in me. And I felt you and I held you for a while. Bet I could still melt your world. Argumentative, antithetical dream girl. // Movin' on was always easy for me to do. It hits different (Yeah). It hits different 'cause it's you.
Are all the Eras tour BETTY stories true? Taylor already said Betty is the love of James' life. James had to fight to get Betty back! And she believes in a Happy End. (SEE THIS LINK)
Are we getting a Kaylor reunion or was that it...?! Anything to add?
(most parts by lavenderfishboy!)
one of taylorβs looks in this music video is like literally karlieβs met gala costume π
Karma is that girl like π
http://taylor.lnk.to/karmavideo
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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"
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My mind is boiling! ππ
Loved the video!! The photograph turned out amazing. I love that retro vibe and all the Kaylor references, obviously. π But, Gosh!!! I love this woman's mind!! π€―
Once again Taylor Swift showed everything and still managed to stay protected. πΌπβοΈπ§₯π
It's amazing how Taylor has completely transformed her life at the aquarium. Like, in 1989 (as Tay showed us at Lover's house), she and her lover were swimming, wet (no pun intended! There are already many in the music video. πΊπ), inside the aquarium and having their interaction being closely observed by all of us, through the transparent glass/lenses (the glass structure of the aquarium symbolizes the lenses of πΈ).
They were fully exposed!
Not now!! Now, the "aquarium" Taylor is in is limited by the walls of her house, thus making it impossible for anyone (fans/world) to see and have access to her and her lover's private life. π₯°π
The icing on the cake for me was the inversion of the aquarium functionality Tay put in the video!! Wow!! π€―π€©
Normally, aquariums are filled with water (the π are wet) and the outside is dry, from where people can watch the fish swimming safely and dry. Note that in the music video, when Tay knocks down the walls of her house/aquarium, her safe and pristine place where she can live freely with her lover, the outside of her aquarium is where the fish are swimming, while Tay transitions between her private (inside) and public (outside) life, now dry and safe on both sides of the "glass aquarium" Tay built for herself and her lover!
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Another point I thought was brilliant (GOSH!! I really love this woman's wit!) was her "painting" her lover's back with constellations. πΌπβοΈ
As dozens of news reports have already pointed out and you've probably seen it out there, Tay insisted on showing the Pisces sign drawn on the stars, a clear reference to the zodiac sign her beard which is Pisces. In short, in this music video Taylor made it clear that she is using the fish (sign/animals/Toe) to protect, cover the back of her real lover. π₯π/π§πΌπ
I love her!! Lol
While Toe (π) swims outside the aquarium Tay built to entertain her fans and the world, her lover and she are protected there inside, their backs covered by π/Toe/beard.
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πΈ: None of these images belong to me.
Taylor literally told you everything in the bridge of this song three years ago and yβall just let it slide.
βWith every guitar string scar on my hand I take this magnetic force of a man to be my lover. My heart's been borrowed and yours has been blue. All's well that ends well to end up with you.β - Lover
She starts out
βWith every guitar string scar on my hand I take this magnetic force of a man to be my lover.β
Sheβs saying sheβs choosing to take this person with every bit of baggage they have because she knows this person has done the same for her.
Then she says one of the best yet simplest word plays:
βMy heart's been borrowed and yours has been blue. All's well that ends well to end up with you.β
Why is it the best? Because you gift something borrowed and something blue to brides. So her heart is this person. And βyoursβ is her describing her heart which her person has. Sheβs literally saying my heart (my person) has been borrowed by someone else and it makes me blue. Said differently they have each othersβ heart. So the possession describes the person.
We can also look at Cruel Summer where she again tells you she is the blue where she says βitβs blue this feeling I gotβ
To flesh it out further think of Paper Rings: βIβm with you even if it makes me blue.β Taylorβs the one who is blue.
She even says it in invisible string βTime, wondrous time gave me the blues and then purple pink skies.β
We can look at hoax drawing the same distinction with the following lyric: βYou have beaten my heart. Don't want no other shade of blue but you. No other sadness in the world would do.β She is describing that sheβs okay with this blue feeling because she loves this person whoβs borrowed unconditionally.
We can even jump to evermore (the song) where she touches on this gray sky imagery that she uses to describe hoax in the Long pond studio sessions. She says βGray November I've been down since July.β This is literally the follow up to Cruel Summer where as stated above she describes her feeling as blue. But she ends evermore with hope. She is enduring this and holding on to the feeling (the faith) that this wonβt last forever.
I just love the Lover bridge.
The other side of the door in ATL night 1 speech and full performance
The ATL NIGHT 1 crowd showed up and showed out! Brava yβall!
OOHHHH!! π€ππΆ
She looked so happy playing Our Song !