ohhh! i can't wait for pride month.. i hope my gaylor and kaylor heart will be fed. š¤š¤
Preparations leading up to the revelation, a divine source of knowledge. With pride all will be crystal clear.
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woww!!
this is so good!šš
Ok, now that I opened Pandora's box of writing my thoughts down, I donāt seem to be able to stopā¦Ā
That being said, I keep seeing antis, especially on Twitter, claiming how The Great War does not mean anything about LSK since it was the first world war, but there was a second after.
So the argument here is that they might have survived that first war (weirdly no one seems to know which events it might be about) but they did not survive the second one (this one is supposed to be 2019 and the failed coming out).
This is gonna be a long post, so if you just want to have my input on what those two wars are about, it's at the end.
At first, I just thought this argument was funny, especially since no one is able to explain what fight (war) this song refers to if itās not the events of 2019.
But then it got me thinking that if people are seeing this connection about two wars, it was probably not accidental.
I do believe that The Great War is talking about the events of 2019. Thereās many things that point to this.
The Great War is sampled on Only The Young. Itās the same drum beat, especially in the intro.
I think it is meant to set the time the song took place (2019) and the reason behind this great war : The political climate, the results of the elections. As many suspect might have played a role on her not being able to come out.
But the lyrics also points toward 2019:Ā
The most telling is : āSomewhere in the haze, got a sense Iād been betrayedā
This clearly points to the betrayal accusation that is looming over Karlie since 2019 and that Swifties use to hate on her.
Thereās an amazing post about this. I encourage you to go read it as it will help you understand where I am coming from for the rest of the analysis.
Perez Hilton posted a Youtube Video saying how Taylor and Karlie are no longer close because of Scooter Braun, based on absolutly nothing. Ashley Avignone and Claire Winter liked the Taylor Swift Updates post about it.
Therefore lauching every Swifties and their mothers on Karlie.
This tweet and the video are still up, but the original post shared by Taylor Swift Updates and liked by Taylor's friend no longer exists.
(I highly suggest you read the post about debunking all of this!)
Perez Hilton liked a bunch of tweets this very year about how his claim that Karlie had betrayed Taylor was unfounded and basically not true.
This is just one exemple, there's MANY (and he confirmed in the comments of some that he does not just like them automatically because his name is in the post).
He even liked one of mine saying he was in his redemption era, liking post debunking his rumor about Karlie...
All of this plays in those lyrics:
āAnd maybe itās the past thatās talkinā, screaminā from the crypt. Telling me to punish you for things you never did. So I justified it.āĀ
Perez posting those rumors and having her friends āconfirmā it by liking the post.
āSpineless in my tomb of silence, tore your banner down took the battle undergroundā
Her not doing anything at the time (at least at first) to stop those rumors.
āLooked up at me with honor and truth, broken and blue, so I called off the troops.ā
The Taylor Swift Updates post being deleted. Her friends are still showing support to Karlie on SM (again, if you have not read the debunk post, itās really good!).
In The Great War, thereās also the lyric: āSoldier down on that icy ground, looked up at me with honor and truth, broken and blueā.Ā
Taylor has used the frozen imagery to talk about the Master Heist in Folklore and Evermore.
Hoax: āMy win less fight, this has frozen my groundā.Ā
In the Long Pond Studio Session, when she talks about Hoax she says that itās about multiple things: A relationship and the true meaning of love for her (staying when the other person is having a difficult time), a person that betrayed her and that she saw like family (Scott Borchetta) and a work thing that really hurt (The Master Heist).
The Win Less Fight is the attempt to come out that has frozen her ground (her past work).
Itās Time To Go: āHeās got my past frozen behind glass, but I got meā
Again, referencing having her past work stolen from her as being frozen.
Right Where You Left Me: āDid you ever hear about the girl who got frozen, time went on for everybody else she wonāt know itā.
Once again, she is talking about her and how she got frozen in time by the master heist.
The Lakes: "A red rose grew up, out of ice frozen ground. With no one around to tweet itā.
The lakes talks about her not belonging and wanting to escape with her muse. A red rose, means love and passion.
Meaning that in all of this, love grew up out of the public eye...
In Evermore she also alludes to the cold and the winter while looking back on the events of 2019 (this would take a whole other post to go through all of this) : āAnd I was catching my breath. Barefoot in the wildest winter catching my deathā.
Even in Only The Young: "It keeps me awake, the look on your face, the moment you heard the news. Screaming inside and FROZEN in time, you did all that you could do"
She might be talking about more than just the elections right there...
Another thing that for me screams of 2019 : āYour finger on my hairpin triggerā.
To me this sounds like her relationship with Karlie was one big reason for her wanting to come out in 2019.Ā
How since the start of her relationship with Karlie she has been more loud about her queerness and how Karlie was the catalyst of her wanting to come out.
This relationship makes her want to drop āhairpinsā as she references too in Right Where You Left Me : āI swear you could hear a hairpin drop, right when I felt the moment stopped.ā
This checks out when you look back on her discography, social media posts, interviews and everything. Taylor has started being louder and dropping hairpins in conjunction with her relationship with Karlie.
The song clearly depicts how they made it through those events:
āI vowed, I would always be yours, ācause we survived the great warā.Ā
Which was even more solidified by Taylor singing āI WILL always be yoursā when she played it as a surprise song.
But thereās also other interesting detail about that song:
āMy hand was the one you reached for all throughout the great warā
Meaning Karlie was there all this time.Ā
Also: āThat was the night I nearly lost you. I really thought I lost you.ā
Meaning Taylor did not lose Karlie. She thought she did, thought she might. But as she is saying in the song, it was not the case.Ā
Hereās what I think it means.
The Great War is about the events of 2019 : her wanting to come out and not being able to because of the Master Heist.
In her song The Archer, which is about the fear of coming out and how she is ready for it (pun not intended).
She starts the song with āCombat, Iām ready for combatā. (singular).Ā
The combat here is her coming out and the possible backlash it can have.
She sadly was not able to come out in 2019.
But since August 2019 and her BBC1 performance, Taylor has changed the lyrics a bit.
In her live performance of BBC1 (Septembre 2019)
Live in Paris (Septembre 2019)
You can clearly hear āCombats, Iām ready for combatsā.
Even during the Eras Tour you can hear her using plural in the song.
The singular combat of coming out in 2019 has transformed into multiple ones, her having to re-record her first six albums for one plus whatever other challenges arose in 2019 that we donāt know about.
So World War 2 might be in that case her future coming out.
Whenever that might be.
And the song saying: āWe will never go backā
Meaning that whatever happens, theyāll face it together this time.
i just canāt get over it
I also woke up to rewatching and finding new layers. Last night I thought it was pretty boring. Among other things, Iām intrigued by the idea that this coder girl seemed to be the villain. Her jailer. But then we find sheās the mastermind back in the van directing the escape.
Thatās an interesting thought! She wasnāt the villain in the video but you mean all the years people suddenly came to this conclusion and hung on to it, and all the while sheās in the shadows (van) helping guide Taylor through it all. I think the use of ācoder girlā is very loud.
u/happyfrogz gets it šš„°š¤ see their reddit post
Itās only been two shows but thereās something about Taylor that stood out to me watching her perform. Like she is visibly at peace and confident in who she is and her agency as an artist and the ability for her to command a room or stadium of 70,000 people⦠sheās an enigma.
I think thereās an obvious knowingness when you look at her that she is at peace in her life away from the public eye and that carries over into her persona on stage. But still, theyāre two separate things.
Iām just really happy for her and proud of her.
Some people, pretty much: "Excuse me, but having Austin hang out with Josh days before the 2016 election is NOT something I've ever wanted Taylor to be involved with, is my copy of Taylor Swift Dating Sim: Gay Edition broken or something?! I want a refund!"
iām guessing they wouldnāt like how she sang at mikey and karlieās bday in the hamptons that august either,
people hate things that arenāt black and white, i guess
Ask everyone who thinks Dress is a song is about her British beau if they knew who he was in 2017.
āEveryone thinks that they know us but they know nothing...ā - Dress
And if they say they did, ask them to share what they knew about him besides his connection to Taytay. And if they say Billy Lynn remind them that his debut film was not released until November 18, 2016. And she wrote dress before then. And if they say they knew him from the 2016 Met gala, theyāre lying. lol