This is amazing and incredibly generous of her, and well earned for her hardworking band, dancers and crew who make each show possible!
My mind is boiling! 😝💜
Loved the video!! The photograph turned out amazing. I love that retro vibe and all the Kaylor references, obviously. 💕 But, Gosh!!! I love this woman's mind!! 🤯
Once again Taylor Swift showed everything and still managed to stay protected. 🌼🛋☀️🧥😉
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. 🗺🙈), 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 📸).
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. 🥰💜
The icing on the cake for me was the inversion of the aquarium functionality Tay put in the video!! Wow!! 🤯🤩
Normally, aquariums are filled with water (the 🐟 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!
☀️🧥🫂💜
Another point I thought was brilliant (GOSH!! I really love this woman's wit!) was her "painting" her lover's back with constellations. 🌼💜☀️
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. 🔥🐟/🧔🏼😂
I love her!! Lol
While Toe (🐟) 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 🐟/Toe/beard.
☀️💜🌼🏠
📸: None of these images belong to me.
Okay, just earlier today I did a post like this with the connections between JackOLantern’s messages and You’re Losing Me….but now the Karma music video is out and I AM LOSING MY SHIT. I’m 113% certain there’s things I’m missing, BUT OH WELL.
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🎃 Message 3: “Somersaulting past ancient artifacts, stopping only to admire a statue or two. ”
(Note: this scene transitions by Taylor leaning over and the camera spinning in a circle to begin the next scene…kind of a somersault.)
(also, wasn’t there just recently a big, long post about the justice tarot card relating to flag anon and that infamous betty/lavender haze mad men episode?)
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🎃 Message 8: “You have always craved destruction. Scrawled devil horns on photos of yourself. This is different.”
🎃 Message 3 “Dressed in your wife’s black leather and the mask of an illusionist”
(Note: @9w1ft has a great post on how similar Taylor’s outfit here is to Karlie’s met gala look….👀) (2nd Note: This message from 🎃 ends with the main character striking a match…this scene from the music video is very….flame-y.)
One more thought on this one…
🎃 Message 11: “Sheep have removed their wolf’s clothing with relief. Masqueraders with masks removed…”
(This line always stuck out to me in JackOLantern’s last big message. Usually the phrase is reversed “A wolf in sheep’s clothing.” Which suggest a predator pretending to be prey for a chance to attack. “Sheep in wolf’s clothing” would mean prey pretending to be a predator…perhaps to avoid being attacked by the other wolves? Did pumpkin anon just put into words what being closeted feels like PERFECTLY? Holding that line from their message up to this scene, where taylor is behind the mask of a devil….and then smiles and waves once she takes it off…..i’m thinking sooo many thoughts about this.)
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this one has LAYERSSS so bear with me!
in this scene, not only does it have a flourishing garden with patches of daisies…it also has a castle on the hill that she has wandered far away from, happy-go-lucky childlike body language, AND wizard of oz imagery….
🎃 Message 4: “The story of the person behind the curtain.”
(HELLO WIZARD OF OZ?!?!?!)
🎃 Message 7: “You are walking through your yard. It’s one of your favorite places, all sprawling garden rows and vibrant green grass […] There are daisies - so many daisies - in every shade of your rainbow.”
(Note: These daisies in the video are pink + gold…..literally lesbian flag colors. All the flowers in this scene are……)
🎃 Message 7: “…and set your foot on each stepping stone of the path that leads right to them. The house is a little farther now…”
(Note: The castle can be seen in this scene way in the background, up on a hill. ALSO, she is following a brick road….aka a stone path….I MEAN)
*BONUS! 🎃 Message 2: “You are on the balcony of an ice castle.”
🎃 Message 7: “…but you are still within the confines of your tall and impenetrable fence. Nothing comes through that fence. Not now and not ever. Within it you are safe.”
(This feels the way the fence is described in JackOLantern’s story…with all good, safe, unbothered things on one side, and unknown depths of darkness on the other….also the 3 grim reapers are an…interesting choice….)
🎃 Message 7: “Caught up in a moment of buoyant childlike whimsy, you make a wish and blow, blow, blow. Hundreds of featherly florets scatter. You laugh. You watch as they ride the breeze…”
(I MEAN COME ON!!! She is skipping around with a very childlike, lighthearted body language, and then she freaking blows purple glitter over TOWARDS HER ENEMIES……..!!!)
also worth noting that there is a little rabbit hidden in the garden…weren’t there some epic alice in wonderland connections made to JackOLantern recently? 🤔
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🎃 Message 10: “You wander through the woods. Deep in this Enchanted Forest […] You squint to make sense of your surroundings through the fog…”
(This one isn’t exact…but to have clouds/fog descending onto a thick wilderness/mountain/forest scene……..it’s all just really delicate, you know?)
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Note: the entire boat/pirate/nautical message + Ice Spice has a lyric that mentions waving white flags - which brings to mind pirates and surrender for me personally. (which is….exactly what that message was about. the main character surrendering herself to the bad guys.)
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🎃 message 9: “And now it is just a matter of time. The dripping of candle wax. The ticking of a clock.”
(Note…including their final goodbye message, we received 12 messages from JackOLantern….like the hours on a clock…)
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THAT IS ALL I CAN SPOT RIGHT NOW. MY BRAIN IS EXPLODING. OH MY GOD. @spade-riddles
Comparing the love songs Taylor wrote about New York and how important of a location it is to her, like Cornelia Street, False God, Maroon, Coney Island, Daylight, Hoax, Welcome to New York, Delicate, Cardigan
How all of those songs have some of her most beautiful, romantic and heart wrenching lyrics.. how she is 100% talking about a lover who’s New York is as important to them as it is for Taylor, but on the other hand…
She is supposedly living in London with her “boyfriend” and the only song she wrote about London is just her listing some places that a TOURIST would visit, nothing romantic or beautiful or moving about. Places you can simply google. Like she is clearly saying she is only a tourist not a person who lives there.
Also The Lakes, a song about Taylor spending time or going on vacation with her lover to the Lake District, emphasizing that she is only a tourist and not someone who lives in the UK in any way.
Yet, the intimacy she writes about New York with, all the memories and secrets and moments shared on those New York streets and homes….. please how can someone not see that she never left New York? That her partner is a PART of this city and that’s why she is more attached to it and mesmerized by it.
Like in Cornelia Street when she says she rented a place on that street, supposedly with Toe. Taylor started “dating him” in 2016, which is the same time she rented the Cornelia place… but she says in the bridge…
“You hold my hand on the street, walk me back to that apartment, YEARS AGO, we were just inside. Barefoot in the kitchen, sacred new beginnings”
YEARS AGO… and she only date Toe at the time for a couple of months only, even if you wanna stretch it to a year, it still won’t work.
It seems like around 2016 Taylor and Karlie had a very important moment in their relationship, maybe a test, that made them even closer and strengthened their relationship and made them know it’s the end of all the endings.
Like how can people not see it…..
Just a little ask for Valentines 💌. Hope you’re all are having a wonderful day. 🫶🏼
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Taylor protecting her "Nirvana" ?
(Special mention: Kaylor's matching Nirvana + Fearless bag)
By using an Evil Eye bracelet:
"Protection braid":
Rainbow Aura Quartz:
What makes it all hilarious is Taylor said she wrote the treatment a year or so ago and wanted these specific people in the video.
So let’s cook:
She specifically wanted a girl from Missouri to play a coder who is assumed to be the villain that will betray her…until it’s revealed she was there helping to save/rescue her (or well, one of her master recordings that the coder…sold to 🛴lmao) the entire time.
She also could have debuted that video at any show, but deliberately chose to debut it in Missouri….when the pictures of her filming the video came out on April 9th—a historic day (IYKYK).
Oh and my favorite part—she reunited with an “ex” on stage. Y’all can read between the lines on that one. Lol
Has anyone checked on *them*? 🌚😏😂👀
I know you have the perfect gif to use for this, IWHM. Lol—make me proud. Lol
Strategy sets the scene for the tale…it was all by design 😉
one of taylor’s looks in this music video is like literally karlie’s met gala costume 😭