Keep Swifties Away From Our Precious Karlie.

It’s only been two shows but there’s 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… she’s an enigma.

I think there’s 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, they’re two separate things.

I’m just really happy for her and proud of her.

Taylor literally told you everything in the bridge of this song three years ago and y’all just let it slide.

“With 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.” - Lover

She starts out

“With every guitar string scar on my hand I take this magnetic force of a man to be my lover.”

She’s saying she’s 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:

“My heart's been borrowed and yours has been blue. All's well that ends well to end up with you.”

Why is it the best? Because you gift something borrowed and something blue to brides. So her heart is this person. And “yours” is her describing her heart which her person has. She’s literally saying my heart (my person) has been borrowed by someone else and it makes me blue. Said differently they have each others’ 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 “it’s blue this feeling I got”

To flesh it out further think of Paper Rings: “I’m with you even if it makes me blue.” Taylor’s the one who is blue.

She even says it in invisible string “Time, wondrous time gave me the blues and then purple pink skies.”

We can look at hoax drawing the same distinction with the following lyric: “You have beaten my heart. Don't want no other shade of blue but you. No other sadness in the world would do.” She is describing that she’s okay with this blue feeling because she loves this person who’s 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 “Gray November I've been down since July.” 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 won’t last forever.

Conclusion

I just love the Lover bridge.

The ‘Kiss-gate’ likes:

On 4th December 2014, Taylor and Karlie attended The 1975’s concert at Terminal 5 in New York (accompanied by Lily Aldridge, Martha Hunt, the Haim sisters and, for a short while, Josh Kushner.) This evening, which plausibly was intended to establish a public frame of reference for Taylor’s subsequent relationship with Matt Healy — the groundwork for which was being laid throughout November (see: here , here and here) —  became notorious, when video was posted online purporting to show (an obviously inebriated) Taylor kissing Karlie.  

Over the course of the same evening a total of 146 posts were liked by Taylor’s tumblr account. Notably, 26 of these concerned her relationship with Karlie, of which 13 were photos and/or gifs of their appearance together at VSFS on 2nd December. They are as follows below:

[NB: ‘likes’ generally related to Karlie are (in the process of being) collected here.]

Taylor and Karlie are the cutest. Can I be the third musketeer?

‘When You’re wearing a cute outfit to school…’

Taylor and Karlie in New York on 12th November 2014

‘Stop it you big flirts’

‘Looking at all the pictures of Taylor and Karlie…’

‘Best friends or twins?’

‘Bae checkin’ out bae’

kaylr.

‘Rip Me. I Died Dead’ 

‘my life is over. this is the end’

‘my best friend’s best friend is so hot like’

‘before and after joining tumblr’

‘Karlie Kloss, the Taylor whisperer’

‘Look at Karlie’

‘We’ll just walk out together’ (kaylor af)

‘I love you Taylor. I love you kaylor.’

‘Reblog this if you’re naming your kids, Taylor/ Karlie/ Alison/ Olivia/Meredith’

‘kookies from Karlie in my house. made for me. nbd.’

‘Taylor called Karlie her best friend. I’m so dead.’

‘kaylor feels through the roof’

‘i’m so happy i got to walk the runway with you’

‘karlie kloss dancing to shake it off’

‘she’s all over `karlie’s ass’

‘kaylor saving the world from haters’ (ft. a pegacorn)

‘i want taylor to look at me the way she looks at karlie’

‘shows up to your funeral like’

Other posts of interest from the same evening include:

a further 13 posts about VSFS (x//x//x//x//x//x//x//x//x//x//x//x//x)

3 posts about her publicist, Tree (x//x//x)

1 post about her cover of Riptide (x)

1 post about Wonderland (x)

The 102 likes which remain were distributed among fans’ selfies and expressions of devotion to Taylor (and to 1989.)

Tell me more about New Year’s Day

Ok, it is a long read, written half drunk (excellent  Monbazillac straight outta Dorgogne)  not gonna edit the train of thoughts, so here you go:

When Taylor talked about this song, she said she found the “inspiration” in new years eve parties and how the day after you stay with the one you share your life with to clean the mess and spend the day in peace, in private which is a huge contrast with the partying.Here is how I read it. This song wraps up the album. But imo, in taylor private life it describes her transition from NYE its glitter and polaroid aka the 1989 era with the social media and media overexposure, the girls squad, the friends, the parties, the outings. “you and me from the night before”: everything they lived during this phase in life that she is about to put behind her.She is scared because she doesn’t know what the reaction of the person she’s singing for would be if they get to the last page of the book she is about to close, will that person stay for the next one?This is almost the only song in which she talks about doubts coming from the other person because they are both scared. She says she wants the celebrations but she’d also stick to do life’s mundane tasks when the lights are out, and by that I think it means the beginning of her blackout phase.Verse 2 is where they start putting this plan en route, their taxi ride. It is a very interesting non verbal exchange, the other person squeezing her hand is a sign of reassurance, one that is done by someone who doesn’t need words to say what you need to hear, your long term SO, your BFF or a close family member. She replies that even if this trip is long, she is not going anywhere and will be there for the worst and for better times alike.In the post chorus and the bridge, I think she is preparing her love interest for a difficult part. A part where they will probably be physically separated from each other for longer periods than they are used to before. Thus asking the person to hold on to the memories they shared together (3 times. you can stretch and reach and say it corresponds to 3 years relationship before the blackout if you feel like it, I don’t make the rules). And then she tells her love interest that if they hold on to these memories she will hold on to them as a pair. She is not leaving, she is just retreating.She is asking them not to forget her and this relationship she is trying to keep during this new phase of life, where their separate lives would probably be less in sync than before. She knows her lover like the back of her hand and could not stand the idea of them becoming strangers.Overall, at first I did not pay attention to the depth of it I really just thought she was describing the aftermath of a party. But she is not. Wouldn’t you expect a mention of alcohol here (in Taylor’s most alcohol-drenched album)? well surprise, there is none. Because it is not describing an actual party, but her transition from the 1989 to the Rep era and wanting her partner to cross that bridge with her. Some sort of “through thick-and-thin promise” in a form of a soft ballad. It also strikes me as a narrative of a long term relationship where two people are settled in a certain lifestyle and they are about to make a drastic change due to what life throws at them and they are maybe hesitantly walking to their destination but holding hands firmly.So that’s my meta-analysis and very liberally done interpretation of this song. It was a head-scratcher for me, she wrote it and recorded it quite fast and felt that THIS is the song that should wrap up an album she called reputation with and that she is releasing after she completely turned her public life around. And this is how it made sense to me.

I haven't seen anyone point out yet that the speak now art literally goes from dark to light... turn it over and step into the daylight

Oooh interesting:

Karlie Kloss on stage as a speaker at the Clinton Global Initiative Meeting in New York City today | photos by Noam Galai

It's 3am and I'm sobbing over this.

She looked so happy playing Our Song !