Are We Going To Talk About This Or Nah? 

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I'M WATCHING MISS AMERICANA AGAIN AND CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN THIS TO ME? SHE IS SO LOUD

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my sweet tender lovely friends I think I made a breakthrough. so we know that orange has something to do with kaylor and representing Karlie (context here and here), but we’ve always wondered WHY. well I think I’m on to something!!

i was in a bookstore the other day, walked down the aisle, and BAM out of nowhere saw this book:

??????????!!!!!!!?!? OBVIOUSLY kaylor has all sorts of Big Sur references (road trip, Taylor saying you should take your wife to Big Sur, etc.), so this PLUS oranges?!

And most importantly we have the meaning of the oranges here:

We know that paradise comes up a TON in Taylors music, and there are even a lot of theories that her 6th album was going to be titled Paradise, before she changed plans and created Reputation. (see here)

What is SO interesting is Miller’s view of paradise - said beautifully in this quote:

Karlie is paradise for Taylor, but their love has some BIG flaws….mostly being the bearding and the k*$hnerds. But it’s their hurdles that keep drawing them in more and more, and making them commit again and again, and keeping things interesting. 

(fyi that is not healthy relationship behavior!!! obstacles dont equal chemistry)

It’s also worth noting that the artwork referenced, the garden of earthly delights, is positioned between heaven and hell, again imagery that Taylor uses a lot 

“Hell was the journey but it brought me heaven”, etc.

So that brings us to the orange girl in YNTCD. She is in her garden of earthly delights, surrounded by her oranges, but she is alone, the flaw of her paradise.

Also want to include this wonderful quote that I think really relates to Taylor’s battle with her masters and generally how she is beholden to the business side of music (including bearding) rather than the art side of it:

idk if we already figured this out?! but I was excited @spade-riddles​

WOW, we need a deep dive analysis on this man body language, I mean, he's "been with her" for 10 years! You can't fake a goodbye kiss, right? then, why is this man paralyzed by it? This is so fucking funny...

Does the 'jerklies' need more evidence?

In the meantime, we are here waiting for the house of cards to start falling slowly, under its own weight.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Caj502ijD-6/

the devil's in the details.

Anonymous asked:

There's a ridiculous video where Karlie goes the extra mile for whatever idiotic reason and reaches to kiss him goodbye in one instance and he's so oblivious that it takes him a moment to realize what she's doing and when he does he sort of turns his cheek and her lips barely land on his mouth. It's one of the cases where Jerk looks more forced than her to clown publicly. But, on the other hand, Karlie has to show she's worth his dirty bearding money, doesn't she now? 😒

Anonymous asked:

Notably there is zero evidence that he spent anytime with her other than for public show // Couldn't agree more, in fact, there's a video going around instagram where you can see Karlie 'kissing' him goodbye outside her hotel in Paris... if they're a "couple", why is he leaving?

Anonymous asked:

THIS IS GOLD! 👏 PURE 👏 GOOOOLD 👏! OMG ! look how awkward he is 😂😂! The failed attempt to make a 'cute' video of the couple...

Taylor Swift - Lover

It’s the “askew” AND “raining lipsticks” that’s a neon sign for me. 🤭

You’re so gorgeous I can’t say anything to your face

And baby, I get mystified by how this city screams your name, And baby, I’m so terrified of if you ever walk away

You’re the West Village You still do it for me, babe

Ooh, you'rе a queen sellin’ dreams, sellin’ makeup and magazines

Everybody wants you, Everybody wonders what it would be like to love you / And the coastal town we wandered ‘round had nеver seen a love as pure as it

Note: idk if it's the actual handwriting of their names but i just saw this on twitter too**

Hiii can you do the pronouns percentage with lover and folklore in? I've just seen the one with rep included but FOLKLORE IS SO GAY. Also you're doing gods work thank you so much 💕

Hi! I’ve updated the charts to include Folklore - there is actually already a post which includes the pronouns from Lover (here) if you’re interested to see what has and hasn’t changed.

As always, the songs not included in these charts are those from Taylor’s unreleased catalogue; those for which Taylor is credited as co-writer, but which were released by another artist (e.g. Kellie Pickler’s ‘Best Days of Your Life’); and her OSTs (Eyes Open, Safe and Sound, Sweeter Than Fiction, I Don’t Wanna Live Forever and Beautiful Ghosts).

The charts are organised as follows below.

Songs with unqualified “male” (pro)nouns — “he” functions as Taylor’s primary romantic interest:

Tim McGraw

Teardrops on My Guitar

Stay Beautiful

I'd Lie

Fifteen

Hey Stephen

Forever & Always

I’m Only Me When I’m With You – “Just a small-town boy and girl”

Today Was a Fairy-tale – ‘You were the prince/ I used to be a damsel in distress’

Dear John

Better Than Revenge

Superman

Red

I Knew You Were Trouble

The Moment I Knew

Girl at Home

Blank Space — “You're the King, baby, I'm your Queen”

Style

Shake It Off

Wildest Dreams

You Are in Love

…Ready for It

I Did Something Bad

King of my heart – “King of my heart, body and soul”

Call It What You Want

Better Man — “I wish you were a better man”

Cruel Summer – “He looks up grinning like a devil”

Lover – “I take this magnetic force of a man to be my lover”

I Think He Knows

Paper Rings – “Wrap your arms around me, baby boy”

London Boy

Songs with qualified “male” pronouns:

Tied Together with a Smile — not autobiographical.

Our Song — uses reversed perspective.

Love Story — uses reversed perspective.

The Way I Loved You – constructs an opposition between ‘he’ and the gender non-specific ‘you,’ who is the true romantic interest.

Haunted — constructs an opposition between ‘he’ and the gender non-specific ‘you,’ who is the true romantic interest.

Speak Now — uses reversed perspective.

Starlight — not autobiographical.

Begin Again — constructs an opposition between ‘he’ and the gender non-specific ‘you,’ who is the true romantic interest.

New Romantics — it is (arguably) unclear whether the single male pronoun refers to a romantic interest of Taylor’s own (or of her fellow new romantics).

Don’t Blame Me — Taylor’s primary romantic interest is the gender non-specific ‘you,’ however note: ‘I’ve been breakin' hearts a long time, and/toyin’ with them older guys.’

Gorgeous — constructs an opposition between ‘he’/ ‘a boyfriend’ and the gender non-specific ‘you,’ who is the true romantic interest.

Getaway Car —constructs an opposition between ‘he’ and the gender non-specific ‘you,’ who is the true romantic interest.

Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince – it is not only arguable that the ‘heartbreak prince’ is independently a gender-neutral epithet (as claimed by Halsey) but also that “me” and “the heartbreak prince” is the proper syntactic pair (“it’s you and me…Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince”)

Songs with “female” (pro)nouns:

 A Place in This World — ‘girl’ is self-referential. The song’s subject is not romantic in nature.

Should've Said No — ‘her’ refers to the third party in Taylor’s relationship with a romantic interest whose gender is non-specific (you).

Mary's Song (Oh My My My)

Invisible — ‘she’ refers to Taylor’s rival for the affection of a romantic interest whose gender in non-specific (you).

The Other Side of the Door — ‘she’ refers to the third party in Taylor’s relationship with a romantic interest whose gender is non-specific (you).

White Horse — ‘she’ refers to the third party in Taylor’s relationship with a romantic interest whose gender is non-specific (you).

You Belong with Me — ‘she’ refers to the third party in Taylor’s relationship with a romantic interest whose gender is non-specific (you).

Mine — uses reversed perspective; ‘she’ is self-referential. Taylor’s romantic interest is gender non-specific (you).

How You Get the Girl — ‘her’ may refer either to Taylor herself or to her romantic interest.

This is what you came for

Babe — ‘her’ refers to the third party in Taylor’s relationship w/ a romantic interest whose gender is non-specific (you).

End Game — ‘girl’ occurs only in the featured parts. Taylor’s own romantic interest is gender non-specific (you).

The Man – “what’s it like to brag about…getting bitches and models.”  

ME! – “baby girl when it comes to a lover.” Note that “you’re the kind of guy the ladies want” is implicitly contrasted with “and there’s a lot of cool chicks out there” which is the “one of these things” that “is not like the others, like a rainbow with all of the colours.” Taylor has further stated that ME! Is her first song about “baby chickens.”

The Last Great American Dynasty — “she” refers to Rebekah Harkness, the biographical subject.  

Mad Woman — “she” is the wife of the subject “you,” rather than a romantic interest of the persona “I”.

Betty — uses reversed perspective, although the argument can also be made that actually “James” is a girl/Taylor herself.

Songs with gender-neutral pronouns:

Picture to Burn

Cold as You

The Outside

A Perfectly Good Heart

Jump Then Fall

Untouchable

Come in with the Rain

Superstar

Fearless

Breathe

Tell Me Why

You're Not Sorry

The Best Day — the lyrics are not romantic.

Change — the lyrics are not romantic.

Beautiful Eyes

I heart?

Sparks Fly

Back to December

Mean — the lyrics are not romantic.

The Story of Us

Never Grow Up — the lyrics are not romantic.

Enchanted

Innocent

Last Kiss

Long Live

Ours

If This Was a Movie

Crazier

Christmases When You Were Mine

Christmas Must Be Something More

State of Grace

Treacherous

All Too Well

22

I Almost Do

We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together

Stay Stay Stay

The Last Time

Holy Ground

Sad Beautiful Tragic

The Lucky One

Everything Has Changed

Come Back... Be Here

Welcome to New York – note, however: “you can want who you want, boys and boys and girls and girls.”

Out of the Woods

All You Had to Do Was Stay

I Wish You Would

Bad Blood

This Love

I Know Places

Clean

Wonderland

Look What You Made Me Do

So It Goes

Delicate

Dancing with Our Hands Tied

Dress

This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things — the lyrics are not romantic.

New Year’s Day

I Forgot That You Existed

The Archer

Cornelia Street

Death by a Thousand Cuts

Soon You’ll Get Better – the lyrics are not romantic

False God

You Need to Calm Down – (i.) the lyrics are not romantic and (ii.) both “my gown” and “his gown” are subsumed by “our gowns.”

Afterglow

It’s Nice to Have a Friend

Daylight

Christmas Tree Farm

Only the Young – the lyrics are not romantic.

The 1

Cardigan

Exile  — in lyrical terms, the love interest is gender neutral (“you”); the pronoun “he” describes this “you’s” new lover.

My Tears Ricochet

Mirrorball

Seven — the pronouns are gender neutral (“you”) but the love interest is, arguably, female coded. Thus “your braids like a pattern” and “pack your dolls and a sweater.”

August

This is me trying

Illicit Affairs —  the love interest’s pronouns are gender neutral (“you”). However, they are arguably female coded. Thus, “leave the perfume on the shelf that you picked out just for him.”

Invisible String — the love interest’s pronouns are gender neutral (“you”). Note, however, “for the boys who broke my heart.”

Epiphany — the lyrics are not romantic

Peace

Hoax

The Lakes

okay so we have been talking about how misty goes over to taylor during certain parts of the song but i was just watching a recording online where they distort the sound to avoid copyright conflict and so i was watching the performance purely visually and not trying to think about the connection to the lyrics and it’s quite literally that

the ballerina keeps trying to run to taylor in between stunts

but she always has to go back to the man so they can perform another maneuver..

her performance with the man keeps pulling her away 😣