Lions, Tigers, and Bears
Taylor’s current tiktok profile pic is the bear photo
And 2022 is the year of the Tiger
Okay, so…
I will make a more detailed post when I have a second, but I needed to get the bare bones of my theory out before Red (TV) comes out.
I don’t know much about Swiftgron and we’re all entitled to our own opinions. Don’t like this theory… keep moving. Leave hate on my page and I will “sting like a scorpion.” Deal? Deal.
Bear with me. It’s all a jumble in my head, but listen back and you’ll see I’m at least somewhat on the right track.
KK was 17 and T was 20 (almost makes me think Love Story could have been about her, too… but I digress).
My theory is that T and KK hit it off and she was maybe still with Liz Huett (who I feel like is the inspiration for ‘The 1’ (insert link to previous post here).
While I’m at it, I’m also certain Folklore & Evermore are their love story told out.
Cardigan: “chase two girls, lose ‘the 1.’” She was with Liz (“the 1”) and chased Karlie (aka Betty/Dorothea) after they met at the Tommy Hilfiger show, and they had a fling until things got messy (see Red Era fighting, realizing the other person is your one, and not reaching out until months later and you’ve both seen other people (cue Swiftgron & August).
After 10 months she shows up at Karlie’s door and they’re ‘Clean.’ No more animosity, no more holding back. They decide to be seen together, “show their truth one single time” (Kissgate) and decide they’re not ready for the war.
1989, Reputation, & Lover all SCREAM Karlie, and after listening back, I feel like Red does, too. I’m adding screenshots of my ‘notes’ and maybe someone else can unscramble this mess in my head.
“The girl in my story has always been you”
aside from all the things Taylor has shown us about not being straight, I wanna know if this has been discussed.
She's said that her track 5 songs are always very emotional. We know her star sign is the archer. In you need to calm down there's an easter egg for the song with Hayley Kyoko.
A lesbian woman is an archer.
I could discuss the fact that she's dressed in blue and how that can potentially go back to the Mean music video and the girl with a blue ribbon on her dress, whose storyline ends watching Taylor, and how that could be attributed to either gender identity or expression, along with a few more things, but that's for another time.
THATS SO LOUD
BUT
I also recently learned that if a flag is upside down, it's a symbol of danger and distress.
And Taylor's bi hair is upside down. So are the lyrics in invisible string - blue, purple, pink.
But with time, it'll happen. She'll be even louder.
ooh interesting about the flag tidbit i wonder if that’s why she did that 🤔
good notes all around anon!
What clues did Taylor and Karlie give out in the last 3 months? That they are still on?
It has been a busy three months for me personally so I am probably not the best one to answer this. But, I will post this and surely others will add to it.
I will start:
Obviously the folklore promotion by Karlie (yes that was more than three months ago).
Me! // Lavender Haze // The Ladder (the first nationally distributed lesbian publication in the United States) // Lavender Haze tour visuals (web weavings)
Has nobody mentioned Karlie's latest picture being, literally, Karlie through the looking glass? "Fell from the pedestal, right down the rabbit hole." Obviously Wonderland the song is about Di, but it's mostly about how the bearding and lies almost drove Taylor mad. Long Story Short evokes Alice in Wonderland again to say that this time, all is well DESPITE Taylor's plunge down the rabbit hole. Karlie and the baby are behind glass in an alternate reality, but all will be well in the end.
I think Taylor is stuck behind glass too...
I believe this riddle was a hint that Taylor’s truest songs about her current situations (relative to the time they were made) will reference blue.
Examples:
“And it's new, the shape of your body/ It's blue, the feeling I've got” - cruel summer
“I blew things out of proportion, now you're blue/ Put you in jail for something you didn't do/ I pinned your hands behind your back, oh/ Thought I had reason to attack, but no” - afterglow
“I'm with you even if it makes me blue” - paper rings
“Time, wondrous time/ Gave me the blues and then purple pink skies/ And it's cool, baby, with me” - invisible string
“But I'm a fire and I'll keep your brittle heart warm/ If your cascade ocean wave blues come/ All these people think love's for show/ But I would die for you in secret” - peace
“Don't want no other shade of blue but you/ No other sadness in the world would do” - hoax
“Did I paint your bluest skies the darkest gray? A universe away” - Coney Island
“Gray November/ I've been down since July/ Motion capture/ Put me in a bad light” - evermore
“Show me a gray sky, a rainy cab ride/ Babe, don't threaten me with a good time” - London boy
There is very little blue in evermore. I believe the use of gray in Coney Island is tied into the use of gray in evermore and London boy. In the LPSS Taylor describes the love part of hoax as who would you want to stay with gray skies everyday. So if we understand gray skies as storm clouds blocking the blue skies then I’d compare it to a beard maybe blocking the truth. Like a true face hiding behind the beard.
“Lived in the shade you were throwin' til all of my sunshine was gone, gone, gone.”
“I'd give you my sunshine, give you my best. But the rain is always gonna come if you're standing with me.” - peace
“When the sun goes down.” - coney island
“My eclipsed sun. This has broken me down.” - hoax
So first, Taylor's current age is 31.
In All Too Well (The Short Film), Taylor highlights being 21 years old. Then, later in the film, we cut to 13 years later.
21 + 13 = 34 years old
ATW10 book release Taylor was 34 years old
Taylor also mentions in this interview that she actively sought to incentivize fan to read her lyrics with her coded messages. And that her lyrics, her words, are what she is most proud of in her career.
We've been seeing certain hints toward Speak Now as of late.
I must also remind you of this very important line from the Speak Now prologue. (I had this in a draft on November 1st and should've posted it then!)
Furthermore, I saw it suggested somewhere that the very title cards throughout the short film were chapter titles to ATW10 Taylor's book.
Long story short, I unabashedly in full clownery predict Taylor is planning on releasing a tell-all memoir like the ATW10 version of herself did. Furthermore, with the various Speak Now easter eggs we've seen lately, I also predict that Speak Now will be coming soon and that this "book millions might read someday" will be in our hands in about 3 years time
I believe this is something she's been planning for a while. And I can't wait to hear what she's been waiting to say!
SHE SHINES ME UP LIKE GOLD ON MY ARM
I LOVE TO SEE HER FACE IN DAYLIGHT
THAT THE LOVE IS REAL
THAT THE SHOE MIGHT FIT