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“Up on YOUR Roof with a Schoolgirl Crush”

In the Making of a Song video for “King of My Heart” Taylor sings the lyrics as “with all these nights we’re spending up on YOUR roof with a schoolgirl crush.”

Video - at 6:30.

So who had a rooftop in 2016 when this song was being written?

Lily’s and Karlie’s addresses were public info.

Lily’s Building

Lily’s building had a rooftop for hanging out.

In a photoshoot she did for Cass Bird and Telegraph magazine, they used Lily’s East Village neighborhood for the shoot, including up on the roof.

Karlie’s Building

Karlie’s two-story building had a garden, garden gate, and balcony but no rooftop to hang out on.

Joe’s Building

Articles report that Joe was living in Crouch End when he met Taylor. I don’t think his place had a rooftop to hang out on from photos of the area.

The Bridge

I’ve written about the “King of My Heart” lyrics in other posts, including the British, model, and wlw references, so let’s just look at the bridge here after the roof lyric.

“Drinking beer out of plastic cups”

Is this a reference to Taylor and Karlie at the Knicks game in 2014? Maybe. But the 2014 era doesn’t seem to match the rest of the song, especially since this line is after “my broken bones are mending.”

“Say you fancy me not fancy stuff”

Another British 🇬🇧 reference in a song with many British references. So this line could fit Lily or Joe.

The Making of a Song video was recorded in September 2016. The Nashville and LA scenes, including the rooftop lyric scene, were filmed September 19-21. (Link) The song appears to have been started in early September from the Cornelia Street scene at the beginning of the video and some people think it may have been started as early as August. All of this is before September 28.

a bit of resonance with the universe...

i’m just gonna leave this here...

So it's JUST A COINCIDENCE that on December 4th, 2014 Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss were seen making out at a "The 1975" concert during the song "Girls" where the lyrics include: "Bite your face to spite your nose." Where Taylor is seen, before the kissing, POINTING TO HER NOSE. And then she makes an album called, "Lover" where her 5th song called, "Archer" has the lyrics: "cut off my nose to spite my face." 👀👀👀👀👀 THAT'S JUST A COINCIDENCE?!?!?!

I loved these rings on the third finger of your right hand, girls.

Congratulations! 😉💍

“You’re my, my, my, my… Lover”.

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Photo 1 by @teardropsinwonderland

Oh so whimsical...

Taylor announced Fearless TV describing it as “whimsical” on 2/11(13) ...

Karlie posts about her “whimsical” evening at the NY Botanical Garden on 6/4/21(13)

Okay Betty we see you and you’re being quite loud:

🥂🌻🎨👽🍃

Glasses

Daisy

Art

Alien

Leaves

GLAAD

Taylor taking off her dress for Gigi Hadid

Jaw dropping......🤯🤯

Lover house hallway is freaking similar to Victoria secret fashion show where Taylor meet Karlie..

Bye..... 😭

you ever think about what kind of scene would be taking place during sweet nothing given that it’s a song about a midnight?

There was so much theatricality in the darkness of reputation. It was a love story, but it was also filled with angst, rebellion and this vengeful taking back of your life.

“Little Black Dress” parallel

So aside from this being one of my favorite moments on the album (I was not a swiftie when og fearless was first dropped so I’m late to the party on how fantastic this outro is), I’m surprised I haven’t seen anything about this (maybe I’m late on this too, but I’m surprised that this wouldn’t be some of gaylor 101 introductory evidence):

1) female pronoun that is not even couched in the “male POV” and

2) this parallel to an iconic sapphic interpretation of Tim McGraw?!?

This outro from Other Side Of The Door is a call back to TM and with its female pronoun it corroborates the theory that in Tim McGraw, Taylor isn’t listing memories (one night when she’s wearing a little black dress and another night when she is wearing a pair of jeans), but rather describing one single scene, where she is wearing blue jeans and resting her head on the chest of the other person (a girl), in a little black dress.

This is an important puzzle piece?!