I will work through this song piece by piece because MY LORD I have so much to unpack here. I got this information from some TikToks and my own research into the song.
Lyrics working through today:
Friends break up, friends get married Strangers get born, strangers get buried
So, as many people know, Karlie Kloss and Taylor Swift's "friendship" occurred from the infamous cookie tweets, which were posted around January 2012, and continued until their last time seen together in public, at Taylor's Reputation tour in 2018 (excluding some of the kinda awkward birthday posts the next couple of years from Karlie). There was also the double wedding debacle, where Taylor attended neither wedding. Anyway, that's enough background.
The very first line of RWYLM is "Friends break up, friends get married." This first line helps point us right in Karlie's direction, seeing as the girls fronted as just best friends, and after the pretty clear breakup, Karlie got married to her now husband Joshua Kushner. Joshua's family is heavily Republican, although Joshua and Karlie have been seen at Women's rights marches, as well as Karlie speaking out against her in-law's beliefs.
The following line is, "Strangers get born, strangers get buried." I have seen people say this is about Karlie's first son, but as Karlie would have been around a month pregnant when folklore was released, I assume she did not know about Karlie's pregnancy with Levi. It could be possible, however, that she knew of Karlie's dream to have children and was drawing from that. As the song states, Taylor is completely stuck in the past with no knowledge about anything that has occurred since. This means that their mind is stuck in the past (sometime in 2012, "Still 23 stuck inside her fantasy"), and Karlie would likely have a family by 2020. I don't know how to correlate the strangers getting buried lyric, but it is possible that this Taylor, who is stuck in her past, imagines the numerous people she could have met who have passed away since she got trapped in time.
If you really read all of that, please let me know if I should keep diving into this song and others!
-V
Spider!Enid
Wednesday: This documentary is irritating. If you’re going to dissolve the flesh off of the skeleton to get rid of evidence, you have to pull the teeth out and destroy them too. Everyone knows this.
Yoko: Every time you talk it’s giving-
Bianca: Psychopath.
Ajax: Serial killer.
Xavier: Mafia boss.
Enid: Daddy.
Everyone: *staring at Enid*
Enid: I meant to say ‘delusional’…
Wednesday: If you’re going to say things like that in public, the least you could do is commit to it, you coward.
shauna: right now i feel like i'll never get angry again.
nat: you're dating jackie. you always have a reason to be angry.
Tara biting people should be canon 😂
Ikr. We've seen Sam bite Richie, let's have Tara chomping on someone next, please. She's so small and slight, but the jaw is strong, the ultimate defensive weapon. Like a little animal that clenches down and just will not let go.
The Amber Freeman fandom in a nutshell
Enid: I’m warning you, Bianca!
Bianca: What are you going to do? Send your girlfriend after me?
Bianca:
Bianca: Shit, you are going to do that!
Enid: Willa!
Bianca, running away: Fuck! Get out of my way!
Wednesday: *pulls curtain back while Enid is in the shower*
Wednesday: Are we - stop screaming, it’s just me - are we out of gunpowder?
Some amber n tara doodles godbless
a person online: i hate it when adults act like childish little freaks in public, smh. you’re an adult, you should be able to order your own food without help. get over yourself. also, why are some people, like, waaaaaaay too into the stuff that they like? omg, and the people who CLEARLY can’t even have one (1) normal conversation without acting Weird??? it’s embarrassing, u guys are embarrassing, get help
the same person five seconds later: we gotta remember to love and support the autistic community u guys <3
Mr. & Mrs. Smith x wenclair