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How have I not seen this before?! 🤯 Taylor implying she'd date men OR women!

TT: lovelikefolksongs

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taylor swift studio record a riptide cover and put it on 1989 (taylor’s version) challenge

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🤣🤣🤣 - Credit to whoever made this on Twitter

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when Taylor said

we never painted by the numbers, baby

rosé flowing with your chosen family and it would have been sweet if it could have been me

if one thing had been different, would everything be different today?

you know the greatest films of all time were never made

when you are young they assume you know nothing

chase two girls, lose the one

you wear the same jewels that I gave you

I can change everything about me to fit in

cross your heart, won’t tell no other

your braids like a pattern love you to the moon and to saturn

you won’t have to cry or hide in the closet

and though I can’t recall your face I still got love for you

whispers of “are you sure?” “never have I ever before”

your back beneath the sun wishin’ I could write my name on it

make sure nobody sees you leave hood over your head, keep your eyes down

leave the perfume on the shelf that you picked out just for him

you showed me colors I can’t see with anyone else

you taught me a secret language I can’t speak with anyone else 

were there clues I didn’t see?

give me the blues and then purple-pink skies

will you kiss me on the porch in front of all your stupid friends? if you kiss me, will it be just like I dreamed it?

i’m only seventeen, I don’t know anything but I know I miss you

standing in your cardigan kissing in my car again

I would die for you in secret

the queers understood✨ ✨ 

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Not Martha liking a Jill tweet.

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I just love how Taylor remade "Love Story" and called it "Cruel Summer." I mean, her mind!

I’m standing there, on a balcony in summer air / I’m always waiting for you to be waiting below

I sneak out to the garden to see you / And I snuck through the garden gate every night that summer just to seal my fate

We keep quiet ‘cause we’re dead if they knew / I don’t want to keep secrets just to keep you

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The reason James calls Betty's friends "stupid" likely isn't because they think they are all dumb shallow teenage girls and James is a snobby prick, but the same reason they weren't dancing with Betty at the prom and kissing Betty on the porch, out in public and unashamed, is their biggest wish: There is something that keeps James and Betty apart and makes both of them afraid to be together in public. And it's safe to assume that the expectations Betty's friends have feed into that. This desperation to just be with one another, despite all the odds and all the stupid friends who will stick up their nose at James and Betty once they get together, is why it's so easy to read the song as queer, but even if you think James is a boy, the desperation is still there. Maybe they are seperated by social class or prejudices, whatever, but there clearly is something that stands in their way, and to reduce James to "evil dumb teenage cheater!" (as much as Taylor backs up that reading) brushes aside a lot of the clues we are given about their relationship with Betty.

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hands (gay subtext)

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2016: Taylor writes a song about loving a woman. Gives it to her 'boyfriend'. The writer used a pseudonym.

2020: Taylor sings a song about loving a woman. Says her 'boyfriend' wrote it. The writer used a pseudonym.

Every bait and switch was a work of art.

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false god x cowboy like me, Taylor Swift

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Now you hang from my lips

Like the Gardens of Babylon

With your boots beneath my bed

Forever is the sweetest con

—cowboy like me

Anyone want to talk about how the Hanging Gardens of Babylon May or may not have existed? Like to this day, people don’t know if it is a mythical thing or if it really existed. There is no proof of its existence. So let’s rework this lyric “now you hang from my lips like a garden that may or may not be fictional” or “ now you hang from my lips like a garden that there is no proof of ever existing”.

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wlw: evermore version

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my favorite part about folklore/evermore is reading sw*ftie blogs bc they're all like "huh it's so weird how much divorce imagery there is"

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lover wlw moodboards: cruel summer

“I don't wanna keep secrets just to keep you”

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BRO?????????