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WIP!!! Song-"Gorgeous" by Taylor Swift

so i'm here to discuss the mostly undisscussed: gorgeous's gay subtext

this song is riddled with a story that i believe could be interpreted as the singer being in love with their same-gender best friend

okay so let's break this up line by line through the whole song:

"you should take it as a compliment that i got drunk and made fun of the way you talk" okay pretty ambiguous, but close-friends-type banter. that's the kind of thing you would only do to your bestie!

"you should think about the consequence of your magnetic field being a little too strong" first of all, magnetic field could be referencing a person's gaydar and ability to attract gay people. second of all, CONSEQUENCE!! why would there be consequences! i mean a bf is brought up later, but he seems fine with the singer's behavior! so why would there be consequences? because it's GAY AND THEY WILL BE EXCLUDED!!

"and i got a bf he's older than us he's in the club doing idk what" this is awful sketchy!!! like i don't believe that at all!!! there is no detail on the supposed bf and i don't think he exists! this could just be an excuse the singer makes in their head to not get involved with their bestie!

"you're so cool it makes me hate you so much" why does the singer hate themself from finding their bestie 'cool'??? CAUSE THEY HAVE A CRUSH ON THEIR BESTIE AND HATE THEMSELVES FOR IT CAUSE OF INTERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA!

"whiskey on ice, sunset and vine" not really much, could be the link between internalized homophobia and alcoholism

"you've ruined my life by not being mine"!!!!! okay so this one is like a crazy in-love type thing to say and a thing you might say after, idk, years of pretending you weren't in love with someone cause you couldn't be!!!!

"YOU'RE SO GORGEOUS" i mean it's so gay like how could you not. also gorgeous is a stereotypically feminine compliment so don't blame me

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Song-"Love, Me Normally" by Will Wood

As a aroace queer person who has pointed out queercoded will in the past, i interpret this song, but especially this line, as aroace coded. The singer asking to be 'loved normally' is something a lot of aroace spec people ask, and is hard for them, and the queer community in general, before they have come out to themselves or even just learned about queer people. To me, this song feels like an aroace person reaching out because of how 'broken' and 'not normal' they feel, begging to be loved 'normally', aka romantically/sexually. 

When the singer calls out to the audience, it feels as though they are calling for help because they want the kind of treatment they are talking to the audience about, especially when they talk about being 'loved the way everybody else is.'

Hearing mentions of 'the lyrics to my obituary,' 'delivered holding scissors,' 'won't follow my dreams,' 'i dont think life could be much worse than it is,' 'i dont wanna get old,' 'i drank myself to death,' etc, could be the singer being so depressed because they feel like they can't love 'normally' to the point of self-sabotage and potential suicide. 

The phrase, 'cause a normal human being wouldn't need to pretend to be normal, to be normal, well i guess that's the least that i owe ya,' seems to be very queer/aroace coded.

'a normal human being wouldn't need to pretend to be normal' could be describing how closeted queer people have to pretend to be what society deems, 'normal' (aka cishet and allo) in order to avoid hate crimes, bullying, abuse, murder, sexual abuse, being kicked out, etc. because they are queer, while their cishet allo ('normal') counterparts don't have to worry about that stuff. 

'to be normal, to be normal, well i guess that's the least that i owe ya' could be describing how so many queer people can learn to hate themselves because someone they know (parents, friends, family, etc) is homophobic and makes the queer person feel bad for being  queer, saying things like, 'that's not normal' or 'why can't you just be normal' when they simply don't understand queer identities. 

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Song-"Swear To God The Devil Made Me Do It" by The Front Bottoms

now, this could just be me projecting, but i think that this song is highly queercoded.

the title sounds like the kind of thing that a deeply closeted queer person would say if they were caught being with a person of the same gender

"there is someone out there just like me/probably keeping to themselves" sounds like the speaker knowing they are queer and other queer people exist, but they are upset they can't be around their community because they aren't out yet or feel left out

"i know CPR, i know mouth to mouth" said out of nowhere sounds like a description of making out/gay sex more than an offhand comment about lifeguard training. it could also be cover used by the speaker if they were caught with someone of the same gender

"i will blow air into your open mouth" sounds quite similar to the language commonly used to refer to g a y  s e x

"i just want this to mean something to anyone even if they don't know who i am" sounds reminiscent of suicide notes from queer people, especially the one from Leelah Alcorn, who i would recommend reading about

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