NO FUCKING WAYYYY BRO. THE IMPLICATIONS ARE INSANE. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DOOR 🚪 -> FRESH OUT THE SLAMMER ⛓️ -> HIGH INFIDELITY WHICH IS DIRECTED AT THE FANS 😵💫😵💫 5 SONGS DURING MIDNIGHTS MAYHEM IN THE ORANGE KARMA DRESS. GO GET UR GIRL TAYLOR!!!
thinking about this, thinking about how often she was probably advised to stay closeted for her own good, for the good of her career, for the good of the people around her, and how it was framed as a supportive piece of advice even though it wasn’t. It wasn’t to safeguard her at all, it was to keep her caged, chained, contained. Imprisoning her in a jail cell of her own making. And then I’m thinking about this,
Thinking about how all she wants is to be the one who gets to decide if her name, her reputation, gets ruined, because it’s her name and her choice, no one else’s, even the people who care about her. Thinking about the double meaning of vipers in empath’s clothing, thinking about how it means her fans and the tabloids and how everyone always has to have An Opinion disguised as them simply caring about her, but also how it means the people in her life who urged her to stay closeted for their own benefit, the ones who came to her and said no, I’m doing this because I care about you, don’t you care about me? Don’t you know what would happen to me if you came out? Hiding their selfishness and greed behind empathy and a sense of responsibility. Thinking about how all of this, even the idea of this, makes me want to chew my own skin off, and I’m thinking about how no wonder she’s banging on the door of the closet during the entire story of tortured poets, just begging to be out!!
I'm just feeling really silly tonight and want to share some of my silly thoughts with you:) I remembered when Taylor tweeted this:
What I find interesting are the quotes - "daddy". When you look up the lyrics of But Daddy I Love Him you'll see that there are also quotes in the part where she sings BDILH etc.:
Most people interpret the "No, I'm not," as her saying she's not having his baby but what she's actually saying is that she's not running with her dress unbuttoned and she's not screaming anything. It goes like: And I'm running.../ Screaming, "Bla Bla Bla"/ No, I'm not, but you should see your faces. She's not reacting to having someone's baby but to the running and screaming, she's not doing either of those.
Maybe she's talking about something she used to do but she doesn't do it anymore, running with her dress unbuttoned and screaming sounds rather childish. It's all in present continuous and then she says "No, I'm not". Her doing something that is such a laughable idea that she says that we should see our faces. To me (as a gaylor) it sounds like she finally accepts herself now because of what she says later:
This is where the "daddy" tweet comes in. She is the daddy! She accepts herself as a queer woman, she loves herself for being queer. Right after this there is an even gayer part (if that's even possible):
I don't even know what to say about this😭🌈
I'm thinking of doing a full gaylor BDILH analysis but i'm pretty sure someone already did it so only if I can come up with something new. I'm working on a Chloe et al analysis though:)
Oh my god I just fucking noticed Karlie is shown here watching Taylor with that big ass proud smile of hers. I never noticed it and now I’m so confused on 1. Why the IMBD doesn’t show that Karlie is there. 2. When the IMBD changed a few months ago it showed Karlie but only having her voice being in the movie and not her in the footage and then they changed it to where she doesn’t show up in the cast anymore.
I feel insane because I thought she wasn’t in it at all but here I am now realizing she is.
Taylor Swift references many fairy tales in her music. Alice, Dorothy and Wendy in particular are often referenced in her lyrics and music videos.
Alice falls down the rabbit hole into Wonderland.
Dorothy travels to Oz.
Wendy flies to Neverland.
But one thing they all have in common is this feeling of being lost with the desire to get back home again.
I see these stories as a reflection of the public version of Taylor wanting to reunite with the private version of Taylor that became lost along the way.
Ever since I fell down the Kaylor rabbit hole, I really started looking at myself, who had previously identified as cis/het. I had always felt such a strong connection to the lgbtq community and after some deep self reflection, I’ve realized/accepted I’m bi/pan/fluid. 🩷💙💜
I finally changed my dating app settings to everyone and it has been so liberating!
So yesterday I made a very interesting discovery while watching the TTPD (track) lyric vid that led to me having several epiphanies at once. If you watch the vid, you'll notice that for the most part the lyrics are in all caps save for a few lines. Of these lines, one in particular, “like a tattooed Golden Retriever,” caught my attention bc it has 2 capital letters--G and R--that you wouldn't have been able to see if the line was in all caps like the ones just before it. What makes it more interesting is that golden retriever is not a proper noun like a name or title so it shouldn't be capitalized according to English grammar rules.
This led me to search for the TTPD album booklet scans to see if this was also capitalized in the booklet and to see what other words were capitalized. Then after looking at the booklet it hit me--CPR(G)!!! Charlie Puth Retriever Golden. Everyone agreed these lyrics sounded a little odd compared to the rest of her lyrics and the shout out to Charlie Puth seemed kind of random. But now it makes complete sense why she wrote those lyrics. She was trying to draw attention to the capital letters CPR(G) that are repeated throughout the album. In this post I explained that Taylor mentions CPR in So Long, London bc they're all related to each other, they're a family. C=Cassandra=Taylor; P=Peter=her 2nd kid; R=Robin=her 1st kid; G=Gold/Golden=Karlie. If you look at the TTPD tracklist, Cassandra, Peter, and Robin are in the same order as CPR.
Taylor wanted to acknowledge her family in some way on this album and so she represented them w these 4 letters which are likely a stand-in for the Swift-Kloss family crest since I don't believe that showed up on this album. This is the key to deciphering several of the anon messages and understanding why some things are lowercase while other things are capitalized. For example, all of the volcano 🌋anon messages and the last 2 messages from (PR)esent anon 🎁 are lowercase with the exception of the words "Gold" and "Goodbye." This connects these messages to TTPD (track). "Gold" is highlighted like "volcano" to indicate that Miss Gold Rush is going to be a part of the atomic bomb Taylor is getting ready to drop. And the "Goodbye" being capitalized indicates that Karlie is indeed the "neighbor" in this message and in Fortnight as well as "the woman who sits by the window" in Peter that turns out the light/lamp. She is the one who keeps a lit jack-o-lantern 🎃 on the front porch while awaiting Taylor's return home from exile. These things single-handedly prove that 🌋 and present 🎁 anon are indeed legit bc how would a troll have been able to predict these things when The Anthology tracks were surprise dropped at 2am and weren't revealed w the standard edition tracks on Feb 5, and why would a troll even bother w such subtle details?? Plus no lyrics had leaked yet at the time these messages were sent so the only logical answer is that they must've either been sent by Taylor or someone close to her.
Side note: When I first wrote that post analyzing the present 🎁 anon messages, I had thought that the song Robin, and maybe Peter as well, was the gift/present to us kaylors that present 🎁 anon told us to look out for since P's and R's are repeated in the messages. However, I have since figured out that actually the poetry book For now, she slumbers was likely the gift since present 🎁 anon's messages mention the title of the book "for now, she slumbers" and "reticent volcano" which is the author's name as an anagram (see this post). Plus the March 4 message directly quotes the first poem in For now, she slumbers called "Two" ✌️ (If you want to read all the poems in order see this post). I explain in this post that the reason why this poem is the first one in the book is bc it's the key to understanding all the ones that follow and to understanding TTPD. The 2 ✌️ is probably the most important motif in TTPD bc it symbolizes the 2 different versions of Taylor and 2 opposing narratives abt her life that exist. Taylor Swift the brand vs Taylor Swift the person; the boy-crazy maneater that only writes songs abt her ex-boyfriends vs the tortured closeted queer poet that is forced to hide her truth behind metaphors and red herrings. Going back to the CPR of it all, I still believe my initial analysis of the present 🎁 anon messages was correct for the most part since the "reticent volcano" is likely a tell-all memoir that will explain the whole messy story and how and why she kept her family (CPRG) a secret. The purpose of the 🎁 and 🌋 anon messages was to guide us to both the poetry book and to CPR(G) which both foreshadow what her memoir--that she's hinted at w The Manuscript and The Story of Us--is going to be abt.
Now continuing on w the theory, as I mentioned previously, we have Cassandra=Taylor, Peter=her 2nd kid, and Robin=her 1st kid. And if you look at the pg in the booklet w The Manuscript, you'll see that there is a capital G in "Good Samaritan" which completes the CPRG set and is also the only capital G that shows up in this song.
And to tie it all together, if you look at the summary poem/epilogue at the very end, Taylor mentions cardiac arrest. This happens when someone's heart suddenly stops functioning and can be reversed by CPR! "I stopped CPR after all it's no use, the spirit was gone we would never come to." And this connects to You're Losing Me (From the Vault) which is abt the fans not seeing the real her or paying attention to her repeated queer signaling -> "I can't find a pulse, my heart won't start anymore for you, 'cause you're losing me." Taylor has given up trying to get her fans to listen to her (CPR) and has accepted that she may lose a lot of them when she reveals everything (CPRG). She is warning them that they are abt to lose the Taylor that they know, the old Taylor, bc she is going to have to kill her public persona and brand in order to be reborn as the new version of herself and move onto the next chapter of her life.
And to add even more evidence to this theory, CPR is often performed on drowning victims, and where does drowning show up in TTPD? Oh it shows up in The Bolter which just so happens to be sandwiched in between Cassandra, Peter, and Robin! -> "By all accounts, she almost drowned when she was 6 in frigid water...And she liked the way it tastes, taming a bear, making him care, watching him jump then pulling him under...as she was leaving, it felt like breathing/freedom" // "When I was drowning that's when I could finally breathe." Drowning also shows up in Guilty as Sin which I've determined probably represents the acceptance stage of grief so the drowning metaphor checks out (see this post) -> "Drowning in the Blue Nile, he sent me 'Downtown Lights.'" (Also check out this amazing video which explains the Blue Nile and religious connections). This connects to the 8th 🎃 message where Taylor chooses to jump into shark infested waters and sacrifice her image and brand so that her lover doesn't have to. So putting all these pieces together, this means that by giving up on trying to revive her relationship w her fans or to maintain her image (CPR) and by putting her family and her happiness first (CPRG), Taylor will finally be able to be truly free. She is going to let Taylor Swift the brand drown so that she can finally breathe. This connects to The Black Dog where she compares the red herrings/bearding/lavender haze/smokescreen to an old habit like smoking that she's trying to quit -> "6 weeks of breathing clean air, I still miss the smoke."
Now w all this context in mind, it makes more sense why Taylor has been emphasizing capital and lowercase letters and the number 4 recently. The hidden word hunt on Apple Music, thanK you aIMee, imgonnagetyouback, her retweets from 4/21/23-4/24/23 which happened in groups of 4, putting 4 letter words in all caps, etc. And now it's clear that "I keep these longings locked in lowercase inside a vault" is most likely referring to her explosive tell-all memoir, the reticent volcano, she's going to publish since 🌋 anon's messages were all in lowercase. "Restful, reticent, restraint" = locked inside a vault. Rep tv and the folklore and evermore vault tracks may also be included in this since these albums are in lowercase as well.
In conclusion, I think it is safe to say now that all of these anons are probably legit. In my opinion, all of these connections provide concrete evidence that these anons do foreshadow things and have ties to Taylor.
I know we can't just ask her if she's gay, but I've figured out a loophole. It's been in front of us the entire time! All we have to do is ask her who her favorite SVU ADA is, then we'll KNOW.
So the 2016 Met Gala. A night that is so wrapped up in the Taylor SwiftTM folklore. Being there with Tom. Crushing on Toe. All while dancing with Karlie. She bent the truth too far that night. She was dancing around, dancing around the truth. And it continued throughout the summer. But she's still doing it. Another summer taking cover. To the house where you wait up, where the porch light gleams. She still visits her lover in the darkness. She was with her in dreams. But her times up. It's time for release!
For more reflections:
You know there's many different ways
That you can kill the one you love
The slowest way is never loving them enough
That summer she spent so much time parading around with Tom. Had but just one hour of her sunshine.
But Fresh Out the Slammer is a reflection on this period in life. This is the story. She did her time, she's running home. Soon but not yet
Another summer taking cover, rolling thunder
He don't understand me
She's still stuck doing her masquerading. Here we go again. Handcuffed and under a spell. Hating the bearding but having to spend the time doing it and it becoming all consuming. Because remember, when she is out and about with the toys, she isn't with her sunshineeee~~
Now pretty baby, I'm running back home to you
Fresh out the slammer, I know who my first call will be to
The slammer is her bearding. But daily disappearing for just a glimpse of his smile. Once she's done with that, you know the only other person she cares about.
Camera flashes, welcome bashes
Get the matches, toss the ashes off the ledge
As I said in my letters, now that I know better
I will never lose my baby again
We're setting fire to the manuscript. She's saying case I didn't make it clear, I've been telling you in my songs, I will never lose my baby again OK
Now, pretty baby, I'm running
To the house where you still wait up, and that porch light gleams
She's still talking about visiting her lover in the darkness. Her lover waits up. Leaves the porch light on for her. For now.
To the one who says I'm the girl of his American dreams
And no matter what I've done, it wouldn't matter anyway
Ain't no way I'm gonna screw up now that I know what's at stake
Here, at the park where we used to sit on children's swings
Wearing imaginary rings 💔