#TS7 IS COMING

[sarrf]

[throwbackgaylor]

june 7, 2019 | five years ago

christian siriano tweeted a rainbow gown in the process of being made:

“Proud to be a gay designer! #HAPPYPRIDE everyone celebrating in DC this weekend! Can’t wait for this gown to come to life. Who will wear it???? 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈 #pride���

(and yes, that is seven rainbows as in ts7)

[kylieswift31]

Repeating history

"Time, doesn't it give some perspective"

"Now we're at the starting line, I did my time"

So much of the marketing that surrounded the release of the lover album centred around Taylor's old diaries that she had combed through to create four editions of the lover journal. These included the lover album, snippets of her own journal and blank pages to encourage others to try journalling for themselves as well. What stands out with these compared to the two reputation magazine variants is the fact that they all have the same front cover. As Taylor's first owned album this combination paired with her own personal memorabilia feels like a defiant statement about where her music originates from: Taylor's past, memories, emotions and experiences. This in combination with a few subtle comments she has made about retelling her story lead me to wonder if she was also rewriting it too.

I have theorised in the past that the Taylor Swift and lover album were supposed to be the first pairs, but all of the Benjamin Button references suggest that she has been going back in time to retell her story without all the limitations she faced while working with her previous label. Going back in time when everyone else assumed Taylor was moving forward has contributed towards blurring the lines between her past muses and would explain why some have picked up on a regression from the outspoken version of Taylor we had grown accustomed to.

TS12->TS1, TS11->TS2, TS10->TS3, TS9->TS4, TS8->TS5, TS7->TS6.

This will be more of a theoretical look at how TS 7-12 may have been intended to provide clarity and a reflection on the associated TS 1-6 eras. I'll also be following the chapters outlined in the 'all too well' short film which are very reminiscent of the plot of the Truman show that I was discussing in my previous post.

"Looking backward might be the only way to move forward"

All too well

Taylor Swift - The Anthology

The women behind the curtain

Although the anthology goes hand in hand with the tortured poets department, I'm inclined to view it as a seperate entity as many of these songs become overshadowed by the original album in the same way that debut gets overlooked because of how young Taylor was when she wrote it. 'The manuscript' paired with 'picture to burn' implies that the real version of Taylor was shielded behind Taylor™ from the very beginning a la the man behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz story. Everything we've seen play out recently has felt like Taylor is returning to her teenage years where her career in the music industry first started. Whatever comes next (TSTV, rep TV or TS12 as the penultimate album) is likely going to be or precipitate what sets the dominoes cascading in a line. I get the feeling the swifties are on the mark with predicting a 'so high school' themed album is in the works, but the Travis Kelce romance seems to be the final boss level of distraction until this story Taylor's telling is complete.

The first crack in the glass

Fearless - TTPD

The poets departing from each other

There's an undeniable connection between the fairytale versus the heartbreaking reality Taylor has faced within these two albums. The 'fifteen' song and music video was also Taylor's first explicit example of being the narrator in her music too. On the surface this is a song about her best friend Abigail, but it also seems to be laced with truth about Taylor's experience entering the music industry. "You're going to be here for the next four years" correlates to the four albums she had left in her contract with BMR after fearless was released and implies that something changed as her popularity was taking off or after her contract had begun. "When all you wanted was to be wanted. Wish you could go back and tell yourself what you know now." Add in the Kanye incident in combination with the female rage seen throughout TTPD and it's reasonable to assume that this era created the first crack in the facade of Taylor™ (the Truman show X the delicate stage visuals on the eras tour). The two fifteen music video doors, two cages, two tornadoes, two TTPD desks and many more mirrored imagery imply that the "two graves, one gun" was punishment for more than just Taylor and that this was when Taylor™ became more of a long game plan.

Are you real?

Speak now - Midnights

Honesty versus holding back

"All they keep asking me is if I'm gonna be your bride. The only kinda girl they see is a one night or a wife". Taylor's use of the blurple colour combination throughout these eras and the eras tour feels significant. One represents the lavender haze and the other is the blue glitter she shares with the public. And the blue and purple mirrored cats on the karma website reflect this dichotomy between Taylor versus Taylor™ too. "Lost your balance on a tightrope". Speak now was Taylor's first entirely self written album in an attempt to prove her critics wrong, yet looking back on all the sleepless nights referenced throughout the midnights album the older version of Taylor seems to be ready ready to burn it all down. I want to create a dedicated post to go through this combination of albums in more detail soon as it feels like a large turning point in Taylor's music going forward.

The breaking point

Red - Evermore

The "good girl" persona

Looking back on the red era it's clear how much the media weaponised Taylor's reputation as a "good girl". Despite having some of her most vulnerable songs with 'all too well' (10 minute version) and 'Majorie', the red and evermore eras are some of Taylor's most reserved and secretive in terms of album imagery. Taylor talks about writing proficiently during her time in lockdown after folklore was released, but it feels like she's referring more to the red era and not just that current period of time. Other than the autumnal aesthetic, 'I bet you think about me' and 'cowboy like me' speak to the concealed rebelliousness that underpins these two albums.

The reeling

1989 - Folklore

Into the woods versus out of the city

Despite the city vibes of the original 1989 album and the cabin in the woods scene in the folklore album, both of these two eras contain a multitude of beach imagery. "I had a marvellous time ruining everything". In terms of the Truman show parallels this feels like the point where Taylor amped up her plans by revealing her involvement in the New Romantics by expanding her circle of friends and creating the bad blood music video (that is reminiscent of the squad working together in the hunger games catching fire). She then continued to draw attention to her female friendships and rumoured queerness with the fictional love triangle that implies that Betty is Taylor's muse. In terms of the 'cardigan' and 'willow' music videos continuing the same story, if you look at the story being told in reverse there's a purposeful separation of the twin flames that ties the 'all too well' short film together with the 'forget her/him' style of bearding introduced with the imagery seen in the 'blank space' music video.

The remembering

Reputation - Lover

Call it what you want

I don't want to downplay the enormity of Taylor's masters being sold against her will, but in terms of the many parallels I've found to the Truman show I can't help but wonder if the lost karma era and "are you ready for it?" reputation album were intentionally created so that BMR were forced to play their hand when the lover album was released. The rainbow outfits revealed at the beginning of the reputation era created a bait and switch that allowed her to soft launch by coming out to those who recognised the queer flagging in the lover music videos before pivoting back towards the reputation era aesthetic once more. Blurring the lines between the two eras disguised as a reaction to the masters sale emphasised the duality in the surface level versus underlying aesthetics as well as the intermingled love and pained themes within both albums.

Thirteen years gone

The eras tour - The eras tour 2.0

The story's not mine anymore, it's ____

And to circle back to the Truman show... the aesthetic change during the lover era feels like the point where Truman had 'failed' to escape over the bridge, appeared to be defeated before eventually escaping when everyone least expected it. Taylor has spent the last six years retelling her story in more detail so that the her fanbase (and the general public) can understand what she has experienced, which was again been replicated throughout the eras tour. It's the finality of the eras tour and the tortured poets department that makes me wonder if the end of the story Taylor is telling is drawing nearer. I wouldn't be surprised if Taylor Swift (Taylor's Version) ends up being the final piece of the puzzle that ties everything together so that Taylor can finally move forward without looping through the same story like it's Groundhog Day.

Picture this... you're Taylor's nemesis dreading the day that she gets up on the eras tour stage and reveals to the general public that she's gay. You keep tabs on the live streams over and over again with each new leg of the tour. TTPD eventually gets added to the setlist and then each night the stage floor opens up during the fortnight performance and you just sit there with a white knuckle grip on your phone waiting to see if it's Taylor's lover about to pop unannounced or if it's just Jan Malone yet again! Haha yeah, Karma really is a relaxing thought huh?

"I'm taking my time, taking my time

'cause you took everything from me"

Karma is a catalyst,

Kylie x

P.S. Just wanted to add that it was this interview that originally had me wondering if Taylor was making a statement through more than just her re-records.

‘Exile ends in 3,2’

The surprise release of the midnights 3am tracks lines up with TS3, just like the 2am TTPD release of the anthology lines up with TS2. It’s interesting that both of these albums were announced at award shows considering what happened in between TS2 and TS3. ✌🏼

[chickawah23]

Can you expand on interlude eras? Like she’s building to something?

Sure. Sorry if this is too long winded.

Way back when I would say that I felt like folklore and evermore were interlude albums. Like they were created because the pandemic happened and the masters issue happened which both created a perfect storm that destroyed Lover’s plans. And whatever was supposed to happen with that era had to be shelved and replaced with a new plan to hold onto fan and public engagement so these albums created a way to hold onto engagement. Then the pandemic ended and the new plans and narratives had to play out which took time and further detoured from where Lover intended to go. Taylor also had to focus on rerecording her old albums.

So to me she’s been trapped in this limbo of keeping fans engaged in the re-recordings which already have a public facing lore about various guys while continuing to move forward. So Midnights comes towards the tail end of this rerecording process with a reintroduction to herself and revisiting some concepts from Lover (Daylight closed the ts7 and was almost the album title before things changed). So in my mind Midnights was the first glimpse into returning back to her main plan to get back to where she wanted to go with Lover. Also Taylor used this clock motif and added a countdown to Midnight where the real Taylor can exist. She even had a pocket watch with that 3, 2, 1 to exile countdown in the Bejeweled mv. She also said Midnights become my afternoons meaning she’s living in the darkness/night time because she can’t get back to daylight yet.

Then MidnighTS 3am version came. Which tickedthe clock closer to day time. Then with TTPD we got this double length album surprise at 2am. And the 3,2,1 imagery has continued. And it makes it feel like this is all part of a countdown. TTPD is an album that feels like it serves to clean up the pr mess from the detour plans created by the pandemic and whatever mess happened with her former boyish beau (MH) while also feeding the same narrative of getting back to where she wants to be which is back on the track Lover was headed to. And this album is just biding that time.

An interlude until daylight.

But to wrap up the 3,2,1 hints: idk if there will be 1 more new album (not a rerecording) that gives off interlude vibes before a daylight moment but it seems to fit with what I’m seeing. But who knows plans can change. And I could be completely wrong.

Anywho just my rambly thoughts.

[iwatcheditbegin]

Taylor at the iheart awards: wHaT’s Ts7 ? I dOn’T hAvE nEw mUsic coMinG. Y'all are dumb lol 🌴 🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴 🦋🦋🦋🌈🌈

Taylor a few weeks later :

4.26

[taylorrepdetective]

A brief history of Cruel Summer:

May 2019: Taylor releases a cartoon for Me that includes the words cruel summer on a butterfly. People think it’s a lyric on TS7 (which we did not yet know was called Lover. All we had at that time was Me!, 13 million possible Easter eggs, and a dream.)

June 2019: Taylor released the YNTCD video and Ellen had a Cruel Summer tattoo, which it was later revealed she filmed that scene ~the day before Taylor appeared on Ellen in May. All kinds of theories about cruel summer and what it means. We still were a couple of months away from knowing it was a song title on Lover. Gaylors are biggest clowns ever.

Aug 2019: track list revealed, it’s a song title! Lover is released and CS is a fan favorite and clearly would be a hit if she released it as a single and everyone wonders why it wasn’t the lead single. Smart people know that there’s a reason she had Me! and YNTCD as the lead singles, and that the song Lover was the best candidate for her coveted SOTY Grammy dreams so that made sense too. BUT CRUEL SUMMER NEEDS TO BE A SINGLE TAYLOR!!, everyone yelled

Feb 2020: The Man is released as the next single and no one cheered. Except we knew deep down it was just filler because CRUEL SUMMER WAS GOING TO BE THE SONG OF SUMMER 2020!!

March 2020: oops

April 2020: lover fest is cancelled. People still holding out hopes that a song with the name Cruel Summer and a lyric “fever dream high…you know that I caught it” will be ok during a deadly pandemic summer because our president told us it would just miraculously go away. Taylor starts in on Folklore in earnest instead.

Summer 2020: Folklore summer yay! Also, “Taylor acting like a privileged idiot” summer, not so yay, but that was quickly forgotten because folklore yay!

People move on from cruel summer. They mourn it. They get the closure they need.

Dec 2020: Taylor released another album but I forget what it was.

2021: the year of the re-recordings yay!! We can’t have tour but at least we have this!!

2022: will she tour this year and we’ll get to hear CS live? No? Well at least we still have a more re-recordings. Right?

Oct 2022: midnights is released. Cruel summer single is just a silly memory from the before times.

June 2023: Gxgjxkhdkdkydkhdkhfjvjfj

New clowning about Barbie, Florence Pugh, a tour movie video, coming out (still!!)

Whatever she comes up with, let’s hear it for the resilience of Cruel Summer. I always believed in you!

[honeybabymp3]

you know that post about how. what swifties think is an easter egg is counting stairs and holes in the fence. but the title of ts7 was just a huge sign that said lover. that's everyone's insane theories but the actual '1989 tv announcment coming' flag is just her switching all the costumes to light blue

[gh0stchip]

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[blatantlybluntblog]

Dizzee Rascal - Sugar and Spice ft. iLL BLU (Official Video)

Dizzee Rascal keeps summer alive with energetic new visuals 'Sugar And Spice' prod by and featuring iLL BLU

This comes ahead of Dizzee's massive shows at Cardiff, Nottingham and Newcastle in October > grab your tickets HERE!!

Following the 20th anniversary of his seminal album “Boy In Da Corner”, grime icon Dizzee Rascal keeps summer alive with uplifting new single “Sugar And Spice'', produced by and featuring iLL BLU. The track’s sunkissed opening hook gives way to Dizzee’s ever-formidable flow, sharing his appreciation for the finer things in life over a swaggering garage beat. The single’s undeniable energy is a pertinent reminder of the talent that established Dizzee as a chart-topping legend, his ability to move freely through styles is unrivaled, as his closing line reminds us of exactly what he’s here to do: “I mash up the dance then dash”.

This comes ahead of 3 huge live shows to mark the 20th Anniversary celebrations of Boy In Da Corner, where Dizzee will be joined by a stellar cast of support acts to join him on the Nottingham, Cardiff and Newcastle legs of the tour.

With his track ‘Bassline Junkie’ being the unofficial national anthem for the new bassline generation Dizzee has enlisted the support of the biggest up and comers in bassline music today. The much lauded rapper has enlisted the help of Bradford bassline heroes Bad Boy Chiller Crew for all new dates, with DJ/Producer extraordinaire TS7 joining the all star cast for the Newcastle and Notts shows. Window Kid - one of the most deservedly hyped up and coming MC’s on the scene right now will be appearing on all dates and Wales’ most exciting grime / hip hop crossover talent Mace The Great will be joining the Cardiff show.

The electrifying show, which sees Dizzee perform the album in its entirety, followed by all his bassline hits such as ‘Bonkers’ and ‘Bassline Junkie’, will coming to Nottingham’s Motorpoint on 6th October, the Cardiff Utilita Arena on 7th October and Newcastle’s Utilita Arena on 8th October.

Brimming with confidence since his return Dizzee commented: "Before I ever did the first show at the 02 Arena I already knew there was no way this could stay just in London. Looking forward to celebrating 20 years of Boy In Da Corner and my musical journey with the whole of the UK. Roll on October!”

On the anniversary itself Dizzee has said: "It's mad how it's 20 years since Boy In Da Corner! That album changed my life and I'm forever thankful to everyone who's shown love in that time”.

Released in July 2003, when the innovative MC and producer was only 18, Boy In Da Corner won the prestigious Mercury Prize and remains THE definitive grime full-length. The critically-acclaimed LP saw Dizzee labeled “the most original and exciting artist to emerge from dance music in a decade,” by the Guardian.

As one of the UK’s most successful and influential rappers of all time, Dizzee Rascal is credited to bringing UK Grime to the masses during its peak in the mid noughties. After Boy In Da Corner catapulted him to international stardom, he has since worked with some of the biggest artists on the planet, such as Calvin Harris, Arctic Monkeys, Shakira, Armand van Helden, Florence and the Machine, will.i.am and Robbie Williams. He also has four UK #1 hit singles to his name - ‘Dance Wiv Me’, ‘Bonkers’, ‘Holiday’ and ‘Dirtee Disco’ - and six consecutive UK ‘Top 20’ albums - Showtime, Maths + English, Tongue ‘n’ Cheek, The Fifth, Raskit and E3 AF.

A welcome extension to the 20th anniversary celebrations for what is a truly legendary album, Dizzee Rascal’s October shows simply cannot be missed.

[dojae-huh]

‘There is nothing to "feel inferior" about when it comes to him. So why do a lot of stans are irritated with Doyoung then? While they don't seem to be irritated with Ten? ‘

Just giving my opinion on why they seem irritated when they don’t have anything to be inferior about. A lot were saying they are not of the same standard. That was the impression i get the last time i read on them which was not recent. And of course antis on twitter that i read on are internationals, so they probably don’t share the same value as asians specifically east asians. And yeah let’s stop discussing what they say and enjoy milan fashion week with doooo

And you care to give any value to the opinion of these antis why then?

I mean, you clearly see that a person says that looks mean more than talent, or that dancing/rapping is more valuable than singing (Doyoung is the strongest vocalist among the ts7 members), that this person sorts people by "class" categories ("not same standart"), and still pay any attention?

How about not stooping so low, not lowering the bar of common sense and culture to the level of angry simple minded solo stans who follow a mob mentality?

[vigilantestef]

You need to calm down. You’re being too loud.

[babywerehopelessromantics]

ELLEN CALLED IT

[drunkliketaylor]

I HOPE ITS GONNA MAKE YOU NOTICE

So we’ve all noticed that Taylor changed an old vlog’s name from I Love You Guys. to I hope it’s gonna make you notice. And at the end of the video the word Home appears on the screen. HERES MY THEORY: at first I thought this was saying TS7 is in fact called home, which was a pretty popular theory and one that I was on board with. But then I decided to do a little digging. The song playing during this video is Use Somebody by Kings of Leon. Here’s the lyrics:

Notice the SEVENTH lyric has the word LOVERS. And what’s the 13th line? I hope it’s gonna make you notice. This makes me think TS7 is called Lover or Lovers. I think Taylor titled the video I hope it’s gonna make you notice because the hint is the song that’s playing. Also to be noted, Kings of Leon was formed in Nashville in 1999, ten years after Taylor was born.

Side note, this is another instance where 7 and 13 have been brought up, making me think the album will be announced/a countdown will begin on 7/13, it will last for 13 days, and the album will come out on 7/26.

So @taylorswift @taylornation did I get it right?

[frenchswiftie13]

I'M IN LOVE WITH THE CD OKAY

@taylorswift @taylornation

[swiftielovelove13]

We ain’t ready for what’s coming. Nope.

[bravestthingieverdidwasrun]

@taylorswift LOOK WHAT YOU MADE TUMBLR DO