#gaylor swift 2024

[jennyboom21]

Last week, the New York Times ran a nearly 5,000-word piece about Taylor Swift in its opinion section. The thoughtful essay, by editor Anna Marks, specifically considers the superstar’s creative output by asking the question: What if, as so many of the references in them suggest, some of Swift’s songs are about being in love with women?

Marks is only about the millionth person to suggest that Swift might be dropping clues that she is gay in her work, a theory known as “Gaylor”: Here’s a 2022 feature about the fan theory that ran in Jezebel; here’s an explainer from later that year in Vox that gets into it, which, oh, also references a Vox deep dive from the height of the COVID-19 pandemic on “the queering of Taylor Swift”; here’s a Rolling Stone piece pegged to the release of Midnights; here’s a piece that ran in Slate after the re-release of Red that explored similar theories. I could go on and on. You get it. The Times is not exactly breaking new ground here.

Marks’ piece does stand out in a few ways: It’s very long. It’s in the New York Times, the “paper of record,” and that apparently confers some vague special responsibility to every word it publishes. It does not report on what the fans are saying but instead identifies Marks herself as the fan with the corkboard and red string. If it’s even a conspiracy theory at all, the piece openly muses about its subject: “There are some queer people who would say that … she has already come out, at least to us.”

The opinion piece has “prompted a fair amount of outrage online,” writes Danielle Cohen in the Cut, “where even those of us who enjoy the occasional Gaylor theories found these assertions—and the fact that they were made in an esteemed national newspaper—a few steps too far.” Among the outraged are Swift’s “associates”: “Because of her massive success, in this moment there is a Taylor-shaped hole in people’s ethics,” a “person close to the situation” told a CNN reporter, noting that, were Swift a man, this article “wouldn’t have been allowed to be written.”

Leaving aside that this very same author wrote a piece about Harry Styles’ potential queerness, it’s true enough that Swift isn’t a man. But she’s a cultural phenomenon. Her songs were streamed over 26 billion times last year on Spotify alone. Her celebrity is everywhere you look right now. It has made her a billionaire, and boosted the economy to boot.

[throwbackgaylor]

march 8, 2024

during singapore n5, after a fan held up a reflective print of the big sur daisy, taylor spent the night looking back to the fan and making eye contact while performing

[swiftiethatyouhate]

not anna single-handed my keeping the kaylor fanbase alive

and not taylor always being all about flowers and karlie picked flowers over any other element….

[kayloronmain]

I just saw this tweet Taylor Nation shared while Taylor had seemingly “ghosted” the vmas and was hanging out backstage

THE CLEANING CART 👀

You mean the cleaning cart Taylor gets into to go to the stage to perform The Eras Tour? When she needs to switch on and become Taylor Swift™️?!

Followed by the acceptance speech with the very awkward and out of place name dropping

But we’ve all already seen the Fortnight mv behind the scenes with absolutely no hints of beefcake

This feels like confirmation that once she reappeared in the audience, everything that happened was part of the performance 🎭

Thoughts? As always, I’m watching, waiting, eyes open

[leavingmebereftandreeling]

LWYMMD - Taylor Swift

Toronto N1 - The Eras Tour 2024

[daisyswift3]

Castles Crumbling 💍👻

I think the castle is going to crumble today at the Chiefs game (which btw is at the LA Sofi Stadium, what an interesting coincidence)

“Coffee at midnight” -> “That’s that me ESPRESSO” -> Sabrina’s Short n Sweet -> Olivia’s SOUR -> Julia Cooper’s SWEET N SOUR (which I think uses the cardigan metaphor to describe Taylor’s duality; Taylor the brand vs Taylor the person) -> Sabrina's Taste (sweet and sour are flavors) -> the secret menu in the 5th 🎃 message (which is abt the mass coming out movement) -> the Short n Sweet Cafe in NYC being from Sept 27-29 -> Sept 27 being World’s Biggest Coffee Morning -> Sept 29 being when the castle will crumble -> the Short n Sweet cafe being 1989 moonstone blue 🩵 -> “Some guy said my aura’s moonstone” -> Bejeweled mv ending scene where Taylor’s castle crumbles -> Chappell’s Coffee and My Kink Is Karma -> Taylor mysteriously going missing while Chappell burned down the castle at the VMAs -> Hayley Williams, who collabed w Taylor on Castles Crumbling, wearing a Vivienne Westwood dress that looks very similar to Taylor’s yellow dress in Bejeweled -> “The best ppl in life are free” -> Clean/Is It Over Now? -> Karlie and Hayley Williams both being in Paris this last week -> Young Woman and the Sea being abt a woman who competed at the 1924 Paris Olympics and shattered glass ceilings (ginger messages) -> The Paris Olympics opening ceremony which featured a headless Marie Antoinette in a castle that looks like it's burning bc of all the pyrotechnics -> Taylor dressing as Marie Antoinette in Bejeweled bc her fans are abt to figuratively behead her for rejecting Travis's proposal at the game today

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[lex-loudestwoman]

Taylor Swift stuns in a bisexual pride dress at Miami N1!!! Congratulations on coming out!! My bisexual queen!!!! 💖💜🩵✨🌈❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷🏳️‍🌈✨

[thoughtroomba02]

Can’t sleep. ADHD brain raging.

WHAT IF. All of the badass ladies in music got together for a Harris fundraiser/voter registration event and it was called FEMININOMENON ?!

TS. Beyoncé. Chappell Roan. Charli XCX. Dolly Parton. Miley. SZA. Doja cat. Ariana grande. Dua lipa. Etc, etc you get the point!

Gonna manifest this Barbie style rager to defeat fascism, even if it’s totally delulu 💖

[ladyamanda123]

Karlie liked Taylor’s Kamala post!!

[yourlocalbadgerscales]

What if she’s-so-obviouslyyy written-love-songs-abt-womeeen only innn myyy miiiiind? 😔

[jennyboom21]

💭💭💭

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[throwbackgaylor]

january 25, 2024

Two Dykes and a Mic posted a TikTok of all the queer people who were snubbed at the Oscars: “Whoever got Karlie Kloss at The Eras Tour? That’s Best Cinematography, by far … And I think our final Oscar that we have to give out is… Best On-Stage Fingering, which goes to, as you know, Tayl-”

[lyricalwizard]

Waiting for election results is like waiting for surprise songs except I'm in hell and could lose all my rights

[moxnxm]

[aonehattown]

I might not ever get to see the Eras Tour live but I can get drunk as hell while rocking this at Dragon Con in August. So that’s not a bad consolation.

[supernaturallyliterate]

I FUCKING KNEW TAYLOR WAS GONNA DROP SOMETHING AT 12:08 TO BRRAK HER 10:09 PATTERN BUY I STILL MISSED IT FUCK