#karma taylor swift

[folklorelover22]

appreciation post for Taylors natural hair 😻

[swiftieinbrazil]

Taylor Swift performing Karma and almost falling at The Eras Tour on November 24th, 2023 in São Paulo, Brazil - (x)

[uaijatp]

✨🩷💙✨

[fortn13ght]

HER FACE SPARKLES!!✨

[tswiftupdatess]

Taylor changed the lyrics to Karma tonight:

''Karma is the guy on the Chiefs''

[queercanon13]

The Karma music video is packed with queer and sapphic themes. But what’s with that yellow beret?

We all watched the Karma music video on Friday (or Saturday), right? And then we all watched it ten more times because there IS JUST SO MUCH THERE. Right?!

I can’t even begin to unpack the whole thing yet, but let’s talk about the yellow brick road scene.

Taylor is obviously wearing ruby slippers (“the rubies that I gave up”) alluding to Dorothy/the Wizard of Oz. But she’s not wearing the rest of Dorothy’s getup. That’s because she’s not Dorothy, but in fact a friend of Dorothy.

She’s holding a broom (lots of witchy themes from her lately) and blows a kiss of blue (iykyk) glitter to three grim reapers (the two SBs and…?).

She’s keeping her side of the street clean, which harkens to the YNTCD MV where she clearly shows which side of the street she’s on:

Other things of note: it appears there are daisies embroidered on her collar, as well as growing along the yellow brick road. Her braids are also looped (“your braids make a pattern”).

The yellow brick road itself may be a nod to Elton John and his album/song Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Here are some of the lyrics from that song, as well as a generally accepted analysis of the lyrics:

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Seems like it would be super relatable to Taylor, right? Add in Elton John’s queerness/coming out journey, and the parallels continue.

There are probably a hundred other things I’m missing just from that scene alone, but what I really wanna talk about is the yellow beret, especially in light of current news surrounding Taylor.

When I saw the yellow beret, I furiously googled “yellow beret” + the names of Taylor’s muses, but I came up empty-handed. Because Taylor is specifically not wearing a Dorothy costume, I knew that fucking hat had to mean something. Then I remembered — isn’t yellow beret a military term? And we know she loves a good war story. To Google I went, and the results did not disappoint.

During the Vietnam war, all physicians in the US had a mandatory draft order. One of the ways to avoid the draft was to apply for a position with a Public Health Service program called the NIH Associates Training Program. Because the elite program was highly competitive, only a small percentage of doctors were able to serve their required military time without going to war.

Yellow beret was a self-deprecating and derogatory term used by and for doctors who avoided getting a green beret/going to war (yellow can be associated with cowardice, i.e. “yellow-bellied”) via the NIH program.

Sounding familiar? But wait there’s more.

Bob Seger wrote a song in 1966 called The Ballad of the Yellow Beret. It was written as a parody of the song The Ballad of the Green Berets. Here are some of the lyrics (I encourage you to read all of them!):

Verse 1: Fearless cowards of the USA // Bravely here at home they stay // They watch their friends get shipped away // The draft dodgers of the Yellow Beret

Okay, I’m seated.

Verse 3: Men who faint at the sight of blood // Their high-heeled boots weren't meant for mud // The draft board will hear their sob stories today // Only the best win the yellow beret

Oooookay.

Verse 4: Back at home a young wife waits // Her yellow beret has met his fate // He's been drafted for marching in a protest //Leaving her his last request

Are you screaming yet? Just wait.

Verse 5: Put a yellow streak down my son's back // Make sure that he never ever fights back // At his physical have him say he's gay // Have him win the yellow beret

And if that wasn’t enough, two of the last lyrics are “I've got a pimple on my trigger finger” (ew) and “well, we were planning on having children sometime soon” (devastating). These themes also align with The Great War, epiphany, etc.

But despite attempts to diminish their efforts through claims of cowardice, these “yellow beret” physician-scientists contributed to some of the most important and innovative medical research we have today. Dr. Fauci attended the training program, as well as nine others who went on to win Nobel Prizes.

Could it be that Taylor is trying to tell us that, while it looks like she dodged the draft (didn’t come out), she’s doing some important mastermind shit behind the scenes? Only time will tell, but since we are now at “dawn,” I believe daylight is soon to follow. ☀️

[xoxochb]

petition for taylor to release karma (chiefs version) when she replaces “guy on the screen” with “guy on the chiefs”

[icardigan]

karma is a cat purring in my lap 'cause it loves me

[likeanageoldclassic]

HE LOOKS SO PROUD OF HER IM LITERALLY SOBBING THEY HAVE MY HEART

[sprnklersplashes]

taylor swift haterism truly is just making stuff up at a certain point because why did people spend the run up to the grammys getting preemptively mad at her for announcing an album only for them to now still be mad about said hypothetical album that she did not announce. there is no album but they're insisting she would have announced it if she won. it's like swifties insisting woodvale and karma are still out there somewhere but inverse.

[sararufush2021-25]

Some of the Eras Tour Edits (North American & International Tour). I miss the Eras Tour so much! 🫶🏽💜

🎶: Tis The Damn Season

We could call it even

You could call me "babe" for the weekend

'Tis the damn season, write this down

I'm staying at my parents' house

And the road not taken looks real good now

Time flies

Messy as the mud on your truck tires

Now I'm missing your smile, hear me out

We could just ride around

And the road not taken looks real good now

And it always leads to you and my hometown

It always leads to you and my hometown

🎙️: @taylorswift @taylornation

💿: evermore, 2020

📷: Getty Images/ #TheErasTour

🖌️: me/SaraRufusH2021_24/25

[folklorelover22]

Lover💘

[swiftieinbrazil]

Taylor Swift changes Karma lyrics while performing at The Eras Tour on November 11th, 2023 in Buenos Aires, Argentina - (x)

[firstladyofjuicycouture12]

karma is the guy on the screen mirko trovato singer pov

your one of the most famous singers in the world, one night your performing on a tour in Dublin.

your boyfriend and his friend are at your concert in the stands getting into the song,

the part comes on. "karma takes all my friends to the song mid karma is the guy on the screen coming straight home to me" you sing and smile as you show the screen to mirko in the stands.

he can't help but smile and look at you with adoration and love.

[mychemicaltyler]

sweet like honey karma is a cat 🐈‍⬛

shes so cutie baby princess. come back taylor we miss you 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭