#taylor swift theories

[butdaddyiloveh3r]

taylor swift pattern theme?

So for evermore its clear taylor took a lot of inspo from emily dickinson famous lesbian poet for her evemore album. this inlcudes visuals and lyrics associated with the album. specifically the outfits, photoshoots and very specifically the song ivy and also evermore was released on emily dickinsons birthday.

And for the tortured poets department its a similar becuase its clear she has taken inspiration from mainly virginia woolf who had rumored lesbian relationships and also some inspiration from mary shelley who was rumored to be bisexual. its clear for certain songs they lyrically carry the vibe of virginia wolf. and for the fortnight mv its clear mary shelley was the inspiration.

now for a future album maybe ts12 as it has a more vibrant and lilac/ violet/ pinks, blush and gold toned aesthetic based on recent outfits and easter eggs. I would love for her to continue this theme of dedicating albums to famous queer female writers and poets!! for ts12 I would love to see it based around sappho. I would love for it to have a ethereal garden poet vibe with lots of floral imagrey and silkly flowy elements.

I just think this would be a nice way to continue this theme of using queer writers as inspiration for albums!! and would love to see a sappho inspired album.

( I couldn't pinpoint any clear queer writer inspirations for folklore or midnights so if you know of a queer writer or poet who is tied to those albums please let me know)!!

links to other sources and analysis!!!

@taylorswift

[adultswiftie]

Taylor Swift pulls her songwriting primarily from her own life, but not exclusively from it. She has written fictional songs, fully separate from herself, her entire career. Let's pull a quick, off-the-top-of-my-head sample:

Mary's Song

You Belong With Me - inspired by a scenario she dreamed up after seeing one of her band members "on the phone with [his] girlfriend, she's upset"

Speak Now

Starlight

Stay, Stay, Stay

And that's not counting ones where she spun a fictional tale out of her own immediate experience, like Love Story (her parents didn't want her to be with a guy, but the story she tells never happened), The Lucky One (the Joni Mitchell -to-Taylor Swift pipeline), Mine (an imagined future based off an early interaction), etc.

So why does the fandom as a whole seem to completely reject her assertion that large swaths of folklore and evermore are fully fictional stories and characters that she made up? That's what writers do. Certainly not every song is made up. Certainly with several of them we can look back with hindsight and take a guess as to why she was drawn to particular characters and tropes and stories at that point in her life. But the willingness to suggest the she is just blatantly lying about her songwriting process, the thing she holds most sacred, just baffles me.

[agreyrose]

So in “Down Bad” the muse is an otherworldly being who picked Taylor up, showed her things she never seen before, changed her life forever, and then dropped her right back off because, again, they weren’t from this world and it wouldn’t be acceptable for them to be together in this world because people can’t/won’t understand it. But Taylor feels like if they were elsewhere, then it would be okay and she could be with this person. Hence why we get:

And as I pointed out in my other post, this is a running theme in her music. There’s so many examples of it it’s insane. Even off some of her earliest albums:

She’s always running away with her muse, out of sight because they taught her “a secret language” she “can’t speak with anyone else.” No one else around her understands her except the muse. So Taylor’s solution is always to run.

[the-cards-she-wont-show]

And so I enter into evidence

File #31 - Flagging

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Eras Tour Outfit - 1989

First night in Stockholm

Swifties: It’s the Swedish Flag colours! 🙌

Second night in Stockholm

Swifties: What do those colours mean??? 🤔

Gaylors: It’s the Lesbian Flag colours! (again!) 😍

Taylor: “Lookin’ backwards might be the only way to move forward”. “None of it was accidental”. 😏

Swifties… are you ready for it? Taylor WANTS us to know that she is dressed in the colours of the Swedish flag! It is an Easter egg for us to read into what the following night’s outfits may mean. By doing this, we are looking into the past, to assist in deciphering the now. And only then, can we see the bigger picture.

Queer flagging has been around for decades as a way of signalling our sexuality to other queer people without fear of judgement and to keep us safe. There are many ways in which this can be done and this is just one Taylor’s most obvious examples.

If you take a close look at her visuals, you will notice that the shades of the lesbian flag ❤️🧡🤍💗💜 are used together quite frequently, especially during the Eras Tour!

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

[gublerie]

suburban legends - in depth of a theory that the song is written about matthew gray gubler

this theory was made by me and rafa (@bendthwrules on twitter) cause we’re both delusional and have lots of free time apparently lol please take this lightly this is just to have fun. if you have any thoughts to share or add to our theory dont be shy !

first and foremost, we’ll start with a timeline then dive in to analyze the lyrics! it all starts with taylor’s infamous 4th of july parties, as most of you probably already know, matthew was in one of her parties in 2013, she threw the party at her house in rhode island.

on july 3rd, matthew tweeted that his next stop was new england, later that day, he took a photo with a fan during a flight to connecticut. the rumors that he was at her party started when he posted pictures with face paint and sparklers and people started to notice similarities between his and taylor’s pictures, he later deleted said pictures.

for reference, first are the pictures he posted and the pictures taylor took with other friends on the same occasion.

later on, we got this picture of the of them together, confirming that he was at her party indeed. (i can’t remember who posted this so if you remember please let me know)

his attendance on taylor’s independence party sparked rumors of a possible romance, although they didn’t officially date, it’s common knowledge that they did have a fling (also for the sake of the theory we’ll accept that as true lol).

let’s fast forward to 300 (and almost 65) days later, a new movie premieres at the fantasia international film festival on june of 2014, the movie is suburban gothic. and this was the starting point for me and rafa i mean suburban gothic… suburban legends…

taylor announced her first pop album ever, 1989, on a yahoo worldwide livestream on august 18th, 2014. by the time she announced it, of course, the album was already finished and the tracks it would have were already determined so anything taylor wrote after that, wouldn’t be in the original version of 1989.

our grand theory is that the premier of matthew’s new movie, suburban gothic, made taylor think back on her (very very) brief relationship with him, therefore, inspiring her to write suburban legends, a direct reference to the movie title.

without further ado, let’s get to the lyrics!!

taylor start the song by singing

“You had people who called you on unmarked numbers

In my peripheral vision”

which led us to associating it to mgg’s previous girlfriend and also his co-star in suburban gothic, kat dennings. since they were doing a movie together, they probably were in contact a lot and that’s possibly what taylor was referencing in this verse.

she then goes

“I let it slide like a hose on a slippery plastic summer

All was quickly forgiven”

keep in mind all the 4th of july parties are in the middle of summer, this verse could be a direct reference to that since the very first rumors started with a party in the middle of summer.

“And you kiss me in a way that's gonna screw me up forever”

do i even need to say anything else?

“I had the fantasy that maybe our mismatched star signs would surprise the whole school”

when sharing my thoughts on the lyrics with rafa, i reminded her of what taylor wrote in state of grace “just twin fire signs”, this could be about taylor and the person she’s singing about sharing star signs (of the elements fire) but also about them being twin flames (or at least she thought so). just like she purposefully mentioned matching signs in previous lyrics, i do believe she would mention mismatched signs, mind you that taylor is a sagittarius and matthew is a pisces.

that verse could also be a metaphor about how would people view their relationship, they are from different parts of the industry and didn’t share many mutual friends. “surprising the whole school” could be about how shocked the general public would be about them being together.

“When I ended up back at our class reunion walking in with you

You'd be more than a chapter in my old diaries with the pages ripped out”

here i want to highlight the expression “you’d be” and in the previous verse “i had a fantasy”, when using these expressions, taylor is taking a position of someone imagining something, someone wondering even daydreaming about what things would be like. all the other theories about who this song is about revolve around people who taylor actually had a relationship with like harry styles and it just doesn’t make sense to me why she’d be having a fantasy of how things would be like when she knew how things were. personally, this verses make much more sense when placed in a context of someone who taylor didn’t have a real relationship with, like matthew.

“I know that you still remember”

if we’re starting from the assumption that she wrote the song almost a year later looking back at what happened between them, this verse could be how she is directly talking to him, she is remembering what happened and she knows he still remember as well.

“When you told me we'd get back together”

this could possibly hint to him wanting to get back together with her, wanting to actually evolve into a true relationship.

“I broke my own heart 'cause you were too polite to do it”

although i think there’s something almost sarcastic to this verse (like you were sooo polite you couldn’t even break my heart 🥴), i still do think it makes a connection to the previous verse i mentioned, perhaps he wanted to have a real relationship with her and when she realized it wouldn’t work, she had to break her own heart so she could move on.

and some other verses that just scream matthew gray gubler (iykyk) but i can’t quite put into words like “You were so magnetic it was almost obnoxious” or “We were born to be national treasures”.

well, that was too much ! i think it’s pretty clear that i’m not the most skilled writer (😭) but this was just to share the thoughts that were making me go crazy. huuuuge thanks to rafa cause she was the one to make me stop and think about it also helped me with the writing process and also is big on timeline cause she’s been on both fandoms a long time, ty love 🩷.

please let me know your thoughts on this, love you pookies 🫶

[haylorology]

And you said you'd come and get me but you were 25

And the shelf life of those fantasies expired

[supernaturallyliterate]

Lover speech thoughts:

She emphasized LOYALTY. “We had to end the tour… in the place with the most loyal fans”

“These are songs I wrote about my life, or something from my imagination that I completely made up or so you think but all of that’s gonna change tonight.”

The way she said this and emphasized words made it sound like this punctuation: “these Songs are about… something made up—OR SO YOU THINK! But all of that’s gonna change tonight.”

As if when people revisit her songs and the eras tour, they’ll see the signs they missed

[pinkheart22]

The New iPhone 16 Pro colors are the same as Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department Vinyl Colors

Ink Black, Ghosted White, Smoke Gray, Parchment Beige

@taylorswift @taylornation

[secretmomentsborrowedtime]

WHAT IF the "joe and taylor coming out as bi" plan is now set up for "tayvis"?

[harryssyndrome]

Dancing With Our Hands Tied // Peter parallel

@foxes-that-run @womanexile

[thenewromanticspod]

so so so many thoughts about but daddy I love him being a little mermaid reference which is based on a metaphor for being queer, involved queer creatives, and has to do with silencing one’s voice…. (more about this in our upcoming pod ep)

[butdaddyiloveh3r]

[cherryberry1403]

It's kind of amazing how despite the AMOUNT of hate and criticism Taylor Swift has gotten she's still just. THRIVING. Like she's literally the best she has ever been in her life and almost everyone on social media has something negative to say about her because either she cannot dance or she's too chart obsessed or whatever really. But it's enough to make anyone crumble. It's so wild to me how it just DOESN'T seem to.. TOUCH her in any shape or form. I'm so in awe and I love that so much for her❤️

[agreyrose]

When Halsey said

And when Taylor Swift said

You know the ole “you made me this way, and now you look at me and call me ‘monster’.”

[the-cards-she-wont-show]

She’s throwing 1’s around!!!!! ☝️👀👀

☝️

@taylorswift @taylornation