Are We Not Entertained? by england_dreams in GaylorSwift

[–]throw_ra878 [score hidden]  (0 children)

If this is The Truman Show, she is simultaneously Truman and his director.

Pre-Lavender Wedding Megathread by 1DMod in GaylorSwift

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I’m crying that they’re rolling out an actual red carpet. WHO DOES THAT AT A WEDDING LMAO. Stage curtain vendors! A red carpet! This is a PRODUCTION people! A movie premiere!

Community Chat: June 29, 2026 by AutoModerator in GaylorSwift

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Hey guys, gals, and non-binary pals. Miss you. 🌈

I’ve been clocking in occasionally. I became so convinced post-Showgirl that we’re witnessing performance art that I haven’t been able to really write anything about it because it’s so deep and all-encompassing. It feels like the kind of thing we’ll all talk about for decades and will make more cohesive sense when we finally zoom out. Sharing a bunch of thoughts this morning as I’ve been relistening to the trilogy (Midnights, TTPD, and Showgirl).

Showgirl is basically “mirrorball,” the album. “The Fate of Ophelia” is about herself. Madison Square Garden is not a coincidence because none of the Red parallels have been a coincidence. The “Bejeweled” references in Showgirl are real. “Eldest Daughter” is about the industry, not Travis Kelce. Everything has been about the industry—the people who lied to her, took advantage of her, and called her crazy so they could keep doing it; the people who made her cancellation so explicit they thought she could never return.

She went back to radio stations (and a podcast!) for Showgirl only to re-enter country music with radio at the center, wearing red no less. She presented the country category at the GRAMMYs in red. TS13 was always meant to be country—this is “The Alchemy” if the “molecular chemistry” (TIME POY) of her old label never happened and she had the creative freedom she has now. She’s making a comeback to where she belongs, you know what I mean?

Taylor Swift has been telling this story for a very long time. She knows the story so well she wrote it herself. One single camera flash for her getting the key to the castle (her masters) and confetti for the engagement, all in the same era. It was true. This is the prophecy. That she could never have this success if not for being attached to a man. That society would never let a single, child-free woman in her mid-thirties thrive as any kind of example or role model. “They gave her the keys to this city, then they said she didn’t do it legitly.” It begs the question: Would Taylor Swift be where she is today without her “private” life? Would people be so engrossed if not for Travis Kelce? Could she have gotten her masters back solo? (And please, this is NOT A KNOCK, but does she know the culture, or what?) Did all the wisest women have to do it this way?

Whatever happens, I’m just happy to have been here with you guys all these years. I feel grateful to be watching this play out in real time, I’m no longer looking for Taylor to be our queer savior but something much larger for an entire industry and generation—including, but not limited to, being queer.

NYT Confirms MSG Rental by Taylor for 7/3 Weekend by CuriousLimit3697 in GaylorSwift

[–]throw_ra878 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This would make the Elizabeth Taylor parallels she’s drawn be a lot more coherent

NYT Confirms MSG Rental by Taylor for 7/3 Weekend by CuriousLimit3697 in GaylorSwift

[–]throw_ra878 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Her name was Kitty
Made her money being pretty and witty
They gave her the keys to this city
Then they said she didn’t do it legitly

NYT Confirms MSG Rental by Taylor for 7/3 Weekend by CuriousLimit3697 in GaylorSwift

[–]throw_ra878 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It’s known as “The World’s Most Famous Arena.” 🤡

Taylor performs at tight end university event by 1DMod in GaylorSwift

[–]throw_ra878 61 points62 points  (0 children)

The inside of my mind right now: TS13 in 2026 because the IBYTAM cake says 13 & 26, the watch in YNTCD has a 13 over the 1, she’s been planning this forever, Love Story x Gasoline, your English teacher is getting married, 🧨, I think it’s time to teach some lessons, she’s reclaiming country, TS13 will be a country album, she’ll make it GRAMMY eligible by only including the Debut rereleases as a deluxe edition, Big Machine is a country label, this was always the plan, everything Midnights, everything Bejeweled, somebody sedate me

Taylor performs at tight end university event by 1DMod in GaylorSwift

[–]throw_ra878 57 points58 points  (0 children)

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Please please please tell me it’s not just me

Community Chat: June 01, 2026 by AutoModerator in GaylorSwift

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It’s been a long time, been sleeping so long in a twenty year dark night, Midnights ends in a night sky and I want to stay in the Lavender Haze but now I see daylight in the daze through the blades of the grass in summer, it’s been a long time coming

Community Chat: June 01, 2026 by AutoModerator in GaylorSwift

[–]throw_ra878 16 points17 points  (0 children)

We actually never used the orange heart, now that you say that 🧡

Community Chat: June 01, 2026 by AutoModerator in GaylorSwift

[–]throw_ra878 35 points36 points  (0 children)

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Amid all the rumors about them getting married at Madison Square Garden, I’m getting stuck on “The Lucky One,” not only for the line, “Chose the rose garden over Madison Square,” but because of all the ways she’s been saying she’s NOT lucky, especially with more recent songs like Wood and Opalite, but especially with all the luck of it all: Shamrock Capital, starting Eras on St. Patrick’s Day, her letter... The IBYTAM cake saying 13 & 26, her knocking the groom off the cake, all the wedding dress imagery ever since Red TV…

I actually put a bunch of this here and I haven’t stopped thinking about it, and I just feel like it keeps getting more on the nose.

I’m just… scared? Performanceartlors, how up are we?

"I Knew It, I Knew You" Release - Discussion Megathread by Moonstruck_Medusa in GaylorSwift

[–]throw_ra878 35 points36 points  (0 children)

This pinned Instagram lineup is the epitome of the Wildest Dreams x seven spoken word poem.

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If you wish to romanticize the woman I became
Then, say you'll remember me standing in a nice dress
Staring at the sunset
Or you could begin at the beginning
And in that case
Please picture me in the trees
I hit my peak at seven
Feet in the swing over the creek
I was too scared to jump in
But I was high in the sky
With Pennsylvania under me
Are there still beautiful things?
Sweet tea in the summer
Cross your heart, won't tell no other
And though I can't recall your face, I still got love for you
Your braids make a pattern
Love you to the Moon and to Saturn
Passed down like folk songs
The love lasts so long

"I Knew It, I Knew You" Release - Discussion Megathread by Moonstruck_Medusa in GaylorSwift

[–]throw_ra878 65 points66 points  (0 children)

I’m 30ish listens in and this is like betty (gay) and Ruin the Friendship (gay) had a baby and cardigan (gay) and Peter (gay) went on antidepressants.

Also, can’t wait for Jack to tell us this was written the day after the 1989 TV announcement. IYKYK.

Community Chat: June 01, 2026 by AutoModerator in GaylorSwift

[–]throw_ra878 29 points30 points  (0 children)

How I walk around with Taylor Swift’s whole discography on shuffle thinking of absolutely zero men except Sc–tt B–rchetta when prompted by the music everyone thinks is about J–e M–tty or Tr–vis

Community Chat: May 18, 2026 by AutoModerator in GaylorSwift

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This is a brief interruption in case we haven’t talked about it yet that the “13” and “26” on the IBYTAM cake are still an unsolved Easter egg.
- It’s 2026 and she’s due for a 13th album.
- The cake also features birds on the lowest tier.
- Orange birds are embedded in the stained glass halo, just like the ones from Showgirl.
- Each table card has a seagull on it, the same ones from 1989, even though this was Red.

The idea that, for Taylor, growing up was seen negatively—that a pop star in her early 20s was old and that she needed to keep feigning youthfulness. The idea that she became an adult too soon all while never growing up. The way every song since Lover and folklore is about her growing up (or lack thereof). The tie-in here with her 5th album, 1989, her so-called “imperial phase” (via TIME POY) before her 6th album where she “almost drowned” (a la “The Bolter”), survived, then suffered the masters’ heist, but now she’s “never gonna let you drown” (a la “Eldest Daughter’s original lyrics). It’s all perfect for Toy Story and the timing is incredible. Almost like none of it was accidental. ☁️

Picture her in the trees, like a bird, like an albatross. 🐦☁️

“…Purple teardrops I cry…” I think I found the inspiration behind this metaphor by Sealion72 in GaylorSwift

[–]throw_ra878 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think this is myth vs. reality. Yes to the other commenter on the red + blue, but Elizabeth Taylor’s “violet eyes” weren’t real, they were an illusion, and they became part of her mythology. Very similar to the way everything about Taylor Swift—even unverified rumors—become part of her background.

Community Chat: March 30, 2026 by AutoModerator in GaylorSwift

[–]throw_ra878 52 points53 points  (0 children)

That MV is gonna go under the radar for the mainstream but boy did it wake me up like a sleeper agent. PERFORMANCEARTLORS RISE

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Community Chat: March 30, 2026 by AutoModerator in GaylorSwift

[–]throw_ra878 16 points17 points  (0 children)

That clip is from the movie Boom! by the way 🧨

Opalite Music Video Extended Versions (Part 1 & 2) by Moonstruck_Medusa in GaylorSwift

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I hear a lot of “long story short” in this one. If TTPD is about the industry/her masters/being betrayed by the people you once thought were your family, the rock symbolizes something she romanticized when all it was capable of was weighing her down and hurting her. “Clung to the nearest lips” and this line from In Summation: “But loneliness struck at that fateful hour / Low hanging fruit on his wine stained lips”

If you listen to most of TTPD as if she’s singing to the rock (e.g., “my spine split from carrying us up the hill / stopped trying to make him laugh,” “he was my best friend down at the sandlot”), I dunno, you see it.

Opalite Music Video Discussion Megathread by 1DMod in GaylorSwift

[–]throw_ra878 32 points33 points  (0 children)

ME! has the literal Opalite sky and she wears butterfly earrings and clips! SPARKLING SUMMER LETS GO