FOLKLORE IS NOT AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL, ITâS NOT ABOUT HER! ITâS FROM MADE UP CHARACTERS POVs!1!1!1!
In this essay I will explain why I think itâs quite the opposite. For the record I donât think there has ever been a more personal, emotionally transparent and intimate album.
- Lyrical reference to ME! âI never leave well enough aloneâ
- TIWWCHNT aesthetics (Roaring twenties, jumping in pool from the trampoline, feeling so Gatsby for that whole year).
- Curiously associated to âthe 1â, Big Sur highway or the Subway Line in NYC
- Reference to High Line in the West Village. Because when itâs like 10 minutes from Franklin Street or Charles Street, MUST be about other people right?
- Once in 20 lifetimes, 20 is almost the new 13 lately.
- âLoves me like Iâm brand newâ CIWYW vibes/main concept
The last great American dynasty
- Explicit parallels between Rebekahâs life and Taylorâs and the way the neighbors judged both of them. The parties, loud women, pack bitch friends.
- Interesting St. Louis reference
- Interesting âwedding was charming if a little gaucheâ (gauche defintion by dictionary.com: lacking social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness; awkward; crude; tactless) ...........ring any bell?
- Iâm just going to leave these here and not even gonna waist my time explaining
- Obvious reference to BMR, SBX2
- Very suspicious at the diamond ring but Iâll give it the benefit of the doubt
- On the pressure that the desire to always be liked, appreciated, validated, approved by others please watch Miss Americana.
- On the pressure of double standards in the music industry for women, her words: âBe new to us, be young to usâbut only in a new way and only the way we want. Reinvent yourself but only in a way that we find to be equally comforting and a challenge for you. Live out a narrative that we find interesting enough to entertain us, but not so crazy that it makes us uncomfortable. This is probably one of my last opportunities as an artist to grasp on to that kind of success, so I don't know. As I'm reaching 30, I want to work really hard, um, while society is still tolerating me being successful."
- Chilhood memories in Pennsylvania under her, are there still beautiful things?
- Wonât comment on braids like a pattern or the hide in the closet lines.
- Guest starring the recurring theme of hiding and keeping things secret, letâs make it a regular character because itâs here to stay.
- Will you call when youâre back at school. CAN name of someone who was attending school while having a relationship with Taylor. But wonât.
- Pulling car off the road to the lookout. Now thereâs some suggestive photo reference for this line. Google it: Taylor Swift Big Sur
- âIt's hard to be anywhere these days when all I want is you. You're a flashback in a film reel on the one screen in my town.â Iâm sure everybody has to live with the face of their ex lover on screens all over your town, especially when the city screams their name. Very common.
- âYou showed me colors you know I canât see with anyone elseâ AND âyou taught me a secret language I canât speak with anyone elseâ sound very autobiographical but I will give this the benefit of the doubt as well.
- âAnd you know damn well for you I would ruin myselfâ is the big sister of âAnd baby, for you, I would fall from grace just to touch your faceâ, fight me on that.
- Centennial park in Nashville.
- Bad blood, Yogurt shop.
- Blues and then purple-pink skies.
- Dive bar reference. Dive bar where you at.
- Cannons firing at a yatch. Sure itâs a fictional Betty here talking.
- Witch hunt makes yet another appearance.
- This actually is too personal for the whole world.
- Wondering if Bettyâs garden has a gate you could sneak through.
- Inez and James, Blake and Ryanâs daughters. BOTH female. But sure take only what you need from Taylorâs personal life inspiration.
- So the person whoâs writing is convinced that danger and troubles are always going to come to them and their lover because of their very identity, because of who they are and who they represent. Archer anyone? âWho could ever leave me baby but who could stayâ.
- Robbers to the east. Clowns to the West (capitalized).
- Your brother as my brother.
- Love for show and dying for the same love in secret.
- My best laid plan....âI am an architect Iâm drawing up the plansâ
- âYou knew the hero died so what's the movie for?â Is âAnd all of my hero died all aloneââs cousin. Study that family tree.
- âYou know I left a part of me back in New Yorkâ
- Your faithless love is the only hoax I believe in. Either you feel this or you donât. I donât make the rules.
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