In the cardigan mv, when Taylor was getting swayed away by the water, it was her piano that she clinged on. Music was there for her when people weren't there always

when lorde said "so I guess I'll go home into the arms of the girl that I love the only love I haven't screwed up she's so hard to please but she's a forest fire i do my best to meet her demands play at romance, we slow dance" and taylor swift said "and I think you should come live with me and we can be pirates then you won't have to cry or hide in the closet and just like a folk song our love will be passed on"

Illicit affairs is also girl #2

taylor choosing a genre that emphasizes the clarity of her voice and the absolute unstoppable power of her songwriting skills to deliver an album almost entirely about the experience of growing up / finding love / losing love as a gay woman….. hello….