muses: the red lover and the 1989 heartbreaker
I cannot get out of my mind just how messy the falling in love songs on Red are in terms of the Timeline and when they were written if they are supposed to be about men.
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Letās take EHC, Come Back... Be Here, and Treacherous.
Itās just three songs but the male muses associated w them are very confusing.
Letās take Come Back... Be Here.Ā Taylor wrote this song with Dan Wilson sometime in spring 2012.Ā Itās about someone who has to leave her and travel for work just after theyāve gotten involved.
Conor Kennedy is out - he was 17 and as far as we know they hadnāt met yet and he also wasnāt travelling anywhere...he was a child in high school.
You would think Harry would fit but Taylor meets him supposedly on March 31, 2012 (and goes to a house party at Diannaās that nightšāāļø) and then go to NYC (Dianna in tow of course šāāļø) together.Ā Haylor (plus Dianna šāāļø) is in NYC together for about a week and then Taylor goes to Nashville, Harry goes to Australia, and Dianna stays in NYC.Ā Harry never makes it to London beforeĀ ācheating on Taylorā by being papped kissing a girl at the end of April 2012, thus ending their short romance before he ever returns back to London.Ā During their spring fling he was never in NYC without her, nor was he ever in London without her.
Dianna goes to London a couple times that Spring.
So we have either a mystery man (some hetlors say Jake and one really enthusiastic Zac Efron fan tries to make it about him) or Dianna fitting the song.
Treacherous was written that spring as well again with Dan Wilson and she easter eggs Harry in the liner notes, as well as tying it back to him by saying itās about the same muse as the IKYWT muse and very acutely letting everyone know IKYWT isĀ āabout Harryā as well.
So the muse is either Harry or ofc, possibly Dianna who she was inseparable from that spring.
And finally we know she wrote Everything Has Changed on May 15th, 2012 due to to her tweeting about writing the song with Ed.Ā She easter eggs Conor in the Liner notes withĀ āHyiannis portā but as far as we know she had not met him at that point.Ā Dianna (with that iann in her name too!) was ofc at Hyannis with Taylor as well.Ā Furthermore if the lineĀ āmeet me there tonightā in EHC is to be taken literally, well Taylor literally did go and have dinner that night with Dianna.
So the muse for EHC is either Conor (though as far as we know they hadnāt met yet, he was still 17 at that point) or Dianna.
Three āfalling in love songsā on the Red album, and three different male muses (a mystery man, Conor, and Harry) OR Dianna fitting the thread for ALL of them.
Furthermore, wouldnāt it make sense if the falling in love muse was the breakup muse on 1989?Ā Like wouldnāt Taylor fall for someone on one album and the falling songs follow the same thread for the songs sheās writing about on the following album if she had broken up with that person?
Where are the breakup songs for Conor?Ā If he inspired emotion as beautiful as displayed in EHC why arenāt there breakup songs about him?Ā What about the mystery guy from Begin Again or Come Back... Be Here?Ā They were worth writing love songs about but no breakup songs?
All the breakup songs on 1989 are supposed to be about Harry.
Treacherous seems to be about the same muse as Style, Wonderland(which btw, Alice in Wonderland was Diannaās entire personality back in the day), and IKP (driving around late at night, and a desperation to keep the relationship a secret).
AYHTDWS and IWYW (oh btw itās about an ex that moved near her, written in 2013, Harry didnāt move to LA until 2014 while Dianna moved near Taylor in summer 2013 šāāļø) could be viewed up as a follow up to Come Back... Be Here wishing again her lover would come back or had stayed with her.Ā But CBBH doesnāt fit for Harry though weāre supposed to believe the 1989 tracks are for him.
And most blatant mirroring we get is EHC vs. Clean.Ā In EHC the butterflies are theĀ beautifulful kind and Taylor is dusting off her highest hope.Ā In Clean the butterflies have turned to dust.Ā The rain pours down on her in both songs.
But EHC is supposed to be about Conor according to the liner notes and Taylor nearlyĀ said Clean was about Harry when she said she was inspired to write the song about her ex when she was in the same city as him in London.
Meanwhile Dianna ebs and flows throughout Taylorās life from fall 2011 to early 2014, showing up again and again during supposed Haylor moments šāāļø, tweetingĀ āDATEMEā at Taylor, acting sus in interviews about Taylor (referring to her and Taylor asĀ āweā when talking about the Kennedyās accepting them into the fold, insanely sayingĀ āI cannot sayā when asked about Taylor dedicating songs to her on the Red album), posting to Tumblr about secret love, tweeting at Taylor the simpiest stuff youāve ever seen, as Taylor tweets about Glee and shows up on the Glee setĀ ājust to see whoās thereā, and then they getĀ āoutedā and Dianna deletes her public tumblr, posts aboutĀ ālost loveā to her private tumblr, and Taylor ignores Diannaās birthday and texts Austin about regretting all her decisions.
Then Ten months later Taylor writes Clean and says sheās 10 months sober, 13 months after she broke up with Harry?
So Taylor fell for three different guys on the Red Album and then wrote a break up album about only one or them...
Itās Dianna, who fits all these falling in love songs on Red given the Timeline of Events and who disappears from Taylorās life just as Taylor starts to write 1989 mysteriously, despite being special best bestie throughout the Red era.
Which makes more sense to yāall?