A reading of Bejeweled by Taylor Swift to support the glass teacup theory
Best believe I'm still bejeweled
Taylor is referring to the glass teacup she lives in. She is still there but wants the listener to think of it as a glamorous existence. (For who's sake?)
When I walk in the room
I can still make the whole place shimmer
When Taylor is carried in by Cate the facets in the teacup are designed to exaggerate the play of light, probably a side effect of the enlarging properties of the glass
And when I meet the band
They ask, "Do you have a man?"
I can still say, "I don't remember"
The "man" here is a reference to the hero of myth that can answer the riddle (or defeat Cate in some other form as some of my peers think). Taylor does not mean an actual man, but is evoking the archetype and then denying it in the next line. She is signalling that if she becomes aware of the hero figure they will cease to have narrative power.
Familiarity breeds contempt
Whatever the relationship between Cate and Taylor in previous aeons it has soured after so long forced in each other's company
Don't put me in the basement
When I want the penthouse of your heart
A call for a new, dedicated guardian
Diamonds in my eyes
I polish up real, I polish up real nice
"The eyes are the windows to the soul". Many deny that a being like Taylor has a soul and this lyric perhaps supports that claim. Rather some other material resides there in the spiritual realm.
