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ella🏳️‍⚧️ @ellalake.bsky.social · 1d

happy 28th laney <33

ella🏳️‍⚧️ @ellalake.bsky.social · 2d

see, that would make a lot more sense. if HE comes out as gay or bi and is dating a guy, then it obvs has implications re: taylor. it's also easy to see how other people would sensationalize it into him essentially outing taylor bc of the implications of him being gay/bi

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ella🏳️‍⚧️ @ellalake.bsky.social · 2d

hits different bridge and the life of a showgirl (song) first verse?

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ella🏳️‍⚧️ @ellalake.bsky.social · 2d

Also- "Her name was Kitty" makes "Karma is a cat, purring in my lap 'cus she loves me" 10x more gay and it's not even close, idc.

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ella🏳️‍⚧️ @ellalake.bsky.social · 2d

btw I still haven't moved on from "Wow, she came out. I said, you're living my dream"

Let's be completely real- "Argumentative, antithetical dream girl" was really fucking gay and super loud, but it's a drop in the ocean compared to this, and it's not even close.

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ella🏳️‍⚧️ @ellalake.bsky.social · 4d

I mean, there's only so many things you can catch when there's such a constant drip-feeding of new stuff. Hive mind or bust lmao

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ella🏳️‍⚧️ @ellalake.bsky.social · 4d

anyone notice that the track-by-track TLOAS on spotify released october 2nd, and the "main" version released october 3rd?

i'm not being dumb, right? it *definitely* wasn't the track by track that we had first???

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ella🏳️‍⚧️ @ellalake.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, it fits with the whole performance-art narrative. Album released, song named cancelled, articles about Gaylors being crazy- isn't the song the same length as the YNTCD music video as well?

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ella🏳️‍⚧️ @ellalake.bsky.social · 5d

HOLD UP

Does "It's bout to be the sleepless night you've been dreaming of" refer to Hits Different?

Walk with me for a sec- It's not on the album bc it's not from a sleepless night in the past. It's the "til dawn"/wishful *future* sleepless night when she finally walks through the Karma door.

???

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ella🏳️‍⚧️ @ellalake.bsky.social · 5d

i'm your +1

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ella🏳️‍⚧️ @ellalake.bsky.social · 5d

idk if i'm supposed to laugh or sigh anymore?

alexa play cassandra *again*

"gaylors picking apart at the most vague lyrics in 2024 to prove taylor is gay only for tayloe to drop a song where she says another woman is making her wet.

life is funny sometimes"

post from r/charlixcx

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ella🏳️‍⚧️ @ellalake.bsky.social · 5d

i swear to god some of the things people catch is legit advanced code cracking haha, amazing as usual!!!

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ella🏳️‍⚧️ @ellalake.bsky.social · 6d

I think that the Giant Taylor *is* the poet, and that the Anti-Hero music video shows the "Real Taylor" opening the door to Showgirl Taylor. The Real Taylor is buried in Anti-Hero and is dug up again in The Fate of Ophelia by Showgirl Taylor- maybe?

ella🏳️‍⚧️ @ellalake.bsky.social · 6d

Basically, "meet me at midnight" is Real Taylor talking to Showgirl & Poet after being buried alive, and midnight is The Life of a Showgirl- the first time since Lover that all three Taylors have all met.

TLOAS is all of Taylor changing the manuscript- that's my working idea at least???

ella🏳️‍⚧️ @ellalake.bsky.social · 6d

I agree- viewing it through "Three Taylors":

Folklore, Evermore, Midnights, Eras, and TTPD is Showgirl & Poet.

The third, "Real Taylor" was buried alive (Anti-Hero MV) after FCO/Lover and only dug up from the grave sometime between TTPD and TLOAS. Ophelia is Real Taylor talking to Showgirl maybe?

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emm ❤️‍🔥✨(father figure era) @lostinconey.swifties.social · Aug 28

I’d like to now introduce you to our three protagonists, our taylors.

The Poet 🪶, The Showgirl 🐈, and ME! 🌼
credit to - @neverbeenanatural.bsky.social for coining these names <3

Each of these three characters represent one part of Taylor, the writer, the performer, the exiled.

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ella🏳️‍⚧️ @ellalake.bsky.social · 6d

Has anybody pieced together the "It's 'bout to be the sleepless night you've been dreaming of" part of The Fate of Ophelia and these?

I'm currently trying to cook up a surface-level analysis of the themes in TLOAS, and although this is a little too specific for me, I still found it interesting!

screenshot of spotify compilation "folklore: the sleepless nights chapter"

screenshot of unofficial vinyl release "Taylor Swift - Sleepless Nights", including the songs:
A1 - the great war
A2 - bigger than the whole sky
A3 - you're losing me (from the vault)
A4 - hits different
A5 - snow on the beach
B1 - dear reader
B2 - paris
B3 - high infidelity
B4 - glitch
B5 - would've, could've, should've
B6 - karma (feat. ice spice)

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ella🏳️‍⚧️ @ellalake.bsky.social · 7d

bruh imagine if the wedding is uno reverse/double gay marriage situation haha

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ella🏳️‍⚧️ @ellalake.bsky.social · 8d

the final pre-chorus on "wood" has the best instrumentation/music i've heard on a taylor album, maybe ever? (1:30-1:49)

the chord progression, the drums, and THE BASS LICK on 1:42 sounds so good, it's honestly fucked that taylor didn't take me out for dinner before that part made love to my ears

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ella🏳️‍⚧️ @ellalake.bsky.social · 8d

and btw "wish list" doing a glitch cosplay for one bar is funny to me for some reason

start of the chorus is so distracting on first listen, because "i just want you, MHH" literally sounds like "i think there's been a glitch, MHH"

surely it can't be on purpose and mean something, can it?

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ella🏳️‍⚧️ @ellalake.bsky.social · 8d

like, okay-

im taylor swift and i know that charli is aware that im actually gay

i know that charli is'nt gay

yeah, let me do a diss about her and call her gay while basically biting my lip and winking at her

REASONABLE

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ella🏳️‍⚧️ @ellalake.bsky.social · 8d

okayokayokay, assuming it's about charli xcx, "actually romantic" is fucking hilarious LMAO

congrats on doing a "ur gay lmao, but so am i" diss track, taylor, completely reasonable stuff haha

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ella🏳️‍⚧️ @ellalake.bsky.social · 9d

(RE: promo of Taylor directing herself) Seeing discourse on r/popculturechat is interesting, because the terminology and theories our community has developed to understand Taylor's art just looks like weird contradictions outside our bubble.

It feels VERY "Dear Reader was for general audiences" imo

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I'm so confused by this promo. She's in interviews saying how luxurious and opulent she wants this record to be and then is doing hokey stuff like this? Make it make sense."

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I don’t get this shtick where she’s acting like she’s been forced to do the Life of a Showgirl aesthetic and promo and is so awkward and so ungraceful she could never understand or pull of the vision when every other promo has been her fully non ironically embracing the concept as exactly what it is? That we’re supposed to think she’s uncomfortable with the poses that are required of her to promote this era? Doesn’t that just make the entire theme wholly inauthentic?

I’m excited for the music based on the producers but this whole aesthetic and era hasn’t hit for me."

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ella🏳️‍⚧️ @ellalake.bsky.social · 10d

got a dm just now as well, i guess it's probably best to just ignore for now?

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ella🏳️‍⚧️ @ellalake.bsky.social · 10d

What if "Cancelled!" is when the *real* Taylor effectively ends the entire show that TaylorTM has been starring in?

Like, the album being "The *LIFE* of a Showgirl". The album is the story of TaylorTM's life as a showgirl, and how the *real* Taylor is now ending that chapter???

Concept album pls?

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