#gaylor
have you said i love you to your gf yet today or will taylor swift have to do it from a man’s perspective?
it’s not that i want to push sexuality on anyone or out anyone but taylor’s not even trying anymore. the only thing she hasn’t dont is explicitly say “i’m bi” or whatever she may identify as. She dressed in the Bi flag colors, constantly writes songs with extremely sapphic undertones, and advocates strongly for the LGBTQ+ community. The only reason more ppl don’t realize it is the heteronormative culture we live in. and frankly i don’t blame taylor for not coming out (if she is bi) because she would probably face a lot of hate because a lot of people hate her for whatever she does
Ppl are like “kaylor stans work so hard to find tiny things that don’t prove anything” and then turn around and insist that “there’s no way James could be a girl, I don’t care if Taylor’s named after James Taylor, or if Taylor’s Bff Blake Livey has a daughter named james or if Rachel from Friends (one of taylor’s fave shows) wanted to name her daughter James. Don’t care! it’s a boys name.” Homophobes work hardest
It’s honestly laughable how much people don’t wanna think Taylor isn’t straight now. I don’t know who you are but it needs to stop. Taylor gets away with saying “I wrote this from the male perspective about myself” way too much. Can no one else see how thinly vailed of an excuse that is? Is it really such a crazy idea that shes just saying that to get away with writing about girls while not being out?. Specifically in this case This Is What You Came For her writing from Calvin’s perspective about herself is laughable. It’s more than a little self indulgent and self observed to write a song about yourself from someone else’s point of view about your own relationship. You would really rather believe thatvTaylor is that self absorbed and not that she used the “male perspective” excuse because she wanted to get away with writing about a girl while not being out herself? Wow do you need a drink to help wash down that back hole sized dose of homophobia
this!! also the music is so ridiculously personal, and obviously she’s rly talented and could write things that seems rly personal and arent, but she’s so calculated in everything she does and i refuse to believe that the feelings she writes about could be fictional.
On a similar note, ppl refusing to see the relationships in songs like seven because “they could just be rly close friends you never know” is pretty ridiculous. Yes close female friendships are a thing duh, and if it was an artist who has had literally no reference to being attracted to women, then going down the friendship route is solid but in this case, there are just hundreds of signs pointing towards ✨gay✨ and if u refuse to acknowledge it u need to sort out ur internalized homophobia
I made kaylor art.
now you can have it framed in your home just like Taylor :)
available for purchase on society6
also available in color & an evermore version
a relic from a messier Red era
not now dad I’m preparing for Red (TV) !!
just thinking about the line “cause it’s late and your mama don’t know” through a gaylor lens
taylor sang folklore on that doc with way too much emotion for any of that to have been based on ‘an imaginary world’
1. “Whisky on ice, Sunset & Vine” – I’ve seen numerous posts claiming that this lyric alludes to the gay club scene in West Hollywood, which is objectively false! (Sunset & Vine is a good couple miles east of Fairfax, where WeHo really begins.) This intersection is much closer to the douchey straight clubs where TS would ~never~ be seen (but CH probs would? also closer to ThaiTown, where he had his own Vine issues on Sunset, just sayin’). However, if you wanted a whisky on ice at the exact corner of Sunset & Vine, there’s only one good option: The Hungry Cat, a terrific seafood spot (mmhmm) and cocktail bar whose name refers to the cats in the song as well as, y’know, other stuff. ;)
2. “Making forts under covers” – On its surface, this a cute reference to blanket and pillow forts, which fits with the other innocent and childlike lyrics in this verse (“trust him like a brother,” “starry eyes”). But I’m slain by what a perfect mirror this is for the opening lyric: Her castle crumbled overnight, so now she has to build an undercover fort with her lover, someplace stronger and more secret than what she had before. The mirrored language supports the idea that both these lyrics reference the same topic. Does it make more sense for TS to draw a direct parallel between Kimye and her “secret” relationship with J*e (two things that have nothing to do with one another), or between kissgate and her (actual) secret relationship with Karlie?
3. “We wait for trains that just aren’t coming” – I’m so pissed at myself that this one only occurred to me after I wrote a whole post on “New Romantics,” but the simplicity is genius: No one is waiting for TS to get on a literal train; the train we’re waiting for (especially her fans who insist that every new six-week rs is “the one”) is attached to the back of a wedding dress. Back in 2014, before marriage equality was the law of the land, that train was *definitely* not coming. But here in 2018, for so many of us queer women & femmes who are lucky enough to be able to live openly, our trains have finally arrived.
I’m still in the early stages of listening to the album, but wanted to do a quick compilation of lyrics that stand out to me as particularly queer. Lots of folks have been asking me for this, so here they are, along with explanations geared toward people who don’t spend a ton of time on Kaylor tumblr for easy sharing with your more skeptical friends. ;) Enjoy!
“Cruel Summer”
“Bad, bad boy, shiny toy with a price, you know that I bought it” – refers to bearding contracts where men are literally paid to be Taylor’s public boyfriends, whether in money or publicity, songwriting credits, etc. Tom Hiddleston and Calvin Harris are the most obvious examples of these.
“I don’t want to keep secrets just to keep you” – What about J*e is (or ever has been) secret? She’s been dating him publicly since October of 2016, the month after she supposedly broke up with Tom. He’s a straight white guy. No one has any objection to him except that he’s boring. If this relationship is real, what secrets, exactly, is Swift keeping?
“And I snuck in through the garden gate every night that summer just to seal my fate.” – Guess whose apartment has a garden gate? Correct. Karlie Kloss.
“The Man”
“What’s it like to brag about raking in dollars and getting bitches and models?” – The conceit of this song is not what Taylor would do if she were a man, but how she would be treated if she did the exact same things she does now. So…bragging about sleeping with models? Noted.
“I Think He Knows”
“His hands around a cold glass make me want to know that body like it’s mine” – Leaving aside the male pronoun (sigh), the word “mine” has two meanings here: I want to know your body like it belongs to me, and I want to know your body as well as I know my own. The second thing could work for a male body, but boy does the lyric make more sense if she’s dating a woman.
“He got my heartbeat skipping down 16th Avenue” – This line refers to Music Row in Nashville (she’s writing songs about her lover, so good), but it’s also another street: The main drag (pun intended) of the fictional gay town from Taylor’s “You Need to Calm Down” video. Why would a straight guy make her heart pitter patter down a gay gay street?
(Credit@dixiechicksswift for this one)
“Paper Rings”
Not my fav song tbh, but it undoubtedly hits on several queer themes in Taylor’s work: going from friends to something more, picture frames (a motif from “How You Get the Girl,” a Very Gay Song), and substituting the public jewelry you could wear with a public (straight) partner for the symbolic jewelry you wear with a private (queer) partner, i.e. “picture of your face in an invisible locket,” a lyric from additional Very Gay Song “Dancing With Our Hands Tied.”
“Cornelia Street”
One of Taylor’s three solo writing credits on the album, a gorgeous love song without a hint of no homo. Taylor’s Cornelia Street rental was frequently visited by – you guessed it – Karlie Kloss.
“Baby, I get mystified by how this city screams your name.” This could be a reference to any city where you have a meaningful relationship, but it’s another level when the city is New York and Karlie is regularly on billboards in Times Square.
“Jacket ‘round my shoulders is yours” – I absolutely love how this lyric takes a straight trope (a man giving a woman his jacket) and puts a queer twist on it – girlfriends sharing clothes.
“Barefoot in the kitchen” – Taylor and Karlie famously love to bake together, and baking has been a big motif of this era, including sweet treats on Taylor’s insta and baking videos in the “Lover” lyric video.
There are 13 seconds of silence at the end of this track – to my mind, this means that Taylor is telling us there’s something she’s not telling us.
“False God”
This track continues the theme of Taylor’s lover being her religion that she began so skillfully on “Don’t Blame Me.” When you think about relationships that religion frowns upon, what kind of relationships do you think about?
“Religion’s in your lips…the altar is my hips” – Um, guys. Guys. Hey. Guys.
“You’re the West Village” – If you’re wondering whether Karlie’s apartment (you know, the one with the garden gate) was in the West Village, do you really have to ask? (It was.)
“Afterglow”
“Fighting with a true love is boxing with no gloves” – Karlie and Taylor famously had a (very sexy) boxing match in the “Bad Blood” video.
“It’s Nice to Have a Friend”
This dreamy little track chronicles the progression of a childhood friendship into a mature romance. The song is very feminine, with moments like “Something gave you the nerve to touch my hand” (paralleled in “Gorgeous”), and as Jill Gutowitz pointed out, it literally replays the plot of Carol. Also, this:
“Have my back, yeah every day” (credit @karlies for this one)
“Daylight”
What really got me on this track was the spoken outro, where Taylor says, “I want to be defined by the things I love.” To me, this is so, so powerful. For queer people, being defined by who we love can be scary and dangerous. It can mean being kicked out of our homes, fired from our jobs, or even murdered. But at the end of the day, it’s such a beautiful way to identify ourselves and our community. We are who we are because of who we love. It’s a good thing, not a bad thing. And I absolutely adore Taylor for saying so, even if she’s not ready to say it about herself just yet.
-ORANGE: The GAME ROOM where they play UPSIDE DOWN CHESS I mean truly her mind.
-PINK: The bedroom, ya know, a place for ladies.
-DEEP BLUE: The dining room, a public place for guests to see – also a place where Taylor plays a sad tiny piano and a sad violin.
-CLEAR/PALE BLUE: The bathroom, a place where no one should be able to see you (unless that’s what you’re into, go off), is a fishbowl here, a symbol that the public feels it has a right to examine Taylor’s most intimate secrets from every angle – and her lover climbs in beside her, because she’s worth it. (Who could stay? My heart!)
-SCARLET:The living room where the New Year’s party is held, the color of inflamed passions and raging jealousy (interesting that this room wasn’t green with envy!). Interesting that this is the only room where Taylor and her lover’s outfits don’t match the decor.
-GREEN:The music room, not one of the more symbolically rich rooms in the house. Could be connecting music to nature (the human need to create) as well as to money (never forgetting that music is Taylor’s business and her career as well as her art).
-RED:The front hall, the beating heart of the home, through which Taylor and her lover can get everywhere they want to go.
-YELLOW: The closet, where Taylor takes her heart (deep blue) and dresses it golden, and climbs a ladder into…
-THE ATTIC: The only room in the house that isn’t painted, where Taylor can access her memories and see her true self, where she can be all different sides of her personality at once. The only way to reach this special place is to climb through the closet.
-OUTSIDE:The rest of the world is black and white. But inside, Taylor and her lover are in screaming color.
Taylor Swift is on tiktok now so in a few weeks we can expect news that she is bisexual and also has adhd
Forever going with the flow, but you’refriction
every time a girl gets over some dude Taylor Swift gains strength to get closer to becoming immortal
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