#kaylor

So this is from where all the rumours about Taylor dating Zoë Kravitz has been started.

Master post.

LOL what will be their couple name ? TOË

Gaylor Swift everybody!

Dianna Agron kissing a woman in her Halloween costume

No idea what this woman is doing, but arguments can be made she’s been planning since lover

Carve your name into my bedpost

Carve your name

Kar, your name

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.

Throughout the Rep era, I’ve been ~very~ annoyed by the J necklace, even though it’s an obvious stunt, a copy of previous T necklaces that matched Karlie’s K, she didn’t really wear it to Abi’s wedding, etc. It still really got under my skin, especially in the making of Call It What You Want video. I love that song so much, and it just rubbed me the wrong way to see it so cloaked in lies. 

But I think the true proof that this necklace is a stunt and nothing more came in the making of This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things video, where we see Tay in a hoodie, working with Jack, casually figuring out the music to the bridge: 

She’s wearing the necklace, but it’s underneath the hoodie – you know, the way literally any necklace would be with literally any hoodie in the history of time. But then, later in the video, when they’ve just started filming again because they’re ready to lay down vocals, look what magically appears:

Wow, it’s the necklace! It’s out for this quick one-minute segment while TS gets ready to sing, and then she waves goodbye to the camera before they shut it off to start recording. 

Part of the magic of these “making of” videos is how natural they feel, how much they let us into Taylor’s private world to watch her make music. But we can’t forget that these videos – like everything else – are meticulously chosen, edited, and some, like the last minute of this one, are staged. Here we have a carefully filmed minute where Tay has placed the necklace in full view even though it obviously would never normally be visible under a huge hoodie, and then she waves goodbye, letting us know that SHE knows this isn’t an organically filmed segment – the purpose of it is for us to see it. 

This video tells us, plain as day, that the necklace is a stunt. It’s not a natural/organic part of Taylor’s life; it’s something she deliberately shows us when she wants to appease the T*es. After I saw this video, I felt much better about the necklace in general. It’s just another costume, just another red herring on the way to her real endgame. 

Side note: anyone know who that model is tacked up on the wall next to Tay? I googled around for a bit but couldn’t find the photo.

Taylor Swift-right where you left me