Beautiful ‘Red’ Album Things:
Beautiful ‘Red’ Album Things:
The guitar slide right before the chorus of State of Grace where the sound amps up and how it all resembles the described relationship which starts out beautiful and then suddenly falls apart and explodes in heartbreak
The background vocals singing “uh oh” in State of Grace to symbolize how the seemingly beautiful relationship is heading for compete disaster
Taylor repeating the second verse of State of Grace as a background vocal right before the song ends
Ending the first song with “love is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right” as a warning of things to come
How the mini guitar solo in “Red” almost sounds like someone in hysterics
The gradual build up of instrumentals and vocals throughout Treacherous that works off the metaphor of the relationship being a dangerous slope/path to travel, as if the further in the song she gets, the steeper the path becomes and more she has to exert to keep going
The build up of the beat right before the bass drops in IKYWT just like how the relationship suddenly exploded
How the beat and instrumentals stop in IKYWT when she screames “Hey!” right before the chorus like a sudden realization that she’s all alone or it’s all her fault
How the pre-choruses and choruses in IKYWT get more beat and vocals as the song goes on and as she becomes more helpless and angry
All Too Well
“Maple Lattes”
How the “hey!” and “it feels like one of those nights” in 22 have a lot of vocal layers to give the feeling of a big group of friends yelling
“Who’s Taylor Swift anyway? Ew!”
How no other vocals but Taylor’s are present in I Almost Do, which is also shown in the song credits in the album booklet
The background vocal at the end of chorus of I Almost Do sounding like a ghost or a fading voice, which echoes how she is haunted by the relationship but can’t quite get herself to go back to it
The entire fact that WANEGBT is a pop song because the person it’s about looked down upon pop music
“With some indie record that’s much cooler than mine”
The sound of a record being suddenly stopped on a record player at the end of the bridge and how that relates to the last bullet point
“That’s so fun” at the end of Stay Stay Stay
How Taylor puts extra syllables in the rhythm at “now you carry my groceries and I”m always laughing” in Stay Stay Stay which resembles how the relationship goes beyond her expectations
How she put The Last Time right after Stay Stay Stay
The two point of views in The Last Time
The difference in urgency and volume and emotion between Gary Lightbody’s and Taylor’s voices to signify the dynamics of the relationship and break up
How Taylor’s voice lasts a little bit longer than Gary’s at the end of The Last Time to show how she was holding on longer
How the Last Time builds up and then suddenly drops everything but their vocals and one chord on a piano to convey the loss
How the background vocals of Holy Ground sound like they’re saying “hooray” even though Taylor has said they’re just ‘sounds of joy’
The urgency of Holy Ground like a memory that comes out of nowhere and fills you with a burst of happiness
How the main guitar line throughout Sad Beautiful Tragic carries the same rhythm as a train on a track and then “I stood right by the tracks and “this train runs off it’s track” and the secret message ”while you were on a train”
How, following that, the secondary guitar line pops in and out whenever she sings important lines like the memories coming back to her
The Lucky One/how it’s track 13/”wouldn’t you like to know”/ “hell”
The fact that The Lucky One was recorded in LA and Taylor never toured to Madison Square with Red or 1989 and then admitted to making us believe TS5 was going to be about roses with pics of her rose garden, like that’s some next level shit
“Good to go?”/Ed Sheeran
How Everything Has Changed sounds like an Ed Sheeran song with Taylor Swift lyrics
How the bridge of Everything Has Changed drops everything but Ed’s guitar and Taylor’s voice to give the feeling of intimacy but then explodes with full instrumentals and more vocals like a sudden burst of joy when the love interest shows up
The change to 1940′s vocabulary in Starlight to tell the story from Ethel’s point of view
The guitar at the beginning of Starlight sounding like stars glistening and then that being echoed in the background by the piano in the chorus
The calmness and softness of Begin Again after the wild ride you just went through
REFERENCING THE MAN/MUSICAL LEGEND/NOW FRIEND SHE WAS NAMED AFTER IN BEGIN AGAIN WHO SHE THEN BEATS FOR A GRAMMY 4 YEARS LATER
“But I do”
“I wear heels now”
How the album takes you through the entire deconstruction of a relationship but brings it full circle with a new love interest at the end and an echoing of hope and begins with an explosive pop rock song about wild love and ends with a gentle country song about easy, childlike love
The deconstruction of the idea of “fate” throughout the ‘story’ of the album and how it leaves you with the message that true love happens but it’s up to you to make it work and to play love “good and right” and that love should be easy and built on a solid foundation
Every lyric on this album
The Grammys fucked up
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After Taylor's whirlwind trip to Kansas City the one detail that was said that lifted my spirit was Taylor packed a candle to take with her. I remember Harry saying one time that he takes a candle with him on tour. So Haylors, it's been a long road, but our Twin Flames are still burning. I feel re-energized.
Yes they are always gonna be linked. They are both going through a healing process. They need to finish healing from the past before they can be in union.
Rebecca Fergusonas Chrissy Eriksson in Episode 09 of ‘Ocean Ave’ (2002)
From Taylor’s old Instagram feed.
Harry Styles’ mum just tweeted a buzzfeed article filled with pictures of harrys head on taylors body that is so funny what the fuck lmao
My short ‘…Ready For It?’ lyric analysis and how it’s definitely about Harry:
The line about the girls he had loved and left fits her description of him in the 1989 vault songs, especially ‘Is It Over Now?’ with the models and Taylor clones he has been sleeping with.
The haunted and ghost line?!?! That is a 1989 staple line, on reddit I saw someone making a whole ass data sheet about the amount of times she says ghosts-related terms in all of the albums and 1989 had the highest ratio/percentage compared to the rest. Also, Harry’s ‘Two Ghosts’?!?!?
Ghosts = haylor.
“Some boys trying to hard, he don’t try at all” = similar to lyrics in ‘Slut’, “In a world of boys, he’s a gentleman”.
“Younger than all my exes but is such a man” = Harry is her youngest ex (let’s pretend she forgot about Conor Kennedy and it wasn’t a true ex anyway). Joe is older than Harry. Checkmate.
Wildest dreams tea, also I had this theory that they secretly went to an island in 2016, when they still had their situationship going on.
Idk about that robber and heist line but it’s definitely not about Joe lol. Sounds like she’s painting herself as a criminal and him gladly joining along. Like… eloping. Or running away from a crime.
Burton and Taylor is about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, known for their on-off intense relationship that spanned years. Is she talking about Joe, who she only knew at best for 6 months? (album was released Nov 2017 but she only got with Joe in Sept 2016 and she probably wrote the song earlier). OFC NOT.
The themes in this song does not match all the Joe-confirmed songs about him later too. We can only surmise, she’s singing about another dude.
‘Every love I’ve known in comparison is a failure, I forget their names now’ - Taylor’s being annoying and hyperbolic when she wrote this (don’t take her seriously) but yeah that’s why you are still writing about Harry in 2022 with Question..? and Maroon. Also I’m pretty sure she forgot about Conor, Calvin, Tom Hiddleston, and most of the dudes she dated before Harry.
Games = their on-off situationship. I said what I said.
There it is, my 5 minute song lyric analysis. Hope y’all are enlightened.
https://youtu.be/b6w5DUzqz1g?si=DnoOWz99kkl4H-dq
I think you guys are going to enjoy this reading on Taylor’s future spouse from today. Here are my highlights:
She’ll be married in less that three years (she’ll be married before she’s 38). It’ll be around the winter or fall season.
She knows this person already, it’s one of her exes.
He makes her happy and they laugh a lot together.
They’re very similar people and have known each other for lifetimes.
He’s got an outgoing persona.
They could be a confrontational person (perhaps contrarian?)
In Taylor’s head she knows it always come back around to this person.
He is giving a lot of Aquarius energy.
Their connection is very strong.
They’re not very far off in age.
Random: he likes spaghetti (lol) and also very out of the norm foods.
They have very strong sexual tension.
Reader doesn’t think this person is American.
The relationship may be hidden for quite some time.
The number 7 is quite important.
He has dark hair and slightly tan skin.
He’s in the music industry.
They could be twin flames. Reader is “very much” getting that energy.
They have a very “will they won’t they” energy (like Ross and Rachel!)
They failed in the past but they won’t let each other go again. They want to get it right this time.
They have lived similar experiences and have a mutual understanding of each other.
Reader says their energy reminds her of “Cowboy Like Me” in that they’re both good at playing the game in their industry and they’ve both got “tricks up their sleeves.”
They’ve been wanting this for a long time but circumstances and miscommunication and timing have gotten in the way
They want to create together, maybe music
This relationship is very powerful and different from Taylor’s others—it consumes her. He’s always been in her heart.
Public reaction will be split, with some being very supportive and some being haters (not surprising). It won’t be a surprise, though, because they’ve been together in the past.
They always find their way back to each other.
They will be unstoppable together.
They’ll have kids. Maybe two or three.
They’ll feel very free to be themselves with each other.
They will continue to be passionate and challenge each other. Being together completes them.
I really think that they still had something going on in early 2015, but it stopped just before the calcium thing and he had to find out with the rest of the world and that's why he looked so hurt during the bbmas
oh yeah they were hooking up all the way to that party in january 2015. what happened after? we'll never know. but it was sometime between that party and his birthday that things went south. and she was trying to hurt him at the bbmas, and it worked. they acted like fresh new exes, cause they were.
Same anon on Travis Kelce ask. I think what most haylors fail to accept is that Harry has been saying no to Taylor since 2020. The Daylight mv is a good proof. It's about & for Taylor but Harry saying, "If I was a bluebird..." But he is not. He's been yelling at her, so to speak on that megaphone, but she just won't listen. And haylors aren't listening too. I think it's best to help Taylor out as you just did on your answer but not push the Haylor narrative anymore. I just think that's more helpful to blondie.
Should I feel conflicted about calling you “Travis Kelce ask” anon, lol? Thank you for replying.
I don’t agree with the view that “Harry has been saying no to Taylor since 2020”. No about what? I don’t think he would ever be willing to again be part of a banquet of boys with whom she hooks up (no more JALBOYL or Fool’s Gold stuff). So yeah, much firmer boundaries. (If I am being honest, my guess is his unwillingness to do so might have set the stage for May’s MH three weeks of yuck.)
But what I am documenting is the ways they seem to still be communicating, sending messages to each other, whatever the messages might be since their meaning is not fully clear to us fans. I wouldn’t classify that as “pushing the Haylor narrative”. These things are actually happening. I am citing sources and using data, and I am saying it’s spec when it is.
And the Daylight MV is an example, but I disagree with your argument about the Bluebird. I think that reference ties to this poem by Harry’s beloved Bukowski, and it’s a heartbreaker.
The bluebird? Is the vulnerability and softness he feels he can only let out (at night) sometimes (so it doesn’t die) and if he could share it? It would be with *her*.
And look at this timeline I outlined:
He filmed a whole video packed with messages for her on May 10/11, 2022 after weeks (or even months) of planning.
Then SIX DAYS LATER he films a decoy video.
Then he sits on the other Haylor-coded one for nearly FIFTEEN MONTHS. He could have never released it; he has done that before. But he chose to, on July 19, 2023. Why would he do that?
And the Satellite MV. He could have let us wonder who the song was about. But after the May 3rd video release: no more doubt. Blondie. And it was entirely developed after she dropped Question…?
And I do not have firm answers. I am just archiving what is happening.
It’s the same thing with his set list changes. Why add Stockholm Syndrome?
Why drop LOML and add Fine Line?
And her! Why did she make the it so clear that Question…? was about him? Why did she have it on the album at all, holy sh*t. It’s not fair to ask that Blondie, especially since you already know the answers!
Why did she approach him and touch him in public at the Grammys, twice?
Why did she play Question…?, a song that “brings me a lot of happy memories” on May 20th?
These are just some of the very obvious ways they are sending messages. And I don’t have definitive answers. I am noting what I see.
but the theory doesn’t insist on the song being about calvin or joe tho especially joe because it’s before they met? i think maybe she had some parts done in 2015 here but redid it later in 2016 and changed it obviously
Rep Timeline-ish?
Part Two Part One here
2016 cont..
August 29 - "This summer is the apocalypse" Nashville, TN [Lover Journals], Taylor attends jury duty in Nashville
August 31 - Taylor seen in NY
September 2 - Taylor begins writing Gorgeous in Cornelia St apartment
September 6 - Taylor papped leaving gym in NY, writing King Of My Heart
September 9 - Taylor papped leaving gym in NY
September 16 - Still writing Gorgeous - Now in Nashville
September 17 - Taylor attends Music City Wine and Food Festival in Nashville. Writing Gorgeous after festival (same outfit)
September 19 - Taylor flies to NY and attends Max Martin & Shellback studio. (The Swift Life video) Works on Gorgeous, I Did Something Bad, Delicate & King Of My Heart
September 20 - King Of My Heart bridge in LA
September 21 - Records King Of My Heart at Max Martin & Shellback studio.
September 27 - Taylor attends dinner in NYC at the Waverly Inn with Cara, Jack, Lorde, Suki Waterhouse and Sienna Miller
October - November - Harry recording HS1 in Jamaica
October 12 - Taylor & Joe attend Kings of Leon concert at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC, afterparty at The Bowery Hotel. October 15 - Taylor attends Elliot Sumner's party. Delicate is written/recorded somewhere here - See Taylors neck tattoo in making of:
October 21 - "Someday" is released.
October 22 - Taylor performs at F1 in Austin
October 23 - Taylor attends Drakes birthday with golden tattoo
October 28 - Taylor flies to London, MIA
October 31 - Taylor returns to NYC, Deadpool halloween
November 12 - Taylor attends Joe's movie screening at Arclight Theatre: "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" November 23 - Taylor papped in NY
December 09 - I Don't Wanna Live Forever released.
December 28 - Unconfirmed haylor sighting.
2017
January 03 - "Living in London, hiding out. Joe and I have been together 3 months" [Lover Journals]
January 08 - I Don't Wanna Live Forever video filmed in London.
January 11 - Taylor papped leaving gym in LA, attends Conway Studios. (Don't Blame Me recorded at Conway) She's also wearing her "J" necklace in these vids
February 18 - Taylor spotted in London
April 04 - Taylor recording reputation in Nashville (The hair around this time seems to be matching that in the Jack tracks from rep. He's wearing the same T-shirt in Getaway Car & This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things. Call It What You Want is also around here
April 18 - Harry's Rolling Stone interview
April 29 - Harry celebrates the anniversary of April 29.
May 12 - Harry releases HS1
May 14 - Taylor papped in Nashville, leaves for London
Mid May - …Ready For It? recorded at MXM Studios in Sweden
May 18 - Harry on Carpool Karaoke, wears Haylor ring.
May 20 - Haylor anniversary. Harry emotional on stage, sings Landslide with Stevie Nicks.
June 01 - Taylor & Joe leave London for LA, then Nashville
June 03 - Joe & Taylor papped in Nashville
June 11 – Joe disembarks Taylor’s jet in London.
June 18 – Taylor in London for fathers day.
June 30 – Taylor & Joe disembark Taylor’s jet in Rhode Island
July - Harry & Camile
July 15 – End Game written. Ed Sheeran confirms that they started working on it when he was in Mohegan Sun, Connecticut for his Divide Tour and Taylor was staying in RI.
July 19 - Dunkirk released
July 24 – Joe & Taylor papped leaving gym in NYC
August 21 - Taylor films …Ready For It? music video
August 28 - Taylor deletes Instagram
September 03 - …Ready For It? released
Mid September - Taylor writes and records So It Goes. (Final track recorded with Martin & Shellback) Rep mag track listings don't match up indicating last minute adjustments
October 20 - Gorgeous released
October 26 - …Ready For It? MV released
November 02 - Call It What You Want released
November 10 - reputation released
Idk if anyone’s brought this up yet but I am bowled over by
“You search the world for something else to make you feel like what we had” -> “you search in every models bed for something greater”
-> “does it feel like everything’s just like second-best after that meteor strike? and what’s that, that i heard, that you’re still with her, that’s nice, i’m sure that’s what’s suitable….”
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