♠️ The Turn Of The Decade Befalls The Facade. - 11/09/2019

this may be the best thing I have ever seen

I needed this

Just posting this in case any fellow Swifties need to see this!

Also a reminder that if anyone needs a chat my messages are always open 💕

@taylorswift

Make an analysis of Lover and it’s MV. I would especially love to hear your thoughts about the bridge. It’s so heartbreakingly beautiful. 😭🤧

Ok ok. Let’s settle in because I’m going to talk about a lot of stuff in this post.

It’s starts out with the girl sitting on the living room floor of a modest, sort of suburban house on Christmas morning, alone, looking at her new snow globe. Inside the snowglobe is a large house. Taylor said this was inspired by the snow globe mentioned in YAIL, about “her friends” falling in love. Of course I believe YAIL is about when she and KK fell in love. The snow globe metaphor doesn’t really make sense being about anyone else. But it fits kaylor perfectly (VSFS13, and also the glass closet.)

Home is an important theme is this album, especially in this song but I’d also argue that it is what Cornelia St is about. And it’s referenced in INTHAF. Home is a place, but it’s also a feeling. Feels like home. And I think that her person is what feels like home to her. And since they have a secret love, home is the only place they can truly be themselves. Wherever that home is at any given moment.

So having this video for this song, which is the title track of the album and TS has said is her favorite song she’s written, take place in their imaginary home (and a future home with a family) I think is very important.

As we enter the house our first visual is a long zoom into a long hallway full of doors covered in Christmas lights.

I almost immediately thought of the 1989 tour visuals for IKP:

 https://youtu.be/mfIuMrXxkcI.

I just reblogged a couple of posts about this tour visual which I think is extremely interesting. To summarize, it represents the surreal nature of the closet. IKP was written in Jan 2014 and I believe it is about how she would approach her new relationship with KK, and the tour visuals would have been created after kissgate. When you watch it, please note the Magritte imagery and the panther wearing a Magritte bowler hat, and that there are no panthers anywhere in this song (KK’s fashion nickname is the panther, and Magritte’s main theme in his art is playing with perceptions and the bowler symbolizes hiding in plain sight.)

Another thing I noticed in this tour visual is the hallway turns upside down toward the end: 

This reminds me of the orange room in the Lover video, which is also a very surreal place.

Ok, so now that we’ve established a link to IKP and that is set in Jan 2014, let’s move into the rest of the video.

We start off with the two of them hanging pictures in the green room. Green represents newness and hanging pictures is symbolic of settling into a new place. In this case, the home represents their early relationship. Next we have them in the surreal orange room, playing games on the ceiling. I’ve mentioned before we have multiple references to them playing games at the start of their relationship. And here they are literally playing games in this upside down, surreal world of the closet. I would also argue that orange girl from the YNTCD MV represents a closeted lesbian who lives in the gaylor park but who doesn’t participate in any of the activities, because she can’t, and she is eating oranges whole, which adds a surrealism to the scene. And of course we have Taylor in orange in the giant cage in the LWYMMD video. So orange=closet. Closet=surreal.

Next we move into the Red room. But first we glimpse the two of them frolicing up the stairs. They are giddy. You can really see the excitement of a new relationship. This is the sort of mood captured in I Think He Knows.

On the wall is a painting of…a fox hunt.

HANG AWN, is that a IKP reference? 

They dance in the red room and TS sings happily on her guitar. The love interest is wearing a yellow tie and pants that matches TS’ yellow dress. The red room is the only room where their clothes don’t match the color of the room. So I think the yellow clothes are an important symbol of happiness (sunshine/golden) and this may indicate that even though they are in the red room, this love isn’t red, or at least not all red. It’s golden.

And then we cut to a…blue sink?

What the heck? why would you show a sink? Just a sink. A close up and a long shot of. a. sink. It must mean something. HANG AWN is that a reference to ships sinking? Well not this time! Ha, you see what I did there? So we’ve moved into the blue room, which contains the fishbowl. TS agreed this room represents 1989 era and that the fishbowl represents her lover jumping into her fishbowl life without hesitation. So what we’ve seen so far is the implementation of the plan from IKP (glass closeting, Tree was hired, they are BFFs to the public.)

We continue switching from room to room showing various scenes of domestic bliss. There’s a lot of dancing. Remember TS called KK her favorite person to dance with.

But then, a change. Instead of just the two of them, now there is a party. It’s new years and they’ve invited others into their home. The love interest’s yellow tie has turned orange

and Taylor seems to get jealous as another woman hits on him. His reassuring smile should calm her jealousy but instead it leads to a fight. I believe this represents them hiding their relationship from the public. Again, orange represents the closet. So someone is hitting on her love right in front of her because no one knows they are together. I don’t think this is an actual New Years Party scene that happened. In fact I think the whole New Years party theme from NYD and here is a metaphor for the party that was the 1989 era. Gazelessstares did a wonderful post about this over a year ago. It’s also a metaphor for how they don’t necessarily get to spend time together at big events like New Years eve anymore, but they get the metaphorical new years day (the quiet, private day that represents the future.)

So they have a fight. This seems to be a big one. Does it represent one fight or an ongoing argument they have about how to handle things? Either way, the middle part of the video shows this difficulty. The love interest tries to reason with her in the bedroom, but TS is not having it. She goes off to be by herself. We see her in every room playing music alone, while her love interest is agonizing over things in the Red room. Finally the love interest joins TS in the attic. She is surprised and happy he joined her, they reconcile and reflect on all their happy times (watching the home movies.) Once again, we have joy in the relationship. This episode solidfies their status and the rest of the video continues with happy domestic scenes in their home, while they are still sometimes seen in the upside down orange room playing PR games.

Finally, we pull out from their rainbow home and come out of the snowglobe and see that the modest home from the opening scene shows the future. They now have a child and are continuing their domestic bliss as a family.

So in summary, I believe this video is telling the chronoglical story of their relationship, from early 2014 to sometime recently, with a lovely glimpse at what they hope for in their future. The brilliant thing about this is that it almost fits just fine with the Toe narrative. This is of course because the Toe narative was designed to mimic kaylor. But one thing I always find fascinating about I Know Places is that she wrote it in the middle of the night and recorded it the next day, with an urgency to make sure it got on the album. In Jan 2014. And yet, she was publicly single at the time. And then when she got into a public relationship more than a year later, she did not follow the advice from IKP. Nor did she for her next public relatioship, 2.5 years after writing IKP. It was only when she was ready to take a break from public life that she got herself a public secret relationship (an oxymoron, but it’s what we have.) 

This video makes me so soft.

⬇︎and all the pieces fall

⬇︎ right into place

⬇︎ get caught up in the moment

⬇︎ lipstick on your face

⬇︎ so it goes

Tbh SR, I think differently than most of your anons/followers. I think that Karlie is already fully done with Jerk or at least by February not March, she is fully done and let me tell you why.

Taylor in Bejeweled MV has a clock that says “exiles ends, 2, 3”. This is clearly their exile. Them finally being seen together in public. Or at least clearing feud rumors.

I think that in Jan Taylor will be either dropping the LH mv, doing something unrelated OR keeping quiet as she is now. Then by February we might see a bit of her, then March as we all guessed is the actual sunrise.

But it won’t be a contract ending, instead a Kaylor reunion. First of all, it’s their anniversary month. Second thing is in the video it says “EXILE ends” that doesn’t sound to me like a contract ending, but their exile ending as in them finally being able to be seen together.

Cause after that scene Taylor takes her cloak off and is walking a runway THEN she meets Dita while wearing a 1989 outfit???? That gives reunion vibes to me.

In my opinion, a Kaylor reunion on tour is the best and most subtle thing they could manage. It’s gonna be the perfect opportunity. It doesn’t have to have any explanation, just one of Taylor’s friends attending one of her shows. Simple. They also pulled it off around 2018. Imo, they will try to do it again. They would kill all the rumors by just one move. Also it’s easier for them cause they won’t be interacting in front of anyone, but just seeing Karlie in the crowd and having Taylor take a photo with her backstage is MORE than enough to give everybody the middle finger.

As Karlie said, Jerk is her last client and her last stunt looks like a last push to the “they tried to work on it” but failed. I think she either will announce the divorce around February or after March, and if I’m right, after her reunion with Taylor on tour.

Also Taylor has been alluding a lot to the “six years” thing since Midnights dropped. First in her LH video she mentioned “six years of weird rumors”. Six years of Kaylor feud weird rumors right?

Then in Glitch “our love blackout”. This all looks like Taylor is definitely reuniting with Karlie to some degree.

I hope I’m right, but I also might be wrong.

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Dorothea

Dorothea is about a fading relationship between the narrator and an old friend. It references a lot of nostalgia, and makes it clear the narrator would welcome the friend back with open arms. It seems to clearly be about Taylor & Karlie Kloss.

[Verse 1]

Hey, Dorothea, do you ever stop and think about me?

When we were younger down in the park

This is a reference to the Big Sur trip tay & k took, where they stopped in many state parks along the way. This was shortly after they met, and seemed to cement their interest in each other.

Honey, making a lark of the misery

You got shiny friends since you left town

Karlie has been seen with many rich and famous friends, some with lesser morals than others (see icky image below). Many of these “friends” are business connections that are included in the circle due to their money or connections.

A tiny screen’s the only place I see you now

There are a couple of meanings to this line - 1) in pandemic times a lot of loved ones are reduced to an image on tiny screens, as we can only FaceTime with them and not spend real time with them. 2) It could also be a reference to not seeing of talking to someone much, and only seeing them on social media, and keeping up with their life that way.

And I got nothing but well-wishes for ya

However, Taylor doesn’t seem bitter in this song. She’s willing to work things out.

[Pre-Chorus]

Ooh, this place is the same as it ever was

Ooh, but you don’t like it that way

As hinted at earlier in the song, here Taylor indicates that Karlie is the one who has changed and Taylor herself has stayed the same. 

[Chorus]

It’s never too late to come back to my side

The stars in your eyes shined brighter in Tupelo

Tupelo is a town in Mississippi.  Karlie is from St. Louis, which is also a town in middle America, however Taylor already talked about St. Louis in LGAD and she probably figured it would be too obvious to do it twice in six months.

And if you’re ever tired of bеing known for who you know

Karlie’s alleged sister-in-law is Iv@nk@ T*$%# and to the GP she’s married to a Ku$hn3r - so she is closely associated with two high-profile criminal families. Press frequently mentions this relation when reporting on Karlie.

You know, you’ll always know me, Dorothea (Uh-uh)

Dorothea (Ah-ah)

This is interesting because a lot of discussion on tumblr talks about karlie cleaning up the ku$hn3r image, but this twists that idea, focusing on karlie instead and pointing out that because shes always cleaning up someone else’s image, now her own image must be cleaned up, and associating with Taylor would do that.

[Post-Chorus]

Ooh, you'rе a queen sellin’ dreams, sellin’ makeup and magazines

This is the most obvious Karlie line, given that she has been on hundreds of magazine covers and ad campaigns, including work for many makeup brands.

Oooh I’d buy anything from you

This line shows Taylor’s love for her, and also has several meanings (like may of these lines). 1) literally she’s saying that Karlie makes the products that she sells look great but 2) she’s also saying that people will “buy it” as in - buy the narrative that Karlie is feeding the GP.

[Verse 2]

Hey, Dorothea, do you ever stop and think about me?

When it was calmer, skipping the prom just to piss off your mom and her pageant schemes

And damn, Dorothea, they all wanna be ya

Karlie has many accomplishments and an incredible career, that makes her life seem enviable…

But are you still the same soul I met under the bleachers? Well…

…but sometimes success changes people, something that Taylor muses on here. Also (this is a bit of a reach) but Taylor frequently uses sun imagery to represent Karlie, making “soul” a fun little word play - “sol” means sun in mythology and in many different languages, so she’s asking if the current life Karlie is living gives her the same energy and joy as she had when she first met Taylor.

[Pre-Chorus]

Ooh, I guess I’ll never know

Ooh, and you’ll go on with the show

This line has two meanings, first being that Karlie is in many fashion shows every single year. The second being that the complicated bearding love triangle is a “show” in and of itself - it’s make believe and it’s for other people to see and be entertained by.

[Chorus]

[Outro]

how have i never noticed

☝️the easter egg

there on the ground

So I know that people are reading into Karlie's seat because it's Karlie. But didn't other celeb guests sit in the bleachers? I feel like Sadie Sink was in a similar seat as Karlie, but maybe that's incorrect?