I hope this 31st year brings you new growth, new challenges, and much more love. I hope you take some time for yourself to reflect, rest, relax and reset. Then take a little more time to celebrate with people who make you feel whole and loved for who you are. 🥳🎉
Happy 31st, girlie 💛☀️
So now that The Alcott has officially been released I wanted to do an analysis of some of the lyrics and how I think they might relate to Taylor. Disclaimer: I know Aaron said Matt wrote the main parts of the song and Taylor only added the dialogue parts so many of these connections might be a coincidence, but I also think it’s possible Taylor could have had more input on the song than they’re letting on since there are so many themes and motifs that perfectly relate back to Taylor’s music. This is just meant to be a fun clown theory
Like many others pointed out, the whole first verse is very “Help I’m still at the restaurant, still sitting in a corner I haunt, cross legged in the dim light, they say ‘what a sad sight’” and seems like the opposite pov of RWYLM
“It’s the last thing you/I wanted, it’s the first thing I/you do, I tell you that I think I’m falling back in love w/ you” // “I love you ain’t that the worst thing you ever heard” // “Uh oh I’m falling in love, oh no I’m falling in love again”
“I had to do something to break into your golden thinking” // “Lost in the labyrinth of my mind…you would break your back to make me break a smile”— this is directly related to the following ⬇️
“And there you are sitting as usual w/ your golden notebook, writing something about someone who used to be me…I sit there silently waiting for you to look up” // “Did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen, time moved on for everybody else, she won’t know it, she’s still 23 inside her fantasy, how it was supposed to be…and you’re sitting in front of me” -> Taylor is stuck in her own head reminiscing and writing about the past (the golden age) and this person sitting in front of her is trying to break her out of this nostalgic escapist mindset. I think this may be a direct reference to the film Midnight in Paris which is all about nostalgia and escapism–much like the song Paris on the Midnights 3am edition–and specifically to golden age thinking, a phrase used in that film. Here are some tidbits that I think are worth noting
@chickawah23 made a really great post about the possible Midnight in Paris connections. Here’s a screenshot from that post that does a good job summarizing the important parallels
There definitely seems to be a connection between Midnights, the stories of 13 sleepless nights, and the folklore chapters that were released in Aug 2020, specifically the sleepless nights and escapism chapters. I think it’s interesting that exile is the last track of the first chapter and first track of the second chapter–almost like the second chapter is a direct continuation of the first which again links Midnights to this escapism theme. And there’s been a lot of exile references lately (exile ends, doors, 8/3, etc)
Even though the back and forth dialogue between Taylor and Matt at first sounds argumentative, I think it could also be read in a positive way. This person is going to ruin and wreck Taylor’s plans and Taylor is going to gladly let them. She welcomes the curse on their house. “I’m begging for you to take my hand wreck my plans that’s my man” // “For you I would ruin myself a million little times” // “I wish to know the fatal flaw that makes you long to be magnificently cursed…He’s gonna burn this house to the ground…So yeah it’s a fire it’s a goddamn blaze in the dark and you started it” // “Dear reader, burn all the files, desert all your past lives” // Taylor is the one that chooses to burn the lover house down. She’s the one holding the lighter on the Midnights album cover and striking the match in the lavender haze mv (here’s a really great post about what that might signify). Furthermore, the willow performance and description make me think that the curse on Taylor’s house was actually her own doing–she’s not only letting this person wreck her plans but is helping them do so. So the burning, wrecking, ruining, cursing/spell casting are all metaphors for the same thing—destroying Taylor’s closet and possibly her career as a result of that
Honorable mention: The beat almost sounds like a heartbeat no? Wildest Dreams??
☀️🦶🏻💕
"... 'Cause we lost track of time again
Laughing with my feet in your lap
Like you were my closest friend..."
"...You'll find me on my tallest tip-toes
Spinning in my highest heels, love
Shining just for you..."
"I want auroras and sad prose
I want to watch wisteria grow
Right over my bare feet
'Cause I haven't moved in years
And I want you right here"
🌼❤☀️
The colors for August. 😂 🌈
Caught the last part of it 🌈🌈🌈
I think we need to revisit this poem now that Taylor is free. Any of you smart, analytical people want to give this another look:
Tomorrow is kissgate anniversary! Time to blast dancing w our hands tied🤧
Do you think we will any taylor’s chaotic shenanigans?
Honestly I am not sure lol. But keep an eye on her tiktok likes today lol.
Happy anniversary to the hot mess that was this concert and the clean up job we witnessed thereafter lol
Happy anniversary to Karlie directing Lily and Martha to get Taylor in the car and where they should sit
Happy anniversary to Drunk Taylor liking Tumblr posts about kaylor afterwards
Happy anniversary to the quickly scrapped PR relationship roll out of Matt Healy and Taylor lol
Happy anniversary to news and gossip bloggers using more ambiguous parts of the video footage to make it easier to say they were not kissing lol
Ps we all know JK was there that night doesn’t change what happened. Lol
She messed up the “dorothea” after “if you’re ever tired and being known for who you know you know you’ll always know me.”
So this foot kept me up at night...
so I did some digging...
and
and is this..
#kk #ts
Karlie foreshadowing Taylor's work - Midnights (rough list) Click on links for original posts!!
Midnights album (announcement day)
Labrinth songs - Track 11 Labyrinth
Juliet balcony - Bejeweled mv
Paris at 15 Hits Different - Track 16 Paris + Bonus Track Hits Different
Tiktok "I've been awake since 3am) - 3AM tracks
Revenge dress - Track 8 Vigilante Shit
Lavender IG stories - Lavender Haze announcement/mv (next day)
*thinks about the cabin in the Never Grow Up lyric video*
(And that’s just the most recent one.)