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god i still can’t get over how she’s wearing the vsfs ring during this clip

ok so august is absolutely from the perspective of the girl James cheated on Betty with

the repetition of “cause you were never mine” and the part where she says “remember when i pulled up and said ‘get in the car’” 

and then in Betty, from James’s perspective, there’s “if i told you it was just a summer thing” and “she said ‘james get in, let’s drive’”

the teenage love triangle is cardigan (Betty), august (girl #2) and Betty (James)

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The implications of 'Cause all the boys and their expensive cars / with their Range Rovers and their Jaguars / Never took me quite where you do 🥹

I’m drunk in the back of the car and I cried like a baby coming how from the bar → to kiss in cars and downtown bars was all we needed → standing in your cardigan, kissing in my car again, stopped at a streetlight, you know I miss you

“You’re on your own, kid” Words by Taylor Swift, art by me :)

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Folklore Lyrics Teased on the Merch Site

“In the trees”

“In the weeds”

“Meet me behind the mall”

“Betty’s garden”

“Stolen lullabies”

“Running like water”

“Clandestine meetings”

“But I knew you / playing hide-and-seek and giving me your weekends / I knew you / your heartbeat on the High Line / once in twenty lifetimes / and when I felt like I was an old cardigan under someone’s bed / you put me on and said I was your favorite” (Cardigan)

I have kind of an alternate theory on this line from “this is me trying”:

Pulled the car off the road to the lookout / Could’ve followed my fears all the way down

I’ve seen a lot of folks interpret it as s*icidal thoughts, which it definitely could be, and if so, I hope Taylor is getting help. 

But what struck me when I listened to folklore as a whole and considered her past work is the idea that jumping off the cliff may symbolize her coming out journey, where finally taking that leap would mean publicly coming out.

Let’s consider for a moment that Taylor’s car ride is her life in general. She’s on the road, always moving forward, always reinventing herself and planning and staying the course. Analyzing Taylor’s use of cars in her music is a whole separate topic, but for the sake of my argument, let’s say this car she’s in on “this is me trying” symbolizes her life’s journey.

She decides to pull the car over to the lookout. She takes a detour from her plans and her forward journey. What does she see when she peers over the edge? Her fears, some of which we can reasonably interpret as her fear of coming out publicly. She doesn’t make the leap, though. Something holds her back. Thus, “this is me trying”. She wasn’t quite ready to do it, but she’s trying. She makes folklore instead of turning to the whiskey to help process those feelings.

We hear similar themes on “my tears ricochet”, “hoax”, and “the last great american dynasty”.

On the first, she sings:

And I still talk to you, when I’m screaming at the sky

Many of us suspect that Scott & BMR were a big reason why Taylor decided not to come out early on in her career. Even if that’s not the case, it’s reasonable to assume that Taylor & Scott had many conversations about it, and Scott certainly knew that Scooby managed Karlie. If we believe that the masters sale prevented her coming out last summer, I’m thinking it makes a lot of sense that when Taylor is pulled over at the lookout and about to jump, she’s screaming at Scott to the sky. Not only was the sale what betrayed her, but the foiled coming out plan after so many years.

On the second, she sings:

Stood on the cliffside screaming, “Give me a reason”

I think this just echoes so many of the same anxieties. She’s just questioning everything, all of her life choices, why she’s in this position between a rock and a hard place, why she can’t just be “normal” (as in not famous) and live peacefully with her lover, why this love is so hard, why these outside forces are derailing her plans, etc, etc. She’s desperate. She’s at the cliffside and she’s ready to jump, but she can’t. She’s seeking any explanation for all of the feelings she’s having.

On the third, she sings:

They say she was seen on occasion pacing the rocks staring out at the midnight sea

Although this line is about Rebekah, I would argue that the purpose of TGLAD is to draw parallels between this “mad woman” (according to the town) and Taylor herself. Therefore, it’s reasonable to assume that Taylor relates to this behavior of pacing the rocks, and even if it’s not literal for her, she understands the anxiety inherent in someone who does so. “The Archer” could’ve been born out of this line in TGLAD (not saying it was but that it’s thematically similar). Taylor is pacing that cliffside and staring out at her fears in the stormy sea.

In this context, I also think it’s interesting that Taylor used a Humpty Dumpty reference to describe herself in The Archer:

All the king’s horses, all the king’s men / Couldn’t put me together again

Humpty Dumpty was literally sitting on a wall and fell off. He couldn’t be put back together. I think this is what Taylor fears the most from taking that leap, that she will never be the same. CAUSE WHEN SHE BREAKS, IT’S IN A MILLION PIECES.

This got long, but I hope you enjoy!

I don't think that Karlie proposed to Taylor and that Taylor said no to her either, but the rumor that Karlie did propose to Taylor and Taylor saying no to her has been floating around for several years and this rumor eventually evolved into an explanation as to why Karlie "married" Josh, people who believe in that rumor think that Karlie was so upset about her proposal being rejected that she distanced herself from her and Taylor's mutual friend group and said yes to Josh when he offered her a lavender marriage because she didn't have any reason to say no to him and that she was too distanced from her friends for them to convince her that a lavender marriage with him would be a bad idea, and that she just stopped being her sunshiney self because she was so miserable that Taylor said no to her.

But yeah... It turns out that a lot of people think that the piano to champagne problems sounds like the piano to New Year's Day and a lot of people also think that champagne problems is the follow-up song to Dancing With Our Hands Tied because of the lyrics, so if Taylor casually said "Oh, champagne problems is about Karlie" then even Swifties at this point would probably be really sympathetic towards her and Karlie, and the line about a sister in champagne problems even made a few people who aren't Kaylors be like, "Did Taylor mean Kimby with that line?" and "Did Taylor mean the dorm's at NYU where Karlie went?"

champagne problems is super distressing to a lot of people and the line about the college dorm room's and the sister are making people think the song isn't fictional and is instead about Karlie because she's the only person in Taylor's life that fits the "Went to college, has a sister" bill that they can think of 😬

The Swifties won’t get it because then that would imply Karlies relationship with jerk is fake. She met Taylor after she was already bearding “dating” Jerk. I don’t think it’s distressing to a lot of people. All Taylor has to do is say it’s James storyline in 3 triangle and people will be like oh that’s not about her life. 🙄That whole storyline doesn’t sound like Karlie to me it sounds like a fan fiction. Folklore.

in conclusion, enchanted is about emma stone

Alright! Here it is! I made this for my girlfriend to understand my theories, but some of you wanted to see it so I’ll share it here! 

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