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they told me all of my cages were mental / I just learned these people only raise you to cage you / you caged me and then you called me crazy / you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me / my town was a wasteland, full of cages, full of fences / this cage was once just fine, am I allowed to cry? / I dream of crackin' locks / each new enemy turns to steel / they become the bars that confine you in your own little golden prison cell / but I knew you, living in a gold age, sneaking to my bird cage / gold cage, hostage to my feelings / cause they got the cages, they got the boxes / 2 years of labor, locks, and ceilings / it was the great escape, the prison break / fresh out the slammer

taylor swift x cages

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One week of Tortured Poets (& Thoughts on the Manuscript)

We’ve had this epic double album for a week now and I’m still not over how much of a masterpiece this is. I’m very carefully saying this might be my new favourite TS album.

Still too many thoughts and feelings to process and still a little scared of anything that might happen a week from now (a fortnight after the release). And we’re getting a TTPD eras tour set, I’m so stoked, if she sings But Daddy I love Him to a full stadium every night from May I might just cease to exist.

Slowly coming around to just how much she’s coming for Scott and the industry as a whole, even though I was expecting that, I’m still shocked about the unhinged raw anger in these songs and I’m loving it. Also, love how much even the swifties have to admit that pretty much none of this album is about JA. I don’t even care who they think it’s about instead, I just love that they were all expecting the ultimate breakup album and instead they got an emotional exorcism of twenty years worth of trauma and a final goodbye. ☺️

A saw someone this morning say ‘The Manuscript’ would have been a great alternative title for this album and I would almost agree. The concept is very much a receipt of all the traumas and lessons learned, and that’s why this song is at the very end. The manuscript of my story is done, final page of this story is written and now I’m leaving that to you as I depart. I’ve also seen it be compared to the ATW10 short film and the lyric video style as a movie script is really interesting:

This is definitely a movie of Taylor’s story and she’s the narrator. The song itself also references a movie being made with ‘the actors hitting their marks and the tears were falling in synchronicity with the score’. A lot of film references. The whole album has a lot of references in the lyrics to film titles, good post here.

So is this about the ATW10 short film or a film that’s yet to come? She says on the first page that the scene is set inside the Tortured Poets Department at night and the person reading the manuscript is part of the scene (she vs I at the end) whereas Taylor is the voice over narrator. She also presenting ‘the entire torrid affair’, not just one relationship, all of it, the ENTIRE story. So, it feels more like a memoir or a documentary film to me than a short film. And I don’t know what this is an advert for but TN shared it to their story yesterday (it’s very film-coded):

There’s a TTPD bus outside what looks like a movie theatre, and the billboard looks to be showing the ‘story of us’ scene from the fortnight mv. (There’s also what looks like Stark tower in the background with a monster/crocodile. No idea why but it stood out to me🤷🏻‍♀️)

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Taylor Swift holding her vinyls and CDs.

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the bike

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april 25, 2019 | five years ago today

taylor announced ‘ME!’ while wearing a pastel rainbow jumpsuit

karlie kloss later posted the sketch of this outfit for galentines day in 2020

#gaylor #gaylor swift #lgbetty #kaylor #karlie kloss #me! taylor swift #lover album #taylor swift #friends of dorothea #koincidences #invisible string theory 👑

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april 26, 2019 | five years ago today

taylor released the music video for ‘ME!’

behind taylor was a collection of buildings many felt similar to the city of oz, as well as a large rainbow

although it occurred after the video released, many fans also noted the similarities between this and lil nas x’s coming out through his album cover

#gaylor #lgbetty #gaylor swift #taylor swift #me! mv #me!me!me! #friends of dorothea #lover album #taylor is flagging that she is queer 🌈

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april 26, 2019 | five years ago today

taylor swift released the music video for ‘ME!’

“kaleidoscope of loud heartbeats under coats”: a reference to ‘welcome to new york’

inside of the kaleidoscope is a heart shaped room with the color scheme of the lesbian pride flag

#taylor swift #gaylor swift #gaylor #lgbetty #friends of dorothea #lover album #me! mv #me!me!me! #taylor is flagging that she is queer 🌈

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#gaylor #gaylor swift #taylor swift #taylor is flagging that she is queer 🌈 #lgbetty #friends of dorothea #me! mv #lover album #me!me!me!

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"me! out now!" on lesbian visibility day. never forget.

just the act of her making a video and drawing a rainbow with two clouds and writing ME on both ends 😂 she was probably giggling the whole time

#gaylor #taylor swift #gaylor swift #lgbetty #friends of dorothea #me! mv #me!me!me! #lover album #taylor is flagging that she is queer 🌈

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a fortnight making ttpd (x)

#taylor swift #ttpd #the tortured poets department #ts ttpd

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april 26, 2019 | five years ago today

taylor swift released the music video for ‘ME!’

“cool chicks”

#me! mv #lover album #me!me!me! #karlie kloss #taylor swift #kaylor #gaylor #gaylor swift #lgbetty #friends of dorothea #koincidences #invisible string theory 👑

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april 26, 2019 | five years ago today

taylor swift released the music video for ‘ME!’

on the dresser was a copy of ‘cartier in the 20th century’

taylor and karlie kloss have matching cartier love rings, and the two have often used cartier jewelry (amulette de cartier, d’amour necklace, love bracelet, love earrings) as a symbol of their relationship

#me! mv #lover album #gaylor swift #gaylor #lgbetty #friends of dorothea #kaylor #koincidences #kaylor jewelry #invisible string theory 👑

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april 26, 2019 | five years ago today

taylor swift released the music video for ‘ME!’

the video opened with a one-eyed snake (representing reputation taylor) that was slithering across rainbow chalk covered cobblestones & turned into pastel rainbow butterflies (representing lover taylor)

the missing eye of the snake is also notably the same eye as the eye theory

#taylor swift #karlie kloss #kaylor #me! mv #lover album #gaylor swift #gaylor #lgbetty #friends of dorothea #eye theory 😻 #taylor is flagging that she is queer 🌈

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april 26, 2019 | five years ago today

taylor released the music video for “ME!”

the music video was set inside of a butterfly’s chrysalis

#lover album #me! mv #taylor swift #gaylor #gaylor swift #lgbetty #friends of dorothea #taylor is flagging that she is queer 🌈

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When you see them back to back like this...very compelling in my opinion 😂💕🌼

Pt. 2

https://kaylorkerfuffle.tumblr.com/post/622200339571032064/kaylor-kerfuffle

Pt. 3

https://kaylorkerfuffle.tumblr.com/post/636239312757964800/kaylor-kerfuffle

#gaylor #taylor swift #gaylor swift #kaylor #karlie kloss #lgbetty #friends of dorothea #karlie is taylor's muse #karlie/karma is my girlfriend 💘

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my favourite picture

#lesbian visibility day