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i’ve been thinking about how evermore has this theme of words that are going unsaid. things written that will go unsent; things sung that will never be heard. things like that. and there are callbacks in between songs too. so ‘tis the damn season sounds like a practice phone call—cowboy like me calls back to this with the line “now i’m waiting by the phone / like i’m in an airport bar”—but of course when the actual call is made most of that will go unsaid. dorothea reads like an unsent letter, complete with direct address. in evermore, she sings about “letters addressed to the fire,” or letters written and then burned, never to be read. in closure, a letter is received but spurned; a song is sung about how the narrator’s reply is basically that there will be no reply. still, this will go unsaid. the sender of the letter whom the singer of closure is addressing will never know of her sentiment that she doesn’t need the closure, because she isn’t sending any closure back to him. this echoes throughout the album, this lack of closure due to leaving things unsaid. in tolerate it, the narrator sings in the bridge that she could leave, she could end the relationship, “believe me, i could do it.” but in the end she returns to that same “i sit and watch you” line—she doesn’t express her concerns (if it’s all in my head tell me now) and she doesn’t leave what she suspects to be an unhealthy relationship. she says nothing. marjorie: a love letter to memory, basically. maybe the only letter sent, but it, too, will go unread. champagne problems: an undelivered monologue reasoning why she said no. the addressee of that monologue will never receive it, either. the whole album is tinged with regret, often for how things went, but also often for not being able to reach out. here are all these collected words unsaid. letters addressed to the fire. an album in autumn colors—or the colors of dying flames.

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Ivy is a sapphic love song, an analysis

Two women in love with each other, and they married to different men. A secret relationship they know is perceived as wrong, but they will do anything to keep each other. 

And the old widow goes to the stone every day But I don’t, I just sit here and wait Grieving for the living

“”Grieving for the living.” This line reminds me of all of the women who love other women but don’t get the chance to experience a real, true love.

Oh, goddamn My pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand Taking mine, but it’s been promised to another Oh, I can’t Stop you putting roots in my dreamland My house of stone, your ivy grows And now I’m covered in you

“My pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand.” - The other woman’s hands are freezing, so she starts this “fire” mentioned later in the song. This symbolizes the narrator’s love for the other woman (we’ll call her Ivy) warms her, even if they both know it’s “wrong” because they are both in separate relationships.(And women.)

I wish to know The fatal flaw that makes you long to be Magnificently cursed

The narrator here may be asking the other woman: “I just want to know, are you afflicted by this? Are you cursed? Is this your fatal flaw? …Is being with me going to destroy you?” Basically, I think this is a delicate way of wondering if the other woman is gay, too. It’s their complication. 

He’s in the room Your opal eyes are all I wish to see He wants what’s only yours

The other woman’s husband is there. The narrator is jealous of him. He only wants what Ivy can give him: whether it be money, status, some claim on her personhood. Meanwhile, the narrator wants nothing more than to look into Ivy’s eyes. She loves her for her. 

What would he do if he found us out?

“What would your husband do if he knew you were in love with another woman?”

He’s gonna burn this house to the ground How’s one to know? I’d live and die for moments that we stole On begged and borrowed time So tell me to run Or dare to sit and watch what we’ll become And drink my husband’s wine

For better or for worse, the narrator wants Ivy. She knows what they are doing is wrong, but she would do it for anything, as long as Ivy is up for it. 

“Or dare to sit and watch what we’ll become.” –> Even if everything goes to shit, if we lose everything, is it enough? She is tired of hiding, tired of pretending. 

:And drink my husband’s wine.” / “He’s in the room, Your opal eyes are all I wish to see, He wants what’s only yours = This is a relationship between two women.

So yeah, it’s a war It’s the goddamn fight of my life

She has been telling us her whole life. This is her fight. She has never been louder. 

She has never been louder.

(I will update this in the morning when I can write more descriptively and in-depth with the other song connections lol. Wrote 12:50 AM 12/11/20 before seeing any other opinions/analysis on evermore)

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KILLING EVE 3.06 SCREEN TIME PER CHARACTER

I can’t sleep so I decided to calculate this and here are the results  

Villanelle 14 m 30 s

Carolyn  13 m  52 s

Eve 11 m 28 s

Konstantin  10 m 7 s

Irina 7 m 40 s 

Dasha 5 m 51 s 

Geraldine 3 m 52 s

Helene 3 m 30 s

Bear  3 m 59 s 

Paul 3 m 22 s

FULL CHART OF THE SCENES UNDER THE CUT 

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3x13 || 4x09

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about your dwoht post - i was wondering whether you can read the song title in two ways and whether that is at all significant to the meaning of the song. maybe it could also be explained as dancing involuntarily but not having any power to decide for yourself?? and that could refer to either the force of nature-like attraction between the narrator and the partner or an outside force?? so like not dancing despite your restraints, but being restrained so not having any choice but to dance. idk

i actually love this interpretation and i’ve never heard it/thought of it this way at all before. so it sounds as if you are maybe thinking the narrator and the partner are being pulled by puppet strings, so to speak? what if the dance isn’t a dance at all? what if the dance is a succession of steps and movements orchestrated by outside forces? what if the dance, like you said, is involuntary? what does that tell us about the conflict between the narrator, the subject of the song, and the outside forces involved??

there’s so much to think about here. i really appreciate this insight a lot, honestly, wow, this is giving me so much to think about and i love it. 

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I have heard mixed interpretations of dancing with our hands tied. How do you interpret it?

well i can tell you how taylor interpreted it.. i don’t think i’ve really seen anyone post about the meaning behind this song even though everything else has come out… it’s actually really funny because dwoht has become the most misunderstood song on rep LET’S CLARIFY

taylor set it up by saying that inspiration for the song came when she was back in LA after spending several months out of the public eye. as we know now she spent basically all of this time in the UK with joe without anyone knowing she was in a relationship. back in LA (i think for work), she went to the gym only to be caught by paparazzi on her way out.. the paps shouted all kinds of things at her including comments about her weight… remember this was the first time she had been properly seen in months and nobody knew she was in a relationship.. 

she described being really overwhelmed by the experience but that her thought process was less about herself and more about how she could possibly have a normal relationship when this was her life. taylor actually said that after the incident she went straight to the recording studio, cried, and wrote this song. for the record, i’m pretty sure she was describing this day in Jan 2017 

in terms of how this led to the song, i think in the past we know taylor has made comments like “who would sign up for this” but this was more of a “who would stick around for this” kind of situation.. it’s important to remember that taylor describes this relationship as being different to any other relationship she had ever been in. firstly nobody knew they were together and secondly this person had signed up to be with her despite everything. i think i remember taylor saying something along the lines of feeling like she had something permanent she needed to protect. 

i’ve seen a lot of people say dwoht is a break-up song but.. it’s not.. at all. it’s about a bunch of internalised doubts taylor had about her ability to be in a long-term relationship being brought to the surface quite suddenly. in the song she isn’t questioning the relationship because things are going badly, she’s questioning it because things are going well and she’s scared that she’s going to destroy it by virtue of who she is. in my opinion, this is why dwoht represents what reputation is about at it’s core. the effect her reputation has had on the people she loves. this entire era has been about her taking control in order to protect something that has become everything to her. 

a recent example of this true meaning is that taylor actually said before performing dwoht in manchester that the song was about feeling “a combination of love and fear” and “how those two emotions coincide with each other and fight with each other”. 

if we look at the song this explanation is probably most visible in the lyric "i loved you in spite of deep fears that the world would divide us” but it’s echoed throughout the track in lyrics like “you said there was nothing in the world that could stop it i had a bad feeling” and “i knew there was no one in the world who could take it i had a bad feeling”. i could do a full lyrical analysis but that would take forever. 

basically, this song is really important in the context of reputation and i think if you really pay attention to taylor when she’s performing it you can see how important it is to her in general.. imo it explains why she didn’t perform it in the way we might have expected.  

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they are the hunters, we are the foxes, and we run x

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“I know yours. Yours is the sunshine!” “You’re the princess, cuz she’s beautiful, and has blue eyes, and red lips, and blonde hair. And she’s wearing a crown. You’re the princess.” 🌞💕👸🏼👑

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“If I forgot all the lyrics in my new album, I’d be good, cause they’re all over the walls.”

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karlie dancing to shake it off waiting on taylor down the press line (source)

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i have a question for the number 1 dwoht stan. im not sure what the song is about and i was wondering if you could help me understand the story its telling. not about taylors actual relationship but about whats happening between the narrator and their partner

first of all, i am truly honored to be referred to as the #1 DWOHT stan. i would lay my life down for this song. i’m not sure what sort of circumstance would warrant my life being on the line for a song, but, you get it.

so! i am going to get incredibly detailed with this. and please expect that i am reading this like i would any piece of literature or poetry, and i’m not taking taylor’s personal life into consideration through the analysis of this song. also please consider that i believe this song to be one of taylor’s most poetic songs ever written. ever. i also believe that it is really difficult to see this unless you can delve beneath the surface and understand the emotion and tragic narrative that is surrounding the upbeat chorus that we’d expect ourselves to dance joyously in a club.

let’s begin with-THE TITLE: dancing with our hands tied suggests the narrator is restrained; the narrator is not free to act how they wish to; the narrator is being held back by whatever forces in the universe we may discover through the content of the song. despite being held back, this person is still ‘dancing,’ or fighting against the restraints on their freedom and struggling to act as they would like to.

THE LYRICS:

I, I loved you in secretFirst sight, yeah, we love without reasonOh, twenty-five years oldOh, how were you to know? AndMy, my love had been frozenDeep blue, but you painted me goldenOh, and you held me closeOh, how was I to know?

“I, I loved you in secret” – loving someone in secret, to me, suggests a love that is forbidden, and this could be for a multitude of reasons: 

the narrator is already in a relationship but is, for whatever reason, not happy, and finds themselves falling for another person- but they cannot indulge in this love, so they deny it, keep it to themselves, suppress it, wish it away.

the narrator loves someone who is already taken and therefore keeps this love to themselves.

the narrator loves someone who reciprocates, but for whatever reason, these two people cannot have their affection be public knowledge. maybe the love is so fragile that the narrator is terrified of outside forces getting in the way, or even destroying the love that is being built up. maybe the love is one that would not be approved by society, a love that would be scrutinized, a love that would be absolutely crushed under the disapproval of society.

“First sight, yeah, we love without reason” – to love without reason implies that the narrator and the subject of the song do not know each other, but they are drawn to each other for reasons they may not understand at first. this particular lyric draws me back to gorgeous: “you should think about the consequence of your magnetic field being a little too strong.” the very idea of loving someone at first sight goes against the “rules,” for lack of a better word, of love: we cannot love someone before we truly even know them. love at first sight is senseless, impossible, and many people say they do not believe in love at first sight, only ‘lust at first sight.’ but a love, at first sight, with no reason, is undoubtedly the beginning of something.

“Oh, twenty-five years old / Oh, how were you to know?” – whether the narrator is 25 years old, or the subject of the song is 25 years old, i think is rather unclear, but since ‘how were you to know?’ follows this line, i think we can assume the subject of the song is 25 years old, or was 25 years old when this love began. these lines read as, “at this age, how were you to know that this was going to happen?” what ‘this’ might be, we are unsure of at this point, but these lines work as a sort of foreshadowing to a turning point in the narrative that we are entering.

“My, my love had been frozen / Deep blue, but you painted me golden” - these lines, to me, are the most important lines of the song. this needs to be broken down.

FROZEN: for the narrator to say that their love had been frozen suggests coldness, an absence of love, lack of life, a condition that almost warrants one as not human. to be frozen suggests to be ‘iced over,’ and in the context of nature and winter, ice represents death; ice freezes and kills- think of all of the plants and animals that succumb to death during the winter. a love that has gone frozen is a symbolic death to one’s ability to love.

DEEP BLUE: the narrator goes on to describe their frozen love as deep blue. blue, in literature, has most often been used to represent melancholy, loneliness, depression, sorrow, and coldness. blue is also used to represent calmness and peace, but i think we can rule out those representations given the context of the frozen love. ‘deep blue’ automatically gives depth to the emotions expressed with this color, and when we connect ‘deep blue’ to a love that had been frozen, we see, even in the death of one’s ability to love, still a depth of emotion that is tangible- even though the narrator has been frozen, they are still feeling, and it hurts.

BUT: the narrator’s love had been frozen (notice that this is past tense), and this statement is followed by a ‘but’ that is so significant in the telling of this story. this conjunction drastically flips what has been said in regards to the frozen love and the deep blue melancholy that is so brilliantly explored in as few as seven words. we are about to enter a realm containing four simple words that quite effectively gloss over the aforementioned emotions.

GOLDEN: “you painted me golden.” full stop. for many, gold invokes thoughts of wealth, extravagance, and luxury. but if we are following along the lines of a love that had gone frozen, and understanding this line in relation to winter, we can go on to understand that gold, in this instance, is sunlight. gold is warmth, love, compassion, intensity, passion, vibrancy. if blue is a muted, melancholy emotion, then gold is a brilliant, shining emotion that is striking, visible, and tangible. a frozen love has been thawed; now, warmth and happiness emanate from the narrator, and this emotion is attributed to the anonymous ‘you’ in the story. ADDITION: (courtesy of @faintingpygmygoat) the idea of being painted golden suggests impermanence. the narrator was not turned or transformed into gold, only painted, which is subject to removal, or even being painted over.

side note: for further analysis, i encourage you to investigate the symbolism of both blue and gold within The Great Gatsby, a novel that we know has been referenced several times throughout reputation.

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I love you, ain’t that the worst thing you ever heard?

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here’s a not-so-good-quality All You Had to Do Was Stay with Haunted’s acoustic accompaniment because she’s one of taylor’s saddest songs and y’all don’t give her the love she deserves because she’s upbeat

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oh shut the fuck up, homophobia isn’t a good look on you

thoughts from a christian taylor swift fan

this is a really bad move for @taylorswift . i was worried that her support for the LGBTQ community would come to a head eventually and it has. she is calling anyone who doesn’t support the gays haters, and we don’t hate! this world is full of impressionable young girls who stayed up until midnight to listen to this song, only to be met by references of GLAAD and HIS gown and being gay? i woke up to listen to this and hope it was a great song with good lyrics but instead i was met with a gay anthem. i loved the first verse and the chorus but i cant stomach it! i am not gay, and i don’t support them, but it does not make me a hater… also she is most likely calling out trump in the “tweet” part and she needs to GET OVER IT. when people get involved in politics it actually makes them less relevant, even though they’re trying to appear very savvy in the world. if she continues to follow these “trends” of politics with her music, she WILL die out. because, like i always say, catering to the minority never works. taylor swift is there to be an entertainer, not a political rights activist. and one day she will stand up and be judged by God Himself for every word she sang. stop minimizing and diluting MY religious and sexual convictions and telling me to “calm down.” i am not “too loud.” i am not mad. i am not a hater. wasn’t reputation supposed to be about not tearing people down? yet now SHE is the one tearing people down. i do not support this song. the first verse was great! snakes and stones! woooo! but then veritably calling people out for their personal beliefs? don’t diminish the fact that WE are able to stand up for our beliefs by protesting. if i made a sign saying that i didn’t agree with gays, that’s hate speech. if the liberals made a sign that said they didn’t agree with christians, that’s political activism. taylor is buying into that double standard that the liberals want. i am very disappointed. i don’t know if it is her record label ordering this or if SHE’S gay, but this needs to stop. just stop. she needs to calm down.

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DAILY REMINDER THAT SHADE NEVER MADE ANYBODY LESS GAY!!!! MISS SWIFT SERVED @taylorswift

#taylor swift #YOU NEED TO FUCKING CALM DOWN