#MAATHBP

[new-york-no-shoes]

OH HI !!!

#taylor swift #the eras tour #eras tour #lover #maathbp #cruel summer #mine #I melt every time I hear her about that

[please-picturemeintheweeds]

Thinking about fate and gender roles tonight! The small town pressures to marry young and to be a “good girl,” while yearning for something different and knowing that your life isn’t fated to go the way that everyone thinks it is. escaping the pageant queens and big pretenders, escaping what you once thought was your fate- to get married, and painstakingly building a life that you dreamed about, only to find that the same expectations follow you everywhere you go. But then finding real love, something cosmic- fated by the gods, not by gender roles.

#I know this has been said before by lots of people but I’m having a MOMENT #maathbp #midnight rain #Taylor swift #c #too many song connections here

[youcanfacethis]

Flashback to a year ago when we were either all huddled around grainy live streams or standing in a stadium waiting in anticipation!

#one year of the eras tour #life flies by really fast huh #flashback to theorizing about the setlist! our jaws dropping when maathbp started playing omg #the flowy sunset colored fabric thingys emerging on stage…. like…. what!

[missegyptiana]

miss americana and the heartbreak prince, cardigan, dear reader!

cardigan

miss americana

dear reader

send me 3 taylor swift songs and i’ll rank them!

#DONT @ ME I LOVE DEAR READER #A LOT ACTUALLY #but cardigan is iconic #and i heard maathbp for the first time in taylor’s living room so #rep meow tay tion #isabella’s mail

[daenerys-targaryen]

what's your ranking of lover 👀

#top three are true i'd say #besides daylight #i think daylight should be higher #but then lover ifye maathbp ithk paper rings london boy inthaf afterglow and cornelia street are all the same level #then i like yntcd and me! but i don't listen to them AS often #then i never listen to sygb cause losing a parent is a major fear of mine :)))) #leah has mail #anonymous

[rodrickheffley]

all of the girls you loved before sucks

#which makes perfect sense as a lover reject. makes maathbp seem good in comparison

[hope-ur-ok]

Hello! would you happen to have the ts eras tour intro audio, right before she comes out and play MAATHBP?

This is both the intro and Miss Americana together

#the turtle gets asks #taylor swift #the eras tour #lover #maathp #miss americana and the heartbreak prince #live audio

[cursed-man-prayers]

High Infidelity is about Miss Americana.

Notes before we begin: First, I can’t post screenshots from the doc bc Netflix, but I have pulled direct quotes and rewatched scenes over and over as I wrote this analysis. The more I watched, the more this theory made sense.

Second, while I obviously don’t know what Taylor Swift’s relationship with her dad is like, the clips in Miss American plus the song tolerate it are enough to convince me that he’s not/wouldn’t be accepting of Taylor being queer. There’s a reason she’s a mama’s girl. This is a Scott Swift hate account.

Let’s begin

Verse One

Lock broken,

A common interpretation of this lyric is the invasion of privacy that is someone reading your diary/journal. Having a locked diary is also something most common with young girls (only girls get privacy, sorry lads), and in Miss Americana, the first diary that Taylor shows in the first scene while she says the first words of the film is a diary that has a lock, and there’s also a closeup of another diary with a lock, as well as the words “bitch session.” There’s also the very common trope/reality of parents reading your diary. Speaking from personal experience, this can genuinely be traumatic, especially taking into consideration the next two words.

Slur Spoken

Seeing as Taylor is a white woman, I genuinely don’t know how else this can be interpreted besides a homophobic slur being spoken. $!u and b*!tch are derogatory, but that’s not the same thing as being a slur. Also, I’m not going to justify the “she’s talking about slurring words while drunk!!” interpretation bc that makes less sense than thinking the slur is “whore.” (I think the diary I mentioned that says “bitch session” is further proof that Taylor doesn’t consider ‘bitch’ to be a slur, even though she has called out the misogynistic way men use it in music.)

Wound open, game token

The person who is breaking this lock and speaking this slur and opening this wound is using Taylor’s pain as a means to get a prize. “You play stupid games you win stupid prizes” (MAATHBP), “You knew you won, so what’s the point of keeping score?” (hoax).

I didn't know you were keeping count

In the Man music video, during the tennis match, Scott Swift is playing the scorekeeper. This line is repeated multiple times in the song. The context of the repetition does change and develop throughout the song.

Rain soaking, blind hoping

I think this refers to the Lover era and how Taylor was not able to come out (specifically that video where she’s talking about ME! and looks sad as shit). I think it’s also a reference to Midnight Rain, rain being a metaphor for unexpected, unseen change, and also the isolation of staying hidden.

You said I was freeloading / I didn't know you were keeping count

As someone with a dad, I can confirm that this is very dad-coded. Like, I can’t think of a context in Taylor’s life where a romantic partner would’ve said this to her, especially considering how idk, rich and successful she’s been since she was a teenager? While I don’t think her dad would ever be justified in saying this to her either, it could be a reference to him throwing his role in her career in her face, the way we see in Miss Americana.

Chorus

This is where things come together in terms of being about Miss Americana.

High infidelity / Put on your records and regret me / I bent the truth too far tonight / I was dancing around, dancing around it

In order to produce a consumable product (the Lover journals) around her and her art, she had to dance around the full truth. The entries were meticulously chosen and most likely edited. In Miss Americana, the segment where she “comes out” as a democrat feels like it might’ve been a different kind of coming out story, especially when you factor in the creation of You Need To Calm Down. It comes across as extremely personal, and while there are multiple factors leading to the experience being emotionally charged for Taylor, I do think that her own queerness is one of those factors. The entire documentary feels like she’s dancing around a bent truth.

Put on your headphones and burn my city

Putting on headphones is shorthand for ignoring someone. “Burn my city” in the context of how Taylor equates her (former) lover with *a certain city* feels like an indication that the subject of the song did something to sabotage and burn down the relationship. I think this is a reference to how her career and the people controlling it (such as her father, but others as well) ruined the love she’s been singing about since reputation.

Your picket fence is sharp as knives

This also goes back to Midnight Rain (“my town was a wasteland, full of cages, full of fences”)

I was dancing around, dancing around it

Taylor has used dancing as a literary device throughout her discography. I believe it’s typically a metaphor for queerness.

Post Chorus

Do you really want to know where I was April 29th?

This goes back to the diaries from Miss Americana. This is Taylor being confronted about a journal entry from an April 29th where she wrote something gay. When *her dad* saw it, it led to a slur being spoken.

Do I really have to chart the constellations in his eyes?

This refers to the segment in Miss Americana that is allegedly all about Joe. Call It What You Want plays over a montage of videos filmed by an unseen lover. The only clip actually featuring Joe in the entire film is a single moment where Taylor and Joe look vaguely excited to see each other after one of the Rep shows. The way she wrote and sung this line makes it seem like charting constellations in some dude’s eyes is the last thing she wants to do.

Verse Two

Storm coming, good husband / Bad omen / Dragged my feet right down the aisle

This very much sounds like Taylor being forced to be romantically linked in a traditional, heterosexual way. The storm coming and bad omen are what led to her being pushed into this, likely the media storm that happened in 2016. It ties together the lines about pickets fences and how the rain referenced in the first verse is connected to Midnight Rain, because, as we learned with the very first track on Midnights, Taylor is not interested in 1950’s shit.

At the house lonely,

“To a house not a home all alone ‘cause nobody’s there,” Dear Reader

good money,

“the jokes weren’t funny, I took the money” from YOYOK is just one example of how the money comes at the cost of herself and who she is and her worth as a human being…

I'd pay if you'd just know me / Seemed like the right thing at the time

…but now she’s regretting paying that price, wishing that she could be truly known. It seemed like the right thing, but she’s realizing that it wasn’t. Alternatively, she regrets coming out to her and the price she now has to pay of knowing his love was conditional. She paid the price for being known. Also, during the clips that play during the segment allegedly about Joe, Taylor is singing Call It What You Want, specifically the lyric “At least I did one thing right” which is… devastating in this context. She also says:

But I wasn’t happy in the way that I was trained to be happy…It was happiness without anyone else’s input. It was just, we were happy.

Anyway she doesn’t seem happy anymore.

Pre Chorus

You know there's many different ways that you can kill the one you love / The slowest way is never loving them enough

This creates a strong connection to tolerate it. I feel like this lyric is the thesis of that song. Again, this is a very dad-coded lyric. It’s the slow realization that a parent’s love can be conditional. It’s like when a queer kid comes out and a parent says “I still love you, but…” There’s other contexts where that phrase could exist, but it’s an extremely common queer experience.

Do you really want to know where I was April 29th? / Do I really have to tell you how he brought me back to life?

I think this could refer to the narrative of Joe Alwyn being William Bowery (which is suspect at best and criminal at worst). She has to say that Joe helped her write devastating breakup songs like exile and champagne problems to keep up the narrative that they are in a VERY HAPPY relationship.

The next new lyric is in the third chorus and let’s just say I have thoughts about it.

Put on your records and regret meeting me

THIS LYRIC HAS BEEN DRIVING ME MAD FOR THREE MONTHS. In the other choruses she says “regret me,” but she changes it here to be “regret meeting me” in the last chorus. “Regret me” implies regretting the existence of Taylor Swift. It’s the people credited with kick-starting her career (such as her father!!!) putting on your records, a double-entendre for her albums + the awards and accolades she has earned for those albums. But! In this chorus! The lyric is! Regret meeting me! The promo for Midnights focused heavily on “meet me at midnight,” the concept that she would be showing who she really is with the album, so much so that people thought she might be coming out with this album. While I think this lyric is a reference to that narrative and the fear that her fans won’t get her or won’t like her after listening to Midnights, I also think it is about how her dad regrets learning who she really is, and how he therefore IGNORES IT by listening to the albums she wrote about me. This is the only lyric in the chorus that changes, and it’s seemingly such a small change, a single word added to the line, but that’s what makes it so massive. Because why would she change this lyric if not to completely change the meaning of the line? It’s drawing a distinction between regretting someone’s existence and regretting knowing the truth about them.

Oh, there's many different ways that you can kill the one you love

And it's never enough, it's never enough

I think the phrasing here implies that Taylor feels like she can never be good enough to earn the love she needs and deserves. This ties it, again, to the intro of Miss Americana where she’s going through her diaries and talks about how her main goal in life was to be a good girl.

Outro

The entire first chorus is repeated, and we have a new perspective.

You said I was freeloading

When it comes to this line specifically, I think it refers to the conversation about Taylor’s desire to speak publicly about politics, in which her dad throws in her face how he hired armored cars, essentially saying that she owes him something. It’s just phrased in an odd way and it makes everyone uncomfy.

I didn't know you were keeping count / But oh, you were keeping count

The repetition of the first chorus at the end of the song implies that this song is cyclical. It’s a loop that she’s trapped in. (If you put this song on repeat and turn up the crossfade, you can listen on a seamless loop). Tolerate It does the same thing. Repetition also draws attention to the lyrics while recontextualizing them. The last lyric (“but oh, you were keeping count”) is this acknowledgment that her relationship with this person was/is transactional.

What about the name of the song?

Okay, I’m convinced the only reason anyone would ever think this is a song about cheating is because of the title. Obviously, the primary definition of the word infidelity is cheating on a romantic or sexual partner. Nothing else in the song indicated cheating. SO. OBVIOUSLY. I GOOGLED. THE DEFINITION. TO SEE. WHAT. AN ALTERNATIVE. MIGHT. BE

unbelief in a particular religion, especially Christianity.

Jesus Fucking CHrist. Taylor Swift has called herself a Christian, and she has also written songs with overt religious themes, typically borrowing from Christianity specifically (Don’t Blame Me; False God; Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve; Soon You’ll Get Better). While I know that you can be queer and Christian, it is not unreasonable to conclude that coming out as queer to a conservative Christian (parent) would be considered a lack of belief in Christianity. Infidelity literally means “unfaithful.” To many people, Christianity and queerness are unreconcilable, to the point that they believe accepting yourself as queer can lead to you going to hell. While they won’t say this outloud, many Christians put “homosexuality” into a higher category of sin, meaning that being queer is HIGHLY UNCHRISTIAN, HIGHLY UNFAITHFUL, HIGH INFIDELITY.

One last thing. Miss Americana was released at midnight PST. Which is 3am EST. High Infidelity is a 3am track. So, yeah.

tl;dr

High Infidelity is about being considered unfaithful for being who you are. It’s about dying slowly because you are not loved (enough) for who you are. It’s about how the lies you’ve been forced to tell have forced you to be unfaithful to yourself. It’s about Miss Americana.

#gaylor #gaylor swift #taylor swift lyric analysis #high infidelity #midnights 3am edition #midnights #miss americana

[pinkorchidsinspring]

I still haven’t gotten over the daisy socks, but this top is torturing my soul in the best way:

ROSES

She really said let me be so obvious- I love this

‘They say you bought a bunch of land somewhere, Chose the rose garden over Madison Square’ 🌹 The Lucky One, Red🌹

‘Now I'm feeling hopeless, ripped up my prom dress, Running through rose thorns, I saw the scoreboard’ 🌹 MAATHBP, Lover 🌹

‘I can make all the tables turn, Rose garden filled with thorns’ 🌹 Blank Space, 1989 🌹

‘"How'd we end up on the floor, anyway?" you say, "Your roommate's cheap-ass screw-top rosé, that's how"’ 🌹 Maroon, Midnights 🌹

‘We were something, don't you think so?, Rosé flowing with your chosen family’ 🌹 The 1, Folklore 🌹

‘You were standing hollow-eyed in the hallway, Carnations you had thought were roses, that's us’🌹 Maroon, Midnights 🌹

‘Walk past, quick brush, I don't like slow motion, double vision in rose blush’ 🌹 Gold Rush, Evermore 🌹

‘And I want you right here, A red rose grew up out of ice frozen ground’ 🌹 The Lakes 🌹

shall I go on?…

ROSES

#taylor swift #gay icons #gaylor swift #blondie #kaylor #tay tay #gaylor #karlie kloss #roses #rose #street wear #koincidence #koincidences #ts11 #we’re not prepared #Pinkorchidsinspringposts

[womanexile]

can u do an analysis of the 1

TS says the song is when you run into an old lover & try to put a positive spin on your life.

I'm doing good, I'm on some new shit

Been saying "yes" instead of "no"

I thought I saw you at the bus stop, I didn't though

The Bus Stop is a coffee shop in NY. Might have been where they went for their midnight coffees.

I hit the ground running each night

I hit the Sunday matinée

YAIL “morning his place, burnt toast, Sunday”

LOML “take a walk on Sunday through the afternoon”

Sounds like Sundays might have been a special day to them. Now she’s telling him what she does on Sundays now.

You know the greatest films of all time were never made

In Lover, folklore & Midnights TS refers to them like lovers in a movie.

MAATHBP “lost in a film scene”

DBATC “our songs, our films”

Exile “I think I’ve seen this film before and I didn’t like the ending”

SOTB “this scene feels like what I once saw on a screen”

I guess you never know, never know

And if you wanted me, you really should've showed

And if you never bleed, you're never gonna grow

Woman “he’s right where I should, where I should be but you’re making me bleed”

And it's alright now

But we were something, don't you think so?

Roaring 20s, tossing pennies in the pool

When TS uses 20 in her songs it’s code for Haylor.

OOTW “20 stitches in a hospital room”

Lover “have I known you 20 seconds or 20 years”

Daylight “sleeping so long in a 20 year dark night”

Cardigan “your heartbeat on the High Line, once in 20 lifetimes”

HS using 20

End of the Day “20 minutes later wound up in the hospital”

I Love You “for a week & 13 days” 7 + 13 = 20

And if my wishes came true

It would've been you

In my defense, I have none

For never leaving well enough alone

But it would've been fun

If you would've been the one

(Ooh)

I have this dream you're doing cool shit

Having adventures on your own

You meet some woman on the internet and take her home

We never painted by the numbers, baby

Question…? “I don’t remember who I was before you painted all my nights a color I have searched for since”

Illicit affairs “you showed me colors you know I can’t see with anyone else”

But we were making it count

You know the greatest loves of all time are over now

I guess you never know, never know

And it's another day waking up alone

But we were something, don't you think so?

Roaring 20s, tossing pennies in the pool

And if my wishes came true

It would've been you

In my defense, I have none

For never leaving well enough alone

But it would've been fun

If you would've been the one

I, I, I persist and resist the temptation to ask you

If one thing had been different

Would everything be different today?

Question…? “Can I ask you a question?”

We were something, don't you think so?

Rosé flowing with your chosen family

And it would've been sweet

If it could've been me

In my defense, I have none

For digging up the grave another time

But it would've been fun

If you would've been the one

(Ooh)

#haylor #taylor swift #harry styles

[hopeofitalll]

Since obviously we weren’t able to have Lover Fest, I keep thinking about what the setlist might’ve been. So many good options for that show! What do you think?

#obvi this is a swiftie poll #also obvi eras tour prolly has some effect on this atp #just curious. idk what would’ve picked? #I think Taylor might’ve opened with me #taylor swift #swifties #poll #polls #lover

[candle-wax-and-polariods]

MAATHBP

Cruel summer

The man/ YNTCD (mashup)

Lover

The archer

ME!

Tim Mcgraw

Invisible

Fearless

YBWM/ Love story

Fifteen

22

State of grace

ATW10

Enchanted

Long live

Sparks fly

Ready for it

Getaway car

Delicate

Don't blame me

LWYMMD

Champagne problems

Illicit affairs

My tears ricochet/ Marjorie (mashup)

Style

Blank space

Shake it off

Bad blood

Surprise song 1: IMYIS with Gracie (same as when performed,Taylor on guitar, Gracie on piano)

Surprise song 2: new years day (piano)

BDILH

so highschool

WAOLOM

Down bad/fortnight (mash up)

TSMWEL

ICDIWABH

Lavender haze

Anti hero

Midnight rain

Vigilante shit

Bejeweled

Mastermind

Karma

#swiftiesetlist

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[theerastour]

What was your Spotify wrapped/Apple replay like (if you have it)? I ended up having listened to Taylor like, two and half times more than my second most listened to artist lmao

wow that's a lot ha!!! these were my top songs which I was kind of surprised? like maathbp??? but Taylor was number 1 obvi

#anons

[iwanthermidnightz]

OH MY GOD maathbp opening into cruel summer

[corneliacat]

In my head, MAATHBP MV would of been an evil version of YBWM MV

#you belong with me tv #lover #taylor swift #taylorswift #swifties #taylurking #ts #taylor #maathp #fearless #fearless tv

[maybesheszoe]

new eras tour setlist! ✿

lover era

- maathbp

- cruel summer

- the man

- yntcd

- lover

fearless era

- fearless

- ybwm

- love story

red era

- 22

- wanegbt

- ikywt

- atw10

speak now era

- enchanted

reputation era

- ready for it

- delicate

- don’t blame me

- lwymmd

folkmore era

- cardigan

- betty

- champagne problems

- august

- illicit affairs

- my tears ricochet

- marjorie

- willow

1989 era

- style

- blank space

- shake it off

- wildest dreams

- bad blood

ttpd era

- bdilh

- so high school

- waolom?

- down bad

- fortnight

- tsmwel

- icdiwabh

acoustic set:

- guitar surprise song

- piano surprise song

midnights era:

- lavender haze

- anti-hero

- midnight rain

- vigilante shit

- bejeweled

- mastermind

- karma

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