#i'm allowed to blog Freely about them now that taylor has seen it.

[allamericansbitch]

hi, I think it's ridiculous that you're getting hate and i think it's safe to assume those people sending the hate come back to check your blog a lot so this ask is a little more towards them than it is you (but please add anything you agree or disagree with). I think in general with gaylors there seems to be a variety from people who are queer and relate to taylors music (which is why I have thought it meant too) to those that are trying to prove taylor is queer when she has said she's not apart of the community herself and I guess like when you replied to certain asks and used the term gaylors, the former might have misinterpreted and though you meant them when you were talking about the more invasive ones who try to prove she's queer. I think especially on tiktok there's been a surge of the gaylor fandom because I saw a video of people explaining swiftgron and wonderland and I guess one thing about this fandom is that when it comes to interpreting music there seems to be a lot of swifities who are quite strict. I know Taylor is songwriter first and yeah a lot of her music is autobiographical and so there are certain swifities who swear only by what she's written and don't allow others to interpret her lyrics from their own perspective and when you are queer and relate her lyrics to yourself and those fans say your wrong it does make you feel invalidated especially if you were talking about your personal life. I think taylors music is so easily interpreted and related by queers because so many of her themes are relatable for queers like the secret or having to hide your relationship themes that run through her love songs which from taylors perspective is because of the paps not because she's queer and the best example is her an Aaron talking about peace when she's talking about the paps and he talks about his mh and she didn't realise that that's what he loved about the song. I think the fandom in general needs to allow for people to freely suggest their interpretations of her music and not just discredit them because it's not what taylor wrote about (I have had this happen to me not from a queer perspective but certain songs I interpret them as being from a parents perspective but I've had other swifities say that's not at all what the song is about because of specific lyrics and sure if we want to nitpick she didn't write it about my parents in particular but that doesn't mean I'm wrong about what her music feels like or anyone else is right) I think the way some people discredit interpretations of songs combined with swifities who play detective about her known relationships and the specific moments that she writes about in her songs (I remember after atw10 pap photos of them arguing in the car resurfaced against the short film scenes and all of it felt icky to me to drag it all up) all of this does lead to defensive gaylors who feel like they also need to play detective and nitpick her moments with friends to validate the interpretation they have of her songs (this is what I feel is the swifitie culture and then theres  wider stan culture issue of shipping real life people which is ew and invasive leads to all this discourse) and I think if both sides gaylors and non gaylors stop with this nitpicking and solely trying to prove or work out every specific details taylor writes about and just allow for people to discuss what her art makes them feel everyone would just be able to get along

thank you for taking the time to send this and be so thorough with you're reasoning/explanation. i've definitely seen a lot of the behavior you spoke about and agree.

i've made it very clear that i've never had any issue with people interpreting taylor's lyrics to their own personal life and their queer identity. that's what music is all about, making it you're own and finding relatability to it. taylor herself said it best when she said 'these songs were once about my life, now they are about yours'.

perfect example is the song seven. i've seen a lot of people in the community say it represents being queer to them because of the closet line. i've seen other people say that the song represents childhood trauma. i think it's beautiful that one single song can mean very different things to different people simply based on their own personal story and i have absolutely no issue with either interpretation.

what i do take issue with is people crossing the line into taylor's personal life and her relationships, with men or with women or whoever really. that always rubs me the wrong way. crossing that line and absolutely insisting that a song is about one specific person and people having arguments about whether it's this guy or this girl feels like it's completely invalidating her work in songwriting/creating and just making it about her personal life. i completely relate to seeing those pap photos when atw10 came out and it made me so angry. taylor herself has said she hates those slideshows people use of all of her significate others because it makes it for the general publics entertainment. whenever i would see those slideshows about what whatever specific line means i would think 'why does this even matter'. whether it was a gaylor trying to prove it was about karlie or whoever, or about jake or whoever... neither matters. make the song about your life not hers. her life isnt meant to be dissected for arguments sake to prove someone on the internet who doesn't even know hers' point.

#answered #anonymous