Because Taylor Swift fans are already crazy and she’s trained us to look for clues in her music and promo and everything. But instead of being like “yeah, obviously this is about Jake Gyllenhaal because she (the tabloids) said it was,” we’re like “wait, why did she move to New York at Karlie Kloss’s request (true) and then write about NYC ‘you can want who you want, boys and boys and girls and girls,’ while also making out with her best friend (I don’t want you like a best friend) Karlie Kloss in public at a 1975 show on December 4, 2014?” She wrote “I snuck in through the garden gate every night that summer just to seal my fate,” and was photographed numerous times entering Karlie Kloss’s New York City apartment through a garden gate.
(Btw Karlie Kloss had a whole-ass room in Taylor’s apartment, despite having her own entire apartment 4 minutes away.)
“I DON’T WANNA KEEP SECRETS JUST TO KEEP YOU,” she screams in one of her absolute BEST songs while *allegedly* being in a long-term relationship with an absolute fucking NOBODY (biiiig reputation, indeed). I’m sure New York City screams HIS name, and not the supermodel who appears on advertisements all across the city, even at the bus stop (I didn’t though).
If you listen to Taylor Swift’s lyrics without assuming that straight is the default, you see all these things that actually make her songs WAY better. Otherwise, she’s a whiny, boring millennial spinster who lives with 3 cats and can’t keep a man.
Is this your queen?!
Or is it possible, even SLIGHTLY, that when she was entering the post-9/11 COUNTRY music scene in 2005 that her label (and father — listen to “The Archer” and “Tolerate It”) told her she can’t be an openly gay country star?
The point of Gaylor is to read the TEXT in the context of her life, not to take the most blatantly obvious spoon-fed PR explanation and believe it wholeheartedly.
