#1989 prologue

[stupidstubbornbravebitchoftarth]

This 1989 (leaked) prologue dialogue kind of hurts my heart and I am speaking solely from the experience of being a 22 year old lesbian. I am very much not a Gaylor because I am an adult and I grew out of shipping real life people a long time ago, especially because while I admire Taylor as an artist, I know she is not my friend and I know nothing about her except what she wants to be public. While I commend her for her inclusion of queer artists without much fanfare she never has been on the forefront of my mind when I think about voices in the fight for queer liberation and I don't need her to be. However the outright glee and homophobia I witnessed in the comment section of some Taylor Swift Fan accounts in relation to that monologue makes me feel unsafe. I am going to her concert next year and am very much asking myself how safe me and my girlfriend can feel in that crowd. I don't necessarily blame Taylor for it because I do not think she meant to cause such a homophobic rejoice amongst some of her fans, as to me it speaks much more about how any semblance of normal interpersonal relationships, be that platonic or romantic, were never possible in the eye of constant public scrunity. I hope we will get some sort of comment from her.

Sincerely a queer Swiftie who is reading all your homophobic comments.

#1989 taylor's version #Taylor swift #taylor swift 1989 #1989 prologue #ts 1989 #gaylor

[goldrushenthusiast]

Gaylors getting mad at the 1989 TV prologue is so funny to me because why did you think you were special just because you didn’t sexualize her male friendships? She’s not targeting you, and she’s her own person who has thoughts and feelings and didn’t want to feel like no matter who she was with it was romantic.

Female friendships are such an important part of girlhood, which Taylor literally said she had them for, and the way y’all tried to still find a way to take that from her is crazy. Let her live. Shes allowed to hang out with her female friends, she’s allowed to hang out with her male friends, she’s allowed to have relationships that aren’t scrutinized by the public constantly which gaylors are always amazing at doing. Seriously, let her live.

Also- stop saying real people can queerbait. Friendship comes in so many shapes and forms and really if you’re only following a celebrity because you think they’re queer, or hinting at it, that’s on you. If you’re mad about the prologue, she’s talking to you. Get the hint, and stfu. Glad we had this talk.

#anti gaylors #Gaylors #Taylor swift #1989 #1989 taylor's version #1989 tv #taylor swift 1989 #1989 era #1989taylorswift #ts 1989 #1989 album #1989 vault tracks #1989 prologue

[biscuitpenguin]

y'all.

the problem was never people thinking "oh, taylor's songs have some pretty queer themes" or "hey, I wonder if the queer-flagging meant something."

the problem is people putting a lens on all taylor's friendships and relationships and sexualising them.

hetlors who behave in this way are no better than gaylors who do. I think anyone who thinks the point of that prologue was for taylor to disparage her gay fans is being wilfully ignorant at best, blatantly homophobic at worst.

she's just saying "stay out of my private life." doable, you'd think.

interpret her music however you want. just don't get all up in her business, yk

#taylor swift #1989 taylor's version #1989 tv #1989 prologue #gaylor #hetlors #gaylor swift #karlie kloss #taylor and karlie #travis kelce #traylor #kaylor #swiftgron #swifties #got an extensive tag system here #gonna reach people idc idc #lgbtqia #I personally think she's queer flagging #because I did the same thing pre my own coming out #but that's me #and I wouldn't go around scouring all of her relationships #for reasons to support this #because it just isn't my business #idk man #idk what im doing #it just makes me mad when some hetlors come and condemn peaceful gaylors #and then go off and speculate about traylor

[pinkorchidsinspring]

I was debating on staying up to stream 1989 TV, because it is my favorite album, and I was going to attempt to get 1989 TV into my Spotify wrapped, but the prologue has ruined it for me. Taylor knew exactly what would happen. She knew that even though she was pointing fingers at the hetlors too, the gaylors get all the blame. as if tabloids don’t ship her with every single person she meets. I’ll be glad this album won’t be on my Spotify wrapped. I don’t care for the way any of the promo for 1989 has directly led Kaylor’s and Gaylors with a carrot on a stick, and then slaps us for going after the truth. Constantly. First M*tty, then after releasing titles like “Rose Garden Pink” and “Sunrise Boulevard”, Taylornation constantly throwing 8/3 in our faces, and let’s not forget when they tagged Taylor’s account ON A FUCKING RAINBOW, she gets a football player to be her Wattpad story come-to-life. I’m tired of being slapped in the face. I love Taylor, but this is ridiculous.

#taylor swift #gaylor #1989 prologue #I’m so done #bearding #closeting

[eyessinkingships]

“The jokes about my amount of boyfriends. The trivialization of my songwriting as if it were a predatory act of a boy crazy psychopath.”

“If I only hung out with my female friends, people couldn't sensationalize or sexualize that, right? I would learn later on that people could and people would.”

For years she wanted to erase that reputation as a “boy crazy,” and she has not stopped highlighting that over and over again, but her fans don't seem to understand it, because for heterosexuality there are no limits or decorum. In my opinion, she mentions her female friends because it's true, the Gaylors love to make up stories about her sleeping with every woman she's publicly seen with, you know, EVERYONE except Karlie.

She's not trying to end Swifties, Gaylors, or Kaylors, but rather the excessive speculation about her love life. I think we Kaylors here on Tumblr have been very peaceful, only taking a defensive stance when we are directly attacked, but we don't go around making fun of other people; at least in my case, if I see something I don't like, I block the user and that's it. Everyone is free to believe what they want, but there is a limit between that and discrimination and harassment. I saw someone mention that if we survived “it's time to go” as well as this, we have also survived Karlie's lavender marriage, Taylor's (terrible) beards and so on.

I also thought it was important to remember that the prologue begins with her haircut as her reinvention, who did she copy that haircut from? Who did she stay in New York for?

#gaylor #kaylor #1989 prologue

[zot3-flopped]

Taylor ending the unhinged Kaylors and Gaylors in the 1989 TV prologue.

#1989 taylor's version #1989 prologue #1989 tv prologue #1989tv prologue #taylor swift

[a-story-with-no-end]

Me who doesn't ship Taylor with anyone (or any real people in general) and finds Gaylors especially weird watching the prologue drama unfold

I swear I don't love the drama

#taylor swift #1989 prologue #1989 tv #gaylor

[planetsandthefates]

“This is a story about coming into your own, and as a result... coming alive. I hope you know that you've given me the courage to change. I hope you know that who you are is who you choose to be, and that whispers behind your back don't define you. You are the only person who gets to decide what you will be remembered for. From the girl who said she would never cut her hair or move to New York or find happiness in a world where she is not in love...”

#tswiftedit #taylorswiftedit #nessa007 #1989edit #tscreators #userelena #tswiftgraphic #taylor swift #1989 prologue #mine: edits #mine: all #yooo it's been a while since i posted an edit lol #hope yall like this

[itmightrain]

1989 tv Typed Prologue

When I was 24 I sat in a backstage dressing room in London, buzzing with anticipation. My backup singers and bandmates gathered around me in a scattered circle. Scissors emerged and I watched in the mirror as my locks of long curly hair fell in piles on the floor. There I was in my plaid button down shirt, grinning sheepishly as my tour mates and friends cheered on my haircut. This simple thing that everyone does. But I had a secret. For me, it was more than a change of hairstyle. When I was 24, I decided to completely reinvent myself.

How does a person reinvent herself, you ask? In any way I could think of. Musically, geographically, aesthetically, behaviorally, motivationally ... and I did so joyfully. The curiosity I had felt the first murmurs of while making “Red” had amplified into a pulsing heartbeat of restlessness in my ears. The risks I took when I toyed with pop sounds and sensibilities on “Red”? I wanted to push it further. The sense of freedom I felt when traveling to big bustling cities? I wanted to live in one. The voices that had begun to shame me in new ways for dating like a normal young woman? I wanted to silence them.

You see — in the years preceding this, I had become the target of slut shaming — the intensity and relentlessness of which would be criticized and called out if it happened today. The jokes about my amount of boyfriends. The trivialization of my songwriting as if it were a predatory act of a boy crazy psychopath. The media co-signing of this narrative. I had to make it stop because it was starting to really hurt.

It became clear to me that for me there was no such thing as casual dating, or even having a male friend who you platonically hang out with. If I was seen with him, it was assumed I was sleeping with him. And so I swore off hanging out with guys, dating, flirting or anything that could be weaponized against me by a culture that claimed to believe in liberating women but consistently treated me with the harsh moral codes of the Victorian Era.

Being a consummate optimist, I assumed I could fix this if I simply changed my behavior. I swore off dating and decided to focus only on myself, my music, my growth, and my female friendships. If I only hung out with my female friends, people couldn’t sensationalize or sexualize that — right? I would learn later on that people could and people would.

But none of that mattered then because I had a plan and I had a demeanor as trusting as a basket of golden retriever puppies. I had the keys to my own apartment in New York and I had new melodies bursting from my imagination. I had Max Martin and Shellback who were happy to help me explore this new sonic landscape I was enamored with. I had a new friend named Jack Antonoff who had made some cool tracks in his apartment. I had the idea that the album would be called "1989," and we would reference big 80's synths and write sky high choruses. I had sublime, inexplicable faith and I ran right toward it. In high heels and a crop top.

There was so much that I didn’t know then, and looking back I see what a good thing that was. This time of my life was marked by right kind of naïveté, a hunger for adventure, and a sense of freedom I hadn’t tasted before. It turns out that the cocktail of naïveté, hunger for adventure and freedom can lead to some nasty hangovers, metaphorically speaking. Of course everyone had something to say. But they always will. I learned lessons, paid prices, and tried to ... don’t say it ... don’t say it ... I’m sorry, I have to say it ... shake it off.

I’ll always be so incredibly grateful for how you loved and embraced this album. You, who followed my zig zag creative choices and cheered on my risks and experiments. You, who heard the wink and humor in “Blank Space” and maybe even empathized with the pain behind the satire. You, who saw the seeds of allyship and advocating for equality in “Welcome to New York.” You, who knew that maybe a girl who surrounds herself with female friends in adulthood is making up for a lack of them in childhood (not starting a tyrannical hot girl cult). You, who saw that I reinvent myself for a million reasons, and that one of them is to try my very best to entertain you. You, who have had the grace to allow me the freedom to change.

I was born in 1989, reinvented for the first time in 2014, and a part of me was reclaimed in 2023 with the re-release of this album I love so dearly. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine the magic you would sprinkle on my life for so long.

This moment is a reflection of the woods we’ve wandered through and all this love between us still glowing in the darkest dark.

I present to you, with gratitude and wild wonder, my version of “1989.”

It’s been waiting for you.

#taylor swift #1989 #1989 taylor's version #1989 tv #1989 prologue #gaylor #<- i hope you hear and believe her even tho i know conspiracy theorists cant be easily reached

[taylorswiftschoolofsongwriting]

taylor: it's really toxic when people sexualize all of my friendships...including my female friendships gaylors: gaylors: gaylors: well shes ObViOUsLY NoT talking about Us

#taylor swift #gaylor #1989tv #1989 taylor's version #1989 prologue #same shit different day #or decade i guess #at least she knows what to expect now

[ourdifferentscarletletters]

#taylor swift #1989 prologue #1989 taylor's version

[pleek]

taylor swift’s 1989 prologue being about her not wanting people to speculate about her dating life at all and people cherry picking one part to go after queer people is so very telling of their dogshit reading comprehension and general homophobia

#like yeah of course she was talking abt gayl0rs but not ONLY them #people shitting on gayl0rs and then turning around and making making ai babies of her and travis kelsey is SO braindead #taylor swift #1989 #1989 prologue

[tsrepdenver]

When I was 24. I decided to completely reinvent myself.

#like that is so powerful #I’m 24 now it just makes sense #1989 taylor's version #1989 prologue #taylor swift #bethany rambles

[pinkorchidsinspring]

This coming from the woman who wrote the lyrics “Shade never made anyone less gay” 🙄

Yeah okay

#taylor swift #gaylor swift #gaylor #the truth #yntcd #shade never made anybody less gay #1989 prologue

[iwanthermidnightz]

When I was 24 I sat in a backstage dressing room in London, buzzing with anticipation. My backup singers and bandmates gathered around me in a scattered circle.Scissors emerged and I watched in the mirror as my locks of long curly hair fell in piles on the floor. There I was in my plaid button down shirt, grinning sheepishly as my tour mates and friends cheered on my haircut. This simple thing that everyone does. But I had a secret. For me. It was more than a change of hairstyle. When I was 24. I decided to completely reinvent myself.

How does a person reinvent herself, you ask? In any way I could think of. Musically, geographically, aesthetically, behaviorally, motivationally. And I did so joyfully. The curiosity I had felt the first murmurs of while making red had amplified into a pulsing heartbeat of restlessness in my bars. The risks I took when I toyed with pop sounds and sensibilities on red? I wanted to push it further. The sense of freedom I felt when traveling to big bustling cities? I wanted to live in one. The voices that had begun to shame me in new ways for dating like a normal young woman? I wanted to silence them.

You see, in the years preceding this, I had become the target of slut shaming, the intensity and relentlessness of which would be criticized and called out if it happened today. The jokes about my amount of boyfriends. The trivialization of my songwriting as if it were a predatory act of a boy crazy psychopath. The media co-signing of this narrative. I had to make it stop because it was starting to really hurt.

It became clear to me that for me there was no such thing as casual dating, or even having a male friend who you platonically hang out with. If I was seen with him, it was assumed I was sleeping with him. And so I swore off hanging out with guys, dating, flirting, or anything that could be weaponized against me by a culture that claimed to believe in liberating women but consistently treated me with the harsh moral codes of the Victorian era.

Being a consummate optimist, I assumed I could fix this if I simply changed my behavior. I swore off dating and decided to focus only on myself, my music, my growth. And my female friendships. If I only hung out with my female friends, people couldn't sensationalize or sexualize that, right? I would learn later on that people could and people would.

But none of that mattered then because I had a plan and I had a demeanor as trusting as a basket of golden retriever puppies. I had the keys to my own apartment in New York and I had new melodies bursting from my imagination. I had Max Martin and Shellback who were happy to help me explore this new sonic landscape I was enamored with. I had a new friend named Jack Antonoff who had made some cool tracks in his apartment. I had the idea that the album would be called 1989. And we would reference big 80's synths and write sky high choruses. I had sublime, inexplicable faith and I ran right toward it, in high heels and a crop top.

There was so much that I didn't know then, and looking back I see what a good thing that was. This time of my life was marked by right kind of naïveté, a hunger for adventure. And a sense of freedom I hadn't tasted before. It turns out that the cocktail of naïveté, hunger for adventure and freedom can lead to some nasty hangovers, metaphorically speaking. Of course everyone had something to say. But they always will. I learned lessons, paid prices, and tried to… don't say it don't say it. I'm sorry, I have to say it. Shake it off.

I’ll always be so incredibly grateful for how you loved and embraced this album. You, who followed my zig zag creative choices and cheered on my risks and experiments. You, who heard the wink and humor in "blank space" and maybe even empathized with the pain behind the satire. You, who saw the seeds of allyship and advocating for equality in "Welcome to New York". You, who knew that maybe a girl who surrounds herself with female friends in adulthood is making up for a lack of them in childhood (not starting a tyrannical hot girl cult). You, who saw that I reinvent myself for a million reasons, and that one of them is to try my very best to entertain you. You, who have had the grace to allow me the freedom to change.

I was born in 1989. Reinvented for the first time in 2014, and a part of me was reclaimed in 2023 with the re-release of this album I love so dearly.

Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine the magic you would sprinkle on my life for so long. This moment is a reflection of the woods we've wandered through and all this love between us still glowing in the darkest dark.

I present to you, with gratitude and wild wonder, my version of 1989.

It’s been waiting for you.

#taylor swift #1989 taylor's version #1989 tv #1989 tv prologue

[tswiftupdatess]

Taylor Swift becomes the first act in history to rank as Billboard’s #1 Year-End artist in three different decades!

#taylor swift #billboard #number 1 #swifties #taylorswift #eras tour #1989 tv #taylor's version #1989 taylor's version prologue #charts