#bearding

[keepingsecretstokeepyoutk]

I’m crying at this bait and switch.

Taylor put the name of a doctor who used electroshock therapy in an attempt to “cure” homosexuality in So Long London

The first few times I listened to the song I noticed it sounded like she said “heath” instead of “hearth” in the second verse. I googled the definition and couldn’t make any sense of the noun’s significance “a tract of level, uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation.”

So I googled “heath LGBT” and the very first result was the Wikipedia entry for Robert Heath, a psychiatrist born in 1915. And lo and behold, he practiced electro shock therapy on subjects, to attempt a “cure” for homosexuality.

Then I googled the lyrics to SLL just to be sure I was hearing them correctly. Not only does she indeed sing heath, not hearth, but in the lyrics, heath is capitalized

I’m shaking. Despite already believing the music video to be a direct reference to conversion therapy, this sneaky and hidden in plain sight confirmation has me overcome with emotion for Taylor. For everything she’s endured.

We see you Taylor, we love you 🤍

Content warning on the below description of this sicko’s “studies”

#ttpd #gaylor #so long london #conversion therapy #bearding #closeting

[twopoppies]

https://www.tumblr.com/twopoppies/748742938051379201/ginai-just-saw-a-photo-of-16-year-old-harry

The thing is that imo he even looked so baby and innocent to even imagine what his s*x life must looked like with his real partner, Louis, who’s only 2-3 years older than him - and we know how horny and obsessed with each other they were in the beginning. You know, if I look at that famous buttplug interview or the interview from where we got the “Lou can I give you a blowjob” - he was such a baby even for this lol. So it’s even more gross what you and the previous anon wrote what they made him looked like and how they constantly sexualized him from that young age.

Oh, I know. I mean, teenagers—even ones who've been through media training—can't really understand how their actions can affect them long term. So they were pretty wild back then. And I know it's hard to grasp now, but at the time, the internet and the way fandoms used the internet were not fully understood.

You can also see that when Haroline first started, Harry and Louis were having fun with it and would joke around about it in interviews. They had absolutely no idea of what it would become.

#stunts #haroline #harry's image #closeting #bearding

[awesomefringey]

https://www.tiktok.com/@thekylemarisa/video/7300672863118429483?_t=8hJdoeX7KGY&_r=1

Thoughts?

Wait, is the anon not only saying what we’ve been saying all along but also that Olivia Wilde negotiated a tattoo in exchange for not getting a fake marriage proposal? Why did they have to out Louis and Harry at the end? 🥲

I don’t know what to think, but it makes me hate the music industry so much more.

Also how is Tumblr allowing an 8min video upload?! 👀

#ask #closeting #bearding #why the music industry sucks #larry outing #shawn mendes #holivia

[daisyswift3]

UMM so cruel summer and a lot of other songs are making a lotttt more sense now that I’ve realized the “devil” that Taylor keeps referring to is actually the music industry as a whole thanks to @keepingsecretstokeepyoutk (see this post). “He looks up grinning like a devil” // “I would’ve stayed on my knees and I damn sure never would’ve danced w the devil AT 19” // “Dear reader if you aim at the devil make sure you don’t miss.” Do you remember the Top Global Artist vid that spotify released that had cruel summer as the background song and had a bunch of cruel summer references? Yeah go back and watch that again w this context in mind 😃 Taylor (the angel) has had enough of the games and is gonna end them once and for all which is very Katniss Everdeen of her—hello the archer 🏹 if any of you have read or watched the hunger games you know how the story ends

And you'll also remember that Katniss escapes the games twice by cheating--the first time w poison berries and the second time by destroying the arena itself (which was a clock) WITH itself using a lightning strike current at midnight that shot thru her arrow -> "And there was one prize I'd cheat to win." Not to mention Katniss was the mockingjay, a symbol of rebellion and resistance. And the fire symbolism in this trilogy was meant to represent how that rebellion can spread from a spark of hope. Snow lands on top but fire melts snow. Taylor is a huge hunger games fan so I wouldn't be surprised at all if these parallels were intentional. Also I'm not the first one to notice the hunger games connections, I saw some other gaylors point this out so I can't take full credit for that

“You play stupid games you win stupid prizes” // “Devils roll the dice” // "Baby let the games begin" // The scrabble instagram post // The mastermind chess board // "You see all the wisest women had to do it this way, cause we were born to be the pawn in every lover's game" // "No more keeping score now I just keep you warm. No more tug of war now I just know there's more"

I think it's possible Taylor knew that her masters were gonna be sold hence all the game imagery and songs abt heartbreak on lover

She's literally gonna take down the industry as a whole and expose everything. This is the reason for all the cryptic messages and meticulous planning. AND THIS IS WHAT THE ALBATROSS IS ABT TOO. “She’s the albatross she is here to destroy you.” They tried to keep her locked away in cages and towers and closets and tried taming her and pulling out her teeth but it didn’t work

“Devils that you know raise worse hell than a stranger” SHE’S the devil now and she’s abt to make their lives a living hell

“She’s the death you chose” i.e. the music industry chose to kill Taylor (which is why TTPD is a post-mortem album) so now she’s coming back to haunt them hence the ghostly Victorian attire. “We gather here we line up weeping in a sunlit room and if I’m on fire you’ll be made of ashes too.” THIS is the karma she’s talking abt that will happen at midnight!!

“You’ll see me in hindsight tangled up w you all night burning it down”

I am the APPARITION. I am the LINE OF POETRY. THAT’S TAYLOR. SHE’S THE GHOST WRITING POST-MORTEM POETRY

Literally feel like I am abt to explode from all the earth-shattering revelations I’ve just had

#pumpkin anon i can’t thank u enough for these messages #also sb^2 u can suck a fat one #gaylor #gaylor swift #ttpd #closeting #bearding #pumpkin #the albatross #karma mv #orange karma theory #devils #cruel summer #top global artist #spotify #angels #games #mastermind #meet me at midnight #hunger games #the archer #katniss everdeen #parallels #maathp #the industry

[laurelchell]

She isn't even being subtle anymore

I find it funny how in So High School, a song where it's really hard to ignore the Travis Kelce of it all, Taylor's subconsciously begging people to end her misery.

#gaylor #someone free her #kaylor #swiftgron #tayliz #gaylor swift #bearding #the tortured gaylors department

[kwyw]

#lmao #I mean #come on #kaylor #gaylor swift #bears #bearding

[holyyground]

I may have just cracked the story behind burning down the lover house on tour. I was looking at this photo that LWYjadeMD on twitter posted of the version of Taylor during the bad blood visuals that burns the house down:

And the person who posted this pointed out that this Taylor has a side part. I realized that burning a house down ties in to the idea of ghosting, like the theory I’ve seen floating around that she’s going to ghost Travis’s proposal (I don’t have a link to the original post I’m sorry). And that’s when it clicked—Taylor, currently, has had a side part for the last few days, which is a look she’s never worn before, at least not like this.

We have the theories that she’s going to ghost Travis, based on the bejeweled video. She’s not building a new lover house with Travis, SHE’S BURNING IT DOWN. That’s why the tour visual lover house is ever so slightly different than the original, it’s not the “Joe” lover house, it’s the Travis lover house. And Taylor (I believe with her hair not in a side part but I’d love a visual to confirm) slips out through a mirror earlier in the performance (and there’s been lots of conversation about the mirror visual and the associated queer themes already). Then later, once the real Taylor is free, the fake Taylor, the side part and bearding Taylor, is the one to burn the empty house down.

#gaylor #the pr of it all #please tell me if this is anything because I feel like I just cracked the code #bearding #gaylor swift #p.txt

[ohgaylor]

Slut! // cowboy like me (all lyric connections)

#taylor swift #lyric*connections #parallels #slut! #cowboy like me #bearding #lol oops

[not-a-perfect-metaphor]

I’ll just let this speak entirely for itself.

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#j2 tinhat #wives content #bearding

[gaylorsnation]

🚨 | Jack Antonoff posted and instagram story stating that Taylor wrote You're Losing Me almost TWO years before breaking up with Joe Alwyn. “written and recorded at home on 12/5/21”

🚨The day after kissgate anniversary🚨

#taylor swift #taylornation #gaylor #lgbetty #karlie kloss #kaylor #taylor karlie #bearding

[keepingsecretstokeepyoutk]

This is going to be very long and sound a little crazy at first, and maybe a little mean but please hear me out…

I’m convinced that Taylor sometimes purposefully includes one line or multiple lines of poorly written or clunky lyrics in specific songs to make a point.

We all have seen some version of this with bearding songs like London Boy, a simple bop whose lyrics were immediately detected as sounding disingenuous, even with the general population (the locations she was signing about were the most touristy and too far away from each other to visit on the same day, etc, basically implying that she doesn’t actually have a long term local bf there that she spends a bunch of time with exploring the city with, etc).

But just like everything else on the album, I think she’s doing maybe a more in your face version of that. No holds barred.

So High School is an obvious example of this, with all of the early 2000’s hs imagery, she seems pretty blatantly to be mocking the idea the public has of her “living out every American girl’s high school fantasy” of dating the tall popular football player. With lyrics like “touch me while your friends play grand theft auto” (barf), etc, shes being clear enough that this is not a serious song.

This is the possibly controversial part, but I’m so curious to see what others think about this - I think another iteration of this on this album is the title track, The Tortured Poets Department. Hear me out.

(First, I want to reassure you that there are lines in this song that I really like and think are well written, like: “you’re in self-sabotage mode/throwing spikes down on the road” and “but you awaken with dread/pounding nails in your head/but I’ve read this one/where you come undone/I chose this cyclone with you”. And I fully agree with the idea that these sentiments are from Karlie’s perspective. Basically, when you take out the chunks I’m about to talk about this song makes way more sense and has a beautiful sentiment of undying love behind it - which makes the following parts stick out that much more!)

The first time I listened through the album, and this was the second song, I got terrified because I didn’t understand its place in the whole narrative and when I heard the first clunky line “scratch your head like a tattooed golden retriever” I got the ick. Then the bridge with no structure and no wit and no clever turns of phrase, no metaphor, just “you put my ring on the finger people put wedding rings on” and “that was the closest I’ve ever been to my heart exploding”. So over simplified and cheesy, and doesn’t sound anything like her writing, especially the caliber of her recent lyrics

I know art is largely subjective, but I insist there is no way that the same person who wrote Cowboy Like Me wrote these lines into her title track if she didn’t have a reason and a point to make. To make it clear that this isn’t a matter of genre personal taste, because I know CLM is a very specific sound and a style that music snobs often take more seriously - I love SO many of her candy pop bangers, they are infinitely more clever, articulate, and overall works of art by a true wordsmith than this. Karma, The Very First Night, etc are all a master classes in clever words and tight writing being tucked into an “unserious” pop song.

The lyrics I cited above to me sound like what haters believe her writing sounds like, even fans who make little jokey TikTok’s about her and make up a spoofy something to sing while in character - that’s what these lyrics sound like.

Im worried im being too harsh, but please stay with me because the more I think about the more genius I think it actually is.

In the context of the themes of rest of the album, (her being trapped, miserable, manipulated, ready to burn it all down, screaming to be seen) this theory became clear to me. I think she’s leaning into her public persona (in more ways than one, we’ve already seen it with the stunting), in a way setting a “trap” for her fans and the public, that will essentially call them all out on how they ignored the real her in favor of her pr narrative, making the album about paternity tests, etc, all of which I’m guessing will become very clear in retrospect, possibly after she comes out? (Of course it’s already clear to us now, which is another purpose of the beard songs including clunky writing - to signal to us that these are not serious and that she knows that we know that she knows (like Phoebe on friends lol))

Ultimately, this is (along with So Highschool) a classic beard song. When she writes in this voice, she embodies the most extreme versions of her public persona, not just the one she has cultivated on purpose, but also the one that people have of her that don’t know her (as she did in Blank Space), including those that don’t take her seriously - because her identity as a boy crazy psycho ex girlfriend is directly tied to people dismissing her art as vapid because, they’ve only ever heard her singles, they don’t know the full her.

That voice is the straightest, the most boy crazy, the most one note, and sometimes the most unsophisticated writer version of her that people have in their minds, including her fans - the fans that refuse to see her as a whole person, the real, that believe she is head over heals for big football boy, that believe “he knows how to ball, I know Aristotle” is a romantic line about how opposites attract, the fans that say they don’t “get” some of her most beautiful and well-written songs, the fans that don’t see her and haven’t been seeing her.

They didn’t see giant Taylor on the eras tour, they refuse to see all of her queer signaling, etc, and I think she’s making the bearding songs obvious to underscore the difference between her Taylor(TM) and Taylor(person) personas.

She knows that despite the fact that the lyrics don’t even come close to measuring up to the rest of the album, the public, and many of her fans, will make this song one of the most listened to simply because they are looking for evidence of her relationships from the past year. We’ve all commented on how insane it is that this layered, complex, devastating album is being reduced to the usual paternity tests. This is currently one of the top songs precisely because it is “about Matty”. And of course, So High School is one of the tops songs along with it because it’s “about Travis”.

The juxtaposition of the bearding songs alongside her beautifully written poetry of Prophecy, Peter, Whose Afraid of Little Old Me, Cassandra, How did it end, The Albatross, etc mirrors the juxtaposition of her two selves during the Midnights era.

She has proven the point that if they think she wrote every line of this song completely in earnest, then they see her largely no differently than her haters do, as a subpar writer who writes absurdly cheesy love songs praising trashy to mediocre, problematic men. By eating it up they tell her that’s what she’s good for, for being the subject of tabloids and warring fans who make this entire album about two (purposefully) mediocre songs and the men who “inspired” them.

She has proven her point - that a subset of her fans will be distracted by a lesser song simply because they think it’s about one of the greasy men that’s she been seen holding hands with. That they will ignore once again all of her pleas to be seen, that she’s in pain and caged, and has been driven insane by their willful ignorance. That they don’t appreciate her full potential and talent, that they don’t even see it, and just want to be confirmed in their ideation of her.

This song is essentially the “forget him(her)” pill at the beginning of the fortnight mv, but it’s a sedative for the fans, who are addicted to her straight narrative. Similar to Willow’s 13 chants of “that’s my man” that started off evermore, casting a spell of heteronormativity over everyone who wanted it, so that they could choose to just completely ignore the following 14 gayest songs ever written. Don’t pay no mind to her singing directly about women with zero male perspective - she said “that’s my man!” We’re good! She’s still straight!

Taylor in the fortnight mv had to a take a sedative to be able to go into the next room and write her bearding songs - ie she self medicates to deal with keeping up the straight persona and to get through having to release dumbed down songs to feed the masses. (I also see the pill as something forced on her, I think it represents both layers)

From the first time I watched the music video I thought the writing Taylor looked so miserable and the bearding songs are why.

In this room she’s trapped, churning out the songs that her fans expect of her, the songs that make her team money, the songs that make her money, but that she has to compromise her truth to create.

But when she frees herself she’ll burn the stories that weren’t true, the filler that doesn’t represent her.

I’m curious to hear other’s thoughts on this - have you ever felt like Taylor purposefully inserts off-sounding lyrics that are written in a different voice to make a point?

I want to reiterate that it’s not the entirety of either song that I think is terrible, I genuinely love bopping along to both So High School and TTPD (track). Like I said above, when you remove the clunky lines from ttpd (track), the song has another layer and likely gives voice to some Karlie insight that is beautiful and tragically profound. It’s the red herrings, the pieces specifically meant to tie this song to a bearding narrative, that I’m dissing, and the only reason they are suspicious in the first place is because I know how gifted Taylor is with the written word.

Taylor is such a skilled writer that she can embody the voice of the bad writer that dismissive ignorant idiots believe her to be, just to make a point!

I even wonder if maybe there is a second version of this song locked away in one of those drawers in the fortnight writing room that leaves out the red herrings and is a thousand times better than the bearding version we got.

I hope one day we get to hear it.

#gaylor #kaylor #bearding #closeting #ttpd #so high school

[twopoppies]

This is sad tbqh, but what is your opinion about this ?

https://twitter.com/Habitsantidote/status/1756611204586348875?t=tJjBpVyK-WvRceo8IEtjoQ&s=19

https://twitter.com/SobreiroIngrid/status/1756613390724706310?t=qxn2G0KXQctrNbrci0k39Q&s=19

What’s my opinion? I don’t know what other opinion one could have other than It’s fucking horrific that Harry and Louis were put through that at such a young age. I think it’s a miracle either of them are as sane as they seem to be. I think it’s a testament to them having a strong support system around them that they both still seem proud of who they are. And it infuriates me that people insist that they should “come out already” because “no one cares if they’re gay” or “they have enough fame and money” or “it would help the community” or any other thoughtless and selfish reasons others come up with.

Their closeting is their experience and none of us will ever understand what it is like to be them and none of us have a right to demand they tell us the details. And that includes other queer people who have chosen to come out.

x x

#Harry’s sexuality #better homes and gardens #closeting #coming out #bearding

[redpaintedgolden]

#gaylor swift #bearding

[so-idialed-9]

Throwback to this classic article about Zayn's scruff that takes a sharp Larry turn -

Vanity Fair, March 21, 2016

#lull the world into a sex trance lol #bearding #3.24.16 #larrying on main #2016 larry #larry stylinson #harry styles #louis tomlinson #harry's image #zayn malik

[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

[kwyw]

All 🏈 this 🧔 showmanship 🏈 to 🧔 keep 🏈 it 🧔 for 🏈 you 🧔 in 🏈 sweetness 🧔

#it’s RIGHT THERE people #kaylor #Robin #beard #bearding #the pr of it all