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why taylor swift's encore is way deeper than you think! · gasp! the pod

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But she also reads. She's a literature girl, and
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books, famously don't just tell you everything on the cover.
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It turns out Books got some metaphors.
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Wow. The encore.
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You guys clap for the encore. Welcome back you guys to gasp
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the pod, the podcast for the girls, the gays and especially
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the gay girls. You may be thinking, wow, these
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encore Taylor Swift tracks are just the same life of a showgirl
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type tracks we've seen before. It's also one-dimensional and
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man focused. There's no fucking deeper
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meaning. This is what you may be saying,
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right? But I'm here to tell you you've
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got it wrong, baby. Not only have I felt like I
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figured it out this entire show that Taylor Swift is putting on,
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but I feel like I'm going to make you gasp at these
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realizations and this story that I think that she is creating and
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writing for us. At least let me prove to you in
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this episode that you are wrong, that this encore and the entire
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Showgirl era is not that deep. There's something much grander
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happening here, and it goes beyond the theory of Gaylor.
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We're going to be talking heavily about Gaylor in this
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episode, but Taylor Swift is a genius in her fields of music
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and lyricism. We know this, right?
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But she is also a master planner.
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I mean, she told us she's a mastermind, yet we're always
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like, there's no deeper meaning. I don't think she just lost this
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part of herself. She is weaving, and she's
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writing a manuscript, a novel of sorts out of her own life.
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But who are the characters, you ask?
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I think she plays all of them. I think she even plays the
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killer husband and who you trust as the narrator, I think is
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about to change this episode. I'm heavy duty unpacking the
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encore of the life of a showgirl and pitching you my theory.
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I think I may have solved it. I'm obviously not going to take
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all the credit. These are theories that other
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people have talked about, other creators I really respect.
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But I'm going to deconstruct all of these hidden messages and
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explain these songs because I don't think that these are 4
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disjointed random songs. I think they tell a very clear
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story and we're also diving into to the Patients era music video
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and investigating the inspiration from famous
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literature because I think a lot of this story is very clearly
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explained to us from what Taylor Swift has talked about
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literature in the past, including Verity and Rebecca.
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I think these are two very big inspirations.
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So yeah, I'm just saying this is not an episode you want to miss.
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Let's lock in, lock in. So hi guys, very, very quickly,
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literally 30 seconds in, I'm just going to tell you I'd have
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friends Other updates to my birthday this week.
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It's Libra season so happy birthday to me on Wednesday.
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What else? I think that's pretty much it.
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I do think it's very interesting that Taylor loves releasing
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stuff on Libra season and right around full moons.
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I think she's a witch. Maybe I should make another
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episode about that because I did make a witch's episode at one
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point on this podcast. OK, let's get into it because
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after a talk about this announcement that she made for
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the encore and kind of the bait and switch around it, I am going
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to just plainly tell you my theory of how I think Taylor
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Swift has painted her entire career.
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It just makes so much sense with Rebecca Jane Eyre.
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And I just feel like this is so obvious at this point.
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Like this just seems clear to me.
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Sit back, enjoy the show, you guys.
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This bait and switch announcement, it's so
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interesting. Taylor Swift this summer was
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kind of wearing black and white. Remember that?
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And she got married, allegedly, and we may never see the
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pictures of the wedding. So that was kind of interesting.
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And then everyone was like, oh, is it lover era, you know, is
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she going to be releasing debut? But we saw her in black and
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white and florals amidst black and white.
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It makes sense now with the death of a showgirl vibe but
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back then it was like what the fuck is going on and then she
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starts heating U and we get this now infamous even though it's
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only been a few weeks. Law and Order sketch.
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Now I do believe, and I fucking said this but no one listens to
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Cassandra, that all the Easter eggs in the Law and Order sketch
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were pointing to debut because it was a red herring and
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everyone was thinking debut. And I know other performance
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artlers were saying this too, but I straight up was like,
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we're going to get Death of a showgirl.
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And I actually was getting hate comments the morning that I was
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talking about this. Then a few hours later, when she
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suddenly announced that she was adding another track, everyone
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was like, oh, we're going to get Death of a Showgirl.
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I'm like, Oh my God, I fucking can't.
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Finally, mainstream Swifties are catching on to the idea that
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Taylor Swift doesn't always lead us in the right direction.
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There's been, I think, in my interpretation of the Swifty
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community in the last few years, this idea that, like, we're
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being crazy. We're being too optimistic to
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think that she's actually flagging things and that things
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aren't really just simple. Everyone's like, guys, Easter
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eggs are simple. OK, it's debut.
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It's not that hard. Meanwhile, you see a red herring
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written on the Law and Order board along with her talking
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about her cat named after Olivia Benson.
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Olivia Benson, AKA Mariska Harkete, she named her cat after
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Karma. So then I'm thinking we're
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getting Karma because there's been a lot of emphasis on the
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cat and Mariska and the fact that she named her cat after
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Karma. Everyone was jumping to to debut
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and I thought there's something darker going on.
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And of course, she baits and switches on us.
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She baited us. To think, oh, this is so simple,
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it's debut. Boom.
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No it's not. Entire Law and Order sketch was
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about a murder and they were like pointing to the man and
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this murder and it said homicide.
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And I was like, Oh my God, the man is going to kill someone.
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And then boom, we get this countdown out of nowhere and
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then she switches up on us. There's no debut.
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There's a new song, single release, which I think is really
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interesting. And then the next day she
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decides to let us know that this is not just a single release,
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this is actually an extension of the life of Showgirl called the
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encore. Now, Oh, look, another theory
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that Gaylors called beforehand where we were saying we're going
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to get the encore, we're going to get something after the life
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of Showgirl or an extension or the death of Showgirl.
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But there was obviously something else coming on top of
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this because at the end of the open, like music video, it's a
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patient for the encore. I never saw any Swifties pick up
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on this until this happened. And they were like, oh, look,
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it's been right here. It's like, yeah, we've been
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saying this. So the point is, is that
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performance art layers are always ahead of the curve.
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And so if you think I'm crazy right now, I'm probably right
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because we all predicted what we already saw right now.
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And I think we are going to continue to see what we thought
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and then some. I just also do think it's funny
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last thing about these 50s that they will be like, yes, we love
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that theory. We'll take that theory after
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they called us crazy and then they will remove any meaning
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from it. So like, if you think she's to
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kill the showgirl and that doesn't mean anything to you,
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you have to understand that these are characters even
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regardless of like Gaylor stuff, you have to start thinking about
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her career and how she views herself and a multi faceted kind
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of meta way. Or else none of these theories
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make any sense. If it's just kind of like, oh,
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the showgirl for fun. Know how I know that these
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theories are true and that Taylor Swift views herself in
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these characters? First of all, she's told us
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this, but she also reads. She's a literature girl, and
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books famously don't just tell you everything on the cover.
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It turns out books got some metaphors.
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She's a reader and that's where she got her Easter egg and
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foreshadowing skills from is because at the end of the day,
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and that's why she always talks about being an English teacher.
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Of course, she's a singer, she's a lyricist, she's an artist, but
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like she weaves narratives and themes and she can hide
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metaphors because she reads so much.
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I think that's the bait and switch in the announcement.
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Let me tell you guys, beginning to the end, my theory on Taylor
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Swift and her career. This is my master theory and
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then we're going to go through pieces of evidence to prove my
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theory. And I also think the reason why
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I'm so interested in Taylor Swift is not just cuz I'm like,
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Oh my God, I love, you know this famous person Whoo.
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It's because like she creates stories in real time and
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following her as an artist as this famous person, like reading
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her lyrics and watching her cuz like her performance art is real
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life. It's not just written down in
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her lyrics. It's also about how she enacts
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it in real time. It's like reading, but in real
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life. It's like a movie.
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Did I just come up with the idea of movie?
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She's creating a movie, but a book, whatever.
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So a lot of this comes from Patient Zero, seeing it unfold,
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especially with Dakota Johnson being her, like mirror here.
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So a lot I was thinking of with like Karlie Kloss being her
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twin. But we'll get into Carly a
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little bit later, shall we? OK.
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There are three tailors. It's not just one.
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It's not even just two, but how did they come about?
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That is the question of how this journey started.
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Who died, Who was born? Are they sisters?
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Who the hell are they? Are they mad at each other?
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Do they love each other? Are they in a toxic
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relationship? Are they possibly all in a love
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triangle? I think the three Taylor's are
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in a love triangle with each other and that is why Taylor
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Swift writes so many love triangles.
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Think about folklore and the other woman.
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Is it another woman or is it another Taylor?
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You can think about the I Can See You music video and the
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three Taylor's pointing to each other like Spider Man.
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I believe these 3 Taylor's to be the poet or the real Taylor.
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The one who maybe she is when all of the fame goes away.
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The one who she is to her closest friends, perhaps family
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to her lovers. The real ones.
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The other is the showgirl, which we know and the people pleaser,
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but the showgirl character is not new to the showgirl era.
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And the last one is the narrator AKA the man.
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Almost like she actually is a woman but she's disguising
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herself as a man. Kind of like how historically
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women writers would give themselves a male name so they
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would be taken more seriously. These three tailors, I've also
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theorized are the aid, the Ego and the Super ego.
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You could also compare it to how she's talked about the glitter
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pen, the fountain pen and the quill pen.
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But she's pushing us to get to this idea.
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And I think this music video was the clearest symbolic way to
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show us that the man, this stone figure in the middle and these
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two tailors looking at this man that is in control of their
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existence. That was the moment for me where
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I was like, oh, wow. And also, a lot of this comes
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down to you have to watch Miss Americana.
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But as we know, so Taylor grew up in a business, literally grew
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up in this. As her brain is forming, it has
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molded her to please the crowd and please the public and be
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constantly likable. She tells us this over and over
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and over, going to Miss Americana.
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She's like, that was my life. That was my serotonin, that was
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my everything. Her personal life was sold and
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therefore she crafted her own life to please others and put on
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a good show. This original Taylor, the Taylor
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that we see from debut Fearless Speak now read 1989.
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We think of this as like, oh, the real Taylor and that the
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showgirl came after. No, this was the showgirl from
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the beginning of her career. She had to be the showgirl to
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get to where she is, and she was forced to be the showgirl by the
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industry. But by the label, Scooter Braun,
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Scott Borchetta, the people on her team, right How the industry
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treats artists, they cage you. I mean, you can go.
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Who's afraid of little old me? When pleasing others was not
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enough to make her successful and make her happy, something
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had to change. It wasn't enough because she was
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ultimately cancelled. Her attempt to be perfect to
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everyone backfired and she was fucking cancelled.
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Having this like goody 2 shoes and like you guys get it 2016
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right? She tried to release Karma that
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was thwarted and that was not allowed.
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I you know, I'm a karma truther and I also think Karma's not
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just a song, it is a album because Karma is written twice
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on the man wall, which obviously a lot of this goes back to the
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man as well. And I think it is no coincidence
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that in her acceptance kind of montage at the VMA's for artist
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director of the year or I think it was showed the man.
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So she was not allowed to release Karma.
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And I and many others believe that she tried to come out
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during Karma. OK, that this album may have
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been about Carly Karma, Carly Gloss, but she was not allowed.
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So the real girl inside from fucking childhood who could not
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take this anymore. The rage, right?
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Real feelings. The person that was not
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constructed to be this people pleaser, the one that had actual
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opinions and beliefs. The one who had real lovers
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besides the fame. She killed off the showgirl.
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This is way back in reputation. There's many deaths going on, so
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keep track. OK?
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The real girl killed off the showgirl during reputation.
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The girl who was the nice girl that was perfectly poised, never
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too political. The straight girl, right?
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I put quotes around that she was killed.
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The old Taylor can't come to the phone right now.
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The old Taylor being the nice, perfect showgirl, she can't come
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to the phone right now. Why?
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Because she's fucking dead, OK? She killed her off.
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Look what you made me do. Music video of her lying in the
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grave. And who woke up?
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Who woke up? The poet, Angry, emotional
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person who is not going to think about how she wrote.
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She was going to write from the heart.
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That's why reputation actually is angry, but also is a lot of
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love, because she's feeling like she can write about her actual
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real love a little bit more openly.
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For the first time. The poet is waking up and she's
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like, I'm going to lead in my career with the poet instead of
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the showgirl. She's not quite rewarded for
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that. The poet is the girl behind all
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of the glam, the one who showed us her career self, right?
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We get lover after reputation because she's starting to show
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us her real self. And that's why I take back my
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old theory that like, we haven't met the real tailor.
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No, we have. We were about to get the full
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picture. We had started to really get a
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glimpse of the real tailor and reputation Lover, Folklore and
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Evermore amidst the new tailor coming into power, though her
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masters were fucking sold. And at the same time when she's
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released Sing Lover and potentially trying to come out
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again and being this new poet girl being like I'm going to be
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myself, she isn't able to. This is a theory, right?
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It's like it wasn't enough. She still wasn't free.
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She had to become someone else. Something else had to give
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because her being this poet, the real girl wasn't enough.
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And I also think the poet is not just TTPD.
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The poet is not just an indie girl.
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The poet is the real her. And the real her still is
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multifaceted. The real her is still like
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millennial cringe slash indeed. You know what I mean?
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The real her is just when she tells us, when she's being
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herself. Someone had to take control of
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her own destiny because at this point she was still being LED
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astray, even though she was trying to take control.
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She needed to create another identity, someone that you would
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only respect because they're a man, and she created the man.
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Now you can also argue that she created the man before the Lover
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era. Who could say that she was
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inspired by her own song about the man and create this into a
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new character? There's a lot of other ways you
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can interpret this as well, but somewhere around the lover era,
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I believe she creates the man, the narrator, different persona
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and just so there's not like insane people that are like Oh
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my God, do you think she's schizophrenic?
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I don't think she's multi personality disorder.
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You guys, this is performance art.
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OK, this is characters. OK, this is just get into it
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with me. So she he became what a woman
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author would do in the 1800s and she created a man name.
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He became a man in order to be taken seriously and she started
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to rewrite her own narrative and become the narrator and the
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captain of her own motherfucking ship because she could not trust
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her own label. She could not trust the industry
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behind her and she had to take everything into her own hands.
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Being herself was not enough. It was being taken advantage of.
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And this is all reflected in her music.
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The man is the person that designed and the coming
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narratives. The man decided and constructed
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the best way for Taylor Swift, which is the combination of
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these three perhaps sisters to survive or these three people in
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this love triangle, right? That's like a love hate dynamic
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murder mystery, almost tail as old as time.
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The three personalities of yourself, the add, the ego and
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the Super ego. The man decides who lives or
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dies because that's what man does on this motherfucking earth
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already. It's actually a great metaphor.
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It also was reflected in Patient Zero, the man trying to kill off
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both of these women and deciding who dies himself.
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But what if Colin Farrell is also Taylor Swift, the man?
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Do you see them pinning down? The man decides who lives or
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dies so that she is never at the whim of those that put her in
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the cage. Only she is allowed to cage
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herself again. She goes, if I'm not going to
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tell my truth, it's going to be me who tells myself not to tell
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the truth. She's the only one allowed to
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kill herself, the one who tried to come out when Taylor Swift
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was not allowed to come out and love her.
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She obviously reckoned with the pain of this throughout folklore
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and Evermore, right? She's still the poet here, even
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though the man is directing the narrative.
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The man is omnipresent, right? The man is allowing the poet to
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be in control at this point. And by the time Midnight's comes
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around, the man decided to take full fucking control of the
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narrative. OK, The man is telling the
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stories in Midnights. The man is in control in
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Midnights. The man is like, this is the
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story, this is the narrative. These are the themes.
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This is what's going to happen. And he tells the story of
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Cinderella. And at the end of Midnight, the
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man said in the manuscript, the story isn't mine anymore.
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Why? Because the man knew what needed
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to be done and that the narrative was going to be
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switched. The perspective was switched.
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The man knew that the showgirl needed to come back to reclaim
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what was taken from her during all of those years ago, working
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for a different man. The showgirl went through so
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much trauma working for this label that caged her right?
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And the man was telling us in the Midnight's era, guess what?
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The showgirl's going to tell her story.
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Be ready. And the Bejeweled music video?
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This is told very plainly. Right, that this girl who's the
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poet, right? All of a sudden magic is going
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to happen and she will be the showgirl for one night, telling
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us this story at midnight, going through these different eras,
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whatever, whatever. Then what happens at midnight?
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Guys, meet me at midnight. The magic is taken away, 321
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exile is over, and then the narrative switches again.
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The showgirl is then released from the magic and the real
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girl, the poet, is revealed the top of the castle.
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OK, this is the man telling us the story that starts to play
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out from Midnights. And we can see this in like a
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lot of our theories, we can see Midnights is definitely a shift
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in that we're still seeing themes from Midnights still play
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out because this is a plan that she created back then.
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This is a narrative that we're still in.
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This is a story and it's not just musically.
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It's not just about muses. It has almost nothing to do with
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romances, More so about how she views herself and how the
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industry has forced her to become a chameleon and forced
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her to separate herself into these three different people.
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And not just the industry, but misogyny and homophobia and man
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at the top of it, these powerful music labels that force women to
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become a very certain thing and women having to be people
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pleasers in order to be successful.
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And then that going back and biting them in the ass at
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midnight again. We were told this wave of a
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fairy wand AKA the showgirl magic would go away.
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But in the meantime, because we are not yet at midnight, 321,
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exile is over. Exile of the girl, exile of the
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poet. 321 could be taken as Midnight's count back, right?
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So like after Midnight's, which is 12, then we have T2B which is
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11, then we have The Life of Showgirl, which is 12, and then
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what is 13? That's three.
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So the idea is that at 13 we're going to then meet me, which is
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the poet, which you could go back to lover era and say, OK,
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look, it's me. This is like who she was, right?
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But she didn't get to fully reveal herself.
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Why couldn't she fully reveal herself?
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Because she was still under control of these men, the men
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that historically controlled women like Ophelia made her go
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mad. And in order to reclaim what she
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was owed, which is her own work that she worked for and
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sacrificed for by being the showgirl for or half of her
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career. This is something only the
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showgirl can do though. And the man said, all right, we
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got to bring the showgirl back to reclaim these masters.
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But in order to do that, we have to kill off the poet, which
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sucks, and we're going to have to sacrifice that for a second
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in order for her to get to the top of the castle.
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So in Midnight's the man, along with the showgirl plot to kill
22:59
the poet off. You can see in the antihero
23:01
music video, it's foreshadowing. This is like another great music
23:05
video to show the plan for what was to come, right?
23:08
There's three tailors. OK, There's the poet, there's
23:12
the evil showgirl. That's like so fun drinking
23:15
shots, right? But she seems to have like no
23:17
emotion and she looks evil. She looks like she's about to
23:20
kill the poet and her looking at her in the mirror looks eerily
23:25
to me, like Dakota and Taylor looking each other.
23:28
The poet had no idea what was coming for her.
23:31
Poor girl. And then you can also see, I
23:33
think the narrator man Taylor, coming up, the big Taylor, the
23:37
one that is constructing the whole narrative.
23:40
And there's three of them, right?
23:41
This is the first time we see this very clear imagery that
23:43
there's three of them. But the foreshadowing continues
23:45
because we see Taylor Swift watching her funeral and
23:49
watching all these people fighting the death of the poet
23:53
and everyone fighting about her foreshadow that there's going to
23:55
be the splintering in this fandom because people who got so
24:00
used to hearing Taylor Swift be, you know, honest, this poet, all
24:03
of a sudden that girl was gone and now they're splintering in
24:05
the fandom. And she knew that was going to
24:07
happen because she was foreshadowing the death of the
24:09
poet. In Pink Clouding, we hear her
24:12
talk about this arrow that hit her in the heart.
24:15
And I know people say, oh, and into hero, it's pierced my
24:18
heart, but never killed. I think the poet just didn't
24:21
know that she was actually going to die from this.
24:23
And I think at the end of the Midnight's era, she is killed.
24:26
And I think in TTPD we are seeing the poet come to terms
24:31
with her own death, perhaps in the afterlife, or perhaps as
24:35
she's dying or sent away. Maybe she hasn't been killed
24:39
off. I think so.
24:41
But maybe she's been sent away to a psych ward, right, to a
24:44
hospital. That's why the entire aesthetic
24:45
of TTPD is super deathly and sad.
24:49
Right after, you know, in the Midnight's era, we see that the
24:51
showgirl's going to come back and someone's in the coffin.
24:53
Like, it actually makes so much more sense now.
24:55
So we are told we're going to live in this fairy tale world
24:57
with the showgirl's back. And you know, the poet is sent
25:01
off to the closet for now. So TTPD is the poet's dying
25:04
words. How did it end?
25:06
Is the poet asking about how she's dying?
25:09
Right. She's sent to the hospital, the
25:11
psych ward, the grave and who is brought back to life.
25:15
It's really interesting after this extremely depressing album
25:18
of TTPD, this death in a sense. And I know everyone attaches
25:22
this to a relationship. It doesn't mean that these can't
25:24
also be tracked with muses and relationships because I don't
25:27
think that she's had no relationships.
25:29
Like obviously there's weaving in of narratives and Taylor
25:32
Swift said this, she goes, I weave in and out of narrative.
25:35
So I think she's very aware of how this like leads her legacy.
25:38
She said this also in an interview that she's very aware
25:41
actually, that this, like, is a part of her larger legacy.
25:44
But she's also writing, you know, sometimes about her life.
25:47
She's going in and out of character.
25:49
In the first song on the life of a showgirl, the showgirl is
25:53
back. The poet has died.
25:55
And in the Fate of Ophelia, Taylor sings, You dug me out of
25:58
my grave and saved me from the fate of Ophelia.
26:01
And I know everyone's like, oh, my God, she's thinking Travis.
26:04
She's thinking a man. No, I think she's thinking a
26:06
man. I just think she's thinking the
26:08
man, the Taylor Swift, the narrator for saving her,
26:11
bringing her back to life. Unfortunately, the poet has
26:14
died, but the show goes back. She is thanking the man for
26:17
digging her out of her grave and allowing her to use her showgirl
26:21
powers that only the showgirl will be able to do.
26:23
Because the showgirl knows how to perform.
26:25
The showgirl knows how to be likable in order to be so
26:29
successful. During the Eras Tour, perform
26:32
all of these eras, all of the eras that the showgirl lived
26:35
right, but has a lot of trauma with because she had her music
26:39
stolen from her and use her powers to buy back her masters
26:44
with the money she made at the heiress to her.
26:46
The man saved her, allowed her to use her showgirl powers to
26:49
perform at the heiress to her, earn enough money to buy back
26:52
the masters taken from the career of the showgirl and make
26:55
it to the top so that the man can tell her story, so that she
26:59
can rest without torment or exist peacefully alongside the
27:03
poet. No, I'm not sure what's going to
27:05
happen. I don't know if they're going to
27:07
kill off the showgirl or just, you know, banish her because the
27:11
showgirl. Also, it's not like she's this
27:13
one-dimensional evil character. She became this way for a
27:18
reason. But the poet and the showgirl
27:20
hate each other, right? They see each other as polar
27:24
opposites. The man sees them as both
27:27
necessary and their fates are completely reliant on the
27:30
narrator slash the man. They are each other's foil, each
27:34
other's enemy, and they are jealous of the other person.
27:37
It sounds like the other woman, right?
27:39
All going back to like Jane Eyre, Rebecca, etcetera that
27:42
I'll get into. Each person has what the other
27:45
cannot have. And in the encore, the showgirl
27:48
does her final performance. And I think after this final
27:52
performance of the showgirl, something's about to switch.
27:55
The narrator is about to switch because right now the showgirl
27:59
is in front of the mic. She's in charge, right?
28:01
In each song slash music video, she tells the tale of her life
28:05
as a showgirl. That's why these songs are very
28:07
different. Like Ruin the Friendship sounds
28:09
like debut or Fearless, right? Because she was a showgirl back
28:12
then and then cancelled is her experience like when she got
28:15
cancelled as a showgirl. So that's why this album sounds
28:18
kind of like all over the place. But her fate is up to the man.
28:21
The man is foreshadowing in this story of Patient Zero, the music
28:25
video that this shifting and narration will occur and that
28:29
the showgirl once done with her mission, which the encore, it's
28:33
like that's the end of the show. Guys will be killed off by the
28:36
man once and for all. And this is my theory.
28:39
Maybe you think that the showgirl and the poet can exist
28:41
at the same time. I think Taylor Swift is this is
28:45
her last hurrah with the showgirl.
28:46
At least that's my theory. And then especially with the
28:49
readings of the literature that's involved in this, I think
28:53
that she's going to be killed off once and for all by taking
28:55
herself and the lover house down with her.
28:59
The only way for her to rest is to close the book and burn it
29:03
all down. But the poet wants revenge.
29:07
It sounds like reputation again, Taylor's version.
29:12
And she said the vault tracks of Reputation would be fire,
29:15
burning it all down. Let's talk about the evidence
29:17
behind this, OK? Especially coming from the
29:20
newest era in the patient's era. Music video serving a lot of the
29:24
inspiration behind this theory. For me, the three books that
29:27
specifically came to my mind are Jane Eyre, Rebecca, and Verdi.
29:31
All three of them are very similar in this idea that there
29:35
is this woman either dead, hidden away by this man, and
29:40
then there is this new wife type character.
29:44
And there are these three main characters.
29:46
All three of them also have queer readings.
29:50
And this is not just my reading. This is modern queer readings
29:54
and queer analysis. And all three of them read like
29:57
a gothic horror novel. That's very interesting.
30:02
Doesn't that sound like Taylor Swift?
30:04
If you haven't seen the music video, Taylor Swift's Patience
30:07
era video is a basically a gothic ghost story.
30:10
OK, Dakota Johnson is married to Colin Farrell.
30:13
You're seeing Taylor Swift in these scenes with Dakota Johnson
30:17
arguing with Colin Farrell and Taylor Swift.
30:20
The ghost is spilling her drink. There's this scene where Taylor
30:23
Swift is in front of this long table and it reminds us of the
30:27
tolerated performance. Almost a callback to the poet,
30:30
right? We see Dakota fight with Colin
30:33
Farrell as he is cheating on her with Cara Delevingne, which I do
30:37
find it's really interesting. Taylor Swift in her description
30:40
of the music video is like Cara Delevingne.
30:43
Thank you for agreeing to play the lusty other woman.
30:46
That's what friends are for, Question Mark.
30:49
That's fucking gay as hell. And I think it's very
30:51
interesting and telling. Like maybe Cara Delevingne
30:53
actually was the other woman, but we don't need to go into all
30:55
that. The twist is that we find out
30:58
that Taylor was the wife of Colin Farrell and was going
31:01
through the same thing that Dakota was going through.
31:04
And at the end, there's this twist where you find out that he
31:08
had actually poisoned Taylor Swift.
31:10
So the ghost of Taylor Swift was trying to prevent Dakota from
31:13
being poisoned as well. Taylor Swift actually had the
31:17
inheritance that the man stole. Interesting.
31:21
But at the end, the ghost saves Dakota.
31:25
Now, this is very, very interesting with this idea of
31:29
these three tailors, Colin Farrell being the man.
31:32
And I do think it's up to your own analysis on whether or not
31:37
you think that Dakota is the poet or the showgirl or Taylor
31:40
is the poet or the showgirl. It almost doesn't even really
31:43
matter because there's this idea that like one of them was dead,
31:47
but it's coming back to life in ghost form to protect her.
31:52
It's almost like the man, you know, in their perspectives, the
31:55
man is this evil person killing them off, but the man is the one
31:59
that is trying to control the money.
32:01
I think the narration is going to switch specifically based on
32:05
the fact that this is so similar to these these other books.
32:09
So let's get into it. At the grave scene, Dakota is
32:12
taking a rose after she visits Taylor Swift's grave site and
32:16
taking it to perhaps the man's grave site.
32:19
Is this foreshadowing that actually the man is going to be
32:23
killed off and that the showgirl and the poet decide to work
32:26
together? There's a lot of things that
32:28
this could be going into. I personally do not think that
32:31
this is about an ex. I just don't may.
32:34
I do think some of these songs are like inspired by other
32:38
situations, like these things have double meanings and she
32:40
loves a double meaning. It is probably inspired by like
32:43
Sophie Turner, you know, asking Taylor Swift for help with the
32:46
Joe Jonas situation and her wanting to write a Patient Zero
32:50
song. But I also think it very much
32:52
works for this idea of like a love triangle, that one of them
32:57
was infected by the man and the other one is also experiencing
33:00
the same thing. But I also do think that we
33:03
should not trust the perception of this story.
33:07
In the patients ear music video, we also see Taylor Swift.
33:10
The ghost on the front of the car looks like she's like almost
33:13
exploding and in light and she has an X over her head.
33:17
I don't know if that's like reputation or getaway car or
33:20
what. But also there was a getaway car
33:22
Easter egg on the board for the Law and Order sketch.
33:26
Let's talk about Jane Eyre if you haven't already read it.
33:28
Spoiler alert, and This is why I think that this is not the full
33:33
story of Patient 0. Jane Eyre is an orphan.
33:36
She's mistreated by her aunt. She's sent to a harsh boarding
33:39
school. Boom.
33:40
Later, as an adult, she becomes the governess at Thornfield
33:44
Hall. She falls in love with its
33:46
owner, Mr. Rochester. Everything is good until she
33:50
finds out that Rochester is already married.
33:53
OK. His wife Bertha is secretly kept
33:56
in the house, trapped because she is mentally ill.
34:01
This sounds like the poet and the showgirl in my mind.
34:04
Jane leaves him rather than become his mistress.
34:07
Later, Jane inherits money, becomes financially independent.
34:12
It's almost like this is where Patient 0 ends.
34:15
But then she returns to Rochester, whose house has
34:19
burned down because of Bertha, and we find out, wow, Bertha's
34:23
psycho. She actually is psycho.
34:25
This entire time, we thought, you know, Rochester's this
34:28
horrible person, but actually, Bertha was actually really
34:30
fucking crazy. And there's a lot of layers into
34:32
this because, like, she was crazy for multiple reasons.
34:34
And also, how much did Mr. Rochester have to do with it?
34:38
Rochester was injured and blinded while trying to save
34:41
people. And you're like, Oh my God, the
34:43
man's good. Jane and Rochester reunite, and
34:45
Mary, it sounds like the poet is actually fucking crazy kept in
34:51
this house. And you think she's the good
34:53
person, but she's not. And you think the man is the bad
34:56
guy, but he's not. It begs the question, what is
34:59
the actual story of Patient Zero?
35:01
Are we seeing the full story? Who's narrating this?
35:04
Bertha is also very much seen as the dark doppelganger of Jane
35:09
Eyre. Bertha is almost like, I think
35:13
the poet version of the showgirl.
35:14
This person that's been forced to be this way, she's other.
35:18
She is driven mad by maybe this, by this patriarchal world and
35:24
kept upstairs in the attic of her house until she loses her
35:28
mind and burns it down. Sounds also like the poet
35:32
wanting to get revenge on all of this and burning it all down.
35:36
Let me tell you about the plot of Verity.
35:38
Crawford is a famous novelist who becomes unable to write
35:42
after a serious accent. Her husband Jeremy, hires a
35:45
writer, Lone Ashley, who was actually Dakota Johnson in the
35:49
upcoming movie The Finish Verdi's series.
35:52
So Dakota Johnson's character finds Verdi's unpublished
35:55
autobiography. It contains disturbing
35:58
confessions, including claims that very deliberately killed
36:01
her own children and that she's obsessed with Jeremy.
36:04
They become romantically involved.
36:05
Dakota is like, yeah, fuck that girl.
36:08
Eventually, they confront Verdi. Jeremy kills her, believing the
36:12
manuscript. Oh, isn't that interesting?
36:14
The manuscript proves she murdered their children.
36:17
But then there's a twist. After Verity dies, Dakota
36:21
Johnson's character Lowen discovers a letter from Verity
36:25
saying that the autobiography was fiction.
36:30
OK narrator, untrustworthy narrator, written as an exercise
36:35
to get inside the mind of a villain.
36:38
Verity claims she never killed the children and had been
36:40
pretending to be incapacitated because Jeremy was suspicious of
36:44
her. So the ending we question was
36:47
Verity really innocent? And was Verity then lying in the
36:50
letter about lying in the original letter?
36:53
This is the point. We don't know who is the actual
36:56
bad person. And This is why I think the idea
36:59
of Patient 0 is so funny because everyone's taking it like this
37:02
is so obvious. These two girls are good.
37:03
The man is bad. We don't actually know who's
37:07
evil here. Now, finally, Rebecca, OK, I'm
37:11
going to play a recording of Taylor Swift talking to Stephen
37:14
Colbert on the Late Night with Stephen Colbert.
37:16
By the way, guys, do we see the vision with the scarf?
37:20
The scarf that I'm wearing is like supposed to be giving like,
37:23
pink clouding where she's like orange, magenta and like a
37:27
fashion scarf, not like because it's cold.
37:29
Whatever. She's talking to Stephen Colbert
37:31
and she's talking about like books that she likes to listen
37:34
to in an audiobook. And I think describing what
37:37
she's about to do in her own character life, in her own
37:41
story, in her own book, in her own narrative about these three
37:44
tailors. You know, you know, all the
37:46
elements like Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca, that book.
37:49
Yeah. Right.
37:50
So if it's like, if you've got like an old, like, like
37:53
rambling, shambles, old British mansion covered in Moss or Ivy
38:00
and there's like a mysterious relationship and he may not be
38:03
what he seems. And there's like a murderer that
38:06
that has happened in the past. But you but you hear whispers of
38:09
it. There's like I the idea of a
38:12
ghost or an actual ghost. If you.
38:15
If you present me with a plot line where there's like a family
38:17
compound on an on an island off the coast of Maine, there's
38:21
secrets in this family, right? This brother, Like, what's
38:25
what's going on with him? Why don't we know where he's
38:27
been for 10 years? Why did he just show up?
38:29
Do you know what I mean? If there's a marriage and the
38:33
marriage isn't what it seems and it seems like this dude is like,
38:37
clearly like, why are you with him?
38:39
He's horrible to you. Oh, plot twist, unreliable
38:42
narrator. She's a psycho.
38:45
That's the plot of Rebecca literally acknowledged that it
38:47
was the plot of Rebecca. But I also think it's because
38:50
that's what she's writing in her own life, that she's the
38:53
unreliable narrator. Someone is the unreliable
38:55
narrator. It's perhaps the showgirl and
38:58
whatever we're seeing in the music video of Patient Zero,
39:02
it's not all what it seems. One of these bitches is fucking
39:06
crazy. And I think it's the showgirl.
39:09
The plot of Rebecca is that a young woman marries A wealthy
39:14
widower, Maxim, and moves into his estate, Manderly.
39:19
She's obsessed with Rebecca. Queer queer coated his like
39:23
beautiful ex dead wife. OK, it's also seeming like the
39:28
dead poet right? Of like the showgirl being like
39:32
almost obsessed with the poet but like jealous right?
39:36
Or vice versa. Eventually the narrator AKA the
39:40
woman discovers that Maxim hated Rebecca and that he killed her
39:45
after learning that she was having affairs and manipulating
39:48
him and that this is the twist because you're like oh wait
39:51
what? He actually killed Rebecca.
39:54
But here's what's interesting. The housekeeper misses Danvers
39:58
probably burned down Manderly the compound because of her
40:03
obsession and devotion to Rebecca.
40:07
This is like a queer part of the story.
40:10
That's very interesting to burning the house down, right?
40:13
But guess what? Who flees?
40:15
The showgirl, AKA the new wife? Or is this new wife actually the
40:21
poet? You know, are we telling the
40:23
story of what's going to happen or?
40:25
For patient zero, is she telling a story that already did happen?
40:28
Because what interestingly happens is that the narrator,
40:31
AKA this new wife, the narrator, finds out that Maxim actually
40:35
hated Rebecca and that he killed her because he hated her.
40:39
She is actually happy about this.
40:43
She is happier that he murdered her rather than loved her.
40:47
Because when you start to find out that the narrator that is
40:51
telling you this story is not telling it in an accurate way,
40:55
we're only experiencing the story through her perspective,
40:59
and she constantly misinterprets what is happening because she's
41:03
insecure. And that kind of sounds like the
41:06
showgirl to me, right? I think the showgirl is leading
41:09
us to not actually view the situation clearly in a way that
41:14
we're viewing the Patient Zero through.
41:15
Maybe the showgirl's view is the Patient Zero music video, the
41:19
actual story of these three tailors and the man, or really,
41:23
or are we going to get a whole new music video that's going to
41:26
shift this perspective and show us the actual truth?
41:30
The narrator is unreliable. The narrator is unreliable.
41:34
And Rebecca and in Jane Eyre, there's a huge twist.
41:37
And in Verity, there's a huge twist.
41:39
We have no idea what to believe. And I think the point that we're
41:42
getting from this, from this music video is it's not so cut
41:45
and dry. Oh, these two girls are great
41:46
and helping each other, and the man is evil.
41:48
These characters represent a love triangle.
41:50
They represent showgirl, the man, the poet.
41:54
We can all argue on which one is which.
41:56
I do feel like the man is the man.
41:58
Perspective that we're seeing is not the whole truth.
42:01
And we are going to get the whole truth.
42:03
And I don't know if it's going to be a flip version of this
42:06
music video or we're just going to see it play out in her life.
42:09
And it also begs the question, what is going to happen?
42:12
What is this foreshadowing? What is the flip truth?
42:15
Are we going to show that the showgirl was already evil?
42:18
That this house is going to burn down just like in Rebecca?
42:22
That the house is going to burn down like the lover house, you
42:24
know, is TTP? Is Poet Taylor going to find out
42:27
what the showgirl did to her? And is she going to come and get
42:30
revenge via reputation and then burn this lover house down with
42:36
this fucked up romantic love triangle where everyone has
42:40
different perspectives and we don't even know who the true
42:42
narrator is? I don't know.
42:44
There is an unreliable narrator. Taylor Swift is an unreliable
42:48
narrator. A huge twist is coming and this
42:51
is the end of the showgirls reign.
42:53
Abso fucking lutely. We're going to go into song and
42:56
lyrical analysis and talk about how this all fits into the
42:59
theory, but I would love to hear your thoughts and what you
43:02
think. Taylor Swift is absolutely
43:04
emulating this book and adding her new variant to this string
43:10
of extremely famous novels. Also in Verity, I know I already
43:14
said this, but like, it's starring Dakota Johnson, Anne
43:16
Hathaway, and mind you, they share a lesbian kiss in the
43:19
movie. And mind you again, Anne
43:21
Hathaway also starred in Mother Mary about a queer superstar,
43:25
which is objectively inspired by Taylor Swift.
43:28
So Taylor Swift is returning the favor to these two.
43:33
I also want to add that the ring is a main fucking character in
43:36
the music video for Patient Zero.
43:39
The switching of the ring on Dakota and Taylor's hand I think
43:44
is showing that this is the same girl.
43:45
I feel like that really shows to me like, oh, this is the same
43:49
girl. The poet and the showgirl.
43:50
It's like the same person underneath and they're like
43:54
living mirrored lives. Which one is the good one?
43:58
Which one is the real 1? Which one is the victim?
44:01
Are they both victims? Are they both evil?
44:04
The ring is also a main character in this.
44:05
You can also see, you know, at the at the grave.
44:08
It's gleaming on her hand. We also see in the law and order
44:12
sketch, she puts her hand right here and she goes it's hidden in
44:15
plain sight and her ring is right there.
44:18
She also pointed to her ring at the football game like a week
44:21
before all this happened. So like that's fucking T like PR
44:25
relationship or more. So just talking about the idea
44:27
of her being betrothed and wedded in all of this is really
44:33
interesting. Is she married to the bit she
44:36
married to the story? Is Travis the annoying one in
44:38
the relationship or she fucking evil to Travis?
44:41
Does this reflect her real life? Or is this all just about the
44:44
characters of Taylor Swift? I mean, of course, a lot of this
44:47
in my mind goes back to Gaylord because like she is the showgirl
44:52
is not telling us her true self because like, we wouldn't like
44:56
her the the world would not like her and buy her tickets to get
44:59
her to buy back her master's. Like that's just a fact.
45:02
She needs to cover up the poet's tracks as a showgirl.
45:05
So Patient Zero was also the first single release since me.
45:08
And, and I also think that that's relevant because Me is a
45:12
part of the Lover era right around the time that the poet
45:16
had finally stepped into the light away from the showgirl and
45:19
Me was released on Lesbian Visibility Day.
45:22
And then when the encore was released, after the Patient zero
45:26
single was released, which shows like we didn't really need a
45:28
patient zero single release. We could have just had the
45:31
encore release, but she wanted to announce it on Bisexuality
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Day, of course, because she's collecting the gay days like
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Infinity Stones. Also, the photo shoot location
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and perhaps music video shooting location on some of it, we're
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not sure. Is Casa Wabi and Taylor Swift
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pretends like she went back into the studio and decided to make
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more music after the Life of a Showgirl was released?
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I mean, she lies to us because she also told us in the New
45:55
Heights podcast that she was not going to add any more songs.
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But then, you know, she did. And we know that she knew this
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beforehand because she had a book, Casa Wabi book, in the
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background of the podcast before the life of Showgirl was even
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released to the world. So she'd already planned on
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having Casa Wabi be the background for the music video
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or it was the inspiration for this in some way.
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It also proves that she lied to us and can show us lies.
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And she's showing us that she's an unreliable narrator.
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She's told us this so many times.
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And of course, there's a Karlie Kloss connection to this,
46:29
because there always is. That Curly Klaus was actually
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actually photographed herself at a Casa Wabi location Carly went
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to and posted an Instagram picture there, of course.
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And we go into the lyrics of Patient Zero.
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I know people are talking about, you know, the Sophie Turner
46:45
Jonas of it all. And of course, I think there's
46:47
double meanings, but also like, not only does the music video
46:51
lend itself to this idea of the three Taylors and Rebecca and
46:53
everything like this, but the song actually makes sense.
46:56
Like if you want to party with somebody whom I know about the
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devil on his shoulder under his Halo.
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I feel like it's like the the showgirl and the poet talking
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shit about the man now. He seems bored by you and you
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don't know what to do. I feel like it's like, OK,
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switching Era's time and they're done with it.
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I know it seems like he shines so bright, but he's bathing in
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your reflected light. Thoughts about the diamond?
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I think the showgirls, like, look, I've been here before.
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I've been here first before you, the poet.
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And I know what it's like for the man to take it all away.
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Like if we just view it in that way where it's Taylor Swift
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talking to herself, another version of herself.
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So if you want to kick it, then I've been with it.
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I've been there, felt the reeling, done the healing, like
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been through all the turmoils of being a showgirl, did the
47:42
healing, winning it back, winning back.
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The masters said the curses and the prayers like death and life.
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When the fever turns a dreamer into a pathetic ghost.
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If he's killing you, I see you. I was patient zero.
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She's like, I've been here before.
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I know you're so sad you were killed off, but I was killed off
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too. And then we get into Cleveland,
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which is the showgirl in the showgirl era that we don't even
48:10
need to get really into the showgirl being so focused on
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being like liked, right? She's like, oh, at least he
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likes me. It doesn't matter because he
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likes me. Like, this is not the poet.
48:19
The poet is talking about her feelings towards someone.
48:23
The showgirl is being like, who likes me and who doesn't like
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me? We're not feeling like we're
48:28
getting a sense of the real tailor because she's dead.
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And I also think it's interesting that Cleveland has
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an exclamation point just like, cancelled.
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It's like, who are you about to cancel?
48:39
So we're not even going to go into those lyrics, but like this
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is supposed to be the froofy love song that's showing us like
48:44
there's not much here. And honestly, like if Taylor
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Swift and Travis Kelce are really together in a loving,
48:48
happy relationship, I genuinely feel bad for Travis because he
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has not had an actual love song. All of these love songs are like
48:54
not this like heartfelt song because like he's only really
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been in her life during this showgirl era.
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OK, then we get into pink clouding, which I think is so
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interesting. Let's get into it.
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So I think the pink clouding is back to the story again of these
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three tailors, right? She's telling us in her final
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show through her perspective, what happened, right through the
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showgirl's perspective. I also do think it's like the
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showgirl's version of maroon. She like, can't quite do what
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the poet does or even the man does when she sings about her
49:31
own feelings because at the end of the day it's a little bit
49:34
more fruitier than when the poet has the point of view, right?
49:39
It's like this pink, froofy, cloudy, puffy version of what
49:43
lavender haze or maroon is, which is so showgirl.
49:47
It's also the lesbian flag. OK, let's be real.
49:49
Met the magenta sunrise, magenta fuchsia, forever intertwined.
49:54
Like we're already halfway through the lesbian flag and
49:56
it's been 2 lines. Threw the rosewood on the fire.
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Neither of us knew at the time that I was a liar.
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OK great. So she's already admitting to us
50:05
that she's lying. The showgirl is lying to us.
50:07
And it was so good letting you want me so good to make
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promises. Promises.
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And then it says PRPR promises so fucking crazy, you guys, that
50:18
she literally writes PR. But I was pink, pink Clouding
50:22
from the thrill of it. And as we know from a lot of
50:24
people talking about the song Pink Clouding is this idea that,
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like, you know, you're free from this addiction and you're a
50:30
little bit too optimistic right before something bad happens.
50:33
Now, this could be her talking about what happened when this
50:38
shift happened and the poet was killed.
50:41
She's kind of like, listen, I'm sorry you died.
50:44
She literally goes years later, I still wonder how to tell you
50:47
sorry now again, double meaning this could be lover era.
50:50
You know, this could be post reputation.
50:52
I think it's like Midnight's going into TTPD and then into
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Showgirl era, right? I also think there's another of
51:02
really cool point of view where it's like Taylor Swift telling
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Gaylors, like, I'm sorry that like, I gave you all of these
51:09
hints and like, even the showgirl being like, sorry, we
51:13
kind of fooled you. Like, sorry, like, you know, we
51:17
gave you this gay era. And then like, I was too
51:20
optimistic about the idea that this could be sustainable for my
51:23
career and I had to pull it back and I had to become way more
51:27
hidden. And I'm sorry I got your hopes
51:29
up. I think there's a lot here.
51:30
Or it could be about a ex lover that I think is probably a woman
51:34
where it's like I got off the addiction of men and I was too
51:39
optimistic about thinking that this would work.
51:42
Skydiving as you wrapped your arms around my body.
51:45
Gray rocking where the arrow hit.
51:47
Now This is why I think it's about the anti hearing music
51:50
video because like I do think the showgirl killed off the poet
51:53
and after the arrow hit, I think it slowly killed the poet and
51:59
Gray rocking. It's like after Midnight's we
52:03
get this black and white album and then boom, life of a
52:06
showgirl. Are we going to get another
52:07
black and white album? Because they keep on shifting
52:10
each era. Gray rocking.
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It's a self protection strategy used to deal with toxic,
52:15
manipulative or emotionally volatile people by becoming as
52:19
uninteresting and unengaged as a dull stone.
52:22
Taking away emotion and just giving this like flat voice.
52:26
It could be like the music that the showgirl decides to give out
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because they don't want to give this emotion.
52:33
You know what I mean? It's easier and it's safe.
52:35
It's more palatable if you don't lean into it and you don't speak
52:39
out about things that are problematic and you don't talk
52:42
about emotions that are too strong and that you're just kind
52:45
of like not feeding into the drama.
52:48
And I also just think it's really interesting that this
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entire era of the encore is like Stone and the Casa Wabi is like
52:57
Gray rock and then this stone that the man is this like
53:01
statue. Statues crumble if they're made
53:03
to wait, like the poet has been waiting in death or somewhere.
53:07
And then even when she ordered the VMA is like it looks like a
53:09
statue. Like is the statue part
53:12
unfolding to reveal black again, right, the poet or reputation.
53:17
But pretty much this idea of Gray rocking is like giving the
53:20
fans kind of just like what they want and not any emotional
53:23
response, right? Being fucking fake.
53:26
And then and it goes to, you know, to the OPA like music
53:28
video where there's a Gray rock and no play music video.
53:31
So like after the Arrowhead, the showgirl says, great, I'm going
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to Gray rock everyone. Years later, I still wonder how
53:37
to tell you sorry. Is the showgirl saying sorry to
53:41
the poet or is Taylor saying sorry to gay fans?
53:44
He cut me Crimson blood me dry. He crossed my heart.
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I hope to die. It's.
53:49
I just feel like she's talking to the man.
53:51
Right. Ripped all my orchids from the
53:53
vine. You met me at a cursed time.
53:55
Whoa. And you were so good.
53:57
That's why you haunt me like you should.
54:00
We're still talking about ghosts.
54:02
Like this is way more than just four different sporadic songs
54:05
about lovers. This is a larger story to me.
54:08
Haunting ghosts. Rebecca haunting the narrator.
54:13
It's like Taylor haunting Dakota's character.
54:16
It's these two girls that are faced off together because the
54:19
man is controlling their fates. I hope you realized my kind of
54:23
trouble wasn't worth it. And the way I treated you, you
54:25
never deserved it. I didn't want to let you down,
54:27
so I left you on a pink cloud. And I also feel like it's like
54:30
lavender haze, like leaving the midnight's era, leaving the poet
54:34
up there trapped forever, and like feeling bad for the
54:38
showgirl taking over and Gray rocking everyone you know.
54:41
Or it could be like Carly, I'm sorry, or Diana.
54:44
But this Tom Hiddleston BS. It's like people are trying to
54:47
find any man to talk about with this era.
54:50
And like, even after specifically Taylor Swift said
54:53
stop fraternity testing my songs, like when it is not even
54:56
clear that it is Joe or Travis. Now we're going all the way back
55:00
and we're like, what other man makes sense?
55:02
Like they're like, oh, it's not even Maddie.
55:03
What other man? What other man?
55:05
They're just digging up any man. I'm like, perhaps she's talking
55:08
to her fans like even if it's not even Gaylord related.
55:11
So yeah, pink clouding is fascinating.
55:13
It continues on this story. And finally we get Babylon,
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which I feel like is a climax that really just shows us what's
55:22
going to happen and what's happening in the encore.
55:25
Babylon is good. I think these songs are really
55:26
good. They're not my favorite.
55:28
I mean, I don't like Cleveland. They're a lot better now that
55:30
I've listened to them. And like next time I need to
55:33
remember that when I'm first listening because like, it
55:35
always grows in me. I just like the production
55:37
really let me down. But again, this is Showgirls
55:40
POV. Now, of course, Babylon is
55:41
inherently queer because it goes back to cowboy like me and also
55:46
us with Gracie Abrams. Now the idea of this song is
55:50
almost like Taylor is talking to just like someone out in the
55:54
crowd and their youth. Again, all these have double
55:56
meanings so that like the people that don't want to dig into it
55:59
don't have to and they have like an easy thing to grab onto.
56:03
But you know, we are not those people.
56:04
The casino doesn't like when you run the tables and then the box
56:07
is wrapped up nice. It's just a cage to you.
56:09
Those electric fences Buzz, the stallion flees the stable and
56:12
that small towns even smaller now.
56:14
On your rearview, you ran with all the wild things, a liberated
56:18
libertine who then longed for home.
56:20
This is the showgirl talking about how trapped she was,
56:23
right? And how this girl is now running
56:25
free. Maybe it's the poet again, like
56:28
I just like, this is her talking to herself because it's where
56:31
you're from. Aunt Virginia with her church
56:33
dress on, no elbows on the table in the neighbor's lawn.
56:36
She's like, this is your youth. Or maybe she's even saying like,
56:40
think about where you came from. It's like a love story for these
56:44
different versions of herself. But then I do think that there's
56:47
something to be said about this being a song to the fans.
56:49
I don't know. I think the Cage is very her
56:51
focused, obvi. But then saying to the fans, you
56:54
hate this song. You wake up on the train with
56:57
your headphones gone. The melody is all you want now
57:00
you want the thing that you don't have any more and you
57:02
never knew it was good because it's gone.
57:05
Because the real Taylor is dead. Give the people what they want,
57:09
then you keep it moving. This is literally talking to
57:13
herself, literally being like, give the people what they want.
57:16
We've said this so many times that Taylor Swift is giving the
57:19
people what they want, and then she wrote it in her fucking
57:21
lyrics. But I think this is interesting.
57:23
People think that she's talking to like, a young boy.
57:25
And like, what if she's talking about herself because she loved
57:28
you? So pretty as a picture that you
57:29
didn't post. Oh, so this is something secret.
57:32
Looking at you like you're made of solid gold.
57:34
OK, so Karlie Kloss, Gold Rush. I feel like it's a showgirl
57:38
talking to herself, but then it's also the showgirl talking
57:41
to Carly. You're using nostalgia as a
57:44
weapon to hurt yourself. Hello.
57:47
But darling, you end up hurting everybody else.
57:50
She's so focused on these past eras of herself, but she's
57:54
hurting everyone else because she's like trying to be like
57:57
she's trying to like go back to this nostalgia, the self harm of
58:02
never being where you are. And now I'm thinking maybe this
58:05
is the poet talking back to the showgirl because maybe the poet
58:09
is waking up anyway. She says you didn't know his
58:11
Babble until it was gone. And I, I do think this is Taylor
58:15
talking to herself, but I also think a huge way that I take it
58:18
is Taylor talking to her fans. And was like, you didn't know
58:21
what you had until I became the showgirl and it was gone.
58:24
You took me for granted. So there's that.
58:26
T there guys, I have to take off my fucking scarf.
58:29
I feel so claustrophobic. So to wrap, I have a few more
58:32
things to cover and then we can be done.
58:34
This is a longest episode. There's a lot of other things
58:36
that I didn't even fucking mention.
58:38
And so if you want more, you know, let me know if there's
58:41
something you want me to expand on or talk about on my TikTok or
58:43
a bonus episode, whatever. But karma, right?
58:47
Like is reputation coming? Or is it actually karma that
58:50
exposes the the lies and the truths?
58:53
Maybe this era is going to expose who the good narrator is
58:57
or is there even a good narrator, right?
59:00
And I know people are talking about the three colors for the
59:02
patient's ear release and like this blue and this orange,
59:05
right? This like bluish green and this
59:07
orange. Well, first of all, those are
59:08
opposite colors in the color we all think about karma, right?
59:11
Because Karma could also just be seen as like retribution.
59:14
The Karma music video is really interesting.
59:17
The colors of the ropes that I Spice and Taylor have are like
59:21
this blue and orange. And people have been talking
59:23
about, oh, look, that looks similar to the Fortnite music
59:26
video where the two typewriters are like blue and orange.
59:31
Those are opposite colors on the color wheel.
59:33
And I think one of those colors is the poet and the other one is
59:37
the showgirl, like having this opposite mirrored type
59:41
connection. Plus on the man wall there's
59:44
blue and black. Who are we going to meet at
59:47
midnight? Is it the real tailor?
59:49
Is it both of the tailors coming together?
59:51
Are they going to kill the man? Do you agree that there's some
59:54
sort of karma reputation happening at the end of this?
59:57
Who do you think is the real narrator?
59:59
But I am certain is that there is one final twist and switch up
1:00:04
with the narration and someone is coming back from her grave.
1:00:09
And it is the poet. And is Taylor Swift Gray rocking
1:00:11
us because she's a stone top. Just kidding.
1:00:14
That was a lesbian joke. If you don't get it, it's not
1:00:15
for you. I wrote it in and then I
1:00:17
couldn't take it out of my notes once I had it in.
1:00:19
Will the showgirl be killed off finally, forever?
1:00:22
Will we see what's happening behind the curtain?
1:00:24
Is there even a curtain, or is the curtain really just
1:00:27
symbolizing life versus death? And don't even get me started on
1:00:32
the Ivy of it all, the Ivy on the House, the Cassandra
1:00:36
speaking her truth and then being killed off.
1:00:39
There's so much here with Taylor Swift in her world building and
1:00:43
it is so fascinating. It is so amazing.
1:00:45
I'm endlessly interested. But I absolutely believe that
1:00:48
Taylor Swift is communicating about the showgirl and to her
1:00:53
other versions of herself in this encore.
1:00:56
And at the end of this encore, the narrator is about to switch
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the fuck up. Thank you guys so much for
1:01:02
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