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dissecting "the end of an era" docuseries · gasp! the pod

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Ross, Travis and Travis watching Taylor Swift sing Cowboy Like
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Me, You're a Cowboy Like Me, which is one of the gayest songs
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of all time. It's like Brokeback Mountain and
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both of them are listening to the song together.
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Hello my lovely Gaspers. Welcome back to GASP the Pod,
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the podcasts for the gays, the girls, and especially the gay
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girls. Happy holidays guys and happy
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Taylor Swift's docu series is finally out.
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There is so much to talk about. OK, Taylor Swift's long-awaited
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docu series all about her Heiress tour, which is the
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highest grossing music tour of literally all time, which is
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actually insane. It's out now and wow, there's
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just so much for us to talk about.
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It's given us more stripped back Taylor Swift content than we've
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had in probably years, I think since the Miss Americana
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documentary. Like usually we don't just get
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like behind the scenes content of Taylor Swift.
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She's not really active on social media anymore.
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The docu series is incredibly revealing and I think
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intentionally so. And I think a lot of people
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don't realize how much like direction there is to talk about
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certain topics for a documentary.
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You don't just film everything and then hope, hope that it kind
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of creates A seamless message, right?
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Like there are certain things that they wanted to talk about
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in this documentary and they wanted it to be shaped in a very
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certain way. And that's just how
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documentaries are. So I'm going to talk about the
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most notable things that we learned from the docu series so
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far and what they mean for Taylor Swift the person versus
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Taylor Swift the brand. I'll be analyzing all of these
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following things from the docu series.
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These are 10 things I'm really going to talk about and focus on
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that. I think the docu series, like,
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wants us to at least notice. OK.
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One, the intentionality and difficulty of eras. 2 are
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planning. 2, The highlights on queer and diverse hiring. 3, the
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queer flags. Yeah. 4, the wardrobe slash.
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Talk about reputation. 5 The absence of Scott Swift anyways.
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6 The careful explanation of the Tavis narrative and timeline and
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performance art of their relationship and performance art
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of the tour. 7 The Ross Travis cameo. 8 The narrative of her
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departure from the era's AKA brand Taylor and her leaving,
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you know, the showgirl behind. 9 The careful crafting of her
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brand and 10 The loyalty of her team.
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There's so much that she, I think, wanted to cover in the
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docu series series without having to like make statements
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on, and this is her subtly like addressing a lot of things.
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I'm going to do my best to cover what I think were, you know, the
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highlighted important aspects of the docu series that we didn't
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know about her and we didn't know about the tour before this,
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because a lot of it was revealing And also as like I
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watched the docu series more, I'm going to pick up on things.
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So I'll obviously be posting more and talking about it more,
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etcetera, etcetera. So let's dive in.
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OK, I'm I'm sure you guys have probably seen most of it, and if
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not, I'd like describe the scenes that I'm talking about in
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this podcast episode. Also, just so you guys know,
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this is my last episode of season 3 and my last episode of
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2025, which is so sad and so crazy.
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But don't worry, it's not going to be a long break.
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I'm still going to put out bonus content in between Season 3 and
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Season 4, so I'm probably going to make another bonus episode
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about the docu series. Like the more I watch it and the
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more things that I pick up on because I think there's so much
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here to talk about. Yeah, the last year of my
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podcast of all of 2025. I feel like my listeners, AKA
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you guys have just been so dedicated and so engaged.
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So thank you, seriously so much for listening.
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If there's anything you want me to talk about more or like want
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me to tweak, please give me your feedback.
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That can be on Spotify, comments on YouTube, comments, direct
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messages like on TikTok, on Instagram, literally whatever.
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Just like, tell me things that you want.
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Tell me like your favorite episode.
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Yeah. And I just love you guys so
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much. And I love this community.
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I love this podcast. I love doing it.
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So I'm excited for 2026. I think we all need a refresh.
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And also I made a Gaylord T-shirt.
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Someone had told me like a few months ago that I should make a
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goddess a Gaylord sticker. And I think I made AT shirt.
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I'm going to make a sticker as well.
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That's also on the linktree. You can just find it under
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merch. I think it's funny, but that was
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kind of half for me but yeah, last message is happy holidays.
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Have a great break and just be easy on yourself.
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OK like this has been kind of a crazy year refresh.
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We're starting new again in 2026.
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OK let's talk about the documentary.
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So the first category of things that I wanted to talk about with
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this documentary is just the intentionality of like
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everything. Obviously the docu series itself
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is very intentional. There's been a lot of talk from
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Swifty's that a lot of the things that Taylor, Taylor Swift
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does are just kind of like just happens to be there.
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And that we shouldn't think that deeply into every decision or
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every micro dance move or every TikTok or every poster, every
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Easter egg. We shouldn't think much into it.
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And I feel like this documentary has really exposed that.
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Most of the things she does are overthought and she has a huge
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team around her. And so when she's posting
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something on her TikTok, that is the Taylor Swift brand TikTok,
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when she is deciding to make a dance move, it really is that
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deep. Obviously, we all thought that
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it was hard work to do the errors too, but not until you
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like really see all the little things you have to do with the
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stage design and with the dressing rooms and where you're
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going to go under the stage and the choreography and the
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choreography with Lawrence Welch and all of these things you have
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to account for. It is actually fucking crazy.
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One of the main things that I think we all saw from this docu
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series that is just striking is the choreography that Mandy
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Moore did with Florence Welch. Mandy Moore is Taylor Swift's
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choreographer. How intentionally they were with
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the dance moves. And I post this on TikTok, but
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there's literally a part where Taylor and Mandy are kind of
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explaining the choreography to Florence for Florida when
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Florence came on for that show. There's a part in the song where
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it says all of the bodies that have ever been on my body and
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both Florence and Taylor are holding girl dancers like next
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to them on their bodies. And when this happened, I
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remember during the live stream, gaylors were like, holy shit,
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the bodies are women bodies because they have been with
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women or Taylor at least has been with women.
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And people were like, it's not that deep.
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It just so happens that like the female dancers were like there
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or like it wasn't intentional that they were like girl
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dancers. And then we see from the
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document documentary an explanation of this entire thing
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and Taylor explaining to Florence and saying it kind of
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makes sense, bodies on my body. So like it kind of makes sense.
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And she's explaining that the reason why they're holding their
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heads right there is because of the lyric, which is all about
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sex stuff cause bodies. This docu series just shows that
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everything is thought out. None of this is random.
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And it's not just because, like, Taylor Swift is a mastermind.
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It's because like when we see themes over and over again, it's
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not just random. Like most of stage performances.
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And like big productions like this, every move is like
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micromanaged. So it just shows even more the
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genius behind everything, the work behind everything to like
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prove that point or exercise it exactly how they want it to be.
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You can't really make the argument that any of this is
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like not intentional anymore after seeing this docu series.
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The second main highlight from this docu series is all of the
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spotlights on queer and diverse hiring.
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I was really pleased with how many like team members had the
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focus of this docu series. And I think it makes a lot more
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interesting to see how like a tour of this size is even put on
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and like all the people behind it.
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Because again, it's one thing to just say it like, oh, there's so
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many people there. And it's another to like
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actually follow their job as it happens.
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And you do realize that it is bigger than Taylor Swift.
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It's bigger than her performing on there.
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And also like how influential you can be.
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And I'll talk about politics later on.
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Obviously, I do want her to be more specific in her language
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with how she talks about politics.
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I wish she said it more outright as she used to, but it doesn't
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erase the fact that she's doing and like making good statements
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with diversity through this tour and also this docu series.
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Like so for example, Wiley, one of the dancers really wanted to
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be part of the ready for it dance and the ready for it dance
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has only female dancers. He was just saying that like
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most times in professional dancing, it's very gendered and
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that he wasn't really allowed to express his like feminine side
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in dance and was usually kind of placed in like a masculine manly
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dance role or like choreography. And Taylor allowed him to be
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part of the ready for it dance. And he says quote, I want to be
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that example for anyone, any person, male, female, male, non
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binary. I want them to feel seen just
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like how I felt seen by Taylor. So first of all, saying the
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actual word non binary and having that make the final cut
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of this docu series. We can't overstate how important
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that is. Taylor Swift is one of the most
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famous people in the world right now.
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And especially in America when we have language specifically
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around trans and non binary people being erased.
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And people love saying just like equality instead of saying
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trans, saying non binary, that language is completely erased.
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And so they could have easily said, oh, just like I want to be
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that example for anyone, any type of person.
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But I really appreciate the wily said non binary and that it made
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the cut. Like that is really important.
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So we know obviously, that Taylor Swift supports queer
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people like she is queer. I know that she's liberal.
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I am not doubting that from her. But I still wish we had more.
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But this is still a very good moment, right?
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How many millions of people are watching this docu series and
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seeing that? Like that's really important.
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And then Cam, one of the dancers also was spotlighted and this
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and was talking about him and his brother who the chiefs,
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which by the way, we're talking, we're saying that that has no
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impact on Taylor meeting Travis. Like what?
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Anyways, we'll get to that trust.
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But Cam was talking about like, he always felt he had to like,
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lose weight and be in a different body in order to be a
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professional dancer. And that this opportunity, like,
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made him feel like accepted he was put on this grand stage that
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there was like, no element of like a certain body for the
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dancers of the Aristora. That's a really important
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message. So I just really liked that
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there was so many spotlights on the dancers, the team members,
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the band that she's had for so long, her stylist, by the way,
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all these people, mostly gays and girls.
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Anyways. Taylor also says about hiring a
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diverse cast of dancers and team members.
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She says, quote, we're not trying to make any points about
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gender, but we just don't really have any kind of restrictions.
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And I think that that could really be applied to how she
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views her own career, too, and how she's supposed to be with
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Taylor Swift, the brand, where she's trying not to be too
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overt. But the whole point is that
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there are no restrictions because she is not this straight
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heteronormative woman, at least I think.
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And so I think that's the presidential helicopter I can
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see from my window, You know, we just don't really have any kind
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of restrictions. I feel like that really goes to
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show like, she is not doing things restrictedly male,
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female, straight, because that's not how she lives her life.
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Yeah. Like, honestly, this docu series
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is pretty gay. And it wasn't necessarily, like,
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all Taylor Swift being gay. There's also a part where Cam is
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celebrating Wiley being able to dance the ready for dance.
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And Cam says do it for the gays. It's like she's surrounded by so
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many gays. You guys.
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She like. I just really like that that was
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so apparent in the docu series, like the gayness, right?
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Taylor also says Wiley can really channel that kind of like
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sexy femme side of himself when talking about his dancing.
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And I really thought this is really important because what do
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you mean she knows the word femme?
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She didn't say feminine. She said femme side of himself.
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And that might seem like a really minor thing, but I don't
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really know many straight people unless they're like super
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fucking plugged in that saying like femme, but like that's a
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queer term more than just like being feminine.
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She said femme. I don't know it just it's giving
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that she knows what she's talking about, right?
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OK, let's talk about the queer flags because there were many.
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And don't start with, OK, she doesn't Easter egg about her
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personal life. First of all, she does.
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We're not even going to go into the fact that we know she does,
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right? Because there's so many
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examples. But also what is an Easter egg
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versus what is a queer flag? It's already been proven to us
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that this docu series is showing how intentional everything she
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does is. And then we're going to see all
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these queer flags and people are still going to say that it's
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random and doesn't mean anything in the same docu series that is
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showing how intentional every micro decision is.
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Sure. Anyways, so we see the we can
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see you poster that a fan is holding up.
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This poster legitimately is the most gay poster I've ever seen.
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For example, me and my girlfriend when we went to the
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Portugal heiress to her we wore these shirts who were on the
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floor and Taylor saw us multiple times like me and eye contact
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with us smiled. It was fucking amazing.
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And me and my girlfriend wore these shirts that I made with
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daisies on it and I forget what it said.
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It was like, were your Daisy or like you're our Daisy or
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something where I thought that was the most obvious Gaylord
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shirt, right? And if she had put our shirts on
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the docu series, I would have been like confirmed.
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And that's how we should be treating this sign because I bet
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whoever made this sign, this girl like made this sign being
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like this is the most gaylor sign ever because you have to be
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a gaylor. You objectively have to be a
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gaylor to make a sign like that. That is confirmation.
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And by the way, even if Taylor is not gay, she knows gaylors
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exist and she knows what gaylors talk about, which is hairpin,
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Daisy, eye theory, rainbow flag, and all of those things are on
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this poster. So either she's queer or
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including this because they know she's OK with this and like
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giving the visibility to gaylors and she's queer flagging right
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now. She's queer by having this in
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the docu series or it's at least showing she is OK with people
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saying that about her. But I've seen some people be
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like guys, she's only including this to like give gaylors a win,
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but she actually isn't gay at all.
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If Taylor is straight, 100% straight, and she is
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intentionally doing things in order to get gaylors to watch
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something like something knowing we think that she's queer.
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Meanwhile she is straight. That is fucked up and I would be
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less of a fan so like that's not cool.
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Bad ally move to intentionally be doing that.
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So anyone's argument for that? I'm like why wouldn't you rather
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just her be queer instead of her being a bad ally?
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You want her to be a bad ally? Like I don't get it.
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Anyways moving on. The larger point is her her
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team, this being included in the final cut, which she has seen
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and she's a part of, you know, constructing this docu series.
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It's just like so queer. It's so gaylor confirmation,
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like it's it's it's the epitome of a queer flag.
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I can see you the lyrics, you know from I can see you the song
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and then the eye theory, the rainbow flag, the hairpin, the
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Daisy. That shape of the Daisy is from
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her and Karlie Kloss, the Big Sur road trip.
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That is an objective truth. Like I don't know.
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I don't understand how people are not freaking out as much as
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I am about it. But let's also talk about her
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gay ass outfits during like the behind the scenes of the heiress
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to her. You can see like her warming up
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and he's just like how she's sinning is just like the most
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bisexual sit I've ever seen in my life.
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Just gay. That's that's queer.
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That's queer flagging. By the way, looking gay is
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enough of a queer flag for me. Let's also talk about the
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rainbow slash American flag art piece in her New York City
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apartment. So First off, before we get into
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the fact that this is so queer, this is a queer flag.
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It's also a parallax, and we can talk about the meaning of that.
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It is also so annoying that people are saying like, guys,
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this shows that she's straight because this is such a bad art
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piece. It says loved ones, right?
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It's like from 1 angle it looks like the American flag.
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From another angle it says loved ones.
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Now anyone saying that like it's not gay because it's not cool.
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You guys really seriously need to think about what you're
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saying when you say those words. Do you know what you mean when
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you say those words? There are uncool gay people.
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Sorry there are non Gen. Z gay people.
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Just because she's millennial doesn't mean she's not gay just
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because she doesn't have like the coolest art piece ever.
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And then it says love wins the HRC 2012 rainbow mustache
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millennial vibe. Just because she has that
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doesn't mean she's a straight millennial.
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There are millennial gays. You can be gay and not edgy
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Brooklyn latte drinking polyamorous girl.
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Like, do people know that? I'm so sick of this analysis of
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like, oh, because she's like kind of millennial, then she
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can't be gay. Like you are Gen.
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Z. There are gay millennials out
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there, whatever. But allies do not have art
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pieces like that. Allies do not have art pieces
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like that. And if they do, you're not
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actually that straight because if you're obsessed with gay
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people that much, you are literally gay.
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I don't make the rules. That's a fact.
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That is a fact. Let's talk about the Parallax,
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right? So when we see this art piece,
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huge art piece in her New York City apartment where it's like
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mostly white walls, and let's say it's not her apartment,
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which it is, by the way. If it's not, then they're
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choosing to film in this place with this.
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Not only is it kind of like important because it's in her
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house, but it's also important because it's literally parallax,
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which Taylor Swift has talked about on Jimmy Fallon, The Fate
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of Ophelia music video, and she talks about the importance of
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the parallax, right? She says it's the breaking of
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the parallax, right? Quote.
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You're looking at it from 1 angle and it shows a picture.
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But if you were to come around the side, you'd see that it's a
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different layers that are creating it.
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As soon as you turn, you see that we're backstage.
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In the front of this art piece, it looks like the American flag,
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one image from the straight on if you come around to the side,
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which is how the camera goes when we're watching her in the
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reputation outfit, which I don't think means nothing, right?
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Reputation is very queer. We're seeing it from a different
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angle from the side. We're seeing backstage, as she
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says, and Jimmy Fallon. And what is behind the scenes of
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this American Taylor Swift brand, All American Girl, Miss
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America? It is this queer other version
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of her love wins. It is the welcome to New York.
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It is the queer girl folklore evermore.
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It is this different girl, like the poet Taylor perhaps versus
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the showgirl up front, which is the American girl, the one that
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like doesn't ruffle too many feathers going from the side,
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the whole other person backstage, the real Taylor.
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And I just think the fact that not only is it like gay, but the
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fact that it's a parallax really shows that this is important and
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that this means something to just can't understate how
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important that art piece is. Like that feels really cementing
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to me. It should also remind people
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that she's not MAGA. And again, I wish that she would
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like, be more vocal. I think it's important for her
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to be more vocal. But I don't necessarily think
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that she's MAGA. OK.
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The last, like, super queer thing that I saw from the Stock
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You series, This is kind of random, but at one point, Taylor
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is watching the Chiefs game with her mom, and her mom is like,
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Travis has three guys on him, which gay.
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And Taylor goes, well, yeah, because he's special.
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And I just think that's a really gay thing to say.
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Let's move on to the wardrobe. And also this talk about
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reputation. That was kind of random and I
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felt like didn't really close the loop on what she was trying
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to say when she was talking about reputation.
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She is trying on the surprise song dresses with her stylist.
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And again, people are saying the surprise song dresses were kind
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of just like she wanted fun new dresses.
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And then in this scene she says, no, we should wear it for the
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first night. Like there's intentionality
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behind it. And there's a whole theory
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behind the surprise song dresses.
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Obviously they're pretty queer when they're like rainbow.
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There's, you know, koi fish interpretation.
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There's an interpretation that like it goes from Sun's set to
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dusk to dawn with the order that she was wearing the dresses.
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But the most important analysis of it is that one is like the
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lesbian flag. And then when she wears that
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dress, she wears it with Greasy Abrams, who is wearing a white
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dress to complete the lesbian flag.
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She says when she tries on this dress, she goes sunset.
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Like girl, we know that's the lesbian one, but go off and then
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also she when she tries on the lesbian bodysuit.
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And so this is the bodysuit that like everyone called the lesbian
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bodysuit and it was first on the Internet.
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Someone will like made it. Everyone at that point was like
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Gaylord bodysuit. And then she fucking wore one
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very similar to the drawing, which is fucking crazy.
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It looks so good in it. And I'm obsessed at her going
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like, oh, looking at herself and it like she knows she's hot.
23:43
And then she goes, this is my new favorite for sure.
23:46
Yeah, there's there's a reason for that.
23:47
So there was mention of the reputation set a lot during this
23:50
docu series. And as I said before, Wiley was
23:55
planning and like learning the Ready for it dance because he
23:58
wanted to be a part of that dance.
24:00
But they're talking about the reputation bodysuit and listen
24:04
for an album that is not supposed to be getting re
24:08
recorded. I don't know why there's so much
24:10
talk about it. I'm still thinking that there's
24:13
going to be the vault tracks that are going to release.
24:16
I I still believe that that's going to happen.
24:18
She told us it was going to happen in that there would be a
24:20
moment for Reputation. Where is it?
24:22
I just think there's a connection between Reputation
24:24
karma, the breaking of Parallax, the breaking of the mirror ball,
24:29
everything like that. She says when she's talking
24:31
about wearing a new Reputation body suit and surprising the
24:34
fans, she says, I've never had an alternate outfit for the
24:38
reputation section. And then she says not once.
24:42
The reason why this is important is that usually when she was
24:44
wearing a different type of outfit for an era on the tour,
24:48
it was because she was going to announce a new album.
24:51
Like when she changed a lot of her outfits.
24:54
When she announced 1989, she changed a lot of the outfits to
24:56
blue. And that was to show like, we're
24:59
going to get 1989. I was actually at that concert.
25:01
And so it was Karlie Kloss. But the reason why people went
25:04
crazy for that is because we thought you were releasing
25:07
reputation and then nothing came from it.
25:09
And I just feel like that's to get our hopes up again for
25:12
something. I don't really know why they
25:14
would be so much talk about it if it wasn't.
25:17
I don't know. I have some questions on that.
25:19
Let me know your guys's theories on that one.
25:22
But then when they're also showing like the social media
25:24
reaction to the new Rep bodysuit, I feel like they were
25:28
completely taking out the fact that people were freaking out
25:31
'cause we thought Rep TV was coming, not because we were just
25:34
like, Oh my God, gold, but the fact that it was gold.
25:37
And then in the tweets and the post they were highlighting in
25:40
the docu series, they were bolding the gold.
25:44
And I'm like, what's going on here with the gold?
25:48
I once believed love would be black and white, but it's
25:50
golden. I'm just wondering what's
25:52
happening here. Are we going to get ATS 13 gold
25:55
album? That could be pretty fire.
25:58
Is reputation going to lead into TS13?
26:01
Is the new Rep TV album going to be gold?
26:03
I don't know, like, but I just think that that might have been
26:06
purposeful. Then I want to just mention the
26:10
absence of Scott Swift from this docu series.
26:12
Now, when I'm filming this, I have not yet seen the last two
26:16
episodes and that is because I need to be able to film this
26:19
before tomorrow because I don't want to release an episode or
26:22
work on Christmas Eve. So sorry.
26:25
But I will release a bonus episode talking about everything
26:29
from the last two episodes of the docu series after Christmas,
26:34
probably the 26th, the 27th, but from up to this point.
26:38
So 4 episodes in, we're barely seeing Scott Swift.
26:42
I think we saw him for maybe 1 millisecond when they were
26:45
talking about the weather like at the Miami show.
26:48
I think that's really intentional.
26:49
I mean, Andrea has had a solid part of this docu series and I
26:54
don't know, people theorizing that she's had a rift with her
26:56
dad. Her dad is on 13 management.
27:00
And as we've seen from Miss Americana, he was the one
27:04
telling her not to talk about politics.
27:06
Some theorize he's the one telling her not to come out.
27:09
There's a lot of theories here, like I don't know what's going
27:12
on. I just think that's interesting,
27:15
right? Like, does she have more of a
27:16
work relationship and less of like a close family bond?
27:20
Is there a rift? Is it intentional?
27:22
Kind of same thing with Jack Antonoff off.
27:24
I wouldn't be surprised if she's not friends with Jack Antonoff.
27:26
I would be sad about it. But also who knows?
27:29
Like there's a lot of people that are not going to be
27:31
included in this documentary that she's still like close
27:33
with. But yeah, OK, let's get into the
27:35
Juicy Tavis stuff because as we expected, there is a lot of
27:42
Travis in this docu series and he's not really talking as much
27:47
as I expected. Like he's not really doing a sit
27:49
down interview with the camera yet.
27:52
I wouldn't be surprised if we see that.
27:54
But there's a lot of talking about him.
27:57
It's good for his brand for sure.
28:00
And as I already talked about in a few Tik Toks, the director,
28:04
the main director of this docu series, his name is Don Arcot.
28:09
He is not a Hollywood known director.
28:12
He has made a lot of documentaries.
28:14
It doesn't mean you're known by the industry.
28:16
He is not a natural choice. No matter which way you spin it,
28:18
he is not a natural choice. That's just an objective fact
28:21
with how you look the industry and how you look at
28:23
documentaries for major celebrities.
28:27
The woman who did Miss Americana brought in feminist edge.
28:31
Don Argot made the Kelsey documentary mostly about Jason
28:36
Kelsey. The only reason he's on this
28:38
documentary is through Travis Kelsey, so he is a part of
28:43
crafting this story that is like working for both Taylor, Travis,
28:48
Tavis, the brand in general. I think they wanted someone who
28:51
could like craft this gateway for Travis, you know, to move on
28:56
past the NFLI also think there's a lot of performance art alert
28:59
going on here, right? Like they want to craft the
29:02
narrative to make it make sense, to show the they're both
29:05
performers, they're both entertainers.
29:07
And together they are creating a new like superpower, like this
29:12
power couple of entertainment. Not talk about TikTok again, but
29:15
I made a TikTok about like breads and circuses and how I
29:20
think Taylor and Travis are like feeding the people, giving the
29:24
people what they want. Travis is like a modern day
29:28
gladiator. They both said, are you not
29:30
entertained? This gladiator reference from
29:34
the movie Gladiator And Taylor keeps talking about Travis in
29:38
these like kind of like warlike words.
29:42
She says that he plays violent chess in the docu series.
29:47
That, you know, sounds like a gladiator to me.
29:50
And I feel like they are both entertaining the crowd in this
29:54
PR relationship and whether or not they're in a real
29:57
relationship. I think there's so much PR going
29:59
on in this and they're doing performance art.
30:01
They are keeping the crowd fed and happy.
30:05
Are you not entertained? People are so entertained.
30:08
They are the epitome of entertainment money makers right
30:12
now. They're doing this to get to the
30:14
point where they want to be in their career, I think to break
30:18
the parallax so we can see what's actually behind all of
30:22
this. We see one image, but what is
30:24
behind it? All right, that's just my
30:26
theory, but I think this is a lot of performance art going on.
30:31
And together they like are this superpower.
30:34
That's why I think they have this scene in the car where
30:36
she's like, oh, we're both entertainers, like on the field
30:39
and I'm on stage. You have your coach and I have
30:42
my mom. Like she repeats this narrative
30:44
a lot. And I think trying to show us
30:46
that this like, makes sense in this performance, right?
30:51
That's the epitome of why he was brought on stage.
30:53
ANYWAYS, they're like both the showgirls, OK.
30:56
Also, when the Travis section starts in the docu series, they
31:00
straight up show the New Heights logo and the whole brand before
31:05
they show the clip of Travis talking about the friendship
31:08
bracelet gate. And it's just could not be more
31:10
obvious that they're like promoting him and giving him
31:13
such a stage. And again, it makes sense.
31:16
This is a movie for both of them as a couple and what they're
31:20
doing for the entertainment industry and not necessarily
31:24
just Taylor Swift. Like this is kind of bigger than
31:26
Taylor Swift. It's the show of it all.
31:29
It's the heirs tour. It's the final chapter, the end
31:34
of an era, the end of the showgirl.
31:36
So it's not like behind the scenes Taylor Swift.
31:39
It's the showgirl, it's the heiress to her.
31:42
Like this is this larger production and the ending of
31:47
this mega show that's not just on stage but also for the media.
31:54
There's also a part where, like, I think it's Taylor that she
31:56
goes, oh, do you want to tell the story, like to her mom about
32:00
the Travis story? It just doesn't happen very
32:02
naturally. It's like very outright that
32:04
like, now you're supposed to talk about Travis.
32:07
Whereas like in the Miss Americana documentary, she's
32:10
talking about Joe and she's saying, amidst all of this, I'm
32:13
falling in love and like kind of talking about her life more.
32:16
And this seems so on purpose. And again, the theme of this
32:21
docu series is intentional for sure.
32:24
Story is being retold to us so they can make sure that we know
32:28
that the connection between Taylor and Travis was because
32:32
the friendship bracelet and not because of all of their other
32:35
connections to the chiefs. Andrea Swift AKA Taylor Swift's
32:39
mom is talking about how their cousins are like chiefs fans and
32:44
like are always there. And we also hear from the new
32:47
Heights podcast that Taylor's dad Scott Swift is like best
32:50
friends with coach Reed, the coach of the Chiefs.
32:53
And then we hear also in this docu series that Cam, one of the
32:57
main dancers obviously of the heiress to her his brother plays
33:01
for the chiefs. Oh and also Karlie Kloss, Chiefs
33:03
fan pictured with Travis Kelce. They've been in like social
33:08
parties together. There are so many connections
33:11
with the Chiefs and we are supposed to believe that the
33:14
reason why Taylor thought to even be interested in Travis is
33:18
because of the friendship bracelet.
33:20
And it just doesn't make any sense to me.
33:22
There's so many ways especially you're like you're a grown man.
33:25
There's so many ways to start dating someone.
33:28
You probably could have easily gotten her number but you needed
33:31
to make it a public thing from the get go.
33:34
It just doesn't make any sense to me personally that that's
33:37
really the way that they got together.
33:38
There's also a scene where Travis delivers her flowers.
33:43
I don't know if you guys have watched Selling Sunset, but it
33:45
feels like Chelsea sending Mary flowers when she knows that the
33:50
camera crew is there filming it. Like I mean, whatever listen,
33:54
they could be together, but a lot of it just feels very
33:56
performance. Also, this scene of Taylor
33:58
playing hits different and welcome to New York before she
34:02
plays it on stage. This combo for the surprise
34:06
songs is so queer, right hits different.
34:09
The line where she says I could still melt your world
34:12
argumentative antithetical dream girl.
34:14
And then she's combining it with Welcome to New York, where she
34:17
says, and you can want who you want, boys and boys and girls
34:21
and girls. It's the gayest mashup literally
34:24
ever. And her mom is like, hearing her
34:27
practice. And she says, oh, it really kind
34:29
of tells your story, like when you first met.
34:31
Taylor goes, who are we talking about now?
34:34
And then Andrea goes, Travis, your boyfriend.
34:37
And in the captions of the docu series, it does have a question
34:40
mark, which is so funny. And it feels like Andrea just
34:43
knows that she's supposed to talk about Travis.
34:46
And then Taylor's like, no, these are literally 2 breakup
34:49
songs. And then she explains the
34:51
meaning of the mash up. She says this person is going
34:54
through a horrible breakup and they go to a big city and they
34:57
like find this other sense of self, which the whole song of
35:03
Welcome to New York is want who you want boys and boys and girls
35:06
and girls. You're like in this liberal city
35:08
and you can finally like be yourself.
35:10
Crazy shit right here. It's just so funny that like her
35:13
mom is like, wait, are we talking about Travis now?
35:15
I'm going to hype up Travis like just because she was like told
35:18
she's she's playing her part very well.
35:20
They're also talking about like what Travis brought to the tour.
35:24
And Andrea says, oh, what has Travis brought to the tour?
35:28
He brought himself onto the stage and she's talking about
35:32
him coming onto the stage and performing during, you know,
35:35
this transition to I can do with a broken heart and which is the
35:39
most PR thing of all time. But it's just that could really
35:42
be extended as a metaphor, right?
35:44
Like what has he brought to the tour?
35:46
Not He brought Taylor so much happiness.
35:49
He made her happier to perform, which is like the whole role of
35:53
him as a boyfriend, right? Instead, she says he brought
35:56
himself onto the stage and that could be interpreted as like the
36:00
stage of their relationship being public and on stage.
36:05
Like the art of it all, the meta, this of it all.
36:09
He brought himself onto the stage of Taylor Swift.
36:13
Like in the media, he has added a whole other dynamic to Taylor
36:18
being a showgirl and being forced to perform one version of
36:22
the Parallax when Taylor is describing this dance scene and
36:26
wanting Travis to be in it, this like vaudeville performance
36:31
right before I can do with a broken heart, she says, quote, I
36:35
had this very dramatic idea where I'm a soldier fatally
36:38
wounded. And then we have this very sort
36:40
of like abouret dramatic vaudeville kind of skit where I
36:44
have to perk up immediately to perform.
36:47
If there was ever a point to put Travis in the show, I think this
36:51
would be the one she's thinking back on when she first decided
36:55
to put him in the show here. And it's just showing she was
36:57
forced to perform, perform, right?
36:59
She goes from being really sad to have a force to perform.
37:02
And Travis, she says, would be perfect in this role.
37:07
That's forcing her to perform on the show.
37:10
This is like a metaphor for her life as well.
37:13
And when he went on to do this performance, when we all saw
37:17
this live, we were like, the fact that she chose this point
37:21
of all other points is crazy because it's showing that he's
37:24
forcing her to perform this relationship too.
37:27
She's has to be the showgirl. And it's a transition from TTPD
37:31
into the next era, the showgirl and how the showgirl is how she
37:34
is behind the scenes of the heirs to her and on stage.
37:37
And she said in the Press of life of a showgirl, she says,
37:41
you know, for this album, I'm still in the exact place I was
37:44
when I made the album. When she made the album, she was
37:46
on tour. So she's showing.
37:48
She's still on the stage, right? She's still performing for the
37:52
crowd. The crowd is your king.
37:54
Also, when Travis goes to the indie show, they like record
37:58
them beneath the stage or whatever, which really quick
38:01
point, when Taylor goes to greet him, Travis is literally not
38:05
turning his head to like kiss her and whatever.
38:08
It doesn't really mean that much.
38:09
I just think it's kind of funny that he's like not like trying
38:12
to kiss and hug her. But anyways, I was at that night
38:16
of indie with Sophia, my girlfriend, and it's just pretty
38:20
funny that like they were there and I was there for the mash up
38:23
of Cowboy Like Me and Maroon, which she chose for Travis.
38:28
And there's a still shot of Travis.
38:30
And this is moving on to the Ross Travis cameo of Ross Travis
38:34
and Travis watching these surprise songs, watching Taylor
38:38
Swift sing Cowboy Like Me, You're a Cowboy Like Me, which
38:41
is one of the gayest songs of all time.
38:43
It's like Brokeback Mountain. And both of them are listening
38:45
to the song together. It's crazy.
38:48
The fact that I also was blessed to hear a mash up of Maroon and
38:51
Cowboy Like me. I I blacked out the entire time.
38:54
She's talking about Travis. She also says a lot of like this
38:57
guy's the right fit for me, blah blah blah blah instead of like
39:02
he's perfect because I love him or I fell in love and I'm not
39:06
doubting their love. I just think it's interesting
39:09
choice of words, like all of this is intentional, how they're
39:13
talking about everything in this docu series but also the
39:16
relationship. She also talks about how much
39:18
the fans love Travis and how like he's perfect for the show.
39:24
Crazy the fact that the Ross Travis cameo is straight up in
39:27
the docu series that he is a part of this wild shit.
39:31
Few more things here at large. This docu series is intentional,
39:36
right? I think it's really refreshing
39:38
to be able to see Taylor have stripped back, especially like
39:42
watching her like warm up and watching her prep for the tour
39:48
and all of this. Seeing her kind of in her
39:49
natural state. I don't know, remind me of like
39:51
why I became a fan. Like she's just like so, so
39:54
captivating, but also so different on stage and off
39:57
stage. And Florence Welch was even
39:59
saying that too. She was like, I just know Taylor
40:03
as like such a cozy person. And then I get on stage and holy
40:07
shit, that's Taylor Swift. I don't know if she said holy
40:09
shit but how she is off stage and how she is just walking
40:12
around and everything is just so.
40:15
Like seems so refreshing. She seems like such a like
40:18
normal person, but even how she talks in interviews seems so
40:22
different and seems so she seems so on It's docu series.
40:25
It's not supposed to like reveal and strip back the true Taylor.
40:30
It's supposed to strip back the errors to her.
40:32
And with that we get a little glimpse of the real Taylor.
40:36
It's supposed to also show the narrative of her departure from
40:39
the eras. Like it's literally called the
40:41
end of an era. And that era is not just the
40:44
eras to her era, but it's also the era of her being a showgirl
40:47
her whole career and perhaps her entering into a new era, which
40:51
is the real tailor and her not having to be forced to perform
40:55
and be the showgirl. And we can like look beyond the
40:58
parallax. And we're seeing like the real
41:00
her underneath it. I think we're seeing glimpses of
41:03
that right now. But I think this is the last
41:06
final chapter. She says all that's left to do
41:08
is close the chapter, close the book, like the manuscript,
41:11
Right. Dear reader, this has to end.
41:14
This like big performance showgirl, It has to end at some
41:19
point. We can only fit so many eras in
41:21
the lover house, you know? But that's just my theory.
41:25
I think this is the end of brand Taylor, AKA the showgirl.
41:29
And there's just so much crafting of her brand, a very
41:32
careful crafting of her brand. We see this and how she talks
41:36
about her breakups. She doesn't name names,
41:38
obviously. She rarely, rarely does that.
41:41
She says, I went through two breakups, which is like a lot of
41:44
breakups. And she says men will let you
41:46
down. The heiress to or never will.
41:48
And I love the reframing of like, obviously women being the
41:51
center of the heiress to her. Like not just women, but like
41:54
maybe like non men. She talks about girlhood a lot
41:58
in the heiress to her, which is kind of the epitome of the
42:00
heiress to her. And it's like true men will let
42:02
you down. She also says the Tortured Poets
42:04
album when she's talking about writing that album and the
42:07
breakups, like, again, all of this is carefully presented to
42:10
us. It's never like too much.
42:12
It's just enough to inform the tour.
42:14
It's just enough to inform the era and the performance we're
42:17
seeing right now. She says, quote, the Tortured
42:20
Poets album is like this purge of just like everything,
42:23
everything bad that I felt for two years.
42:26
And I think that's really interesting because she was
42:28
unhappy with Joe for two years and they didn't break up that
42:32
time. Like doesn't make sense.
42:33
There's something different going on from the timeline that
42:36
we are told. And I think that that is
42:38
intentional, right, For telling us that like everything was bad
42:42
before Travis, but also to kind of just say this general
42:47
everything was bad, not just her relationship, but everything was
42:50
bad. I think there's something to be
42:52
said for Masters maybe trying to come out.
42:55
Who knows what her real life relationships were like then.
42:59
She's not being specific and people will just fill in the
43:02
blanks with what they think to be true with their assumptions
43:06
of the narrative. But she's really not telling us
43:09
what specifically happened. Right.
43:11
I went through two breakups. Men will let you down.
43:14
But then also there were two years of her feeling bad and she
43:19
says, quote, no one sees me as a real human being and like
43:22
especially not men that I date. And she said nothing.
43:26
Nothing works with men that she dates.
43:29
We're seeing the song hits different and how hits different
43:31
was put in this docu series too. I used to switch out these cans.
43:36
I just ghost moving on. Was always easy for me to do,
43:39
but it hits different. Why are you different than all
43:41
the cans? Right?
43:42
I could still melt your world. Argumentative antithetical dream
43:46
girl. So like she's talking about all
43:48
the Kens and why this person is different.
43:50
Then we hear Taylor saying that her mom told her, you know,
43:53
after these breakups you have to do something different.
43:56
And then we have this hits different song in the docu
44:00
series where she's talking about why it's different.
44:03
She says nothing is working with these men, right?
44:06
Her mom says try something different.
44:08
She puts hits different in the docu series.
44:11
What's different than a man? It's a woman.
44:13
Like I don't know. I mean, it's possible that like
44:15
she had been mostly dating men and then like only recently
44:18
switched to dating women. That's a possibility to like we
44:21
don't know. I just think that was pretty
44:24
striking. Finally with this like careful
44:28
crafting of her brand and like the careful words she is using
44:31
to like fit every narrative because at this point, again,
44:34
she is entertaining us. She is showing us just enough,
44:37
OK, just enough to get a glimpse behind the parallax, but not too
44:40
much. We see the behind the scenes of
44:41
her making the TikTok of her in the orange sweatshirt next to
44:45
the 12 sign. This was obviously to foreshadow
44:48
TS-12, which ended up coming out almost exactly a year later.
44:52
And the theme is orange. She's telling an entire team to
44:55
film this TikTok for her. We have this idea that she's
44:58
like, wait, let me just film a TikTok real quick.
45:00
And that's not what's happening. She brought her one cat for it.
45:03
She put on a specific outfit. There's a whole team watching
45:06
her film this TikTok because most things she does with Taylor
45:10
Swift TM are intentional. She's on the job, right?
45:15
Everything she's doing when she's making public media is
45:19
public. Taylor Swift, it is the
45:21
showgirl. And then finally, you have her
45:23
talk about the election. Now listen again, she's in Indy.
45:27
I was there that weekend. She's talking about the
45:30
election, just kind of mentions it.
45:33
She goes, it's my last American tour day.
45:36
The election is in five days, and I want to provide an escape
45:40
for people. And at Indy, there were a lot of
45:45
protesters, really homophobic protesters.
45:47
And I wonder if she was maybe thinking about that when she was
45:51
saying this and maybe trying to be like, I wanted to give people
45:54
like a safe space inside the heiress to her from what was
45:57
happening outside with the election.
45:58
I don't think it's enough of a statement.
46:00
Obviously, we know she did endorse Kamala Harris before
46:04
this, so we know how she stood, but I think it would have been a
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good time to also double down on that, obviously.
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But yeah, just interesting that she's saying like it's a
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distraction. I want people to have a space
46:19
away from politics, which is exactly my theory of breads and
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circuses, giving the people what they want, keeping them fed and
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happy, right? There's a negative connotation.
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There's a positive connotation. I think the positive connotation
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is like, you don't need to have to worry about the outside
46:34
world. Let's just have this safe space
46:35
together. And then there's a negative
46:37
connotation where it's like, are giving the people what they want
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and giving a false image in order to expose how the industry
46:46
will just keep feeding people entertainment so they will stay
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docile. And I think that could be her
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proving a point later, breaking the mirror ball, breaking this
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performance, being the real tailor in order to, like, make a
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better situation for other artists in the future.
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And yeah, like, just like last note, I think I just really
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loved how much she talked about her team.
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It is so rare for artists this big who've been in this industry
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for so long to have such a loyal team, down to her stylist, for
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singers that have been with her for a while, her band that not
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only performs with her on stage at like every tour, but also
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records with her, her management.
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And this is what I'm saying with people who don't believe that
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she could be so different than her public life is, is that she
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has such a committed team that knows her really well and they
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would not fuck up her life. Like she doesn't have a
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revolving door of people that are in and out.
47:47
She has these loyal fucking people that can keep a secret
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that she literally told Stephen Colbert they could.
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But I just think it goes to show that like you can say whatever
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you want about Taylor Swift, but she is a good boss.
47:59
You can say that her talking about how good of a boss she is
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is annoying, but she would not have this committed of a team
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through decades if she was not a good person to work with.
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And that's just a fact. Wow.
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So that was a lot. And there's still stuff that I
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feel like I didn't even cover. But that's why I'm going to be
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talking about more of this on my bonus episode that will be
48:22
coming out after Christmas. Please keep me updated with your
48:25
thoughts. I'm so sad that this is my last
48:28
episode of 2025, but I'll see you guys in 2026.
48:31
Be nice to yourself. Reminder, if you want discounted
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48:52
See you next year. See you next season.
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Bye Gaspers, love you.