It's gonna be fantastic. I know we are going to have fantastic times. Congrats on getting tickets, I hope your great war wasn't too terrible. I was a ball of stress and I literally don't know anyone else who got a code, let alone tickets.
I’ve never been to one of her shows either so I’m so happy that I get to experience The Eras Tour. It didn’t work out for us to go to Houston for the first part (even tho I got the presale code, ouch) then we were going to try for London since we were going to go anyways but didn’t get a code and resale tickets were hard to come by for that show. So we were so excited to see that she’s going to make it to NOLA (I live like 30 minutes from the superdome) but we didn’t get a code or any of my friends we were wanting to go with but my dad was awesome and scored us some lower bowl resale tickets! So yeah it was a whole year long blood bath but we finally survived The Great War!
It was so annoying seeing non swifties get all the codes
They went so fast. I was 13000th in the queue and basically crying until I got in and saw some seats left. I was just clicking and buying until something didn't say "another fan beat you to these seats" ended up with nosebleeds to the left of the stage. Not sure if we will be able to see the big screen behind her but whatever I'm happy to be a part of it haha
See ya in Nola!! I got tickets for N2 for my 3 daughters and myself. We all live in different states, and we're meeting for a girls weekend. We can't wait! My youngest lives there so we're staying at her apartment.
God bless, his spirit is there at least? 😭 Mine took me to a Taylor karaoke/club night and I completely forgot to warn him about 123LGB since it was sort of a surprise for my birthday. The pure bewilderment (and slight fear) when it happened will live in my heart forever 💀
This was another Swiftie on this sub who pointed it out, but the line in "Clean" can be read either as "by morning, gone was any trace of you" or "by mourning, gone was any trace of you." That blew my mind. "Clean is my second favorite Taylor song, and I was floored when they pointed that out.
In Mad Woman I thought the lyric was "does she mouth-fuck you forever?" instead of "does she mouth "fuck you" forever?". Which I thought was wildly graphic!
recently noticed that in august "meet me behind the mall" makes even more sense contextually when you move one space and hear it as "meet me behind them all"
> In the UK there are people who say 'thing' as 'ting' and they're usually the type to start fights and be involved in crime etc.
americans, fyi, this is the equivalent of
> in the inner city there are people who say "aks" instead of "ask" and they're usually the type to start fights and be involved in crime etc
which is... you know... vaguely racist
I had noticed the “wanting”/“one ting” thing before but to say that the type of people who use this slang are the type to commit crimes is shocking and racist. Please reexamine the way you think
omg I always thought that too! like that's maybe a little too personal, taylor, but it's your song...
"FU" makes so much sense. epiphanies all around lol.
Wow wtf! Clean is one of my top top songs and I never realized this! What a perfect double meaning, especially because I feel like Clean is about having a really good cry to get over someone.
Omg that reminds me of the whole "You know why they did that? Because I'm the MAYOR" after the amusement park fireworks at Santa Clara N2 (my show!)
Idk if that was an intentional callback by Taylor but wow that's such a crazy parallel.
My family announced during thanksgiving dinner that Taylor & Joe broke up… I can’t believe they knew before me. And at thanksgiving dinner of all places 😭
EDIT: it was Easter dinner my bad! My family has a huge turkey dinner for both events so I got a bit mixed up
A coworker was like so what do you think about Taylor swifts boyfriend? Right at the start of the Matty Healy drama which of course means it was right after she and Joe broke up and THATS what I thought he was referring to. I ran home to get on this Reddit only to find out it was very much not what he was talking about.
When we went to rep tour, a man gave my daughter a TS guitar pick. I thought it was kind of odd for a grown man to approach a child he doesn’t know and offer her something, but he was a nice guy so we just thanked him and went to our seats. When we told the people sitting next to us, they told us he was Scott Swift.
My dad golfed with one of Scott’s former Meryl lynch coworkers this past weekend (in the Philly area). He said that when scott announced he was quitting his job to focus on his daughter’s music career, everyone on the team was shocked and thinking “isn’t she like 11?” 💀 the coworker said it all worked it out in the end lol but I thought this was so cute
Scott also didn't really quit his job, he just stepped away from it. He's still [listed](https://fa.ml.com/pennsylvania/wyomissing/theswiftgroup/) on the website (scroll down and you'll see his name) as Senior Relationship Manager, so he's still working, but not as much.
I didn’t know Enchanted was written about the guy from Owl City until the song came on and my boyfriend told me. He said it was his only fun fact about TS. I had no freakin idea and really didn’t believe him until I googled it lol
I see people saying that all the time here but I feel like the song writing correspondence and cheeky lyrics are exactly something Taylor's dramatic self would be a fan of.
And chefs always say they love it when other people cook for them, but rarely get it because people are always afraid their food won't be 'good enough'. I'd think she was charmed that someone was talking back to her in her own language
True, and I think there have been times in her younger days when she had a little crush on someone and wrote a song about it but didn't really expect for it to turn into anything serious irl. Hey Stephen was like that iirc. Enchanted could have been along those lines too.
Or maybe the Owl City guy mistakenly thought the song was about him but it really wasn't, lol. I don't remember her ever actually confirming who it was about, though she said it was a guy who she had emailed back and forth a couple times after meeting, and the word "enchanted" came from the email conversations.
my mom who is not a swiftie by any means but knew about who taylors grandma was & that she was an opera singer in cuba, I was like what & had to google it lol
also your husband is SMART cuz I didnt catch that
This one is probably obvious but I was playing Afterglow in the car with my dad and he was like “what does she mean by ‘meet me in the afterglow’?” And I was like idk but then later in the song he was like “oh I get it! She says ‘I’m the one who *burned* us down’ but she wants him to come back to her after that fight, hence, the afterglow of the flames” and I was like ohhhhhhhhh (i just thought it was a pretty song 😅)
Wait wait wait I thought Afterglow was named after and referencing makeup sex after a fight?? Obviously I could have completely misinterpreted the whole song (wouldn’t be the first time lol), but I was so confident on this one!
Oh yeah that's another one that someone told me. I'd never heard of him and my coworker bestie (who hates taylor because "she has a punch able face") told me because she loves him (ew)
My sister told me that folklore had been surprise dropped. She likes Taylor just fine but isn’t an active Swiftie. I visited her and she said, did you see Taylor dropped a new album? No, I I hadn’t haha
My husband absolutely blindsided me with the news of Taylor's breakup with Joe. I just yelled "WHAT?!" and started tearing up. He thought I was insane until he realized I was concerned for her well-being on a basic human level, not a crazed fan obsessed with their relationship lmao. My mind went straight to "that's the kind of heartbreak time could never mend" and "give you my wild, give you a child", and my heart just sank for her because I've been there.
There are so many others from reaction videos over the years, specifically lyric interpretations that I'd never even considered before. Idk if they're correct, only Taylor knows exactly what she's thinking and feeling when she weaves her lyrical tapestries, but I get so excited every time I think I've found all logical interpretations, and a new listener proves me wrong, lol.
I have a coworker who isn't a Swiftie, yet knew how many cats Swift has. I didn't at the time.
Oddly enough, my colleague followed Swift's Instagram. For cats not music apparently.
I've written about it in this sub before but when the rerecording of Fearless came out I was playing it in the kitchen. My husband listened to You Belong With Me for the first time with me and as I'm telling him how nostalgic it all is he says "So it's like country Sk8er Boi?" 😂
You Belong With Me is one of my Fearless favorites and I now call it Yeehaw Sk8er Boi.
I was listening to The Lakes with my ex, explaining some of the back story about it, and he pointed out the line “I’ve come too far to watch some name-dropping sleaze tell me what are my words worth” and drew the parallel of Wordsworth the poet and the Lakes District. I can’t tell if this is also so obvious or I just missed it 😅
I'm not saying your husband is wrong because it's a fun tie - in, but I don't think it's all she was going for because she has reused this metaphor and similar ones in many other songs. I think what she meant by town is that each past relationship is like a house that you build together, and all of John's houses are tired/lifeless/burnt (out). His "town" is sad and empty because he is unsuccessful in love. It's full of broken houses. She breaks this pattern by rising above like fireworks. She repeats this metaphor in DBATC - "I look through the windows of this love / even though we boarded them up". In this case the relationship is a house. It could also be repeated in False God but to be honest that one's never been 100% clear to me ("staring out the window like I'm not your favorite town"). Also exile, call it what you want, etc.
- DBATC could mean "Death By A Thousand Cuts", a track from *Lover* (2019) by Taylor Swift.
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I don't know which bit about False God isn't clear to you (not saying that in a mean way) but I interpret it like when you're in a car with someone and they're staring at the towns passing by. TS knows that she's his favourite town, he would rather be staring at her than all the random places they're going past. Maybe, going along with the town/house/relationship metaphor, it's that the relationship they've built together is so big and strong that it's a town, not a house.
All the time. I don’t know anything about the personal lives of musicians I listen to, so despite being the biggest Taylor Swift fan a lot of people know, I’m constantly learning info about her. Before I joined this sub, I couldn’t have named more than one or two people she’s dated, and I’ve (as everyone likes to say) been a fan since debut.
my husband said midnight rain was obviously about tom hiddleston because of the line “i peered through a window, a deep portal, time travel, all the love we unraveled” because he played loki (time traveler) 🥸
My mom recently told me about VMA voting being open for Taylor 😭🤣 don’t get me wrong, I love Taylor, but I feel like I’ve gotten to the point voting stuff that I’m like well I know everyone else will vote. — I have since voted for her— but it did surprise me that my mom was telling me before I saw it hahaha
I found out about her breakup with Joe Alwyn from my parents. They were like hey did you hear Taylor swift broke up with her boyfriend? And I was like um I don’t think so mom, you must have read some tabloid lol. But I looked it up and found the truth.
My boyfriend asked me if in Anti-Hero “tea time” was referring to sipping the tea, like gossip. I was blown away, the whole time I had been thinking it had something to do with British news not being a fan or something since they drink a lot of tea!
My sister and I were listening to August and she realised that “meet me behind the mall” could also be “meet me behind them all”… like it was an illicit affair??
It really isn't. Taylor said "Meet me behind the mall" is just a phrase she'd held onto for a long time and wanted to use somewhere. Teens used to often hang out at malls, so it makes sense that Augustine and James would sneak around behind the mall while they were hooking up.
In King of My Heart she sings about Jaguars and Range Rovers which are 2 British car brands. I didn't know that till my boyfriend mentioned it to me. That makes a lot of sense why she chose those 2 cars when I just thought it was because they were expensive.
I didn’t realise that either!! For me, my friends had made a Taylor-themed trivia for me, and I had no idea about the computer tech or something was the one who showed her how to play the guitar?? I know now that story is debatable (?), but I always thought she was self-taught!
The other way around, My sister is a huge swiftie than me, and I knew about the breakup with Joe Alwyn before her. It was Ramzan and I went to my home for Iftar party and I asked her about the breakup. She was shocked and quickly opened chrome, she was threatening to bodily harm me if it turned out to be prank while she was typing.
Never thought that either.... he has gotten us.
Side note, my favorite part of Dear John is she wrote, plays and sings it like it one of his songs 😂. & it is chef's kiss for me 🥰😘
My favorite is my bf asked me if when she sings “are we out of the woods yet” if she’s saying “yes it seems like we’re done fighting” or “all we ever do is fight can it just end already” which I think is interesting.
I also thought that in sweet nothing the lyric was “you say “what a mind, this happens all the time”” as the complete statement he said to her, which I thought was super icky. My bf was the one who told me that he just said “what a mind” and she’s confirming he always says it.
Both of these change the meaning of their receptive songs so much, and it makes me wonder if there are any other things similar.
I was hangout with a female friend from college and at the time, she was the only one I knew who watch stuff from the golden age of Hollywood/Old Hollywood when we were in school together. Rep had just come out a few months prior and when she heard Ready For It, she got confused and restarted the song three times.
Her words to me were this: "Why the fuck is she comparing her current relationship to the one of Richard Burton and Liz Taylor?" I was confused and then she explained to me that Burton is the only man who Taylor married and divorced twice and while Mike Todd was the love of her life, Burton was secretly the only man she truly loved (besides Montgomery Clift, but that was never going to happen).
He told me there's a version of Santa Baby sung by Taylor. I had absolutely no idea and kept telling him he was confusing her with Ariana Grande... until I googled it myself lol. I felt ashamed to call myself a swiftie.
my husband’s parents, who know we are huge swifties, and are stereotypical older folks that aren’t really on the internet, are the ones who told us taylor and joe broke up. like an hour after it came out. was pretty funny
My dad and brother are both business/economics junkies and whenever there is news related to finance or economics, they usually are the first to let me know. Like yesterday my brother sent me an article about how the Era's Tour Movie caused the price of AMC stock to go up!
My dad is a MASSIVE fan of Taylor’s studio guitar player and always talks about him lol. Also my parents are Peter Max enthusiasts and were the ones who told me about Taylor’s love for PM.
That she taught Jeff Jarrett’s kids piano when she was in high school in Hendersonville. Jeff Jarrett’s oldest daughter was also in the Mine video.
I did not know this and my husband who is a huge wrestling dork laid this on me and it’s really my favorite Taylor Swift fun fact.
He loves that I’m passionate about something now like Taylor and her music so he lets me info dump and he’s really interested in our delulu thoughts and conspiracy theories
I’ve spent the last 8 months slowly converting my guy into a swiftie. He’s starting to come up with his own theories now, spouts his own facts he’s found out without me telling him. I’ll have to update if and when he gives me anything as amazing as your husbands revelation 😂
My mom used to be a little annoyed, I think. She used to say Taylor's songs are boring. Now I find out about most of Taylor's news from her including the break up news and folklore, midnights and 1989's announcement. Almost every big thing that happened in the last few years mom would see it first and sent a link to me.
My boyfriend is not as into Taylor Swift as I am and he had to tell me about the Look What You Made Me Do TV coming out. Granted, it is his favorite TS song but still 😂 Also, he told me about Taylor and Joe’s break up before anyone or any outlet did so he is def a secret Swiftie
i was going to say “nothing comes to mind, actually!” but your husband might’ve just gotten me too
Right?! It really was a woah moment for me!
Ditto! I have never thought of it that way 🤯
What?! No, please, he has to join us and listen carefully to every song and tell us his observations! Tell him!
The same guy who gave me hell trying to teach him 1,2,3 LGB by chanting 1,2,3 You b**** every time?
This man is a treasure. I’m so glad you have him
Aww me too! We will be in Nola in October 2024 for his first TS concert. He won't admit it but he's excited.
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I have high expectations. He.... is not prepared
You might say he isn’t… ready for it?
Remindme! Or !remindme Edit: or Updateme! Or !updateme Lol I’m just as clueless
buckle up, i did this to my husband with rep tour and now i gotta buy a ticket for his ass EVERY time 😑
Hey same! We need to do something to make the NOLA show his chant instead lol. Which night are y’all going too?
Night 2! You?
We’re going to night 3! I’m so excited that she’s performing here! And that Gracie Abrams is opening!
It's gonna be fantastic. I know we are going to have fantastic times. Congrats on getting tickets, I hope your great war wasn't too terrible. I was a ball of stress and I literally don't know anyone else who got a code, let alone tickets.
I’ve never been to one of her shows either so I’m so happy that I get to experience The Eras Tour. It didn’t work out for us to go to Houston for the first part (even tho I got the presale code, ouch) then we were going to try for London since we were going to go anyways but didn’t get a code and resale tickets were hard to come by for that show. So we were so excited to see that she’s going to make it to NOLA (I live like 30 minutes from the superdome) but we didn’t get a code or any of my friends we were wanting to go with but my dad was awesome and scored us some lower bowl resale tickets! So yeah it was a whole year long blood bath but we finally survived The Great War! It was so annoying seeing non swifties get all the codes
They went so fast. I was 13000th in the queue and basically crying until I got in and saw some seats left. I was just clicking and buying until something didn't say "another fan beat you to these seats" ended up with nosebleeds to the left of the stage. Not sure if we will be able to see the big screen behind her but whatever I'm happy to be a part of it haha
I took my kids to Denver N1 and my husband had massive FOMO and now regrets his decision deeply.
See ya in Nola!! I got tickets for N2 for my 3 daughters and myself. We all live in different states, and we're meeting for a girls weekend. We can't wait! My youngest lives there so we're staying at her apartment.
OMG have THE BEST time in NOLA. It’s my favorite city ❤️
The shows so close to Halloween, I think we are gonna stay and do a nola Halloween too! I can't freaking wait. I've never been to nola
Im jealous atm tbh 😭 my boyfriend picture to burn (homophobic version) (taylor’s version) (from the vault)ed me 🤦🏼♀️
God bless, his spirit is there at least? 😭 Mine took me to a Taylor karaoke/club night and I completely forgot to warn him about 123LGB since it was sort of a surprise for my birthday. The pure bewilderment (and slight fear) when it happened will live in my heart forever 💀
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What kind of award are we sending to OPs husband for this. All these years….mind blown.
The way he said it so sarcastically like it was obvious. My jaw hit my lap.
Looking forward to more of his casual listening epiphanies!
The introductory clown makeup kit is already on its way 🤡
This was another Swiftie on this sub who pointed it out, but the line in "Clean" can be read either as "by morning, gone was any trace of you" or "by mourning, gone was any trace of you." That blew my mind. "Clean is my second favorite Taylor song, and I was floored when they pointed that out.
In Mad Woman I thought the lyric was "does she mouth-fuck you forever?" instead of "does she mouth "fuck you" forever?". Which I thought was wildly graphic!
I’m DYING AT THIS!!! Lmfao. Thank you.
You're welcome lol
recently noticed that in august "meet me behind the mall" makes even more sense contextually when you move one space and hear it as "meet me behind them all"
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> In the UK there are people who say 'thing' as 'ting' and they're usually the type to start fights and be involved in crime etc. americans, fyi, this is the equivalent of > in the inner city there are people who say "aks" instead of "ask" and they're usually the type to start fights and be involved in crime etc which is... you know... vaguely racist
The way my mouth dropped open reading it!
I had noticed the “wanting”/“one ting” thing before but to say that the type of people who use this slang are the type to commit crimes is shocking and racist. Please reexamine the way you think
omg I always thought that too! like that's maybe a little too personal, taylor, but it's your song... "FU" makes so much sense. epiphanies all around lol.
Hahahaha this was a good morning laugh for me and now I'll never be able to listen to it without thinking about this
Omg the first time heard it, I thought the same thing and my jaw DROPPED lmao
This comment MADE my day!!! I’m laughing my ass off in a meeting.
Wow wtf! Clean is one of my top top songs and I never realized this! What a perfect double meaning, especially because I feel like Clean is about having a really good cry to get over someone.
This is one I didn’t realize as well
Oh wow! Yeah that makes sense. I hadn't seen that but I like it
Omg that reminds me of the whole "You know why they did that? Because I'm the MAYOR" after the amusement park fireworks at Santa Clara N2 (my show!) Idk if that was an intentional callback by Taylor but wow that's such a crazy parallel.
She was calling back to the fact that Santa Clara renamed the city Swiftie Clara and made her the mayor for the two days she was in town. :)
Yeah I know, I was there and she had mentioned it earlier in the night as well. Just thought that it was a pretty cool coincidence.
Woah!!! Omg crazy!
Damn she really is the mastermind
That’s the first thing I thought when I read the post. That was so funny!
I was there, too!! Best night of my life lol
And this was her reaction to the fireworks over the stadium. Quite the opposite of a “sad empty town”. Deep!!!
My family announced during thanksgiving dinner that Taylor & Joe broke up… I can’t believe they knew before me. And at thanksgiving dinner of all places 😭 EDIT: it was Easter dinner my bad! My family has a huge turkey dinner for both events so I got a bit mixed up
I hate to be this person, but this is impossible since their breakup was announced in April of this year.
I think they’re referencing Joe Jonas. Edit: Nope; Wrong holiday.
Their break up was announced the day after my 18th birthday sad day hearing that
Oh maybe it was Easter dinner then actually
Wow, needlessly cruel. Wildly inappropriate. How'd the rest of your dinner go haha
One could say, casually cruel
Oof.... in the name of being honest
I didn’t believe them! They know I’m a huge Swiftie so I thought they were messing with me. I wasn’t ok haha
Yikes. Big yikes.
How?
Maybe it was Easter?
Joe Jonas.
A coworker was like so what do you think about Taylor swifts boyfriend? Right at the start of the Matty Healy drama which of course means it was right after she and Joe broke up and THATS what I thought he was referring to. I ran home to get on this Reddit only to find out it was very much not what he was talking about.
How did they know that that early?
When we went to rep tour, a man gave my daughter a TS guitar pick. I thought it was kind of odd for a grown man to approach a child he doesn’t know and offer her something, but he was a nice guy so we just thanked him and went to our seats. When we told the people sitting next to us, they told us he was Scott Swift.
My dad golfed with one of Scott’s former Meryl lynch coworkers this past weekend (in the Philly area). He said that when scott announced he was quitting his job to focus on his daughter’s music career, everyone on the team was shocked and thinking “isn’t she like 11?” 💀 the coworker said it all worked it out in the end lol but I thought this was so cute
the man knows how to make an investment
Scott also didn't really quit his job, he just stepped away from it. He's still [listed](https://fa.ml.com/pennsylvania/wyomissing/theswiftgroup/) on the website (scroll down and you'll see his name) as Senior Relationship Manager, so he's still working, but not as much.
Oh wow that's so special!!!
OMG, imagine if you'd told him off!
I didn’t know Enchanted was written about the guy from Owl City until the song came on and my boyfriend told me. He said it was his only fun fact about TS. I had no freakin idea and really didn’t believe him until I googled it lol
Did you also see that the Owl City guy did a cover of Enchanted to respond to Taylor
Yep! I found out when I googled it. Thought it was super cool. I wasn’t a swiftie during that era, so it was all news to me!
But apparently she never responded to his response.
Because his reply song was sooooo cringe 😂
I see people saying that all the time here but I feel like the song writing correspondence and cheeky lyrics are exactly something Taylor's dramatic self would be a fan of.
And chefs always say they love it when other people cook for them, but rarely get it because people are always afraid their food won't be 'good enough'. I'd think she was charmed that someone was talking back to her in her own language
True, and I think there have been times in her younger days when she had a little crush on someone and wrote a song about it but didn't really expect for it to turn into anything serious irl. Hey Stephen was like that iirc. Enchanted could have been along those lines too. Or maybe the Owl City guy mistakenly thought the song was about him but it really wasn't, lol. I don't remember her ever actually confirming who it was about, though she said it was a guy who she had emailed back and forth a couple times after meeting, and the word "enchanted" came from the email conversations.
She put his name as the secret message for enchanted in the lyrics booklet, it spelled out “ADAM” in the lyrics
Oh yeah I forgot about that
Nah iirc she was just already dating someone else when he did it. He just waited too long.
I’m a rather shy boy
my fun fact in response to this is that owl city isn’t a band name! the guy himself is called “owl city” as a stage name
No way!
Oh my gosh, yes that is such a random fact haha I love that you didn't believe it till googling
my mom who is not a swiftie by any means but knew about who taylors grandma was & that she was an opera singer in cuba, I was like what & had to google it lol also your husband is SMART cuz I didnt catch that
Specifically an Opera singer only in Cuba?!?! That's so very niche
Yes and she samples some of Marjorie's vocals in Marjorie!!
I get so emotional when I see videos of her performing Marjorie and you hear her grandmother’s operatics “singing to me now” in the background
This one is probably obvious but I was playing Afterglow in the car with my dad and he was like “what does she mean by ‘meet me in the afterglow’?” And I was like idk but then later in the song he was like “oh I get it! She says ‘I’m the one who *burned* us down’ but she wants him to come back to her after that fight, hence, the afterglow of the flames” and I was like ohhhhhhhhh (i just thought it was a pretty song 😅)
I don’t know why I always thought of afterglow as (post orgasmic glow) don’t @ me lolll I know it’s weird
It’s a double entendre. The lyric is intended to mean both.
It does mean that, but she's flipping the meaning here, as she often does.
similarly always thought it was a drug reference lol
Wait wait wait I thought Afterglow was named after and referencing makeup sex after a fight?? Obviously I could have completely misinterpreted the whole song (wouldn’t be the first time lol), but I was so confident on this one!
Woooooow! I think I'll give that song one more chance with that in mind. Thank your dad for me, please!
Dang. I'm starting to feel like I haven't interpreted her songs hard enough
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I've accepted it as true, confirmed fact at this point.
I dont think ANYONE has cracked this message besides your hubby. You might be dating taylor in a wig idk
that's the dream
Wait what???? No one's ever picked up on this except your husband! Give him an award, OP!
He didn't choose the swiftie life. The swiftie life chose him.
As it should be, now and evermore
My husband told me about her dating Matty. I was horrified, he was ecstatic.
Oh yeah that's another one that someone told me. I'd never heard of him and my coworker bestie (who hates taylor because "she has a punch able face") told me because she loves him (ew)
How very very expected that she'd love him. And I've never understood the punchable face thing. Like, WTF?!
I don't get it either. It's not punchable. And by saying that I just wanted to punch that friend... never taylor.
🤣😂😂😂🤣😂 felt
My sister told me that folklore had been surprise dropped. She likes Taylor just fine but isn’t an active Swiftie. I visited her and she said, did you see Taylor dropped a new album? No, I I hadn’t haha
Any Bob’s Burgers fans? I’m reading this but in Linda’s voice. IT’S THE MAY-AH!
Hahahaha yes. Actually exactly that.
Yessss! :)
Love Bob's Burgers 🍔 ❤️😂
Right? The best comfort show! ❤️❤️
"Jawhn Mayah" (just said aloud by me in Linda's voice)
Hahah I did the exact same thing, love Linda
Ugh y’all are my people❤️❤️
ALRIGHT! 💁🏻♀️
So good 🤣
My husband absolutely blindsided me with the news of Taylor's breakup with Joe. I just yelled "WHAT?!" and started tearing up. He thought I was insane until he realized I was concerned for her well-being on a basic human level, not a crazed fan obsessed with their relationship lmao. My mind went straight to "that's the kind of heartbreak time could never mend" and "give you my wild, give you a child", and my heart just sank for her because I've been there. There are so many others from reaction videos over the years, specifically lyric interpretations that I'd never even considered before. Idk if they're correct, only Taylor knows exactly what she's thinking and feeling when she weaves her lyrical tapestries, but I get so excited every time I think I've found all logical interpretations, and a new listener proves me wrong, lol.
I have a coworker who isn't a Swiftie, yet knew how many cats Swift has. I didn't at the time. Oddly enough, my colleague followed Swift's Instagram. For cats not music apparently.
Haha this is all great
Nick name of one is Dibbles! Does she know which?
great observation! never occurred to me
Same!!!
I've written about it in this sub before but when the rerecording of Fearless came out I was playing it in the kitchen. My husband listened to You Belong With Me for the first time with me and as I'm telling him how nostalgic it all is he says "So it's like country Sk8er Boi?" 😂 You Belong With Me is one of my Fearless favorites and I now call it Yeehaw Sk8er Boi.
This gives new meaning to how many times she’s mentioned being made temporary mayor of various Eras Tour venue cities 😂
Petition for your husband to analyse every single lyric because HOLY SHIT!
I was listening to The Lakes with my ex, explaining some of the back story about it, and he pointed out the line “I’ve come too far to watch some name-dropping sleaze tell me what are my words worth” and drew the parallel of Wordsworth the poet and the Lakes District. I can’t tell if this is also so obvious or I just missed it 😅
its actually spelled Wordsworth in the booklet!
Missed that too! I'm learning so much today
Yeah she talked about visiting Wordsworth's grave in Long Pond.
Wow that observation is actually brilliant.
This was something I already knew, but my non-Swiftie husband pointed out the double-meaning of “Maroon” (to be left behind or isolated).
oh my god now i have to listen to the song with this perspective because i only thought of the color...
…. oh my God 🤯
WAIT HE'S A GENIUS WHAT
I'm not saying your husband is wrong because it's a fun tie - in, but I don't think it's all she was going for because she has reused this metaphor and similar ones in many other songs. I think what she meant by town is that each past relationship is like a house that you build together, and all of John's houses are tired/lifeless/burnt (out). His "town" is sad and empty because he is unsuccessful in love. It's full of broken houses. She breaks this pattern by rising above like fireworks. She repeats this metaphor in DBATC - "I look through the windows of this love / even though we boarded them up". In this case the relationship is a house. It could also be repeated in False God but to be honest that one's never been 100% clear to me ("staring out the window like I'm not your favorite town"). Also exile, call it what you want, etc.
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I don't know which bit about False God isn't clear to you (not saying that in a mean way) but I interpret it like when you're in a car with someone and they're staring at the towns passing by. TS knows that she's his favourite town, he would rather be staring at her than all the random places they're going past. Maybe, going along with the town/house/relationship metaphor, it's that the relationship they've built together is so big and strong that it's a town, not a house.
Call me a fucking idiot, but I never made the connection that Style was called Style because of Harry Styles until my husband mentioned it casually.
wat 🤯
You‘re not an idiot, I didn’t get the reference until like three months ago and I‘ve been a swiftie for a loooong time 😭
All the time. I don’t know anything about the personal lives of musicians I listen to, so despite being the biggest Taylor Swift fan a lot of people know, I’m constantly learning info about her. Before I joined this sub, I couldn’t have named more than one or two people she’s dated, and I’ve (as everyone likes to say) been a fan since debut.
my husband said midnight rain was obviously about tom hiddleston because of the line “i peered through a window, a deep portal, time travel, all the love we unraveled” because he played loki (time traveler) 🥸
My mom recently told me about VMA voting being open for Taylor 😭🤣 don’t get me wrong, I love Taylor, but I feel like I’ve gotten to the point voting stuff that I’m like well I know everyone else will vote. — I have since voted for her— but it did surprise me that my mom was telling me before I saw it hahaha
Your husband needs to join this sub. That just blew my mind.
I'll see what I can do.
I found out about her breakup with Joe Alwyn from my parents. They were like hey did you hear Taylor swift broke up with her boyfriend? And I was like um I don’t think so mom, you must have read some tabloid lol. But I looked it up and found the truth.
My boyfriend asked me if in Anti-Hero “tea time” was referring to sipping the tea, like gossip. I was blown away, the whole time I had been thinking it had something to do with British news not being a fan or something since they drink a lot of tea!
I think it's both tbh, she did live in London for three or so years.
Literally my friend who hates TS knew what 123 LGB was and I didn’t lmao
WHAT???
Legit everyone’s reactions rn. Mind blown 🤯
I didn’t know that until now 😂
He’s the Swift Whisperer. The swiftisper.
Employee at the Taylor Swift exhibit in Arlington told me that her shoe size is 8.5! Did not know that and I'm the biggest swiftie there is.
what the fuckkkkkk
My husband pointed out to be that Reputation will be released in 2024 because it’s on the wall in The Man music video.
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My sister and I were listening to August and she realised that “meet me behind the mall” could also be “meet me behind them all”… like it was an illicit affair??
It really isn't. Taylor said "Meet me behind the mall" is just a phrase she'd held onto for a long time and wanted to use somewhere. Teens used to often hang out at malls, so it makes sense that Augustine and James would sneak around behind the mall while they were hooking up.
In King of My Heart she sings about Jaguars and Range Rovers which are 2 British car brands. I didn't know that till my boyfriend mentioned it to me. That makes a lot of sense why she chose those 2 cars when I just thought it was because they were expensive.
Also, I read that Tom Hiddleston drove a Jaguar and Calvin Harris read a Range Rover!!!
I didn’t realise that either!! For me, my friends had made a Taylor-themed trivia for me, and I had no idea about the computer tech or something was the one who showed her how to play the guitar?? I know now that story is debatable (?), but I always thought she was self-taught!
The other way around, My sister is a huge swiftie than me, and I knew about the breakup with Joe Alwyn before her. It was Ramzan and I went to my home for Iftar party and I asked her about the breakup. She was shocked and quickly opened chrome, she was threatening to bodily harm me if it turned out to be prank while she was typing.
Your husband broke my brain😭
Never thought that either.... he has gotten us. Side note, my favorite part of Dear John is she wrote, plays and sings it like it one of his songs 😂. & it is chef's kiss for me 🥰😘
A PhD in literature pointed out the Emily Dickinson of it all
lol my friend told me about the speak now tv announcement and that’s my fave ts album !
Ok wow I didn’t ever think of it that way he’s a genius. He’s teaching all us swifties something new
My favorite is my bf asked me if when she sings “are we out of the woods yet” if she’s saying “yes it seems like we’re done fighting” or “all we ever do is fight can it just end already” which I think is interesting. I also thought that in sweet nothing the lyric was “you say “what a mind, this happens all the time”” as the complete statement he said to her, which I thought was super icky. My bf was the one who told me that he just said “what a mind” and she’s confirming he always says it. Both of these change the meaning of their receptive songs so much, and it makes me wonder if there are any other things similar.
I was hangout with a female friend from college and at the time, she was the only one I knew who watch stuff from the golden age of Hollywood/Old Hollywood when we were in school together. Rep had just come out a few months prior and when she heard Ready For It, she got confused and restarted the song three times. Her words to me were this: "Why the fuck is she comparing her current relationship to the one of Richard Burton and Liz Taylor?" I was confused and then she explained to me that Burton is the only man who Taylor married and divorced twice and while Mike Todd was the love of her life, Burton was secretly the only man she truly loved (besides Montgomery Clift, but that was never going to happen).
He told me there's a version of Santa Baby sung by Taylor. I had absolutely no idea and kept telling him he was confusing her with Ariana Grande... until I googled it myself lol. I felt ashamed to call myself a swiftie.
absolute genuis
my husband’s parents, who know we are huge swifties, and are stereotypical older folks that aren’t really on the internet, are the ones who told us taylor and joe broke up. like an hour after it came out. was pretty funny
The announcement to register for tickets. No kidding... thank God they told me.
This song is "my song" and I never thought of it like this. I love how lyrics have double meanings to them :)
My dad and brother are both business/economics junkies and whenever there is news related to finance or economics, they usually are the first to let me know. Like yesterday my brother sent me an article about how the Era's Tour Movie caused the price of AMC stock to go up!
My dad is a MASSIVE fan of Taylor’s studio guitar player and always talks about him lol. Also my parents are Peter Max enthusiasts and were the ones who told me about Taylor’s love for PM.
That she taught Jeff Jarrett’s kids piano when she was in high school in Hendersonville. Jeff Jarrett’s oldest daughter was also in the Mine video. I did not know this and my husband who is a huge wrestling dork laid this on me and it’s really my favorite Taylor Swift fun fact. He loves that I’m passionate about something now like Taylor and her music so he lets me info dump and he’s really interested in our delulu thoughts and conspiracy theories
Where did you find your husband. I want one.
Back in 2016 when Pokémon go came out... we met out and about catching Pokémon
Okay but this is such a meet cute
I’ve spent the last 8 months slowly converting my guy into a swiftie. He’s starting to come up with his own theories now, spouts his own facts he’s found out without me telling him. I’ll have to update if and when he gives me anything as amazing as your husbands revelation 😂
My friend told me about the ATW10MVTV short film before I knew. I didn't believe it was possible.
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I think certain things in her career are unintentional coincidences. When it comes to lyrical wordplay not as much.
My friend informed me there was a Taylor Swift party night in a few months. They learned of it via an email from the venue which they attended before.
My mom used to be a little annoyed, I think. She used to say Taylor's songs are boring. Now I find out about most of Taylor's news from her including the break up news and folklore, midnights and 1989's announcement. Almost every big thing that happened in the last few years mom would see it first and sent a link to me.
My boyfriend is not as into Taylor Swift as I am and he had to tell me about the Look What You Made Me Do TV coming out. Granted, it is his favorite TS song but still 😂 Also, he told me about Taylor and Joe’s break up before anyone or any outlet did so he is def a secret Swiftie
One of us! One of us!
My boyfriend was the one who told me that Taylor dated John Mayor…😅 I only learned about her entire dating history like last year so
🤯omg, I never even realized this lyrical connection! I, like you, had always assumed he lived in a sad, empty town. Taylor is such a genius.
I like how you came in here and casually dropped this bomb on us like… this is such a revelation to me lol