The tension between “friends” and “more than friends” fits right into Swift’s famously confessional songwriting, which is rife with intimate musings on love and loss. Much of that subtext is implied through things like her vague (and occasionally gender-flipped) pronoun choices, her music videos, and the rampant blurring in her songs between empowered female friendships and intimate lesbian ones. Taylor’s hardcore fans) believed it so intensely speaks to the larger, ongoing presence of sapphic friendships that fills her music. Whether Kaylor was ever real or not, the fact that so many Swifties (a.k.a.
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“Friendships do not get cultural weight, because our culture places all of the value in a single romantic relationship that is supposed to sustain you over time.”īut such friendships frequently do get full attention in a Taylor Swift album. “I think sometimes that probably the reason is because our culture strips us of the vocabulary to understand something like that outside of the context of romance,” my friend Stacey Lantagne, a longtime fan, reminded me. Unpacking the twisty genre of political fanfiction through Curtis Sittenfeld’s Rodham “The thing that I have the most trouble with is that I don’t want to force this assumption on people I don’t know,” Dickson admitted. Swift skipped out on Kloss’s two separate wedding ceremonies in 20, and a 2019 rumor held that Kloss had sided with the mega-producer and noted Swift villain Scooter Braun in Swift’s ongoing feud with Braun over the rights to her old master recordings.Īnd you can make the argument that trying to shoehorn Kaylor into a romance belittles the unique closeness of female friendships. “ it seemed to be more than just a really strong friendship.”ĭespite years of a very public and intimate friendship, Kaylor has cooled off. “I don’t know if they would have called each other ‘girlfriends,’” Dickson told me. (There’s a 37-page PowerPoint just about possible hints of Kaylor on the album Reputation alone.) There’s also plenty of accompanying “evidence” that the two friends may have blurred the line between friendship and romance. As they’ve done with so many of Swift’s (straight) relationships, Swift obsessives have devoted reams of analysis to decoding the many alleged references to Karlie in Taylor’s songwriting. She quickly fell down the internet rabbit hole of speculation over which 1989 songs referenced Kaylor. Dickson is a queer fan who started to pay more attention to Swift after 2014’s breakout 1989, which had a strong “queer vibe” that resonated with her.
“I do feel confident that they at least had a fling,” Sarah Dickson told me of Kaylor.
Fans like to make much of Taylor behind the scenes that night, caught on camera gazing at Karlie in what looks like mesmerized awe. The two were first friendly on social media, then reportedly became friends at the 2013 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, which was itself kind of a sapphic wet dream. Kaylor, as the women are known as together, is an epic ship by any standards, and the rabbit hole of Kaylor “evidence” is duly intense. The primary fuel for this is the intense fandom conspiracy that Swift previously was in a relationship with her famous best friend, the supermodel Karlie Kloss. The queering of Taylor Swift involves a combination of classic signposts: gossip, politics, and subtext.Įven as a Taylor Swift fan, you may have missed the mountains of internet lore devoted to the belief that Swift is bisexual. Rumors about Tay’s personal life have long been entangled with the sapphic themes of her music Combining this gossip with Swift’s increasingly outspoken LGBTQ advocacy and Folklore’s witchy queer cottagecore vibe, we have all the ingredients for a steaming hot brew of queer subtext. In fact, despite its textual straightness, Folklore is burning up queer social media and reviving longstanding rumors about Swift’s own sexuality - especially the internet theory about her great secret lesbian love affair. Isn’t Tay straight? Isn’t she in love with that exhaustingly generic British guy she keeps writing songs about? Isn’t Folklore presumably full of songs about heterosexual romance? The answer to all those questions is an emphatic yes - but that doesn’t necessarily make Folklore any less gay. You may, understandably, have questions about this reading. I’m sorry but betty, that’s it, thats the tweet /nHyPl3hBCP- tahlia July 24, 2020
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