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foolish al 🎀 @yeehawdemifemme.bsky.social · Mar 12

both part 1 & part 2 of the queer, marxist, taylor swift essay that i’ve been working on are officially up! would love to hear your thoughts & lyrical / analytical additions ⬇️

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the one with no name @onewith69.bsky.social · 7h

i think one of the things i love about performanceartlor is just how analytical it is as opposed to parasocial and attached. it's like we're watching a performance play out in front of us and we're just analyzing it. i think that's what drew me here over the more muse-centered interpretations of 1/

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foolish al 🎀 @yeehawdemifemme.bsky.social · 6h

idk if you are anxious around turbulence, but i learned that it’s the equivalent of the plane being surrounded by jello. so it’s just jiggling in the jello and isn’t going to fall anywhere bc it’s surrounded (in reality by air pressure / atmosphere) !! sky jello really comforts me

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Rhiannon @daffa-dil-vibe.bsky.social · 16h

Tell me again how Seven is about a childhood best friend and "isnt that deep"

And I've been meaning to tell you
I think your house is haunted
Your dad is always mad and that must be why
And I think you should come live with
Me and we can be pirates
Then you won't have to cry
Or hide in the closet
And just like a folk song
Our love will be passed on

I thought my house was haunted
I used to live with ghosts

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foolish al 🎀 @yeehawdemifemme.bsky.social · 1d

i love being with queer men bc wdym a bf of mine just told me he loves and appreciates all the different ways i style my boobs

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Tess @invisiblethemes.bsky.social · 7d

Her vigilante shit performance has literally been all I’ve thought about when hearing this lyric from Wood. Especially with the eras tour stage being shaped like a key..

somesmalltowngirl @somesmalltowngirl.bsky.social · 7d

His love is the key that opened my thighs 👀

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foolish al 🎀 @yeehawdemifemme.bsky.social · 1d

HOW DID I MISS THIS

stolen kisses, pretty lies @fruitballtay.bsky.social · 7d

I'm still here

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souperman 🦸🍲 @souperman26.bsky.social · 2d

mark your calendar for 10/29— we’re only a FORTNIGHT away from celebrating this amazing community through our love (and sometimes distaste) for soup!

we have a new album’s worth of puns to simmer, tons of amazing recipes to share, and plenty of new community members to welcome into the lore!

🍜🥫🍲🥣

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foolish al 🎀 @yeehawdemifemme.bsky.social · 1d

oh no it’s not opening for me now either :( paging @invisiblethemes.bsky.social

foolish al 🎀 @yeehawdemifemme.bsky.social · 1d

will forever recommend tess’ invisible themes database @invisiblethemes.bsky.social

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Crystal 🍲🌛 @enditwithasmile.bsky.social · 1d

Envious of anybody that listens to Father Figure and doesn’t relate to it as the one who was groomed to be the golden child of the family but ended up being the breaker of generational trauma instead.

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🌈🛸 @lavenderhazey.bsky.social · 1d

Good things are made by a tiny group of people seeing the same thing together -Jack Antonoff

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foolish al 🎀 @yeehawdemifemme.bsky.social · 1d

LOL

foolish al 🎀 @yeehawdemifemme.bsky.social · 1d

thank you @polytaylorswift.bsky.social for pointing out that this is in fact a QUADRUPLE ENTENDRE bc

4) vinyl sleeve

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foolish al 🎀 @yeehawdemifemme.bsky.social · 1d

OMFG QUADRUPLE ENTENDRE

foolish al 🎀 @yeehawdemifemme.bsky.social · 1d

the girls* that get it, get it

*neurodivergent queer fans with advanced media analysis skills and superb pattern recognition

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foolish al 🎀 @yeehawdemifemme.bsky.social · 1d

if this is true, which many of us have theorized about already, then it adds a whole new layer to taycapitalist. instead of accumulating power & wealth bc she’s a greedy billionaire, perhaps she is motivated bc it allows her to influence change in the industry… even if that’s from the closet.

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Queer intimacy and community is particularly important to Taylor, as the prioritization of wealth accumulation at all costs has alienated her from others, including her own biological family members:
The family, the pure greed, the Christian chorus line
They all said nothing
Blood's thick but nothing like a payroll
Bet they never spared a prayer for my soul
(Cassandra)
In contrast, Taylor illustrates the ease and freedom she feels in cultivating queer community and intimacy via shared consumption:
Rose flowing with your chosen family
(the 1)
Laughing with my feet in your lap
Like you were my closest friend
'How'd we end up on the floor anyway?' You say
Your hommate's cheap-as screw-top rose,
I see you every day now

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As Taylor "comes in" to the queer community-choosing to remain closeted-she also uses the power and resources she has accumulated through capitalism to uplift and mentor a community of other queer artists (both out and closeted). For her, it seems that queer solidarity and the expansion of queerness in pop music are forms of Karma: "Karma takes all my friends to the summit" (Karma). In coming into and uplifting the queer community via her capital, she chooses to shape the heteronormative industry that has confined her artistry and caused her deep alienation from her authentic self. One example of this is how many of the opening acts featured on her Eras Tour identified as queer-something that did not go unnoticed by LGBTQ+ publication, them.

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Taylor also applies an ethos of self-ownership and artists' rights in her advocacy, which, if leading to substantial changes, could improve the material conditions of upcoming queer artists. Unlike her, they will no longer have to choose between the profits of the capitalists who control their circumstances and their ability to be openly queer both on and off the stage. Taylor's choice to promote ownership of the product of one's labor more broadly in the music industry reflects how
"What applies to [her] relation to [her] work, to the product of [her] labor and to [herself], also holds of [her] relation to [other queer artists], and to [their] labor and object of labor" (Marx, 1844).
If she can use the power and wealth she has accumulated to change the system from within-even if no one in the public knows about the extent of these interventions-she can break the cycle of queer alienation that decades of artists before her have been forced to endure:
I wake in the night, I pace like a ghost The room is on fire, invisible smoke And all of my heroes die all alone
Help me hold onto you
(The Archer)

r/GaylorSwift
Taylor is not claiming to be a queer Marxist revolutionary. However, exploring her body of work and celebrity performance through a queer Marxist lens reveals to us the power of queer community in keeping us safe and mitigating the harms of late capitalism when alienation is the highest it's ever been. We have the power to be revolutionary, even as Taylor remains confined by the capitalist powers of the industry. She instructs:
So make the friendship bracelets, take the moment and taste it
You've got no reason to be afraid
(You're On Your Own, Kid)
We're on our own, kids. We must hold each other and know each other as we confront our lives and dismantle our alienation as the queer working class within our capitalism system.

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craven (father figure era) 🍜🌈🌠 @jadegolduck.lesbian.cat · 1d

I KNEW IT SOUNDED FAMILIAR FOR A REASON AND IM GONNA BE SICK IT’S FUCKING EASTER!!!!!!!!!!

i actually just started laughing out loud to myself my hands are shaking what the fuck what the fuck WHAT HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

craven (father figure era) 🍜🌈🌠 @jadegolduck.lesbian.cat · May 2

November / April 3, 2020 - May 2, 2020

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foolish al 🎀 @yeehawdemifemme.bsky.social · 1d

is taylor single handedly funding and organizing the new romantics behind the scenes? using her wealth to not only mentor, but also invest in upcoming queer artists?

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foolish al 🎀 @yeehawdemifemme.bsky.social · 1d

thinking about the triple entendre here of “dry your tears with my sleeve”… sleeve could mean:

1) a shirt sleeve
2) a plastic sleeve to hold physical money
3) a single banking account that divides into sub-accounts to enhance strategy

Father Figure
Taylor Swift
This love is pure profit
Just step into my office
I dry your tears with my sleeve
Leave it with me I protect the family

• Al Overview
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In wealth management, a "sleeve" is a sub-account within a single custodial account that holds a distinct investment strategy. Sleeves allow a client's overall portfolio to be managed with different strategies, such as equity, fixed income, or ESG investing, while keeping them separate for reporting, trading, and rebalancing purposes. This structure, often used in Unified Managed Accounts (UMAs), enables more customized management and operational efficiency compared to opening multiple separate accounts.
How sleeves work
• Segmentation: A single custodial account is divided into virtual sub-accounts, or
"sleeves". o
• Independent management: Each sleeve can be managed with a different investment strategy, manager, or objective. o
• Examples: A client's account might have an "equity sleeve," a "fixed income sleeve," and a "satellite sleeve" for alternative investments.

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Material Tangelo ✌️ @materialtangelo.bsky.social · 2d

She traps us in the closet with her in so many ways — that’s a price of this that we don’t discuss enough

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bella❤️‍🔥✨ @dreamscapes.swifties.social · 2d

can I whisper something

... is this why she produced the album with max and shellback

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foolish al 🎀 @yeehawdemifemme.bsky.social · 2d

rereading my essay and need to do an updated version with TLOAS lyrics bc ~wow~ they really align with my analysis. example

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Meanwhile, she is able to truly experience queer love and intimacy-a holiness that transcends the confines of capitalism and its need for commodified public performance-via the committed maintenance of her heteronormative shield. She contemplates how she's damned if she does and damned if she doesn't come out.
Ultimately, she elects secret queer intimacy over true authenticity, as the explicit naming of her queerness would sacrifice her sacred relationships to the brutal altar of commodification under capitalism:
What if I roll the stone away?
They're gonna crucify me anyway
What if the way you hold me
Is actually what's holy?
If long suffering propriety
Is what they want from me
They don't know how you've haunted me
So stunningly
I choose you and me
.. Religiously
(Guilty As Sin?)

Wi$h Li$t
Taylor Swift
They want that yacht life Under chopper blades
They want those bright lights and Balenci shades

Wi$h Li$t
Taylor Swift
I hope I get what I want
Cause I know what
I want
Ijust want you

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foolish al 🎀 @yeehawdemifemme.bsky.social · 2d

opalite X chloe or sam or sophia or marcus

Mo @thugstory.bsky.social · 3d

Stolen from threads- TTPD The Anthology has 31 songs, TLOAS has 12, so everyone has a birthday mashup. Mine is Cancelled X I Hate it Here (Taylor’s is TLOAS X I can do it with a broken heart)

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behind the mirrorball @behindthemalllll.bsky.social · 2d

taylor swift in 2019 cbs Sunday morning interview abt her masters. Text on screen says “The best bitch is gonna win, and that's me”

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the7wivesofRH⸆⸉ ❤️‍🔥 @the7wivesofrh.bsky.social · Aug 14

they destroyed the bathroom… to get the snake out…🐍🪩🪞🛁🧼

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