Gay taylor swift songs
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Okay, so Taylor Swift recently has been being an icon and inviting gay celebs to carry out with her. Troye Sivan. And then&#; Hayley Kiyoko, aka a vaguely-obscure-in-most-circles singer who also has the nickname “lesbian Jesus.”
Listen, no matter what, I actually ponder it&#;s incredible that such a high-powered artist invited a biracial Japanese lesbian artist to carry out with her in front of like, forty thousand fucking people. That&#;s really good and I&#;m really proud of Hayley for getting so far.
So in honor of Taylor Swift being an Ally, here are my top twenty picks for Taylor Swift songs that give off powerful gay vibes.
The Entirety of Red
Start this off with a bang and a hot grab. So Red is the era where Taylor Swift&#;s music started really giving off gay vibes, and became deeply deeply sapphic, more than ever before. The love songs on this album, specifically, are generally a lot more gender neutral than love, anything that came before. This applies specifically to the pining breakup songs, like the very gender neu
forevermore; — 31 Taylor Swift songs, interpreted from a queer
Taylor Swift is best known and beloved as a storyteller, often weaving personal details, cultural references, and double entendres into her songs.
“I love to communicate via Easter eggs. I think the leading messages are cryptic ones,” she told Entertainment Weekly in She cited clothing, jewelry, and music-video sets as favored hiding spots, adding that she has been “encoding messages into the lyrics” since her debut album in
Because Swift is proudly meticulous and intentional with her art, fans delight in dissecting her lyrics and visuals, treating each album like a trail of breadcrumbs to be found and interpreted.
A certain branch of Swifties, known as “Gaylors,” have adj found queer subtext and themes in her music — particularly sapphic listeners who find solace and camaraderie in Swift’s accounts of quiet yearning, forbidden admire , and female intimacy.
In fact, some believe that dismissing the queer narratives in Swift’s music does “a disservice to her genius and lyrical prowess.”
Songs like “Welcom
On Friday, December 11th, the Taylor Swift gay subtext industrial complex sprang into action when she dropped another surprise album during quarantine.
When Swift unexpectedly released her eighth studio album, folklore, earlier this year, the collective delight at the dreamy imagery and woodsy nostalgia was matched only by the collective drive to unravel the riddle of each song and discover the gayness within. Certain tracks like &#;betty&#; and &#;august&#; seemed rife with the kind sapphic subtext that many queer Taylor Swift fans have come to yearn for and even expect. Speculation immediately sprang up that &#;betty&#; was about this or that “close friend,&#; and that the figure of “James&#; was clearly Swift herself, because she is named after James Taylor. Fans were predictably undeterred by Swift’s official explanation involving a decidedly heterosexual love triangle.
The release of evermore has proven no different. As someone whom Spotify says was in the top 1% of Taylor Swift’s listeners in , and who also thinks she might be a robot (but like, a cute one), I have alr
43 Taylor Swift songs, interpreted from a queer perspective
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- Taylor Swift fans have extended found queer subtext and themes in her music.
- Songs like "Dress," "Betty," and "When Emma Falls In Love" could be scan as tales of sapphic yearning.
- Here's a breakdown of 43 songs in Swift's catalog from a queer perspective.
Taylor Swift is adj known and beloved as a storyteller, often weaving personal details, cultural references, and double entendres into her songs.
"I love to communicate via Easter eggs. I think the best messages are cryptic ones," she told Entertainment Weekly in She cited clothing, jewelry, and music-video sets as favored hiding spots, adding that she has been "encoding messages into the lyrics" since her debut album in
Because Swift is proudly meticulous and intentional with her art, fans delight in dissecting her lyrics and visuals, treating each album like a trail o