Phoebe Bridgers after months of radio silence - curious timing to come back to our planet Phoebe. Cool tracklist.
They had me at: "I'm calling you a car" 😂😂😂
This is too good to be true..
OH. MY. GOD. Gracie just posted this song on her stories and it mentions a volcano erupting and stars falling (supernova/death of a star karma eras tour visuals). I think we’re right abt Sept 28. I think it’s happening 😶
How y’all doin’???
Lutschutsxhurfghjtrfcvbhhuytfdfvbhhhuytrffgghhhhyyttfgggghyyyytgghhhhhhytgghhhhyyffgggghhhhhhhhhhghhhhhggggghhhhhhhhhbbbhhhhhhhhhhhhhhgghhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Karlos, the woman you are!
« Looking forward to fall 💙💫 »
Me too Karlie, ME! too.
# ‘Does she write UR or your?’
#🌹 👯♀️🧜♀️ 🌊 🌪️ 🪽🛫📼 ☕️ 🍕 🍟 💸 🧨🌋 📙🛬 🌴🦩🧚🏽🌞🌸💫🎡
Okay okay.. just another koincidence I’m sure.
Please, I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative. It’s ruining my life 😭
I can’t listen to ‘random’ music anymore without you two koincidencing (yes – I just decided that it’s a verb).
I've had some tricks up my sleeve Takes one to know one You're a cowboy like me
Wait what!? Are they for real?!
A DANDELION
And is Justin Vernon literally pointing at it while wearing the albatross face mask?!
I didn’t see the signs no (well the albatross ☑️)
🎃
HAPPY FREAKING HALLOWEEN TO US?!
What parallel universe did we step into
🎃 Imagine this. You are walking through your yard. It's one of your favorite places, all sprawling garden rows and vibrant green grass. There are herbs for cooking and spell casting. There are daisies - so many daisies - in every shade of your rainbow. Up ahead you spot a small cropping of weeds, and set your foot on each stepping stone of the path that leads right to them. The house is a little farther now, but you are still within the confines of your tall and impenetrable fence. Nothing comes through that fence. Not now and not ever. Within it you are safe. Your lover and your fresh baked buns are safe. (The buns, of course, are in the oven turning golden as you speak. It's an old family recipe, jotted lovingly on a recipe card.) You reach the weeds and pluck a dandelion. Caught up in a moment of buoyant childlike whimsy, you make a wish and blow, blow, blow. Hundreds of featherly florets scatter. You laugh. You watch as they ride the breeze, one floret in particular. It drifts and dances like all the others, but as the wind changes direction it swoops over the fence. You lose sight of it, and send a silent apology to whoever ends up with a cropping of dandelions in their yard. Did you know that dandelions don't need to be purposefully planted all at once? All it takes is for one small seed to catch on the breeze, and by then it has spread irreversibly. You'd never know where the initial seed came from, because it has started so small and floated so far. You swallow, staring at the fence. It was you who blew the dandelion in the first place. It was you who ventured too closely to the edge of the garden. It was chance and weather that landed it where it did. You breathe in, and deep and out, expelling the growing anxiety from your body. You turn back to the house. You have those homemade buns to tend to, after all. But as you reach the door you can't help but cast a furtive glance over your shoulder, to the spot where that dandelion floret disappeared. You can never blame someone for the dandelions that sprout in your grass. It’s untraceable and irrelevant. They all come from the same place anyway: a private moment performed too near the property line. Of course the recipient would pluck the weeds so unwittingly planted. Of course they, too, would blow, blow, blow and spread the florets far and wide. Once you blow a dandelion, you never get it back. It isn’t yours anymore. 🎃
april 2, 2009 | fifteen years ago today
taylor attended a hannah montana afterparty with emily osment, miley cyrus, and demi lovato
miley later said: “if you guys didn’t know i was bisexual from this damn picture, i don’t know what’s wrong with you. uh, i mean, hello! look at them!”
It’s been torture not marching alongside our fellow poets! To celebrate National Poetry Day, we’re publishing an abridged version of our Chairman’s manuscript: THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT | TS The Eras Tour Setlist chapter. Whether you’re missing tour or preparing to crash our party this fall, this is required streaming for all Department members. 🥁🤍
hi spade,
i saw this video on my fyp today that reminded me of the anons and that sounded like it could’ve been written by taylor. i was hoping she’d be able to see it somehow so figured i’d drop it here on the chance that our anon checks in and sees it. thanks for all you do <3 https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTF4Xrm2A/
So I believe I may have just solved a major piece of the puzzle and finally figured out WHY the tortured poets have been sending us these anonymous messages to help us solve it. I think this entire rabbit hole is a gift to us true fans which is why we got all of those cryptic present 🎁 anon messages. Alllll of these songs are dedicated to us (except for So High School and I will explain why I think this in more detail later). THIS is The Story or Secret of Us. The "secret" is this rabbit hole of connections and this secret language or code of symbols and metaphors we've all learned how to speak (sunshine/daylight/gold/yellow = Karlie/being out of the closet/queer love/happiness, 3 = Speak Now, orange = karma, etc). The "us" is the tortured poets and us true fans who share this secret language.
Another important part of understanding this puzzle is that some of these songs are time sensitive 🕰️ and like a prophecy (The Prophecy) waiting to be fulfilled. So after a certain point, some songs can no longer be applied bc that "scene" in the movie has already passed (If This Was A Movie). They want us to essentially play our part in the story they've written. Right now we are playing the part of Paul Revere or Cassandra warning swifties of what's coming (likely on Sept 28). And we're also acting as Taylor's wings/angels catching her when she falls off her pedestal (see this post). They want us to think of these moments when we listen to these songs bc they want them to be personally relatable bc that's part of our gift. I think this is what Taylor meant when she said
"Let me tell you my secret little dream for this evening. These are songs that I have written about my life or things I've felt at one point in time, whether I was a teenager, in my 20s, or a couple yrs ago. But after tonight when you hear these songs out and about in the world, my dream is that you're gonna think about tonight and the memories we made here together" (x)
and what present anon meant when they said
"Reach those lanterns a little bit higher. For you shall receive a metaphor so dire" (x).
"Then the actors (us true fans and the tortured poets) were hitting their marks and the slow dance was alight with the sparks and the tears fell in synchronicity with the score" // "It's a normal thing to fall in love with movie stars when the lights are low and red at all their favorite bars. And the story you want is the story you get. Are you special or was this all scripted in his head?...Don't worry, I know I'll see you again. Uh-huh, you'll make me cry when it comes to an end. You were all that we hoped (The Prophecy), but I can't recommend getting close, I should've known, but I'll see you again" (x). The tortured poets have invited us to "dance" with them by being a part of this movie. If we accept this invitation, then we essentially become the muse of these songs.
I think Gracie playing In Between as a surprise song on 9/19 was an easter egg for Lizzy’s song Pushing It Down and Praying that was released 9/20. I think the mv for this song is the visual representation of the 🫚 message about the audience member (us true fans) becoming a part of the magic show and also the teenage love triangle in folklore. In this story, we are playing the character Wendy/Betty while the tortured poets play the character Peter/James. Swifties or the fans who don’t see this metaphorical story are Augusta/Augustine, the girl that James cheats on Betty with in august. So even though the teenage love triangle is technically fictional, there are seeds of truth in it. This is what Taylor was trying to explain during the eras tour betty speeches when she said she created these fictional characters and she was acting as the narrator of their story (x). Role Model, who stars in the Pushing It Down and Praying mv, is also the opening act for Gracie's TSOU tour which is another connection.
And to add even more evidence to this theory, the teenage love triangle also makes an appearance in Gracie’s discography. Gracie has a song called Augusta on TIWIFL which just so happens to be the name of one of the characters in the love triangle. It is also the name of a town in Maine which is where Gracie’s family is from. There are 3 songs in total on TIWIFL that are named after towns in Maine—Camden, Augusta, and Rockland. If you put the first letters of these songs together, they spell out “CAR.” “Standing in your CARdigan, kissing in my CAR again,” “And when I felt like I was an old CARdigan under someone’s bed, you put me on and said I was your favorite," 2:46 in betty ("She said 'James, get in, let's drive'") corresponding with 2:46 in august ("Remember when I pulled up and said get in the CAR").
august, betty, cardigan (the 3 sides or perspectives of the love triangle) are “ABC” bc the alphabet or capital letters are one of the major keys to solving this puzzle. As I mentioned in this post, I think Audrey has been helping to plant easter eggs. She posted Capital Letters by Hailee Steinfeld on her insta 3 times which is quite interesting and she also included this song in her Summa playlist.
What makes this even more suspicious is that she specifically chose timestamps in the songs (1:11 and 1:23) that have these lyrics ⬇️ and she posted the 1:11 timestamp TWICE which indicates that she really wanted to emphasize it. "God I'm jumping in the deep end, it's more fun to swim in. Heard the risk is drowning but I'm gonna take it."
Another thing that I think ties in with all of this is the Stephen Colbert interview. In this post below, I explain why I think the pizza on the mood board represents PR/bearding/showmanship/magic. I also explain how the letters that spell out Stephen's name are a huge clue and are related to the Peter Pan metaphor that is a through line in both Gracie's and Taylor's music. This is another example of "capital letters" or the alphabet being the key to solving the puzzle.
Going back to what I said in the first paragraph, this entire rabbit hole of cross-referenceable songs is dedicated to us except for the "pizza" So High School which is the one song she dedicated to 🏈 This is why Taylor's mood board had one slice of pizza while every other picture was of Stephen.
also i really like the stuff jack and taylor were doing with the synths and other production bits on midnights. leaning into vocal effects on midnight rain and dear reader, echoey drums on anti-hero like the monster on the hill is lurching towards you through a big empty space, the way bejeweled literally sounds like it's glinting and sparkling, the kind of fuzzy electronic sounds behind labyrinth, the background vocal of her yelling 'i'm so in love!' in paris, the ominous synth throbbing behind maroon that makes you feel like you're there with her looking across the city skyline in the hour before dawn
people who write cute little songs about their animals are my No.3 no matter what Until noticed otherwisemadhouse going all in
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