Paradiso Pride - Lay All Your Love On Me

it was all by design

now I'm a Mastermind' tm

who else decodes you?

nobody, no fucking body

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Lyrics too.

This is a color coded map A flickering light I got lost in the dark (more than a few times 😩) still not sure where the exit is how muc

And the years passed Like scenes of a show The Professor said to write what you know Lookin' backwards Might be the only way to move forward Then the actors Were hitting their marks And the slow dance Was alight with the sparks And the tears fell In synchronicity with the score And at last She knew what the agony had been for

'Le Ballon Rouge'

Taylor Swift - The straightest woman who ever lived 😂

If not lady kisser, why do lady kisser things?

the queering of taylor swift

“not only does a queer reading of folklore further validate all the earlier queer readings of many of swift’s other songs, it also opens up possibilities for more nuanced, equally rewarding readings of swift’s songs”

🙌 THIS 🙌

Vox

From Kaylor to Folklore: How Taylor Swift became a gay icon

Fans love to speculate about Taylor Swift’s queerness. Folklore only bolsters their theories.

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just call it the kayloring of taylor swift

who here wrote this article about Tay and Kar 👀?,

i know

old news

late to the party

completely missed this article though

and i thought i had seen

every fucking single tree in these woods

before finally seeing daylight

still convinced that my google searches 😂

made me never ever hear from TS™️ again

after them telling me to wait for the next steps

so taylor if you do decide to do a concert tour asp

flip the algorithm please

like full reverse

🌈 -🔄-🌈

“the gaylor pride tour” or whatever

call it what you want

but take your time

we’re not going anywhere ✌️

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folkmore

Coney Island

The question pounds my head

"What's a lifetime of achievement?"

If I pushed you to the edge

But you were too polite to leave me

And do you miss the rogue

Who coaxed you into paradise and left you there?

Will you forgive my soul

When you're too wise to trust me and too old to care?

'Cause we were like the mall before the Internet

It was the one place to be

The mischief, the gift wrapped suburban dreams

Sorry for not winning you an arcade ring

And I'm sitting on a bench in Coney Island

wondering where did my baby go?

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Coney Island Baby

And the straightest dude I ever knew

was standing right for me, all the time

So I had to play football for the coach

And I wanted to play football for the coach

When you're all alone and lonely

In your midnight hour

And you find that your soul

It has been up for sale

And you're getting to think about

All the things that you done

And you're getting to hate

Just about everything

But remember the princess who lived on the hill

Who loved you even though she knew you was wrong

And right now she just might come shining through

And the

Glory of love

Glory of love

Glory of love, just might come through

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“and obviously aaron dessner is in the national

and he has completely changed my life”

same girl same

“It’s all part of the fucking story”

Welp maybe I’ll be right one of these days. I’m playing my part aren’t I? “Dear reader if it feels like a trap.” “The more that you say the less I know, wherever you stray I follow”

Genius

Christian Lee Hutson – Carousel Horses

Your room was covered in dayglow / Smoke rings hanging like halos / How could you know how I feel / You can identify trees / Just by looking

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September and Fall

WAIT A DAMN MINUTE 🫨🫨 So Audrey, who is Gracie’s best friend, posted this on her stories the day before 9/21 and I screen recorded it bc I t

september 21, 2020 | four years ago

after a fan asked if she had seen taylor's performance of ‘betty’, olivia rodrigo responded, “its the rainbow strings for me”

karlie just liked taylors post endorsing kamala 💙

Bowery Ballroom NYC 10/13/2016

Well.. they go way back 🙃

Which could mean nothing. As usual 👀

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karlie kloss archive

karlie kloss and serena williams at vogue world: paris

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBUmrJBv6Ge/?igsh=c3k5Z3Z6ZG5iY3hk

Serena was there! KK's bestie! I love that!

I don’t know much about KK and Serena Williams’ relationship. I assume they were connected through Penni. Anyway, glad she had fun!

The Story/Secret of Us

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").

Genius

Gracie Abrams – Augusta

“Augusta” is the 10th track of Gracie Abrams' project This Is What It Feels Like. On an interview with NME, Abrams said that the state of M

Genius

Gracie Abrams – Camden

In “Camden,” Gracie struggles with intrusive thoughts that are continuously haunting her. She reveals multiple insecurities she feels regard

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.

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So several gaylors have been talking abt the Stephen Colbert interview Taylor did on April 13, 2021 and I believe I may have figured out how

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.

How y’all doin’???

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