A CROW TRIED TO GO IN OUR CLASSROOM AND HE HAD A PEN

Yes! 🌈

Taylor Swift has done more for media literacy than any other musical artist ever. Her active encouragement of fan analysis, her deliberate inclusion of layered hidden meaning within her work, her intentional self-referentialism, reflection and reinterpretation, her lyrics that lean heavily towards satire and playfully subverting expectation……. the last few years of her career have been littered with proof that she is pushing an educational agenda. She is asking people to actively question the stories they used to internalise without second thought, including narratives and themes she once wrote but no longer agrees with. She is a media studies professor hidden within the world of pop music, actively encouraging the general public to dissect the media they consume, the messages they receive and the politics behind them……… the fact of the matter is that if Taylor Swift were a man, we would be discussing her effect not only as a famous singer-songwriter, but as a public intellectual presenting a body of artistic work with a deliberate focus on media literacy 

So my immediate thought when watching the interview with Colbert, is that I feel like the bit about “hey Stephen” being about him, and there being all this evidence (as a bit) and her denying it, is like a parallel to all of the gaylor/kaylor evidence and then everyone (including Taylor via her pr narrative) denying it.

She says to him that if she were going to write a song about him she wouldn’t name it after him, that would be too obvious. She says songwriting “is in the details”. She even lists things that she would say about him like him being on tv, on the daily show, being 5’11” etc. when she said “I love you on the tv” it immediately made me think of “you’re a queen selling dreams, selling make up and magazines”.

At another point she describes where his exact location is in New York, which immediately made me think of “you’re the west village”. Another detail that shows the truth of a song.

The basic take away of too-obvious titles, and the truth being in the details of the song, is so LOUD. It reinforces the falseness of all of the anachronisms that we’ve been pointing out in her last four albums. Songs said to be about toe, but whose details only actually work with Karlie. Or songs that are said to be about straight relationships, but whose details seem to clearly suggest a wlw relationship. For instance, Cardigan referencing “high heels on cobblestones” and James in Betty singing “I was walking home on broken cobblestones”. The truth is in the details

Also the comment about too-obvious titles vs details made me cackle about London Boy 😂 it really is Blank Space 2.0

God there are so many other examples... “looking out the window like I’m not your favorite town/I’m New York City/I still do it for you baby” when joe has stated New York is definitely not his favorite city, but a certain lady loves it. “I’m so mystified by how this city screams your name”, etc.

She keeps giving us entire albums that are the equivalent of lyrical mood boards, covered in photos of Karlie (plus some of Emily and Sue, and other sapphic icons/characters) and then says “no I don’t know what you’re talking about, it’s from a male perspective”. And it’s so obvious that it’s a joke, just like this bit. It also stood out to me that there was audible laughter from the crew members in the studio(s). Which felt like it echoed all of us, watching Taylor pull gayer and gayer songs, themes, imagery with each album, then saying “where?” with a semi straight face, just redirecting the gps attention. And us sitting back in astonishment and delirious laughter asking “how can they not see it??”

Could someone please direct me towards “the 1975” page

I legit have no idea what I’m doing on tumblr and want to be their fan

Humans for the win

watched this for the first time when i was 14 i think? it saved me

RYAN GOSLING "I'm Just Ken" wins Best Original Song at the 29th Annual Critics' Choice Awards (January 14, 2024)

I taught my dog “jump” command today, this feels serendipitous so I had to reblog

crowds jumping throughout the eras

Eye wonder...

Keep an eye open:

- remain vigilant for someone or something

- keep a lookout

Have one eye on:

- to keep looking or paying attention to someone or something else while you are doing something else

- look

- focus

And —> Why does she make the shape of a triangle around her eyes???

The Eye of Providence :

- is a symbol recognized by Freemasons everywhere as a beautiful representation of the watchful care of the Supreme Architect

Also called The All Seeing Eye:

- which also appears on the One Dollar Bill

- “On the right-hand side in the background of Mona Lisa, we can locate the form of the masculine pyramid. In the language of symbolism, this is also known as the pyramid of the Sun or the pyramid of the Man. In Mona Lisa, Leonardo even painted a spot on the pyramid to indicate the two parts: the body of the pyramid and the all-seeing-eye of the apex. Later in this study (Theorem 10) we prove that the height of the all-seeing-eye pyramid is divided so that the two parts form a relation that is the golden ratio.” https://houseoftruth.education/en/teaching/mona-lisa/the-all-seeing-eye

- the Mona Lisa - most famous painting in the world, and her identity is never truly known ...

Yup. It’s gone this far. I am playing the DaVinci Code with Taylor Swift. 👁

Also... as a fun side note,I like to imagine that Taylor rented out the Louvre where the Mona Lisa is in Paris just for her and Kar for the most romantic date of all time, maybe on their honeymoon 💕💕💕

Eye’m done. For now.

House of Truth

The All-seeing-eye - House of Truth

In Mona Lisa, Leonardo even painted a spot on the pyramid to indicate the two parts: the body of the pyramid and the all-seeing-eye of the a

folks...

real talk

whose eye praytell

whose eye is it

honestly

she’s tr👁ing to tell you