<aside> 💡 Analysis - In all of her music videos during the Midnights Era, Taylor physically ascends to a higher position by the end of the MV. I interpret this as ascending being a key theme for Taylor in this era. Given how astronomically famous she has become during this time, it could represent her ambition for fame - being “on top of the world”. It could also represent freedom and expansion, as her ascent in the music videos for Anti-Hero (she ends up on the roof of the house), Bejeweled (once she gets to the top of the building, she moves to the top of a castle) and Lavender Haze (she pushes the walls away and ends up high in the cosmos on a cloud) show her no longer being confined to being inside the building she started in. In the Karma MV, she ascends up into space (similar to the imagery in Lavender Haze) and the final scene shows the camera panning up from the dreamscape, through the clouds and up through the foam of a coffee cup - indicating that this entire dreamscape was confined to the inside of the coffee cup, and that TS11 will be more expansive.

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<aside> 👂 Social Media Analysis Relating To This Theme:

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<aside> 👸 Relevance to Taylor’s Life:

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<aside> 🌈 Queer History:

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<aside> ➕ See also: Lift Up/Levitate/Rise/Elevator/Climb/Ascend/Above Mountain/Hill/Altitude/Tree Line/Peak/Summit/Climb Balcony Roof/Up on the roof

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Early Career

• Lucky You (rumoured to be her first song she ever wrote when she was 12 years old):
  • She sings her little song She walks along a little Pathway headed for the skies Left her travels, lies, they unravel Mind over matter, that's what she says
  • Maybe she'll sing, "You-do-do-do-do Maybe she'll bring you into the skies Honey, she'll love you Funny how some view Angels above you, ain't so far away

Debut (October 24, 2006)

Fearless (November 11, 2008)

Speak Now (October 25, 2010)

• Taylor’s diary - March 16, 2011 21 years - “Every once in a while I have to remind myself to breathe and take in the view.”

https://taylorswiftmusicworld.com/loverdeluxeeditiondiaryentriesvolume3

Red (October 22, 2012)

1989 (October 27, 2014)

• Out of the Woods MV - Taylor is lifted off the ground by branches

Reputation (November 10, 2017)

• King Of My Heart: up on the roof with a school girl crush drinking beer out of plastic cups
• Look What You Made Me Do - Honey I rose up from the dead I do it all the time
• Look What You Made Me Do MV - she’s at the top of Taylor mountain