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<aside> 👸 Relevance to Taylor’s Life: It’s quite common for celebrities, or people speaking about events in the celebrity world, to use the metaphor of something “blowing up” to mean something that is getting a lot of media & societal attention. Britney Spears used the phrase to describe how her double denim look with JT went viral & was widely talked about, and Billie Eilish recently used it to describe how it feels when she’s open about her private life and the way that information can be sensationalised.

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https://www.vogue.com/article/billie-eilish-november-2024-cover-interview

<aside> 🌈 Queer History:

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<aside> ➕ See also: Fire/Ash/Burn/Match/Flame War/Battle/Fight/Soldier/Salute/Army

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Debut (October 24, 2006)

Fearless (November 11, 2008)

Speak Now (October 25, 2010)

Red (October 22, 2012)

• Prologue - My experiences in love have taught me difficult lessons, especially my experiences with crazy love. The red relationships. The ones that went from zero to a hundred miles per hour and then hit a wall and exploded.

1989 (October 27, 2014)

• Bad Blood MV - explosion in the final fight scene

  

  

• Vanity Fair interview, August 2015: “so I just had to go into my little emotional bunker and pretend there weren’t bombs going off outside”

Reputation (November 10, 2017)

• LWYMMD MV - When Taylor is walking away with her leopard/cheetah the car explodes

• Getaway Car - I struck a match and blew your mind

Lover (August 23, 2019)

• Afterglow - Fighting with a true love is boxing with no gloves Chemistry 'til it blows up, 'til there's no us