<aside> 💡 Analysis - I’ve been interpreting her “kaleidoscope of loud heartbeats under coats” as a metaphor for hiding her gay love/bearding. So, in the You Need To Calm Down MV, even when she’s walked OUT of her home/trailer (closet), she’s still covering up her true self (her kaleidoscope🌈). She’s done this multiple times - Ready For It MV - her closeted self is naked, but her “free” self has a hooded cloak Rep tour - starts with her in a hooded cloak but she takes it off at the start ME! MV- her lover is also hiding in the same way YNTCD MV- kaleidoscope butterfly tattoo Willow MV - she leaves her glass closet down a rabbit hole into a snowy land covered in a hooded cloak, but at the end she leaves without a cloak/coat/jacket

Also, if you believe the second verse of Style is Taylor telling her lover about her Bearding relationship with Harry/a man, then “lights are off he’s taking off his coat” could mean that, when no one’s watching, he reveals that he’s gay also by taking off his coat/cover up.

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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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Queer History: ALSO STRAIGHT JACKET

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<aside> ➕ See also: Secret/Hidden/Covered/Behind/Under/Disguise/Shrouded Hide/Hiding

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Debut

Fearless

• The Best Day: I’m five years old, it’s getting cold, I’ve got my big coat on

Speak Now

Red

1989

• Welcome to New York - Kaleidoscope of loud heartbeats under coats

• Style - Takes me home The lights are off, he's taking off his coat

• You Are In Love - Time moved too fast, you play it back Buttons on a coat, lighthearted joke No proof, not much, but you saw enough

• Clean Taymoji

  

Reputation

• Look What You Made Me Do MV - leopard print coat - could be a reference to the phrase “a leopard can’t change its spots” aka “it's impossible for one to change their character, even if they will try very hard”

• Reputation Stadium Tour - Taylor is in the hooded jacket, when she’s singing the song Ready For It…? (about bearding) and the dancers are also all in coats. She & the dancers take off their jackets for I Did Something Bad, as seen in the YouTube clip below