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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 Connections: In a Poem XIII by Adrienne Rich written in the mid-1970s, Adrienne (a famous lesbian poet) depicts the queer experience as something with “no laws” & lesbians as “women outside the law”

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<aside> ➕ See also: Rebelling/Against the status quo/Not Acceptable/Different/Subversive/Making Our Own Rules/breaking rules/propriety Rebel Escaping/Escape/Running/Run Away/Bolter Steal/Stolen/Rob/Heist

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Debut (October 24, 2006)

Fearless (November 11, 2008)

Speak Now (October 25, 2010)

• Mine - You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter

Red (October 22, 2012)

1989 (October 27, 2014)

• Blank Space- Stolen kisses, pretty lies

Reputation (November 10, 2017)

• Ready For It -

  • Knew I was a robber first time that he saw me, stealing hearts and running off and never saying sorry But if I’m a thief then he can join the heist
  • But if he's a ghost, then I can be a phantom Holdin' him for ransom

• Getaway Car -

  • It was the best of times, the worst of crimes
  • We're riding in a getaway car There were sirens in the beat of your heart
  • Because us traitors never win
  • We were jet set Bonnie & Clyde
  • Put the money in the bag and I stole the keys

• Look What You Made Me Do - I don't like your perfect crime - you said the gun was mine isn’t cool

• Secret Sessions - Taylor speaks on the criminal/robbers theme throughout the album but specifically in Ready For It..?

  • “Ready For It introduces a metaphor that you may hear more of throughout the rest of the album which is like this crime and punishment metaphor where it talks about like robbers and thieves and heists and all that. And I found that to be an interesting metaphor but twisted in different ways throughout the album. The way that it’s presented in ‘Ready For It’ is basically like finding your partner in crime and it’s like “oh my god we’re the same, we’re the same! Let’s rob banks together this is great””

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Lover (August 23, 2019)

• False God -
  • we might just get away with it
  • Even if it’s a false god We’d still worship this love