<aside> 💡 Analysis - An antidote is a “medicine taken or given to counteract a particular poison.” ****Harry Styles references “antidote” multiple times across his discography. The first instance is in his song, Ever Since New York, where he says “Choose your words, 'cause there's no antidote For this curse, oh, what's it waiting for?” It’s interesting that Styles connects the idea of poison with a “curse” - especially as Taylor seems to allude to her queerness being a Curse/Cursed in her discography. His next mentions of antidote are in his song Golden - “Loving you’s the antidote, golden” and in Daylight “You’ve got the antidote I’ll take one to go, go please.”
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<aside> 👸 Relevance to Taylor’s Life:
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<aside> 🌈 Queer History: Throughout LGBTQ+ history, the idea that homosexuality was a condition that could be “cured” was perpetuated.
https://time.com/3705745/history-therapy-hadden/
https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/history-getting-gay-out
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<aside> ➕ See also: Apples Sick/Sickness/Fever/Contagious Poison Die/Death/Funeral/Fatal/Kill/Dead/Grave Crazy/Insanity/Madness/Mad/Madhouse/Lose my mind/Pathological
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The Trick To Holding On Poem -
They don’t tell you this when you are young
You can’t hold on to everything
Can’t show up for everyone
You pick your poison
Or your cure
Phone numbers you know by heart
And the ones you don’t answer any more