🚨Trigger warning -

discussion of suicide

<aside> 💡 Analysis - Ophelia is a famous literary character who drowned herself after collecting wildflowers, falling out of a willow into the water and singing in the water before her clothes got water-logged and she drowned. The painting below, by John Everett Millais, is a famous depiction of this scene and reminds me of the visuals in Taylor’s Lavender Haze MV (a woman in water surrounded by floating flowers).

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<aside> 👸 Relevance to Taylor’s Life: at the VSFS 2013, Taylor was singing the following lyric whilst interacting with Karlie: “pretends he doesn’t know that he’s the reason why you’re drowning”

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<aside> 🌈 Queer History: Quite a few well-known Sapphics have drowned, including Sappho herself (although this is a myth, we don’t know for sure) and Virginia Woolf:

• Sappho:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SapphoAndHerFriend/comments/t2nn46/the_death_of_sappho_by_charlesamable_lenoir_1896/

• Virignia Woolf:

  

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<aside> ➕ See also: Sea/Ocean/Water/Dive/Jump In/Drown Virginia Woolf Sirens/Mermaids/Drown/Sink

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Debut (October 24, 2006)

Fearless (November 11, 2008)

Speak Now (October 25, 2010)

Red (October 22, 2012)

• I Knew You Were Trouble - Pretends he doesn't know that he's the reason why You're drowning, you're drowning

1989 (October 27, 2014)

• Clean - Rain came pouring down When I was drowning, that's when I could finally breathe

Reputation (November 10, 2017)

• Gorgeous - Ocean blue eyes looking in mine I feel like I might sink and drown and die

Lover (August 23, 2019)

folklore (July 24, 2020)

• the lakes - take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die (could be insinuating that they went to drown)

evermore (December 11, 2020)