Fate/Meant To Be/Chance/Happenstance

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<aside> 🌈 Queer Relevance: the nature of a lot of the archetypal LGBTQ+ experience is grappling with one’s relationship to the “fate” of their sexuality/gender identity. One examples of this is trying to “pray the gay away” or change one’s sexuality in order to conform to the Christian, hetero-normative ideals of society. Another is the process of accepting one’s “fate”, speaking in ways such as “it wasn’t a choice”. Chappell Roan, when speaking about her song “Good Luck Babe” says that the song is speaking to someone who is “denying fate” (that they’re not a straight woman).

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Debut (October 24, 2006)

Fearless (November 11, 2008)

Speak Now (October 25, 2010)

The Story of Us - I don't know what to say, Since the twist of fate when it all broke down
Long Live - But if, God forbid, fate should step in, And force us into a goodbye

Red (October 22, 2012)

State of Grace - These are the hands of fate

1989 (October 27, 2014)

Reputation (November 10, 2017)

Why She Disappeared -

And even louder,

"without your past,

you could never have arrived-

so wondrously and brutally,

By design or some violent, exquisite happenstance

...here."

Lover (August 23, 2019)

Cruel Summer - And I snuck in through the garden gate, Every night that summer just to seal my fate
Daylight - Luck of the draw only draws the unlucky (luck of the draw means: the outcome of chance rather than something one can control.)
All Of The Girls - Your past and mine are parallel lines Stars all aligned, they intertwined