<aside> 💡 See also: Sky

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<aside> 💡 Analysis - Taylor seems to link her flying theme with the thrilling but precarious nature of fame - of being at the “top” looking down on the world but knowing that the world can easily look up at you. This feels particularly symbolised in the lyrics for ‘Nothing New’.

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<aside> 🌈 Queer history/other queer artists: Brandi Carlile released a song in 2021 called “You and Me On The Rock” and she likens herself to a paper plane, similar to Taylor’s use of this image in ‘Out of the Woods’. Both songs speak of fragility & trying to find safety - Taylor hasn’t found it yet in OOTW but Brandi has found it in “You and Me On The Rock”. Now that Brandi has found her wife & made a family, people are no longer speculating about her & her choices. Another parallel we see between this song & Taylor’s discography is in Labyrinth “I thought the plane was going down, how’d you turn it right around?”

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Debut (October 24, 2006)

• A Place In This World - Maybe I'm just a girl on a mission But I'm ready to fly
• I’m Only Me When I’m With You - I'm only up when you're not down Don't wanna fly if you're still on the ground

Fearless (November 11, 2008)

• Fifteen - And then you're on your very first date and he's got a car And you're feelin' like flyin'

Speak Now (October 25, 2010)

• Mine - I was a flight risk with a fear of falling
• Superman - I watch superman fly away

Red (October 22, 2012)

• I Knew You Were Trouble - flew me to places I’d never been till you put me down oh/now I’m lying on the cold hard ground
• Come Back Be Here - spinning faster than the plane that took you
• State of Grace - now all we know is touch-and-go
  • Touch-and-go has two definitions:
    • a manoeuvre in which an aircraft touches the ground as in landing and immediately takes off again.
    • possible but very uncertain
• November 2013: Kaylor starts on the VSFS “runway” aka the term also used to describe the strip of ground an aircraft used to take off and land

1989 (October 27, 2014)

• Out of the Woods - Two paper airplanes flying, flying, flying
• Style - when we come crashing down we come back every time