<aside> 💡 She had to create her own home, like most queer people do. She built it with Karlie. It’s another version of “being in the closet”

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See also: Room Inside vs Outside - walls, cage, out Windows/Curtains

Debut

• Mary’s Song - Take me back to the house in the backyard tree

Fearless

• You Belong With Me - Oh, I remember you driving to my house In the middle of the night
• The Best Day:
  • Don’t know if Snow White’s house is near or far away
  • I grew up in a pretty house and I had space to run

Speak Now

• Sparks Fly - The way you move is like a full on rainstorm and I'm a house of cards

Red

• All Too Well: And I left my scarf there at your sister’s house and you’ve still got it in your drawer even now
• I Bet You Think About Me: I bet you think about me in your house with your organic shoes and your million dollar couch

1989

• New Romantics - cause baby I could build a castle, out of all the bricks they threw at me
• New Romantics (original lyrics) - So take my hand we'll both stand inside a burning building
• Clean - There was nothing left to do when the butterflies turned to dust that covered my whole room So I punched a hole in the roof let the flood carry away all my pictures of you
• Taylor explaining concept behind “Clean” at the Grammy Museum Listening Session: “I had this metaphor in my head about being in this house and there’s been a drought but you feel like there’s a storm coming so instead of trying to block out the storm you punch a hole in the roof and just let all the rain come in and when you wake up in the morning it’s washed away everything that used to hurt you and then you’re clean.” https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxexxyxMZ_L7ghJtd8CMsXwL663eZerLkT
• Elle Magazine Interview May 7 2015 - Not necessarily. As far as the need to rebel against the idea of you, or the image of you: Like, I feel no need to burn down the house I built by hand. I can make additions to it. I can redecorate. But I built this. And so I'm not going to sit there and say, "Oh, I wish I hadn't had corkscrew-curly hair and worn cowboy boots and sundresses to awards shows when I was 17; I wish I hadn't gone through that fairy-tale phase where I just wanted to wear princess dresses to awards shows every single time." Because I made those choices. I did that. It was part of me growing up. It wasn't some committee going, "You know what Taylor needs to be this year?" And so with 1989, I feel like we gave the entire metaphorical house I built a complete renovation and it made me love the house even more—but still keeping the foundation of what I've always been.

Reputation

• Delicate - Handsome, you’re a mansion with a view