<aside> 💡 See also: Sleeping/Asleep Lullaby

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<aside> 🌈 Queer relevance: Queer people have used the terms “sexual awakening” or “gay awakening” to represent the moment they realised that they were LGBTQ+. Taylor may be using this theme to mean that sleep = heterosexuality and waking up = coming into her queerness/realising it

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<aside> 💡 Analysis: She starts three music videos and one Grammys performance with her “waking up”: YNTCD, Lavender Haze, Fortnight & Folkmore Grammys performance

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Debut (October 24, 2006)

Fearless (November 11, 2008)

Speak Now (October 25, 2010)

• Last Kiss - So I'll watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep
• Back To December: These days I haven’t been sleeping

Red (October 22, 2012)

• Treacherous - Two headlights shine through the sleepless night And I will get you, get you alone

1989 (October 27, 2014)

• You Are In love - One night, he wakes Strange look on his face pauses then says “you’re my best friend” and you knew what it was he is in love

Reputation (November 10, 2017)

• Don’t Blame Me (draft lyrics from ‘Making Of’ clip): I can definitely hear - “….sleep at night got somethin’ that you like”, it could be: “can’t sleep at night that’s somethin’ that you like”

Lover (August 23, 2019)

• The Archer - I wake in the night I pace like a ghost the room is on fire invisible smoke And all of my heroes die all alone Help me hold onto you

• Paper Rings - Now I wake up in the night and watch you breathe

• You Need To Calm Down MV - she wakes up at the beginning of the video