<aside> 💡 Analysis - Being “loud” could be Taylor’s way of speaking about her queerness. She also seems to suggest this when referring to screaming as well. See also: Silence/Silent/Quiet

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<aside> 👂 Social Media Analysis Relating To This Theme:

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<aside> 🌈 Queer History: Joan Jett on her frustration with people ignoring her queer flagging, using the word “loud” to express how obvious she feels that she makes her queerness through queer coding, symbols and her music:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/movies/joan-jett-bad-reputation-documentary.html

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<aside> 👸 Relevance to Taylor’s Life:

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<aside> ➕ See also: Road/Path

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Debut

Fearless

• The Other Side Of The Door:
  • To stand outside my window, throwing pebbles, screaming, “I’m in love with you”
  • And I’ll scream out the window, “I can’t even look at you”
• Superstar - You smile that beautiful smile and all the girls in the front row Scream your name
• The Way I Loved You - But I miss screaming and fighting and kissing in the rain And it's 2AM and I'm cursing your name
• Come In With The Rain: I’ve watched you so long, screamed your name

Speak Now

• Long Live All the kingdom lights shined just for me and you I was screaming, long live all the magic we made And bring on all the pretenders And the cynics were outraged, screaming, “This is absurd”

Red

• We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together: And me, falling for it screaming that I’m right
• Ronan: I remember the drive home when the blind hope turned to crying and screaming, “Why?”

1989

• Prologue - “I wrote about moving to the loudest and brightest city in the world” & “I think you have to know who you are and what you want in order to take on New York and all its blaring truth”
• Welcome to New York- Kaleidoscope of loud heartbeats under coats
• Blank Space - Screaming, crying, perfect storms I can make all the tables turn