<aside> 💡 See also: Rings Promise/Vow/Oath/Swear

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Negative marriage connotations

Up to interpretation

Positive marriage connotations

Debut

• Mary’s Song
  • Take me back to the time when we walked down the aisle
  • You looked at me, got down on one knee
  • You said, “I do,” and I did, too

Fearless

• Fifteen - Back then, I swore I was gonna marry him someday
• Love Story - he knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring and said “Marry me, Juliet, you'll never have to be alone”
  • up to interpretation because the speaker of this line might not actually be Romeo because the whole song is addressed to “you” but before this line she switches to “he” so it could be a third character, like the character of Paris from Romeo and Juliet

Speak Now

• Speak Now - Who should be marrying the wrong girl

• Speak Now Taymojis

  

Red

• Starlight: Ooh, ooh, we could get married, have ten kids, and teach them how to dream

1989

• How You Get The Girl: And then you say, “I want you for worse or for better”

• Wildest Dreams MV - when Taylor’s character is on the red carpet of the movie premiere, she realises he’s got a wife

  

  

Reputation

• Don’t Blame Me - Taymoji*. A bouquet of daisies thrown like brides throw at a wedding*

  

• Look What You Made Me Do MV The media reported an “empty engagement ring box” in vault, thinking it was represented Calvin Harris’ failed proposal. But when I looked at the BTS there’s definitely a ring in that box. If this vault is meant to represent the value of her music, she could be suggesting that marriage proposals or her love life add value to this music. Being included here makes marriage seem like a commodity as opposed to something romantic.