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<aside> 👸 Relevance to Taylor’s Life: VSFS 2012 - Karlie dressed as a magician’s assistant in a knife throwing trick, with a rotating spiral on her back

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<aside> 🌈 Queer History:

Ma Rainey’s 1928 song “Prove It On Me Blues” is the first lesbian song we know of to be recorded. It has the lyric: “Folks say I’m crooked” to allude to speculation around her sexuality not being straight. To see more intertextual analysis of this song, please click here.

Emily Dickinson’s poem - telling truth “slant” means “present or view (information) from a particular angle, especially in a biased or unfair way.” synonymous with “twist”

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<aside> ➕ See also: Bend/Bent Straight

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Debut

Fearless

Speak Now

Red

• The Story Of Us -I don't know what to say since the twist of fate When it all broke down

1989

• I Wish You Would - We’re a crooked love in a straight line down
• Wonderland - I felt your arms twistin’ around me
• Wonderland (original lyrics)- Colors I'd never seen twisting around me

Reputation

• This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things - And therein lies the issue, friends don't try to trick you Get you on the phone and mind-twist you

• You Are In Love Taymojis - the two road images here aren’t straight, particularly the “take the scenic route” being a bendy line

  

Lover

• “All The Girls” - your past and mine, are parallel lines, stars all aligned they intertwined