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<aside> 👸 Relevance to Taylor’s Life: Taylor explained her relationship with her previous albums/eras/selves in an interview with Entertainment Weekly when Folklore was released: “I have this weird thing where, in order to create the next thing, I attack the previous thing. I don't love that I do that, but it is the thing that has kept me pivoting to another world every time I make an album. But with this one, I still love it.”

https://ew.com/music/taylor-swift-entertainers-of-the-year-2020/

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<aside> 🌈 Queer History:

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<aside> ➕ See also: Religion/Religious Imagery/God/Sin/Hell/Worship/Sacred Butterfly/Butterflies Die/Death/Funeral/Fatal/Kill/Dead/Grave Sea/Ocean/Water/Dive/Jump In/Drown

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Debut (October 24, 2006)

Fearless (November 11, 2008)

Speak Now (October 25, 2010)

Red (October 22, 2012)

1989 (October 27, 2014)

• Prologue: But lately I've been wondering... what can be said of all the moments in between our birth and our death? The moments when we are reborn...
• This Love: this love is alive back from the dead

Reputation (November 10, 2017)

• LWYMMD -

  • Honey I rose up from the dead I do it all the time
  • Look What You Made Me Do - The old Taylor can’t come to the phone right now. Why? Oh ‘cause she’s dead (rebirth/ ’new’ Taylor is speaking)

• Why She Disappeared (poem) - And in the death of her reputation, she felt truly alive

• LWYMMD MV

  • She crawls out of the grave, buries her Met Gala 2014 self & is reborn into a bathtub full of jewellery

    

    

  • her arms are outstretched like a crucifix, the cross made out of the “T” of her name, potentially representing her brand and how she’s had to sacrifice/kill all her past selves. Could also represent how she’s willing to sacrifice her reputation to live her truth i.e. “I would fall from grace just to touch your face”