<aside> 💡 Analysis - It would be remiss of me not to highlight The Birth of Venus painting when looking at this theme, as Taylor is known to reference famous pieces of art.

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<aside> 🌈 Queer History: Renee Vivien, a poet who is considered the first lesbian to translate Sappho’s poetry, wrote a poem called La Conque imagining herself as a conch shell on the ocean floor: https://www.cordula.ws/poems/conque.html

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/47243206.pdf

“Pearl Diver” was a black lesbian magazine in the 1970s -

https://www.instagram.com/p/CKw3SiFAsgL/

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<aside> 👸 Relevance to Taylor’s Life:

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<aside> ➕ See also: Pearl

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Debut (October 24, 2006)

Fearless (November 11, 2008)

Speak Now (October 25, 2010)

• Speak Now Tour - Clam shell footlights (seen on compilation of Taylor’s shell theme by Kc on Twitter: https://twitter.com/moonspinner_/status/1673470797871202305?s=46)

• Safe & Sound lyrics - written on a shell & posted to Taylor’s instagram

• Taylor tweets about seashells falling out of her purse, Dianna responds

Red (October 22, 2012)

• Glamour Magazine March 2014 - Seashell shoes

  

1989 (October 27, 2014)

Reputation (November 10, 2017)