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💡 Chely Wright’s song “Like Me” - her first song with overt queer themes - has a lyric that references a tall: “And who's gonna end up holdin' your hand A beautiful woman or a tall, handsome man?” Taylor combines the description of handsome and tall in two of her songs. My full intertextual analysis of Chely’s song can be found here:
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Debut (October 24, 2006)
Fearless (November 11, 2008)
Speak Now (October 25, 2010)
- Superman:
- Tall, dark, and superman, he puts papers in his briefcase and drives away
- Tall, dark, and beautiful, he’s complicated, he’s irrational
Red (October 22, 2012)
- Everything Has Changed: And all my walls stood tall, painted blue
1989 (October 27, 2014)
- Wildest Dreams: He’s so tall and handsome as hell
- Vogue Photoshoot- “Tall Orders” caption on this photo


Reputation (November 10, 2017)
- Delicate - handsome you’re a mansion with a view (a mansion would only have a view if it was tall)
- Call It What You Want: My baby’s fly like a jet stream, high above the whole scene
Lover (August 23, 2019)
- Paper Rings: Honey, without all the exes, fights, and flaws, we wouldn’t be standing here so tall