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<aside> 👂 Social Media Analysis Relating To This Theme:

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<aside> 🌈 Queer History: One of the first queer works in history was Carmilla (1872), featuring what is thought to be the first lesbian vampire. Read more about it here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian_vampire

https://www.studysmarter.co.uk/explanations/english-literature/literary-devices/queer-literature/

Before Carmilla, Coleridge wrote a poem called “Christabel” (1797) which would later be seen as a prototypical lesbian vampire:

https://www.thegothiclibrary.com/early-vampire-poems/

• The lesbian vampire trope plays into lesbophobia given the predatory nature of vampires & how people have viewed lesbians

Excerpt from The Ladder - https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/d/1003347885

https://search.worldcat.org/title/32012389

https://rivendellergroup.com/authors/eleanor-arnason/vampires-and-aliens/

https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-14-023100-7

• Someone’s PHD on lesbian vampires:
• History of Lesbian Vampires on a Sapphic Underground Youtube video:
• History of Lesbian Vampires in Film from PBS on Youtube:
• Blog that’s helpful

Artists who have made gay vampire references:

• Lil Nas X - Rodeo MV
• Chappel Roan - Red Wine Supernova lyrics
• Big Thief - Vampire Empire lyrics & Shark Smile
• Tegan & Sara - I Can’t Grow Up (2022)
• Daffodil - Florence and The Machine (2022)

A Wikipedia page on vampirism x homosexual themes in horror genre:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_themes_in_horror_fiction ****

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<aside> 👸 Relevance to Taylor’s Life:

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<aside> ➕ See also: Die/Death/Funeral/Fatal/Kill/Dead/Grave Rebirth/Born again/Birth/Born/Baptism/Resurrection/Back To life/Resuscitate/New Me/Old Me/Reinvention Blood/Bleeding/Veins

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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)

Reputation (November 10, 2017)

• Look What You Made Me - honey I rose up from the dead I do it all the time

• Look What You Made Me Do MV -

  • Snakes being a symbol of this era - snakes having fangs & biting their prey
  • Taylor is depicted in her MET gala outfit, seeming to sleep soundly in her grave. The shot switches to her lying in the same way in the bathtub full of diamonds. This imagery lends itself to vampires who sleep in their coffins & also alludes to Taylor’s immortality despite “the old Taylor being dead”.

  

  

  • She later bites into jewellery with her teeth, another potential allusion to vampires.

  

  • Interesting to note that Calvin Harris posted a photo on Snapchat just before Taylor launched this song, with a suggestion that he was going to drink blood, something vampires are renowned to do. What’s also interesting is that this article uses the phrase “bites back at all her rivals”

https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/news/a47628/calvin-harris-blood-snapchat-taylor-swift-song-drop/

Lover (August 23, 2019)

• Vogue article description of Reputation - “vampire color palete”