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

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<aside> 👸 Relevance to Taylor’s Life:

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<aside> 🌈 Queer History: The earliest known lesbian song is ‣ The awareness of the danger of speculation and rumours around sexuality is present in this song, emphasising that this theme has been present in Sapphic music since the very beginning. To read my intertextual analysis of this song, please click here

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<aside> ➕ See also: Secret/Secrecy

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Debut

Fearless

Speak Now

• Ours - And it's not theirs to speculate if it's wrong and Your hands are tough, but they are where mine belong and

Red

• I Knew You Were Trouble: Now I heard you moved on from whispers on the street

1989

• Blank Space: Ain’t it funny, rumors fly, and I know you heard about me
• I Know Places: I can hear them whisper as we pass by, it’s a bad sign
• Wonderland: But there were strangers watching and whispers turned to talking
• New Romantics - The rumors are terrible and cruel But honey, most of them are true

Reputation

• End Game: Reputation precedes me, in rumors I’m knee-deep
• Getaway Car - He poisoned the well (meaning: cause harm to the reputation or credibility of someone or something, especially by spreading false or negative information.)

Lover

• London Boy: So I guess all the rumors are true, you know I love a London Boy