Lover!! I’ve been a fan since debut but never a Swiftie™️—Lover changed all of that for me when I listened and said “hold up….that’s a gay” and then Miss Americana confirmed for me
I remember being more interested in her, her quirks, and followed her on MySpace around then. I was already a fan of her music but never thought about anything else, not that the snl skit had me convinced or anything.
Didn't realize Gaylor existed until I was on TikTok during Evermore but I remember stopping in my tracks to "boys and boys and girls and girls" in 1989.
Folklore made me go “hmm” but a little before midnights (maybe during the pre-release stuff?) I really got into it. I wasn’t even a real fan until Lover tho
I was lurking gaylor from red to rep then fully realized in lover but made my account during midnight. It was a slow process just like my own sexuality 🙃
betty for me. I was like wait, she’s singing about wanting to kiss betty on the porch in front of all her stupid friends? But I didn’t find out Gaylor was a thing till later
Lover. As a lesbian i thought the yntcd mv was completely crossing the line as an ally. As someone who has been a fan since tim McGraw I completely stepped away until i found gaylor, then EVERYTHING made sense to me
I wasn’t dialed in in the early days, but heard some radio hits. Got suspicious during Lover promo (tumblr), but wrote it off. Then I heard folklore for the first time and my spidey senses exploded. When I heard evermore… there was no going back.
🌈Lover!!💖🦋 I’d just come out & done basic research into 🏳️🌈culture/flagging a couple months before promo started, and it was preettyyy hard to miss tbh😅🤷🏻♀️ just some of the random ass commercials were rivaling the She-Ra (reboot) for gayest shit id see that day lmfaaaoo i was truly ✨thriving✨
And actual gaylor? It wasn't even an album. It was her entering my football lol but knowing she was at least bisexual? I've always thought it was known. Stumbling upon the gaylor subreddit and then Twitter, i was truly shocked that it was contested. I genuinely thought it was an open secret.
so valid! Kacey Musgraves’ Follow Your Arrow the previous year was actually what made it feel clear to me—if they were gonna crucify Kacey for “boys or girls” surely they’d see Taylor clearly too. I lived without internet or cell service at the time & I was SO shocked when I found out she wasn’t out
I watched the YNTCD music video at the time because Hayley Kiyoko was in it, saw the bi hair, laughed and said "okay Taylor, I see you" to myself, and that was it. The surprise I got when I actually became a fan and discovered how controversial of an opinion this is among Swifties...
It was wonderland for me 🤭 and it wasn’t until the pandemic I realized it wasnt the general consensus that it was about Dianna and some people actually thought it was about Harry
I think i thought rep was sus and I think me! Or yntcd settled it.. but I don't really know...
Pre rep my knowledge of the English language was not enough to judge it and during rep I did still have to actively concentrate on figuring out lyrics meanings a lot...
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then rep came out and i was like ahhh no i was right
Midnights was when I dived into the fandom and lore.
Pre rep my knowledge of the English language was not enough to judge it and during rep I did still have to actively concentrate on figuring out lyrics meanings a lot...
Have always enjoyed her music tho