🪻🐎 lavender like me: a tale of queerness, bearding & celebrity culture in relation to taylor swift the importance of unpacking closeting & bearding in the music industry 🧵 this thread will explore & analyse of the connections between taylor swift’s “lavender haze” & “cowboy like me” (long thread) - ThreadSky

lostinconey.swifties.social • 21 days ago

🪻🐎 lavender like me: a tale of queerness, bearding & celebrity culture in relation to taylor swift

the importance of unpacking closeting & bearding in the music industry

🧵 this thread will explore & analyse of the connections between taylor swift’s “lavender haze” & “cowboy like me”

(long thread)

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bereftandreeling85.bsky.social•21 days ago

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kdiwaaa.bsky.social•20 days ago

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laurenslore.lesbian.cat•21 days ago

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lostinconey.swifties.social•21 days ago

closeting is a common practice implemented amongst the queer community to prevent and protect an individual’s personal identity and sexual orientation from the public eye. this practice is heavily utilised within the entertainment industry to prevent queer artists from “marginalising themselves”…

lostinconey.swifties.social•21 days ago

bearding is a form of closeting predominantly used by queer folk in hollywood whereby one or two queer people participate in a showmance or performative relationship/marriage to hide their identity from the public, preserving heteronormativity & often harming the mental state of the people involved.

lostinconey.swifties.social•21 days ago

taylor’s songs “lavender haze” & “cowboy like me” both encapsulate these themes, communicating the typical sense of queer grief for those who are closeted & those who don’t have the privilege or ability to come out into their true identity, often succumbing to societies heteronormative pressures…

lostinconey.swifties.social•21 days ago

i believe “lavender haze” to be one of taylor’s most important projects to date, and it’s something i have covered quite extensively here…so while i think both projects are heavily related i will mainly try and focus on “cowboy like me” in this thread

lostinconey.swifties.social•21 days ago

with “cowboy like me” taylor explores her experience as a gay celebrity who has forced herself into hiding for decades, fooling those around her and growing increasingly detached from her own identity until meeting someone like her, a gay star performing heterosexually to meet the industry’s demands

lostinconey.swifties.social•21 days ago

analysing the lyrics to “cowboy like me” unveils the evolution of the narrator (taylor’s) life experiences

the line:
“and the tennis court was covered up with some tent-like thing”

establishes that our narrator is entering an unwanted marriage “tent-like thing” highlights how unfazed she is by it

mossgreensun.bsky.social•21 days ago

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mossgreensun.bsky.social•21 days ago

ohh this is so interesting!! thank u for this thread:)

mirrortoad.bsky.social•21 days ago

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such an amazing thread, thank you so much for sharing <3

lostinconey.swifties.social•21 days ago

thank you for saying that! i kept meaning to post it but it’s so long that i didn’t think anyone would read 😅

mirrortoad.bsky.social•21 days ago

haha I get that!!
honestly I love threads that take the time to develop an idea/ideas so it's 100% my cup of tea

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