Taylor Nation/Lover Cardigan

Sorry friends, I am stuck on something.

On January 15th, Taylor Nation posted this seemingly random and cryptic video of Taylor swaying, holding I believe a rose or carnation, to the lyrics from I Hate it Here- “I hate it here so I will go to secret gardens in my mind.”

IHIH is the 23rd song on TTPD, and then on January 23rd the Lover Cardigan is released, with a video of the cardigan in a garden filled with pink carnations.

I’m not going to go into the lyrics of I Hate it Here, but it’s so TELLING and I think it’s worth noting that pink carnations are usually seen at FUNERALS and per Maroon “Carnations you thought were roses, that was us…”The lover cardigan promo also is using the song Lover which Taylor HERSELF said is NOT A LOVE SONG.

So we have I Hate It Here, Lover, and lyrics and themes of garden, death, and of course a cardigan.

(Though there was no cryptic promo for this, separately the reprint of Lover Live from Paris was released in the 7th. The 7th track on TTPD is FRESH OUT THE SLAMMER)

So she hates here and will go to secret gardens in her mind, a secret lover garden of death that one would mistake for something else, where there is a cardigan (or where she is put on like a favorite cardigan.) She is also recently fresh out the slammer.

And the last thing I can’t stop thinking about is probably the most famous garden, which is off of Lover - “and I snuck in through the garden gate every night that summer just to seal my fate…” And speaking of gardens, Cardigan and Folklore, “Would you tell me to go fuck myself or lead me to the garden?… In the garden would you trust me if I told you it was just a summer thing?” And then FOTS we have “Another summer taking cover, rolling thunder, he don’t understand me…”

So we throw summer into our keywords and themes mix, we have a Taylor who hates it here, and wants to return to a summer time, she has been forgotten under someone’s bed, and she recently is fresh out the slammer where she is looking forward to running to someone else.

Now I’m not sure if this is further evidence for Sparkling Summer 2.0 (or if this means we are launching towards a Cruel Summer of heartache) but I am ready to gear up to meet our twin/mirror documentary/movie The Heartbreak Prince amongst all of this Lover and Reputation buzz this summer!!

Okay thanks bye!!