Secret Place--> Golden--> Abandoned & Blue [TS: Perspectives Albums 10/11/12]

 

 I'm Testing out this theory that there is a song in each of the 'Multiple Taylor's Series' that talks about the same situation from each different perspective. We're remembering the physical portrayals from the Anti-Hero music video that gave us the map to Taylor's plan of introducing each persona. See my other posts about it:

https://kit10phish.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/meet-the-3-taylors-in-the-anti-hero-music-video/

https://kit10phish.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/how-do-the-three-taylor-personas-influence-her-work/

https://kit10phish.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/the-last-three-taylor-swift-albums-are-three-strands-of-a-braid/

Obviously not every song has a 1:1:1 match, because the tracklists are different lengths. But I thought it would be a fun exercise none-the-less, and might be enlightening. 

These 3 songs talk about someone who showed Taylor color amongst the black & white. That person that painted her golden. But then left her alone, wishing and wanting. Her life was changed, but now Taylor feels gaslit and crazy. She doesn't want to be back to that old reality.

Midnights' Giant Taylor is lost and sad. Why would this special person leave her?  Why did Taylor give up the ruby slippers and lips? Taylor wants to be back in Oz, not in dreary Kansas, but she's stuck on this island by herself.

TTPD's Poet Taylor is singing about the same situation. Instead of being marooned on an island, mourning those scarlet lips, she was picked up and brought to another world. Then, after seeing the greater picture, a magical view, learning there was more--Taylor was thrown back to a safe, sanitary life on Earth. It's not romantic. Taylor wants her twin back, and if she cant have her, she says she might as well die. This reading is very dramatic, yet self-aware with Taylor calling out her own teenage petulance. This Taylor is still high above the trees able to see the whole situation--but she's also under one redwood, lamenting her loss and crying that her twin is no longer in their safe cabin in the woods of California.

TLOAS' Showgirl Taylor has the rescue in her memory. This song is a more upbeat and hopeful tone. She was taken from her tower, her sanity restored, saved from drowning, taken out of purgatory and fire, saved from the grave-by "You." Taylor is loyal only to herself, and will keep the ruse up 100% of the time, wherever she goes to avoid that melancholy.