Kit10Phish Explains It All: Midnights Tracks in Chronological Order

Midnight Rain

Promo relationships start with co-star of Valentine's Day movie [2010]

Taylor Swift and Lautner have 8 documented mentions/interactions [9/13/2009 to 12/12/2009]

https://people.com/music/taylor-swift-and-taylor-lautner-relationship-timeline/

Would've Could've Should've

Image is everything. Taylor's team keeps bad press at bay.

The highest highs are paired with lows-

Coming out is terrifying. Men are dangerous. Bearding is toxic.

Closeting is necessary.

A little too friendly/close:

Our Song music video [6/16/2009]

Bad Boy:

Taylor's team steps in to keep her image clean.

[1/3/2012]

https://www.tumblr.com/backup-baby-backup/717481694901534720/taylor-swift-and-martin-johnson

Set-up or PR relationships traumatize Taylor as well:

Half of My Heart (feat Taylor Swift) was John Mayer's 3rd single for album, Battle Studies.

[2010]

https://www.businessinsider.com/john-mayer-problematic-controversies-timeline-racism-sexism

"Boy-Crazy"

High Infidelity

Rift between expectations and what Taylor wants.

America's Sweetheart Documentary [2015]

Snow on the Beach

Meeting someone who blew Taylor's mind, especially since the relationship was weird, but exceptional. Taylor's eyes were opened to queer love.

Taylor meets Dianna Agron [9/5/2011]

Taylor describes the feeling of falling in love with a woman as world-changing, yet strange in Snow on the Beach. She references Dianna's winter trip to Iceland (where there was strangely snow on a beach) to make her point.

1/5/2017: Dianna spends NYE in Iceland:

Paris

Taylor and her lover have places they can hide. She enjoys secret rendezvous with her female lover, and daydreams of having more.

Many dates with Dianna Agron on the Down-Low-

Lavender Haze

Like the change in musical genre, Taylor's PR and dating undertake the same type of change. Taylor is decidedly her own person.

Between Red [2012] and 1989 [2014]

between Dianna Agron and Karlie Kloss,

Taylor went from hiding to plausible deniability.

Taylor walks the thin line between pandering to what the media and her fans want.

Her glass closeting is ambiguous. She won't come out, but isn't as repressed either.

Mastermind

Taylor learns to harness PR and the media in her favor. She plays the game and strategizes to keep her good image.

There is a switch from boyfriends to friends in the 1989 Era.

VSFS [2013]

VSFS [2014]

Eras stage for Mastermind looks incredibly similar to the 2014 VSFS

She also orchestrates friends and beards. And love?

8/3/2015 Karlie's B-day

1/30/2018:

You're on Your Own, Kid

Breaking into the industry to moving to NY

This song talks about the pre-1989 and post-1989 versions of Taylor and her career. Despite the song talking about the very beginnings of Taylor's career, it actually takes place after her move to New York. She's a little more jaded in this song, looking back to herself as a more naïve' girl in the industry.

Speak Now [2010] is getting released

1989 Era [2014] Taylor is a pop star

and the scope of her life has changed

Question

Kissgate ruins everything.

12/5/2014

Maroon

Taylor's queer lover abandons her and so do a lot of fans.

7/18/2016

8/14/2016

8/22/2017

7/18/2018

July 2018

Karma

Snakegate and the industry put the kibosh on Taylor's coming out album, Karma. They'll get theirs in the end!

Look What You Made Me Do music video [8/27/2017]

Sweet Nothing

Taylor goes into hiding.

Her friend group and trusted circle is pared down.

Her mom, per the usual, stands by her side no matter what.

She has a beard but is "private" so not nearly as performative and fake.

Her solution to scrutiny is to go dark.

8/18/2017 Taylor's social media goes dark

Labyrinth

Taylor has to learn to pivot and adjust to pressures from all sides. Karma is scrapped, but Reputation gives Taylor's career a third life.

8/22/2017

The Great War

Kaylor break-up and Master's Heist ruins the planned coming out.

https://kit10phish.wordpress.com/2022/10/29/midnights-and-the-lover-era-coming-out-foiled/

6/30/2019

Three big, horrible events coincide and Taylor goes from rainbow to black. A deep depression is pervasive.

Bigger than the Whole Sky

The losses are too much. For the next 4 albums/4.5 eras, Taylor mourns and grieves.

Vigilante Shit

Anger stage of grief. Taylor wants to lash out at everyone from the great war.

Anti-Hero

The general public calls Taylor out for abandoning her Lover-era promises of being more political. The gays reject her big coming out as "queer baiting". Taylor is divisive and begins to teach everyone about how she's had to fracture to get to where she is.

https://kit10phish-explains-it-all-45637244.hubspotpagebuilder.com/raw-my-uncensored-thoughts-and-opinions/3-taylors-3-pens-and-one-album-per-persona

Bejeweled

The beard unceremoniously leaves [3/2023].

Taylor is recharged and ready to get out there again. Plans are in place, schemes are set in motion. Things are happening and there's a marked change in Taylor's demeanor and image.

Dear Reader

Gaylors get their hopes up, and Taylor teeters, trying to manage expectations. But there's secret plans also--will they come to fruition this time?

At the very least someone on Taylor's team monitors the Gaylor subreddit-