Sex: Read Between the Lines

 

 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. 

Paris contrasts public life and private life. In public, Taylor's life is all gossip, headlines, and scandals. She wishes for a secret rendezvous where she can love honestly and people either leave them alone or are accepting.

In Guilty as Sin, Taylor contrasts what actions she actually takes, what the public assumes she is doing, and what she wishes she could do. In the song, Taylor describes a masturbatory scene--what she actually, physically does. Taylor alludes to public assumptions of what she does when she speaks of crashing into this paradox whose skin she never actually touches. She lets the public's imagination run wild relating to him-noting WHAT IF he's written, mine, in an intimate spot? But these things haven't actually happened, because he's a paradox.

HE is deception, just a complication in Taylor's real private life. She screams his name to the media and public so they lean into the delusions they already had about her. She gives them what they want to distract them from her "bad [sapphic] thoughts." Even though the deception is the opposite of what's actually going on with her personally.

Privately, she's drowning. Bored and trapped in a cage of propriety. She keeps her true actions hidden, so her "bad [queer] thoughts" don't ruin her reputation and career. If those wolves never see her touching the skin of a woman, Taylor won't be seen as bad. She can't be judged for what outsiders don't know or observe. But she dreams of cracking open those locks and taking a leap of faith. Alas, Taylor has always had a fear of falling, and remains guarded leaving the daydreams of freedom for her inner fantasies.

Wood has Taylor screaming HIS name so loudly, that people miss what's between the lines. She overtly leans into the charade, making dick jokes and cheeky, direct references to marriage and sex.

https://kit10phish.wordpress.com/2025/12/21/analysis-of-wood/

Midnights' Giant Taylor 

TTPD's Poet Taylor 

TLOAS' Showgirl Taylor