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After weeks of rainbows and glitter and clues and bisexual colors,Taylor SwiftsLoverhas landed.
It is 18 tracks long, emphasis on long.
AndsureSwift toldVoguein no uncertain terms shes not a member of the LGBTQ community.
Andyes,London Boy is proooooobably about her British boyfriend of several years, Joe Alwyn.
This song is not queer.
Brandon Urie, I love you but I am sorry it is not.
Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince
Honestly, not a lot here.
Notably the heartbreak prince doesnt get a name or pronouns, so I guess thats something.
I guess that could be something, too.
More points if you tell yourself the you Swift has forgotten is Karlie Kloss.
Shes also got a lyric about borrowing a jacket from her lover.
When Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik did that,Voguecalled it gender fluidity.
Good work, Tay.
Hes got that boyish look that I like in a man.
Drop in a man.
(Only if youre assuming said man is heterosexual and cisgender.)
Add an i for the y in boy.
The Archer
Swift teased this track with anEaster eggin the you oughta Calm Down music video.
(The Archer is track five.)
Kiyoko is also known as Lesbian Jesus.
Lover
The gist of this song is that Swift and her lover are living together.
They can leave up the Christmas lights past the holidays.
Friends sleep on the living-room floor.
Theres also a line where she asks if shes known her love 20 seconds or 20 years.
Knowing each other for 20 seconds and immediately moving in together?
Folks, we got ourselves a couple ofU-Haulers.
London Boy
Is this songprobablyabout Swifts British boyfriend of several years, Joe Alwyn?
Was Joe Alwyn inThe Favourite, a movie about a Sapphic love triangle,last year?
You do the math.
Also theres a saxophone.
I play the saxophone.
Ipso facto, this song is gay, too.
Paper Rings
Diamond rings are great but also a relic of an extremely heteronormative and patriarchal society.
Grab some looseleaf and roll it up and propose to your crush middle-school style.
You dont need tradition!
This song is a bop!
6. you oughta Calm Down
Name a famous LGBTQ+ person.
Chances are good they made an appearancein this music video.
The list goes on and onand on.
Swift devotes an entire verse to shutting down homophobic picketers.
Cause shade never made anybody less gay.
In the lyric-only video glad is spelled GLAAD.
Daylight
Are you familiar with the concept of lesbian processing?
Its a queer stereotype that casts lesbians as overanalyzers who question everything.
If theres something to discuss to death, well discuss it to death.
Through the 20-year dark night until … daylight.
Sounds ripe for processing.
Afterglow
Vulture editor Dee Lockett forecasted this one would be aboutformer squad member Karlie Kloss.
She wassemi-kidding, but its a hypothesis I am deciding to cling to even after hearing the song.
Its a sexy number about a tumultuous relationship.
It contains no pronouns.
This ultraviolet morning light below tells me this love is worth the fight.
Theres a line about boxing.
Kloss and Swift boxed in the Bad Blood music video.
The Man
A bop in which Swift reimagines the world if she were a man.
Excellent mental images of Swift as a drag king abound.
Id be just like Leo, in San Tropez.
Which, problematic reference to a dude who doesnt date women older than 25 aside, invokes queer canon.
Leonardo DiCaprio, the man who as Jack inTitanic, launched a thousand lesbian awakenings.
Cruel Summer
I dont want to keep secrets, just to keep you.
Youve done too much emotional homework for this.
Is this oddly specific?
Still works.Annie Clark, a.k.a.
Its Nice to Have a Friend
Lost my gloves, you give me one, wanna hang out?
Yes, sounds like fun.
My Taylor,flung out of space.
