If I took Taylor at face value, I'd think she doesn't believe in her relationship with Travis

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Though she obviously has a smart team, I don't think Taylor is a genius mastermind who hides things in her songs of her own accord.

I think "So High School" for someone who is mentally 17 like Taylor, is a huge compliment. However, to the rest of the world, to call something "so high school" is to insult it. I'm sure to Taylor "get my car door, isn't that sweet" is a genuine line, but she says it in such a condescending way because I think it's in her nature to belittle others and she's unaware of how she sounds because she thinks she's a Queen. I think the juxtaposition of "you know how to ball I know Aristotle" isn't meant to paint Travis as an idiot, but it does. Comparing a relationship to a High School romance at 35 isn't a flex to most of us.

I also noticed there isn't one use of the word "love" in any of the Travis songs on TTPD or TLOAS in reference to how she feels or views their relationship. She uses the word "love" in her songs "This love", and "Down Bad" (For a moment I knew cosmic love) and "London Boy" (You know I love a London boy), but not in "So High School" or "The Fate of Ophelia" or "Honey" or "Wi$h Li$t", et al.

Taylor has had a very weird, public obsession with Elizabeth Taylor recently (she tends to be obsessive with celebs until she forgets about them in a few years and moves on to someone else. She used to have an Ethel Kennedy obsession), and Elizabeth is famous for her many marriages. Yet she has a song on her album called Elizabeth Taylor where she expresses anxiety that Travis will leave her.

Recently, she put the line "So it's going to be forever..." on her wedding napkins, but forgot to remove the ellipses. The rest of the line is "or it's gonna go down in flames". I think Taylor might think "dot dot dot" (as she called it on New Heights) means to continue forever, but to many of us it's an odd choice to put on a wedding napkin because it suggests the marriage won't last.

I think she's a blundering idiot who didn't do any of this intentionally, but she's inadvertently admitted some truths in a Freudian way.

EDIT:

She uses "love" in the song Wood, but it's not "her love" or "their love" or referring to their relationship as "love", it's "HIS love". But obviously, the "love" in wood isn't referring to a romantic feeling in the context of "his love was the key that opened my thighs."

In Opalite, she says "my love", but I don't think a pet name is the same as saying you love someone. I've had strangers call me "darling", "sweetheart", and "lovely", but that doesn't mean they are in love with me.

I honestly don't care if TS13 has a song called Love of my Life or The Greatest Love I've Ever Known. It's too late. They've been together for 2 years and not a single song in that time has spoken to a deep emotional bond. Any further attempt to write about Travis will come across as insincere.

Posted Jul 25, 2026, 7:42 PM UTC

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