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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2024-05-04 01:52 pm

[ SECRET POST #6329 ]


⌈ Secret Post #6329 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 37 secrets from Secret Submission Post #905.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

(Anonymous) 2024-05-05 07:29 am (UTC)(link)
A huge selling point of her early albums was that EVERY song was about her life - be it a breakup, victory or the story of one of her friends. When she got “date Jake Gyllenhaal” famous, she started being a lot more vague about who her songs were about - because they were about celebrities and the relationship was in the public eye instead of being one-sided because she was no longer the only one recounting the relationship publically. The tabloids had already told a version of the story - true or not - and a new element of her music became trying to guess which song was about which celebrity heart throb (see: the discourse over I Knew You Were Trouble is about John Mayer, Jake or Harry Styles).

Hell, my theory is that she planted the feud between her & Katy Perry so no one would think Bad Blood was about Harry so she would escape criticism from Harry’s rabid fanbase. But I also think that song isnt about anyone and it's more to have a song an angry break-up song on the album because her most popular songs seem to be angry break up songs.

When she settled into her long-term relationship with Joe Alwyn, she started saying that she was starting to write songs from a fictional perspective, but then her fans started making up theories about the songs actually being about Justin Bieber from Selena Gomez’s perspective or the whole Gaylor “every song is really about Karlie Kloss” took over. I mean, that whole thing is a nuclear mutation of the whole “every song I release is written from my own diary” selling point.

(Anonymous) 2024-05-05 01:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Not to say that people don’t go over the top with the speculation, but it’s not as if the albums aren’t still marketed that way. The marketing for TPD leaned heavily into the “secrets will be revealed” aspect.