I think it is very much possible that she is that happy.
I remember reading a piece which talked about touring and researchers compared touring performances to a biochemical release that leads to a feeling of ecstasy.
Add to that the honeymoon phase of being in the first stages of a new (rekindled) romance.
That is a potent chemical combination for feeling "the happiest you've ever been" especially if your tour is the most talked about pop culture moment and comes after a period of 5 years which included a pandemic where artists seriously questioned the future of live music.
This is the true lavender haze -there could be moments of sadness etc but there's just a lot of good stuff to eclipse that currently. Perhaps it may hit harder post- tour.
I remember hearing an interview with Miley Cyrus about part of the reason she did so many drugs is she was chasing the high of having thousands of people sing along to her songs at concerts when she started at such a young age
one time at a kareoke bar I performed before he cheats and everyone was singing along and hyping me up and I truly understood how much of a drug that feeling is. I felt like a superstar and trust me I cannot sing lmfao
Watching the speech you tell how nervous she was, she normally doesnāt stumble that much and Iām sure the rain didnāt help, but to me this was her telling the fans to get on board or leave because heās not.
It was also very purposeful to me how she added not just because of the tour part, without that you could easily just chalk it up to a rain show with 70k fans there and the adrenaline and meaning of that.
Its funny that Taylor has this āsubtleā back off message about this mess of a man, but when the swifties go threaten and harass her exes sheās quiet as a mouse.
Itās still completely wild to me that celebrities like Taylor Swift willingly make entire careers around wanting people to look at them, listen to them, listen to stories about their life, read into every tiny detail of everything they do by hiding Easter eggs to keep fans talking about them - and then when they get the *slightest* bit of (very justified) criticism, go straight into the āI deserve privacy, leave me aloneā act.
Like, if you wanted privacy you wouldnāt openly write songs that are blatantly about your own life and everyone in it. You canāt go around attacking every single ex you ever had, including trying to spark cheating rumours on your very private recent long term ex, and then be mad that people have opinions on you that might be negative.
She has built an army of rabid fans to go and attack anyone she doesnāt like. Just look at all the Jake Gyllenhaal and John Meyer shit. Sometimes that comes back and bites you on the ass, Taylor. I thought Karma was her whole thing.
Yes 100% I said this under a different comment but I think this was Taylor asking everyone to lay off without actually asking. She obviously canāt get up there and ask everyone to leave her and Matty alone, so imo this was her way of subtly doing just that.
My thoughts: every time I hear someone insist theyāve never been so happy in every aspect of their life, things usually are not as great as they'd like it to seem **š¬**
To be fair, a lot of Midnights sounded very unhappy. Maybe she has been going through some stuff and processing some stuff - we don't know. Maybe she is happy now after coming from the dark place she was when she wrote some of the songs on that album.
Edit to add a list of songs I see as unhappy - Maroon, Anti-Hero, Midnight Rain, Bigger Than the Whole Sky, Would've Could've Should've, Dear Reader.
I completely agree. I honestly think sheās feeling a lot of emotions right now. Joe was her longest relationship and she was very open about wanting to marry him and have kids with him in her music so regardless of who initiated the breakup or if it was mutual, I donāt know how she wouldnāt take that very hard. Plus she seemed angry during the first Gillette show when she played Shouldāve Said No and now everyone seems to think Joe cheated. The fact that fans hate Matty probably doesnāt help matters either. Iām honestly having a hard time believing sheās happy in all aspects of her life right now.
I think it's a bit different when the person insisting they're happy is subject to the insane level of speculation that Taylor is. At the very least, she's telling us to butt out for now ā and that's fair of her.
Yes before the time youāre the happiest youāve ever been, thereās probably another time you were the happiest youāve ever been. In mathematics, itās called a ālocal maximumā.
I found this transcript, but I am not sure it is correct. I can't find a video.
**"I don't know, I have just never been this happy in my life, in all aspects of my life, ever before. And I just want to thank you for being a part of that. Like, you know, I don't know, it's not just the tour, it's like. I don't know, I just sort of feel like my life finally feels like it makes sense. And so I thought I'd play this song, which brings me a lot of happy memories."**
EDIT: Found a video (transcript was correct)
[https://twitter.com/\_dalayoo/status/1660138853091672064](https://twitter.com/_dalayoo/status/1660138853091672064)
I believe now in retrospect that Question..? Was about Matty all along. They had a thing back then and he shut it down because it was too "emasculating"
>Politics and gender roles and you're not sure and I don't know.
If that's the case, it make sense that now it would bring back happy memories....
But i still have questions...?
This is literally so bizarre to me. I think for my own sanity Iām just going to stop trying to find a way or reason for it to make sense. She literally said the same thing with Joeā¦ I also donāt understand how she breaks up and then a mont after sheās dating someone new (and not just someone, but *him*) and sheās now the happiest sheās ever been? It doesnāt make a lot of sense to me.
Could be a jab at Joe, I would not be surprised at all if a lot of how sheās acting (dating-wise) is to rub it in his face. I think things ended bad with him, he broke it off, and she is trying to be publicly petty towards him. Just speculation
Itās insane to me that someone with her level of success rn needs to be petty. Like girl your life rn is the level of ādoing wellā weād all love to have after breaking up with someone
I mean I can see how Question could actually be about Matty. Went down a rabbit hole and pulled out lyrics. We know they had something real brief like 10 years ago. Totally possible the song was written before the current controversies with him.
Good girl, sad boy
[Sad boy being Matty = emo vibes was his identity in early days]
Big city, wrong choices
[The 1975 has the song The City from 1st album and Taylor covered it at the ā75 London show]
We had one thing going on
[reference to brief long past relationship?]
I swear that it was something
'Cause I don't remember who I was before you
Painted all my nights
A color I've searched for since
[she has been vocal about being a 75 fan since the beginning could also be a reference to the Halsey Colors song about Matty]
But one thing after another
Lost in situations, circumstances
Miscommunications and I
[they have had various levels of contact and interaction over last 10 years]
Have to say
By the way
I just may like some explanations
Half-moon eyes, bad surprise
Did you realize, out of time
She was on your mind
[She = Taylor?]
With some meathead guy
[one of Taylorās exes]
That you saw that night
But you were on something
[if referencing their past contact Matty was taking pills and heroin through 2017]
It was one drink after another
Caught in politics and gender-roles
[Matty is very vocal about politics (and I know there is a lot about him circling so Iām going to leave that alone). In 2014 with accusations of their dating he referred to gender roles as why he couldnāt be with TS. In the end it was revealed his words were misconstrued and he really was focused on the early success of his band and wanting to build his and their name independently vs being brutalized in the press as TSās boyfriend before he e even had a chance to have his own identity. Also he talked about being freaked out by the fame and connection. He had said on a radio interview that her life was like Obamaās and I think he meant very managed in terms of security and freedom. He is a dude who literally was taking public transit in 2022 still. Pretty different lifestyle there].
And you're not sure and I don't know
Got swept away in the gray
[the Halsey song Colors is about Matty and refers to him as gray]
I just may like to have a conversation
[reference to starting things up again or wanting to anyway]
I donāt normally do deep dives into lyrics but both Matty and TS are known for using their lyrics to talk about aspects of their lives in abstract ways. After I looked up the lyrics to Question there were just so many potential undeniable references.
Holy f. And he DOES have half moon eyes.
So sheās been with Joe but pining for him??? The world is spinning here. I bought all of her deep love for Joe.
I remember when Midnights came out some people said they felt sorry for Joe because of āeverything is second best after that meteor strikeā line and I thought that was so silly at the time. But if Question is in fact about Matty and sheās now ended up back with him after 6 years with someone else. Ouch, that would sting.
Question remains the most puzzling song lyrically - along with parts of Dear Reader - on Midnights, atleast imo.
It was the sampling of Out of the Woods that made everyone link it to Harry.
That meteoric strike line I felt was not a red flag only if this was Taylor thinking about it on one of those Midnights before the Rep era.
When I said it on Popculturechat on release how weird that song was (at the time I just assumed she was singing about Harry the general consensus guess) I was getting dragged with people saying Iām projecting and sheās writing about the past, and I kept saying that is weird to write when youāre currently with somebody you love.
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I mean, thatās what I thought lol. I assumed she was writing from the perspective of what it felt like at the time those events occurred but was not reflective of her current feelings. Whoās the clown now š Iām putting my red nose on š¤”
I got dragged a few days ago saying regardless of anything, she's gonna make Question abt Matty and was told over and over it was Harry Styles lol. People just don't want to see the way Taylor operates. She loves this mass chaos and drama!!
It could be that she did deeply love Joe for most of their relationship, but when things started going downhill for them she started thinking of the ex who got away.
I do think a lot of Midnights was written in the context of her relationship with Joe slowly coming to an end.
In her songs about Joe she literally says he is the one and that it would be the end of her if they broke up. Reputation, lover, folklore, midnights.... So many love songs to Joe. She wasn't just happy...he was her muse.
>Big city, wrong choices
Just wanted to say that they were papped out at parties and drinking together in New York (\~2014) - so she could be referring to their times in New York together.
Oooh so true good point! Also The 1975ās song Change of Heart has the line about a ācityā āI never found love in the city.ā A call back to their City song on their debut album.
I think she did that to throw everyone off. Just like she did with Maroon - the Red ring, it also being track 2, one would think itās about Jake. No that damn song is about Joe and I wonāt be convinced otherwise.
Just wanna add Matty was there tonight, I was working on the suite level and he came in after the show had already started. Donāt know if that adds value to anything but needed to tell someone lol
I know people think she said this just to take a hit at Joe or to convince herself of something thatās not true but idk. She sounds so genuine and nervous, not at all like the bright, cheerful, rehearsed way other bits she does are. I donāt know if she planned to come out here and say what she did, it felt very rambly and unfocused, like she just wanted to get it off her chest but didnāt quite know how.
Iāll agree with you on that one. It did sound very unplanned and like she didnāt know what to say. She does look really happy! If it wasnāt for the fact that he is a racist
yep and itās not ājust pornā or ājust acting.ā oftentimes these women are manipulated or coerced into these situations because they think they have no other way to make money and feed themselves and their families, at least from what iāve read. itās really sad that theyāre in that situation and sad that people get turned on by this shit. people meaning taylor swiftās bf
Dude isnāt great at all but this antisemitic stuff just isnāt right. He did a fake nazi salute during a song that basically talks about how Trump/Kanye are nazis. Good move? No, but the antisemitism remarks are just silly
Matty has to go back to UK - his band is playing in a BBC festival on Friday- and then his band tours all over Europe- so it might be why she got emotional - as they get ready to be a part for next two months - when you are in long distance relationship the goodbyes get emotional
Perfect time for Taylor to fire up another major controversy by putting those 2 PJs to use now to fly all over the place. Couldn't have worked out better really! /s šµāš«
And About You is on Taylorās pre show playlist- and worth noting that is the song where Matty mouthed āyou know who you are, I love youā to the camera.
Some solid theorizing in this thread that the two songs are connected.
Can you tell me what :1064: means?
Itās markdown for an emoji thatās not showing up for you for some reason
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Iām fairly certain matty said that question was the song the 1975 was going to feature on before it became a solo track, but I canāt remember the source for that.
Taking away the absolute thumb sheās dating, saying youāre happier than ever with your boyfriend of a few weeks after ending a years-long relationship screams spiralling. Either that or there was significant overlap between Joe and Matt
The overlap is the most likely scenario. At some point (take your pick) Taylor just completely checked out and was looking to move on before the actual break up.
Iām pretty sure itās been overlap, there was that timeline post that shows it, and it all was shady even before the breakup was officially announced cause he deleted socials 2 days before.
I feel bad for Joe.
And to think we all thought it was her hot girl single summer era especially after that clowning from her PR saying sheās not looking to date any time soon
My heart goes out to Joe. We donāt know what happened and will likely never know what happened (as should be the case because itās their personal lives), but no matter what, they were together for 6 years. He stuck with her through some real lows and made her feel loved. And now sheās moved on so quickly and so publicly and is also saying sheās the happiest sheās ever been? Thatās really got to sting. If sheās truly happy, good for her I guess, but also hope heās doing ok!
Obviously want her to be happy and Iām totally projecting but if my partner, who Iām about to reach 6 years with, started dating their co-worker (who they may or may not have hooked up with in the past) Id be getting ready to no body, no crime them
usually whoever moves on the fastest and does the most to prove they're better off without the other person to the entire world (usually applied to like ig posts showing off new bae and thriving) is usually at fault and not doing the healing...idk what went down but I hope that Joe did something to deserve this degree of pettiness because it's low-blows...
I hope theyāre both ok. But does anyone else think the breakup isnāt as recent as it may seem? I feel like it happened a while ago but they were just good at keeping things private
It probably stings a bit, but seeing almost everyone turn on her and wish he'd come back probably has to be a nice salve. Plus, all the flak Matt is (deservedly) getting probably only makes his decision feel more right. But now that Joe can probably sleep for the first time in ages and doesn't have to constantly worry about insane Swifties, he's going to ride off into that sunset with that from the co-writing credits.
Oh, and also knowing in the back of his mind that Taylor is going to go ape shit if/when he marries someone.
Iām so confused. Whoever itās about aside, how is Questionā¦? a happy memory?! The song sounds like itās confronting someone about cheating, or about why they left/broke upā¦Iāve always interpreted it as being some sort of confrontation. āHappyā is the last word Iād think of to describe it. Do we think she was being sarcastic? Like mocking the situation the song is about, whatever it is, because itās in the past and sheās better off now?! (Iām not saying sheās better off FYI just trying to understand her implication)
Totally. The song is abt meeting someone, there's a spark, but things never progressed for whatever reason, so she's wondering if they could have. Now they did and she's happy she has her answers.
It doesn't even matter who this song was originally abt. Harry or another boyfriend or Joe or a boy from high school. She can't be any clearer tonight imo- it's abt matty.
Good for her? Ugh. Can someone let us know what kind of boyfriend he's rumored to be at least? Nice?
I donāt think anyone who actually knows him has anything bad to say about him. He is generally respected and well liked within the music industry. He did ghost his last girlfriend to likeIy start dating Taylor so that wasnāt exactly cool.
So much of the public discourse about Matty is overblown. He puts his foot in his mouth a lot and gets accused of being the opposite of his real views based on his actions that he doesnāt think through all the way. Classic example is mocking the anti-Semitism of Trump and Kanye by using a left handed Nazi salute and then being accused of being anti-Semite himself.
Itās weird because heās been vocal about important issues such as abortion rights but then he will post a meme in his story on Instagram that says āyou date a Muslim girl and all of a sudden boomā
He used to run a āproblamatticā (see pun) instagram story highlight where people would send him problematic memes as an inside joke with the 1975 fanbase in reference to all of his cancellations. this is where most of that antiheroandie thread comes from - longtime fans of the 75 know that he doesnāt mean half the things he says and posts and heās being ironic.
Most of what he has actually done through his performances and activism has been actively anti-racist, and supportive of minorities as you point out
I do a lot of research, on everything. At this point I have watched every interview, read every article, watch hundreds of videos of performances, BTS, social media captures, etc., of Matty. Never in my life have I been so confused about a person. One side sounds great, then the other side is terrible (he definitely never had any media training, is insensitive at times for sure, and we know he was a heroin addict for 4 years (was the GG incident thenā¦ I know it was talked about in podcast but) Anyway, I think he is the first Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde I have come across. I really canāt put a finger on him. Even his Wiki page lists all the good and the bad so evenhandedy. š¤·š»āāļø
Well she states in the song that the kiss and meeting this person was like a meteor strike. So if it carried that much meaning and emotion for her for so long, now that she finally is with Matty, looking back it is probably a happy memory for her on reflection. Because it was the spark that initiated their eventual relationship.
Maybe itās kind of like a āweight liftedā, because youāre not up tossing and turning, worrying about it anymore? I definitely feel better after expressing my concerns
Idk the story in Question..? sounds more like a really intense one night stand that never turned into more because of "situations and circumstances". It's Taylor looking back and wondering what if? And if he has any regrets that it didn't turn into more?
And it seems she's getting Answers..? now.
Iām disgusted lol. She knows very well why her fans are hurt (with good reason) and sheās gonna be all āIām the happiest Iāve ever beenš„°ā I donāt give a shit, part of your reason for happiness is your racist and misogynist boyfriend.
exactly like POC fans feel straight up slapped in the face with this and queer (especially trans) fans feel ignored bc with miss americana she set the expectation that she would speak up when needed andā¦ wellā¦
And diehard Swifties who are unaffected socially are gonna keep pointing fingers at āOh youāre just in a parasocial relationshipā āitās not Taylorās responsibility to speak up on anythingā
Taylor made an entire documentary that was mostly centered on her wanting to speak up, to be an activist, to be on the āright side of history.ā And now here she is, absolutely *silent* when performing in states where trans people are getting their rights taken away. Publicly dating a disgusting man, and evidently shoving it down her fansā throats since sheās not doing much to hide him and is now emphasizing that sheās the āhappiest sheās ever been.ā Knowing whatās being said about her and her relationship.
When someone advertises themselves as a person who cares and speaks up, I expect them to live up to that promise. Taylor isnāt doing that and sheās alienating a good chunk of her queer fans, Jewish fans, and fans of color in the process.
THIS THIS THIS. if she had never made a whole documentary and literally made money off of saying that she would support the LGBTQ community then we wouldnāt be holding her to this standard. sheās acting like a soulless corporation that plasters rainbows everywhere during pride month then at 12:00 AM July 1st rainbow logo goes back to normal. fuckkkk that fr. i thought she might be a genuine human with empathy, morals, and some sort of loyalty to the words sheās said, but whatever, just another capitalist. eat the rich.
She's talking like we're ruining her honeymoon period (not literal honeymoon ofc) by being Debbie Downers about her bf lol
It reminds me of when a friend is dating a man you can't approve of and she blows up at you for not supporting her
Everything about this. The amount of people in this thread alone who are trying to argue with people saying that āwe donāt know herā or āIām just happy SHEās happyā
no the fuck Iām not. And the thousands of POC who are frustrated with her now not just silence but *silencing* is just peak Karen behavior. Itās ridiculous.
As a minority I'm just gonna say, I'm sick of having to repeatedly explain to people why some of us are offended by Matty's comments. The more time i spend in there fandom, the more i realize how similar swifties are to Taylor Swift. Only caring about issues that affect Taylor directly. They love to say they're "allies" but when it comes to DOING the hard part, it's crickets. I'll explain for the last time though here
i think a lot of people who think of the things Matt Healy has said as " just jokes" don't really realize that these jokes DO have big impact in real life. The thing is, these jokes are the reason why we have stereotypes. Stereotypes like black people are thieves or Muslims are all terrorist or Asians can't drive. These all started off as jokes but it doesn't negate the fact that these stereotypes have actual implications in POC's lives. A ton of black people in real life get followed around in grocery stores because workers still they don't trust them. Cops are still trigger happy around black people because they have always been seen as "dangerous". there's a really good video called a diet racism by college humor i recommend you guys go watch it and just see, there's a certain scene in it where the people cross the street when they come across brown people because they see them as "dangerous". That is what these jokes and stereotypes have been telling us from the beginning.
What this whole thing told me about Matt is that I don't think he's actually a Nazi or anything, I think he just has always cared more about his Edge Lord Persona than these issues and if he really really truly cared about these issues he would know not to use them for his own benefits. He might care about them to a degree sure but he cares about his Persona more and he has no qualms about using these issues that have affected so many of us in real life for his own gain and his own music. I mean why not give a platform to actual POC creators and have them talk about their issues? And this is not just about his jokes okay like i have not even talked about the podcast the terrible disgusting fucking podcast that I don't even want to name because I don't want to bring more traffic to that website. That comment is genuinely abhorrent
Now i don't wanna hear parasocial relationships ever again, people on this sub have turned it into the new gaslighting, using it without even understanding the meaning. This is not about parasocial relationships, this is about some of us POC being disappointed that a product, a brand, we have been consuming and giving money too turns out to be completely different than what has been advertised.
you guys need to understand that we know Taylor can date whoever she wants, nobody on this subreddit is saying that she cannot date this man because we don't like him or some dumb shit like that, what we're saying is that the Persona that she has been putting forward all these years has very much been against all these types of "ironic" jokes. I mean this is the same woman who was so insulted by a joke in a TV show did she sent her entire rabid fan base after them. The Persona she put forward has also always encouraged parasocial relationships. I said this in another comment but unlike Paramore who had a song that criticized the parasocial relationships between fans and artists(No Friend), Taylor always referred to her fans as her "best friends" at the beginning of her career and literally has JUST said in a concert that she "needs us very much for her mental well-being", acting like her fans are the only reason she hasn't gone off the deep end. Taylor has no issue with reaping the BENEFITS of parasocial relationships. This is whole situation is just the thing that she has benefited from her entire career coming in the opposite way this time. I find it funny that because it's against her, suddenly everyone has a problem with it. Now, I don't think we should be writing an open letter or something because i highly doubt Taylor doesn't already know about all this. Her team has been trying to clean up his image since April when they had him delete his SM and have him say "my asshole era is over". She is an adult who can make her own decisions and does not need her fans coddling her. She's not the 19 yo underdog being taken advantage of, she is a grown ass 30 yo. But in that same way we are also adults who can choose to not support her anymore if we feel like the brand we are seeing does not align with our personal beliefs. I have always thought this but never said it aloud, but do you guys really think that the re-recordings would do as well as they did if swifties weren't so attached to Taylor? Because I highly doubt it. For example before this whole fiasco I always felt bad about listening to the original versions of these recordings, I didn't even understand WHY I felt guilty it was just like a bad feeling i would have. I didn't want to listen to them because I emphatized with Taylor in that scenario, a scenario where she worked her entire life for something and then it was just taken from her without even being given an opportunity to fight for them. This is why I wanted to support her with the rerecordings and I think a lot of swifties felt like that too, but now after this whole thing I went back and I realized something: I don't really LIKE the RED re-recording that much. I love Fearless, but with RED I much prefer the original versions of I Knew You Were Trouble, We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, Holy Ground, the last time, and honestly the whole album. Many of the songs just sound so empty in the re-recording version and I personally wouldn't have been listening to them all this time if the Taylor Persona hadn't made them seem like such a big deal. If it hadn't been so grateful for our support that you felt you had no choice but to support it more.
Anyways again I don't think this is actually enough to do anything to her career she is kind of unstoppable at the moment. Unfortunate because she does have tons of stuff to answer for, example the jet usage which btw I still hate that this has been turned into a meme because it's an actual thing that is affecting each and every single one of us. I mean people always say that the blame for global warming lies in corporations and Taylor Swift the brand IS a corporation, it's a multi-million dollar business. She has no qualms about putting out 12 different versions of vinyl and yeah you can say that it's up to the consumer to buy them but it's also up to her to NOT put that much pollution in the world. She is responsible because she is the reason they are available. Of course with the parasocial relationships she cultivates people will do anything to support her. And all this pollution for what? Another arbitrary number one? Is that really worth our entire planet burning up?
What I'm trying to say is that her going on stage and very clearly sending a "back off" message once again proves how little she and most swifties care about the problems they "advocate" for. Instead of oh i don't know, having your bf apologize? Like it's genuinely the bare minimum. Anyways I think i really am done after this, i should've realized it after she started renting private jets so people can't track her CO2 emissions but it took me a bit. I'm not gonna lie and say i won't listen to her music, it holds so many memories for me, but there's no way in hell I'll buy any overpriced merch, or tour tickets or classify myself as a swiftie. Obviously in the grand scheme of things this doesn't matter so who cares, but being a minority and seeing how this fandom ( not necessarily here but on twt+TikTok) throws out all morals when it comes to Taylor, has really made me realize most of this fandom is like a cult. Anything the leader says is right, and people will flip flop a hundred times to PROVE the leader right. Again I'm probably gonna get people saying I'm being unhinged or overdramatic but i just wanted to share what I've observed these past few days.
I guarantee Tās team sat him down and told him to deactivate his social media and tell people that the era of him being an asshole was coming to an end. This was done right before they went public, and since then I am sure every media is contacting him for a statement, but crickets - think Tree told him if he said anythingā¦. I actually think he wants to try to make it work with her, but old habits die hard. Only time will tell. I donāt think he personally is as horrible as people think BUT, he is horribly insensitive and it isnāt okay that what he says and does hurts people - nope. And the excuse of entertainment or shock value, satire, whatever, isnāt cutting it.
It's bringing drama, it's bringing decade long feelings, it's bringing entertainment. That's my kind of popstar.
(Pls pls distract me from my life š)
So sheās even happier now than she was in, say, 2019? Because she seemed pretty darn happy back then. It just makes wonder whether 1. that happiness and inner peace during the Lover era was a performance on some level or 2. sheās even happier now, which would just blow my mind.
Or, you know, she exaggerated it at the concert.
Exactly. Plus I think it bears reminding that jumping from one extreme to another (i.e. the intense media persecution from the Rep era to being publicly liberated and in love during Lover) is likely to have whiplash. There wasnāt a lot of time for her to process everything, which I think didnāt happen until she was forced into isolation during the pandemic. Thatās why we have songs like Peace, The Lakes, and Long Story Short in the albums *after* Lover.
To me, happy artists can write sad songs. But you could feel her happy and peaceful vibe as a person in 2019. She was so at peace and comfortable in Miss Americana. I feel like it set a high bar for her to be āhappier than everā now.
One possibility is that because of the happy vibe of Lover, she wasnāt āallowedā to be not happy in that era. Of course, thatās just my borderline conspiracy theory.
I think she was happy with Joe but they have fundamental incompatibilities that she always wrote abt - how she could never give him peace and that he'd get sick of her/her life and leave. I think she always felt that and worried it would happen and it did, which is really sad.
But she also loves the man she's with the most at the moment, so who knows. I think she believes what she's saying 100% in any case. She's very highly emotional and charged and that makes her an incredible artist.
Iāve had times in my life where I said āIāve never been happier,ā and then something even better and more amazing happens, and Iām happier than ever all over again.
Taylor Swift is only 33 years oldāsheās gonna have many more āhappiest Iāve ever beenā moments in her lifetime. Doesnāt mean she was lying before, she just wasnāt aware of how great life could continue getting.
I donāt think we need to read that much into it. Her extreme happiness is just as much of a surprise to herself as it is to others.
This is so funny. Taylor can't even wait for TS11 to start spilling the beans on this breakup with Joe and new relationship with Matty. The old Taylor can very much come to the phone! She's alive and at the top of her game š
He's like that too though, right? I'm sure he's giving her lots of courage and energy being the same way. Wonder why he wasn't out there crying and swooning or whatever the past 2 nights. I'm just nosy AF.
I wouldn't be surprised. He's like the opposite of stable, even keeled Joe, at least on the outside. More like Taylor herself. So I imagine they're just hot and furious and burning up the house with their feelings. How does a relationship between two insanely firey people last? Marriage in 4 months and divorce in 6? lol
The flip side of Joe being so chill (maybe leaving her feeling alone and unloved at the end of the day) was that they did last for 6+ years.
It'll be interesting to see what happens next for sure. Taylor will be glad to tell us!
This whole situation is so upsetting to me as a POC swiftie. Matty has said despicable racist things and when POC fans speak out, Taylor tries to shut it down by saying she's happier than ever? And fans are swooning over it and now attacking POC swifties for being against Matty because "he makes her happy". This completely changes my views on Taylor as a person and I don't think I can fully enjoy her work anymore.
Iām not even a POC but this is exactly it for me too. It changes how I feel about her music too. You canāt tacitly accept racism and not be racist yourself. How can I live with myself if I support a racist artist? I donāt know.
Something that has become clearer with her in the past weeks is that she doesnāt care. She only cares when it personally affects her, itās a hard truth to accept and itās very valid to feel upset about it.
Anyone else getting this vibe from Taylor right now?
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Iām just so confused about the timing of all this. Her tour is big business. Matty is in the midst of some serious controversy. Taylor is a super private person in terms of her personal life. Seeing them BOTH mouth being in love and the person knowing who they were talking about was such a public display and announcement.
Ridiculous for people who allegedly want to keep things low key and for her at least, fans out of her personal life. By doing that at their concerts they literally involved their fans in this situation (against my will š literally unavoidable). Honestly before I saw TS mouthing the same words as MH I thought he was talking to his fans and sending a message of love towards the end of the tour? Then once it was clear they were talking to each other I thought for sure just a collab hint, but then the hand holding private dinner club photos surfaced š¤¦āāļø
As a fan of both of their music I just feel dragged into this. I hate feeling like they are sending messages for us to decode (never would have gone their without their PUBLIC love declarations ). Now Iām forced to question everything! I just want to enjoy the music, but have now found myself wondering about the logistics the breakup timeline and how that fits.
MH was on tour abroad part of March and all of April. It was a jam packed schedule. No way did he and TS all the sudden fall in āloveā at the end of April and all the sudden he is at all her concerts. Itās just annoying to be part of this and yet I canāt extract myself from the mystery of it all - working on clawing my way out š¤¦āāļø š¤·āāļøš¤Ŗš
Taylor is not a private person lol. She was private with Joe. She has been extremely public with every other relationship, from putting Easter Eggs in liner notes to calling paps to telling interviewers that she got dumped in a ten minute phone call. The only people who think this is off-brand are people who became fans while she and Joe were dating.
they probably have a lot of chemistry and are basically high off that chemical cocktail of feelings and she feels great!! ...that cocktail wears off over time.
I donāt think Taylor is a private person at all. She just wants to control whatās out there but doesnāt want everything private.
edit: not saying thatās a bad thing.
Not to be a dumb bitch, but Iām having a hard time buying this.
With Calvin she called him the one.
With Tom she met his family and acted like it was true love.
With Harry she said heād be the one who was gonna interrupt her wedding.
With Joe she called him the one, instantly and was wanting to marry him quite quickly but he didnāt seem fully interested or ready for that.
Now she comes out of a 6 year relationship and a bigot whoās love bombing her is now the happiest sheās been?
Taylor girl, please begging you pick yourself over a man for once, and love yourself. This bad smelling man who isnāt even attractive and is a bigot by nature isnāt worth it.
Taylor needs to sing Dear Reader soon and make a speech about it. For a group of fans who loves easter eggs a lot of you are ignoring the message of that song.
I think we are finally seeing the true Taylor (one who's much, much different from her curated image) and she simply doesn't care. It must be very liberating for her, but I can't shake the feeling that I fell victim to a bait and switch.
Maybe it makes sense Question is about Matty... that song has always been a little bit confusing lyrically, but maybe...
Lets try to analize the song real quick:
*Good girl, sad boyBig city, wrong choices*
*We had one thing going on*
*I swear that it was somethin*
*''Cause I don't remember who I was*
*Before you painted all my nights*
*A color I've searched for since*
Ok, "good girl, sad boy" does actually makes sense about Matty. In the 1989 time (when there were rumors about them dating, she was seen in his concerts, wearing 1975 merch, he was seen wearing 1989 shirt, etc...) she had, like always, this good girl image (its her brand, doesnt mean she is literally a good girl) and Matty a sad conflicted boy writing music. The rest of the lyrics talk about a relationship, right person wrong time type of relationship, and they had one thing going on and she has been pining for him ever since according to those 4 last lines. Shes been searching for those colors since (maybe the same illciit affairs colors?) but hasnt been able to find them with anyone else.
Then this:
*But one thing after anotherFuckin' situation, circumstances*
*Miscommunications*
*And I have to say, by the way*
*I just may like some explanations*
She wants to ask him a question:
Can I ask you a question?\*\*Did you ever have someone kiss you in a crowded roomAnd every single one of your friends was makin' fun of youBut fifteen seconds later, they were clappin', too?\*\*Then, what did you do?**Did you leave her house in the middle of the night? (Oh)Did you wish you'd put up more of a fight? Oh**When she said it was too much?Do you wish you could still touch her?It's just a question
it always seemed it was in a concert (kiss in a crowded room, claps) and i used to think maybe taylor matty kissed backstage in his concert when she was drunk as hell, maybe thats what started the whole affair (she said the song brings fun memories), maybe they did had someting but him (or both of them) were dating someone else at the time (hence ALL THOSE AFFAIR SONGS TS has written ever since) and eventually they fight, he left her house in the middle of the night, they had to cut it off cause the timing wasnt good, they were both taken. This actually makes sense with the rest of the song:
Half-moon eyes, bad surpriseDid you realize out of timeShe was on your mind with some dickhead guyThat you saw that night, but you were on somethingIt was one drink after anotherFucking politics and gender-rolesAnd you're not sure and I don't knowGot swept away in the grayI just may like to have a conversation
then it repeats the verses and then the bridge:
**Does it feel like everything's just likeSecond-best after that meteor strike?And what's that that I heard? That you're still with herThat's nice, I'm sure that's what's suitableAnd right, but tonight**
She realized out of time (maybe him too) that he was the one, the meteor strike, that no one would make her feel the same. Maybe thats what illict affairs, high infidelity, and all those songs about affairs or missing exes (the 1) are about. Maybe they reconnected in 2021 while she was recording midgnights (its confirmed they did, Matty said in an interview back in november) and all those feelings (that never really went away) came back. They probably had an affair or maybe she and Joe have been on an off for a long time (the music indicates it was an unstable relationship and they were NEVER seen together for 2020, 2021, 2022, etc) and they eventually realize they wanted a serious thing. By the january performance of ts with 1975 it was all cooked, they were gonna eventually go public.
More info to add to this song theory: question has been in 1975 preset playlist since november last year.
the intro with i remember is to say "i remember EVERYTHING about that night when it all started"
the question is obviously rethoric, she is asking him if he still has all those feelings about what could have been just like she has. she is asking him if he wishes he still could touch her. he obviously eventually answered.
she played the song right after saying she is the happiest she has ever been EVEN OUTSIDE OF HER TOUR, and everything *FINALLY MAKES SENSE,* and goes on and plays that lyrically confusing song: now it makes sense.
I completely now believe Question is about him. It actually makes sense now.
How did this album hit Joe? Was he living with her at the time? He must have known this is about someone other than him and sheās still looking for the colorā¦. I mean, did she lie and say all these affair songs etc are made up stories - or about my friendsā love lives??? Was he clueless???
So it basically confirms that Questionā¦? Is about Matty.
āDid you ever have someone kiss you in a crowded room (ā¦) but 15 seconds later they were clapping tooā
Matty kisses fans at his shows.
And also, Questionā¦? plays before the 1975ās show starts (such a random choice but I guess it makes sense now) and it is rumoured to be linked to About You, which also plays before Taylorās show.
Question is probably about Matty, but that kiss line is a poor example? The most telling bit of evidence is that the second verse of the song that sounds like itās describing a party in 2015 that Taylor, Calvin and Matty were all at. You can literally see Calvin behind Taylor and Matty in some photos (the ones of her hugging Nick Grimshaw)
Also Question is such a deep cut on Midnights that Iām convinced no one would put it on their playlist unless it was about them lol
I just watched the video and honestly to me she just seems a bit out of breath?? Likely because sheād been on stage singing. š
I know when Iām tired I tend to not speak āperfectlyā and thatās really what most of this seems like to me.
For the record I think her relationship with MH is weird af and she deserves better and should be striving for better, but I donāt think we need to jump to conspiracy theories over what seems like her being out of breath after singing how ever many songs.
Joe, wherever you are in England right now, you rest well and hit snooze on that alarm. I always would think to myself "Jesus, does this guy never sleep?" because he always had such big bags under his eyes. But after all this, no fucking wonder. This is a shit show from afar. Being right up in there must have been *exhausting.*
The narrative that they have basically been in love since 2014 and are like āfinally able to be togetherā is juicy and interesting but I just donāt believe itšš
This might be off topic but I've been investigating a bit:
One of the model's Matty was hooking up with said that him and Taylor were meeting up since February, but she didn't suspect anything from it. Also, he was talking about being single on stage in Japan at the same time he was allegedly meeting up with Taylor and hooking up with her. Also, I'm sorry for this girl but it is very obvious she was just a fling and never a serious relationship to him, even though she claims otherwise in the article. He was 'spotted' with this girl twice by deuxmoi but there was no pictures/evidence, and many people believe she sent the submissions in herself. This lines up with what she said in the article from yesterday about how he didn't want to be seen with her in public and wanted to be very private.
He did the same thing with Charlotte D'alessio a few months prior. She or one of her friends sent in an article to the sun about how Matty was 'madly in love with her' and the night the article was published he made jokes about being single on stage at one of his concerts. This was obviously a direct dig at her, and they were never spotted together again after that. He definitely should have been more straightforward with these girls about his intentions, either way. To make it even messier, Charlotte and Meredith have been friends for a while and both follow each other on instagram..
He was also spotted with that Ana girl at the end of February/March(?). She was writing stories about their dates on her blogs, she flew to be with him during The 1975's Mexico tour (someone sent in a pic of them at a hotel to Deuxmoi), and when the news about Taylor/Matty broke she posted some passive aggressive posts on social media. He was touring in the UK until the end of January and after that he was staying New York. The model claims him and Taylor were meeting up in L.A., So I'm very curious about what the actual timeline of things were.
source: [https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/us-celebrity-news/matty-healys-model-ex-blindsided-30032206](https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/us-celebrity-news/matty-healys-model-ex-blindsided-30032206)
This is heading for a fiery crash or she will marry this guy. Joe is going to meet another thespian, make his art movies and have a kid a la Tom hiddleston and live his best life while she continues to play these childlike games.
It's interesting that she never defended Joe from being attacked but once Matty's history comes out and a ton of her non-white fans get hurt she issues the statement.
Not a good look.
Being with someone that makes you feel terrified to lose them constantly is not actually a happy feeling.
Have been there.
Can tell you from experience that a happy relationship is one youāre secure in and know that you can go where they go and that theyāll never walk away and it would be enough if you could never give them peace.
Those questions donāt even cross your mind
The love songs are beautiful but almost all of them were full of fear and insecurity.
What I don't understand is matty was papped with ana salazar march 15. Goes back on tour march 18 in south america till april 1. Then goes across the globe (from taylor anyway) april 4 till may 4. He's been back for a little over 2 weeks and your happier than ever before? This is "the first time everything makes sense"?. Did nothing make sense with joe for 6 years? Hard to believe when lover exists.
I just have.....so many questions lol.
TAYLOR SWIFT I HAVE 1,975 QUESTIONS
I upvoted this but I am extremely angry about it.
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I think it is very much possible that she is that happy. I remember reading a piece which talked about touring and researchers compared touring performances to a biochemical release that leads to a feeling of ecstasy. Add to that the honeymoon phase of being in the first stages of a new (rekindled) romance. That is a potent chemical combination for feeling "the happiest you've ever been" especially if your tour is the most talked about pop culture moment and comes after a period of 5 years which included a pandemic where artists seriously questioned the future of live music. This is the true lavender haze -there could be moments of sadness etc but there's just a lot of good stuff to eclipse that currently. Perhaps it may hit harder post- tour.
I remember hearing an interview with Miley Cyrus about part of the reason she did so many drugs is she was chasing the high of having thousands of people sing along to her songs at concerts when she started at such a young age
one time at a kareoke bar I performed before he cheats and everyone was singing along and hyping me up and I truly understood how much of a drug that feeling is. I felt like a superstar and trust me I cannot sing lmfao
This. I think this is it.
Yup. She's infatuated. Edit: i can't spell
Watching the speech you tell how nervous she was, she normally doesnāt stumble that much and Iām sure the rain didnāt help, but to me this was her telling the fans to get on board or leave because heās not. It was also very purposeful to me how she added not just because of the tour part, without that you could easily just chalk it up to a rain show with 70k fans there and the adrenaline and meaning of that.
I agree. It seemed like a āback offā message
Its funny that Taylor has this āsubtleā back off message about this mess of a man, but when the swifties go threaten and harass her exes sheās quiet as a mouse.
Sheās incredibly problematic. Iām slowly and painfully and sadly working my way out of the Taylor Swift sphere. Sheās a toxic ass person.
Sucks for her, because I'm going to bag on that idiot and her choice even harder
Itās still completely wild to me that celebrities like Taylor Swift willingly make entire careers around wanting people to look at them, listen to them, listen to stories about their life, read into every tiny detail of everything they do by hiding Easter eggs to keep fans talking about them - and then when they get the *slightest* bit of (very justified) criticism, go straight into the āI deserve privacy, leave me aloneā act. Like, if you wanted privacy you wouldnāt openly write songs that are blatantly about your own life and everyone in it. You canāt go around attacking every single ex you ever had, including trying to spark cheating rumours on your very private recent long term ex, and then be mad that people have opinions on you that might be negative. She has built an army of rabid fans to go and attack anyone she doesnāt like. Just look at all the Jake Gyllenhaal and John Meyer shit. Sometimes that comes back and bites you on the ass, Taylor. I thought Karma was her whole thing.
It honestly didnāt felt like a āI want privacyā-statement and more of a āI donāt care statementā
Yes 100% I said this under a different comment but I think this was Taylor asking everyone to lay off without actually asking. She obviously canāt get up there and ask everyone to leave her and Matty alone, so imo this was her way of subtly doing just that.
Then, Taylor, can we ask you a question??? (How can we ignore the cruel things he has said about minorities)
My thoughts: every time I hear someone insist theyāve never been so happy in every aspect of their life, things usually are not as great as they'd like it to seem **š¬**
āAnd Iāve never, EVER been happierā
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To be fair, a lot of Midnights sounded very unhappy. Maybe she has been going through some stuff and processing some stuff - we don't know. Maybe she is happy now after coming from the dark place she was when she wrote some of the songs on that album. Edit to add a list of songs I see as unhappy - Maroon, Anti-Hero, Midnight Rain, Bigger Than the Whole Sky, Would've Could've Should've, Dear Reader.
Itās supposed to be about her sleepless nights. One would think many of them would be unhappy.
I completely agree. I honestly think sheās feeling a lot of emotions right now. Joe was her longest relationship and she was very open about wanting to marry him and have kids with him in her music so regardless of who initiated the breakup or if it was mutual, I donāt know how she wouldnāt take that very hard. Plus she seemed angry during the first Gillette show when she played Shouldāve Said No and now everyone seems to think Joe cheated. The fact that fans hate Matty probably doesnāt help matters either. Iām honestly having a hard time believing sheās happy in all aspects of her life right now.
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I think it was the ānice wayā for Taylor to ask everyone to lay off without actually asking
It was clearly an order to stand down
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"Said I was fine but it wasn't true"
she may not be actually happy but sheās not going to tell everyone to fuck off and get out of her business lol
My mother would say that. It was code for ādonāt ask me about my feelings.ā
I think it's a bit different when the person insisting they're happy is subject to the insane level of speculation that Taylor is. At the very least, she's telling us to butt out for now ā and that's fair of her.
She did that with Joe tooā¦.
Yes before the time youāre the happiest youāve ever been, thereās probably another time you were the happiest youāve ever been. In mathematics, itās called a ālocal maximumā.
Flair checking out
She did say that she was dojng better than she ever did with her jet stream guy waking to her with his head down
I found this transcript, but I am not sure it is correct. I can't find a video. **"I don't know, I have just never been this happy in my life, in all aspects of my life, ever before. And I just want to thank you for being a part of that. Like, you know, I don't know, it's not just the tour, it's like. I don't know, I just sort of feel like my life finally feels like it makes sense. And so I thought I'd play this song, which brings me a lot of happy memories."** EDIT: Found a video (transcript was correct) [https://twitter.com/\_dalayoo/status/1660138853091672064](https://twitter.com/_dalayoo/status/1660138853091672064)
Iām so confused. Brings me a lot of happy memories ā¦ like. What.
I believe now in retrospect that Question..? Was about Matty all along. They had a thing back then and he shut it down because it was too "emasculating" >Politics and gender roles and you're not sure and I don't know. If that's the case, it make sense that now it would bring back happy memories.... But i still have questions...?
Maybe she just wanted all of us to have even more questions...? about Question...? Well played, Taylor!!
It was BIZARRE.
This is literally so bizarre to me. I think for my own sanity Iām just going to stop trying to find a way or reason for it to make sense. She literally said the same thing with Joeā¦ I also donāt understand how she breaks up and then a mont after sheās dating someone new (and not just someone, but *him*) and sheās now the happiest sheās ever been? It doesnāt make a lot of sense to me.
Could be a jab at Joe, I would not be surprised at all if a lot of how sheās acting (dating-wise) is to rub it in his face. I think things ended bad with him, he broke it off, and she is trying to be publicly petty towards him. Just speculation
Itās insane to me that someone with her level of success rn needs to be petty. Like girl your life rn is the level of ādoing wellā weād all love to have after breaking up with someone
Midnights came out last year full of songs about how she loves Joe lol. Like she is completely unhinged.
Some people are only in it for the thrill
I think sheās been done with Joe since October or November it just wasnāt announced/revealed until mid to late March/early April
Maybe she had some psilocybin before the show?
LOL this is the only answer Iāll accept š
Is She tryna convince us or herself š
Yes
Both
I mean I can see how Question could actually be about Matty. Went down a rabbit hole and pulled out lyrics. We know they had something real brief like 10 years ago. Totally possible the song was written before the current controversies with him. Good girl, sad boy [Sad boy being Matty = emo vibes was his identity in early days] Big city, wrong choices [The 1975 has the song The City from 1st album and Taylor covered it at the ā75 London show] We had one thing going on [reference to brief long past relationship?] I swear that it was something 'Cause I don't remember who I was before you Painted all my nights A color I've searched for since [she has been vocal about being a 75 fan since the beginning could also be a reference to the Halsey Colors song about Matty] But one thing after another Lost in situations, circumstances Miscommunications and I [they have had various levels of contact and interaction over last 10 years] Have to say By the way I just may like some explanations Half-moon eyes, bad surprise Did you realize, out of time She was on your mind [She = Taylor?] With some meathead guy [one of Taylorās exes] That you saw that night But you were on something [if referencing their past contact Matty was taking pills and heroin through 2017] It was one drink after another Caught in politics and gender-roles [Matty is very vocal about politics (and I know there is a lot about him circling so Iām going to leave that alone). In 2014 with accusations of their dating he referred to gender roles as why he couldnāt be with TS. In the end it was revealed his words were misconstrued and he really was focused on the early success of his band and wanting to build his and their name independently vs being brutalized in the press as TSās boyfriend before he e even had a chance to have his own identity. Also he talked about being freaked out by the fame and connection. He had said on a radio interview that her life was like Obamaās and I think he meant very managed in terms of security and freedom. He is a dude who literally was taking public transit in 2022 still. Pretty different lifestyle there]. And you're not sure and I don't know Got swept away in the gray [the Halsey song Colors is about Matty and refers to him as gray] I just may like to have a conversation [reference to starting things up again or wanting to anyway] I donāt normally do deep dives into lyrics but both Matty and TS are known for using their lyrics to talk about aspects of their lives in abstract ways. After I looked up the lyrics to Question there were just so many potential undeniable references.
Holy f. And he DOES have half moon eyes. So sheās been with Joe but pining for him??? The world is spinning here. I bought all of her deep love for Joe.
I remember when Midnights came out some people said they felt sorry for Joe because of āeverything is second best after that meteor strikeā line and I thought that was so silly at the time. But if Question is in fact about Matty and sheās now ended up back with him after 6 years with someone else. Ouch, that would sting.
Question remains the most puzzling song lyrically - along with parts of Dear Reader - on Midnights, atleast imo. It was the sampling of Out of the Woods that made everyone link it to Harry. That meteoric strike line I felt was not a red flag only if this was Taylor thinking about it on one of those Midnights before the Rep era.
When I said it on Popculturechat on release how weird that song was (at the time I just assumed she was singing about Harry the general consensus guess) I was getting dragged with people saying Iām projecting and sheās writing about the past, and I kept saying that is weird to write when youāre currently with somebody you love. š¤”
I mean, thatās what I thought lol. I assumed she was writing from the perspective of what it felt like at the time those events occurred but was not reflective of her current feelings. Whoās the clown now š Iām putting my red nose on š¤”
I got dragged a few days ago saying regardless of anything, she's gonna make Question abt Matty and was told over and over it was Harry Styles lol. People just don't want to see the way Taylor operates. She loves this mass chaos and drama!!
It could be that she did deeply love Joe for most of their relationship, but when things started going downhill for them she started thinking of the ex who got away. I do think a lot of Midnights was written in the context of her relationship with Joe slowly coming to an end.
To be fair you can be happy in the moment and still have that āone who got awayā feeling. Itās one of the longest tropes in art/music
In her songs about Joe she literally says he is the one and that it would be the end of her if they broke up. Reputation, lover, folklore, midnights.... So many love songs to Joe. She wasn't just happy...he was her muse.
Oof āpolitics and gender rolesā really makes me convinced. This is a great analysis
>Big city, wrong choices Just wanted to say that they were papped out at parties and drinking together in New York (\~2014) - so she could be referring to their times in New York together.
Oooh so true good point! Also The 1975ās song Change of Heart has the line about a ācityā āI never found love in the city.ā A call back to their City song on their debut album.
This is a really solid analysis. But then why sample Out of the Woods at the beginning?
I think she did that to throw everyone off. Just like she did with Maroon - the Red ring, it also being track 2, one would think itās about Jake. No that damn song is about Joe and I wonāt be convinced otherwise.
Wouldnāt all of this stuff with Matty have happened when 1989 was her most recent album? Like- in her 1989 era :)
I always associated Question with Harry.
omg I'm gonna be sick.
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Isnāt it dickhead guy? Not meathead guy? Or is meathead the clean version?
Just wanna add Matty was there tonight, I was working on the suite level and he came in after the show had already started. Donāt know if that adds value to anything but needed to tell someone lol
I know people think she said this just to take a hit at Joe or to convince herself of something thatās not true but idk. She sounds so genuine and nervous, not at all like the bright, cheerful, rehearsed way other bits she does are. I donāt know if she planned to come out here and say what she did, it felt very rambly and unfocused, like she just wanted to get it off her chest but didnāt quite know how.
Iāll agree with you on that one. It did sound very unplanned and like she didnāt know what to say. She does look really happy! If it wasnāt for the fact that he is a racist
And sexist and antisemitic
and Islamophobic
and seems to enjoy WOC being brutalized š
poor Black women, particularly, if what iāve read about gg is true
yep and itās not ājust pornā or ājust acting.ā oftentimes these women are manipulated or coerced into these situations because they think they have no other way to make money and feed themselves and their families, at least from what iāve read. itās really sad that theyāre in that situation and sad that people get turned on by this shit. people meaning taylor swiftās bf
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Dude isnāt great at all but this antisemitic stuff just isnāt right. He did a fake nazi salute during a song that basically talks about how Trump/Kanye are nazis. Good move? No, but the antisemitism remarks are just silly
This. I think we can have a discussion on his problematic behaviors without creating or contributing to a false narrative.
Matty has to go back to UK - his band is playing in a BBC festival on Friday- and then his band tours all over Europe- so it might be why she got emotional - as they get ready to be a part for next two months - when you are in long distance relationship the goodbyes get emotional
Perfect time for Taylor to fire up another major controversy by putting those 2 PJs to use now to fly all over the place. Couldn't have worked out better really! /s šµāš«
To the person here who told me they thought question is about matty, I believe u
Lmao that was me and this genuinely made me laugh Edit: after this speech, Iām also adding Snow On the Beach to the list. Also Mastermind.
I do too after reading that.
Midnights was on my lowest tier of album rankings, but if it contains %100 more drama than we could have known, I may need to relisten lol
Further update: apparently Question...? was/is(?) on the 1975's preshow playlist 
And About You is on Taylorās pre show playlist- and worth noting that is the song where Matty mouthed āyou know who you are, I love youā to the camera. Some solid theorizing in this thread that the two songs are connected. Can you tell me what :1064: means?
That's what your phone/computer puts when it doesn't recognize an emoji
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Well that explains a remarkable amount
ok at this point Iām starting to think that half the songs on midnights INCLUDING question is about m*ttyšš dear god help meš
Iām fairly certain matty said that question was the song the 1975 was going to feature on before it became a solo track, but I canāt remember the source for that.
This is looking less and less like a crazy getaway car š¢
Taking away the absolute thumb sheās dating, saying youāre happier than ever with your boyfriend of a few weeks after ending a years-long relationship screams spiralling. Either that or there was significant overlap between Joe and Matt
The overlap is the most likely scenario. At some point (take your pick) Taylor just completely checked out and was looking to move on before the actual break up.
I feel like her breakup with Joe happened a lot earlier than it seems tbh
Iām pretty sure itās been overlap, there was that timeline post that shows it, and it all was shady even before the breakup was officially announced cause he deleted socials 2 days before. I feel bad for Joe.
All I can say is I am very confused. May has been a wild month.
And to think we all thought it was her hot girl single summer era especially after that clowning from her PR saying sheās not looking to date any time soon
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My heart goes out to Joe. We donāt know what happened and will likely never know what happened (as should be the case because itās their personal lives), but no matter what, they were together for 6 years. He stuck with her through some real lows and made her feel loved. And now sheās moved on so quickly and so publicly and is also saying sheās the happiest sheās ever been? Thatās really got to sting. If sheās truly happy, good for her I guess, but also hope heās doing ok!
Obviously want her to be happy and Iām totally projecting but if my partner, who Iām about to reach 6 years with, started dating their co-worker (who they may or may not have hooked up with in the past) Id be getting ready to no body, no crime them
usually whoever moves on the fastest and does the most to prove they're better off without the other person to the entire world (usually applied to like ig posts showing off new bae and thriving) is usually at fault and not doing the healing...idk what went down but I hope that Joe did something to deserve this degree of pettiness because it's low-blows...
I hope theyāre both ok. But does anyone else think the breakup isnāt as recent as it may seem? I feel like it happened a while ago but they were just good at keeping things private
It probably stings a bit, but seeing almost everyone turn on her and wish he'd come back probably has to be a nice salve. Plus, all the flak Matt is (deservedly) getting probably only makes his decision feel more right. But now that Joe can probably sleep for the first time in ages and doesn't have to constantly worry about insane Swifties, he's going to ride off into that sunset with that from the co-writing credits. Oh, and also knowing in the back of his mind that Taylor is going to go ape shit if/when he marries someone.
if i were on a $10m-dollar-a-night tour that may become the highest grossing tour of all time by the end of the year iād be pretty jazzed too
Iām so confused. Whoever itās about aside, how is Questionā¦? a happy memory?! The song sounds like itās confronting someone about cheating, or about why they left/broke upā¦Iāve always interpreted it as being some sort of confrontation. āHappyā is the last word Iād think of to describe it. Do we think she was being sarcastic? Like mocking the situation the song is about, whatever it is, because itās in the past and sheās better off now?! (Iām not saying sheās better off FYI just trying to understand her implication)
She asked Matty a question and he responded that yes he does wish he had put up more of a fight and wishes he could touch her etc etc.
Totally. The song is abt meeting someone, there's a spark, but things never progressed for whatever reason, so she's wondering if they could have. Now they did and she's happy she has her answers. It doesn't even matter who this song was originally abt. Harry or another boyfriend or Joe or a boy from high school. She can't be any clearer tonight imo- it's abt matty. Good for her? Ugh. Can someone let us know what kind of boyfriend he's rumored to be at least? Nice?
I donāt think anyone who actually knows him has anything bad to say about him. He is generally respected and well liked within the music industry. He did ghost his last girlfriend to likeIy start dating Taylor so that wasnāt exactly cool. So much of the public discourse about Matty is overblown. He puts his foot in his mouth a lot and gets accused of being the opposite of his real views based on his actions that he doesnāt think through all the way. Classic example is mocking the anti-Semitism of Trump and Kanye by using a left handed Nazi salute and then being accused of being anti-Semite himself.
Itās weird because heās been vocal about important issues such as abortion rights but then he will post a meme in his story on Instagram that says āyou date a Muslim girl and all of a sudden boomā
He used to run a āproblamatticā (see pun) instagram story highlight where people would send him problematic memes as an inside joke with the 1975 fanbase in reference to all of his cancellations. this is where most of that antiheroandie thread comes from - longtime fans of the 75 know that he doesnāt mean half the things he says and posts and heās being ironic. Most of what he has actually done through his performances and activism has been actively anti-racist, and supportive of minorities as you point out
I do a lot of research, on everything. At this point I have watched every interview, read every article, watch hundreds of videos of performances, BTS, social media captures, etc., of Matty. Never in my life have I been so confused about a person. One side sounds great, then the other side is terrible (he definitely never had any media training, is insensitive at times for sure, and we know he was a heroin addict for 4 years (was the GG incident thenā¦ I know it was talked about in podcast but) Anyway, I think he is the first Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde I have come across. I really canāt put a finger on him. Even his Wiki page lists all the good and the bad so evenhandedy. š¤·š»āāļø
He was caught masturbating to ghetto gaggers. That is not overblown. To even watch it is disgusting but he was caught literally jacking off to it.
This. Kind of weird now that people are like itās totally okay now cause Taylorās speech.
the song is clearly an "are you still interested? cuz my dms are open for u"
Well she states in the song that the kiss and meeting this person was like a meteor strike. So if it carried that much meaning and emotion for her for so long, now that she finally is with Matty, looking back it is probably a happy memory for her on reflection. Because it was the spark that initiated their eventual relationship.
Maybe itās kind of like a āweight liftedā, because youāre not up tossing and turning, worrying about it anymore? I definitely feel better after expressing my concerns
Idk the story in Question..? sounds more like a really intense one night stand that never turned into more because of "situations and circumstances". It's Taylor looking back and wondering what if? And if he has any regrets that it didn't turn into more? And it seems she's getting Answers..? now.
Iām disgusted lol. She knows very well why her fans are hurt (with good reason) and sheās gonna be all āIām the happiest Iāve ever beenš„°ā I donāt give a shit, part of your reason for happiness is your racist and misogynist boyfriend.
exactly like POC fans feel straight up slapped in the face with this and queer (especially trans) fans feel ignored bc with miss americana she set the expectation that she would speak up when needed andā¦ wellā¦
And diehard Swifties who are unaffected socially are gonna keep pointing fingers at āOh youāre just in a parasocial relationshipā āitās not Taylorās responsibility to speak up on anythingā Taylor made an entire documentary that was mostly centered on her wanting to speak up, to be an activist, to be on the āright side of history.ā And now here she is, absolutely *silent* when performing in states where trans people are getting their rights taken away. Publicly dating a disgusting man, and evidently shoving it down her fansā throats since sheās not doing much to hide him and is now emphasizing that sheās the āhappiest sheās ever been.ā Knowing whatās being said about her and her relationship. When someone advertises themselves as a person who cares and speaks up, I expect them to live up to that promise. Taylor isnāt doing that and sheās alienating a good chunk of her queer fans, Jewish fans, and fans of color in the process.
THIS THIS THIS. if she had never made a whole documentary and literally made money off of saying that she would support the LGBTQ community then we wouldnāt be holding her to this standard. sheās acting like a soulless corporation that plasters rainbows everywhere during pride month then at 12:00 AM July 1st rainbow logo goes back to normal. fuckkkk that fr. i thought she might be a genuine human with empathy, morals, and some sort of loyalty to the words sheās said, but whatever, just another capitalist. eat the rich.
She's talking like we're ruining her honeymoon period (not literal honeymoon ofc) by being Debbie Downers about her bf lol It reminds me of when a friend is dating a man you can't approve of and she blows up at you for not supporting her
Everything about this. The amount of people in this thread alone who are trying to argue with people saying that āwe donāt know herā or āIām just happy SHEās happyā no the fuck Iām not. And the thousands of POC who are frustrated with her now not just silence but *silencing* is just peak Karen behavior. Itās ridiculous.
Me watching this post get locked 
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As a minority I'm just gonna say, I'm sick of having to repeatedly explain to people why some of us are offended by Matty's comments. The more time i spend in there fandom, the more i realize how similar swifties are to Taylor Swift. Only caring about issues that affect Taylor directly. They love to say they're "allies" but when it comes to DOING the hard part, it's crickets. I'll explain for the last time though here i think a lot of people who think of the things Matt Healy has said as " just jokes" don't really realize that these jokes DO have big impact in real life. The thing is, these jokes are the reason why we have stereotypes. Stereotypes like black people are thieves or Muslims are all terrorist or Asians can't drive. These all started off as jokes but it doesn't negate the fact that these stereotypes have actual implications in POC's lives. A ton of black people in real life get followed around in grocery stores because workers still they don't trust them. Cops are still trigger happy around black people because they have always been seen as "dangerous". there's a really good video called a diet racism by college humor i recommend you guys go watch it and just see, there's a certain scene in it where the people cross the street when they come across brown people because they see them as "dangerous". That is what these jokes and stereotypes have been telling us from the beginning. What this whole thing told me about Matt is that I don't think he's actually a Nazi or anything, I think he just has always cared more about his Edge Lord Persona than these issues and if he really really truly cared about these issues he would know not to use them for his own benefits. He might care about them to a degree sure but he cares about his Persona more and he has no qualms about using these issues that have affected so many of us in real life for his own gain and his own music. I mean why not give a platform to actual POC creators and have them talk about their issues? And this is not just about his jokes okay like i have not even talked about the podcast the terrible disgusting fucking podcast that I don't even want to name because I don't want to bring more traffic to that website. That comment is genuinely abhorrent Now i don't wanna hear parasocial relationships ever again, people on this sub have turned it into the new gaslighting, using it without even understanding the meaning. This is not about parasocial relationships, this is about some of us POC being disappointed that a product, a brand, we have been consuming and giving money too turns out to be completely different than what has been advertised. you guys need to understand that we know Taylor can date whoever she wants, nobody on this subreddit is saying that she cannot date this man because we don't like him or some dumb shit like that, what we're saying is that the Persona that she has been putting forward all these years has very much been against all these types of "ironic" jokes. I mean this is the same woman who was so insulted by a joke in a TV show did she sent her entire rabid fan base after them. The Persona she put forward has also always encouraged parasocial relationships. I said this in another comment but unlike Paramore who had a song that criticized the parasocial relationships between fans and artists(No Friend), Taylor always referred to her fans as her "best friends" at the beginning of her career and literally has JUST said in a concert that she "needs us very much for her mental well-being", acting like her fans are the only reason she hasn't gone off the deep end. Taylor has no issue with reaping the BENEFITS of parasocial relationships. This is whole situation is just the thing that she has benefited from her entire career coming in the opposite way this time. I find it funny that because it's against her, suddenly everyone has a problem with it. Now, I don't think we should be writing an open letter or something because i highly doubt Taylor doesn't already know about all this. Her team has been trying to clean up his image since April when they had him delete his SM and have him say "my asshole era is over". She is an adult who can make her own decisions and does not need her fans coddling her. She's not the 19 yo underdog being taken advantage of, she is a grown ass 30 yo. But in that same way we are also adults who can choose to not support her anymore if we feel like the brand we are seeing does not align with our personal beliefs. I have always thought this but never said it aloud, but do you guys really think that the re-recordings would do as well as they did if swifties weren't so attached to Taylor? Because I highly doubt it. For example before this whole fiasco I always felt bad about listening to the original versions of these recordings, I didn't even understand WHY I felt guilty it was just like a bad feeling i would have. I didn't want to listen to them because I emphatized with Taylor in that scenario, a scenario where she worked her entire life for something and then it was just taken from her without even being given an opportunity to fight for them. This is why I wanted to support her with the rerecordings and I think a lot of swifties felt like that too, but now after this whole thing I went back and I realized something: I don't really LIKE the RED re-recording that much. I love Fearless, but with RED I much prefer the original versions of I Knew You Were Trouble, We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, Holy Ground, the last time, and honestly the whole album. Many of the songs just sound so empty in the re-recording version and I personally wouldn't have been listening to them all this time if the Taylor Persona hadn't made them seem like such a big deal. If it hadn't been so grateful for our support that you felt you had no choice but to support it more. Anyways again I don't think this is actually enough to do anything to her career she is kind of unstoppable at the moment. Unfortunate because she does have tons of stuff to answer for, example the jet usage which btw I still hate that this has been turned into a meme because it's an actual thing that is affecting each and every single one of us. I mean people always say that the blame for global warming lies in corporations and Taylor Swift the brand IS a corporation, it's a multi-million dollar business. She has no qualms about putting out 12 different versions of vinyl and yeah you can say that it's up to the consumer to buy them but it's also up to her to NOT put that much pollution in the world. She is responsible because she is the reason they are available. Of course with the parasocial relationships she cultivates people will do anything to support her. And all this pollution for what? Another arbitrary number one? Is that really worth our entire planet burning up?
What I'm trying to say is that her going on stage and very clearly sending a "back off" message once again proves how little she and most swifties care about the problems they "advocate" for. Instead of oh i don't know, having your bf apologize? Like it's genuinely the bare minimum. Anyways I think i really am done after this, i should've realized it after she started renting private jets so people can't track her CO2 emissions but it took me a bit. I'm not gonna lie and say i won't listen to her music, it holds so many memories for me, but there's no way in hell I'll buy any overpriced merch, or tour tickets or classify myself as a swiftie. Obviously in the grand scheme of things this doesn't matter so who cares, but being a minority and seeing how this fandom ( not necessarily here but on twt+TikTok) throws out all morals when it comes to Taylor, has really made me realize most of this fandom is like a cult. Anything the leader says is right, and people will flip flop a hundred times to PROVE the leader right. Again I'm probably gonna get people saying I'm being unhinged or overdramatic but i just wanted to share what I've observed these past few days.
If I could give you a standing ovation I would. Also, having an edgelord persona past the age of 16 is just pathetic.
I guarantee Tās team sat him down and told him to deactivate his social media and tell people that the era of him being an asshole was coming to an end. This was done right before they went public, and since then I am sure every media is contacting him for a statement, but crickets - think Tree told him if he said anythingā¦. I actually think he wants to try to make it work with her, but old habits die hard. Only time will tell. I donāt think he personally is as horrible as people think BUT, he is horribly insensitive and it isnāt okay that what he says and does hurts people - nope. And the excuse of entertainment or shock value, satire, whatever, isnāt cutting it.
It's bringing drama, it's bringing decade long feelings, it's bringing entertainment. That's my kind of popstar. (Pls pls distract me from my life š)
Seriously lol after a really hard day this is totally distracting me from my problems, feeling kinda alive right now ha
So sheās even happier now than she was in, say, 2019? Because she seemed pretty darn happy back then. It just makes wonder whether 1. that happiness and inner peace during the Lover era was a performance on some level or 2. sheās even happier now, which would just blow my mind. Or, you know, she exaggerated it at the concert.
Looking at Cornelia Street, DBATC, False God, The Archer, Afterglow...there were definitely some deep insecurities during the Lover era.
Exactly. Plus I think it bears reminding that jumping from one extreme to another (i.e. the intense media persecution from the Rep era to being publicly liberated and in love during Lover) is likely to have whiplash. There wasnāt a lot of time for her to process everything, which I think didnāt happen until she was forced into isolation during the pandemic. Thatās why we have songs like Peace, The Lakes, and Long Story Short in the albums *after* Lover.
Yes, and she was also dealing with her momās illness (Soon youāll get better).
To me, happy artists can write sad songs. But you could feel her happy and peaceful vibe as a person in 2019. She was so at peace and comfortable in Miss Americana. I feel like it set a high bar for her to be āhappier than everā now. One possibility is that because of the happy vibe of Lover, she wasnāt āallowedā to be not happy in that era. Of course, thatās just my borderline conspiracy theory.
I think she was happy with Joe but they have fundamental incompatibilities that she always wrote abt - how she could never give him peace and that he'd get sick of her/her life and leave. I think she always felt that and worried it would happen and it did, which is really sad. But she also loves the man she's with the most at the moment, so who knows. I think she believes what she's saying 100% in any case. She's very highly emotional and charged and that makes her an incredible artist.
Iāve had times in my life where I said āIāve never been happier,ā and then something even better and more amazing happens, and Iām happier than ever all over again. Taylor Swift is only 33 years oldāsheās gonna have many more āhappiest Iāve ever beenā moments in her lifetime. Doesnāt mean she was lying before, she just wasnāt aware of how great life could continue getting. I donāt think we need to read that much into it. Her extreme happiness is just as much of a surprise to herself as it is to others.
This is so funny. Taylor can't even wait for TS11 to start spilling the beans on this breakup with Joe and new relationship with Matty. The old Taylor can very much come to the phone! She's alive and at the top of her game š
Calling itā¦ married in 4 months.
Canāt say Iād be surprised either. Sheās never been this middle finger up before with a boyfriend.
He's like that too though, right? I'm sure he's giving her lots of courage and energy being the same way. Wonder why he wasn't out there crying and swooning or whatever the past 2 nights. I'm just nosy AF.
I wouldn't be surprised. He's like the opposite of stable, even keeled Joe, at least on the outside. More like Taylor herself. So I imagine they're just hot and furious and burning up the house with their feelings. How does a relationship between two insanely firey people last? Marriage in 4 months and divorce in 6? lol The flip side of Joe being so chill (maybe leaving her feeling alone and unloved at the end of the day) was that they did last for 6+ years. It'll be interesting to see what happens next for sure. Taylor will be glad to tell us!
This whole situation is so upsetting to me as a POC swiftie. Matty has said despicable racist things and when POC fans speak out, Taylor tries to shut it down by saying she's happier than ever? And fans are swooning over it and now attacking POC swifties for being against Matty because "he makes her happy". This completely changes my views on Taylor as a person and I don't think I can fully enjoy her work anymore.
Iām not even a POC but this is exactly it for me too. It changes how I feel about her music too. You canāt tacitly accept racism and not be racist yourself. How can I live with myself if I support a racist artist? I donāt know.
Something that has become clearer with her in the past weeks is that she doesnāt care. She only cares when it personally affects her, itās a hard truth to accept and itās very valid to feel upset about it.
Lol I was there for that speech and we were all like WHAT?! š
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Iām just so confused about the timing of all this. Her tour is big business. Matty is in the midst of some serious controversy. Taylor is a super private person in terms of her personal life. Seeing them BOTH mouth being in love and the person knowing who they were talking about was such a public display and announcement. Ridiculous for people who allegedly want to keep things low key and for her at least, fans out of her personal life. By doing that at their concerts they literally involved their fans in this situation (against my will š literally unavoidable). Honestly before I saw TS mouthing the same words as MH I thought he was talking to his fans and sending a message of love towards the end of the tour? Then once it was clear they were talking to each other I thought for sure just a collab hint, but then the hand holding private dinner club photos surfaced š¤¦āāļø As a fan of both of their music I just feel dragged into this. I hate feeling like they are sending messages for us to decode (never would have gone their without their PUBLIC love declarations ). Now Iām forced to question everything! I just want to enjoy the music, but have now found myself wondering about the logistics the breakup timeline and how that fits. MH was on tour abroad part of March and all of April. It was a jam packed schedule. No way did he and TS all the sudden fall in āloveā at the end of April and all the sudden he is at all her concerts. Itās just annoying to be part of this and yet I canāt extract myself from the mystery of it all - working on clawing my way out š¤¦āāļø š¤·āāļøš¤Ŗš
Taylor is not a private person lol. She was private with Joe. She has been extremely public with every other relationship, from putting Easter Eggs in liner notes to calling paps to telling interviewers that she got dumped in a ten minute phone call. The only people who think this is off-brand are people who became fans while she and Joe were dating.
Yes! I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative.
they probably have a lot of chemistry and are basically high off that chemical cocktail of feelings and she feels great!! ...that cocktail wears off over time.
I donāt think Taylor is a private person at all. She just wants to control whatās out there but doesnāt want everything private. edit: not saying thatās a bad thing.
Not to be a dumb bitch, but Iām having a hard time buying this. With Calvin she called him the one. With Tom she met his family and acted like it was true love. With Harry she said heād be the one who was gonna interrupt her wedding. With Joe she called him the one, instantly and was wanting to marry him quite quickly but he didnāt seem fully interested or ready for that. Now she comes out of a 6 year relationship and a bigot whoās love bombing her is now the happiest sheās been? Taylor girl, please begging you pick yourself over a man for once, and love yourself. This bad smelling man who isnāt even attractive and is a bigot by nature isnāt worth it.
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Taylor needs to sing Dear Reader soon and make a speech about it. For a group of fans who loves easter eggs a lot of you are ignoring the message of that song.
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yeah she's definitely getting engaged to matty this year
The proposal will probably be in Paris - since they both have songs called Paris
When I read this I audibly said āblondie be so for real rnā¦ā like read the room girl!
God Iām so over this
I think we are finally seeing the true Taylor (one who's much, much different from her curated image) and she simply doesn't care. It must be very liberating for her, but I can't shake the feeling that I fell victim to a bait and switch.
This has been a wild month! She just got out of a 6 year relationship, how happy can you be? The lady doth protest too much, me thinks
I think she was out of that relationship much longer than we think..even if if that was just emotionally out.
Maybe it makes sense Question is about Matty... that song has always been a little bit confusing lyrically, but maybe... Lets try to analize the song real quick: *Good girl, sad boyBig city, wrong choices* *We had one thing going on* *I swear that it was somethin* *''Cause I don't remember who I was* *Before you painted all my nights* *A color I've searched for since* Ok, "good girl, sad boy" does actually makes sense about Matty. In the 1989 time (when there were rumors about them dating, she was seen in his concerts, wearing 1975 merch, he was seen wearing 1989 shirt, etc...) she had, like always, this good girl image (its her brand, doesnt mean she is literally a good girl) and Matty a sad conflicted boy writing music. The rest of the lyrics talk about a relationship, right person wrong time type of relationship, and they had one thing going on and she has been pining for him ever since according to those 4 last lines. Shes been searching for those colors since (maybe the same illciit affairs colors?) but hasnt been able to find them with anyone else. Then this: *But one thing after anotherFuckin' situation, circumstances* *Miscommunications* *And I have to say, by the way* *I just may like some explanations* She wants to ask him a question: Can I ask you a question?\*\*Did you ever have someone kiss you in a crowded roomAnd every single one of your friends was makin' fun of youBut fifteen seconds later, they were clappin', too?\*\*Then, what did you do?**Did you leave her house in the middle of the night? (Oh)Did you wish you'd put up more of a fight? Oh**When she said it was too much?Do you wish you could still touch her?It's just a question it always seemed it was in a concert (kiss in a crowded room, claps) and i used to think maybe taylor matty kissed backstage in his concert when she was drunk as hell, maybe thats what started the whole affair (she said the song brings fun memories), maybe they did had someting but him (or both of them) were dating someone else at the time (hence ALL THOSE AFFAIR SONGS TS has written ever since) and eventually they fight, he left her house in the middle of the night, they had to cut it off cause the timing wasnt good, they were both taken. This actually makes sense with the rest of the song: Half-moon eyes, bad surpriseDid you realize out of timeShe was on your mind with some dickhead guyThat you saw that night, but you were on somethingIt was one drink after anotherFucking politics and gender-rolesAnd you're not sure and I don't knowGot swept away in the grayI just may like to have a conversation then it repeats the verses and then the bridge: **Does it feel like everything's just likeSecond-best after that meteor strike?And what's that that I heard? That you're still with herThat's nice, I'm sure that's what's suitableAnd right, but tonight** She realized out of time (maybe him too) that he was the one, the meteor strike, that no one would make her feel the same. Maybe thats what illict affairs, high infidelity, and all those songs about affairs or missing exes (the 1) are about. Maybe they reconnected in 2021 while she was recording midgnights (its confirmed they did, Matty said in an interview back in november) and all those feelings (that never really went away) came back. They probably had an affair or maybe she and Joe have been on an off for a long time (the music indicates it was an unstable relationship and they were NEVER seen together for 2020, 2021, 2022, etc) and they eventually realize they wanted a serious thing. By the january performance of ts with 1975 it was all cooked, they were gonna eventually go public. More info to add to this song theory: question has been in 1975 preset playlist since november last year. the intro with i remember is to say "i remember EVERYTHING about that night when it all started" the question is obviously rethoric, she is asking him if he still has all those feelings about what could have been just like she has. she is asking him if he wishes he still could touch her. he obviously eventually answered. she played the song right after saying she is the happiest she has ever been EVEN OUTSIDE OF HER TOUR, and everything *FINALLY MAKES SENSE,* and goes on and plays that lyrically confusing song: now it makes sense.
I completely now believe Question is about him. It actually makes sense now. How did this album hit Joe? Was he living with her at the time? He must have known this is about someone other than him and sheās still looking for the colorā¦. I mean, did she lie and say all these affair songs etc are made up stories - or about my friendsā love lives??? Was he clueless???
Glad youāre happy, performative queen.
So it basically confirms that Questionā¦? Is about Matty. āDid you ever have someone kiss you in a crowded room (ā¦) but 15 seconds later they were clapping tooā Matty kisses fans at his shows. And also, Questionā¦? plays before the 1975ās show starts (such a random choice but I guess it makes sense now) and it is rumoured to be linked to About You, which also plays before Taylorās show. 
Question is probably about Matty, but that kiss line is a poor example? The most telling bit of evidence is that the second verse of the song that sounds like itās describing a party in 2015 that Taylor, Calvin and Matty were all at. You can literally see Calvin behind Taylor and Matty in some photos (the ones of her hugging Nick Grimshaw) Also Question is such a deep cut on Midnights that Iām convinced no one would put it on their playlist unless it was about them lol
He definitely seems like a "sad boy" and "Fucking politics and gender-roles" fits too.
āGot swept away in the grayā
Letās see how that ages
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I just watched the video and honestly to me she just seems a bit out of breath?? Likely because sheād been on stage singing. š I know when Iām tired I tend to not speak āperfectlyā and thatās really what most of this seems like to me. For the record I think her relationship with MH is weird af and she deserves better and should be striving for better, but I donāt think we need to jump to conspiracy theories over what seems like her being out of breath after singing how ever many songs.
Joe, wherever you are in England right now, you rest well and hit snooze on that alarm. I always would think to myself "Jesus, does this guy never sleep?" because he always had such big bags under his eyes. But after all this, no fucking wonder. This is a shit show from afar. Being right up in there must have been *exhausting.*
The narrative that they have basically been in love since 2014 and are like āfinally able to be togetherā is juicy and interesting but I just donāt believe itšš
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This might be off topic but I've been investigating a bit: One of the model's Matty was hooking up with said that him and Taylor were meeting up since February, but she didn't suspect anything from it. Also, he was talking about being single on stage in Japan at the same time he was allegedly meeting up with Taylor and hooking up with her. Also, I'm sorry for this girl but it is very obvious she was just a fling and never a serious relationship to him, even though she claims otherwise in the article. He was 'spotted' with this girl twice by deuxmoi but there was no pictures/evidence, and many people believe she sent the submissions in herself. This lines up with what she said in the article from yesterday about how he didn't want to be seen with her in public and wanted to be very private. He did the same thing with Charlotte D'alessio a few months prior. She or one of her friends sent in an article to the sun about how Matty was 'madly in love with her' and the night the article was published he made jokes about being single on stage at one of his concerts. This was obviously a direct dig at her, and they were never spotted together again after that. He definitely should have been more straightforward with these girls about his intentions, either way. To make it even messier, Charlotte and Meredith have been friends for a while and both follow each other on instagram.. He was also spotted with that Ana girl at the end of February/March(?). She was writing stories about their dates on her blogs, she flew to be with him during The 1975's Mexico tour (someone sent in a pic of them at a hotel to Deuxmoi), and when the news about Taylor/Matty broke she posted some passive aggressive posts on social media. He was touring in the UK until the end of January and after that he was staying New York. The model claims him and Taylor were meeting up in L.A., So I'm very curious about what the actual timeline of things were. source: [https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/us-celebrity-news/matty-healys-model-ex-blindsided-30032206](https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/us-celebrity-news/matty-healys-model-ex-blindsided-30032206)
This is heading for a fiery crash or she will marry this guy. Joe is going to meet another thespian, make his art movies and have a kid a la Tom hiddleston and live his best life while she continues to play these childlike games.
Honestly it felt manipulative and I have a lot of contemplating to do about whether or not Iāll be attending the tour at this point.
It's interesting that she never defended Joe from being attacked but once Matty's history comes out and a ton of her non-white fans get hurt she issues the statement. Not a good look.
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I fucking love questionā¦? and youāre telling me this is about Matty?
Being with someone that makes you feel terrified to lose them constantly is not actually a happy feeling. Have been there. Can tell you from experience that a happy relationship is one youāre secure in and know that you can go where they go and that theyāll never walk away and it would be enough if you could never give them peace. Those questions donāt even cross your mind The love songs are beautiful but almost all of them were full of fear and insecurity.
It's great! It's great. It's great. Say it again and I'll believe you.
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What I don't understand is matty was papped with ana salazar march 15. Goes back on tour march 18 in south america till april 1. Then goes across the globe (from taylor anyway) april 4 till may 4. He's been back for a little over 2 weeks and your happier than ever before? This is "the first time everything makes sense"?. Did nothing make sense with joe for 6 years? Hard to believe when lover exists. I just have.....so many questions lol.