is the emphasis on mundane details in taylor's music intentional or it is simply that when you are gay those "mundane" things are special and worth singing about. a sidewalk kiss has never held more weight than in a taylor swift song. https://twitter.com/screaminggogogo/status/1309546190728384513

for someone who is considered a rather "vanilla" popstar, most taylor swift songs take life at night, her relationships are such that they glow in the dark, the touches she sings about out are always secret and few, she yearns for lovers who are right next to her.

the vocal pauses in her songs are reminiscent of hesitation to touch someone because it feels so so wrong, you have grown up learning it's not "allowed" and thinking it's revolutionary when someone else has the nerve to touch your hand.

then comes the raging chorus of the song when everyone leaves and she dances with her lover in the rain in a parking lot or she whispers in her lover's ear like it's the loudest thing in the world because kissing in bathtub is fun but nothing beats a rain kiss.

after enough "stolen" kisses, hidden stares, it all starts weighing down on you. you want to run away because you have missed too many rains without them, you want to hold them in front of the people who claim their lives changed because of the tunes you wrote about your lover.

so you write the lakes.