This song is ostensibly about friendship and going out and having fun with your best girl friend, except the climax of the hook goes “I gotta have you” — and we’re already two-thirds of the way through the song. This makes me think that this is a song about going out and having fun with your best girl friend and then what is this her lips look so soft I wonder if she would sleep in my bed tonight I wonder…
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Chris Randle and I and Isabel and some other people had a series of Tumblr posts a while back about how many many Taylor songs make more sense and/or are significantly more enjoyable when approached through homo goggles.
I think we dubbed it Swiftian crypto-queerness?
I don’t think I’ve ever listened to ‘YBWM’ as anything but a personal in-love-with-a-straight-dude anthem, but plenty of TS tracks can work for this. My personal favourite is ‘Picture to Burn’ as devastated/angry closeted small town high school breakup, because it makes the “So tell your friends that I’m obsessive and crazy / That’s fine I’ll tell mine that you’re gay” just as nasty but in a way where the lashing out isn’t just about cockblocking an ex but about something really raw and ugly and terrifying? Like a soundtrack for that cafeteria scene with Ezra Miller in ‘Perks of Being a Wallflower’.
I wonder if this fan-mails incident will be THE one that make Her drop that ugly chimpanzee Pauly from Her team. Must be her job, this is the same woman who thinks Her fans are gullible, worthless, and a waste of time to listen to them.
One of the worst PR team & publicist to exist She has there. And She still hesitates to drop that baboon. Tyler, just because she's your friend, doesn't mean you have to keep her. She's incompetent. Why would you ruin your own asset for the sake of a friend? Why do you keep feeding that parasite?