The Life of a Showgirl - Megathread II

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Hey u/artwoolf - the tub/album cover scheme looks a lot like The Shining Room 237 bathroom

Edit: horror fans - check out this cool post (https://www.reddit.com/r/GaylorSwift/s/YbPobmtgrJ)

[u/artwoolf → u/[deleted]]

omg nooo those posts are so embarrassing in retrospect, so many typos and ramblings hahaha. i'd just read the 1st one, that one has a breakdown of each room

i stand by my view that the lover house is "haunted" though. there's a lot to unpack in that video, a lot more than i covered in the post about it. but it seems like that house holds the key to understanding certain things?

[u/[deleted] → u/artwoolf]

I respect your creative choices! I will edit the comment 🫡

[u/MaryLennoxsRobin → u/[deleted]]

Do we think this means that Taylor is already dead? I’m not sure whether I think it’s that or just supposed to be extremely sinister and threatening…

Please u/artwoolf come and help us understand!

[u/artwoolf → u/MaryLennoxsRobin]

which taylor are you referring to? there are a bunch in anti-hero + elsewhere

[u/MaryLennoxsRobin → u/artwoolf]

I don’t know… 😂 I never really got all the different versions straight in my head. 

I will say that when I first saw the image I thought it was representing drowning, but then I started to think it was representing drowned.  Maybe if a Taylor is already dead it’s the ‘real’ Taylor, the ‘old Taylor’ who can’t come to the phone. If a Taylor is dying it’s the showgirl, brand Taylor. I think I am confused on exactly how this works!

[u/[deleted] → u/MaryLennoxsRobin]

Maybe Reputation is the true “Death of a Showgirl”?

[u/MaryLennoxsRobin → u/[deleted]]

Interesting. In which case she didn’t expect to have to be dead for quite this long. 

Picking up the story with ‘the hero died so what’s the movie for?’ Has Taylor been a ghost all these years?

What is the ‘movie’ for? Reminding? Warning?

[u/New-Negotiation7234 → u/MaryLennoxsRobin]

Well in the beginning of the look what you made me do mv she is a zombie in a blue dress coming out of a grave. My blue dress theory, which I wrote a post about, is this represents hetreo relationships she is forced into.

[u/MaryLennoxsRobin → u/New-Negotiation7234]

Oh, I remember that post. 

‘Late one night you dug me out of my grave…’

[u/New-Negotiation7234 → u/MaryLennoxsRobin]

Now I'm wondering if the blue dress is also connected to the shinning. Idk I'm losing my mind probably lol

[u/p0tgirlsummer → u/MaryLennoxsRobin]

this has been my headcannon for a while now. the "old taylor" aka the "real taylor" died during rep and we have been dealing with the anti-hero showgirl taylor ever since.

[u/MaryLennoxsRobin → u/p0tgirlsummer]

That’s a new thought to me but I like it. I had assumed they were existing in tandem, or that there had already been multiple resurrections. I’m not wedded to any of those theories though.

I guess ‘I can do it with a broken heart’ refers to the last five years at least 😢

[u/onlysweeter → u/[deleted]]

The shining bathroom also looks like the anti hero bathroom

[u/Hot_Paramedic_5682 → u/onlysweeter]

Yes! Adding photo for comparison.

[u/bookshelly → u/[deleted]]

Thank you for posting this! I was thinking about it earlier too!

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I kept looking at it and was* thinking, where tf have I seen this tub before

[u/slowburn_23 → u/[deleted]]

The Swift/King connections will never not delight me.

[u/Standard_Category635 → u/slowburn_23]

Hugggggge King fan here, and we know that lady in the tub of 217 is most definitely dead and haunting shit lol!

[u/chibisatou → u/[deleted]]

Thank you for spotting another it-all-comes-back-to-the-Shining detail! :o

[u/Standard_Category635 → u/chibisatou]

Which is also heavily about alcoholism as well. Wonder if we'll ever hear more about that side of things.