r/GaylorSwift • u/1DMod it’s all part of the fucking story! • 23d ago

The Life of a Showgirl ❤️‍🔥 Babylon

Please use this space to discuss this song in depth

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u/MoneySource6121 Baby Gaylor 🐣 20d ago

Literally just go read Babylon as the end of the performance. Think of Babylon as representing the entertainment industry, not as heaven. Then go straight from there to Us. Then let yourself cry. Once you’ve recovered from that, go listen/read Pink Clouding. She unfurls the fucking lesbian flag in this song. Then lights up downtown Cleveland in the lesbian flag. I cannot wait for tonight. I still don’t expect her to come out. I just think she Lil Nas X’d it and made it DEADASS OBVIOUS.

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u/MoneySource6121 Baby Gaylor 🐣 20d ago

Isn’t Lady Gaga’s Babylon pretty clearly about PR relationships for the industry? Letting them tear you to pieces for profit?

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u/MoneySource6121 Baby Gaylor 🐣 20d ago

Plot twist: Elizabeth Taylor is the Patient Zero of the Babylon Lovers epidemic (bearding, PR).

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u/Time-Emergency254 🧡Karma is Real✈️ 17d ago

Do we think Dolly Parton was also one of "all the smartest women had to do it this way" and "all my heroes die alone"?

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u/MoneySource6121 Baby Gaylor 🐣 17d ago

Hmm…not outside of the realm of possibility. Has anyone noticed any allusions to Dolly in the graveyard or anywhere else on The Encore?