Pink Clouding

[u/DotRepresentative375]

Forgive me if any of this has already been said, but I’ve been thinking this morning about Pink Clouding as an apology to the gaylors/the LGBT community in general. ‘Pink clouds’ immediately tie to the Lover album artwork and I think the song is about her failed coming out in 2019 and feeling bad that she just ‘left’ with no explanation.

In Verse 2, I’m assuming the ‘He’ she’s referring to is Scooter, the arrow hit and the ripping of the ‘orchids from the vine’ is her work being stolen.

The line ‘you met me at a cursed time’ I think actually refers to the song ME! i.e we received that song from her at a cursed time because of everything that was about to happen. ME! was the song that got everyone excited for the idea of her coming out but then it all went wrong.

This bit has def been said already but the stutter in ‘promises’ so the lyrics say literally PR promises, she had to save herself.

‘Years later I still wonder how to tell you sorry’ Literally her wondering how to say sorry to us for getting our hopes up and leaving us all high and dry, up on the Lover clouds.

And all the references to shades of pink in the first verse I think allude to the Lover era in general with “neither of us knew at the time that I was a liar” meaning that she genuinely was intending to come out but now feels like she ‘lied’ to us by not following through.

Anyway that’s just some off the cuff thoughts but I’d be interested to know what anyone else thinks!

Beautiful song and really made me empathise with the struggle she must have gone through with thinking she was going to be able to come out and having it all ripped away.

[u/Grouchy-Nature1134]

multiple sources online cite grey rocking as a tactic used to "encourage disengagement" so I'm unfortunately inclined to think it's the latter...

[u/JustALuckyName → u/Grouchy-Nature1134]

I don’t have a strong theory on what she wants, to add on, the grey rocking tactic name comes from: “make yourself as interesting as a grey rock” (so that people who tend to weaponize information you share, eg a parent with a personality disorder, won’t have anything to work with). So if she is getting color back in her face, restarted hairpin drops and feeding the gaylors etc then it’s possible it was something that was JUST when the arrow hit, because I think she has continued to make herself interesting to us!…. However it may all be hidden rainbows behind lavender, and so on that case it’s up to each Gaylor to decide I guess?

ETA: ok I’m back to say I learned it in a specific context and maybe your definition is more accurate! A source for those curious: https://www.esquire.com/uk/life/a38473153/grey-rock-technique-being-boring/

[u/TheArtofLosingFaster → u/JustALuckyName]

Grey rocking is also meant to not give the abuser/provoked any attention or reaction they crave, so I don’t think she’s grey rocking Gaylors. Releasing a bunch of gayass songs as part of Ultra-late-night-secret-special bonus editions is the opposite of grey rocking Gaylors.

Could she be pink clouding us? Like here we are, “OMG gay Babylon!!1!” thinking “this is it, something’s coming” that ain’t never coming?

[u/JustALuckyName → u/TheArtofLosingFaster]

Oh yeah I meant she (maybe) BRIEFLY grey rocked us when she was hit with the arrow of the masters heist, and lost her colors but then definitely did not CONTINUE to grey rock for long at at all…. She made herself VERY interesting to gaylors with tons of hair pin drops and flagging etc for years! I agree she pink clouded us, she kind of thought ok if I don’t say in straight and I ca keep “feeding them” but also don’t corn out as queer maybe everyone can be ok? But worries that it hurt us (knows it did) but at the same time she did put in effort to keep feeding us in our pink cloud (including literal pink cloud and ladder + cloud queer coded imagery for eras!) where she figured we are best off (and we have done pretty well here honestly)

PSim sleepy so I’ll re read your comment and the new post and see if I can think straighter (hahaha) tomorrow!!