Finding Matty through past Taylor Swift songs feat. Cam from What I Will Say
Added 2024-05-01 20:28:00 +0000 UTCHey guys! Cam and I hopped on this week to look through Folklore, Evermore and Midnights and see which songs might actually have MATTY as the muse in them instead of Joe. What we found...was saddening hahaha because there are quite a lot! Check out Cam's sister episode of this too where we do the same for the Lover, Reputation and 1989 albums.
Also, I know it's been a Taylor heavy week and you guys were here for me when I did that Patreon mini about how I HATED Taylor Swift and refused to talk about her hahaha so there will also be another episode tomorrow about a different topic for my floozies out there who can't stand Taylor (I was once a part of that club...give it a couple months I'll be back there again). Timestamps for the albums:
0:00 Intro and Folklore
22:10 Willow
36:42 Midnights
Comments
I don’t listen to Taylor or Matty and still listened to this whole thing fully entertained. Yall are good at what you do that is for certain!
mandalyn
2024-08-15 17:14:08 +0000 UTCOk quick thought here: that line in “It’s Time to Go” about the guy asking for the check & how he insists that friends look at each other like that….i wonder if that is about her and Matty. I always thought ITTG was talking about moments that were all negative, but making that like about temptation puts an interesting spin on it for me.
Camille
2024-05-07 22:04:51 +0000 UTCMy brain is too fried for more thoughts but I think Taylor has written enough about affairs over the past few albums to prove to me that she loves a lil affair. From her songs it seems like she doesn’t like a relationship that feels comfortable and safe and would rather chase the danger!
RJ
2024-05-07 07:49:47 +0000 UTCI’m late but the stubborn part of me refuses to let maroon be about a man 😂 though if it really is about Matt or Joe I think karlie was playing into it… like her showing up in a maroon dress, a color that is not nearly as common as many other shades of red, a week after midnights, was insane of her!! To me at least
RJ
2024-05-07 07:48:20 +0000 UTCSo are we thinking Mayty Healy is William Bowery?
Nyxl Scorpion
2024-05-04 11:48:09 +0000 UTCDid anyone watch Antphrodite’s tarot reading on these two??!!
Laura
2024-05-03 10:45:04 +0000 UTCOne ttpd song about him mentions your ‘scarlet maroon’ so it’s likely Maroon is about him
Georgina
2024-05-03 05:23:06 +0000 UTComg for “Slut!”, there are mentions of neon lights — don’t some of The 1975 early album covers feature neon lights? (not a huge fan but remember them from the tumblr days) and wasn’t MH/the band supposed to be credited as collaborators on that specific song (the target printing error)
Victoria MK
2024-05-03 03:36:08 +0000 UTCI think exile could be about Marty because it’s a love triangle where she ends up choosing one (Joe)
Alex N
2024-05-02 23:47:10 +0000 UTCSame!! I’m convinced about glitch 100%
Sarah Raizen
2024-05-02 17:46:24 +0000 UTCGLITCH! I forgot about it but it makes so much sense
Shannon McNamara
2024-05-02 17:45:56 +0000 UTCoh thats a good catch
Shannon McNamara
2024-05-02 17:45:45 +0000 UTCoooo i like that
Shannon McNamara
2024-05-02 17:45:27 +0000 UTCAll the talk about The Lakes potentially being about sneaking away to Matty make me wonder if Illicit Affairs is about Matty - going out for a run, don’t call me kid, colors I’ve never seen then the juxtaposition of fading to grey on TTPD all feel Matty
Courtney
2024-05-02 12:16:47 +0000 UTCI'm surprised you didn't mention Glitch...
Yana Tretyakova
2024-05-02 08:11:56 +0000 UTCevermore's "willow" - "wreck my plans" again, in Chloe or Sam: "Back to the moment I crashed into you Like so many wrecks do"
Yana Tretyakova
2024-05-02 08:00:41 +0000 UTC"cowboy like me": Forever is the sweetest con to "loml": A con man sells a fool a get-love-quick scheme
Yana Tretyakova
2024-05-02 07:59:48 +0000 UTCI always thought "tattoo kiss" in "cardigan" refers to the hickey not the real tattoos. also, in "Down Bad" Taylor says "waking up in blood " and in the "cardigan" it's "You drew stars around my scars But now I'm bleeding" I think Chloe or Sam.. is definitely about Matty: - As the decade would play us for fools (they met in 2013-2014) - You needed me but you needed drugs more (the reason it didn't work out initially) - And you have some kids with an internet starlet (again about the internet starlet); But many songs on TTPD give the vibe of being about multiple things at the same time. For example, "The smallest man" feels like being about Matty in the first verse, but the bridge can be also about Scott or Scouter.
Yana Tretyakova
2024-05-02 07:19:07 +0000 UTCI love this take!
TMay
2024-05-02 04:14:18 +0000 UTCsonically TTPD is trying to be folklore adjacent…. so this makes sense to me. also it’s quite clear to me that taylor and joe cheated on each other (at least emotionally?)
Y2K4Ever
2024-05-02 03:30:45 +0000 UTCShannon stop I have a possum tattoo I love them so much 😭
Kayla Daly
2024-05-01 22:23:16 +0000 UTCRe: the one - I always thought the bus stop was referring to her seeing an exs picture at the Bus stop, like from an ad campaign.
Christine P.
2024-05-01 21:42:03 +0000 UTCI love Cam!!
Paula Andrea
2024-05-01 20:34:50 +0000 UTCStraight from Cams episode to this one. so happy I don’t have to look for anything else to listen to! I love y’all’s content sm. Truly brings so much joy to my work days 🫶🏼
Marissa
2024-05-01 20:31:22 +0000 UTCI was so hoping you were going to do something like this with Cam!!! I am foaming at the mouth while listening!
Emily Elser
2024-05-01 20:29:45 +0000 UTCDownloading this EXPEDITIOUSLY before my flight takes off
Mia
2024-05-01 20:28:59 +0000 UTC
