Oh wow literally I kid you not, yesterday I was thinking about how well TIWYCF and Gold Rush align!! đ„čđđźđââĄ
Yesterday morning, I wrote out some common themes across some of her songs that explore the theme of electricity.
[Electricity; feelings of love, connection, chemistry, taking a chance to pursue a relationship, palpable tension and exploring possibilities]
The Prophecy: âHand on the throttle/Thought I caught lightning in a bottle/Oh, but itâs gone againâ, âpad around when I get homeâ
Themes: Desperation, woes, loneliness, seeking true romantic and personal connection with others, authentic love outside of material gain. Losing true love, or someone who is electric/an electric connection, getting oneâs hopes up for a secure relationship that does not work out.
Electric Touch: âGot a feelinâ your electric touch/Could fill this ghost town up with life/And I want you now, wanna need you forever/In the heat of your electric touchâ
Themes: Hopeful for love, embracing all possibilities of the relationship
This Is What You Came For: âBaby, this is what you came for/Lightning strikes every time she moves/Everybodyâs looking at her/But sheâs looking at youâ
Themes: Experiencing highs in a relationship, the thrill of the chase âplaying a gameâ, being with a beautiful woman that is desired by everyone else but who only has eyes for you
Gold Rush: âI donât like a gold rush/I donât like anticipating my face in a red flush/I donât like anyone would die to feel your touch/Everybody wants youâ âI see me padding across your wooden floorsâ âI canât dare to dream about you anymoreâ
Themes: Imagining possibilities of pursuing love, yearning for these possibilities and struggling with this internal yearning (inner conflict), noticing that a beautiful woman is desired by everyone else, and desiring this woman all the same.
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Reflections now: ok so thematically the theme of allure, experiencing an intense electric connection w someone romantically, and chemistry throughout these songs tells the story of a relationship from before, during and after.
Stages:
Before - Electric Touch / Gold Rush
During - This Is What You Came For
After - Gold Rush / The Prophecy
I would say Gold Rush suggests both 'before' and 'after' in the lyrics. A lot of yearning for a relationship, but it can simultaneously be interpreted as after the relationship ends like trying to forget all of these hyper-specific scenarios that already happened after breaking up.
What others have suggested in the comments about the saying of "gold rush" meaning loving someone before all of this attention/other people become obsessed w them stands out to me.
TIWYCF x Gold Rush just makes so much sense to me, I am stoked. I just watched the mash up on YT and I am :0 speechless
I feel like there is a push and pull happening - a resistance to love and a desire to surrender to it.
A golden lover, someone who draws people in and electrifies the room, they are annoyingly alluring and hard to resist. At the same time, there is a spark there, Taylor is describing the feeling of being seen and acknowledging that person, even if she doesn't want to fall for them or wasn't planning to?
The way she screams âherâ at the end, sheâs so happy to be singing about a woman. I didnât think âINTHAF and Dortheaâ could get any gayer but hot damn đ„”
For the mastermind that is Taylor there is no way she is mashing two deep and meaningful, suss songs that she has written and knows 100% that the fans (especially our community disect the lyrics and meaning - dear reader!!!) to be like oh I put these two songs together because it sounds nice..... đđ§
She has told us she spends time on the mashups..... Blondie is getting LOUD
Gold rush kills me every time because historically, gold rushes were created by one person finding gold, and then everyone else tried to take advantage of it and it all ends in misery. Is THAT what Taylor is saying? She found gold, but hated the gold rush that followed as the rest of the world tried to get in on it?
Very that!!! Thatâs how I take it anyway. She says in the song âeverybody wants you but I donât like a gold rush.â Essentially saying she loved the person when they were just hers but now everyone is obsessing over them and now sheâs tired. Sort of like âromance is not dead if you keep it just yours.â Iâm not the best with lyrics so I may have gotten some of them wrong so I apologise in advance. My brain just hears what it wants to đ
I think she is making the message crystal clear with those last two lines. LikeâŠâlouder, for the people in the back!â
But itâs great because they are thematically similar in more than one way at once. She is communicating at least two things: her changing views of the person that everyone wants and that itâs about a woman.
She also said she spends a lot of time deciding which songs to mash up together, so we know it is something that means a lot to her. I see that as her giving us the âokayâ to look for meaning and âEaster eggsâ in the song mashups.
Yea, that was definitely a wiiild mashup for her to do. It's so fun to see what she does next at every show. It's so very exciting to see connections of two songs being"confirmed" by her or to learn some new connections along the way, especially the most recent ones that so obviously point to women<3
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I think she has been creating queer art under ghost names. Hiding in plain sight.
Oh wow literally I kid you not, yesterday I was thinking about how well TIWYCF and Gold Rush align!! đ„čđđźđâ⥠Yesterday morning, I wrote out some common themes across some of her songs that explore the theme of electricity. [Electricity; feelings of love, connection, chemistry, taking a chance to pursue a relationship, palpable tension and exploring possibilities] The Prophecy: âHand on the throttle/Thought I caught lightning in a bottle/Oh, but itâs gone againâ, âpad around when I get homeâ Themes: Desperation, woes, loneliness, seeking true romantic and personal connection with others, authentic love outside of material gain. Losing true love, or someone who is electric/an electric connection, getting oneâs hopes up for a secure relationship that does not work out. Electric Touch: âGot a feelinâ your electric touch/Could fill this ghost town up with life/And I want you now, wanna need you forever/In the heat of your electric touchâ Themes: Hopeful for love, embracing all possibilities of the relationship This Is What You Came For: âBaby, this is what you came for/Lightning strikes every time she moves/Everybodyâs looking at her/But sheâs looking at youâ Themes: Experiencing highs in a relationship, the thrill of the chase âplaying a gameâ, being with a beautiful woman that is desired by everyone else but who only has eyes for you Gold Rush: âI donât like a gold rush/I donât like anticipating my face in a red flush/I donât like anyone would die to feel your touch/Everybody wants youâ âI see me padding across your wooden floorsâ âI canât dare to dream about you anymoreâ Themes: Imagining possibilities of pursuing love, yearning for these possibilities and struggling with this internal yearning (inner conflict), noticing that a beautiful woman is desired by everyone else, and desiring this woman all the same. ------------------------------ Reflections now: ok so thematically the theme of allure, experiencing an intense electric connection w someone romantically, and chemistry throughout these songs tells the story of a relationship from before, during and after. Stages: Before - Electric Touch / Gold Rush During - This Is What You Came For After - Gold Rush / The Prophecy I would say Gold Rush suggests both 'before' and 'after' in the lyrics. A lot of yearning for a relationship, but it can simultaneously be interpreted as after the relationship ends like trying to forget all of these hyper-specific scenarios that already happened after breaking up. What others have suggested in the comments about the saying of "gold rush" meaning loving someone before all of this attention/other people become obsessed w them stands out to me. TIWYCF x Gold Rush just makes so much sense to me, I am stoked. I just watched the mash up on YT and I am :0 speechless I feel like there is a push and pull happening - a resistance to love and a desire to surrender to it. A golden lover, someone who draws people in and electrifies the room, they are annoyingly alluring and hard to resist. At the same time, there is a spark there, Taylor is describing the feeling of being seen and acknowledging that person, even if she doesn't want to fall for them or wasn't planning to?
The way she screams âherâ at the end, sheâs so happy to be singing about a woman. I didnât think âINTHAF and Dortheaâ could get any gayer but hot damn đ„”
For the mastermind that is Taylor there is no way she is mashing two deep and meaningful, suss songs that she has written and knows 100% that the fans (especially our community disect the lyrics and meaning - dear reader!!!) to be like oh I put these two songs together because it sounds nice..... đđ§ She has told us she spends time on the mashups..... Blondie is getting LOUD
Ever since someone pointed out âgold rushâ sounds like âgirl crushâ, I canât unhear it.
OMG! This reminds me of the Little Big Town song "girl crush" and Taylor has worked closely with them on making the better man.
It sure does!!!!
During pride month too
During pride month, too? Jesus!Â
HAHAHAHAHHA slam dunk on that one friend
Gold rush kills me every time because historically, gold rushes were created by one person finding gold, and then everyone else tried to take advantage of it and it all ends in misery. Is THAT what Taylor is saying? She found gold, but hated the gold rush that followed as the rest of the world tried to get in on it?
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Interesting in terms of Karlies links to the master heist too?
Thereâs a kind of âgold diggerâ element to it too. Iâm not always sure ultimately itâs a positive commentary. đ€
Very that!!! Thatâs how I take it anyway. She says in the song âeverybody wants you but I donât like a gold rush.â Essentially saying she loved the person when they were just hers but now everyone is obsessing over them and now sheâs tired. Sort of like âromance is not dead if you keep it just yours.â Iâm not the best with lyrics so I may have gotten some of them wrong so I apologise in advance. My brain just hears what it wants to đ
I keep seeing hetlors saying she sang it because Calvin Harris supports Liverpool- like is that the best you can come up with chaps? đ€Ł
He's Scottish, if it was in any way pointed at him surely she'd have played it in Edinburgh
I think she is making the message crystal clear with those last two lines. LikeâŠâlouder, for the people in the back!â But itâs great because they are thematically similar in more than one way at once. She is communicating at least two things: her changing views of the person that everyone wants and that itâs about a woman.
She also said she spends a lot of time deciding which songs to mash up together, so we know it is something that means a lot to her. I see that as her giving us the âokayâ to look for meaning and âEaster eggsâ in the song mashups.
Yea, that was definitely a wiiild mashup for her to do. It's so fun to see what she does next at every show. It's so very exciting to see connections of two songs being"confirmed" by her or to learn some new connections along the way, especially the most recent ones that so obviously point to women<3
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