SERIES · 1 PART
The Truman Show reading
The narrow claim that a reveal is coming, and the broader one that the persona is a controlled artwork, held to the same standard, with what the record does and does not show.
TOPIC · 11 pieces
Taylor Swift
Everything here on Taylor Swift — the series, and the pieces that stand alone.
Series
SERIES · 1 PART
Karma and the vault
A shelved 2016 record, the vault tracks, and what the letter says in its own words, read from the primary document.
SERIES · 1 PART
The clock timeline
Not one theory but a cluster of clock readings: the 2 o’clock motif, the confirmed number habit, and the base rate that explains most of the rest.
SERIES · 6 PARTS
Inanna and the Showgirl
What the Inanna reading of The Life of a Showgirl actually claims, in its proponents' own words, and the rules this study holds itself to.
SERIES · 1 PART
Gaylor
Defensible as a reading of the songs, answered as a claim about her life â the lineage, her own statements verbatim, and the ethics of the question.
Articles
CROSS-THEORY
Why the theories rhyme with each other
Five separate readings keep landing on the same shapes. What that says about the album, and what it says about how fan theories are built.