music
evermore 2020
Carries “right where you left me,” the first of the two hairpin substitutions.
Created by Taylor Swift.
Other connections — descendants, lateral bridges, and actor history
One word kept twice where the idiom would drop it
Midnights the-great-war “The Great War” — Two ordinary English expressions are altered so that the word hairpin survives in both. Neither substitution is the idiomatic form.
The documented history the word carries
no counterpart identified yet — Mid-twentieth-century slang for disclosure or signalling of homosexuality, recorded in historical glossaries and independently noted by the American Historical Association.
Motifs running through this work
Hairpin
An ordinary idiom is altered so that the word “hairpin” survives, in a vocabulary with a documented queer history.
People
Taylor Swift
Has described Easter eggs, long-range clue planning and cross-media clues on the record.
Tracks
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