music

Midnights 2022

Carries “The Great War,” the second hairpin substitution.

Created by Taylor Swift.

Evidence packets on this work

• Hairpin: one word kept twice where the idiom would drop it

  Established interpretation6 items

Earlier connections — what may have informed this work

• One word kept twice where the idiom would drop it

  has dialogue echoed by↑ earlierEstablished interpretationTS-HAIR-01

  evermore right-where-you-left-me “right where you left me” — Two ordinary English expressions are altered so that the word hairpin survives in both. Neither substitution is the idiomatic form.

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

  songwriter, performer

  Has described Easter eggs, long-range clue planning and cross-media clues on the record.

Tracks

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• The Great War

  2022-10-21