taylor swift says her life "FINALLY makes sense"...let's unpack that 

the most enticing thing about matty and taylor is that their relationship has all the pieces of what she says she craves. in all of her various albums and eras, she talks about wanting drama, believing in the idea of fate and soulmates, mourning lost connections. she's literally living out the way i loved you

Saying your life "Finally makes sense" is such a cursed statement. Like you're just begging for chaos in the coming months.

Honestly being this unhinged in her love life is just in time for Speak Now TV

That is such an insane thing to say. She just got out of a 6 year relationship and has been with someone for two and a half hours and she has it figured out. She’s crazy and I love her for it.

i definitely took the "im the happiest ive ever been, everything in my life makes sense" as not literal at all and more like "i control my life and my narrative. let me. shut up" like you said. course correcting the fans and honestly living for that.

at this point im checking your channel like its the morning paper. whenever i psychically sense a disturbance in this fandom it's you i run to to receive the run-down on what miss girl is up to now and i just want to say thank you for your service king 🙏

I think it’s crazy how in Bejeweled she says, “and when I meet the band they ask do you have a man and I still say I don’t remember” (I think those are the lyrics) and the sample she uses in Question was “oh I remember” implying that she doesn’t care to remember her current relationship but she does remember and look back on a past one

I feel like if she's announcing her happiness and contentment with her life to a crowd of thousands of her fans then we should just be happy for her .

Matty said that he got scared during the dating rumours, because he was still establishing himself as an artist an did not just want to be associated as someone's boyfriend. He wanted to be taken seriously as an artist and make his own name. He said how much pressure he felt from the media just through the specualtions of them dating, and almost all of the questions he got in interviews was about Taylor and their dating rumours. He spoke very highly of her as a person and artist, but did not want their relationship to come before him as an artist. So it was not just Taylor who stopped this relationship from happening.

So crazy that taylor put "about you" on her pre-show Playlist and the 1975 put "question" on their pre-show Playlist.

You're the Lady Whistledown of the Swiftie fandom. I wasn't invested in her personal life before, but I can't get enough of your channel!

I gotta admit, her basically saying shut up I’m happy on stage is iconic 😭😭😭 like damn she is BOLD. To see someone be so like confident and proud when Swifties are being crazy and sending letters and all that shit, like damn I am blown away. Loving these updates, Swiftologist is literally serving us

You can judge Taylor all you want but she... HAS NEVER EVER BEEN HAPPIER!

As someone who got out of a disfunctional 6 year long relationship a few years ago, let me just tell you this girl was DONE way before there were any signs. My guess is she's been emotionally exiting this relationship through the back door for a long time (for whatever reason). I have no idea what was the final straw but I bet you anything that part of the reason she's this okay is because she mourned this relationship A LONG time ago. They may not have been oficially over when she hit things off with Matty, but her heart wasn't spoken for anymore. He just came into the picture at the right moment for her to ask herself all the questions and just go with it. If you listen closely, in the context of her relationship with Joe, reputation was how this love helped her through dark times, then we got the honeymoon candy phase of lover, and then went straight to folklore and evermore which are both quite telling in their lyricism - even if they are both proclaimed as fictional. You can tell they've been on the rocks for quite some time but Midnights just cemented it. Also, leaving such a huge chunk of your life behind is hard enough. Imagine writing a hundred love songs about someone, keeping your relationship quiet and picture perfect, making it a POINT to protect it from the media attention and creating this invisible string aura around it. How do you tell the whole world it's over? Everyone (except the swiftologist 😂) suddenly loved Joe Alwyn and what does anybody REALLY know about him? Only the things Taylor has said in her songs. The Matty situation makes too much negative commotion to be a PR stunt so it's probably real. Rebound? Probably but we shall never know. Let the girl have some fun, she's lived behind closed doors for 6 years.

The fact the the 1975 was playing question…? In the pre show setlist back in December is CRAZY

I am so sorry but I am LIVING for this mess. I love chaotic, messy Taylor and I was afraid we would never get her again.

Don’t forget in in “About You” Matty Healy repeatedly sings the line “do you think I have forgotten about you?” Maybe the “I remember” could be a response to that? The fact that they were working on albums simultaneously with Jack Antonoff while apparently collaborating on unreleased music is soooooo juicy to me.

why is swiftologist the only youtuber that gets me legitimately excited when they post

When she said she's the happiest she's ever been in ALL aspects, I thought about how happy and free she must feel to write about the last years. When you're in a relationship, especially when everyone wants to know everything, you tend to hide the bad parts. Now she can truly be honest about everything and it must feel so freeing. That being said, 6 years is a lot, I find it hard to believe that she's completely healed from that, but everyone's timing is different so idk 🤷‍♀️

These last 3 weeks have been HARD for the swiftologist 😭 thank you Zach for your insightful coverage

why are swifties only defining Taylor by who she dates? Suddenly because she's dating Matty Healy she's a horrible person but when she was with Joe she was unproblematic? She is literally her own person. I thought we stopped defining her by who she dates a long time ago, just leave her alone

I think the more time that passes, the more it's becoming clear that Joe & Taylor were in a tumultuous on again/off again relationship right from the start. It was never a solid 6 years. Afterglow, Bejeweled, The Great War, etc gave us some major hints. She finally found the strength to let it go for good and now she's content.

as a person who broke up with their long term partner last september when midnights came out, i kneeeew something was off lmaoo😭 plus i did go through the same phase where i immediately started dating again and i truly was the happiest after so… it’s just the “post breakup dating/life changes” phase

I have a feeling Joe is going to get messy in the next couple of weeks. The more the romance between Matty & Taylor gets publicity, the more likely he or someone close to him is going to do an impulsive tea spill...and im ready for it

I used to get so worried when she would get into drama. Like I didn’t want ANYONE to hate her. But now I’m just like eh I need popcorn for this 😂

In an interview she talked about this is me trying being about addiction, so now i'm feeling like matty could've inspired that song

I mean y’all she was in a relationship where she idolized her partner to the point where she stated multiple times the idea of him leaving her was devastating. Seems to me she realized that she was strong enough to stand on her own and she finally feels like she is free to be who she wants. Matty might be a problematic guy but he’s also really chill and part of a friend group she probably feels accepted in. Seems like she finally let go of that need for everything to be perfect.

The Swiftologist has been working overtime these past weeks… almost as much as Tree Paine. Let us pray for both of them 🙏

Connection formed in my head Lavender Haze: "Talk your talk and go viral, I just need this love spiral" That's literally what's going on, everything Matt says goes viral because of what he says and she just wants to be in love with him. Oh my god, could Lavender Haze be a mix of Joe and Matty?

I was in the stadium when she sang Begin Again and Cold As You. After that I was just thinking “wtf happened between Taylor and Joe?”

I love how you’re continuing to report on this as a developing story, rather than waiting for all the pieces to 100% fall together. It’s so interesting to be able to look back on videos from 6 months ago and see where we were completely off the scent and where you had moments of absolute clairvoyance. I can’t wait to revisit all this in hindsight, especially once we have another original album from Taylor, when EOS covers 2023… 😋🍽️

“Joe Alwyn is distraught by Swift’s new relationship”…. “Get in line” … I died. Zach, I don’t what we would do without you.

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I kind of get it. With Joe, she was happy, but at the expense of the rest of her life. The only way to keep that happiness with him was to sacrifice a pretty big part of her that he didn’t like 🤷🏻‍♀️

Zach, way to put it all together THESE CRIMES! How dare she use Question!! Keep in mind the timeline 2021-2022 when she was writing Midnights with JAck, MAtty was writing his album with Jack at the exact same time. And during that time, Matty and Taylor worked on songs for Midnights.... so they were interacting back then at least on a friendship and collaborative level. Don't forget 6/9 opening acts have connections to MATTY, and she had to have planned that back in August 2022, and he planned his tour break around the Phoebe dates in May. I don't think she cheated. But, I think he has loved her and when things went south with Joe, and the cheating rumors, the "this is about how to propose, its not that hard" and "how to apologize is all they have to do", she reached for Matty who was there with open arms, who had loved her for ages. This Joe thing is turning into some tea, there are RUMORS surrounding the RUMORS about him.

I hear a lot of people judging her for jumping into a relationship so quickly after a long/serious one. First of all, we don't even know the exact details and when things switched off. Just because we heard Taylor & Joe broke up in April, doesn't mean they did and it doesn't mean she was happy till the end. I can absolutely relate to what she is going through. I was involved in a 4 1/2 year relationship where I lived with the person. They treated me poorly for the last year and I was too afraid to start over. I mourned that relationship while being in it. I knew it had to end. By the time, I moved out, I was over the relationship. I was excited to start over and was out and about. Within 3 months, I met a new man. We are married and have been together almost 10 yrs. I'm not saying Joe did anything negative but I'm just saying it's not always as easy to say "how can you move on so quick after a long intense relationship."

It is astounding to me that people are so disrespectful about her expressing happiness during this season of her life because of their own misperceptions about her and her relationship with Joe. She loved him but there was good reason for them to finally end their relationship. Long-term, they wanted different things and grew in different directions. And that's okay. It is so disrespectful to me to characterize her as losing her mind when she's actually just finding herself and enjoying a new season in her life. Her relationship with Joe ended privately long before it was made public. She did her grieving and moved on. And that's okay. I think that most of everybody being dismayed about it has to do with them being disappointed that their projections of who she was and what was going on in her life did not match the reality. And that's okay too.

she’s so fucking crazy i love her lmfao she just said fuck the turkey, fuck the media and i love my life! and good for her

I was so confused because not even a month ago she sang “A place in this world” and mentioned that she relates to this song more now than she did 20 years ago. I dont think of that as I’m in a “happy” phase more like lost and confused…So her saying she is the happiest she’s ever been threw me off but hearing your logic and reasoning makes total sense to me. Im glad she doesn’t care what people think of her now and is doing her own thing. I’m living for this Taylor Swift craziness era 😆

She also sang you’re not sorry very intensely When I watched that video I was like whoa Joe did something bad

I've had a theory about Question...? being about Matty Healy. Life took them in opposite directions so while there was not a ton of intense pining or back and forth, the seed of connection was planted in her: Unlike other sassy Taylor songs, she doesn’t seem to be particularly angry at this person. There is actually a lot of tenderness to this because she is prefacing it as “Can I ask you a question?” Instead of something like “I forgot that you existed.” Lol. “But one thing after another Lost in situations, circumstances Miscommunications and I Have to say By the way I just may like some explanations” Basically, all the scenarios she’s singing about have to do with things that happened: - They kissed in front of his friends and it was handled in an immature way (they laughed at him) - He took off in the middle of the night when they spent the night together - He retreated and pulled away and that was the end of it The way she repeats this so many times is like teasing him for his behavior: “Can I ask you a question? Did you ever have someone kiss you in a crowded room And every single one of your friends was Making fun of you But fifteen seconds later they were clapping too? Then what did you do?” Reasons to think it’s Matty Healy: “sad boy” (self-explanatory lol) “But you were on something It was one drink after another” (Matty’s drug problem) “Caught in politics and gender-roles” (things Matty Healy sings about a lot) Basically, it’s all left as gentle and almost playful questions and she “just may like some explanations”

Our lord and savior swiftologist always comes thru at the perfect time!

matty healy also worked with taylor for songs on midnights that didn't end up being released .... so maybe during 2022 when things with joe were going downhill she realised she and matty still had chemistry and wrote the wild shit like question and the 'when i meet the band' lyric in bejeweled

Im not here for matty healy, but i AM AAALLLLLL the way here for Taylors chaotic summer fun. Im ready for a Taylor Messy Summer and her just having fun in the whirlwind of it all ❤

Thank you for keeping us SANE girlies fed because Twitter and reddit are in shambles and I don’t wanna be there rn

When she sang question last night I literally gasped because she sang it on the one year anniversary of Harry’s house. Now this can still be for Matty but that’s was so unhinged because why that specific day

personally i think taylor should play i did something bad at the next show. clearly people don’t like her new relationship, so i think she should have some fun with that.

Your take on what she was actually saying is exactly what I thought, I got “shut the fuck up, or fuck off, either way I don’t care, I’ll be fine” vibes. I’ve seen quite a few people saying that what she said felt like a slap in the face, I believe it was intended to be, and she’s letting them know not to let the door hit them on the way out.

I like when Matty said "ERAS" like three times and then announced that the ERA of him being an asshole is coming to an end. It's cute.

Ok i will say i called that Question…? Was about matty in a past video comment. The “half moon eyes” (Matty always has those, they are a defining feature) and “suitable and right” (FKA Twigs is an obvious coupling for Matty, they dated for 2 years) really say it all for me. Also, going off what you said about her change of heart when it comes to the morality of cheating - when I heard “Ivy” I was pretty shook. Like that song made everyone want to cheat.

I have been telling my swiftie friends that the one is about matty since she dedicated cardigan to him. I felt crazy for almost thinking that they began rekindling a connection during the folklore era but I’m glad you saw it too

How can anyone hate her for dating who she wants and who makes her happy! We aren’t the ones dating Matty so let the girl be happy and date who she wants. She isn’t married yet and she can explore any relationship she wants. Let her find her one without creating drama for her.

When she was signing “should’ve said no”, the part that she says “was she worth it?” She shook her head and everybody laughed! That was sooo telling!

Taylor Swift works hard but Switologist works harder and omg you almost have 30k subscribers it's nice to see so many swiftologists!!

this might be an unpopular opinion but I don't think matty is just a rebound. I think the fact that they worked on songs together for midnights and were in the studio again earlier this year suggests that they've been in contact for a while and probably developed a friendship before they started dating. they also run in the same circles and have a lot of mutual friends. they even wrote songs about each other on their most recent albums so there are clearly unresolved feelings there as well. I don't think taylor sees him as just 'some guy' she's hooking up with. moreover they must really really like each other to go through with this relationship knowing it would get a lot of negative media attention. I mean matty literally deleted his entire social media presence before they announced the relationship. they clearly knew there would be backlash. so even if it doesn't work out in the end, I get the vibe that they're both pretty serious about each other at the moment

I’ve literally developed insomnia based on how unhinged the experience of being a Swiftie is right now. No one in my life understands thank goodness for the Swiftologist!!

Swiftologist has the most informed, in-depth, up-to-the-minute insight.

She really said to joe “when I’m away from you I’m happier than ever”

Sanity at last! I think the loud voices are primarily really young people who don't have a clue how attraction works IRL. I actually did some homework on this guy and have now watched multiple interviews. He is NOT the demon he is being made out to be. As for the moralizing of his values that is such BS and mostly I think masks the fact that they are pissed he isn't Disney prince material like Joe Alwyn. You know what else he isn't? Boring. I've now also seen countless TikTok's of him singing and dancing and enjoying Taylor's performances and looking thoroughly smitten. Which is an enormous change from Joe's attitude. I think Matty shares some of Taylor's neurosis as well and it can be a heady thing to find someone who can connect along that line. Is it stable? Probably not, but if you never bleed your never gonna grow. I have also seen clips of Taylor greeting and hugging Matty back in 2020 at the NME awards. So it's not like they never run into each other.

I see that she's happy despite the chaos, she is now a free woman. not hiding from good girl persona, she doesn't care about how people percieve her. There's a lot of reasons for her to be happy. Her mom's looking great, friends are supportive, her career is in another level now, honeymoon phase and she's in IDGAF era🥰🥰

i cant remember where i saw but im pretty sure this made its rounds on deuxmoi, but apparently after the 1975 show ended taylor and matty just stayed in the green room until 4 am just talking

it's the Matty effect❤️❤️❤️ I think he really really loves her

I love that you make these videos to parse everything together during this unhinged time. Keep it up please! It's so puzzling to think about when the Joe relationship ended, and I'm not sure I buy that they stayed together publicly so as not to detract from her Midnights album release. Because let's be honest, if she did a breakup announcement anywhere close to an album release, I'm pretty sure everyone would be extra thirsty for tea and she'd reap the benefits. Love your channel!

Really appreciate your dedication to keeping us updated on the tea, I want you to know that it is greatly appreciated! Like you said it’s fun, it’s sport, it’s March madness and I am here for it all with the help of your commentary! 😄 Hope you have a lovely time visiting your family!

Ok as a woman whose felt this ( at some point lol It didn’t last long ) I so GET this! And you should be happy for her! She’s in her 30s now and sooo much is different for her . She really looks like she’s finally letting her hair hang down! She’s hit her goals and now? Now she’s just LIVING…I’m so loving her now!

Maybe Matty Healy has grown up? I think they have always wanted to be together. Taylor and Matty are like music royalty! I have always wanted them together! ❤ 🤴 👸🏼 ❤🎉😊

Wellllll that instagram post with the new version of the albums has me THINKING. You’ve given us so much content but I’m greedy and I hope you address it

“You can be my jailor, Burton to this Taylor,” kinda hits different now.

I can almost guarantee that Matty wrote Oh Caroline as well as About You, for Taylor. You guys have got to watch his performance in Manila night 2 of Oh Caroline that he sang before flying to meet up with her. It’s incredible, so much passion and emotion.

ive been trying to decode the iconic lyric in glitch because there's so many possible things that could have happened but none of them are entirely 2190 days...also, i was on pinterest the other day and i have no clue where this came from but it was a screenshot of an instagram DM of an unknown person saying (and i quote) "have major taylor swift/joe alwyn tea for you. my best friend works for disney (film studios not theme parks) and the director of little mermaid (Rob marshall) ua repped by the same publicist that represents joe alwyn. they were all just in london premiering little mermaid and the publicist had dinner w/ joe while he was there. apparently taylor and joe got engaged sometime in 2022. taylor broke off the engagement out of the blue a few weeks before the eras tour started and fedexed her ring back to joe without giving an explanation. she's apparently gone radio silent on him and joe is totally distraught." THERE'S SOMETHING HEREEEE ESPECIALLY WITH THE DISTRAUGHT THING BUT idk i dont think this is super reliable but its just a lil morsell

The "Eras Era" is going to go down as the most chaotic Era ever!!! Taylor is just living her life without saying anything during the peak of her career and it is giving me life!!! I am here for it.

I feel like Matty and Taylor are endgame or just a phase. i could see where they are just temporary and don't last long or they completely surprise us all and announce a marriage

You’re providing such a valuable service to us all 🙏🏽

Let’s talk about how she did put her heart, soul, and probably her genealogical tree in singing You’re not sorry

Honestly Zach, I don't know what's going on, but I really hope I live long enough to read Taylor's tell-all memoir in 30 years. She owes us at this point...😅

When she said she is the happiest she has ever been. I thought to myself that is a subtle nudge telling everyone who is talking negatively about her and Matty to Shut the F*** up! She is happy and I don’t think she cares people are commenting on them. She truly has grown personal to not let the haters get to her hopefully 🤞🏻 She is a real person and her mental health can go down hill by other’s comments or behaviour just like us! I hope she stays strong and happy always 💖

Amazing video. The 1975 played Question... before their concert started, I guess was back in November 2022.

Oh, man - I felt like my entire life finally made sense when I fell crazy in love once. I moved country, occupation, etc etc. Hope it works out a lot better for T.

Realistically speaking I think she's just grieving all that she lost. She lost six years worth of time and effort, she lost the future she once thought she had with him, the person she thought she was going to become and many more things. She might want to make a point that she's never been happier to counteract her grief (which a completely normal part of a break up) but nevertheless it's a lot to deal for anyone and especially with such a public and scrutinized life.

Here’s the fact, I said it before, if Matty makes her happy, that should be good enough for everyone. And people are forgetting that people can change.

Have you heard about some Swifties who want Taylor to be in a conservatorship? I am very glad this channel exists cuz I hate how pearl-clutching the Swifties are getting.

i feel like the ‘i remember’ at the beginning of Question may just be a call back to the 1989 era rather than the ootw specifically… i was a Question=Harry truther but now with the Matty context the lyrics make so much more sense 🫢

I must confess I am not a Swiftie, but I was a huge fan of the TV show "LOST" back in the day. Somehow you have managed to turn Taylor Swift into an equivalent of that show. I am now becoming very interested in the mystery and intrigue within this woman's life as per your own mesmerizing narration of events. Taylor Swift's love life is now on par with the greatest mysteries of all time. How Taylor Swift ended-up with Matty Healy is like asking how the pyramids were built? We are presented with this great unsolved enigma complete with clues that span a discography a decade in the making. Your naming songs I do not know the words to, but it doesn't matter... I'm still absolutely captivated by your archaeology and careful curation of all things Taylor Swift.

i'm taking bets on when joe alwyn will destroy his car door

Why was your voice in this video borderline ASMR, Sir EXCUSE ME!? It gives me GOOSEBUMPS!!!!!!🫶🏻

swiftologist we need a video on the new announcements!!! 😩

So does anyone else now think that maybe “snow on the beach” is about Taylor and Matty? I mean they are an odd couple-she talks about smiling like she just won a prize and she just recently said how happy she is !

The rooster in the background while talking about the heirloom turkey is giving me lifeeeee

“To be honest Joe get in line, we were all distraught” LMAOOOO 😂 FOR REAL !

I live for you calling Joe the heirloom turkey lmao you’re freaking hilarious. “She’s on one, she’s lost her damn mind, and I’m ready to see.” Lol me too. I’m sitting back eating my popcorn. Love your content, thank you ❤

I've been thinking Question must be about Matty for a bunch of reason too. My tin foil hat theory is that "you painted all my nights a color I've searched for since" is proof it's about Matty Healy. I think it's a reference to the Halsey song "Colors" which is about him too

Matty apparently said he and Taylor collabed on Midnights but that it didn’t get included on the album. Would love to hear more about that.

Don’t know what we’d do without you KING. Thanks for serving us with all these emergency conferences- thank you for your service! 😂

Just saying: this is the perfect time for her to release "crazier (taylor's version)" as a single. She trully is going with the wind, letting it take her where it wants to go, and she's trully getting crazier, crazier, crazier, uh-hun. Maybe another set of four single with You'll always find your way back home (taylor's version)+Crazier (Taylor's Version)+Need+ Hits Different hitting streaming music platforms? It would make a whole lotta sense and I'd be sooo happy because Crazier is one of my favorite songs ever and I know she doesn't really need to release it as a TV, but I'd love to hear it in her current vocals.

I haven’t watched your vid yet but as a swiftie and 1975 fan I am livinggggggffg Their whole last album was about her!! So many specific lyrics 🥹🥹 and snow on the beach is 100% about matty!! I love that song 1000% times more now

Dropping everything I was doing to push play. So excited for this. Every time something happens in the Swiftieverse I want to hear from you so bad.

I strongly believe Joe did her wrong. Whatever it was. I was at her Houston show and when she sang You’re not Sorry for the first time in like a decade it clicked. No matter how fast she falls in love or how “petty” she can get, Taylor would NOT disrespect her relationship with Joe for what she painted it to be if he didn’t majorly f up. All these surprise songs point to a betrayal. Her friends unfollowing him. Her rubbing it all in his face. It wasn’t an amicable breakup. Everyone thought Joe was wonderful because of how SHE depicted him in her songs, he’s too private himself for us to really know him. She clearly praised someone who never gave her that praise back. She was talking because she was in love. There’s no way a man in love would avoid every chance to speak about his amazing girlfriend of many years. He probably enjoyed her company, enjoyed dating Taylor Swift (in one of his earlier interviews he’s so amazed he met Kristen Stewart). Maybe he wasn’t all that about her. She was in love and she put him in the light she wanted to see him in. But that time is up. He did something bad.

Oh honey, love you! You are so perceptive and it all makes sense. Thank you for your reporting. Without you I would be so lost on Taylor news.

Just want to say I love your videos and so glad I found your channel in the midst of all the chaos. I love the critical take on everything!!

Growing rapidly so well-deserved ❤❤ I am a new Swiftologist Stan, I have laughed so hard so much watching these vids, the deadpan humor is priceless