Connecting Back To December To Enchanted And Dear John

Connecting Back to December to Enchanted and Dear John

Popular lore among gaylores regarding muse discourse on Back to December is that it's about Liz and Dear John is about Emily. I, however, have some reservations due to inconsistencies. Many fans are quick to lump songs and muses according to the public narrative and whether it's about love or heartbreak. For me, some heartbreak songs seem to be talking about different people or convey different messages. Breathe and Dear John are two very different songs, while Dear John tells us a story of a manipulative person playing with the speaker's heart, in Breathe the speaker sounds regretful and apologetic. Even the hidden message says the same:

That is why I think whoever she's talking about in Dear John, IBYTAM, and WANEGBT are the same person.

So, what made me think that Back to December and Enchanted are connected?

it brings me back to the VMAs

where she supposedly met Adam Young (Owl City) and wrote the song and said she wants to be there front row

another gaylor parallel we know is her attending her first fashion event sitting beside Penn Badgely front row

During that trip Taylor was mostly alone, it was in the middle of the tour, she came early and stayed for a while watching Karlie's Tommy Hilfiger NYFW so her other bandmates like Liz was not with her that time.

Now it could just be Taylor exercising her artistic flexibility but I believe that Taylor is a songwriter first before singer/performer that's why we have the song, Dear Reader. She wants us to read what she's trying to say, so I don't treat all her lines as a metaphor or red herring because I believe she's very aware of what she's saying in her songs.

But this is also just me trying to weave a story through her songs that makes sense in my mind.

So, what happened?

Again, Taylor told us that she and Karlie met way earlier than what the public narrative was, and that could be the reason for the instant sizzling chemistry we saw in 2013 and why Taylor moved to the opposite coast 2 months after meeting Karlie.

Her songs during this time can be described as hopefuly, like a fairytale but also with smidges of heartbreak, etc. and if we think that Style is a Kaylor song then we can say that they had a lot of ups and downs especially the early years, and i think this is one of them.

Both of them are busy travelling all over the world, with Taylor and her world tour and Karlie's first year as most photographed model and they might have made the effort to spend time and travel to see each other but of course distance and lack of time can be an issue.

Anyway, in September Taylor went to the VMAs and spent her break in NYC - wrote Enchanted, then went back touring. in December she was photographed partying with Julianne Hough

And JH is not that much older than Taylor but she was 19 at that time and the song Dear John talks about her being too young for manipulative, hot/cold, pull and push. But maybe that kind of behavior also brought excitement however it wasn't long-lasting.

Since I believe that DJ and IBYTAM talks about the same person and it talks about someone who grew up rich which none of the others potential muses are (Emily, Liz, Dianna, Karllie) except for possible JH whose father is a Congressman and was born in a very tiny town called Orem, Utah. At 10, her and her brother were sent to London to study. Her favorite band is Imagine Dragons, an indie band.

She wrote Dear John in February 2010, I assume this was when she realized how toxic the relationship was. She then wrote Back to December in March 2010 after having lunch with Taylor Lautner in NYC (a coincidence). She also shot the music video in New York

this line here makes me think this is not about Liz since they are working together and are even considered roommates. So it's someone who she has not seen for a while.

Again this tracks one of the busiest period of Karlie's life jetting off from one place to another because she was everybody'a muae.

this bike also reminds me of Begin Again and I think Taylor put that there for a reason.

So these were my rambling thoughts on how these songs are connected, again, no proof but all feelings. :D

Unbraiding: When Emma Falls in Love

Another song that stumps me is WEFIL, i don't have any idea who this is for but Taylor did say she wrote it for her best friend. However this line had me thinking

Taylor was born in West Reading, Pennsylvania, but she grew up in Wyomissing and those are not big towns/cities. and probably the most telling is Cleopatra who has been maligned by history by reducing her to "Julius' lover" or the "queen whore" when she was a woman of formidable intelligence, a cunning strategist, and called "the queen of kings" and it suits how Taylor has been reduced to a "boy crazy" girl and slut-shamed despite her achievements.

these parallel lines seem to say that Emma =good boys to good/bad guys to good = I

and of course this line from Gold Rush

I = call you out = She/Emma

let's not forget how she called herself New York City

False God - I'm New York City

WEFIL - She's so New York

I'm = New York = She/Emma

but could also be metaphorical when we think that NY is where “you can want who you want. Boys and boys and girls and girls” and felt more like not belonging.

we all know which show this was

And all these lyric parallels on how she/they boarded up their windows etc to protect their privacy and her saying that she fiercely protects her privacy now.

Although I am not sure who I is here and whose POV she's talking from but it seems like she's saying she is Emma and just describing herself and how intensely she falls in love.

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cruelsummer242424

9 months ago

“It would be career su*cide if her fans found out that she lied about everything so why would she do that? She’s obviously straight and y’all are delusional freaks”

Oh you mean like: “what if I roll the stone away, they’re gonna crucify me anyway…”

You mean like “Combat, I’m ready for combat”

You mean like “I can show you lies”

You mean like “I’d rather burn my whole life down than listen to one more second of all this bitchin’ and moaning / I’ll tell you bout my good name, it’s mine alone to disgrace / I don’t cater to all these vipers dressed in empath’s clothing”

You think those are just songs about being in your 30s and not being allowed to date a man / a man not loving you back? That’s wild.

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cruelsummer242424

3 months ago

3/14, the only date stamp visible in this video, which was posted exactly 13 days after 3/14. 🙃

Hey remember how she mashed this song up with Never Grown Up on her July 10th 2024 Eras show, the day before someone else’s birthday?

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cruelsummer242424

5 months ago

Choose your fighter

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cruelsummer242424

1 month ago

love you, Karlie

"i genuinely don't give a fuck"

ma'am pic.twitter.com/An2lBaqnXF

— lurker (@lurker583) May 20, 2025

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cruelsummer242424

1 year ago

I see a T. Karlie it's too early for this 😭

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cruelsummer242424

1 year ago

Renaissance Story from an Elder

In 2022, over dinner chatting about music, a good girlfriend casually dropped “have you heard of Gaylor and that one theory is that Reputation is actually about Karlie Kloss?” Record scratch- What?! 🤯I need to know more as this did not line up with what I had thought.

After departing dinner, late into the night I dove into her suggested podcasts, PowerPoints, and blogs. I fell hard and fast through the rabbit hole! 🐇🕳️!

Now I hate to admit this but I had gone through life just casually listening to music, not really reading and analyzing lyrics, themes or parallels in an artists discography. I was bad at remembering lyrics, often singing the wrong words, so I just never dug past the surface….until my 👀 came upon ALL OF THIS on Kaylor Tumbler!

As a former lurker of a few of your beautiful Kaylor blogs, in 2023 I felt the need to go off anon in order to “heart” just about every post I saw and contribute to the konversations.

Never in my life, would I have thought I’d find a such a welcoming, smart, witty, beautiful niche community on Tumbler (I didn’t even know what this site was until I fell down in the 🐇🕳️)

Still with reading?! Great, now the most beautiful part 🌈!

Through all this deep dive into Kaylor history and current Kaylor, bearding, learning so much about queer flagging, queer history & cultural references and starting to listen, really listen, to more queer artists, IG algorithms doing their thang, seeing so many representations of the LGBTQIA community, I had some honest conversations with myself and finally admitted that I was not 100% straight.

Look I had some fun in my 20’s and there were many alcohol-infused situations that sober me would chalk up to being under the influence and moved on with hetero life.

After going through a few months of a 2023 sober-curious journey, simultaneously while Kaylor’ing, I just knew I couldn’t explain away some resurfaced 🌈 feelings. I needed to be honest with myself and my spouse of 17 years, that I am beautiful bi. 🌈

I haven’t lost any love or attraction to my husband at all and this vulnerable realization has only made our relationship stronger. He is so supportive and I am so thankful, what a relief off my mind.

I guess to sum it up, witnessing one of the greatest love stories unfold is truly an honor, like we’re in a secret club.

Kaylor has helped me become a more honest, educated, understanding, and empathetic person! With the deepest gratitude I thank this community! I’m so excited for what may unfold in the coming months & years.

Here to stay and Gay for Tay!

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cruelsummer242424

1 year ago

Hear me out❓

So the Karlie kloss way street sign was officially announced on 3 April 2024 but the fk up thing is that sign was there for a long time like 2022 or 2020.

and the other level mind blowing thing is that the bill of this street was first issued in 2019!!!!! Like hello lover album 2019.

She literally wrote the 16 avenue line because maybe they knew the details of the bill that Karlie is getting a street name after her in 16 avenue. 🤔

(if not then 😉the universe is so loud kaylor)

But the question is why all of sudden now she announced the street sign???