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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve always been interested in symbolism and find Taylor’s use of colors, in particular blue, fascinating. Fans, myself included, assumed that blue in her songs was a reference to Joe because of the color of his eyes (and his depression), but looking back, that wasn’t always the case. 
  
In her song Colors (2015), Halsey described Matty Healy as blue: 
“Everything is blue
His pills, his hands, his jeans
And now I'm covered in the colors
Pulled apart at the seams
And it's blue
And it's blue.”

TS thought of Matty as blue too. Maybe because she views him as a poet with a tortured heart, deep as an ocean, and he is a “sad boy”?

Whatever the reason, her use of blue to represent him and red for herself was a reference to them all along. For example, in the b&w Fortnight video, the only color she uses in the entire video is blue smoke coming from his typewriter and red coming from hers, interweaving in the air. There is also red and blue juxtaposition in Peace on Folklore.

“It’s blue, the feeling I've got” in Cruel Summer.

It’s possible “never seen that color blue” in Delicate is about him too; that one is a question mark in my mind. Figuratively, it could mean I’ve never felt that way about another man or never met someone before who feels so deeply, like I do. Later in Illicit Affairs she says, “You showed me colors you know I can't see with anyone else”, and I am convinced that song is about Matty. [/quote]

Of course Illicit Affairs is about Matty. That song is also what tipped me off that there was something going on in Taylor’s life that didn’t necessarily match her wholesome persona. Because she got the feelings in that song exactly right. Don’t ask me how I know.

Also to continue the blue theme, back in 2019 or so Matty was giving an interview in which he was talking about how Taylor Swift should pivot to something acoustic and said something about Taylor needing to come out with her own “Joni Mitchell’s Blue.” [/quote]

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