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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland surfaces across two Taylor Swift songs, through allusion.

Appears in 2 songs

Associated with Lewis Carroll

Anti-Hero
Midnights · 2022

“At teatime, everybody agrees”

Community readers connect the "teatime" line and the music video's dining-room scene to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: the mad tea party where nonsense is agreed upon as sense, and the giant-and-tiny scale games (Taylor outsized in the house, sipping from a doll-sized glass) that echo Alice's shifts in size after eating and drinking. The Wonderland frame fits a song about a self grown monstrously large and a reality that has stopped making sense.

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Wonderland
1989 · 2014

“Didn’t you calm my fears with a Cheshire cat smile?”

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