TayTay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The frenzy I’d triggered among Taylor’s fans had spread to New Zealand’s online media. “Where in the world is TayTay?” read one headline. “Where in the world is Taylor Swift right now?” beseeched another.
ref: 2015 November, Maggie Shipstead, “I’m sorry, Taylor Swift: My one tweet set off a worldwide search for a “missing” pop star from Los Angeles to New Zealand”, in Salon, published 1 December 2015, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2015; republished in Tyler Conroy, Taylor Swift: This Is Our Song, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 2016, →ISBN, page 267, column 2:
text: Go ahead, get your Taylor Swift jokes out now. Because the second you listen to TayTay’s song about how much she loves her mom—complete with a music video of family-shot footage from her childhood—you will be a wet sack of sad bones.
ref: 2017, Kate Spencer, The Dead Moms Club: A Memoir about Death, Grief, and Surviving the Mother of All Losses, Boston, Mass.: Seal Press, →ISBN:
text: With her mercilessly coiffured blonde hair, tailored black suit, watered silk blouse, and sky-high heels, she looks like Taylor Swift in boardroom drag—a version of TayTay that runs on type O negative and has a severe sunlight allergy.
ref: 2017, Charles Stross, The Delirium Brief (The Laundry Files), New York, N.Y.: Tor.com, →ISBN, page 14:
text: I just spent an hour listening to Melie going on about how someone called TayTay thinks she’s so hot but she so isn’t and everyone knows that thing with thingy was such a stunt because he’s so far in the closet he’s hanging out with Aslan the lion and his woodland pals and it’s time she totes got over herself. […] ‘TayTay, what the hell kind of name is that? Some parents are just cruel.’ / ‘It’s a nickname.’ Maggie headed into the kitchen and put the wine glasses in the dishwasher. ‘Taylor Swift,’ she called through the door. ‘She’s a singer.’ […] ‘Go on then, what’s your favourite TayTay song?’
ref: 2019, Lisa Swift, When You Were Mine, London: Hera Books, →ISBN:
text: My girl TayTay has gotten me through a lot of heartache. “All Too Well” speaks to every part of my soul, and I can feel the pain that she must have felt from the end of that relationship, even though I’ve never actually been in a relationship.
ref: 2020, Natalie Merrill, Anything Matches If You Wear It with Confidence, Bloomington, Ind.: WestBow Press, →ISBN:
text: Although it’s always been taken for granted that the extended gap was caused by Kanye West constantly interrupting TayTay’s recording sessions by ringing her up with questions about Swedes (‘What do they rhyme with?’ ‘Do they make good pets?’ ‘How many to a box?’), the real reason is even darker.
ref: 2020, Dixe Wills, The Ultimate Bucket List: 50 Buckets You Must See Before You Die, Icon Books, →ISBN:
text: Now don’t get me wrong, I love me a bit of TayTay, but you know, unfortunately, a lot of what she does symbolises a big chunk of what we don’t need in the world right now. […] Okay, so, how does this connect to TayTay and her rebellious latest album? […] Sorry TayTay, as much as I can appreciate your personal struggles (I watched your Netfilx^([sic]) special, you do seem nice), nobody ever chanted a song about a favourite cardigan whilst heading into battle.
ref: 2020 September 19, Guy James Whitworth, Sydney Sentinel; republished in “TAY TAY”, in Tiffany Jones, editor, Bent Street 4.2 2020 (Bent Street: Australian LGBTIQA+ Arts, Writing & Ideas), Melbourne, Vic.: Clouds of Magellan Press, 2020, →ISBN:
text: “Taylor Swift is my go-to, but which song I choose depends on my mood and the general vibe. Do I want cute, poppy TayTay? Murder Angst Taylor? Heartbroken Tay? There are so many possibilities, but I’m not sure which one is right just yet.”
ref: 2022, Mia P. Manansala, Blackmail and Bibingka (Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mysteries), New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 128:
text: “It’s not actually a love song—more a love lost song. There’s a bit at the end that goes, “You weren’t mine to lose.” I always thought it was you were mine to lose. I got it totally wrong. As per usual.” / Liss lifted her head from kissing Amelia’s collarbone. “Hey, that’s one of my favorite people you’re dissing. You, not TayTay.”
ref: 2022, Georgia Clark, Island Time, New York, N.Y.: Emily Bestler Books, →ISBN, page 244:
text: Which is why I’m here bright and early in the kitchen of the beach house, my good friend Taylor Swift singing in my earbuds as I take the doors off the cabinets. […] “I’ll be careful,” I promise him, then return to singing along with TayTay.
ref: 2022, Ali Brady [pseudonym; Alison Hammer; Bradeigh Godfrey], The Beach Trap, New York, N.Y.: Berkley, →ISBN, page 108:
text: Taylor Swift Hasn’t Shed Her Old Skin. She’s Still Playing the Victim / ‘While TayTay tried to do damage control, her subsequent statement was fairly unconvincing.’
ref: 2023, Casian Anton, On the Famous Feud (The Famous Feud Project; 2), 2nd edition, page 149:
glosses: Alternative form of Tay Tay.