(Case in point: sexy baby.) We know from history that her songs almost always have specific reference points, many of them from her life.
In that vein, Midnights also has some of Taylor’s most elaborate, over-the-top metaphors, which is to say, sometimes it’s hard to figure out what the hell she’s talking about. I strongly suspect Swift had a thesaurus on hand while writing, because the range of vocabulary on display is truly impressive. Lyrically, Midnights is as Swiftian as ever: There’s a Crayola box’s worth of color references, a fair share of Easter eggs (including one lyric that Taylor snuck into her NYU graduation speech back in May), and one crushing track that can’t not be about John Mayer. Its arrival has prompted questions like, how many cameos is too many? Where the hell is Lana del Rey? And just what did Taylor mean when she called everyone a sexy baby? In its first 24 hours of existence, Taylor Swift’s new album, Midnights, has given us a lot to chew on. Taylor Swift is in the process of re-recording her first five albums.Taylor Swift, trying to decode her own lyrics. “And at the end of the day, my mum came up to my sound guy and she's like, ‘Is there any chance that you recorded that?’ And he was like, ‘Yep,’ and handed her a CD,” she went on.Īt the time, Taylor had split from Jake Gyllenhaal after a three-month relationship, leaving her heartbroken when he didn’t turn up to her 21st birthday party. And then we got done with that and then we moved on to the regularly scheduled rehearsal.
She continued: “I started ad libbing what I was going through and what I was feeling, and it went on, and the song kept building and building and building in intensity, and the song just went on for about, you know, 10 to 15 minutes of us doing this. Taylor Swift wrote 'All Too Well' while in a band rehearsal 'sad and upset'. Taylor Swift talks about release of Red (Taylor’s Version)
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