exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero Taylor Swift dropped her 10th studio album midnights at well midnight featuring yeah you guessed it 13 tracks and surprise seven bonus songs each telling a story of sleepless nights throughout the course of the Grammy Winner's life the concept of the album midnights is the extreme emotions you might be feeling in the middle of the night what keeps you up at night so that covers everything from grief to sadness to fear to anger to flirtation or daydreaming about someone or falling in love or feeling overconfident you know now we're breaking
down some of the juiciest lyrics and Easter eggs awesome starting with lavender Haze inspired by a phrase Taylor says she learned while watching Mad Men look at you you're in the lavender Haze it's a common phrase used in the 50s where they would just describe being in love like if you were in the lavender Haze then that meant that you were in that all-encompassing love glow the track was co-written by Swifty's friend Zoe Kravitz and is about the singer's six-year romance with Joe Alwyn [Music] [Music] we've had to dodge weird rumors tabloid stuff and we
just ignore it um and so this song is sort of about the act of ignoring that stuff to predict to protect the real stuff and Joe he collaborated on the 12th track on the album Sweet Nothing credited under his now famous pseudonym will Bowery you're in the kitchen nothing and in true Taylor fashion the album features songs seemingly inspired by her past loves too the ways in which I like to surprise people are with my creative choices maroon looks back at a former relationship that was lost [Music] and that lyric has fans thinking it could
be about her ex Tom Hiddleston whom she famously danced with at the 2016 Met Gala in yes New York and Taylor's fans think midnight rain is about the demise of her brief but very public relationship with Tom [Music] [Music] then there's T Swift's bonus track would have could have shut up which references a relationship she had at 19 which has fans convinced it's about her romance with John Mayer Who was 32 when they dated if I wasn't painted it's louder on a promising grown man and if I was a child it didn't matter if you
got to wash your hands she later sings quote give me back my girl hood it was mine first they say that when we're breaking up and they're like you better not write a song about this and I'm like oh I won't and then I do but the album isn't all love and love lost I would always like to keep people on their toes in that regard I think that's the best way to be exciting vigilante appears to reference her longtime Feud with Kanye West no Taylor I'm really happy for you I'm let you finish but
Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time I was standing on stage and I was really excited because I had just won the award and then I was really excited because Kanye West was on the stage then I wasn't so excited anymore after that you did some bad things but I'm the worst of them [Music] sometimes I wonder which one will be your last lie another possible reference to the rapper lyrics set seemingly point to his 2021 split from Kim Kardashian [Music] kids gets the pride pictures thieves with your ex wife meanwhile fans
theorize that karma is aimed at Scooter Brawn and big machine records Scott borschetta over the drama played out amid the battle for her Masters Spider Boy [Music] foreign