![]() The album’s rollout is nowhere near over, so we very well might get some further insight into what Taylor means by some of these mystery lyrics. ![]() But between all the testy weather, whimsical scene-setting, and vivid revenge fantasies, not everything is clear. (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, trying to decode her own lyrics.
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