Up late with Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’
Switched on Pop
Taylor Swift's Songwriting Challenges You to Recognize Taylor Swift as a Songwriter
It feels like an almost R-rated Nashville country kind of song. Someone told his white collar crimes to the FBI. He was doing lines and crossing all of mine. That's a nice kind of allusion of these two metaphors, one about doing drugs and one about violating boundaries. The way she sings it villains and innocence are rhyming. Those words don't rhyme. She's building these images at the syllable level that feel like there's maybe a back story here or maybe it's just a little vignette that she's making up for this little verse.
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