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Her genius lyrics are extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of tayoretical physics most of the meanings will go over a typical listener’s head.

Swift’s lyrical genius endures because of her ability to evoke emotion and tell stories.To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Taylor Swift. Many of Swift’s other songs embody simple practices of storytelling: “Haunted,” “Enchanted,” “All Too Well,” “Maroon” and others. Swift interrupts the story in the song to indicate that she is the one who bought the mansion: “Who knows, if I never showed up what could’ve been.” The lyrics then act as a commentary on Harkness, but also on how Swift changed the dynamic from a different era when she entered into the mansion and entered into the story. Harkness traversed the social ladder, like Gatsby did, without coming from the wealth that establishes propriety, the song informs us. She is the embodiment of lavish wealth and parties clashing with a widely held perception of old money. Harkness has a Gatsby-like quality to her. This song is another example of Swift’s literary prowess.

Swift had purchased the Rhode Island mansion that Harkness lived in. This raw and emotive song resonates with people because even though their experiences may differ from Swift’s, she captures how it feels to have deep-seated insecurities.įrom a different album, “Folklore,” Swift recounts the story of Rebekah Harkness. Here, Swift draws on common sayings and uses different types of rhyme to create lyrics that sound rhetorically interesting, but also narrate something deeper than a basic story: they narrate a deep emotion. Part of the first verse reads, “I have this thing where I get older, but just never wiser/Midnights become my afternoons/When my depression works the graveyard shift/All of the people I’ve ghosted stand there in the room/I should not be left to my own devices/They come with prices and vices, I end up in crisis.” “Anti-Hero” describes Swift’s insecurities, including dreaming that she was killed by her future daughter-in-law for money, as well as insecurities around societal expectations of her appearance. Take, for example, the song “Anti-Hero” from her latest album.