Taylor Swift Reveals Meaning Behind Lana Del Rey Collab

One nighttime a fewer moons ago, Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey teamed up for a collaboration.

The effect was "Snow connected the Beach," the 4th way disconnected Taylor's 2022 medium Midnights. Though Lana was credited arsenic a featured artist, fans were a spot amazed to perceive her signature dependable lone successful the inheritance of the song.

Now, Lana—which co-wrote the tune with Taylor and shaper Jack Antonoff—finally acceptable the grounds consecutive connected wherefore she provided vocal enactment for Taylor alternatively of getting her ain solo verse. As it turned out, the "Summertime Sadness" vocalist had "no thought I was the lone feature."

"Had I known, I would person sung the full 2nd verse similar she wanted," she explained successful a Billboard interrogation published Feb. 24. "My occupation arsenic a diagnostic connected a large artist's medium is to marque definite I assistance adhd to the accumulation of the song, truthful I was much focused connected the production." 

"The information that I get to beryllium astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic her is an grant and a privilege and the information that she would beryllium truthful generous arsenic to collaborate with america connected this opus is thing I'm gonna beryllium grateful for life,"  she shared successful an Oct. 28 Instagram video. "Absolutely emotion her."

As for what "Snow connected the Beach" actually means? "The opus is astir falling successful emotion with idiosyncratic astatine the aforesaid clip they are falling successful emotion with you," Taylor said. "It's successful this benignant of cataclysmic, fated infinitesimal wherever you recognize idiosyncratic feels precisely the aforesaid mode that you consciousness astatine the aforesaid moment."

Describing the feeling arsenic benignant of a dream, the Grammy victor added, "Kind of similar it would beryllium if you were to spot snowfall falling connected a beach."