Taylor Swift archetypal discovered the operation "lavender haze," the sanction of her opening track, portion watching Mad Men. As the vocalist recalled successful an Oct. 7 Instagram video, she soon learned "it's a communal operation utilized successful the ‘50s wherever they would conscionable picture being successful love."

"Like, if you were successful the lavender haze, past that meant you were successful that all-encompassing emotion glow," she explained. "And I thought that was truly beautiful." Swift added, "I guess, theoretically, erstwhile you're successful the lavender haze, you'll bash thing to enactment determination and not fto radical bring you down disconnected that cloud."

Swift went connected to notation her and Joe Alwyn's six-year romance. "We've had to dodge weird rumors, tabloid worldly and we conscionable disregard it," she noted. "And truthful this opus is benignant of astir the enactment of ignoring that worldly to support the existent stuff."

In 1 lyric connected the track, Swift straight references rumors astir the couple's narration status. "All they support asking me," she sings, "Is if I'm gonna beryllium your bride / The lone kinda miss they spot / Is a one-night oregon a wife."

Fun fact: "Lavender Haze" was co-written by Swift's friend, actress Zoë Kravitz.

Weeks earlier the merchandise of Midnights, Swift declared "Anti-Hero" 1 of her favourite songs she's "ever written" due to the fact that of its honesty.

"I truly don't deliberation I've delved this acold into my insecurities successful this item before," Swift explained successful an Oct. 3 Instagram video. "You know, I conflict a batch with the thought that my beingness has been unmanageably-sized. And not to dependable excessively dark, but I conscionable conflict with the thought of not feeling similar a person."

"This opus is existent guided circuit passim each the things I thin to hatred astir myself," she added. "We each hatred things astir ourselves and it's each of those aspects of the things we dislike and similar astir ourselves that we person to travel to presumption with if we're gonna beryllium this person."

Swift teamed up with Lana Del Rey for the 4th way connected Midnights. "The song, is astir falling successful emotion with idiosyncratic astatine the aforesaid clip they are falling successful emotion with you," Swift told fans connected Instagram Oct. 12. "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."

As Swift sings connected the track, "And it's similar snowfall astatine the formation / Weird, but f--king beauteous / Flying successful a imagination / Stars by the pocketful/You wanting maine / Tonight feels intolerable / But it's coming down / No sound, it's each around."

Swift did not mince words erstwhile it came clip constitute "Vigilante S--t," her instrumentality connected getting revenge aft being scorned. "You did immoderate atrocious things, but I'm the worst of them," Swift, presumably referencing her euphony conflict with Scooter Braun, sings. "Sometimes I wonderment which 1 volition beryllium your past lie."

Another imaginable notation to Braun? The opus references her enemy's breakup. "Now she gets the house, gets the kids, gets the pride," she sings. "Picture maine heavy arsenic thieves with your ex-wife." Braun and Yael Cohen called it quits successful 2021.

Swift's way "Bejeweled" is astir uncovering her airy adjacent erstwhile a spouse tried to dim it. "Baby love, I deliberation I've been a small excessively kind," she sings. "Didn't announcement you walkin' each implicit my bid of caput / In the shoes I gave you arsenic a contiguous / Puttin' idiosyncratic archetypal lone works erstwhile you're successful their apical 5 / And by the way, I'm goin' retired tonight."

"Best judge I'm inactive bejeweled," she continues. "When I locomotion successful the country / I tin inactive marque the full spot shimmer / And erstwhile I conscionable the band, they ask, 'Do you person a man?' / I could inactive say, 'I don't remember.'"

For her twelfth track, Swift erstwhile again collaborated with her longtime love, Alwyn. Of course, he's not credited by his ineligible sanction connected Midnights. Instead, he's credited nether his now-infamous pseudonym, William Bowery.

"They said the extremity is coming / Everyone's up to something," Swift sings. "I recovered myself a-running location to your saccharine nothings / Outside they're propulsion and shoving / You're successful the room humming / All that you ever wanted from maine was saccharine nothing."

While this opus is simply a emotion missive to her narration with Alwyn, it's absorbing to note, Swift's ex Calvin Harris has a way besides called "Sweet Nothing," released precisely a decennary agone successful Oct. 2012.

One of T.Swift's "3 a.m. tracks," includes the opus "Would've, Could've, Should've," which references a narration she had astatine the property of 19. Given that property detail, Swift fans are convinced the way is astir her romance with vocalist John Mayer, which reportedly took spot astir 2009 and 2010, erstwhile Mayer was 32.

"If you would've blinked past I would've looked distant astatine the archetypal glance," Swift sings connected the track. "If you tasted poison you could've spit me retired astatine the archetypal accidental / And if I was immoderate paint, did it splatter connected a promising grown man? And if I was a kid did it substance if you got to lavation your hands?" 

Later, Swift asks, "Give maine backmost my girlhood, it was excavation first."