I think we need to look at the progression of the album. (the first part not the anthology) The Alchemy is the 2nd last song on the album. Befor that song she sings "I can fix him " -about matt. Then he was the loss of her life (loml). After that its" i can do it with a broken heart" . Meaning her and Matty are no longer together. THEN, it "the smallest man who ever lived" -Matty again. telling him she doesnt want him back . then its the Alchemy, the chemistry is what she means by Alchemy. this song is CLEARLY about Travis. The child play back in school is where he talks about the "kiss marry kill " interview he did where he said he would marry Kim Kardashian. also, she sang this song to Travis at a show. This song is 100% about Travis.
The track lists are almost never chronological. We get the archer after lover, DBATC after paper rings, false god after London boy, etc. I understand why people think it’s about Travis. I just completely disagree 😂 did you watch the video? I try to explain in detail all of my reasonings.
The fans seem to think that a song written about Matty cheapens it somehow and are still in denial about some of the less obvious songs. But she told us it's the worst men she writes about the best. These are her experiences, whether we like it or not. One of the main reasons this song is not one of my faves is because I couldn't make sense of the lyrics. The chorus and bridge seem to have obvious football references, but the rest of the song doesn't have anything to do with Travis. It being about Matty makes much more sense. The fact that the bridge turned out to be something that happened with Travis is pretty bonkers. And she definitely has leaned into the theory that it is about Travis by playing it at the 87th show.
I believe that her saying "That child’s play back in school is forgiven under my rule" might refer to Travis getting kicked off his College football team for a positive Marijuana test. (Another thing that I thought of was, Travis and Jason Kelce are also notoriously known to have BOTH been kicked out of preschool when they were young. 😂 Jason hurt a kid playing a game and Travis threw a chair at the teacher. Lol. They've talked about it on their Podcast. Jason's wife Kylie was on that day and looked horrified like, 'Good Lord... I married into this?' 😆) Just my humble opinion. 😊 P.S. Travis said this is one of his favorite songs from TTPD. He said So High School and The Alchemy during an interview at Kelce Jam. 😂 Ultimately, whoever she's writing about is her business. I think it's a great song, and I love it.
I am a bit torn about writing this. As you said you have given us your interpretation and you kept that even knowing that a lot of people think this is about Travis and, as interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art you are, not wrong even when you in my opinion are :) I also do not want to diminish your joy in this song as you describe 4 and half minutes into the video, so please stop reading if someone responding to your request at the end of the video, asking to post if they think you are wrong, and explain why they think it is about Travis would diminish your enjoyment of the song. 1 This is more a question springing from my observation of a lot of people that want to link this to Matty. If the heroin(e) lines had not been in here would you still have the same opinion? The reason i ask that is because to me it seems that a lot of people's reasoning short circuits there and go heroin = Matty and the word is to difficult for Travis, and no amount of reasoning is possible after that. 2 Positioning. Your argument about who this is about would hold a lot more power if it was the second song on the album. Putting what is more or less a love against all odds song as you describe it it right after 3 songs that say you betrayed me, used me, tried to ruin what was supposed to be the best summer of my life and were a spineless basterd is how Quentin Tarantino did Pulp Fiction but not how most people order things in their life. Would this be placed as the second song on the album if would make a lot more sense as it can be seen as an introduction on how the relation came to be. 3 The song is chock-full of football references even when there are other words that you can use to say the same she choose to use them, that just makes no sense especially if you keep in mind that there is 3/4 year between the end of her relationship with Matty and when the album came out and for most of that time you had a relationship that seems to be pretty happy with a football player. Would it not be an ultimate betrayal to that new love to coat a love song to another man in terminology from the sport where he is one of the best in his position of all time in? If that would ever be true I will never listen to a song of hers again, she would be smaller then the smallest man to me, especially since: 4 Paris night 4, Travis was there and she dressed 1989 in the Chiefs colours. She starts the surprise songs by asking: Do you guys know this is our 87 show? And immediately went to singing The Alchemy. 87 is Travis jersey number. That would be beyond rude to do that if it were not about him. 5 This is speculation, but i think that Taylor was in a mental really dark place after first her 6 year relation ended and then the person who she saw as "the one that got away" and build up and attributed so much to in her dreams turned out to be a fake. I listened to Erin and Charissa's podcast where they reacted to his bracelet story after they already reacted to it on social media before that. They said that Travis is a pretty happy go lucky person, without any real baggage, and someone who will give you a good time going out with him even if nothing comes from it. Please give our friend Travis a chance, he is a great guy you wont be disappointed they said. I think that someone on Taylor's team saw these type of reactions and pushed her towards him for some uncomplicated good time hoping it would get her out of her "i can do it with a broken heart" period. As i said this is all speculation but this is more or less how i see that they got together because i do not think Taylor knew who he was. 6 This touches on the iconic perfect relationship that you describe for Travis and Taylor around 4:30. I think you are wrong there, they had a lot of backlash once it became public but they hinted that it wasn't easy before that. Yes a part of the community saw them as a great match but a lot of people saw in Travis their high school nemesis, the jock that bullied them, stole their friend, never acknowledged them or worse dumped them after something like in fifteen. A lot of people tried to dig up dirt on Travis, his squirle tweet from 2011 or so got him ridiculed a lot, it got used as a sign that he could not hold a candle on the intelligence spectrum next to the genius of Taylor, that girl from his dating show that grabbed her 15 minutes of fame, people questioned his intelligence, saw him as only trying to use her for her fame etc. And then there were all the Brad's and Chad's for which she ruined football, that she was just using him to write new songs, that she as a maneater was not a girl for a good guy like him etc. He had to move out of his first house and then had to move out where he stayed after that because he had people standing in front of his window or something so he had to buy a new house in a secluded gated community or so to get some rest in his hometown. There were a lot of things that were not easy for them at the start of their relation and it took some time before it became what it is now in the eyes of most people. For me the two things that changed it all were the first game she watched and Argentina. 7 Now to get into the song. Title. Remember Taylor in her, time? interview gave a bit of a strange response about when they started hanging out? This all started when Travis put me on blast on his podcast, which i thought was Metal as hell! Afterwards everyone was going, that is weird phrasing, and all the Swifties fell back to their mantra: "But what does it mean!?". The relation started as base Metal but they performed Alchemy on it? 8 Verse 1 back in love, when she was in a mood that let her write The Prophecy in which she questioned everything (when i first heard TTPD i asked myself if they has a 24/7 watch on Taylor for a while after those 2 relation disasters because it sounded dark!), followed by a reference to the tiktok craze where mostly women were filming them telling a football loving person that Travis only became famous because of her. 9 Touch down is a mix between landing and scoring but the obvious football reference i explained earlier how i think about that. Amateurs, team, clown is a reference to his PR person that retweeted a photo of herself in the box at one of the games with a clown emoji over Taylors face. Taylor is the crown. Sign on your heart, type in google Travis Kelce heartsign and look at the images. You will see Travis making a Fearless heartsign, with his 87 gloves, at the Bill's game to her. 11 Cool, childs play, They both have history, not with each other but they still have one of them is in the next verse 12 Blokes i see as all the British boys she went out before but who were substituted out more or less like you say but to me they include Matty. 13 Heroine Travis got kicked out of his college team for smoking weed, athletes are rumored to do a lot of things to try and get better so i bet they had a talk about that if it went any further then that. Some of the lyrics in Taylors song can give an indication that she has been high but that it never went further then that because her escape has always been song writing not pills etc. So while he might not have that word in his vocabulary Taylor might have asked him that and he quipped like as a female Marvel hero? 14 Winning streak is a reference to some people blaming Taylor for or be afraid that she would get blamed if the Chiefs started loosing but the NFL had stats that Travis was actually performing better with her there then without her and they kept winning! 15 Shirts off, lift you up. This could be a reference to the first time she met the whole family and Jason was the one without shirt that jumped out of the box in Buffalo into the freezing cold to help that girl that made a sign for Taylor show it to her. Cheers chanted was changed into Chiefs chanted by her in one of the mashups. No chance, back to back superbowls is almost unheard off. He just comes running over to me -> Karma is the guy on the Chiefs coming straight home to me?
The references are about Travis you cannot identify any of the lore because you are not related with New Heights or the past interviews of Travis, for Travis fans are pretty clear if you cannot see it I understand but the references are nothing related with Matty. Specially circle on the map is like the similarity with kill, kiss or marry in SHS
Oh I know the lore! Haha I just don’t think that’s what the song is about. I think people can force connections in many ways when they search hard enough
@@ThePoeticApothecary well I don’t see how Matty or Joe could be related with the song, the only point that can relate with Matty is the hospital was a drag that’s the only one but everybody can interpret in their own as they keep listening to Taylor I don’t have a problem with that
@@julianatirado9247 did you watch the whole video? I tried to touch on all the lyrical connections I felt related to Matty and the history they’ve had for a decade. I totally agree that people can have their own interpretations. I have new revelations all the time haha
My interpretation with smallest man closed Matty chapter in TTPD, the song start like a heart beating is like the rhythm in all the song her last relationship left her almost dying, she explains the hospital was a drag, but she start to come back as she used to be before, as he tried to reached her she circle him on a map is the polite way to reference that she put him on a map (viral TikTok’s ), the child play back in school was his W**d problem for that reason was spelled from school and felt that he disappoint his family, one of his big regrets, but she is ok with that. Ditch the clowns cut the amateurs is the viral incident with his new publicist, heroin with an e is because she is his heroine he always refers as the woman of his dreams like a strong, smart woman and the joke is the way he talks he also make jokes with cr**ck and w**d, is very clear in the podcast, blokes warm benches is a term of soccer both Joe Matty were the warm benchers in soccer that’s not good and the part of the trophy is al football match reference, I don’t think is related exactly with superbowls as many interpret because she ask where is the trophy? And only give trophies on superbowl and conference final, so I think was a regular game
As soon as you said gold it made me think of gold rush and other songs like invisible string or just other songs from the last or the Taylor’s vault songs that I think are about matty also. No one knew back then about them but now that we have ttpd it all makes more sense.
@@tiffanysd925 I was just thinking back to the first time I listened to gold rush and I’m like hmmm fades into the gray of my day old tea cuz it will never be sounds elusive yet longing. I also remember being so curious about the one and illicit affairs. It’s bizarre that I didn’t read into it more because I remember being like 🤔🤔🤔
@@ThePoeticApothecary exactly!!! I couldn’t agree more! So many channels have missed that connection. I am like please update your videos y’all, I’m so glad I found your channel. Ultimately it’s none of our biz but I mean she gave us this and we can’t help but wonder, we all know Taylor would wonder too. 💜❤️💙
@@ThePoeticApothecary I also can’t stand how even the 1975 fans don’t pick up on any Taylor references either. All I know is some of their songs are sexy af and some have a great message when u take the time to research what they say they’re all about. They’re not that bad of people, listening to the apple interview he did and hearing how he’s also trying to change the music industry with his own record label is cool. Everyone has a few bad moments and jokes but I think he’s a good artist and both things can be true I can be a fan of his band and Taylor’s right, good music is good music when there’s meaning behind it.
You already know from a previous comment I left that I totally agree with your interpretation of this song and that's exactly the way I feel about it too! ❤ I love your breakdown! 22:45 here it reminds me that this album feels very ironic in the way it portrays so accurately the intense infatuation a relationship like that can bring. I fell like there is a very fine line between being romantic and poetic and unserious, almost making fun of this "in love behaviour" and I loved this aspect throughout the album, it's hard to really know when she's being serious!
Couldn’t agree more! I also think she was very intentional about the songs she put on the main record and them being about what she said in the main record’s announcement: “This period of the author's life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up…Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it.” So why would a Travis song be part of that?
@@2cwn2 I think part of WAOLOM was referencing when she was really angry about the public scrutiny ruining her relationship with Matty so in some ways it could relate
@@ThePoeticApothecary There is speculation that the last verse of "Who's Afraid" is about Travis where the same problem arose at the start, In the live show she substitutes that verse with so High School, coincidence? I think not.
I thought about that!! But she’s said in the past that she can’t move on to another song until the one she’s working on is finished and I’m not sure that would really work in the timeline because I think this was written before she got with Matty in 2023
@@ThePoeticApothecary she sang it to him on the 87th show. she SANG it to him. she changed the closing song (when very one is leaving the show) from the 1 to The alchemy . this song is 10000000% about Travis. even the lyrics about touch down, cutting them from the team, bench warmers. I could go on.
@@jadezammit4372 she also sang karma is the guy on the chiefs but that doesn’t mean karma was written about him lol I love how songs can change meanings once they enter the world (just like all too well became a fan song) and I’m sure it’s more exciting for her to sing to Travis. Did you watch the whole video with my thoughts on the lyrics?
@@ThePoeticApothecary I did. and she changed the lyrics in Karma just for her shows when Travis is there. she still sings the regular lyrics when he isn't there, so I do understand that meaning can change for sure. but i feel like the lyrics are so clearly about Travis. With the winning streak is him winning the super bowl. the bridge is about is about being at the games. Like in my own comment, not this reply, the progression of the album is the most telling part. she likes to tell a story, and the first part of the album is a very clear story. Matty is out of the picture with the smallest man who ever lived. shes moving on! but i understand that everyone's interpertation can be different based on how they see/ feel things.
@@jadezammit4372 the album was announced before the superbowl even happened and the track list was leaked well before that. Plus, since the alchemy was on the original album it would have needed to be completed months prior for the vinyls. Vinyls take months to press which means the alchemy would have been written and completely finished before the end of 2023. Also having so long London be a track five doesn’t completely fit the storyline of the tracklist since guilty as sin comes after. Plus, Down bad comes before fresh out the slammer. The order doesn’t tell the chronological story to me at all. I know it doesn’t matter but this is my truth 😂😂😂
She has clearly confirmed that this song is about Travis and her. So has he. The mental gymnastics you are using to try and reach a different conclusion are hilarious.
Saying it was one of his favorite songs with a laugh isn’t confirming that it was written about him. He just knows fans think it’s about him and why not play into that for fun? My interpretation has been the same from the beginning.
Did I change anyone's mind about this song? 🙃 I can't get over how good it is!
Nope.
I think we need to look at the progression of the album. (the first part not the anthology)
The Alchemy is the 2nd last song on the album. Befor that song she sings "I can fix him " -about matt. Then he was the loss of her life (loml). After that its" i can do it with a broken heart" . Meaning her and Matty are no longer together. THEN, it "the smallest man who ever lived" -Matty again. telling him she doesnt want him back . then its the Alchemy, the chemistry is what she means by Alchemy. this song is CLEARLY about Travis. The child play back in school is where he talks about the "kiss marry kill " interview he did where he said he would marry Kim Kardashian. also, she sang this song to Travis at a show. This song is 100% about Travis.
The track lists are almost never chronological. We get the archer after lover, DBATC after paper rings, false god after London boy, etc. I understand why people think it’s about Travis. I just completely disagree 😂 did you watch the video? I try to explain in detail all of my reasonings.
@@ThePoeticApothecaryIs she not allowed to put TTPD in chronological order?
The fans seem to think that a song written about Matty cheapens it somehow and are still in denial about some of the less obvious songs. But she told us it's the worst men she writes about the best. These are her experiences, whether we like it or not.
One of the main reasons this song is not one of my faves is because I couldn't make sense of the lyrics. The chorus and bridge seem to have obvious football references, but the rest of the song doesn't have anything to do with Travis. It being about Matty makes much more sense.
The fact that the bridge turned out to be something that happened with Travis is pretty bonkers. And she definitely has leaned into the theory that it is about Travis by playing it at the 87th show.
This! 🙌
When a song clicks for me it hits so much harder. I’m so glad you were able to articulate how I felt about it haha
❤❤❤ I’ve been looking for a video about this!! Thank you!
@@tiffanysd925 yay! I’m so glad you found it :)
I believe that her saying "That child’s play back in school is forgiven under my rule" might refer to Travis getting kicked off his College football team for a positive Marijuana test.
(Another thing that I thought of was, Travis and Jason Kelce are also notoriously known to have BOTH been kicked out of preschool when they were young. 😂 Jason hurt a kid playing a game and Travis threw a chair at the teacher. Lol. They've talked about it on their Podcast. Jason's wife Kylie was on that day and looked horrified like, 'Good Lord... I married into this?' 😆)
Just my humble opinion. 😊
P.S. Travis said this is one of his favorite songs from TTPD. He said So High School and The Alchemy during an interview at Kelce Jam. 😂
Ultimately, whoever she's writing about is her business. I think it's a great song, and I love it.
I am a bit torn about writing this. As you said you have given us your interpretation and you kept that even knowing that a lot of people think this is about Travis and, as interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art you are, not wrong even when you in my opinion are :) I also do not want to diminish your joy in this song as you describe 4 and half minutes into the video, so please stop reading if someone responding to your request at the end of the video, asking to post if they think you are wrong, and explain why they think it is about Travis would diminish your enjoyment of the song.
1 This is more a question springing from my observation of a lot of people that want to link this to Matty. If the heroin(e) lines had not been in here would you still have the same opinion? The reason i ask that is because to me it seems that a lot of people's reasoning short circuits there and go heroin = Matty and the word is to difficult for Travis, and no amount of reasoning is possible after that.
2 Positioning. Your argument about who this is about would hold a lot more power if it was the second song on the album. Putting what is more or less a love against all odds song as you describe it it right after 3 songs that say you betrayed me, used me, tried to ruin what was supposed to be the best summer of my life and were a spineless basterd is how Quentin Tarantino did Pulp Fiction but not how most people order things in their life. Would this be placed as the second song on the album if would make a lot more sense as it can be seen as an introduction on how the relation came to be.
3 The song is chock-full of football references even when there are other words that you can use to say the same she choose to use them, that just makes no sense especially if you keep in mind that there is 3/4 year between the end of her relationship with Matty and when the album came out and for most of that time you had a relationship that seems to be pretty happy with a football player. Would it not be an ultimate betrayal to that new love to coat a love song to another man in terminology from the sport where he is one of the best in his position of all time in? If that would ever be true I will never listen to a song of hers again, she would be smaller then the smallest man to me, especially since:
4 Paris night 4, Travis was there and she dressed 1989 in the Chiefs colours. She starts the surprise songs by asking: Do you guys know this is our 87 show? And immediately went to singing The Alchemy. 87 is Travis jersey number. That would be beyond rude to do that if it were not about him.
5 This is speculation, but i think that Taylor was in a mental really dark place after first her 6 year relation ended and then the person who she saw as "the one that got away" and build up and attributed so much to in her dreams turned out to be a fake. I listened to Erin and Charissa's podcast where they reacted to his bracelet story after they already reacted to it on social media before that. They said that Travis is a pretty happy go lucky person, without any real baggage, and someone who will give you a good time going out with him even if nothing comes from it. Please give our friend Travis a chance, he is a great guy you wont be disappointed they said. I think that someone on Taylor's team saw these type of reactions and pushed her towards him for some uncomplicated good time hoping it would get her out of her "i can do it with a broken heart" period. As i said this is all speculation but this is more or less how i see that they got together because i do not think Taylor knew who he was.
6 This touches on the iconic perfect relationship that you describe for Travis and Taylor around 4:30. I think you are wrong there, they had a lot of backlash once it became public but they hinted that it wasn't easy before that. Yes a part of the community saw them as a great match but a lot of people saw in Travis their high school nemesis, the jock that bullied them, stole their friend, never acknowledged them or worse dumped them after something like in fifteen. A lot of people tried to dig up dirt on Travis, his squirle tweet from 2011 or so got him ridiculed a lot, it got used as a sign that he could not hold a candle on the intelligence spectrum next to the genius of Taylor, that girl from his dating show that grabbed her 15 minutes of fame, people questioned his intelligence, saw him as only trying to use her for her fame etc. And then there were all the Brad's and Chad's for which she ruined football, that she was just using him to write new songs, that she as a maneater was not a girl for a good guy like him etc. He had to move out of his first house and then had to move out where he stayed after that because he had people standing in front of his window or something so he had to buy a new house in a secluded gated community or so to get some rest in his hometown. There were a lot of things that were not easy for them at the start of their relation and it took some time before it became what it is now in the eyes of most people. For me the two things that changed it all were the first game she watched and Argentina.
7 Now to get into the song. Title. Remember Taylor in her, time? interview gave a bit of a strange response about when they started hanging out? This all started when Travis put me on blast on his podcast, which i thought was Metal as hell! Afterwards everyone was going, that is weird phrasing, and all the Swifties fell back to their mantra: "But what does it mean!?". The relation started as base Metal but they performed Alchemy on it?
8 Verse 1 back in love, when she was in a mood that let her write The Prophecy in which she questioned everything (when i first heard TTPD i asked myself if they has a 24/7 watch on Taylor for a while after those 2 relation disasters because it sounded dark!), followed by a reference to the tiktok craze where mostly women were filming them telling a football loving person that Travis only became famous because of her.
9 Touch down is a mix between landing and scoring but the obvious football reference i explained earlier how i think about that. Amateurs, team, clown is a reference to his PR person that retweeted a photo of herself in the box at one of the games with a clown emoji over Taylors face. Taylor is the crown. Sign on your heart, type in google Travis Kelce heartsign and look at the images. You will see Travis making a Fearless heartsign, with his 87 gloves, at the Bill's game to her.
11 Cool, childs play, They both have history, not with each other but they still have one of them is in the next verse
12 Blokes i see as all the British boys she went out before but who were substituted out more or less like you say but to me they include Matty.
13 Heroine Travis got kicked out of his college team for smoking weed, athletes are rumored to do a lot of things to try and get better so i bet they had a talk about that if it went any further then that. Some of the lyrics in Taylors song can give an indication that she has been high but that it never went further then that because her escape has always been song writing not pills etc. So while he might not have that word in his vocabulary Taylor might have asked him that and he quipped like as a female Marvel hero?
14 Winning streak is a reference to some people blaming Taylor for or be afraid that she would get blamed if the Chiefs started loosing but the NFL had stats that Travis was actually performing better with her there then without her and they kept winning!
15 Shirts off, lift you up. This could be a reference to the first time she met the whole family and Jason was the one without shirt that jumped out of the box in Buffalo into the freezing cold to
help that girl that made a sign for Taylor show it to her. Cheers chanted was changed into Chiefs chanted by her in one of the mashups. No chance, back to back superbowls is almost unheard off. He just comes running over to me -> Karma is the guy on the Chiefs coming straight home to me?
The references are about Travis you cannot identify any of the lore because you are not related with New Heights or the past interviews of Travis, for Travis fans are pretty clear if you cannot see it I understand but the references are nothing related with Matty. Specially circle on the map is like the similarity with kill, kiss or marry in SHS
Oh I know the lore! Haha I just don’t think that’s what the song is about. I think people can force connections in many ways when they search hard enough
@@ThePoeticApothecary well I don’t see how Matty or Joe could be related with the song, the only point that can relate with Matty is the hospital was a drag that’s the only one but everybody can interpret in their own as they keep listening to Taylor I don’t have a problem with that
@@julianatirado9247 did you watch the whole video? I tried to touch on all the lyrical connections I felt related to Matty and the history they’ve had for a decade. I totally agree that people can have their own interpretations. I have new revelations all the time haha
@@ThePoeticApothecary I watched it doesn’t match is too force but respect your opinion
My interpretation with smallest man closed Matty chapter in TTPD, the song start like a heart beating is like the rhythm in all the song her last relationship left her almost dying, she explains the hospital was a drag, but she start to come back as she used to be before, as he tried to reached her she circle him on a map is the polite way to reference that she put him on a map (viral TikTok’s ), the child play back in school was his W**d problem for that reason was spelled from school and felt that he disappoint his family, one of his big regrets, but she is ok with that. Ditch the clowns cut the amateurs is the viral incident with his new publicist, heroin with an e is because she is his heroine he always refers as the woman of his dreams like a strong, smart woman and the joke is the way he talks he also make jokes with cr**ck and w**d, is very clear in the podcast, blokes warm benches is a term of soccer both Joe Matty were the warm benchers in soccer that’s not good and the part of the trophy is al football match reference, I don’t think is related exactly with superbowls as many interpret because she ask where is the trophy? And only give trophies on superbowl and conference final, so I think was a regular game
As soon as you said gold it made me think of gold rush and other songs like invisible string or just other songs from the last or the Taylor’s vault songs that I think are about matty also. No one knew back then about them but now that we have ttpd it all makes more sense.
@@tiffanysd925 I was just thinking back to the first time I listened to gold rush and I’m like hmmm fades into the gray of my day old tea cuz it will never be sounds elusive yet longing. I also remember being so curious about the one and illicit affairs. It’s bizarre that I didn’t read into it more because I remember being like 🤔🤔🤔
@@ThePoeticApothecary exactly!!! I couldn’t agree more! So many channels have missed that connection. I am like please update your videos y’all, I’m so glad I found your channel. Ultimately it’s none of our biz but I mean she gave us this and we can’t help but wonder, we all know Taylor would wonder too. 💜❤️💙
@@ThePoeticApothecary I also can’t stand how even the 1975 fans don’t pick up on any Taylor references either. All I know is some of their songs are sexy af and some have a great message when u take the time to research what they say they’re all about. They’re not that bad of people, listening to the apple interview he did and hearing how he’s also trying to change the music industry with his own record label is cool. Everyone has a few bad moments and jokes but I think he’s a good artist and both things can be true I can be a fan of his band and Taylor’s right, good music is good music when there’s meaning behind it.
You already know from a previous comment I left that I totally agree with your interpretation of this song and that's exactly the way I feel about it too! ❤ I love your breakdown! 22:45 here it reminds me that this album feels very ironic in the way it portrays so accurately the intense infatuation a relationship like that can bring. I fell like there is a very fine line between being romantic and poetic and unserious, almost making fun of this "in love behaviour" and I loved this aspect throughout the album, it's hard to really know when she's being serious!
Omg yes!! The duality throughout all of TTPD is insanely good!
Couldn’t agree more! I also think she was very intentional about the songs she put on the main record and them being about what she said in the main record’s announcement: “This period of the author's life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up…Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it.” So why would a Travis song be part of that?
(I think WAOLOM and Clara Bow are the only outliers but those also aren’t songs about relationships)
Oh definitely! That makes even more sense when you put it that way
@@2cwn2 I think part of WAOLOM was referencing when she was really angry about the public scrutiny ruining her relationship with Matty so in some ways it could relate
@@ThePoeticApothecary true! And tie in with the public scrutiny in But Daddy I Love Him too!
@@ThePoeticApothecary There is speculation that the last verse of "Who's Afraid" is about Travis where the same problem arose at the start, In the live show she substitutes that verse with so High School, coincidence? I think not.
29:00 what if she actually added this part afterwards to make the song about Travis? Just a thought!
I thought about that!! But she’s said in the past that she can’t move on to another song until the one she’s working on is finished and I’m not sure that would really work in the timeline because I think this was written before she got with Matty in 2023
@@ThePoeticApothecary in that case it would be unlikely then, we're left wondering 🙂
@@ytuser392 if only we knew all the secrets in her mind 😂
@@ThePoeticApothecary Right! 😂
Nope, its about Taylor & Travis, that has been comfirmed
How was it confirmed? Haha
@@ThePoeticApothecary she sang it to him on the 87th show. she SANG it to him. she changed the closing song (when very one is leaving the show) from the 1 to The alchemy . this song is 10000000% about Travis. even the lyrics about touch down, cutting them from the team, bench warmers. I could go on.
@@jadezammit4372 she also sang karma is the guy on the chiefs but that doesn’t mean karma was written about him lol I love how songs can change meanings once they enter the world (just like all too well became a fan song) and I’m sure it’s more exciting for her to sing to Travis. Did you watch the whole video with my thoughts on the lyrics?
@@ThePoeticApothecary I did. and she changed the lyrics in Karma just for her shows when Travis is there. she still sings the regular lyrics when he isn't there, so I do understand that meaning can change for sure. but i feel like the lyrics are so clearly about Travis. With the winning streak is him winning the super bowl. the bridge is about is about being at the games. Like in my own comment, not this reply, the progression of the album is the most telling part. she likes to tell a story, and the first part of the album is a very clear story. Matty is out of the picture with the smallest man who ever lived. shes moving on! but i understand that everyone's interpertation can be different based on how they see/ feel things.
@@jadezammit4372 the album was announced before the superbowl even happened and the track list was leaked well before that. Plus, since the alchemy was on the original album it would have needed to be completed months prior for the vinyls. Vinyls take months to press which means the alchemy would have been written and completely finished before the end of 2023. Also having so long London be a track five doesn’t completely fit the storyline of the tracklist since guilty as sin comes after. Plus, Down bad comes before fresh out the slammer. The order doesn’t tell the chronological story to me at all. I know it doesn’t matter but this is my truth 😂😂😂
She has clearly confirmed that this song is about Travis and her. So has he. The mental gymnastics you are using to try and reach a different conclusion are hilarious.
Saying it was one of his favorite songs with a laugh isn’t confirming that it was written about him. He just knows fans think it’s about him and why not play into that for fun? My interpretation has been the same from the beginning.