Swiftie and Producer react to Midnights - 3 a.m. Tracks 

Thanks for watching everyone! My first in-depth lyric breakdown is live! Swiftie & Singer/Songwriter analyze Anti-Hero Lyrics - Taylor Swift Midnights Lyric Breakdown ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9u1C8sLeXEc.html

every time i listen to would've could've should've i don't want it to stop, i need a 10 minute version (and it's already the longest song on the album)

I think the restraint of Bigger than the Whole Sky makes it so much more ethereal. It's a song to cry over bc of a personal loss. It doesn't need to be a bop. It doesn't need to be catchy.

I agree that BIGGER THAN THE WHOLE SKY is perfect as is 😭😂

As someone who also hears all the lyrics on the first listen, I understand Alex’s frustration with Blake about not having any idea what she’s singing about. 😂 I also think you two are a great pair for videos like this because we can get both aspects of someone who dives deep into the production and someone who dives deep into the lyrics. We get a more cohesive understanding of where the artist could be coming from.

The Great War is about how she was used to being in dramatic (and sometimes toxic) relationships, and then she met Joe and he was actually treating her the way she deserves. But she didn't know how to accept it, she was creating big fights and trying to self-destruct. (she references throwing him in jail for something he didn't do in in the song Afterglow). so she is calling this turbulent time when she was "blowing up" her relationship "the Great War" ..and how he refused to let her do it.

Timestapms❤❤ The Great War - 2:57 Bigger Than The Whole Sky - 15:49 Paris - 28:07 High Infidelity - 39:47 Glitch - 49:28 Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve - 57:31 Dear Reader - 1:05:20 Loved both reactions to the Midnights album!!❤

Also Dear Reader is so underrated, I love it, it's a different take of the idea of her being the anti-hero; telling her fans to find another guiding light cause she thinks she's not good enough. 😭💔

If you haven't yet seen it, it's been pointed out that she never says "Should've" in the lyrics of Would've, Could've, Should've, because she says it in Dear John so it's a continuation.

Love it! 3 am tracks are basically Daddy Aaron coming back, looking at the Synth and be like - alright you kids, you had your fun! Step aside 😂 Thanks Alex for defending Bigger than the whole sky! It's Perfect 💖

BIGGER THAN THE WHOLE SKY IS PERFECT. We don't need those high notes we have Would've Could've Should've for that 😭 pls 🙏🏼

I am LIVING for the look of realization on your face after she sings "at nineteen, and the God's honest truth is that the pain was heaven" in Would've Could've Should've! The lyrics in this song hit different for sure

taylor knows swifties speculate about the meaning of her lyrics and has even said she leaves easter eggs for people who read and really try to understand them. so i don’t get why people get so annoyed about it . i love hearing other peoples interpretations of them it shows how her lyrics can relate to so many different people and different situations

That lyric you like in Bigger Than The Whole Sky is amazing "Salt streams out my eyes and into my ears". It also makes me think that when you're sad or upset, your brain tends to filter everything you hear to make it seem like an insult or directed at you to make you feel worse.

Bigger than the whole sky had me in tears, it’s so beautiful. Having gone through a miscarriage it totally summed up all the grief I had at never meeting the person that pregnancy could have turned into. Wouldn’t change a bit of that song

When she sings "goodbye goodbye goodbye", I don't think I ever heard something so beautiful and so painful at the same time. As a sensitive woman, as I imagine Taylor to be, it's a really hard thing to put out to the world

you compliment Blake so much! i love how you pay attention so much to the lyrics 'cause a lot of us who are swifties, that's what we love about her - songwriting. pls continue to make reaction videos for ts i/we really enjoy ur content!!! sending love and warm hugs from the Philippines! 💙🇵🇭

I love you guys reacting together! I always find Blake’s reactions as a producer fascinating but I also get frustrated when people don’t listen to Taylor’s lyrics 😅 so I feel like you make the perfect duo. Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve is my favorite song on the entire album…it destroys me every time and I love that her voice when she sings the girlhood line actually sounds purposefully youthful like it did at 19 (and that she made it track 19 & released it at same age he was at the time…much like Demi did with 29). She’s brilliant.

Yes, yes, YES, lyrics breakdowns, PLEASE!! I really love Blake’s production breakdowns, because there’s really not anyone else doing that, but I would LOVE hearing a lyric breakdown from a song writer who has that background and history and knowledge of other songwriters like I’ve heard from you, Alex!

Not you ready to fight to the death for Bigger than the Whole Sky on the first listen lol love it

I think that Bigger than The Whole Sky was never meant to be "legendary". I feel like it was Taylor having a cathartic moment with her piano mourning a loss. Not all songs are written to win awards or be played on the radio. Some songs are written to voice something important in the person's life that they feel might make a listener who is going through the same thing a little less lonely.

I would love to hear your opinion on how Would've, Could've, Should've compares to All Too Well. After listening to WCS several times, I have been realizing we may have another all-time-great Taylor Swift song on our hands. Also, how the songs build to the lines "And you call me up again just to break me like a promise" and "Give me back my girlhood, it was mine first" and how Taylor sings those lines devastates me in a similar fashion

The Great War is probably my favourite track on the entire album. ❤

Bigger than the whole sky is my #1 song in this album. It has been my comfort song while remembering my best friend who passed away this year 😭 i love love this

Omg I love your rage at Blake for wanting to change bigger than the whole sky 😂 Btw I never thought about the “everything happens for a reason” point… I personally interpreted that as “I can’t believe this is happening, I can’t believe what I have to say, which is goodbye”

Alex it feels so good to not be the only annoying Swiftie who is crazy about the lyrics. PLEASE DO THE LYRICAL BREAKDOWN, especially for the 3AM tracks and You're on your own, kid, maybe you'll find a connection too between them alike me.

Her frustration face after his answer to "what does the lyric say?" is so relatable hahaha I hate my friends for not paying attention to the lyrics

Bigger than the whole sky.. is my fav from the 3 am tracks and makes me cry everytime 😢reminds me of people that are not around anymore and situations.. it’s just perfect and beautiful.

Noway!! Bigger than the whole sky is a chef's kiss the way it is. I get soooooo immersed in it and it's being replayed 1000 times in my Playlist. ❤️❤️😭 Taylor is a mastermind she knows what we want and I don't know of anyone who didn't like this song the way it is

I just KNOW Blake was so excited to get all of his Jack jokes out. This whole reaction video is great

Bigger than the whole sky needs to be exactly the way it is! And also YASSSS to full lyric breakdown on RU-vid asap x

Not sure if anyone's said it here, but The Great War kinda gives me vibes of Afterglow when she says "put you in jail for something you didn't do" and in The Great War she says "screaming from the crypt telling me to punish you for things you never did."

I love the moments when you are both just jamming to the song and then a production thing or lyric catches your attention and you reach for the pause at the same time!!!! Been a follower of Blake for a long time, can't wait to see what your channel brings to the table

I love how both of you have different passion and different focus yet came together for Taylor Swift.

Bigger than the whole sky is very personal and perfect as it is, it's sad and that's it

YAY! i've been refreshing like a mad woman every few hours for this video. i absolutely loved the midnights reaction on blake's channel and the way you two vibe together! amped to watch this now : )

Absolutely need a full lyric breakdown for every song 👏🏼

High infidelity seems to be about herself, Calvin Harris and Tom Huddleston 🤭 And bigger than the whole sky doesn’t need a big production because it’s meant to be emotional, the lyrics just hits you! I myself will always look at the lyrics anyway before I think about the production, so I LOVE the Great War 🙏🏼

There are a lot of people speculating that Bigger Than the Whole Sky is about a miscarriage or the loss of a child, or at least a devastating loss of someone really special, and obviously not saying that's definitely the case, but for those fans that have experienced that, it's absolutely perfect the way that it is. That numb cyclical pain that just continues to echo, it fits it so so well.

High Infidelity is about Calvin Harris. April 29th was days before Met Gala wherein Taylor met Joe. The dancing around can be interpreted by She's dancing with Tom Hiddleston literally in Met Gala or she's dancing around with her relationship with Calvin. (Getaway Car is parallel to this song). And the lyrics "Put on your records and regret me" is because Calvin is a DJ and Hi-Fi (Hi Fidelity) but Taylor used Infidelity instead just because she's a genius songwriter and storyteller. Long story short this song gives a glimpse of what she truly felt during her relationship with Calvin Harris and how he hurt and take Taylor for granted. PS: love your reaction videos and how you are a Swiftie too!! Super cool 😍💖🙌

I’ve been impatiently waiting for this! I absolutely loved your reaction to Midnights and the Bejeweled mv and this one was just as entertaining to watch! You are just gorgeous and I love your energy and the dynamic between you and Blake. Can’t wait for more content from you, reactions, covers and original songs too, you have a very beautiful voice.

April 29th is the day This is What You Came For was released, and Calvin Harris did an interview saying he couldn’t see them writing together. She felt disrespected. She was at a club with friends on the 28th, left early in the morning of the 29th. We don’t know who she may have first met that night, or danced around with 😉

I lost my teenage sister a week before Midnights came out. Bigger Than The Whole Sky felt cosmic for me.

- The great War is produced by Aaron Dessner and I think it's about a fight she had with Joe - Bigger than the whole sky production matched the subject matter: grief and death - High Infidelity is about how unloved she felt with Calvin and she fell for Joe ( or tom). April 29th is release date of this is what you came for

18:52 Her face! 😂 She’s so ready to tackle Blake 😂😂😂

That ad lib ‘uwu uwu uwu’ bit at the end of High Infidelity gets me every time! Loved this reaction including goofy parody Jack 😂

I’m already dying at this “Jack” embodiment lmao Can’t wait to watch you react to these gem of a collection of tracks.. they are so damn good.

That moment you realized she was singing about John Mayer...felt the same way

this is literally my favorite reaction of midnights i love your guys reaction together because you get both sides of prospective, you have the lyricism and the production and i find it so interesting and cool to see this i would love to see you two react to more songs together in the future!!!

The Great War is 1) an Aaron Dessner co-write and co-produce (not Jack) so that is why it has the folklore/evermore feel; and 2) it is about her first huge fight with Joe. She has admitted she gets jealous (or she did at the beginning) and she was accusing him of possibly cheating or seeing someone else, but Joe wouldn’t play and stayed calm and reached out and held his stand. They survived it (but it’s sounds like it was close).

Glitch is such an underrated track and deserves so much recognition! Glitch gives me so much selena gomez vibes and a little bit of ariana grande! Because the song itself sounds like something selena gomez would sing and the vocals towards the end sounds like ariana grande! :D

fun fact: Would've Could've Should've is track #19. the song talks about Taylor being age 19.

And thank you so much Alexandra for contributing to the breakdown of the lyrics here 💗 I really appreciated you here and would love to see you guys collaborate even more on future Taylor Swift albums! 💗 you're a really nice addition to Blake's producer mindset 😂💗

There's one more song! Hits Different, exclusive to the Lavender Edition, it's SOOO good. Didn't want you to miss it 😊

This kind of love story in Midnights, from stangers to friends to bestfriends to room mates to romantic relationship back to being strangers again is so depressing but i love the beat.

I love the breakdown of the lyrics personally because i don't have as much of the swiftie knowledge about her life and I'm also bad with words so it makes me appreciate her songs even more 😸

My top 3 Midnights song: 1. Maroon 💗 2. Midnight Rain 🌦 3. Would've Could've Should've 🥀

The first time I heard bigger than the whole sky I broke down crying. Last year my wife and I lost our second little girl at 21 weeks and I always wonder who she would be! Forever our angel our baby Rowan Ellis!! 👼🏻

April 29th is the release date of "This Is What You Came For" and i'm sure you know what does it mean now :)

They met in New York at the Met Gala (which is held in NYC annually) - BUT, they spent a lot of time together early on in their relationship, in Paris (which is where Taylor was planning to kick off the Lover tour before the Pandemic hit, I believe).

Would've Could've Should've is a masterpiece and it makes me sob. "Give me back my girlhood it was mine first" oof 😭😭😭

The great war is about a big fight Taylor and Joe had (she also references this in afterglow & )´, like the dark night of their relationship, where all Taylors previous trauma from earlier relationships almost made her lose Joe, like she says in the lyrics "maybe it´s the past that´s talking screaming from the crypt. Telling me to punish you for things you never did." And in the end of the song she basically is saying that because they survived this "war" of their relationship, she now knows she can trust him and will always be his. If you pay closer attention to the lyrics its very clear that the song is about her and Joe(not S.B,S.B or K.W)

Wait why did your Taylor song fit perfectly with Midnights !????? you predicted the future

For Glitch, I just wanna know why something has to “happen” for it to be a good song?? The song FEELS good. Blake I am CONFUSION.

LOOVEE seeing you guys fight it's like golden retriever and a black cat vibes ❤❤❤❤

the way you realized would've could've should've was about john is priceless

A visual of the two sides of my brain fighting when listening to music ^

I love how she managed to tie 29 April in High Infidelity (date of release of 'This is what you came for') and Calvin Harris (, the Met gala, how she was dancing (literally and metaphorically) around the bad relationship and with Tom Hiddleston in the MET Gala (in the Getaway Car), but also on that same night she met also for 1st time Joe "Do I really have to tell you how he brought me back to life?". Beautiful masterpiece. She is a genius.

High Infidelity: April 29th is the day of the Met Gala in 2016. And where Taylor was seen dancing with Tom Hiddleston that night. Which made people suggest that her relationship with Calvin Harris was over. So this song is about Taylor leaving Calvin at the Met Gala and being in a new relationship with Tom. Also in the lyric when she says “Do I really have to tell you how he brought me back to life?” Is about Joe and how he saved her from herself and what the media wants her to be.

Actually, Aaron Dessner was the co-writer and co-producer on High Infidelity (which is why it has a similar tone to folklore). High Infidelity is believed to be about Calvin Harris (notice all the music/club/DJ references including the song name, a play off High Fidelity (HiFi). And the story is he didn’t give her a lot of time or attention, and didn’t even want to accompany her to award shows etc. And then his comment about never collaborating with her in a tone like she isn’t worthy of doing that with after he had dropped the song she co-wrote. Educated guess and makes a lot of sense.

Taylor references records and headphones in high infidelity a few times and it’s giving Calvin Harris. Feel like this goes into bejeweled with him not appreciating her. Hence “ there are many ways to kill the one you love, the slowest is not loving them enough.” And she was dancing around at the met with Tom 😒 also April 29th 2016 was the day Calvin said he and Taylor would never collaborate despite them having written this is what we came for together. They broke up right after.

1:02:16 Mean came out in 2010, Taylor dated John Mayer from 2009 to 2010 so her mentioning that she was 19 and the melodic similarity with Mean could be a pin point to the time in which what the song tells happened.

I'm literally working through these songs in like a poetry analysis manner, I'd love to hear your lyric breakdowns!! I really enjoy seeing what other people get out of the lyrics 🥰

High infidelity is about Calvin Harris. He released “This is What You Came For” on April 29th, which Taylor was credited as a song writer on under a pseudonym (Nils Sjoberg). That same she was seen shopping in New York City to prepare for the Met Gala that she was co-hosting. At the Met Gala she was seen dancing with Tom Hiddleston and they started dating a couple months later.

Bigger than the whole sky is perfect….. you have to experience a profound emotional thing happen to you to feel this song as it ❤

Bigger Than The Whole Sky is the best song. I feel it and it touches my heart!🙂🙂❤❤❤❤

Your face when you realized it was about John Mayer was my face during that whole song.

yes i live for lyrical breakdowns - especially when it’s with artists who write with layers like taylor

Youre wreckin the experience of BTTWS, it doesn't need to be bigger, it's relying on the emotion that it illicits, the pain doesn't need to be rammed home twice or louder. It's a felt experience, pain and loss is resonant here and this is perfection.

i believe in the gaylor and kaylor theory so i analyze everything through this lense and it opens a second dimension in the lyrics🤷🏻‍♀️

it was great hearing all the discussions around the songs, especially on bigger than the whole sky🥺♥️

I love what y’all both said about how it sounds like “Mean”… which is ALSO about John Mayer!

Bigger than the whole sky it’s perfect the way it is and we don’t mess with perfection 😄

I love that you made the connection between So It Goes… & High Infidelity. Spot on! In So It Goes she’s the one counting ‘the numbers they did on each other’, here she’s like: oh, you were paying attention too. (Who knew that So It Goes is the Calvin song on Rep!!)

I love your reacting and dissecting of lyrics! Please don’t let others convince you otherwise.

LYRICS BREAKDOWN FOR SURE YES PLEASE LOVE IT

i love blake, but every time he opens his mouth in this video alex is just DONE with him and it's so funny, thanks guys

I've been waiting for this video!! I loved your reaction to Midnights on Blake's channel (and at a cat café!!) and simply loved your dynamic together. I would LOVE videos which you breakdown the lyrics, please do it! I am a fanatic for the lyrics so... Also, release that song pleasee, I'm dying to hear it! It sounds GORGEOUS! Can't wait to watch more videos. (ps: Blake's imitation of Jack in the beggining was perfect)

This is a great duo for reacting, I love it! I love that you both approach it differently, it makes it so fun! I love the bonus tracks, but I think I still love You're On Your Own Kid the best, followed very closely by Dear Reader, Vigilante Shit, Bigger than the Whole Sky, then Mastermind I think? Then High Infidelity and then Paris? Or Would've Been Could've Been Should've Been? Its so hard to pick my absolute favorites. I love them all, I could honestly just listen to the whole album all the time, and there aren't many albums I can say that about. As far as dissecting Taylor's lyrics, I'm here for it! Honestly any Taylor content you want to put out I'm here for!

Through the TTPD-Matty lens and the Midnights-was-the-Joe-breakup-album lens, Paris is very reminiscent of Guilty as Sin? as if she was already emotionally detached from Joe and she was feeling cheerful and giddy about M and doesn’t even care about any gossip anymore because she’s floating up in the clouds with new love butterflies.

I can't believe you got Jack Antonoff to collab with you!!! Insane

i think what makes the melody in bttws so powerful is exactly the fact that it's only there once a chorus

About Paris - it's amazing to me how Taylor manages to catch such a basic but absolutely core experience of any person in their 20s/30s visiting Paris: drinking champagne/any cheap French wine in an alley or just in front of the Tour Effeil. I don't know how she can do it while also being one of the most famous multi-millioners in the world. To compare, when Beyonce sang about quitting a day job in Break My Soul, people couldn't relate. But Taylor does it so naturally and beautifully that you'd think that she's one of us trying to go to Paris for a weekend on a 10£ budget.

Omggggg your songs gonna be one rep tv vault tracks 😂💜💜💜👏🏽

One of them is focusing on the lyricism of the tracks and the other one is listening to how each track is produced.

Putting two verses before the chorus in “Bigger Than the Whole Sky” changes the message. For that song in particular, it’s about content, not just sound.

43:53 I love how in sync you both were in here, basically completing the lyrics for each other 😂

I completely agree that Bigger Than The Whole Sky is perfect as is!

Im sure this has been said by multiple people already but "High Infidelity" is about Calvin and Tom. April 29th was 3 days before Coachella when she was seen dancing with Tom Hiddleston and so people assumed her relationship with Calvin Harris had ended. All I can think is that writing Midnights managed to make a miracle happen. She actually wrote a song about Calvin lol

Bigger Than The Whole Sky is incredible and devastating. There are a few words in the chorus that make me feel like this is about a very specific kind of loss, and it seems like it's been helpful for a lot of people who have been through that. I wouldn't want the song to be any catchier or bigger, because it feels suitable that it's so quiet. For me this song is almost as emotionally unlistenable as Ronan...but I do love it. I cried so hard when I first heard it and then couldn't absorb or process the rest of the tracks at all. RIP Paris.