The last 3 TS albums I’ve loved but before then I had rarely listened but when I heard this song I immediately thought that this should have been a single
The way no one talks about how she managed to put a whole movie with a complex syory in a song with so many lyrical visuals!! A truly underrated song & an album.
This gives me hooking-up-with-an-old-lover vibe. I parked my car = meet me there. Fogged up glass = circling back to that. Looks real good now = you're here, I'm here, let's just *connect* and pretend like we both don't know I'm leaving in a few days. All of this to say, let's be lovers for the season because a part of me never stopped loving you. You're warm, you're familiar, and we know what this is and what it will never be; tis the damn season to remember that.
I truly adore this this song, it’s underrated. Such a masterpiece, the song makes me think and feel it can be about that one relationship with someone that you’re really close with but not exactly a romantic type but it so could be. It’s a weird, funny place to be lol. Just how on earth Tay captures that feeling in a song I’ll never understand, a true masterpiece of a song.
This song is really relatable for me, I remember the first time I hearded I was just crying and still hitting me so bad, every single sentence is so real. The 'I won't ask you to wait, if you don't ask me to stay' I mean aghhh :(
Same here! I’m not living in my home country and every time I go back I would hang out with an old friend. The attraction was mutual but he would not ask for more. So yeah the I won’t ask you to wait if you don’t ask me to stay hits home…
Oh my my :( I know and I'm so sorry about it, it seems like in some way we want to go back but we don't at the same time, anyway this SONG is just pure gold and I'm so thankful for this one for us, sending you a huge hug!
@@kevinedrdo I’m going through it right now and it surely is a mentally exhausting situation to be in… Yes Taylor’s songs have helped me go through my emotions along the way! Thanks so much and lots of love to you too! ❤️❤️❤️
The last 3 TS albums I’ve loved but before then I had rarely listened after her first 2 years but when I heard this song I immediately thought that this should have been a single
I enjoyed listening to your take on this song, it was more romantic than I’ve ever thought of it. I’ve always thought of it as a ‘friends with benefits’ situation where Taylor’s sort of saying “well we’re here for the weekend, might as well” about a casual ex. I don’t know, it just reminds me of one of my exes who I still think of fondly because he’s such a lovely person.
I agree with your view as the holidays can be so demanding that you settle for an old love or a casual relationship just to avoid all the stares and questions!
this song relates to me a LOT, as well as dorothea because i’ve moved to another continent with only my close family and i’ll be moving away again to another country when i go to college, and it’s so difficult knowing this added with the feeling of leaving everything behind. it’s so nostalgic, because she wanted to leave that hometown so bad but now she wants to go back, like me
Sending you so much love during all the changes you are going through. I totally love what you said about going back to the hometown. It’s all about perspective ❤
"Betty" actually made me look for my high school boyfriend. He cheated and I left him. When he came back for some reason, like many years after, maybe 15 years? He threw pebbles at my bedroom window to get my attention. He kissed me on the front porch. We were exchanging emails and he said "Hey, we have an anniversary coming up" and all I could think about was how he cheated and that was nothing to celebrate. Maybe we'll get together for the 35th anniversary of our relationship ending! Also, you're in NYC? Me too! Point me to the nearest Swiftie chapter, will ya? ❤️
Hi!! Oh I relate to Betty too! I know it’s been many years but you are too amazing to go back to the cheater! (I’m bitter about dealing with cheating so don’t mind me 😂) yes! I moved right outside of NYC now, in Westchester but I’d love a swiftie chapter! What part of the city are you in?
@@mendwithmere OMG, I hate cheaters too! But now that I'm old, I wonder if maybe I should have been more forgiving. He was also a bit stupid but we were only 16, he might have turned 17 when he cheated. But I've been trying to remember what I wanted when I was younger, other than that townhouse in the Village. It might have been him or someone similar. When I say "stupid", I mean he might not have realized that it was over after he cheated. Yikes! He did show up at my college dorm as if we were still together and friends and my new bf was up there, I had to get rid of him. We were a cute couple for that summer. But damn that kiss on the porch, I wonder... I'm now on the UES but I spent many years in exile in WP NY. My parents sold the house and moved into a retirement place and that's how I'm managing to afford the most expensive city in the world! Swifties unite!
Looking at it from the guy's perspective: If he was in a good solid relationship (Dorothea doesn't want to hear about it), having Dorothea show up out of the blue for the weekend has the very real possibility of breaking up that relationship and leaving his life in shambles when she goes back to LA.
everytime i listen to this song i just stop a second and try to wrap my head around how Taylor wrote this when she was drunk after the long pond session... read someone saying that they believe drunk taylor was reminding herself to write her idea down/told drunk aaron and jack to write it down and like recorded that on her phone and then liked it so much she kept it in and i honestly love that idea so much haha also it fits with the friends who write books about her which i also love also as a lesbian i just don't see this as a straight relationship and feel like it is so queer coded which i abso-fcking-lutely adore...
There's a connection between this song and "The Way I Loved You" on Fearless that I adore. I love that Taylor makes these connections between all of her songs, especially her older ones by reusing lyrics and flipping them around. In this song she sings: "And wonder about the only soul who can tell which smiles I'm fakin' And the heart I know I'm breakin' is my own" While in "The Way I Loved You" the lyrics are: "He can't see the smile I'm faking And my heart's not breaking 'Cause I'm not feeling anything at all" Also, interestingly people have theorized that the old flame she's singing about in Midnight Rain is the guy from The Way I Loved You, so now I'm picturing Midnight Rain/'tis the damn season/dorothea/The Way I Loved You all being in the same Taylor cinematic universe lol.
That would actually make sense. The order would be "Dorothea" because his the guy talking about how she leaved and that she as new friends, then "this damn season" because she's back and she's saying how all her friends are fake but even so she will go back to L.A. The way I loved you is next, like she meets someone in L.A, from the same friend circle as her, her parents love him, he is basically perfect but the love she once had as a teenager is the measure for her future relationship because she's knows that was true love and that's the kind of love she is missing, the messy, crazy kind. And then you have champagne problems where the guy asks her to be is bride but she cannot accept, she's not ready, everyone says she's making a mistake but she's know what she doesn't want. Then we have midnight rain, in here she's older and wiser she thinks about him, how he was so nice, great family, but at the time he wasn't right for her, she wanted that pain (screaming, fights and kisses in the rain) and making her own name (because if she didn't she would feel she gave up a great love for nothing when she moved to L.A). Even though she knows it wasn't right for her a the time, the older version doesn't feel the same necessity for pain, for fame, and sometimes she thinks about him, in a "what if..." kinda of way
@@mendwithmere Yay, I'm glad i could help!! There's another popular theory that Midnight Rain is about Taylor Lautner (jumping off things in the ocean referencing Jacob in Twilight, the "I broke his heart cause he was nice" relating to Back to December, etc.) but I think both theories could be right. I love trying to make connections between all of her songs!
Fave off of evermore. Such a masterpiece. The line “if I wanted to know who you’re hanging with when I was gone I would’ve asked you” is so savage to me. Also I think “write this down” just means like a “take note!” Or “remember this” as they can’t be anymore than anything else than what they are coz of their situations.
Maybe not for most, but for me; the winter holidays bring back nostalgic memories. As a kid, presents were the highlight. As an adult, my presents are the memories. This song depicts that so beautifully. Even if it isn’t a lost love memory, maybe the “lost love” can be forgotten/neglected moments that mean more than we fathom. Because at the end of ever god damn day, all we are is just biographies of our own biological brains. And what haunts us or moves us is what’s stored in our unchosen memories.
I always thought this was about herself (Taylor), going home for the holidays, and running into an old boyfriend. Staying with her parents. I usually agree with you but I think this is Taylor being Taylor. I adore this song, it's been playing at my house a lot lately!
I have a conspiracy theory that Run from Red TV is a continuation of the Dorothea/TTDS story. Obviously not actually Taylor’s intention because the song’s from 2012. But it makes me feel like their story has some cute closure. Both take place in small towns. Both mention the girl’s so-called/shiny friends. Write this down/piece of paper where I wrote Some of the Run lyrics could refer to a long-distance relationship, especially between a celebrity and someone else (though obviously that’s Taylor’s own life as well.) And of course this song uses the word run.
This is one of my most favorite songs of Taylor's, off of this album, or maybe at all, the delay before she hits the bridge is painful. It will be interesting, to see how history views Taylor, say in 30 or 40 years. She is most certainly a lyricist of a generation, and I would imagine there is so much that is not only yet to be written, but that isn't known about her. I see movies, books, theme parks, on and on....... I hope she is able at some point to have the personal life that she has wanted for so long, and that when her mother does pass, it can be worked on with a competent therapist so that she can handle it.
I feel like this song is also about the same person midnight rain. She talks about the holidays in that too. Like every time she thinks about him it reminds her of the holidays and how great they were for him.
Paula! I was just thinking of it bc I haven’t really listened to it and everyone has asked for it. I want to do right by you and get the meaning right, even though there are so many ways to interpret her songs. Thank you for watching!❤
One of my favorite TS songs. There's just something super relatable to this for me. This is exactly how i felt when i moved back home and ran into a girl i had history with. We had potential but nothing ever came of it. In another circumstance, we may have had a chance. I ran into her in the defacto place to hang out in my town, wal mart after i moved away and moved back a few years later. She died in a car crash two days later. And it was winter time. Tis the damn season.
Messy as the mud on your truck tires... in Tim McGraw "Just a boy in a chevy truck that had a tendency of getting stuck on back roads at night." Stuck in the mud.
I honestly expected to hear " drink a lot of vodka or rum." For your friend who thinks like myself a water filter is a perfect present to keep them hydrated.
Thank you for doing this, Mere! ❤️ Love all of your analysis 🤗 You know this storyline reminds me also of Champagne problems and Midnight rain, where the couple couldn’t be together because plans didn’t match… all of them are so sad, but right at the same time ❤️
This song reminds me so much of my relationship with my ex. Super toxic off-and-on including him moving to LA. Glad he’s gone, but even more glad I have this beautiful song to get into my feelings with when I need to.
Whaaaat?! Thank you for the best compliment ever, 😂. I used to always have bangs and I’m considering getting them but I thought that’d be too weird, like I’m trying to stan her 😂
Yassss my flights this Sunday!! Leaving for my annual college break! I can't wait to relisten to evermore and folklore on winter holidays.. Oh and Christmas tree farm is soooooooooooooooo good❤️😭
You talking about the FFA and driving tractors to school took me straight back to my high school. I went to a pretty rural high school as well and also had those things. I was not a part of them, I was very much the no-clique clique kind of thing. I kept to my one little group of friends and we didn't fall under a specific umbrella but we talked to whoever.
Hi Libby! I like the “no clique clique!” I had friends in most groups too. I think it’s good you didn’t limit yourself with a clique. When I hear tires, I only think of tractor tires lol.
Fyi.. ur skin looks AMAZING! Crazy as it sounds, would love to know what u use? Last, but not least, I love how u breakdown the parts and really explore the meaning to lyrics. It's a lot of fun to watch! Also...insightful
Thank you!! Im lucky bc I have 2 friends that are celebrity makeup artists so they give me some good stuff! You wanna know about skincare or makeup? I’ll give you the deets! Thank you for the kind words, means so much ❤
@@mendwithmere absolutely...give me those secrets! You're welcome. Humans do tell other humans often enough all the good things we think. It's something I've been working on this yr...expressing the positives when I see them
plsss react to effortlessly or stained glass by madison beer, its from her life support album and i think it would be really cool to see how a therapists would react to her songs that talk about anxiety/depression on that album love your vids
