Midnights Re-fathoming: Hits Different + You’re Losing Me BREAKDOWN
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Hello and welcome to this weird crevasse of the internet where we get really excited about music (particularly Taylor Swift) and break down our favourite albums and songs. Our names are Bonny and Emily, and our aim with these videos is to share our love for music and also share context and understanding around the songs, by highlighting breaking down the lyrics, melodies and production. We are so happy to have created this little community that is just as unhinged as us when it comes to music 🤪
Midnights isn't a breakup album, it's a breakdown album
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“Break up, break free, break through, break down” 🫢
Yes, Labyrinth is about a time when Jaylor made up before the final breakup. 💔😭
THIS!!!!
And there's been 20 of them by @chatsandreacts
The parallel from Daylight to “Now the sun burns my heart - and the sand hurts my feelings” is ILLEGAL!
ILLEGAL OMG
and maybe the sand part connects back to snow on the BEACH?? idk i’m really making stuff up 😭😭
@@chatsandreacts I get this from someone else's comment. He wanted something she couldn't possibly give him: a quiet, normal life. she literally asked in Peace "Would it be enough if I could never give you peace?" and You're Losing Me sounds like her coming to the realization that his answer is no
The message of “You’re Losing Me” is essentially “STOP doing NOTHING, START doing SOMETHING.”
In light of the recent breakup, I believe YOYOK was a way of prepping herself to leave this relationship. She had to remind herself that she was always strong and achieved a lot on her own. It's difficult to end a long term relationship and doesn't happen overnight. Sometimes you just don't remember who you were before this relationship and don't know how you're going to live without your significant other. Everything about YOYOK screams to me 'yes, you can finish it girl, you can go on without him, on your own, as you have done before'. It probably took her months if not years to finally dare to leave this relationship and prepare herself mentally for it.
THIS MAKES SO MUCH SENSE
now i wonder "I didn't choose this town I dream of getting out" I'll run away.....
Agreed
It’s the turn from “I hope I never lose you” to “you’re losing ME” - know your worth!
exactly, no one deserves to become the center of your whole world. a man can be no god
revisiting midnights as a breakup album makes me love it so much more tbfh
OML FINALLY SOMEONE THAT THINKS LIKE THIS
it's less like a breakup album and more of a breakdown album
Not a break up, a breaking up, which is even better because it’s written throughout the breakup which can’t be said for most albums, and it makes it so unique
This whole thing is making me wonder about so many songs. How long were they rocky? How many times were they on and off? Was tolerate it about Joe? What about Death by a Thousand Cuts? We always thought they were happy and perfect but maybe the whole time has been more tumultuous than we thought.
@@katieherger4928even things as early as delicate are a bit unclear
i like that "stop, youre losing me" is also something youd say when you stop understanding what someone is explaining, which links back to the first line of the song. the main theme is just them not understanding each other anymore.
chills
The thing that makes me so sad about the Lover/Midnights connection is that she literally says in Daylight: “I want to be defined by the things that I love, not the things that haunt me in the middle of the night.” That leads me to believe 1) the problems were there the whole time (i.e. Archer, Afterglow, etc) and she was just choosing to look past them for the sake of love and 2) she changed her mind. Or the issues got bad enough that now, she decided that she COULD be defined by the things that haunt her in the middle of the night and still be okay. And now Midnights is literally one of her most successful albums ever, a career defining album! What an evolution.
i love this take. in a way, i feel like midnights could be her bringing the things that haunt her in the middle of the night into the light
Yep could not agree more
if you really pay attention to the lyrics of lover you can see that the problems were already there, it’s kinda a sad album
woah I never thought about it that way
THIS IS ILLEGAAALLLL OMFG
my heart breaks for her whenever i listen to Dear Reader and that part where she says "you wouldn't take my word for it if you knew who was talking, if you knew where i was walking, to a house, not a home, all alone, cause nobody is there". I guess she thought we wouldn't take her advice on anything anymore because she was going through a breakup and how most of her songs about how everything works out in the end were about Joe, like long story short or call it what you want, like she had gone on and on about how all that had happened to her didn't matter anymore because she had found her true love, the 1, and now, that she's lost him as well, those songs have lost their meaning. i really hope she knows how much we still look up to her for choosing herself in the end, in a way i'm pretty sure she does because she gave us You're Losing Me
Hits different is literally the reality of death by a thousand cuts. Like that song talks about “what if” and hits different says “this is it”
You two should be on Taylor's payroll bc I became an actual swiftie bc of you two!
Thanks bestie honestly I would clean her toilets if it meant I was her employee lol 😭
@@chatsandreacts😂😂😂😂
SAME!!!!!
SAME
@@chatsandreacts😂😂 same
the very thing that breaks me the most about you’re losing me is that despite everything, despite the relationship already having come to an end in so many ways, she still uses the continuous tense of “losing”. not you LOST me but you’re losing me, in that she’s giving everything she has to keep this alive, that even in the “death” of their love (i can’t find a pulse my heart won’t start anymore), she’s still giving him a chance to save it (even when she knows he won’t, or really in the end it won’t really make a difference because it’s too late…) 💔
I really don't know why they staid together for so long, if you're losing me was really written/recorded in October 2021...
can we refathom labyrinth and the alcott after the breakup? because they both feel to me like she was trying to break up with him and he would just come again and make her fall in love again, just "oh oh im falling in love again, i thought the plane was going down, how'd you turn it right around"?? at first of course i thought she meant she was getting over someone else and he made her fall in love, but NO, she was talking about HIM the whole time!! "I'LL BEEN GETTIN OVER YOU MY WHOLE LIFE??" thats joe definitely, and having the Alcott in context too, "it's the last thing you wanted, it's the first thing i do, i tell you i think im falling back in love with you"? "i'll ruin it all over, and over LIKE I ALWAYS DO" "EVERYTHING THATS MINE IS A LANDMINE"? "GIVE ME SOME TIPS TO FORGET YOU"? she definitely had a hard time breaking up with him FOR REAL god this is just - and to end it all with YOU'RE LOSING ME omg im crying again
I'm unwell 🤯
It's so accurate tho 😭
Also just like to mention I was the 13th 👍🏼
this hits so close to home & ur so right
So I've had this fathoming today under a labyrinth reaction and bc I just got a notification for this comment and it kinda connects I thought I'd share if you're interested
at first i took this as someone falling in love after their heart has been broken (several times maybe) by other people but something, in my opinion, did not quite fit so i thought about it more and now i think it is about someone falling for their partner again after thinking the relationship was about to end...
i also love how many parallels there are to other songs
like the (lyrical) parallels to you're losing me that i am currently fathoming actually kind of make me think of another interpretation but first the parallels/connection:
the heartbeaty sounding production/ the heartbeat
everybody just excpects me to bounce back/always rising from the ashes
i thought the plane was going down how'd you turn it right around/ til' we were to far gone to bring back to life?
the fact that i connect the lines as you see above actually kind of makes me say: what if Labyrinth was her writing about what she wished would happen, she wished he would turn the plane right back around somehow... but it didn't happen or it was a slight hiccup in their relationship they got over (second interpretation) until the final blow broke them to the point of no possible repair...
Plus I'll be getting over you my whole life/ moving on was always easy for me to do it hits different this time (or 'cause its you)
well anyways back to labyrinth, i dont know if other also feel this way but the production reminds me of the archer and other songs of hers that convey anxiety through their production, however there is a slight difference, with the archer for example one always waits for some kind of release because the production seems to just keep on building up to nowhere but with labyrinth i feel there is some kind of release of said anxiety in the outro because the fear of the break up/falling out of love she thought was near didn't happen because the plane was turned back around and she is falling in love again even though the chorus just keeps repeating over and over at the end the last lyrics we hear are "you know how much i hate that every- you know how much i hate- " those lines are in the song but not in the lyric video and Taylor is really amazing at finding the perfect deliberate way to end a song and it doesn't really sound like it is fading out, we are just moving away from it but the overthinking proceeds which juxtaposes the release in the production and puts the song back in line with the other "anxiety songs" (as i like to call them) like ootw & the archer which show anxiety through production most prominetly...
in conclusion a re-fathoming makes sense
"And you can't talk to me when I'm like this
Daring you to leave me just so I can try and scare you" (*False God)
She wasn't without fault, though...
I can't believe it's been 10 months and I know now that neither Labyrinth nor The Alcott were about Joe ☠️
I’m not prepared for the midnights breakdown era to end. 😩
I love how in hits different her saying "I bet I could still melt your world" is literally her being argumentative!
I went from barely knowing who Taylor really was to being a fan cause of y’all. 😊
Same!🎉
Bonny and Emily.🧡💜
she went from ''I search the party of better bodies'' to ''I'm the best thing at this party''
''I gave you all my best me's'' also in the sense that she has changed several times in the course of their relationship. Reputation, Lover, Folklore, Evermore and finally Midnights are not just musical eras, Taylor's style and appearance, her vocabulary and personality have changed almost every two years since she and Joe started dating. She has shown him so many different facets of herself, as if to prove to him that it is never boring with her because she has so many different me's to offer and is willing to give him all of them. But reinventing yourself over and over again only to get the feeling that you're not getting enough back can get tiring in the long run.
Perhaps the line where she compares herself to a Phoenix that gets tired despite rising from the ashes also refers to that. That she has simply become tired from the constant reinvention, when he just stays the same as he was in the beginning and shows not even no effort to give her his best sides but actually ignores her when all she wanted was for him to see her.
And while Midnights isn't necessarily about the breakup with Joe, in that context lyrics like 'he stayed the same all of me changed like midnight' could at least have been inspired by Joe and fit well with the narrative of You're losing me.
I think that reinventing thing was more for the fans though, if you fall in love with someone you usually want them as they are, you don't expect them to change themselves every few years. Also i'm kind of over the whole "looking what the boyfriend made wrong, which caused the break up" stuff. Either she had faults of her own, or she has a terrible taste in men (i can't think of a better term rn), i don't believe that all 9 break ups i remember were exclusively the fault of the boyfriends (Joe Jonas, Jake Gyllenhaal and John Mayer are the only ones were i could buy it), yet they always get all the blame by the fans, that doesn't sit right with me. John, Jake, Joe Alwyn and Matty all received death threats from swifties.
0:00 Intro
11:22 Hits Different Breakdown
40:15 You're Losing Me Breakdown
1:29:43 Midnights Updated Breakdown
I love you
The biggest hidding in plain sight was the lighter. In an interview, before Midnights, Joe said he had a lighter collection. The fact that she is holding a lighter in the cover, and he stated and one of the things he can't live without, its incredible.
What a Mastermind indeed. It was always about Joe, she was telling us that in that cover. I need to recover now, what a great breakdown.
I also relate to You're Losing Me, and I don't think you are wrong. Like Taylor, for my mental sake, I decided I was the problem and ended it. Because it was so painful to drag along something that isn't working and in the end it does more harm than good. I don't think we are reading too much into the song. She must have felt like this as well.
Honestly good for her, go be a pop star Taylor, no one deserves pain and heartbreak.
And no one deserves death threats over a failed relationship either. (Not you, but some of the fans take it way to far with the blame game/avenging)
@@Eragon2679 Yes, we only know how she was feeling, not the factual events.
I didn't know this. Maybe in the photo, she is about to blow out the flame.....
It felt like midnights was a amazing album but something was missing like a piece of the puzzle, it really does make a lot of sense now ! ❤
Midnights is literally her eras album. It’s songs from different points of her life and each song fits into every era. She truly is a mastermind for making this album as an Easter egg to her eras tour.
can't agree more
You're losing me has put "I'm the wind in our free-flowing sails" in a whole different perspective cause... you know, she's THE wind in the relationship
The more I listened to Midnights, the more it sounded like the precursor to a break-up and that's the puzzle piece we were missing. We lacked the context of what was happening in her relationship (not that it's any of our business), but once we had that knowledge, it became a breaking up album for me. To me, it was someone laying awake at night questioning the complexities of their relationship and their fame/career/public persona, and how these areas of their life collided, and what it meant going forward. It was someone clinging onto something because they weren't ready to let go, but knew deep down that something had died or was dying. With the addition of 'you're losing me' this becomes an absolute heartbreaker because she thought she finally found the one, only to slowly come to the realization that her relationship was falling apart.
I love that you guys recognise that the song isn’t necessarily attacking joe but maybe showing they were incompatible. So many fans turned on him QUICK after this song came out, but there’s always so much behind a breakup and I think it’s such a good thing that you bring light to that.
And I absolutely agree, midnights did feel kind of “incomplete” without these two songs. Fantastic breakdown as usual!! 😊❤
People turned on him as soon as the news broke. The second after. Well, maybe the day after because everyone was in denial for like 48 hours.
Exactly
I can't help but think of these entries from the Lover diaries...
2009 📖 "I somehow feel like it's my destiny to roll my eyes at happy couples and resent Valentine's Day. I also feel like I'm the girl before 'the one.' I'm not 'the one.' I'm the girl you think is the one for you, and when it doesn't work out with me, you meet the next girl and realize she IS the one. The one you're gonna stay with. I might get married but I think it's ultimately my fate to light candles and pine away and roll my eyes at happy couples and resent Valentine's Day."
2014 📖 "Dating is awful. Love is fiction/a myth. I'm over it all,"
I am unwell at the thought of this
After listening to Midnights again in context of breakup
I just think folklore and evermore might not be as fictional as they seem
Absolutely. They're all "breakdown" albums.
I think so too, more specifically evermore. I think alot of songs on it may not be as fictional as we thought they were
I’ve always thought those were her two most personal albums and she presented some songs as stories because she didn’t want the insane speculation
@@caryntonh1037 I always thought this too. Marketing the albums as works of fiction made people pay attention to the music. Finally.
"The 1" has some big "Question...?" vibes on re-listening
A video for two very iconic songs in midnights. Both are definitely part of top 5 in that album.
When i heard the lyric “Do I throw out everything we built or keep it?” for the first time, i immediately thought about all of her discography that is about him or later done with him, which is a huge part to be connected to only one person. And maybe in some moment she even had a thought in context of rerecordings to just ignore albums like lover and rep, to not go into that emotions again, or she could not even imagine how it will be working on them.
She owns Lover, so she wouldn’t have to re-record that album. However, singing those songs on tour probably brings up a lot of memories.
That would make sense since she’s doing 1989 first before rep, maybe to avoid it until she has had more time to heal
Refathoming Maroon: We thought it might be a more mature look at a relationship from Red era bc maroon is a deep red but now I’m thinking that it’s about Joe and that’s it’s called Maroon bc red was the color of her worst heartbreak til that point but now she needs an even darker color to express this new level of pain. “Rust that grew between telephones could refer to him not being there while filming and that communication breaking down. And also the “carnations you had thought were roses” reminds me of all the play on flower types in The Great War. There’s other connections too but this is already so long. 😂
Wait also “you were standing hollow eyed in the hallway” really reminds me of the Hits Different bridge. Like he did show up but he had hollow eyes. In contrast to Betty and How You Get the Girl where she has a romantic idea of how the guy could come back and save things, he came back with carnations not roses and is losing her.
stop stop stop, this is so depressing 🥲 but makes soo much sense
and when you think about maroon and daylight... if they were both about the same person, at the start of the relationship it feels like daylight but then starts to feel like dusk, she looks at the sky and it's maroon, the daylight is going, the relationship is nearly gone??
tho your fathoming has a point but if I'm not mistaken she introduced maroon in the eras tour as "something that took place in New York a long time ago" so I'm not too suree
@@arushi3621 oh interesting I forgot about that. Maybe the exact story is from a long time ago but the feelings coming up for her mirror what she is going through now. Or I’m just way overthinking haha.
1:04:40 -- On the topic of fathoming them writing sad songs together, "How long can we be a sad song" made me think of exile: "You never gave a warning sign, I GAVE SO MANY SIGNS" it's interesting to think about if bits and pieces of whatever problems they had throughout the relationship worked their way into songs they wrote together even back in 2020 😭
I always thought the "now your running down the hallway" lyric fit into the medical parts of the song, like how if a family member runs down the hallway in the hospital when they hear "we're loosing them!" or alarms blare from the hospital room, like on a TV show, but it's too late, her heart doesn't beat anymore for him, and it's too late. Maybe? Ha
28:28 Yes and I also think "I wander through these nights, I prefer hiding in plain sight.." is essentially the thesis of the album as a whole. She's out late at night, sad about her current relationship's downfall, Mentally she is thinking back into her past to try to make sense of things, she's in plain sight - out at the bar, sad, she's also in plain sight of the fans - by writing and giving these songs to us (She can't figure out what's going on in her life, but she can write a song about it). I've loved Dear Reader from the start and I think people are finally starting to get it and how meaningful it truly is!
i love what you said about it not being a breakup album because i fully agree, to me it feels like a trying to stop the breakup/can this be saved situation
The way I think of snow on the beach now is that it’s very beautiful and unbelievable in the moment and you get so caught up in that feeling that you forget that the snow won’t last. It also reminds me of lyrics on red where she says “you and I fell like an early spring snow” which also won’t last as the season gets warmer and “I still remember the first fall of snow and how it glistened as it fell” which is a similar idea that the snow (a metaphor for a relationship) was so beautiful as it fell, but is ultimately still falling just like the relationship
I’ve always found the cover art of the album interesting and this video made it click for me. As Bonny said, the lighter is the fixation, or the thought that is keeping her up at night. Well, Joe once did an interview where he talked about his favorite things and one of them was a lighter. He said even though he doesn’t smoke, he always carries a lighter. When the album launched I immediately thought the lighter was a symbol for him, but it didn’t make as much sense until watching this video and reframing it as an album about their relationship falling apart. Now I get it.
She really made a "choose your own adventure" album. It's giving Goosebumps😂
I always viewed the running down the hallway as a continuation of the hospital imagery - she’s dying in the hospital and he finally shows up, running down the hospital hallway to her room but she’s already gone. Her heart monitor is out hence the pause in the heartbeat driving the melody.
crying watching this. i'm on the precipice of separating from my partner of 13 years. listening to you, hearing your words, wisdom and fathoming is like having two friends close by. thanks for being there for me, even if you don't know me. in taylor we trust, learn and love. thanks, ladies. your channel is such a comfort.
I hope you’re doing ok now, friend.
I phantomed the lyric "you say I don't understand and I say I know you don't" differently... To me, it feels like something taylor would tell joe during the "final blow", the break up... I think she might have said something like "I can't be with you anymore" and in response he said "I don't understand" and she answered "I know you don't"... And then the rest of the song explains how Joe never picked up the signs of her getting hurt throughout the relationship, and how he didn't understand why she would want to end things
Insane that it was recorded in october 2021, that's like 16 months before the break up was announced. And they wrote "exile" together: "you never gave a warning sign", "i gave so many signs". Like, how do you write something like that together, and then stay together for 3 more years?!
taylor is TRULY a mastermind if she can put out an entire album alluding to the end of her relationship and NONE of us knowing it’s a pre-breakup breakup album… every song, save for a few, ARE. ABOUT. JOE. OMFG
"Freedom felt like summer then on the coast, now the sun burns my heart and the sand hurts my feelings" also feels like a callback to "It turns out freedom ain't nothin' but missin' you" from Back to December!
I'll be cheesy on this one. Thank you guys so much for making this journey what I'll always remember as the "Midnights Era". I can't wait to see what you have in store for us for the Speak Now TV era, I love you so much❤❤❤
Re-watching this and can't help but link the 'asshole outlaw' reference in Hits Different with Cowboy Like Me, seeing as the word cowboy is often interchangeable with outlaw. Always finding it easy to move on quickly and never finding a real connection, until it came to this one relationship. The end of this particular relationship is the one to make someone feel as if 'Forever is the sweetest con' and that they are 'never gonna love again'. Before the relationship even began, there was the knowledge that it would hit different if it were to end - 'We could be the way forward and I know I'll pay for it'.
i think the “running down the hallway” line ties back to hits different because she was waiting and waiting to hear him come down the hallway “is that your key…down the hallway…is it ok? is it you? or have they come to take me away” but it took her actually leaving and going away to get him to run down the hallway and care enough but it was too late because she was already gone
There are definitely twists and turns for this era. There's so much layers to Midnights and you're losing me definitely is the ultimate twist that changes the whole context of this era. Its a whole journey that TS brought us with, like a book with a shocking ending is what I feel. Dear reader is like a forewarning or foreshadowing of what this whole ass book journey really is about. 3 am was getting to the bottom of things. Til Dawn is the revelation from all the reflections. Then Daylight begins again like a brand new morning, and she falls in love again like a Lover! Its all a cycle, these albums. Rep is a night album as TS said. Then Midnights. And she said Lover album was almost called Daylight. Its complete now. Just like Spring summer is Folklore, and fall winter is Evermore. TS really is a mastermind.
I just love how Em says this is just a LITTLE chatting chat … 1h and 42 min later😂😂 love you guys!! You are unique
you guys were talking about how lover was potentially going to be called daylight and now we have midnights and how they’re almost polar opposites and midnight rain came immediately to mind, the “he was sunshine, i was midnight rain” which had me going through the lyrics again because even after all of this i never really felt that the song was about joe but when you really look into those lyrics, especially now that we sort of know that HE was the one that didn’t wanna marry her, the lyrics in that song feel sort of like she was kind of regretful in a way? that she did not accept the life the person the song was about was offering her, you know? especially in all of verse 2, more specifically in the lyrics “all the love we unravel, and the life i gave away” because she probably knew that now she would never get that life with joe and then going on to finish the song with “i guess sometimes we all get just what we wanted” and then “some kind of haunted” makes me feel like her choosing of words in “i guess” is very telling of an uncertainty that that was what she really desired? or maybe at the time she really only wanted to step up in her career but with all of this reminiscing she’s actually like “i fucked up and now this life i saw through this deep portal and this postcard is not achievable anymore.” really fucked me up honestly
also i interpreted the whole ”and i wouldn’t marry me either, a pathological people pleaser who only wanted you to see her” a bit sarcastic as well, and i kinda broke the 3 phrases like- her saying she wouldn’t marry herself either is agreeing with him because he probably said that to her once But also i take the “a pathological people pleaser” as even more sarcasm because it could’ve been him saying that to her as well and she’s kinda quoting him on his reasoning for her wanting to go back into the spotlight and potentially “ruining” the relationship therefore him not wanting to marry her. And then ending it with “who only wanted you to see her” feels more like she’s actually deconstructing that idea he had of her like i’m a people pleaser for YOU. You are the one i always really want to please and you’re just not making any effort so im always going by your “rules” (the whole privacy thing and not being able to be more open about their relationship)
I still feel that Midnights was deeply connected to her process of re-recording her albums and maybe that’s what helped her processing and breaking down her relationship. She must have fathomed a lot of things in her current relationship while re-recording her songs about previous ones and maybe she actually figured out who she truly is/ want to be. I think she must have done a lot of introspection and fathoming during this process of immersing herself in previous eras
Just a tiny thing to add to this genius analysis: Note that "you don't know what you got until it's gone" is in quotation marks. Taylor is quoting her heroine Joni Mitchell. It's from Joni's song "Big Yellow Taxi."
Talking about the relationship between Lover and Midnights…
I Think He Knows: He got my heart beat
You’re Losing Me: I can’t find a pulse. My heart won’t start anymore for you
I Think He Knows: I think he knows
You’re Losing Me: You say, “I don’t understand,” and I say, “I know you don’t”
My lover, daylight has gone. Now it’s midnight and you’re losing me😢
the bridge of you’re losing me reminds me of “choose me, pick me, love me” by meredith grey AAAAND i feel like it’s a sister song of tolerate it. Who would’ve known this history of JA not being responsive in their relationship goes way back to the Lover era and would also reflect on Evermore, Folklore etc. It’s just so sad to think that some of her wonderful (albeit heartbreaking) songs like Tolerate It are songs that she herself experienced and all the while here we thought she’s just having the time of her life with their relationship 🥺🥺
IM GOING TO MISS THESE SO MUCH, cheers to another chapter as we begin again into the next era 🥂
Now Champagne Problems is hearthbreaking! They wrote it together and now this happened to her and she has to sing it out loud every night :(
"Every bar plays our song" could also refer to *"Love in a Bar" by Ryan Hurd* 👀
Backstage at night 1 of Rep Tour Arlington, Taylor told Ryan Hurd that she loved his song Love in a Bar because it was especially meaningful to her relationship with Joe.
In an interview he said "[Taylor] said, 'I love that song' and something about her and her boyfriend and referenced my song and I was like, 'That’s so cool.'"
idk, it seems like a song about finding love in a bar would be really popular to play in bars😆
i dont think anyone was prepared for you're losing me, it is by far in my opinion after fathoming her best. lyrically, emotionally, story telling. everything. its such a heart breaking song but its so beautifully written. def top for me.
whats also fucked up is that you hear a defibrillator starting towards the end of the song which is not used to bring people back to life but used to reset the heart to a new heart beat... its basically her saying my heart wont start anymore for you but it may for someone else... which also ties into KING OF MY HEART... HE IS NO LONGER OMGGGG....SHE IS SO MESSED UP AND A MASTERMIND.
What time of the song is the defibrillator?!!
Taylor could also see it as she was willing to sacrifice her spotlight for him as a people pleaser. In relationships people pleasers often feel less satisfied and feel as though we are giving more of ourselves, when in reality the other people may have healthier boundaries. We expect people to change, because we so easily change to please others.
Girl, you just made me take a real hard look at myself…
see, i always thought Tolerate It was about her relationship. While he was out building other worlds (making movies) the whole blankets over barbed wire links back to the barbed wired & wool in invisible string, using her best colors for his portrait (she painted him as the hero in all the songs about him). he just never made her his world aka he wasn't ever going to wear a "I ❤ TS" shirt, like ever. And I think she wanted a bit of him making her his whole world but he's just not that person. plus it's a track 5 and I'm of the belief that it's way more personal than was initially thought. anyway, i always love your breakdowns and can't wait for your Speak Now TS vid
I love this re-fathoming. It’s kinda crazy how different I feel about Midnights now than I was few months ago.
I been a casual listener to Taylor for decades, but you guys made me stan her really hard. All these fathoming and backstories made me appreciate her so much more and for that THANK YOU SO MUCH
The line in Hits Different “moving on was always easy for me to do” always made me lol, like girl what are you talking about 😂 she does not actually move on from anything easily! But then I kind of took it to mean like she moved on easily in *comparison*. Even though it was hard for her to move on from breakups with whole albums about them, even though it was hard for her to move on from revenge fantasies in all regards (Kanye, Scooter, even “nothing I do better than revenge”), even though moving on from all those things was so hard, they were easy for her in retrospect compared to the devastation of trying to move on from the longest relationship she’d had with the one she thought would be forever 😢
I think she said that cause she’s binding from men to men lol
With all the heartbeats and sick/dying references, the “running down the hallway” lyric immediately paints a picture of a hospital hallway for me. Maybe she’s about to die or has just died and he’s running to her hospital room only to find out it’s too late.
Or running away, down the hallway to the door ,to catch fresh air because it's just sinking in now that it is over...
I am simply unwell
@@maya_htrabkcah this imagery has ruined me. thank u for this
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Love how we really go
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you two have such a talent for interpreting her lyrics. this helped me see the whole album so differently
The production of You’re Losing Me reminds me to the old Greys Anatomy theme song.
Also the lyrics ‘Do something, Lose something, Choose something’ remind me of Meredith saying ‘ Pick me, choose me, love me. ’
At 56:09 where you’re talking about the feeling of being with someone with whom you may have a lot of chemistry but may not be compatible - this reminds me of the lyric in Hits Different, “argumentative antithetical dream girl” Antithesis means opposite so she’s acknowledging the fact that the chemistry that they had/have is somewhat derived from her being the opposite of him. Interesting!
I find the artifacts = “I spy with my little TIRED eye tiny as a firefly a PEBBLE we picked up last July…WE ALMOST FORGOT IT”
No I really think hits different was them on a break and they got back together and wrote sweet nothing to remember the little things that were good in the relationship
I heard someone say it was like TAYLOR was the pebble in JOE’s pocket 😭 like she misses the spotlight and performing
Hi guys! I just fanthomed something wich blew my brains and wanted to share with you. I realized that Bejeweld is like a direct response to Paper Rings. Like, she uses Baby Boy in both, so its about Joe, and in paper rings she gives up the shiny part of herself because she loves him, but then… she is still bejeweld. She’s such a genious mind.
Just realized it seems telling that she chose to refer to “that lavender haze” not “this lavender haze.” As if she’s fully aware and acknowledges it’s a dream and a wish, not a reality.
You’re the one that I love, don’t need another metaphor…. Has connected with the love song we got for Joe as Lover. She literally just calls him her lover
taylor really released this album about processing a breakup when i was indeed going through a horrible heartbreak. she continues to put millions of peoples thoughts into words and songs and makes us feel safe and heard and reminds us that we aren’t alone we have each other and we have her
1:27:21 also in Bejeweled: putting someone first only works if you're in their top five// don't put me in the basement when I want the penthouse of your heart.
much needed video! every single day this album gets better and better and makes more sense!! ughhhh its a LIVING BREATHING ALBUM! love y'all
When Bonnie said, “I felt dumb”, I really felt that! 😂 I relistened to midnights after the bomb dropped & fathoming it with just a little bit more of information just gave the album’s story & concept a whole revamp for me- like it was totally different. I couldn’t quite wrap my head around how obvious it was, especially with Hits Different! I kept thinking, “My god, this flew over our heads!” 😆
you know, it's so interesting to me (and i've just realised this) that now we have a song called you're losing me on midnights which talks about choosing and not chosing a person, and then there's another song (maroon) that has a chorus where the only lines changing are I chose you and I lost you. like, going through old relationships and thinking over things she lost and trying to figure out choices and who has to make them and what those are?? the actual cohesion of this album is actually unparalleled in her discography, as is the immense depth of thought
omg this
Kudos Bonny for editing 2.5 hours to 1.75 😂
1hr 42 min fathoming for 2 songs ty for feeding us so hard queens ❤
nothing i love more than a feature length video from you twoooo 🥰
can't believe midnights era is over, but cannot wait for all the exciting things to come with speak now tv and the next re-recordings.. this was such an incredible video and Taylor as always is the most brilliant human to exist, forever fathoming this woman!!
Also in the song Daylight she basically says "I don't want to be defined by the things that haunt me in the middle of the night" !!!!!!!
Guys right after watching this I suddenly decided to listen to SOTB and then wanted to know which words she used instead of f#%king in clean version it goes "weird, but it was beautiful" ...it WAS beautiful 😭 that's her again, like you said, literally HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT 😮
fly high midnights breakdown era 🕊️
after almost 2 months of reflection on this album as a breakdown-of-a-relationship album i feel like joe and taylor’s relationship was based on a trauma bond for taylor. she leaned heavily on joe after the drama post-1989. now that it seems like she has processed her feelings there might not be this deep connection (aka kinda co-dependency) that she felt in the beginning.
‘you’re running down the hallway you know what they all say, -‘they whisper in the hallway “she’s a bad bad girl”’
The production of you're losing me...OMG!!!the lost of that heartbeat at the end drops when she says i can't find a pulse...and it just stops!!!!!brilliant!!!!!
I also think You’re loosing Me has a little connection to Exile. We have Taylor in a lot of songs going through her insecurities at the beginning of her relationship with Joe, that’s why I think Exile is something that came up in one of those fights when they’re at this point that they have been years into the relationship. Where Joe opened and talked about his insecurities and also so afraid of their then figurative break up. We think it’s a poetic choice that Taylor replies to him, but why if it’s a recollection of a fight? “I never learned to read your mind / you never learned to read my mind”. That line makes me think soooo much in the first verse of You're Loosing Me. There is so much speculation that they had some kind of pact that she wouldn’t give their fall out the same treatment as their previous ones, so in Exile the line “I think I’ve seen this film before and I didn’t like the ending” goes for both Joe because he would be in the same position of her exes, and the relation of movies, just like in Karma with “the guy on the screen” and all the other songs referencing his job. “I’m not your problem anymore” relates to Peace and in You’re loosing Me “I know my pain is such an imposition”. Also his fear that she moves on quickly, she mentions in Hits Different that it’s not the same because ITS JOE, but at that time he observed how fast she got over Calvin Harris and Tom “And it took you five whole minutes to pack us up and leave me with it”. Exile has so much more related, but this has made me reflect in all of their "sad songs” that co-wrote together.
Yes! As Bonny and Emily did their genius breakdown, I had the thought that "Exile" is the key to "You're Losing Me," almost a first exploration of the same territory.
Also in Stop she says Joe runs down the hallway, and in Exile , Joe was standing out in the hall.
the PARALLEL of "do i really have to tell you how he brought me back to life" to "how can you say you love someone you can't tell is dying?" is the rudest thing I've ever heard
Taylor was brave to let us see inside her mind and their relationship. I am proud of her for walking away, and she seems happy again! She tried her best and it did not work. Thanks again for your breakdown! Love you guys!
i think the "hallway" is actually part of the hospital imagery. like when you find out that the patient is dying
The “I’m the best thing at this party” lyrics reminds me of you’re on your own kid where she says “I search the party of better bodies”. It shows how much she’s grown into herself since then and how much her self esteem has grown.
However, having a song like anti hero on an album that also has bejeweled shows how she has these highs and lows when it comes to her self esteem. Like you mentioned the song ME, which has both aspects of it.
Thank you so much for perfectly fathoming this truly iconic album. We truly appreciate all the effort you guys put into all the reactions and breakdowns. You guys are the most superior creators🫶🏻
I LOVED this breakdown, THANK YOU!! Especially the end of breaking down You’re Losing Me… I love this song, I was feeling sad about it, but your idea of how it’s also a beautiful way of describing someone choosing themselves, instead of staying in a situation that isn’t good enough for them… really hit me and I had never thought of it that way 😭 thank you for sharing, always!!! 💓💓
Part of me always thinks that bigger than the whole sky was about a miscarriage, and often in the aftermath of that kind of shared trauma a relationship comes under intense scrutiny as people grieve differently ..it makes me think of 'all I did was bleed', and wonder if the sadness was a huge fault line in their relationship, which also echos the hospital setting and lots of references to blood and staining. Maybe this is already a thought out there, can't keep up with the analysis 😊
LOVE this re-fathoming. Lavender haze right before maroon (also a colour and also "being/feeling marooned") is now a whole new, trippy experience. it HITS DIFFERENT
You're Losing Me reminds me of the 10 minute version of All Too Well in that it's the missing link we get after the album that really connects all the songs together. It makes things a lot more cohesive once you get that extra knowledge.
Absolutely loved this video, btw ❤
Think you got it girls. All the songs of Midnight is about what the end of her relationship with him. Every song is her journey in details....its just brilliant writing. She's the one, nobody compares to her.
I feel like Midnights was at the edge of a breakup because we got The Great War (which I assume means they got through it) at the time but still had issues, hence Bejeweled and Labyrinth. But adding You’re Losing Me has sealed that it eventually ended.
With “you’re loosing me” I think that the heartbeat sound kind of sound like the heartbeat is being monitored in a hospital as if something is about to die… and then when the heartbeat stops at the end of the song, it really truly STOPPED, and the relationship has died. Also, at the end of the song, I like the clever way her backing vocals of the chorus like “stop…” as soon as she says the way “start” in the line “my heart won’t start again…” it’s almost as if in the moment in time, just before the last “my heart won’t start again, for you”… right before it all ends, the two contradictions (the relationship ending vs the relationship coming back to life) exists at the same time.
LOVED this whole fahtoming, you both really articulated exactly how I'm feeling about Hits Different and You're Losing Me and how they both really explain Midnights as an album!!
I kind of see Labyrinth, Snow on the Beach and Sweet Nothing as connected after hearing You're Losing Me - that part of a long-term relationship breakdown where there's a moment of change and suddenly you feel familiar and in love again, and have hope that maybe things can change and you can work it out. They SOTB and Labyrinth both especially have a kind of sense of trepidation/wonder/awe about them that makes me feel like she's really trying to grasp at those moments that feel so right to distract from how wrong everything feels most of the time. So I think it's not just reminiscing on early days - it might be more like, "this is breaking down, but suddenly you've said or done something that's so YOU and I'm in love all over again, but I'm scared to be - it doesn't feel safe anymore". It's also part of what's confusing to maybe both of them, and adding to the indecision of what they should do next, because even when you are falling out of love with someone, you have moments of looking at them and thinking that there couldn't possibly be anyone better.
This!!
You guys are working OVERTIME. Thank you so much for all the content
In you’re losing me the “always rising from the ashes mending all her gashes" is the same beat as "barefoot in the kitchen sacred new beginnings" from Cornelia street 😢