#me writing all this with the google page for snow on the beach lyrics open

[kaylor]

Someone suggested Snow On The Beach is about falling in love with fans and fame again and it's fitting for many reasons one of them being Midnights is THE album about her fame like you just said. What do you think?

hmmm interesting take but i'm inclined to disagree mainly because i don't think she's ever fallen OUT of love with fans and fame. there's also just very little in the song that sounds more like career than romance to me. it feels very intimate, one on one with a single person, compared to say mirrorball, which can read more like a general "you" - for example, compare "your eyes are flying saucers from another planet/can this be a real thing? can it?" to "i'm still trying everything to get you looking at me/because i'm a mirrorball".

"can this be a real thing?" is a concept that occurs very often in her songs about relationships, less so songs about her career. it echoes many other lyrics about tentative starts to relationships, e.g. state of grace ("this is the golden age of something good and right and real"), delicate ("we can't make any promises now, can we babe?") , or lyrics insisting that a relationship was real, e.g. love story ("this love is difficult but it's real"), you are in love ("and you knew what it was/you are in love/true love"), all too well ("you were there/you remember it"), or lyrics questioning whether it was as real as she thought, e.g. the 1 ( "we were something, don't you think so"), evermore ("it was real enough to get me through").

i think the entire first verse echoes previous songs, e.g. "it might have just been you passing by unbeknownst to me" vs "and he's passing by rare as a glimmer of a comet in the sky", or "time can't stop me quite like you did, i'm unglued" vs "lost in your current like a priceless wine"/"guess i'm feeling unmoored" - this is a weird one to unravel because.... mainly because the lyrics to sotb just aren't very good and don't make a massive amount of sense to me, apart from sounding kinda cute. the whole first verse is just rehashing things she's said better in other songs.

much the same for the second verse: this moment feels like a movie, your eyes shine, i can't focus on anyone else, every love felt fake up until now. we've been here before in many a taylor swift song about falling in love. it's well trodden ground.

tldr: i don't see how this is about fame at all sorry !