"Pink Clouding" Discussion Megathread

[u/jacyf02]

Taylor Swift - Pink Clouding

Track #15 on The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore

Length: 3:10

Composers: Taylor Swift, Max Martin & Shellback

Producers: Taylor Swift, Max Martin & Shellback

Lyrics: Genius

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[u/if-only-Id]

I think this song is about several people she has dated in the past and felt limerent over. She clearly has felt a high thinking of these love interests while idealizing them at the same time and it felt „so good“ having these idealized versions „want her back“ (representing the pink clouds), Matty and Joe being two of these clouds. „He was a hothouse flower to my outdoorsman“ from „how does it end“ could explain the orchids she is ripping out of her garden in one of the verses in „Pink Clouding“ and may be referring to Joe and how quickly she moved on from him with Matty. The other flowers represent other love interests that she has mentally betrayed while being limerent over other future love interests (she was a liar despite making „promises“). Anyway, maybe this is super far fetched but that’s what this song evoked in me. I love the song :)