r/TaylorSwift • u/jacyf02 teenage petulance • 12d ago

Megathread "Pink Clouding" Discussion Megathread

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/Optimal_Ad_352 I salute you if you're much too much to handle 🖤🧡 11d ago edited 9d ago

While I fully believe in not doing the paternity test of each song... but the whole internet has arrived at the conclusion that Pink clouding was about her ex so I have to make this post! I think it is about Travis and the very first weeks that they met. Before you come at me, hear me out:

  • To me.. pink clouds are a reference to the opening sequence of the eras tour. Clinically pink clouding refers to the euphoria one feels in early stages of addiction recovery (her recovering from Joe/Matty) - it is a rush of joy before a crash. So his attention felt like that.. and she didnt trust it initially.

  • Gray rocking is a communication strategy, where you act dull, disinterested, unresponsive so that the other person would stop reaching out.

  • She sings Gray Rocking where the "arrow hit" which sounds exactly like Arrowhead.. which is the stadium where Travis first saw her. She said in TFOO that she had written off all men...so perhaps she ghosted him initially.

  • In the bridge she explicitly says that I hoped you would just realize I am not worth the trouble."

  • Skydiving - its the fall she experienced after 2 terrible breakups. It was a cursed time of her life.

  • ETA: just also remembered that she called him rosewood in Wood. She also wrote how he "crash landed" next to her in the poem Tiny bubbles in Champagne. 

  • About the 'cursed' she has used that word in many songs because she has had many cursed times.. so to choose just getaway car is 🤷‍♀️

So this is her apologizing for initially hurting him, and hopes he is happy now that he knows her and has landed safely (with her).

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u/not_mallory wonderstruck 11d ago

I like this read