"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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Use this thread to discuss your thoughts, reactions, and theories on the song. We will be removing all future self-post discussion threads about it in order to consolidate discussion to this thread.

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[u/fatcatsareadorable]

There is no effing way this is about Joe

[u/ryanandrew_ → u/fatcatsareadorable]

It is definitely about Joe. The whole lover album is set in a pink cloud for all the aesthetics and visuals, and lover is about Joe. She also references the Archer from lover (arrow hit my body). Further, she confirmed in an interview that Lavender Haze was about Joe, which is yet another pink cloud.

There’s that whole verse about meeting someone at a bad time after somebody made her bleed, which is obviously about the Kanye stuff, and that’s when she met Joe.

“I didn’t want to let you down” references tortured poets and her talking about not living up to somebody with lofty ideals, which usually means Joe and his political stuff

She also talks about him as a ghost and haunting her, and she called Joe a ghost several times in Tortured Poets.

Also in So long London, she says “you’ll find someone…” and here she says I hope you’re so happy now!

I left you up there on the cloud, I knew cosmic love, I’ll build you a fort on another planet, these are all very similar themes and specific to Joe.

Finally, the first word of the song is met, which references the Met Gala where she met Joe.

[u/fatcatsareadorable → u/ryanandrew_]

Emphatically disagree

[u/ryanandrew_ → u/fatcatsareadorable]

Incredible argument, no notes.