Swift has confirmed that each of the songs on her new album are inspired by her own life, leading some fans to interpret the track “Maroon” as a revisiting ...
Alyssa Bailey is the senior news and strategy editor at ELLE.com, where she oversees coverage of celebrities and royals (particularly Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton). The song also seems to touch on another theme Swift teased as inspiration for Midnights: “Wondering what might have been.” (This week marks the 10 year anniversary of the 2012 album, and maroon is a darker shade of red after all.)
Hours after releasing Midnights, her 10th studio album, Taylor Swift is dominating the Genius Top Songs chart. All 13 of the LP's tracks are in the Top 20, ...
[“the 1,”](https://genius.com/Taylor-swift-the-1-lyrics) singing, “We were something, don’t you think so? Swift uses the bridge as a kind of epilogue. It’s way more interesting to forget all that tabloid stuff and savor the imagery Swift uses elsewhere in the chorus. As “Maroon” opens, Swift and whomever this song is about are greeting the daylight after an evening that included spinning some LPs. (They can be found on Midnights (3am Edition).) So far, the song that’s attracting the most eyeballs is track two, [“Maroon,”](https://genius.com/Taylor-swift-maroon-lyrics) a smoky synth-pop ballad that has Taylor fans asking a familiar question: “Which ex-boyfriend is this one about?” Swift hasn’t revealed anything about “Maroon,” which she wrote and produced with Jack Antonoff, so everything floating around on the internet is pure speculation.