While Taylor Swift did not release a song on October 13th despite her fans' theories, the singer has just thrown a curveball today.
Swift announced her next song is coming tonight, at midnight. It's called "Gorgeous," and the tiny teaser of it on her Instagram features a child's voice (a young Taylor's?) and is really unlike any of her previous work:
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Taylor Swift has fallen in and out of love many more times in her music than in real life. But "Gorgeous", the third preview of her upcoming seventh studio album Reputation, is no "Love Story" -- it's a slapstick romantic comedy. For all the furor over "Look What You Made Me Do", Swift has never taken herself less seriously. Rarely has she -- or any songwriter -- depicted infatuation as goofily as this.
The verses to "Gorgeous" are Swift at her pettiest. She meets a man and immediately negs him: "You should take it as a compliment/ That I got drunk and made fun of the way you talk."
She's tempted to cheat: "I got a boyfriend, he's older than us/ He's in the club doing I don't know what." She's even too melodramatic for her own song. Max Martin and Shellback's gentle, rippling synths sound like thought bubbles -- the soundtrack to Taylor meeting someone and immediately planning the rest of their lives together. "You've ruined my life by not being mine…" ding!
Try not to be shocked that Taylor Swift wrote a song about a guy.
The singer dropped her new single, "Gorgeous," early Friday, and fans have been trying to read the tea leaves to figure out if the lyrics are about her reported current boyfriend, British actor Joe Alwyn.
"You're so gorgeous/I can't say anything to your face/'Cause look at your face/And I'm so furious/At you for making me feel this way/But what can I say?/You're gorgeous," Swift sings.
Lines such as "Ocean blue eyes looking in mine/I feel like I might sink and drown and die" (Alwyn has blue eyes) and "You should take it as a compliment. That I got drunk and made fun of the way you talk" (he has a British accent) are being pointed to as definitive proof that Swift is sharing her feelings about her new love.
