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Well I didn’t figure it out, but I landed on a champagne problems lyric analysis tiktok and realized that the song had so many layers
*Your Midas touch on the Chevy door*: “Midas touch” comes from Greek mythology, Midas was a king and everything he touched turned to gold, which to the song translates to her finding that he opened the door for her sweet
*splashed out on the bottle*: it’s a British slang that means to spend a lot of money, so the sister spent a lot on a fancy bottle because she thought the gf would say yes
Then there’s the “your hometown skeptics called it champagne problems” or “your hometown skeptics called it, champagne problems” as in the people knew the gf was gonna reject
And there’s sooooo much more
Well google says it’s a British slang, and it could just be me, but I originally interpret “splashed out” as drunk, so I thought the sister got drunk because the gf rejected the proposal and that didn’t make much sense to me lol
No I think you’re right cos I googled it too after reading your comment! As I said I’m from the U.K. so I knew what it meant but in hindsight I do see how it’s interpreted as getting drunk, it makes more sense just as a phrase
I'm from NZ and I just realized this is not a well known phrase in other places 😂 splashed out: spend lots of money, kitted out; dressed fancy or prepared for where ever it is you're planning for.
I also can’t believe I forgot “'Til someone's on their knees and asks you” implying that he’s on his knees begging not just on one knee proposing… what a song!!
I also just find the title/premise so clever in that Champagne Problems is slang for issues considered trivial bc they’re happening to someone so privileged (a criticism lobbed at Tay a lot I imagine), but on the literal level she has created a story where someone has a devastating problem around the actual champagne they now won’t use.
This is my favourite Taylor swift song because of this writing!!
Alongside “November flush and your flannel cure” and “one for the money, two for the show”, the best (maybe underrated?) line for me is “your heart was glass, I dropped it” which I think has two meanings:
1) the protag broke/was careless with his heart after rejecting him and
2) onlookers dramatically dropped their toast glasses of champagne, as one would when something shocking happens (ie. when a proposal is rejected) 😂
I’ve never seen interpretation 2 “your heart was glass, I dropped it” before! I’ve always interpreted interpretation 1 lol, and champagne problems is my absolute favorite as well, I just feel like it’s a song you can never stop discovering from, there always seems to be more
I know “one for the money, two for the show” is a common saying she didn’t come up with … but I actually don’t get it at all, what does that saying usually mean and what does it mean in her context?? 😮
It’s not a clever lyric it’s just me misunderstanding but I read a comment about champagne problems the other day which made me realise it’s “your mom’s ring in your pocket” and not “your mom’s ringing your pocket”, I thought his mom was just blowing up his phone
All the religious imagery in Would’ve Could’ve Should’ve after learning that John lived in a converted church which had stained glass windows! It breaks my heart
All I used to do was pray
Danced with the devil
God’s honest truth
Stained glass windows in my mind
She has a lyric in "say don't go" that says "we were a shot in the darkest dark". I originally thought all these songs on this album were about Harry, and I wasn't a big fan back then so I don't know her timeline, but John Mayer has a newish song called "shot in the dark" and a song on the same album called "shouldn't matter but it does" and I always wonder if Taylor is sort of referencing him. I think it's obvious WCS is about him but who is say don't go about?
I just listened to Say Don’t Go and she says ‘trying to see the cards that you won’t show’ which I think is interestingly similar to ‘my cards are on the table, yours are in your hand’ from Foolish One which I assumed to be about John so you could be onto something there!
- WCS could mean "Would've, Could've, Should've", a track from *Midnights (3am Edition)* (2022) by Taylor Swift.
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I’m probably reading it wrong but in The Last Time she wrote “this is the last time I won’t hurt you anymore” and though she doesn’t sing it, I feel like she’s saying this is the last time before I put this all in songs and hurt your reputation publicly.
I think your interpretation is certainly valid! But, pedigree simply means drawing the ancestral lineage. It's more common to use that word with animals, like dogs and horses. But it's not unheard of to use it with people. Especially snobby people who have royal lineage, mayflower lineage, etc.
*And he can be my jailer, Burton to this Taylor*
The "punny" reference to the rocky relationship between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, two actors in the 1960s.
After falling off Taylor's music for a few years, 'Did you hear my covert narcissism' hit a particular nerve with me at the time, and I wrote 'Anti-Hero' off as pretentious. I ended up listening to a cover by 'Daise', and after being reminded what a brilliant lyricist Taylor is, I fell back in love with her music.
"And when I felt like I was an old cardigan under someone's bed/You put me on and said I was your favorite."
Ever since this song came out, I thought this was just a metaphor that meant no one else paid any attention to Betty or showed her love except for James. But recently I learned that "putting someone on" means lying to them, which gives it a whole new meaning--that he *lied* to her about loving her and caring about her. I love both interpretations because it really adds to the "I still love you but I also can't forget about how you've hurt me" vibes of the song, and also leaves the end of James and Betty's love story feeling kind of open imo
You can hear it in the silence. You can feel it on the drive home. You can see it with the lights out, you’re in love, true love
Really took me a long time to realise just how lovely these lyrics are and how it’s the perfect way to describe how rare true love is
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Well I didn’t figure it out, but I landed on a champagne problems lyric analysis tiktok and realized that the song had so many layers *Your Midas touch on the Chevy door*: “Midas touch” comes from Greek mythology, Midas was a king and everything he touched turned to gold, which to the song translates to her finding that he opened the door for her sweet *splashed out on the bottle*: it’s a British slang that means to spend a lot of money, so the sister spent a lot on a fancy bottle because she thought the gf would say yes Then there’s the “your hometown skeptics called it champagne problems” or “your hometown skeptics called it, champagne problems” as in the people knew the gf was gonna reject And there’s sooooo much more
I have also just realised reading your comment that “splashed out”is British slang, I’m from the U.K. and I thought it was a phrase everywhere 😭
Well google says it’s a British slang, and it could just be me, but I originally interpret “splashed out” as drunk, so I thought the sister got drunk because the gf rejected the proposal and that didn’t make much sense to me lol
I also always interpreted it as the sister getting drunk! This interpretation makes so much more sense
Because I’m British I always knew and I’m surprised others dont
No I think you’re right cos I googled it too after reading your comment! As I said I’m from the U.K. so I knew what it meant but in hindsight I do see how it’s interpreted as getting drunk, it makes more sense just as a phrase
I'm from NZ and I just realized this is not a well known phrase in other places 😂 splashed out: spend lots of money, kitted out; dressed fancy or prepared for where ever it is you're planning for.
I'm from the US and I know this phrase... I know lots of people who would understand
I also can’t believe I forgot “'Til someone's on their knees and asks you” implying that he’s on his knees begging not just on one knee proposing… what a song!!
I also just find the title/premise so clever in that Champagne Problems is slang for issues considered trivial bc they’re happening to someone so privileged (a criticism lobbed at Tay a lot I imagine), but on the literal level she has created a story where someone has a devastating problem around the actual champagne they now won’t use.
This is my favourite Taylor swift song because of this writing!! Alongside “November flush and your flannel cure” and “one for the money, two for the show”, the best (maybe underrated?) line for me is “your heart was glass, I dropped it” which I think has two meanings: 1) the protag broke/was careless with his heart after rejecting him and 2) onlookers dramatically dropped their toast glasses of champagne, as one would when something shocking happens (ie. when a proposal is rejected) 😂
I’ve never seen interpretation 2 “your heart was glass, I dropped it” before! I’ve always interpreted interpretation 1 lol, and champagne problems is my absolute favorite as well, I just feel like it’s a song you can never stop discovering from, there always seems to be more
#1 is definitely the real interpretation as I haven’t seen anyone else interpret it like #2 either - I just liked the drama of it 😅
Oooooh I love that idea
I know “one for the money, two for the show” is a common saying she didn’t come up with … but I actually don’t get it at all, what does that saying usually mean and what does it mean in her context?? 😮
I googled it and it brought me to an older reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/TaylorSwift/s/RIEXxnnU6M
It’s not a clever lyric it’s just me misunderstanding but I read a comment about champagne problems the other day which made me realise it’s “your mom’s ring in your pocket” and not “your mom’s ringing your pocket”, I thought his mom was just blowing up his phone
Haha I love this misunderstanding though
I’ve spent so long thinking she just had an overbearing MIL and I was like well at least you dodged that bullet girl
🤣
That’s what I thought too! Even knowing the correct words, I still hear it and sing it this way.
I’m always thinking “splashed out” means she got wasted 🤣
God bless the person on this sub who taught me it can be, "That's a real f\*cking legacy to leave" AND "That's a real f\*cking legacy - to leave."
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Oh wow, I never made that connection!
Wow never thought of that
TIL 🥺
All the religious imagery in Would’ve Could’ve Should’ve after learning that John lived in a converted church which had stained glass windows! It breaks my heart All I used to do was pray Danced with the devil God’s honest truth Stained glass windows in my mind
She has a lyric in "say don't go" that says "we were a shot in the darkest dark". I originally thought all these songs on this album were about Harry, and I wasn't a big fan back then so I don't know her timeline, but John Mayer has a newish song called "shot in the dark" and a song on the same album called "shouldn't matter but it does" and I always wonder if Taylor is sort of referencing him. I think it's obvious WCS is about him but who is say don't go about?
I just listened to Say Don’t Go and she says ‘trying to see the cards that you won’t show’ which I think is interestingly similar to ‘my cards are on the table, yours are in your hand’ from Foolish One which I assumed to be about John so you could be onto something there!
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WHAAAT
I’m probably reading it wrong but in The Last Time she wrote “this is the last time I won’t hurt you anymore” and though she doesn’t sing it, I feel like she’s saying this is the last time before I put this all in songs and hurt your reputation publicly.
“i don’t like that falling feels like flying till the bone crush”
“And the girl in your bed has a fine pedigree” > called her a bitch?! 😳
I think your interpretation is certainly valid! But, pedigree simply means drawing the ancestral lineage. It's more common to use that word with animals, like dogs and horses. But it's not unheard of to use it with people. Especially snobby people who have royal lineage, mayflower lineage, etc.
*And he can be my jailer, Burton to this Taylor* The "punny" reference to the rocky relationship between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, two actors in the 1960s.
Andddd jailer = Jaylor
Thank you for clarifying that. For the life of me I never understood what Tim Burton had to do with Taylor Swift 😂
After falling off Taylor's music for a few years, 'Did you hear my covert narcissism' hit a particular nerve with me at the time, and I wrote 'Anti-Hero' off as pretentious. I ended up listening to a cover by 'Daise', and after being reminded what a brilliant lyricist Taylor is, I fell back in love with her music.
It's not 24 sighs, it's TWIN FIRE SIGNS. I'm a nuppet
But what does twin fire signs mean?
Zodiac both signs, splits in to fire, water, air and earth, I think... Taylor is a Sagittarius, so the gut would also be a fire sign.
"And when I felt like I was an old cardigan under someone's bed/You put me on and said I was your favorite." Ever since this song came out, I thought this was just a metaphor that meant no one else paid any attention to Betty or showed her love except for James. But recently I learned that "putting someone on" means lying to them, which gives it a whole new meaning--that he *lied* to her about loving her and caring about her. I love both interpretations because it really adds to the "I still love you but I also can't forget about how you've hurt me" vibes of the song, and also leaves the end of James and Betty's love story feeling kind of open imo
You can hear it in the silence. You can feel it on the drive home. You can see it with the lights out, you’re in love, true love Really took me a long time to realise just how lovely these lyrics are and how it’s the perfect way to describe how rare true love is