Rain or shine, pandemic or turmoil, you better believe that Taylor Swift will release her new songs. The pop star, who apparently didn’t take a break all year, gave us two more tracks from her folklore companion album ever Wednesday night with the launch of the deluxe edition on streaming platforms. The expanded album was previously available only in physical formats, making it the first time that the songs “exactly where you left me” and “it’s time to go” are available online. In “right where you left me”, over an old guitar sound that reminds Taylor, Swift sings about a relationship that makes her live in the past. “Have you heard about the girl who got frozen? / Time has passed for everyone / She won’t know / She’s still 23 years old in her fantasy / As it should be ”, she sings as we frantically search Google who Taylor Swift was dating at 23.
After “it’s time to go”, your words will be familiar to women who have had to leave a relationship to save themselves. Some lyrics are so specific, however, fans see them as a painful response to the loss of their musical rights to their longtime former record label boss Scott Borchetta of Big Machine and music entrepreneur Scooter Braun, who bought and sold his catalog for more than $ 300 million. “Fifteen years, 15 million tears / Begging until my knees bleed / I gave my all, he gave me nothing / So I wondered why I left / Now he is sitting on his throne in his palace of bones / Praying for his greed / He has my past frozen behind glass / But I caught myself ”, she declares. Taylor Swift spent the second half of 2020 creating two albums and re-recording their first five. These men are lucky to have gotten away with a phrase on a bonus track, not an entire concept album fantasizing about their mysterious disappearances. No body, no crime.