She stops thinking about the past and advises the listener - and herself - to `take the moment and taste it, you’ve got no reason to be afraid,’ suddenly ‘you’re on your own, kid’ ceases to be a sad proclamation and becomes inspiring. However, the conclusion of the song in the outro is more optimistic. It seems part of her wishes she could have been satisfied with a life of ‘sprinkler splashes to fireplace ashes’, a more simple cookie-cutter life than the life of creativity and fame she pursued instead. When we are little, we are told, through multiple means, about the cycle of life: you get married, have kids, get old and die it seems to me that Swift is wondering about the version of her life where she didn’t make her ‘great escape’ from the town she ‘didn’t choose’ and dreamt about leaving. Listen to this song if you come from a small town and left the second you had the chance, it will act as therapy (or make you really need therapy). In ‘You’re On Your Own, Kid’ Swift thinks about her origins and wonders about the alternative life she might have led if she hadn’t left her hometown. There’s a lot to learn, and a lot to cry over, when a thirty-two-year-old woman reflects on her adolescence. We should heed the advice of thirty-something women looking back on their twenties. Having such an in-depth retrospection from the adult Taylor Swift spanning such a formative time makes Midnights an album I would recommend to any twenty-something who is just starting to transition from misunderstood teen to boring/sad adult. The album is by its nature nostalgic, a musical memoir that features songs inspired by Swift’s life from the ages of sixteen to thirty-two. The concept album follows Swift, in her own words, through ‘thirteen sleepless nights’ throughout her life. Since turning twenty I have noticed the amount of retrospection I have done has increased: as I become a woman, I can’t stop thinking about being a girl.Įnter Taylor Swift’s latest record, Midnights. People tend to spend a lot of their time in the past regretting, reminiscing or being nostalgic. Juno Ormonde breaks down Taylor Swift’s newest chart-topping album, and how it can be used as an introspective tool to learn about our perceptions of femininity and the self.
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