Taylor Swift is a grasp of breakup songs, however maybe none of these tracks have married heartbreaking lyrics and a really danceable beat like “Hits Totally different.” Again when “Midnights” was launched in October 2022, “Hits Totally different” was unique to the deluxe version of the album that was offered at Goal. Whereas some enterprising followers ripped the tune from their CDs and uploaded it on-line, Swift waited a number of months to make the tune accessible in every single place. On Could 26, Swift will launch the “Til Daybreak” model of “Midnights” that features “Hits Totally different,” plus a “Karma” remix with Ice Spice and a brand new model of “Snow on the Seashore” with “extra” from collaborator Lana Del Rey.
Like with all of her breakup songs, many followers have questioned what Swift’s “Hits Totally different” means and who it is about. The tune particulars how a particular breakup feels so completely different from those Swift has had earlier than: it hits completely different. The reply about which relationship impressed it, although, is not completely clear. Swift and boyfriend Joe Alwyn lately break up, however information of their separation solely broke in April, many months after “Midnights”‘s launch. Nonetheless, many followers imagine songs on the album are in regards to the finish of their romance, although they appeared to nonetheless be collectively on the time.
However there are components of the tune that trace at Swift’s different exes. “I washed my fingers of us on the membership,” she sings at first of the monitor. That might allude to Swift’s ex DJ Calvin Harris, although there aren’t very many different clues about him.
A giant a part of “Hits Totally different” is about how Swift normally can transfer on rapidly from breakups, and at first of the second verse, she sings, “I used to modify out these Kens / I would just ghost.” As Ryan Gosling (who performs Ken within the upcoming “Barbie” film) has stated repeatedly, the entire level of a Ken doll is to be an adjunct to Barbie, a help. In reality, because the film’s director Greta Gerwig famous in a Vogue article revealed on Could 24, Ken got here into being after Barbie as a result of individuals wrote Mattel letters begging Barbie to get a boyfriend. Swift evokes that historical past with this line about her exes being “Kens.”
A number of the tune’s lyrics additionally recall to mind her tune “Cornelia Road,” which most followers imagine is in regards to the begin of her romance with Alwyn. In that tune, she sings {that a} break up can be “the kind of heartbreak time would by no means mend.” In “Hits Totally different,” she cries over the “artifacts” of their relationship and the recollections she has of them collectively. She particularly calls out “your hair,” which can be telling since she additionally makes references to Alwyn’s hair in “Attractive” and “Gold Rush.” She additionally calls herself an “argumentative antithetical dream lady,” which conjures the arguing she sings about in “Gold Rush.”
However, after all, the tune could possibly be a few relationship Swift has by no means been public about. Now that the tune is formally launched on streaming, Swifties must wait and see if she sheds extra mild on the monitor, which may positively occur if she options it as a shock tune throughout her Eras Tour.
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