Taylor Swift is a dab hand at producing love songs with connotations of her own love life. Not to forget, Swift’s second studio album Fearless featured Love Story that detailed her relationship with her love interest who was not liked by her family and friends. In a jiffy, the song turned out to be a career-defining hit for Swift.
After more than a decade, Swift has rolled out a bonus track for her latest album that might have been inspired by her relationship with her long-time boyfriend Joe Alwyn. The rest of the songs in the album are all about painful heartbreaks - there was a reason for fans to believe situations were not all sunny between Swift and Alwyn. But the bonus song has done away with the rumors, making it clear that their strong bond may have gotten stronger.
With the lyrics, it becomes a child’s play to relate the meaning to her private time with Alwyn. In the song, she makes a reference to Lake Windermere which is the largest natural lake in England, and since that pair has spent a lot of invaluable time in the UK – it’s likely she is highlighting the importance of the same.
Some of the passages in the lyrics go, “Take me to the lakes / I want you right here / A rose grew up out of the frozen ground / Is it romantic how all of my elegies eulogize me? / While I bathe in cliffside pools / With my calamitous love and insurmountable grief.”
Although for so long, Swift kept her relationship with the British actor a secret, the release of The Lakes has certainly brought about a change. The words and sentences gracing the meaning of the song directly convey the message - it’s about a loving person from the Kingdom who Swift adores and wants to spend time with.
The flavor of the song is a bit like she is missing someone who means the world to her. However, on the whole, the love between the two comes to the surface.
The bonus song has heightened the popularity of Folklore in many ways, though mainly because of its apparent meaning. What words can’t express, Swift expresses through songs and that is exactly the pop-star type.
What many may have forgotten is that last year, Swift released a song titled London Boy which underscored her love for a boy from London. So, The Lakes may just be an extension