Reputation # 09

"GETAWAY CAR" Song Meaning



This song is about Tom Hiddleston. They met at the 2016 Met Gala: "The ties were black, the lies were white / in grey shades of candlelight." Surprise, surprise, there were candles in the background of the video of Swift and Hiddleston dancing. Then, Swift sings, "I wanted to leave him / I needed a reason," implying perhaps that she used Hiddleston as her "getaway car" for leaving her relationship with Calvin Harris.
By the end of the song though, she's left this guy in the dust too, something he shouldn't really be all that surprised about based on how they first met. It's Taylor storytelling at its finest: she takes something so personal and creates a narrative that anyone can relate to and this song is proof of that.

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