“You’re Losing Me”

“You’re Losing Me” (Bonus Track on “Midnights”): Okay, now I’m really not joking when I say that I am the number one streamer for this song. “You’re Losing Me” (YLM) was released as a bonus track for her tenth studio album, and it came after the news of Swift’s break-up with longtime boyfriend, actor Joe Alwyn, made it onto the media. It was a shocker, to say the least, as they had been together for over six years, and YLM details the story of the relationship’s end from Swift’s perspective. A main critique that has followed Swift’s career has been that she only ever writes about ex-boyfriends, but like all artists, she takes her life as her inspiration. It’s only inevitable that she would write about past heartbreaks, and Alwyn was no exception. YLM is probably my favorite of her break-up tracks because it is the most emotional and the most raw. She uses her heartbeat alongside the instruments, and every word in YLM is like a punch to the gut. There’s just something so unique about this song that is unlike any other, and it is heartbreaking in an oddly comforting way because even Taylor Swift hurts. It makes her seem more human, and I think that’s another part of why I love it so much, aside from the fact that I’m a sucker for angsty Taylor Swift songs. Also, the bridge? Taylor Swift is considered a “bridge architect” for a reason because who even comes up with “pathological people pleaser” as a lyric? She’s getting my therapy bills in the mail.