disclaimer - these are just my interpretations and thoughts not actual fact obviously
*i also do not ship haylor now i just stan them both and love looking back at their relationship and how they impacted each other’s music its fascinating to me*
*i also do not ship haylor now i just stan them both and love looking back at their relationship and how they impacted each other’s music its fascinating to me*
okay so mmith is a song about a dying or struggling relationship between two people. harry is in pain, asking for help or a way to repair what is broken.
he asks his lover to meet him in the hallway, telling them he is at their door waiting for them. he is desperate to work out their problems and salvage their relationship.
now i know places, is a well-known song assumed to be about harry and taylor’s relationship. two artists under a heavy spotlight, their relationship was picked apart and heavily followed by the media.
this song addresses that and taylor explains to her lover that she “knows places” where they can hide and be together without the scrutiny of watchful eyes and the outside world.
taylor and harry were also known for frequently meeting in hotels during their relationship.
first in april 2012, taylor and harry were spotted separately at the bowery hotel in new york city shortly after meeting at the 2012 kcas
& then multiple times throughout their relationship they would often end up meeting at or going back to taylor’s new york hotel.
connecting all of this is the i know places staging on tour
the ikp set included a series of doors on stage, highly reminiscent of a hotel hallway, with taylor and her dancers moving in and around them sneakily.
with haylor frequently meeting in hotels and harry urging for his lover to meet him in the hallway on hs1, the obvious connection between the two songs is there.
taylor’s choice for their frequent rendezvous was hotels as the tour stage depicts and harry also used that common theme in their relationship in his writing
as for each song’s lyrical content, they are clearly about two different points of the relationship. ikp could be the beginning excitement of the love, hiding from the world and falling for each other in secret
while mmith is apart of the fall-out, once the adrenaline wears off and the actual flaws of the relationship shine through, in this case it being speculated taylor and harry struggled with miscommunication as mmith hints
“we don’t talk about it, it’s something we don’t do”
“we don’t talk about it, it’s something we don’t do”
additional parallel!! knowing all of this, it can then be speculated that taylor is also the subject of only angel...with the song’s lyrical reference to mmith
“and we’re meeting in the hallway every single time”
“and we’re meeting in the hallway every single time”
i’m getting off track now so i’m gonna shut up. THANK U FOR READING I HOPE U ENJOYED. HAYLORS ALWAYS WIN OKAY? OKAY BYE
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