[note: this is simply a prediction post, and does NOT contain any leaked content]
Two days. Only 26 hours (aka 13+13 hours) until The Life Of A Showgirl. I can't believe we're already about to get a whole new album from Taylor Swift, and today it's time to talk about Honey.
Taylor Easter egged this song in an Instagram post in support of Travis Kelce's role in Happy Gilmore using a honey emoji, so I think we all know who this song is about...
I'm kinda thinking this'll just be a pure love song, like Lover or a more mature Beautiful Eyes. Of course many of these song titles have not been used in other Taylor songs (Wood appears in New Year's Day and the unreleased Cross My Heart, and the word Cancelled is used in what is likely a very different context in August), but Honey has been mentioned in all of the following songs in Taylor's discography:
- An unreleased song titled "Honey Baby"
- Santa Baby
- Cold As You
- You're Not Sorry
- Jump Then Fall
- Never Grow Up
- Better Than Revenge
- Girl At Home
- New Romantics
- Delicate
- Look What You Made Me Do
- Gorgeous
- Getaway Car
- This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
- Lover
- Paper Rings
- False God
- Exile
- Happiness
- Dorothea
- Karma
- Imgonnagetyouback
Yeah, I don't think there's any direct connection here. Honey is a very common term of endearment. Besides, Taylor didn't meet Travis until the TTPD era so the only song that would make sense with the Travis timeline would be IGGYB, a song widely thought to be about Matty Healy. I do think it's interesting that Taylor used the term significantly more in Reputation than any other album, and Rep does seem to be the parallel album. Honey could take on numerous poetic/symbolic meanings. It's sweet, things can stick to it, it never expires, and interestingly it's made by bees... shiny bug anyone?
I don't really know what else to say. It's a very unspecific title that's probably just going to be a sweet, cute, romantic song.
Alright, second-to-last installment of HFE94's conceptual songwriting of the series! (And second-to-last installment of me being a broken record saying no AI assistance or leaks were used!)
"I am the shiny bug
They won't want on their rug
I buzz inside their ear
You hear it loud and clear
And you know I will give you it all
The high flight and the hard fall
But our sweetness lasts forever
Honey, can we stick together?"
Okay, today is another double-stuffed post!
My ranking of all 22 "and baby, that's show business for you" playlist songs
This is my personal opinion on the official Spotify playlist for the pre-release and promotion of this album, ranked from my least favorite to my favorite. These results were compiled via a preference revealer and came as no surprise to me.
#22: All You Had To Do Was Stay
#21: So It Goes...
#20: King Of My Heart
#19: How You Get The Girl
#18: End Game
#17: Style
#16: New Romantics
#15: I Did Something Bad
#14: Blank Space
#13: Delicate
#12: Wonderland
#11: Message In A Bottle
#10: Shake It Off
#9: Bad Blood
#8: I Knew You Were Trouble
#7: We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
#6: Dancing With Our Hands Tied
#5: Don't Blame Me
#4: Wildest Dreams
#3: ...Ready For It?
#2: 22
#1: Gorgeous
I'm not surprised All You Had To Do Was Stay ranked as my least favorite and Gorgeous ranked as my favorite, these were exactly my first thoughts. Regarding the three eras represented in the playlist, I'm not surprised that Red generally ranked higher, 1989 generally ranked lower with Wildest Dreams as a noticeable outlier, and Reputation was the most widespread.
That's all for now! Byeeeeeeeeee!
