She wrote this song about her 6 albums being sold. “Stolen lullabies.” It’s just so relatable in terms of a relationship!

This is Jack Antonoff, one of her producers and cowriters. They started working together in like 2013 on a song Sweeter Than Fiction for the movie One Chance and then Taylor worked with him on an album 1989 (which Taylor's Version comes out in 3 weeks yay) and then worked on stuff together ever since, like there is not an album she put out since where he didn't work at least on one song, I think on evermore he has the least songs maybe, but she worked with him on the whole standart version of Midnights as well, like that was mostly just her and Jack. And they are really good friends. The song is mostly agreed to be about Scott Borchetta, a head of her former record label where she had her first 6 albums, which were sold away from her, so yeah she is angry. Because it's kinda exactly how she said in the little interview. He was a person who she trusted, basically with her whole career, and then he decided to sell her music to Scooter Braun (from there the lyric "you hear my stolen lullabies", a person who she hated because he acted horrible towards her. So she felt really betrayed...plus when she recorded this, this was I think only a few months before she could legally start rerecording her music, so the emotions about it especially at that time must've been really strong. And then there is obviously the lyric "I can go anywhere I want, anywhere I want, just not home" which could represent her music, that was "stolen", because her music is her babies, and it is how she copes with things, it's the way she lives her life, and then it was taken away from her and she got a choice. For every new album she would write, she would earn the rights to a new one. But that's just so messed up and she knew it, and she knew that even if it hurt, she had to walk away from those albums, "she could not come home", she had to go ahead, focus on the future.

“And when you can’t sleep at night, you hear my stolen lullabies” First time I heard that line sung with such pain in her voice, I cried. I can’t imagine how devastated Taylor was when she lost the rights to her music. She worked with Scott Borchetta and Big Machine for 15 years and her music made up most of the company’s worth.

6:36 the way the dog immediately sat still when you both turned your heads lmao

I love the dog playing so happily behind you. 🐶 And you should check out how many rap reaction channels are falling in love with Taylor lately.

Stolen lullabies is the punch line. It reveals what the song is really about, her back catalog being taken from her by her old label

Folklore came out in July 2020 and evermore came out in December 2020. My Tears Ricochet is about the owner of her old record label and how he sold her masters to Scooter without ever giving her a chance to purchase them herself, hence the 'stolen lullabies' and why we have come to call the original versions of her albums the stolen versions. ETA: Track 5s are always her most vulnerable songs. She did is subconsciously at first, but after the fans noticed and pointed it out she started to do it on purpose. Basically track 5s are some of her saddest songs.

This song is about how she feels about the man who discovered her and signed her to his record label, Big Machine Records, and who subsequently sold her masters. Where this relationship comes into play is all of the internal references to her music that she made while under this label which were her first 6 albums. I didn't have it in myself to go with grace - referencing State of Grace from Red album (#4) And you're the hero flying around, saving face - referencing Superman from Speak Now album (#3) And if I'm dead to you why are you at the wake? - referencing Reputation album (#6) (in the death of her reputation...) Cursing my name, wishing I stayed - referencing All You Had To Do Was Stay from 1989 album (#5), Stay Stay Stay from Red album (4), debut album "Taylor Swift" i.e. her name (1) Look at how my tears ricochet - referencing Tear Drops On My Guitar from Taylor Swift Debut (#1) You know I didn't want to have to haunt you - referencing Haunted from Speak Now album (#3) Cause when I'd fight you used to tell me I was brave - possibly referencing Fearless from Fearless album (#2) (I'm less confident about this reference lol) And you're tossing out blame - referencing Don't Blame Me from Reputation album (#6) Not being able to go home references not being able to go back to her label who discovered her and her "stolen lullabies" are her stolen songs. You practically need a degree to get through all her references. I'm sure she has a ton of other references in the song, but these are the ones that stick out to me

This song is actually about Scott Borchetta who was the owner of the first label she was with and sold her entire catalogue to her nemesis Scooter Braun. He really wanted her to stay with his label. That's why she mentions stolen lullabies too. Plus she says she didn't have it in herself to go with grace because when they sold her music she came out with statements being so hurt and angry about it and they try to spin it on her

I love that he said “she didn’t ask that being condescending” I love that he already knew some people would comment on it such a swell fella 🥰

My Tears Ricochet is about her stolen lullabies and each line of the first chorus was taken from a song from each stolen album!! “i didn’t have it in myself to go with grace”- Red (State of Grace) “you’re the hero flying around saving face”- Speak Now (Superman) “and if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake?”- rep (LWYMMD/old Taylor is dead) “cursing my name”- Fearless (The Way I Loved You) “wishing I stayed”- 1989 (All You Had to Do Was Stay) “look at how my tears ricochet”- Debut (Teardrops on my Guitar)

Jack Antonoff is a Grammy award winning producer of the year multiple times. Produces for Taylor, Lorde, Florence and the Machine, Maren Morris… his band is called Bleachers but he was also in the band Fun.

I’m so happy you got to my favorite song! The eras tour version of this really solidified that. I always thought this was about her masters though…😅

I'm also a B-level Swiftie - I honestly wish I had time to learn all the Swiftie stuff because it looks like lots of fun. I also love that Swifties are so accepting. The concert was an amazing experience because of Swift herself. But the experience is all about being kind and yourself and lifting people up! The Swifties make the experience, too!

Not a Swiftie here, just an old hippie. A great songwriter takes everything, pain or joy, and makes it real in a way others feel! Taylor Swift is in that league of talent. This coming from someone who's going to see Bob Dylan for the twenty-first time! Can't wait for you to hear Brandi Carlisle or Jason Isbell. And Allie (you look great!), Sebs looks not tired at all, what gives Dad? (Father of four boys and grandfather to one, my ex. and I were both exhausted!)

It is not about a romantic relationship, Scott Borchetta, she loved him like family he was her record label (Big Machine Records)since she was 16 yo. The jewels she gave him were her albums that went Gold, Platinum and Diamond. Her stolen lullabies are the songs he sold out from under her.

Both albums were a surprise drop. Folklore wasn’t announced until hours before it dropped I believe

You cut off the Long Pond Session video before one of the best parts. The *sigh at the end is so powerful. You really feel how personal this song is to her and how painful the lyrics are. It's a great moment.

you guys should definitely watch MISS AMERICANA it shows a little bit who is taylor swift as a person

A wake is the viewing. Like when you have a funeral but the coffin is open and people go pay their respects

The guy with Taylor is Jack Antonoff. He's a musician, producer and songwriter probably best known by the general public for the song, 'We are Young' when he was part of the band Fun.

Also being Mexican and Latino while I ofc was born in the US I also never grew up hearing a lot of these English words that American kids with English speaking parents would say so Taylor kind of taught me a ton of new words and phrases that… like exile, vigilante, guache, clandestine, nonchalant, treacherous, evermore, illicit, Midas, incandescent, epiphany, ricochet I’ve heard before and knew it had something to do with guns, but never knew the meaning of

I'm here for the dog playing in the background! 🥺🐶

both folklore and evermore were surprise releases. folklore came out in july 2020 and evermore came out in december 2020

As some have already said the guy is Jack Antonoff from the group The Bleachers. The other guy is Aaron Dessner from the group The National, he does not sing, he also has a twin brother in the group with another guy. Bon Iver is also a group, the singer is actually Justin Vernon on Exile. There is also another group called Big Red Machine comprised of Justin Vernon and Aaron Dessner, Taylor featured in a song called "Renegade" with them. Taylor also did a feature for The National called "The Alcott". Both are really great songs. Some of the songs Taylor wrote were to the music Aaron already had, and Taylor lists him as co-writer. Folklore and evermore dropped within 5 months of each other.

This is one of her best songs. Watching this live is something I’ll never forget

Big machine and Scooter Braun are why she is releasing “Taylor’s Version” to her older albums. she owns the TV version not the originals

It’s about Scott Borchetta. He was her old label manager who she was his first signed act on his brand new label back in 2004. He was like a father figure to her, and he decided to betray her by selling her masters to Scooter, Braun, Connie and Justin Bieber’s manager, who scooter has been bullying Taylor Swift for years.

Folklore was released in July 2020. Evermore was released in December 2020. So not a month apart, but still very close in terms of the music industry 😊

“When you can’t sleep at night you hear my stolen lullabies” and “You wear the same jewels that I gave you as you burry me” now think of that and the entire song imagining she is talking to her first music label who wouldn’t sell her her music and instead sold it to someone who has always bullied her and is allegedly behind Kanye’s bullying and others…. Glad you did this song. It’s one of her bests. You should listen to exile from same album. And her rock version of we will never get back together, it’s fun.

I felt so seen watching this! This song is endlessly interesting. And the beat drop is one of my favorite TS moments!

This is one of my favorites. Very ethereal and sad.

My husband and I share a mutual appreciation for Taylor and saw her live years ago. She really is a great musician, but even better writer!

Here’s what Taylor said in an interview about My Tears Ricochet: (FYI it’s about Scott Borchetta, the man who signed her and was the manager of Big Machine and a friend for many years) In the new interview, Swift explained that while writing songs for the album, she found herself being “very triggered by any stories, movies, or narratives revolving around divorce”, despite never going through the process herself. “There’s no reason it should cause me so much pain, but all of a sudden it felt like something I had been through. I think that happens any time you’ve been in a 15-year relationship and it ends in a messy, upsetting way,” Swift said. “So I wrote ‘My Tears Ricochet’ and I was using a lot of imagery that I had conjured up while comparing a relationship ending to when people end an actual marriage. All of a sudden this person that you trusted more than anyone in the world is the person that can hurt you the worst.” “I think I wrote some of the first lyrics to that song after watching Marriage Story and hearing about when marriages go wrong and end in such a catastrophic way.”

The guy is Jack Antonoff who composes music sometimes and sometimes produces her. He has two bands of his own Fun and Bleachers

Guys, she was a huge Kanye fan before he did everything he did to her! She said in an interview that one of the first albums she bought with her brother when she was a teenager was Kanye's... He has influenced her, of course, but the damage he did to her is probably so much painful because of how she used to admire him...

There are a lot of comments here giving the context about her masters and what many believe was the inspiration for the song, but please keep in mind that music is endlessly subjective. It’s meant to mean something different to everyone who hears it. You shouldn’t need a Swiftie 101 class to appreciate her music, and you don’t. It grinds my gears when I see people say “this is definitively about XYZ” as if to say you’re wrong for getting something else out of it. There would be no point to music at all if we couldn’t bring our own lives to the table when we listen. Xoxo

I’ve been a subscriber for a short time I love you and your sweet family you guys are the real deal thanks for getting me through some tough days

Have to watch the Eras Tour movie version of this performance… visually so powerful!!

This is definitely about Scott Borchetta, her manager since she was 15. She loved him and when he picked money over their relationship she was devastated, especially when he sold it to Scooter Brawn, someone she had zero respect for. Hence, she is re-recording all her older albums (which are called Taylor's Version) so that she will be the owner of all her Masters. When she re-records her old albums she tries to sing them the same and even hired all the original musicians so it would sound authentic to the originals. Swifties only listen to the albums that are TV (Taylor's Version) to make sure she gets the money, not Scooter. However, he turned around and sold them to someone else after all this happened, can't remember the name of that company.

After Lover Fest was postponed in 2020 owing to the worldwide pandemic, Taylor started getting more involved in songwriting than she ever had. She wrote My Tears Ricochet as the FIRST SONG from Folklore and it was closely followed by Happiness(yes happiness was written during folklore sessions). Both of these songs are related to her albums being sold to Scooter Braun and the entire betrayal she received. Also this is my fav TRACK 5 from Taylor(if you are a swiftie, you know what i mean)

You don’t know how much I check KZfaq everyday waiting for another Taylor Swift video! lol!

I really like you guys 😊 just found you. I’m a newer-ish TS fan and I just enjoy seeing people enjoy her too. Like ok ok see, you see what I see lol

”And I can go anywhere I want Anywhere I want, just not home And you can aim for my heart, go for blood But you would still miss me in your bones” That part is soo heartbreaking to me.. amazing lyricist. Glad you loved it too!!

you guys should do "the making of i did something bad" so that he can see a little more of taylor's process of writing and how involved she is in the production too. I feel he'd really enjoy that

It sounds like it is also from the perspective of the "villain" in the best friends to super-nemeses. Love it.

This is my favorite song by Taylor ❤❤❤ it changed my life!

Can you guys please do Exile from the long pond sessions? I know y’all will love it!

Your comment about K-pop, I usually listen to K-pop for the fun sounds and Taylor for the deep lyrics. However there is less mainstream Korean music with amazing lyrics, like Epik High for example have amazing lyrics. One of the members studied English Literature at Stanford University, so he's quite amazing.

The guy with her is a producer, and he was part of the band called fun. His name is Jack Antonoff.

Also it’s hard to comprehend how complex this song is vocally as well. Try singing along, and it hits you how many registers you need and how low “ricochet” is

I love the Long Pond Series. She is not crazy! She is an emotional person that she puts it in her music?

My fave song from Her. Soooo Beautiful, Her best work!

Love the dog (cat?) going at it in the background

i think y’all should use genius when you pull up lyrics! they usually also have blurbs about the songs and theory’s (if they’re not confirmed already) so it gives you a better picture of the song too :)

YOU GOT TICKETS!!!! Yaysies!!

to me, this song is about her relationship with her former manager in Big Machine.. Scott and how Scott betrayed her by selling her masters to Scooter Braun. Especially the part "stolen lullabies"

More Tay Days! Her lyrics are so beautiful

It was more within a year but ik what you mean about the two albums & he needs to hear This Is Me Trying!

When you listen to the Long pond sessions, there's no going back

Potty training is hard and you have your priorities set. All the best to y'all and your fam!

Great reaction!!!

MY FAVOURITE SONG

you should look up the performance of the this song at the eras tour it’s one of my favorite performance

Her producer of 5 years Jack Antonoff

the doggo in the background

You didn’t even get to the battle ships beneath the waves drop in the studio version 😔

all the long pond versions are on spotify

more of her pls

MTR is a song ab her old label, it even talks ab it “hear my stolen lullabies” it’s ab Scott selling/betraying he w her first 6 albums. It’s not ab a lover

I love seeing Ali be apart of Tay Day as she should what a queen. Okay so the guy she was talking to here is Jack Antanoff (her producer/ co writer since 2014 and front man of bleachers) the guy in hoax and peace is Aaron Dessner (member of the national and her producer/co-writer in her last three albums)

I love this couple. Ally is beautiful even is she is tried and Seb is just so sweet :D also I always wait for tay day.. pls make it frequent 😭

Tours are an experience you'll never forget!

that's jack antonoff she's talking to!!! her cowriter, producer, & bestie!

Very nice video. 🖖❤

This is Jack Antonoff. Usually when it say “written by” that means Taylor write the lyrics & someone else contributed to the instrumental. If Taylor write it alone, she dud both by herself. But even when it’s a co-write, Taylor is writing 99 % of the lyrics.

IM SO HAPPY U GOT UR TICKETS AHHHH

the guy with her is het producer

HAHAHAHA THE DOGG IN THE BACKKK 😂😂

The man Big Jack! Jack Antanoff, pop producer extraordinaire!

Ali, bon iver is a band. Justin Vernon is the singer of bon Iver 😉

If you guys want to see more in her writing process she released clips of her writing songs for promo for her reputation album and they’re super cool to see, I highly recommend! I added the link below and they put time stamps for each song! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f5qHn7afvNrPpGw.htmlsi=rdC_clPacMCY3PV2

She does a lot of songs with him, Jack Afontane. I think thats how you spell it. If you get a chance, listen to exile it's on this album.

I AM SO HAPPY THIS IS WHAT I NEEDED RN FR LOL

Ali is right about the two folksy album they were released within 5 months in between !!! like suprise releases

This Is Me Trying from Folklore is so good too. I think you would appreciate it

Still not a fan but I do like this song. I can really relate to this song.

This song made me cry so ugly, i thought i was better and this song was cathartic and helped but it hurt to hear

So this song its abouter her former record, and I think that when she sings " we gather stones never knowing what they'll mean" shes talking about making music

It's Jack Antonoff (sp?). He's co-producded & co-written a lot of her music. Plus they are super close friends. He just married Margaret Qually (sp?)...she's Andie McDowell's daughter and a very talented actress like her mama.

Idk if you saw my last post “robbers to the east” scooter “clowns to the west” Kanye

"You know I didn't want to, have to haunt you, but what a ghostly scene. You wear the same jewels that I gave you, as you bury me...." Makes pretty clear what this is about to her personally. The jewels are her first 6 albums.

Guys, i am not a frequent viewer on your channel, so i just wanna ask is there any reason you dont look up lyrics on genius website? Because they provide mostly accurate context behind any songs, not just taylor’s 😊 and no worries guys, we swifties are milder nowadays 😂 if any ‘swifties’ do attack you or be mean, just know it’s not what we all think. You are allowed to like or dislike anything, it’s just preferences, everyone has one 🙄

That’s Jack antonoff 6:35 one of her strongest and longest-term collaborators/producers.

I’m also GOING TO HER HSPW IN OCT

is nobody gonna talk about the way they looked back at the dog and he immediately stopped😭

Ali you could not look tired if you stayed awake for a week shush. Beautiful

The guy is Jack Antonoff

She is beautiful

You are darling, dahling 🥰 You’re killing it mama 🤩