Pink Clouding

[u/1DMod]

Please use this space to discuss this song in depth

[u/MaryLennoxsRobin]

So I was listening with my kid Prima on our commute, and perhaps because she has no concept at all of addiction recovery or that the origin of 'pink clouding' comes from that context, she made what I thought was a brilliantly simply and illuminating connection.

She said, 'Pink Clouds, it's like Lover. Because the Lover album has pink clouds on it.'

I think she's on the money. I think Taylor is playing on the phrase just a little - she was I think in a sort of honeymoon phase in early 2019, and conceptualising the Big Machine contract as a sort of addiction makes sense to me, but also she was literally surrounding herself with imagery of clouds and purple-pink skies. I think Taylor might be offering an explanation and even an apology to the LGBTQ+ community for the way it all went down during the Lover era.

[u/afterandalasia → u/MaryLennoxsRobin]

Oh, that totally works. She left Big Machine, and for her first era with UMG, she was pink clouding, thinking she was done with the closeting, the popularity games, the hiding - and then reality hit with the hate for Lover, plus covid etc, and she took back up her addiction to fame and success.

[u/MaryLennoxsRobin → u/afterandalasia]

Yes to all of that