It’s soft and sultry.
It’s nostalgic and time-bending.
It’s a tragic and bitter love story about a rebel woman whose husband dies of a heart attack.
And it’s a feminist anthem doing homage to suffragettes in flapper dresses.
It’s all of those things at once.
The ballad is just under four minutes long.
For that, they were called mad (viaNorwegian Business School).
Some in the Reddit-verse suspect the song may be about the Kennedys.
Others suspect the Gatsby-esque story she weaves is about F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerlad (viaReddit).
There may be some truth to the latter theory.
F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald were the epitome of 1920s partying.
F. Scott died of a heart attack.
Who is Rebekah Harkness, the woman who used to live in Taylor Swift’s house?
Like the woman in Swift’s song, Harkness was from St. Louis.
Lyengar (viaThe Day).As for Salvador Dali?
He, too, is rumored to have visited Rebekah Harkness.
But is it also about Taylor Swift herself?
Then, of course, comes the big reveal.
And we’ll remember her for it.
