Glitch
Mash-ups & Live Pairings
- Glitch / Everything Has Changed (Eras Tour, Lyon)
“I thought we had no chance and that's romance, let's dance”
The speaker's upside-down logic ("we had no chance and that's romance") closes on the offered dance, the rhyme chance / romance / dance pulling the dance into the song's rhetorical pattern. The "let's dance" lands as the proposition that follows the strange premise: the unlikely relationship offered the strange next step of dancing through it.
counterfeit, stitched and starry-eyed
“It must be counterfeit / I think there's been a glitch”
“'Cause something counterfeit's dead?” — loml
Readers note that loml and Glitch share a cluster of words (counterfeit, stitching, starry-eyed) and read the recurrence as Taylor returning to the same vocabulary of a love that looked real but registered as a fault in the system.