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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's a song on Swift's new album Midnights about having a miscarriage, "Bigger than the Whole Sky."

You don't know what she has or hasn't been through.  [/quote]

No, that's not what the song is about. People who have had miscarriages related to the song and started trending on TikTok/Instagram posting about it. They talk about how they relate to the song and its helping them heal. TS has NEVER come out and said this is what the song is about. People who have lost other family members also relate to the song. It's song about loss, the true meaning is up for interpretation.[/quote]

Until she states the meaning, which is not necessarily the whole truth (which she does not owe anyone), it sure sounds like it's about miscarriage. I can totally see how it relates to death or loss in general, but "you were more than just a short time" is pretty specific. Anyway, she writes in the voice of her friends a lot right? So even if it's about miscarriage it may not be about something she herself experienced. [/quote]

If you've been through one of course it seems like that to you. Anyone who dies before like 60 is considered dying young... here for just a short time. My cousin died at 30. I would say that about him.[/quote]

Are you serious?  The chorus of the song is "I'm never gonna meet What could've been, would've been What should've been you."

The song doesn't make any sense unless it's about a miscarriage.  We've otherwise met people that we care about who have died. The grief of a miscarriage is that you never got to meet your child alive.  All that possibility is gone.  It's just not the same for a death of a person who was alive.  You met your cousin.  Respectfully, the song isn't about your cousin.[/quote]

Songs are artistic and symbolic. Yes she says "I'm never gonna meet / What could've been, would've been / What should've been you / What could've been, would've been you." That doesn't mean she didn't meet the person she is writing about, she didn't meet the future them, what they would have become.. .because they are dead![/quote]

If she were writing about someone she had met who had died, she wouldn't write "I'm never gonna meet what could've been" etc -- she'd write "I'm never gonna know what could've been, should've been you."  If she was writing about someone she knew who had died, she wouldn't mourn about not "meeting" that future person.  She wouldn't ever "meet" someone she'd already known for many years.  People don't talk like that.  You can miss out on the person they would have been had they lived, but you don't talk about missing out on "meeting" that future version of them.  Because you had already met them years ago.  You don't "meet" them again after you've known them for years.

Sure, art and song lyrics are subjective, but you're really twisting these in circles to make them not be about a miscarriage.  It doesn't necessarily have to be TS's miscarriage, but it seems willfully obtuse to insist that the lyrics are about some other person who lived a life and then died.[/quote]

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