“Florida!!!” (with Florence and the Machine): What to do when you need a break? Head to Florida. At least, that's what Taylor and Florence Welch advise on this track.
“You can beat the heat if you beat the charges too / They said he was a cheater, I guess it must be true,” Taylor sings, referencing speculation about her personal life. “And my friends, they all smell like weed or babies / And the city stinks of driving me crazy.”
“I need to forget, so take me to Florida,” the lyrics later continue. “I have some regrets, I'll bury them in Florida.”
Taylor explained that the song was inspired by true city escape crime sagas.
“I'm always looking at how Date line—People, you know, have these crimes that they commit,” he told iHeart Radio. “Where do they immediately skip town and go? They go to Florida, you know? They like to try to reinvent themselves, have a new identity, blend in. And I think when you go through a heartbreak, there's a part of you that thinks, “I want a new name, I want a new life, I don't want anyone to know where I've been or know me. And that was the starting point behind , where would you go to reinvent yourself and mingle? Florida.”
“Guilty as sin?”: In another apparent nod to Matty, Taylor begins “Guilty as Sin?” with the lyrics, “Drowning in the Blue Nile / Sent lights to my center.” Well, it just so happens that, in 2022, Matty appointed The Blue Nile's hats as one of his favorite albums of the 1980s.
