Maroon - Taylor Swift - MP3 instrumental karaoke

Taylor Swift evokes the still of the night on this moody cut from her atmospheric 10th album Midnights (2022) while also nodding to the colour palette of her 2012 album Red. The second song on Midnights, her first LP recorded entirely with long-time collaborator Jack Antonoff, "Maroon" is a noirish synth-pop confessional on which Taylor Swift appears to open up about a significant ex. The song begins with the memory of a night powered by a roommate’s “cheap-ass screw-top rosé", and ends on a weightier note: "And I wake with your memory over me / That's a real fucking legacy, legacy (It was maroon) / And I wake with your memory over me / That's a real fucking legacy to leave". "Maroon" revisits the candid, autobiographical quality of Taylor Swift's songwriting, something she had backed away from in favour of a more fiction-fuelled approach on her previous 2020 albums Folklore and Evermore.