The song is about a star who had it all- and who was also exposed to all, the tabloids, lights, and cameras. After her secrets were being leaked all over the world she was done, she moved away to a life of solitude and nobody knew where she had gone.

Swift reportedly wrote this song in Australia, and although she doesn’t say who the song is about (she set a rule against this herself), the song is rumored to be about Joni Mitchell and Kim Wilde, the lyrics: “They say you bought a bunch of land somewhere, chose the rose garden over Madison Square.” could possibly be referencing how Wilde left her career to become a landscape gardener. The main melody is also sampled from Wilde’s “Four Letter Word”

The song ends with Taylor understanding why the star chose that path, and how Taylor feels that she’s becoming the “The Lucky One”.