Anti-Hero' lyrics Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift's new album Midnights explores the things that keep her up at night, and “self-loathing” is among them. Here, we tackle how the track ...

Alyssa Bailey is the senior news and strategy editor at ELLE.com, where she oversees coverage of celebrities and royals (particularly Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton). Nor would this be the first time the artist has detailed such worries: Other examples include “Call It What You Want” (“I recall late November, holdin’ my breath / Slowly I said, “You don’t need to save me / But would you run away with me?”) and “Delicate” (“This ain't for the best / My reputation’s never been worse, so / You must like me for me” and “Is it cool that I said all that? In the years since 2016, the singer has kept a significantly lower profile—and has been involved with substantially less drama in the news. (The two started dating in the fall of 2016, when Swift felt her reputation was at its worst.) It was the only way I could preserve my mental health and also tell the story of what it’s like to go through something so humiliating.” [“self-loathing”](https://www.elle.com/culture/music/a41013043/taylor-swift-midnights-album-release-date-news-singles-tour/) would be among them.

On "Anti-Hero," the lead single on 'Midnights,' 11-time Grammy winner Taylor Swift delivers some of the most confessional lyrics of her 16-year career.

“Anti-Hero” has the honor of being the first song from Midnights to receive a music video, which is set to premiere on Oct. We all hate things about ourselves, and it’s all of those aspects of the things we dislike and like about ourselves that we have to come to terms with if we’re going to be this person. Swift opened up about writing “Anti-Hero” in an Instagram video after announcing the track title on Oct. “It must be exhausting, always rooting for the anti-hero.” Given Swifties’ proven dedication to her music and ability to decode her seemingly endless amount of A second Midnights music video will be unveiled on Oct. [her new album Midnights](https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/a-new-taylor-swift-album-is-coming-she-announced-at-the-vmas) — but her fans are likely to disagree.

What are Taylor Swift's Anti-Hero lyrics about? Here's what she's said about the meaning behind the song.

Taylor then went on to explain: "This song is a real guided tour throughout all the things I tend to hate about myself. Not to sound too dark but I just struggle with the idea of not feeling like a person." She opens the ballad singing: "I have this thing where I get older but just never wiser." It also contains another iconic Taylor Swift bridge. Ahead of Midnights' release, Taylor explained the meaning behind her 'Anti-Hero' lyrics and it is truly soul-destroying. The floors we pace and the demons we face."

Taylor Swift revealed very little about her 10th studio album, “Midnights,” before it was released on Friday – she didn't sit for any interviews and just ...

In “Anti-Hero,” that honor went to the line, “Sometimes I feel like everybody is a sexy baby / And I’m a monster on the hill.” This was a new level of candor from an album that, as [multiple critics](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/taylor-swift-review-midnights-lyrics-b2207166.html) agreed in [early reviews](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/taylor-swift-midnights-1234611211/), was pretty dark music for Swift. “I’ll stare directly at the sun, but never in the mirror. “Not to sound too dark, but, like, I just struggle with the idea of not feeling like a person.” But you know, this song really is a real guided tour throughout all the things I tend to hate about myself. [usual cryptic hints](https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/10/20/taylor-swift-midnights-easter-eggs/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2) about what fans could expect.

In the lead-up to the release of “Midnights,” Taylor Swift herself said this 10th record of hers was inspired by haunting late-night thoughts and, ...

(Laura Dern, the Haim sisters and Swift wrote and directed the video, which follows a Swift tortured by monsters like ghosts, bathroom scales and judgey people at parties. There is a moment of silliness about midway through, after a verse in which Swift sings about a dream she had about a future daughter-in-law who kills her for money, but Swift left her out of her will.

Taylor Swift drinks with herself and more in her hilarious anti-hero music video.

The highlight of the “Anti-Hero” music video comes in the middle when Swift holds her own funeral, which is attached to the lyrics, “I have this dream my daughter-in-law kills me for the money / She thinks I left them in the will.” Swift’s two kids are played by comedians John Early and Mike Birbiglia. [Taylor Swift](https://variety.com/t/taylor-swift/) meets the anti-hero version of Taylor Swift in the official music video for “Anti-Hero,” the first lead single off the Grammy winner’s new album, “ [Midnights](https://variety.com/t/midnights/).” So what is anti-hero Taylor Swift like? Despite these new songs, Swift wrote on social media that the original 13 songs on the main album represent her definitive vision for “Midnights.” As she wrote, “Those 13 songs form a full picture of the intensities of that mystifying, mad hour.”

Her 10th album is a culmination of 16 years in the spotlight, and Taylor Swift leaves nothing unsaid.

Like a knife to the gut, “Anti-Hero” is an instant self-hate anthem for the ages. Swift is cut open, bleeding to the world in this song, proclaiming herself a “monster” in a sea of “sexy babies” (it makes sense, trust us). I’m the problem, it’s me”