𝒩𝒪𝒯 𝑀𝒴 𝓕𝑨𝑼𝑳𝑻

⠀⠀ ⠀ 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝒉𝒂𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 ( analysis )

A  LYRICAL  ANALYSIS  OF
'MIDNIGHT RAIN'  BY  TAYLOR  SWIFT
an exploration of rory hicks, through her relationship to wes.

with special mentions for :
— snow angel, 23, swim, gemini moon by reneé rapp
— the archer, mirrorball, anti-hero, bigger than the whole sky by taylor swift
— teenage dream by olivia rodrigo
— what was i made for? by billie eilish

inspired by & dedicated to
fireplaceashes-  / ghostends-  <3

HE   WAS   SUNSHINE. . .

I   WAS MIDNIGHT RAIN .

My town was a wasteland  /  full of cages, full of fences, pageant queens and big pretenders  /  but for some, it was paradise.

a town like woodsboro, california was certainly a wasteland. bloodstained by the ghostface legacy. wes and rory were born into it, their nightly bedtime stories were warnings against unknown phonecalls, safety measures and countless locks on doors. being given their first taser was a right of passage in growing up. mom was always silently waiting for the next big pretender to put on that mask and try to win, even though there's a history of it never working out for the dipshit in the mask. everyone in woodsboro was doomed to exist in a cage in one sense or another, judy hicks built one around her home to keep her babies safe. a perfect picket fence that she prays will never be stained by the slash of a fresh knife. why didn't she move away ?   because this was a twisted kind of paradise. being sheriff was the most certain way to be a hero, should the day come where that mask pops up again.

high school is a different beast  -  a place of pageant queens. rory hicks was in charge of them all, desperate to be a bigger deal than a shitty little town that she didn't choose. she was the pageant queen in a permanent performance. people either wanted to be or be with rory fucking hicks. a teenage food chain that became an easy addiction. validation gets confused for paradise, too.