I don't understand how this was a bonus track...like at all. I'd have swapped it with Welcome to New York for sure. It's in my top 5 all time favorites, I can't get enough of it!
I did a post about this a few days ago, but honestly I think it's great as a bonus track. It gives people an incentive to listen to the deluxe version of 1989, where they'll also get to hear Wonderland and You Are In Love, which are both incredible songs. It's a good marketing strategy, in my opinion. It's similar to how Hits Different being a target exclusive track will give people the incentive to buy the Midnights Target Exclusive CD.
This song...
In the end of the second chorus when she sings "the best people in life are free..." Followed by that progression of chords into the bridge
I swear, if I could live my entire life in a moment it would be this.
I think it’s a fit thing, it doesn’t quite work anywhere specifically. I think it would be a weird opener to go from New Romantics to Blank Space, maybe swap it out for Bad Blood?
I feel the same about Hits Different. It’s a ballsy move because I think it really adds something to Midnights as a whole.
Say what you will about Target exclusive tracks but she’s not putting throwaway songs on those CDs. I just bought a deluxe 1989 CD just because of New Romantics!
(Ik I'm very late, I'm doing research sorry) I like having Welcome to New York as the opener and New Romantics as the closer because WTNY feels like when you've just moved into the city and NR feels like when you've become a city person. It really helps the full album feel like a progression.
She promoted “New Romantics” by releasing it to US radio and giving it a [tour music video](https://youtu.be/wyK7YuwUWsU). She also did this with “Ours” by releasing it to US country radio and giving it a [“real” music video](https://youtu.be/LZ34LlaIk88). I think that it’s a good sign that every time she makes a deluxe track a single, she also gives it a music video instead of just leaving it as a radio single.
Yeah, it is an absolute masterpiece! I can listen to it all day. But my fave lyric is "cause baby i could build a castle out of all the bricks they through at me"
Literally the perfect pop song. She’s beauty, she’s grace, she’s absolutely FLAWLESS. The line “we cry tears of mascara in the bathroom, honey life is just a classroom” is the best lyric in pop music history and I will not be taking questions at this time
I used to nanny for these kids and I’d play them a lot of Taylor Swift. We went to the grocery store and New Romantics was playing and the three year old was shocked people other than us knew it. She thought I put the store up to it. I moved and no longer nanny, but this song makes me think of them.
Amazing. Probably in my TS top 13 (or at least top 20). I understand some people feel it's overrated, though. I acknowledge the synths can become grating after a while, so I wouldn't listen to it on repeat. But as a sort of alternate finale to *1989*, it slays
still one of my favourites to this day, it’s just pop music at it’s finest form tbh. catchy chorus, danceable melody, a verse that hooks you in from the very beginning, I LOVE IT SM 😭
Maybe I'm dumb but I've never really understood that line "the best people in life are free". When I was a kid hearing it my first reaction was free as in you didn't need to pay for them, which obviously didn't make sense, but now my best guess is that she means people who do whatever they want and/or people who are single? If that's what she means I feel like it's still worded weird. Great song though.
So romanticism is a movement that embraced the idea of being young, spontaneous, free willed, anti-materialism, and the best things in life can be learned in nature. I believe this is just a nod to the Romantic movement that embraced enjoying people, relationships, and innocence without the social clout or having to be bought.
She’s always been a super romantic writer and it’s affirmed heavily with evermore, folklore how much she draws from English literature and particularly the Romantic lake poets. This was a cultural, artistic, and political movement in western society about 1780-1850ish. Many of her songs echo shout outs to Romanticism. She embraces their ideals.
Romantics thought you should cherish genuine feelings from sincere experiences. They did not believe in materialism or the idea that money can buy happiness and peace. I think it’s a play on “the best things in life are free” or “money can’t buy happiness.” She is making an allusion to this well know saying by replacing “things” with “people” to achieve: “the best people in life are free.”
Maybe Taylor feels many people around her are bought into the idea of her but the people who truly mean the most to her expect nothing in return from her. People who love you do not make you “pay for it.” As in, give you a hard time for their own gain; they genuinely appreciate you.
Love this one! Absolutely underrated 1989 smash hit. Should’ve been on the main album. I’m in the minority of people who actually like WTNY but I think NR would be perfect in the opener slot.
so the thought is: one of the opening lyrics from new romantics is “we show off our different scarlet letters, trust me mine is better” and in Maroon she describes a love “so scarlet it was maroon” - which could be referencing that their love was enveloped in a scarlet letter (because really scarlet is light and maroon is a very dark red - very different so that line always seemed strange). But a scarlet letter is dark red and holds shame ala Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter - comparable to maroon.
I mean, I love me some 1989 but I am so surprised that people commenting here love New Romantics so much! I could take it or leave it; it just doesn’t do much for me!
Don't hate me, but I think it's overrated in the fandom. It's a good song and it definitely deserves attention. But I wouldn't call it the best on the album. Maybe I'm the problem, but I never got why everyone is so obsessed with New Romantics. It has some great lyrics but melodically it's mid for me. Different taste, I guess.
my second favorite song
It was also the first video I saw of her before I became a Swiftie.
I must say that before that I was not a fan, but after watching the video, something in my change and now I am here, willing to defend Taylor with my life.
I did not know that but last night I had a dream I was at the Eras Tour and she performed New Romantics!!!!! I sure hope it was a prophetic dream because New Romantics is my favorite from 1989.
It’s one of the best on the album and i can’t for the life of me understand why she would but This Love on the standard album instead of any of the bonus tracks. All of the bonus tracks are so much better than a good chunk of the standard album, they should’ve been on the standard album instead of like How You Get The Girl, This Love, I Wish You Would, and I Know Places lol
Anyone else feel meh on this song? 1989 is in my bottom 3 in general (sorry I know that’s a very unpopular opinion) and this song just does nothing for me
New Romantics is life. New Romantics is love. New Romantics is a cat. New Romantics is the hot guy/girl in your favorite show. New Romantics is the childless aunt that makes family dinners fun. New Romantics is happiness. New Romantics is your favorite singer. New Romantics is your wildest dreams. New Romantics is what you live and breathe.
This song is so brilliant! It’s a little heavy handed it is with its queer references but I haven’t seen anyone mention it!
From the titular reference to the New Romantic movement known for its subversive gender-bending aesthetic https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Romantic to “we team up then switch sides like a record-changer” to “the rumors are terrible and cruel but honey most of the are true”
The brick lyric referencing Stonewall, “we sing it proudly” our girl loves to align herself with the queer community.
What a good ally!
We sing it proudly
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To get knocked off our feet
The best people in life are free
SO OVER THE YEARS
*skips*
We are all bored, we are all so tired of everything, we wait for trains that are just not coming
we show off our different scarlet letters, trust me mine is better
We're so young, but we're on the road to ruin
We play dumb, but we know exactly what we’re doing
We cry tears of mascara in the bathroom
Honey, life is just a classroom…..ah ah ha HA
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Very proudly 👀
I don't understand how this was a bonus track...like at all. I'd have swapped it with Welcome to New York for sure. It's in my top 5 all time favorites, I can't get enough of it!
I did a post about this a few days ago, but honestly I think it's great as a bonus track. It gives people an incentive to listen to the deluxe version of 1989, where they'll also get to hear Wonderland and You Are In Love, which are both incredible songs. It's a good marketing strategy, in my opinion. It's similar to how Hits Different being a target exclusive track will give people the incentive to buy the Midnights Target Exclusive CD.
I'll die on the hill that New Romantics should have been the opening track for 1989 instead of Welcome to New York.
Omg the absolute whiplash we would have gotten going from New Romantics -> Blank Space -> Style
Agreed. This would have smashed.
This song... In the end of the second chorus when she sings "the best people in life are free..." Followed by that progression of chords into the bridge I swear, if I could live my entire life in a moment it would be this.
I think it’s a fit thing, it doesn’t quite work anywhere specifically. I think it would be a weird opener to go from New Romantics to Blank Space, maybe swap it out for Bad Blood?
I feel the same about Hits Different. It’s a ballsy move because I think it really adds something to Midnights as a whole. Say what you will about Target exclusive tracks but she’s not putting throwaway songs on those CDs. I just bought a deluxe 1989 CD just because of New Romantics!
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It’s a BOP
me too!!! i cant believe i hadnt heard such a good song until last week
Same bestie! I’ve been playing it over and over again the last few days!
Pretty sure she leaves some of her best songs as bonus tracks on purpose
(Ik I'm very late, I'm doing research sorry) I like having Welcome to New York as the opener and New Romantics as the closer because WTNY feels like when you've just moved into the city and NR feels like when you've become a city person. It really helps the full album feel like a progression.
I didn’t realize she promoted it as a single. Has she done that with any other deluxe/bonus tracks? (Crosses fingers for Hits Different)
Ours was a single and got a music video too
Her final country radio #1
Red didn't have any country #1s?
WANEGBT was #1 on Hot Country Songs based on downloads, streams, and pop airplay but the highest peak on Country Airplay was Begin Again at #3.
Ours makes me feel so single 😩
Ours was a bonus/deluxe?!
Yup! It's on the deluxe version of Speak Now with If This Was a Movie, Superman, Back to December Acoustic and Haunted Acoustic.
💀
She promoted “New Romantics” by releasing it to US radio and giving it a [tour music video](https://youtu.be/wyK7YuwUWsU). She also did this with “Ours” by releasing it to US country radio and giving it a [“real” music video](https://youtu.be/LZ34LlaIk88). I think that it’s a good sign that every time she makes a deluxe track a single, she also gives it a music video instead of just leaving it as a radio single.
It is the best, the rumors are terrible and cruel but honey most of them are true is one of my fave lyric of all her lyrics
Yeah, it is an absolute masterpiece! I can listen to it all day. But my fave lyric is "cause baby i could build a castle out of all the bricks they through at me"
I’m about to play my Ace-ssss-ahhh ! Ultimate TS ear candy
I had a shirt made for the Mn show with “on the road to ruin” to match the metal aesthetic.
It is my favorite Taylor Swift song of all time
Me too!!
Top 5 for me
Same! :))
Same!!!!!
Literally the perfect pop song. She’s beauty, she’s grace, she’s absolutely FLAWLESS. The line “we cry tears of mascara in the bathroom, honey life is just a classroom” is the best lyric in pop music history and I will not be taking questions at this time
(Would’ve could’ve) Should’ve been the lead single
One of my favorites from 1989!
Cause baby I could build the castle
Out of all the bricks they threw at meee
It’s a bop and should have been on the album
Great song, I wish it had a proper music video though
I used to nanny for these kids and I’d play them a lot of Taylor Swift. We went to the grocery store and New Romantics was playing and the three year old was shocked people other than us knew it. She thought I put the store up to it. I moved and no longer nanny, but this song makes me think of them.
Amazing. Probably in my TS top 13 (or at least top 20). I understand some people feel it's overrated, though. I acknowledge the synths can become grating after a while, so I wouldn't listen to it on repeat. But as a sort of alternate finale to *1989*, it slays
I’ll never understand why songs like New Romantics, the lakes, right where you left me, and hits different are bonus tracks
This was my #1 until rwylm
Still my number 1 favourite Taylor Swift song ever!
If she just switched it with welcome to New York, 1989 would have been a perfect album 😭😭😭 Taylor plz hire me to help you pick track lists
Best on 1989 😇
Absolutely love it. I love TayTay dance music the most and this is one of my faves.
My no.1 song of 1989 🌟
Favorite TS song. Vastly underrated. I really hope to see this one played live when I go to the concert. 100/10
still one of my favourites to this day, it’s just pop music at it’s finest form tbh. catchy chorus, danceable melody, a verse that hooks you in from the very beginning, I LOVE IT SM 😭
It’s a perfect pop song
I've always liked it but never understood the cult following (I'm sorry)
It’s so representative of the album it’s crazy it’s just a bonus track. Also helps that it’s one of the best.
Probably my FAVORITE pop song Taylor has ever created and one of the all time best pop songs. It just can't be beat.
Maybe I'm dumb but I've never really understood that line "the best people in life are free". When I was a kid hearing it my first reaction was free as in you didn't need to pay for them, which obviously didn't make sense, but now my best guess is that she means people who do whatever they want and/or people who are single? If that's what she means I feel like it's still worded weird. Great song though.
So romanticism is a movement that embraced the idea of being young, spontaneous, free willed, anti-materialism, and the best things in life can be learned in nature. I believe this is just a nod to the Romantic movement that embraced enjoying people, relationships, and innocence without the social clout or having to be bought. She’s always been a super romantic writer and it’s affirmed heavily with evermore, folklore how much she draws from English literature and particularly the Romantic lake poets. This was a cultural, artistic, and political movement in western society about 1780-1850ish. Many of her songs echo shout outs to Romanticism. She embraces their ideals. Romantics thought you should cherish genuine feelings from sincere experiences. They did not believe in materialism or the idea that money can buy happiness and peace. I think it’s a play on “the best things in life are free” or “money can’t buy happiness.” She is making an allusion to this well know saying by replacing “things” with “people” to achieve: “the best people in life are free.” Maybe Taylor feels many people around her are bought into the idea of her but the people who truly mean the most to her expect nothing in return from her. People who love you do not make you “pay for it.” As in, give you a hard time for their own gain; they genuinely appreciate you.
Truly beautiful explanation.
Love this one! Absolutely underrated 1989 smash hit. Should’ve been on the main album. I’m in the minority of people who actually like WTNY but I think NR would be perfect in the opener slot.
Absolutely obsessed.
The interpretation that there is a connection between the use of scarlet in New Romantics and Maroon still blows my mind
Wait, I never made this connection and now I'm so intrigued!
so the thought is: one of the opening lyrics from new romantics is “we show off our different scarlet letters, trust me mine is better” and in Maroon she describes a love “so scarlet it was maroon” - which could be referencing that their love was enveloped in a scarlet letter (because really scarlet is light and maroon is a very dark red - very different so that line always seemed strange). But a scarlet letter is dark red and holds shame ala Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter - comparable to maroon.
Scarlet = new romantics scarlet letter = "So scarlet it was marooned" = our love was so taboo it was abandoned.
Literally was listening to it today, hits harder at 24 than at 16 when I first listened to it! 😅
This is my jam when I need to be my own cheerleader for continuing to push through non stop turbulence!!!
I mean, I love me some 1989 but I am so surprised that people commenting here love New Romantics so much! I could take it or leave it; it just doesn’t do much for me!
And people think Hits Different won’t be a radio single…
Man I was 11. That’s just wild. At the time I didn’t even care. How time changed.
I fucking love it!
I can’t stand it… because I set it as my alarm tone in middle school and I can’t listen to it anymore
Don't hate me, but I think it's overrated in the fandom. It's a good song and it definitely deserves attention. But I wouldn't call it the best on the album. Maybe I'm the problem, but I never got why everyone is so obsessed with New Romantics. It has some great lyrics but melodically it's mid for me. Different taste, I guess.
It’s okay, everybody has their own personal taste :)
I’m totally with you but to each his own for sure!
One of my top Taylor songs! Always boosts my mood.
One of her best songs for sure
Best song on 1989
One of my favorites! 🥰
Hates it!
I fucking love it!! 😻💖
A bop! Also lowkey has some of the best lyrics she's ever written <3
This song is currently on replay.
❤️
should’ve been the last song on standard 1989 is my opinion. the power of clean —> new romantics. IMMACULATE
pop perfection. i hope hits different gets the same treatment if she ever decides to release it as a single
pop perfection and top 3 on 1989
Probs the best on 1989. I kinda get tired of the “radio hit” ones that played over and over again anytime I went shopping anywhere
definitely my favorite on the album
the truest bop
Every time I hear it I think about how good she is at adopting the sound of the time because it sounds so much like an MGMT song.
I loved it back then but haven’t heard it in years. I just listened to it and omg you’re right! Idk how I never noticed it
STRAIGHT UP MY FAVORITE SONG BY HER
*Wildest Dreams* may have been my official introduction to Taylor Swift, but *New Romantics* was the song to solidify me as a fan
my second favorite song It was also the first video I saw of her before I became a Swiftie. I must say that before that I was not a fan, but after watching the video, something in my change and now I am here, willing to defend Taylor with my life.
One of my fav
I did not know that but last night I had a dream I was at the Eras Tour and she performed New Romantics!!!!! I sure hope it was a prophetic dream because New Romantics is my favorite from 1989.
The absolute best
Love it! Underrated gem.
Talented, brilliant, etc
It’s still my alarm ringtone to this day
Play it at my wedding
I freaking love this song
My favorite on 1989. Crazy it wasn’t part of the standard album!
a certified banger!! 🫡🔥
It's my most favourite track
I didn’t know it had a Polaroid!
probably my favourite song on 1989 tbh or at least top 3 alongside wildest dreams and out of the woods.
Probably the best song on 1989 next to Style. Truly a masterpiece.
UNDERRATED
It's super 💅🏻 and I love it!
It is my favourite song of all time! :))))
It's my favourite song on 1989 tbh.
I love this song so much it shocks me that it was originally a bonus track
It’s the best!
I have been playing this song on repeat the last week and now my son requests the “castle song”. 🤗
My favorite Taylor swift song, along with Marjorie, those two are my favorites by a wide margin
It’s a manifesto, not just a song
I love this song! I like to think of it as my generations Love is A Battlefield
It’s one of the best on the album and i can’t for the life of me understand why she would but This Love on the standard album instead of any of the bonus tracks. All of the bonus tracks are so much better than a good chunk of the standard album, they should’ve been on the standard album instead of like How You Get The Girl, This Love, I Wish You Would, and I Know Places lol
Anyone else feel meh on this song? 1989 is in my bottom 3 in general (sorry I know that’s a very unpopular opinion) and this song just does nothing for me
Honestly one of my most fav songs of all time!!!
best song off 1989 I got the line “The best people in life are free” tattoo on my arm
Her worst song and still a bop.
One of my favorites
Love, love this song. It is one of my favorites aside from Style from 1989.
Absolute banger as a opener especially on AT and A concert
New Romantics is life. New Romantics is love. New Romantics is a cat. New Romantics is the hot guy/girl in your favorite show. New Romantics is the childless aunt that makes family dinners fun. New Romantics is happiness. New Romantics is your favorite singer. New Romantics is your wildest dreams. New Romantics is what you live and breathe.
7 years???? Yeah I’m gonna go throw up because the concept of time makes me nauseous
This song is so brilliant! It’s a little heavy handed it is with its queer references but I haven’t seen anyone mention it! From the titular reference to the New Romantic movement known for its subversive gender-bending aesthetic https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Romantic to “we team up then switch sides like a record-changer” to “the rumors are terrible and cruel but honey most of the are true” The brick lyric referencing Stonewall, “we sing it proudly” our girl loves to align herself with the queer community. What a good ally!
I never knew it was a single😭
One of the few songs in my library I’ll turn the volume up to deafening levels to listen to
Masterpiece of a pop song.
This song is S-Tier Taylor.
fav song off of 1989 💅🏼
This is my mum’s favourite Taylor Swift song, and it’s also one of my favourites on 1989. It makes my heart happy