Mirrorball by Taylor Swift Song Info
On “mirrorball,” the sixth track off of Taylor Swift’s eighth studio album folklore, she compares herself to a reflective disco ball: she sees herself as reflecting all the personalities around her, she entertains others, and she shatters like glass when her heart is broken. Swift discussed this song in folklore: the long pond studio sessions: “In folklore, there are a lot of songs that reference each other, or lyrical parallels, and one of the ones I like is the entire song ‘this is me trying’ then being referenced again in ‘mirrorball.’ […] It also is the first time, and one of the only times, that the time that we’re living through is actually lyrically addressed. I think that, you know, the pandemic and lockdown, and all that, runs through this album like a thread because it’s an album that allows you to feel your feelings, and it’s a product of isolation. […] This is the first time, in the bridge saying, ‘they called off the circus, burned the disco down. When they sent home the horses and the rodeo clowns.’ I wrote this song right after I found out all my [Lover] shows were canceled. So it’s like I realize, here I am writing all this music, still trying.“ “mirrorball” debuted at #26 on the Billboard Hot 100 during the chart week of August 8, 2020.
