History Music / NineteenEightyNine

** It also calls to mind the famous photo of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_McHale Evelyn McHale]], known as "the most beautiful suicide" because she landed on top of a car the same way after jumping from the Empire State Building. Made especially resonant with New York as a city prominently featuring in ''1989'', the SpitefulSuicide mentioned in "Is It Over Now", and McHale's note imploring that she not be seen postmortem (but the photograph keeps getting circulated anyway), which echoes the album's minor theme of being hunted by the media.

* ShoutOut: "Bad Blood"[='=]s music video references several films. The bikes, for instance, are a reference to ''{{Film/Tron}}''. The opening scene, in which Taylor gets thrown out a window and lands on top of a car, also closely resembles the opening scene of the horror-comedy ''Film/{{Detention}}'' (which, notably, was also directed by Joseph Kahn), right down to the way in which she's [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/cinemorgue/images/4/44/Alisonwoods.png/revision/latest?cb=20140529214849 splayed out]] [[http://ell.h-cdn.co/assets/15/21/980x612/screen-shot-2015-05-18-at-80352-am.png atop the car]], as well as the fact that the character in ''Detention'' who suffers that fate [[HilariousInHindsight is named Taylor]].

* AscendedMeme: Fans noticed that the bridge of "Out of the Woods" ("Remember when you hit the brakes too soon?") fit in the instrumental break of "Is It Over Now?". Remixes and TikTok videos were made about it. When Swift sang "Is It Over Now?" as a surprise song on the Eras Tour during the Buenos Aires stop, she added the bridge of "Out of the Woods" to it.

-->-- '''The beginning of the album liner notes'''

* DarkerAndEdgier: The ''(From the Vault)'' tracks are much sadder, more emotional, and more serious in their subject matter than their main album counterparts. Compare the approach to societal slut shaming in "Blank Space" (which [[PlayedForLaughs sarcastically mocks the concept]]) to "Slut!" (which stoically accepts the inevitability of other's judgment).

* TakeThat: "Now That We Don't Take" narrator only pretends to like acid rock music to please her love interest.

# ''"Slut!"'' (From The Vault) (3:00)

# "Is It Over Now?" (From The Vault) (3:49)

* DarkerAndEdgier: The ''(From the Vault)'' tracks are much sadder and delve into serious subjects with much more drama and emotional responses from the narrator rather than PlaysForLaugh some of them. Compare the approach of societal slut shaming from "Blank Space" to "Slut!".

** "Suburban Legends" has the narrator looking back longingly on a relationship despite the pain it caused her and the fact that her lover wasn't entirely faithful during their time together.

* WhatBeautifulEyes: "I Know Places":
-->In the dead of night, your eyes so green

** "Slut!":

# "Sweeter Than Fiction" (3:57) [[note]]Only available on the Tangerine edition vinyl[[/note]]

** SelfReferentialTrackPlacement: The final track in the standard edition of the re-release is called "Is It Over Now?"