I Think I've Seen This Film Before~ A Taylor Swift Reaction Book

Chapter Fourteen: Champagne Problems

Sorry for any typos<3

Okay. You are all safe for this song, at least of what we know, 'cause this is one of the songs that we really don't know who it's about. So it could be about someone in this room, but I'm just not sure. So count yourself lucky!

"As long as I am in this room I will not count myself lucky." John muttered.

"Sometimes it's better when we don't know who the song is about." Lautner commented. "'Cause then it makes the song more mysterious and leaves it to speculation."

Exactly! Now, ready to hear it?

"If we have to." Matty sighed

Song: Champagne Problems
Album: Evermore
Year: 2020
Song Length: 4:04
Muse: Unknown

Joe's eyes widened slightly at the song but his face remained neutral. Please don't mention song writing credits please don't mention songwriting credits, he thought to himself.

Oh! And if you were curious, Joe Alwyn is credited as a songwriter on this song, just incase it ends up being an important fact!

"It's isn't." Alwyn muttered underneath his breath as people turned to look at him.

"I didn't know you wrote songs?" Calvin asked.

"I only wrote a few, all of them with Taylor." Alwyn replied. "I don't really see it becoming a job or anything."

"Oh- did any of the other songs play yet?" Harry asked.

Alwyn shook his head. "I don't think so, no. But I'm sure it will be known when they do."

Yep!

*the song starts*

You booked the night train for a reason, so you could sit there in this hurt. Bustling crowd and silent sleepers, you're not sure which is worse.

Because I dropped your hand while dancing, left you out there standing. Crestfallen on the landing, champagne problems.

"I already know this I gonna be depressing." Tom said.

"You should hear her play it live on the piano." Travis replied. "It's even more amazing, which I didn't think was possible."

"Do we at least get to know what this song's about since we don't know who it's about?" Calvin asked.

Nope! You'll have to figure that one out on your own. But it's not that hard to get the meaning.

"I don't know," Jake said, "I'm really bad at figuring out song meanings."

Your mom's ring in your pocket. My picture in your wallet. Your heart was glass, I dropped it, champagne problems.

You told your sister for a reason, you couldn't keep it in. Your sister splashed out on the bottle. Now no one's celebrating.

"Oohhh, so this is about some sort of marriage proposal it looks like." Lautner commented. "Well if it's about somebody in this room it should be easy to tell since it's about some sort of marriage proposal."

Yes, but there's also a very good chance that it is just a fictional story since she was doing that a lot during that time.

"You helped write the song apparently," Jonas said, looking at Alwyn. "Did she ever tell you what it was about?"

Alwyn shook his head. "No. She just explained what she wanted the story of the song to be about. We just worked off of that."

Dom Pérignon, you brought it. No crowd of friends applauded. Your hometown skeptics called it. Champagne Problems.

"Dom Pérignon is amazing." Tom said.

You had a speech, you're speechless. Love slipped beyond your reaches. And I couldn't give a reason, champagne problems.

Your Midas touch on the Chevy door. November flush and your flannel cure. "This dorm was once a madhouse," I made a joke, "well it's made for me."

"Is this the part where she starts using a lot of clever words and metaphors that we aren't gonna know what any of it means?" Calvin asked.

I mean, when you start to really think about it, you can probably make out what she means. But yeah, there's a lot of that in this song, especially in the bridge.

"The hell is a Midas touch?" John asked.

The Midas Touch is a myth from Greek mythology where it is believed that King Midas turned everything he touched into gold.

"Ohh, that's smart." Harry said.

How evergreen, our group of friends. Don't think we'll say that word again. And soon they'll have the nerve to deck the halls that we once walked through.

One for the money, two for the show. I never was ready so I watch you go. Sometimes you just don't know the answer 'til someone's on their knees and asks you.

"Everybody listened to the song in silence, trying to gather as much information as possible about all the songs so they could interpret the song as best as they could.

"She would've made such a lovely bride, what a shame she's fucked in the head," they said. But you'll find the real thing instead. She'll patch up your tapestry that I shred.

"At first I thought I was catching on but after that 'what a shame she's fucked in the head.' I'm lost again." John commented.

"Aren't you just lost normally, though?" Travis asked and John just glared at him. "Says the one who has had like five concussions."

"Two!" Travis defended.

And hold your hand while dancing. Never leave you standing. Crestfallen on the landing with champagne problems.

Your mom's ring in your pocket, her picture in your wallet. And you won't remember all my champagne problems.

                         *the song ends*

"Okay." Jonas said. "That was probably the most intricate and confusing one so far, next to loml.

Any thoughts on what it's about?

"It sounds to me like a rejected marriage proposal." Conor replied.

"What I'm thinking about the most is during the one line where she says 'til someone's in their knees and asks you.'" Harry added. "I think the fact that she said 'knees' instead of 'knee' changes a lot of the songs meaning."

"That's what I was thinking." Lautner added. "'Cause it makes it that the man is begging on his knees for her to marry him instead of just asking her on one knee."

"Oh, I didn't even think of that." Jonas replied.

"Now I'm even more curious on who this is about." Conor said.

"Me too." Calvin said. "She really never informed you of this was about?" He asked Alwyn. "Even though you were dating at the time."

Alwyn shook his head. "Not that I remember. But a lot of the songs from this album are made up along with Folklore so maybe it's just a fictional story."

We may never know! Anyway, ready for the next one?

"I guess so." Jake, Matty, and John replied, sighing.

Something is wrong with the keyboard on my phone so I'm only able to write on my iPad for the time bring since I have a Bluetooth keyboard for it. But I won't write a whole lot with it 'cause it's lowkey hard and takes a while. I'm just hoping that it gets fixed soon.

I was only able to do this because I was almost done with it anyway. I might be able to upload a chapter of endgame too 'cause I'm almost done with that as well. But only maybe.

I'm also not getting notifications from other stories either:(

Anyway, I hope you liked this!

Now I'm gonna go before this keyboard pisses me off more. I also didn't realized how much I used emoji's until now since I can't 'cause of this keyboard.

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