{"id":1006,"date":"2020-08-23T19:25:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T19:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/?page_id=1006"},"modified":"2026-10-18T11:09:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T10:09:43","slug":"miss-americana-the-heartbreak-prince","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/lover-album\/lover-songs\/miss-americana-the-heartbreak-prince\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cMiss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince\u201d is the seventh track on Taylor\u2019s seventh studio album, Lover<\/a><\/em> (2019). Co-written and produced by Taylor and Joel Little, the song was released on August 23, 2019. Blending the story of a high school romance with metaphors for political disillusionment, it explores Taylor\u2019s growing concerns about the American political landscape beneath its dreamy, atmospheric pop production.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhen Taylor announced “The Eras Tour<\/a>,” few could have predicted that this political high-school love song would become the opening act for the biggest concert tour of all time. With the line \u201cIt\u2019s been a long time coming,\u201d<\/em> Taylor welcomed fans into the show night after night, turning its opening lyric into a fitting nod to her long-awaited return to touring and the beginning of an unforgettable journey through her musical eras<\/a>.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTaylor began working on her seventh studio album, Lover<\/a><\/em>, during a week in New York in July 2018, while still on the “reputation Stadium Tour<\/a>.” The album\u2019s main recording sessions began after the tour concluded that November, marking a new creative chapter following the darker atmosphere of reputation<\/a><\/em> (2017). In a 2019 interview with Vogue<\/em>, Taylor described Lover<\/em> as a \u201cnew beginning\u201d and a \u201clove letter to love, in all of its maddening, passionate, exciting, enchanting, horrific, tragic, wonderful glory,\u201d recalling that she had written from an \u201copen, free, romantic, whimsical place.\u201d\n

\n\u201cMiss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince\u201d was written and produced by Taylor and New Zealand songwriter and producer Joel Little. Together, they created several of the songs that moved beyond Lover<\/em>\u2019s more traditional love-song themes. Alongside \u201cME!<\/a>,\u201d which celebrates individuality and self-acceptance, \u201cThe Man<\/a>,\u201d \u201cYou Need To Calm Down<\/a>\u201d and \u201cOnly The Young<\/a>\u201d explore gender inequality, LGBTQ+ rights and political change. \u201cMiss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince\u201d fits into this broader thread, reflecting Taylor\u2019s concerns about the state of American politics through a more atmospheric pop production.\n

\nThe song took shape a few months after the November 2018 US midterm elections, during a period when Taylor was becoming more vocal about her political views. In her October 2019 interview with Rolling Stone<\/em>, she discussed the broader circumstances surrounding the song\u2019s creation and how she had begun to engage more openly with the political climate:\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\u00abIt\u2019s about the illusions of what I thought America was before our political landscape took this turn, and that naivete that we used to have about it. And it\u2019s also the idea of people who live in America, who just want to live their lives, make a living, have a family, love who they love, and watching those people lose their rights, or watching those people feel not at home in their home. I have that line 'I see the high-fives between the bad guys'<\/i> because not only are some really racist, horrific undertones now becoming overtones in our political climate, but the people who are representing those concepts and that way of looking at the world are celebrating loudly, and it\u2019s horrific.\u00bb\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTaylor also discussed her concerns about the state of American democracy more directly in an appearance on the Elvis Duran Show<\/em> in summer 2019, saying: \u201cWe\u2019re a democracy\u2014at least, we\u2019re supposed to be\u2014where you\u2019re allowed to disagree, dissent, debate. I really think that [Trump] thinks this is an autocracy.\u201d\n

\n\u201cMiss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince\u201d was released on August 23, 2019, as the seventh track on Lover<\/em>, rather than as a standalone single. The song\u2019s title would later reach a wider audience when it inspired the name of Taylor\u2019s 2020 Netflix documentary, Miss Americana<\/a><\/em>.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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