This is one of the songs that Swift has mentioned as a teenage love triangle. This song is from the point of view of the girl who the boy cheated with. “illicit affairs” is a song of how an affair and lying can kill you “a million little times”. This is a song that shows the attraction of cheating without the moral superiority found in many other songs. “illicit affairs” is a pensive song where the girl knows she was the other girl, but she cannot reason why to continue the relationship. She knows what has happened, and she wants no part of it.
This is one of the songs that Swift has mentioned as a teenage love triangle. This song is from the point of view of the girl who the boy cheated with. “illicit affairs” is a song of how an affair and lying can kill you “a million little times”. This is a song that shows the attraction of cheating without the moral superiority found in many other songs. “illicit affairs” is a pensive song where the girl knows she was the other girl, but she cannot reason why to continue the relationship. She knows what has happened, and she wants no part of it.