A new GOLDEN love for Taylor Swift? 🏆💗🏈 "The Alchemy" Reaction & Analysis

This is my initial reaction to my first listen of "The Alchemy" by Taylor Swift, and then my after-the-fact in-depth analysis aka a breakdown of the lyrics and explanation of the meaning of the song within the context of analyzing the album of "The Tortured Poets Department" as a whole. Breaking down the meaning of each lyric and explaining many possible interpretations!

My 5th analysis! I decided to do these analyses out of order even though my first listens were in album order. I have analyzed this having listened to the first 21 songs many times but I hadn't gotten to the final 10 at all yet. I had been waiting till the right time to film my initial reactions to those. Then I listened to So High School right before finishing the separately filmed analysis for this one.

Album: The Tortured Poets Department / Track Number: 15 / The Alchemy

My PLAYLIST of all of my TTPD Reaction & Analysis videos:    • Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Dep...  

Chapters:

0:00 Definition of "Alchemy", then Aromantic activism usage of it in my personal life
2:10 Reaction starts!
2:58 Realization that this song is going to be about "her Football Boyfriend"!
5:31 Clips of Travis Kelce talking about Taylor Swift after I thought of them while hearing the line "The sign on your heart said it's still reserved for me"
8:48 "These blokes warm the benches" -- blokes as a British term! Meaning of that with her exes
9:25 He jokes Heroin/Heroine ;) I loved that
9:53 Bridge of the song
10:31 My favorite line in the song / favorite lyric
11:28 Analyzing how the song ends, significance of White Wine
12:28 Analyzing it's place in track order on the album and the story of the album as a whole, she's moving on from the heartbreak at this point
12:52 Analyzing how much I enjoy this song compared to the others on the album
13:49 Only part of the song that still confuses me -- please clarify what this part means if you have ideas!
14:29 More on "white wine" -- thinking about the color of it in light of the meanings of alchemy -- golden elixir etc, it kinda looks gold...
15:16 why she ended the song on this note, most poetic choice in the song maybe?
16:12 more discussion of why that favorite lyric was indeed my favorite. :)
16:53 Outro - two cute recommendations of videos to check out related to this song!