Champagne Problem by Taylor swift

(Verse 1)

You booked the night train for a reason

So you could sit there in this hurt

Bustling crowds or silent sleepers

You're not sure which is worse

(Chorus 1)

Because I dropped your hand while dancing

Left you out there standing

Crestfallen on the landing

Champagne problems

Your mom's ring in your pocket

My picture in your wallet

Your heart was glass, I dropped it

Champagne problems

(Verse 2)

You told your family for a reason

You couldn't keep it in

Your sister splashed out on the bottle

Now no one's celebrating

(Chorus 2)

Dom Pérignon, you brought it

No crowd of friends applauded

Your hometown skeptics called it

Champagne problems

You had a speech, you're speechless

Love slipped beyond your reaches

And I couldn't give a reason

Champagne problems

(Bridge)

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"

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

"She would've made such a lovely bride

What a shame she's fucked in her head, " they said

But you'll find the real thing instead

She'll patch up your tapestry that I shred

(Chorus 3)

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

You won't remember all my

Champagne problems

You won't remember all my

Champagne problems

Music analysis:

This song has used the most basic chord progression of three major keys and one
minor key. Throughout the songs, the singer repeats the four chords over and over again as
the instrumental music. She has kept it simple but enough for this one song. This made the
whole song feel really calming and straightforward. There’s no complicated instrument,
sound or anything, just four simple chords. Because of this, for the part where the emotion
gets stronger, the singer adds in harmony and layers of voices to strengthen the main vocal.
This helps the audience to feel the power of her emotion with a stronger voice rather than
louder music.
To further support this emotion, the singer expresses it through her voice registration.
During the whole song, she uses a very soft and breathy voice to make the lyrics feel light.
But at the bridge, she started adding in more power in her voice which went from an
apologising to a defensive tone. The voice was quickly followed by a sudden drop back to
the airy voice to end the song. At the end, the music ended with playful random notes on the
piano. This gave the audience a feeling that while the singer is singing this song, she is
improvising the music. It felt like the music was coming from her heart and she was actually
expressing her thoughts on the speaker’s story.

Lyrics analysis (First verse to second chorus):

The song tells a story from the speaker’s perspective of turning down a wedding
proposal in front of her partner’s parents. The music and lyrics gave a very calm but
sorrowful feeling. In the first stanza, it is describing her other half sitting on the train going
back home after the rejection. The author uses alliteration or assonance and consonance
like “Silent sleeper”, “Sit”, “This” or “Worse”to emphasize the “S” Sound. The pronunciation of
the “S” is very soft and light. Which helps create the mood for the first stanza of that
depressing feeling.
In the chorus, the author uses end rhyme with a rhyme scheme of AAAB. The first 3
lines are rhymed while the last line is repeated in all the chorus. The tempo of the first 3 lines
are faster than the verse, which sounds very balanced when the ending is rhymed. Then the
last line of “Champagne problem” is slowed down, telling the audience how it was her
champagne problem.
There are also other literary devices like parallelism and metaphor in her second
verse. For example, “Your mom's ring in your pocket/My picture in your wallet”. This is an
example of parallelism. The speaker’s partner put the two women in his life close to him,
indicating how important the speaker is to her partner when she turns him down. The
metaphor in line 11 “Your heart was glass, I dropped it” was comparing her partner’s heart to
the glass. Fragile and easy to break. But the speaker dropped it, metaphorically meaning
she broke his heart.

This song is a ballad because first, it is narrating a story in first and second person
perspective. It tells the story through describing a series of events that happen to her partner
by speaking directly to him. Each stanza of the song is in a line of four, and there is constant
rhythm within the lines.