Dear Reader is a great song and awesome 3am edition closer. Sonically we have a lot going on the sums up the Midnights era in my opinion.

But let’s really get into the lyrics… I don’t think I’m the only one who’d say that the song is an address to us, her adoring fans. For me it feels good to be addressed genuinely by her, without being coddled, hyped up, anything like that. A statement of I am incredibly famous- but I’m not your savior. It doesn’t mention hard work, luck, industry, business acumen- its just human to human. One is a creator, one is reader thats all. The line “no one sees you lose when you’re playing solitaire” is the only acknowledgment of her being in a different stratosphere. (also the line makes me think of “i was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere”)

I think it might be my favorite song.

Please go hard on dissecting this song, I’d love to read it.