Songfacts®:

• Some of Taylor Swift's biggest hits have come from when she's explored her own doubts and how they play out in the spotlight. On 1989's "Blank Space," she pokes fun at the way the media paints her romantic life. On the Midnights track "Anti-Hero," she digs into her insecurities and need for control. This slow dance song references the slut-shaming Swift has experienced as a public figure over the years.
• "Slut!" flips the script on the public perception of Swift. She's proudly, head-over-heels in love, and carefree about how the outside world views it. The song's dreamy mid-tempo groove shouts the romance to the world.
• Swift wrote and produced "Slut" with Jack Antonoff and Patrik Berger for her fifth studio album, 1989, in 2014.
  
  American songwriter and producer Jack Antonoff is a regular Swift collaborator, including on three of the 1989 tracks.
  
  This was Swedish songwriter and producer Patrik Berger's only contribution to 1989. His other credits include Robyn's "Dancing On My Own," Icona Pop's "I Love It" and Charli XCX's "Boom Clap."
• Swift wrote two songs for 1989 that play on the discussions at that time about her dating life. When it came to deciding the final track list for the album, she chose "Blank Space" over "Slut!"
  
  "I thought, 'Okay, well, I'm going to choose 'Blank Space'' and, unfortunately, had to make some tough decisions in terms of what to put on the tracklist," Swift said of "Slut!" via Tumblr Music.
  
  "I love this song because I think it's really dreamy," she continued. "And I always saw 1989 as a New York album, but this song, to me, was always California, and maybe that was another reason it didn't make the cut, because sometimes, thematically, I just had these little weird rules in my head."
  
  Swift re-recorded and released "Slut!" on her 1989 (Taylor's Version) album in 2023.
• Taylor Swift performed "Slut!" for the first time during her Buenos Aires show on November 12, 2023. She was playing in the Argentinean capital for her Eras tour as part of a trio of concerts played there. During the acoustic set of her show at Estadio River Plate, Swift walked over to her piano and gave the song its live debut.