"Wildest Dreams" first charted at number 76 on the Billboard Hot 100 as an album cut from 1989 in November 2014. For Slant Magazine 's Annie Galvin, Swift's luscious breathy vocals in a falsetto register are atypical of her usual singing style.
Swift warns him that he will be the victim of haunting memories once the relationship ends. She observes in the first verse, "I can see the end as it begins," knowing that her love interest is not suitable for her. Singing with breathy vocals in a falsetto register, Swift falls in love with a man who is "bad, but he does it so well". The lyrics are about Swift's plea for her lover to remember her, despite the inevitable end of their relationship. Alexis Petridis from The Guardian compared the song's drums to those of " Be My Baby" by the Ronettes. The verses are accompanied by underlying Mellotron keyboard tones, and the chorus is supported by lush staccato strings. The track's string arranger, Mattias Bylund, recorded and arranged the track at his home studio in Tuve, Sweden. The track is instrumented by pulsing synthesizers and lush string instruments. According to the album's liner notes, Swift's heartbeat serves as the song's beat. Ĭritics noted that "Wildest Dreams" incorporates a sultry, dramatic atmosphere, which they compared to the music by singer Lana Del Rey, particularly her album Born to Die (2012). The song was recorded by Michael Ilbert and MXM Studios in Stockholm, and by Sam Holland at Conway Recording Studios in Los Angeles. Refinery29 writer Rebecca Farley noted elements of soft rock. NME 's Hannah Mylrae described it as synth-pop, the genre that is in line with its parent album's production. Paul Duffus from PopMatters characterized the song as a dream pop power ballad. Taylor Swift wrote "Wildest Dreams" with its producers, Max Martin and Shellback, who produced the bulk of Swift's fifth studio album 1989. Problems playing this file? See media help. According to the album booklet, the beat in the song is Swift's heartbeat. "Wildest Dreams" is a sultry dream pop and synth-pop song talking about a dangerous affair with an apparently untrustworthy man. The re-recorded song garnered more streams in its opening day on Spotify than the original song did on any given day on the streaming platform. On September 17, 2021, Swift released the re-recording of "Wildest Dreams" dubbed as " Taylor's Version", as part of the re-recording of her first six studio albums following the dispute over their masters. Swift donated all proceeds from the video to the African Parks Foundation of America. The video was well received in terms of production and styling, but attracted criticism for glorifying colonialism, a claim that Kahn dismissed. It depicts Swift as a brunette actress who falls in love with her co-star on set, and later realizes their inevitable end upon completion of their film project.
The song's music video, directed by Joseph Kahn, is set in Africa during the classical Hollywood era of the 1950s. It was certified four times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and had sold over two million copies in the United States by November 2017. In the United States, it was 1989 's fifth consecutive top-ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching number five, and peaked atop Billboard airplay-focused charts including Mainstream Top 40 and Adult Top 40. The single peaked within the top five on record charts of Australia, Canada, Poland and South Africa. Retrospectively, critics have positively viewed the song as one of Swift's better songs in her catalog.
The song was released to radio stations as the album's fifth single on August 31, 2015, by Big Machine and Republic Records.Ĭontemporary critics received "Wildest Dreams" with moderate reviews some praised Swift's vocals and the production, while others considered it unoriginal. The lyrics describe Swift's plea for her lover to remember her despite the inevitable end of their relationship.
"Wildest Dreams" is a synth-pop and dream pop power ballad with an atmospheric production equipped with string instruments and Swift's heartbeat as its beat. Swift wrote the song with its producers Max Martin and Shellback. " Wildest Dreams" is a song by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, taken from her fifth studio album, 1989 (2014).
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