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In 2013, Taylor Swift purchased a waterfront mansion dubbed "Holiday House" in the affluent Rhode Island village of Watch Hill for around $17 million. Here, she sings about one of the previous owners of the property, the eccentric heiress Rebekah Harkness.

Born in St. Louis, Rebekah married Standard Oil heir William Harkness in October 1947. Swift recounts their nuptials in the first verse. Bill was the heir to the Standard Oil name and money And the town said, "How did a middle-class divorcée do?it?" The wedding was charming, if a little gauche There's only so far new money goes The newly married couple moved into "Holiday House," but after suffering two heart attacks William Harkness died in 1954 leaving Rebekah an exorbitantly wealthy widow.

Swift recounts how the shameless eccentric Rebekah Harkness was known for cleaning her pool with Dom Pérignon and stealing her neighbor's dog amid a feud, dying it lime green. She concludes on the chorus: There goes the maddest woman this town has ever seen She had a marvelous time ruining everything The track becomes personal towards the end when it flips and Swift enters saying she bought the home. The songstress then changes the pronouns to demonstrate how much Harkness' story resonates with her. Like the heiress, Swift has received harsh criticism from the media but carried on forging her own path. Both had "a marvelous time" doing so.

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