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      "Death by a Thousand Cuts" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for her seventh studio album Lover (2019). Written and produced by Swift and Jack Antonoff, it serves as the tenth track of the album. It is a pop torch song with an upbeat production. Unlike the singer's previous break-up songs which were diaristic in the nature, "Death by a Thousand Cuts" was influenced by splits of her friends, as well as of fictional characters. Swift cited 2019 romantic comedy film Someone Great as a key inspiration. The lyrics are based on character dynamics from the film, as they portray the protagonist's attempts to overcome the painful remnants of a failed relationship.
      Assessment of "Death by a Thousand Cuts" in the music press was middling; it usually received a compliment for one of its parts in reviews of Lover. Commercially, it peaked at number 48 in Australia, 62 in Canada, and 67 in the United States. Swift debuted the track live as a country pop rendition during the one-off concert City of Lover. She also performed a stripped-down version of "Death by a Thousand Cuts" on NPR's Tiny Desk Concert, and as a "surprise song" multiple times during the Eras Tour (2023-24).


      Background


      In March 2019, Elle issued Swift's essay called "30 Things I Learned Before Turning 30", which featured the singer questioning her songwriting skills―she was anxious about being in a healthy relationship, since most of her catalogue consists of songs about failed love experiences. The singer was affraid that she would not be able to write a break up song when she would be happy. Her solution turned out to be going back to her roots of getting inspiration taken from other people experiences or books and movies, as she used to do when she began writing at the age of 12. She told during her NPR Tiny Desk concert that some of her friends finished their love encounters while she was developping Lover, and she absorbed various books and movies regarding breakups, that gave her idea to write a "Death by a Thousand Cuts". Swift elaborated on Elvis Duran and the Morning Show, that one of the works that influenced the song was 2019 romantic comedy film Someone Great, written and directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson. The film's director showed her appreciation on Instagram, revealing that her movie was mainly inspired by Swift's 2014 album 1989, and especially its closer "Clean".


      Music and lyrics


      Written and produced by Swift and her friend and frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff, "Death by a Thousand Cuts" spans for three minutes and 19 seconds. Described by the singer herself as a "sad bop", "Death by a Thousand Cuts" is a "shimmering" pop torch song, whose "trippy" and "polyphonic" production complements sad lyrical subject matter. The song's instrumentation includes "faint" church bells, "slippery" guitar line, "tinkling" piano, "swirling" keyboards and "quivering" synths.
      Writing for NME, Nick Levine said that "Death by a Thousand Cuts" has "echoes" of Fleetwood Mac's 1987 pop rock album Tango In The Night, while Lindsay Zoladz of The Ringer called it "Pitch Perfect-core" which will end up as "an a cappella group staple for many years to come". Vulture's Craig Jenkins opined that the "pretty guitar figure" of the song "carries a whiff of the Beatles' 'Blackbird'". Another comparison drew from the instrumentation was made in a review by Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine, he deemed the synthesizers and keyboards used in the track to be reminiscent of the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds (1966). For New York Times, Jon Caramanica argued that "Death by a Thousand Cuts" could be a Kelsea Ballerini song.


      Live performances


      Swift debuted "Death by a Thousand Cuts" live during the one-off promotional concert City of Lover, which occurred in Olympia theater in Paris, France, on September 9, 2019. She played it on an acoustic guitar, and during her emotional performance of the bridge, the audience sang along with her. The concert was filmed and later aired as a TV special on American Broadcasting Company (ABC) on May 17, 2020. The following day, the performance was released for a digital download and streaming. Sarah Carson from i called it "gorgerous", while NME's Hannah Mylrea opined that Swift turned the track into "earnest country-pop tune". Named as one of the eight best moments of the gig, Billboard's Jason Lipshutz wrote that Swift was "seething with emotion on the bridge before steadying herself with a sly grin".
      Month later, Swift performed "Death by a Thousand Cuts" during her "intimate" performance for NPR Music, as part of their Tiny Desk Concert series in October 2019. The singer played four songs acousticly, to showcase how they sounded during the writing process; besides "Death by a Thousand Cuts" performed on a guitar, she sung "The Man", "Lover" (both 2019), and "All Too Well" (2012). Between singing the songs, Swift discussed how she developed them, highlighting her relief after creating "Death by a Thousand Cuts".
      In 2023, Swift embarked on the Eras Tour, which introduced the acoustic set when the singer performed two different songs from her discography each show. On the second night in Arlington, on April 1, the singer decided to play "Death by a Thousand Cuts" on a piano. Before she sang, Swift said that she was asked to sing this song by Antonoff, who attended the concert; she continued by recalling City of Lover, expressing her desire of her friend being present during this event, since "the crowd screamed the bridge so loudly". However, during the bridge, she messed up lyrics, and repeated it, later adding that she will sing any song again, if she would make a mistake during the performance. The singer kept her promise, singing "Death by a Thousand Times" one more time, during Los Angeles show on August 5. This time, Swift dedicated the song to Robinson, who was present in the audience. The following year, she introduced a mash-up of "Death by a Thousand Cuts" with "Babe" on guitar, during the March 7 concert at Singapore's national stadium. Ashley Iasimone from Billboard reported that Swift "combined two of her most iconic breakup songs", People's Ilana Kaplan dubbed it as "sweet". She later performed the song as part of mash-ups with her tracks "Hits Different" (2022), "Getaway Car" (2018) and "The Great War" (2022) at the tour's London and Indianapolis stops.


      Credits and personnel


      Credits are adapted from the liner notes of Lover.
      Studios

      Recorded at Electric Lady Studios (New York City)
      Mixed at MixStar Studios (Virginia Beach)
      Mastered at Sterling Sound (New York City)
      Personnel

      Taylor Swift – songwriting, production, vocals
      Jack Antonoff – songwriting, production, recording, guitar, keyboard, synthesizers
      Laura Sisk – recording
      John Rooney – recording assistant
      John Hanes – engineering
      Serban Ghenea – mixing
      Randy Merrill – mastering


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