page_title: Delicate (Taylor Swift song)
section_title: Writing and composition
hierarchical_section_title: Delicate (Taylor Swift song) / Writing and composition
caption_attribution_description: English: Max Martin in 2015.
context_page_description: "Delicate" is a song by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for her sixth studio album, Reputation. It was released on March 12, 2018, as the album's sixth single. Swift wrote the song with its producers Max Martin and Shellback. "Delicate" is an electropop and electro song with elements of dance-pop and tropical house. The song uses a distinctive vocoder effect to create a vulnerable sound, which also reflects in the emotionally honest lyrics. "Delicate" was met with critical acclaim upon release, with many praising the production and the lyrical vulnerability; the song has been named a highlight on Reputation. The accompanying music video directed by Joseph Khan premiered on March 11, 2018, at the 2018 iHeartRadio Music Awards.
  "Delicate" was a sleeper hit in the United States. Upon release as a single, the song debuted at number 84 on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching number 20 in its sixteenth week and eventually peaking at number 12, becoming the fourth consecutive top 20 single from Reputation. It also held the number-one spot on the Billboard Pop Songs, Adult Pop Songs and Adult Contemporary charts simultaneously.
context_section_description: "Delicate" was written by Swift, Max Martin and Shellback, and was produced by the latter two. The song runs for three minutes and fifty-two seconds and it has a tempo of 95 beats per minute. Swift sings it in the key of C major in a range spanning from G3 to A4. Musically, the track is an "electro-pop love song" and "melodic electro-ballad". The singer used a vocoder to create an "emotional" and "vulnerable" sound for the track. She explains that the song is about "what happens when you meet somebody that you really want in your life and then you start worrying about what they've heard before they met you." Swift went on to call the song "the first point of vulnerability in the record".
caption: Max Martin (pictured in 2017) produced and co-wrote "Delicate".
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