Getaway Car (Taylor Swift song)

"Getaway Car"
Single by Taylor Swift
from the album Reputation
ReleasedSeptember 7, 2018 (2018-09-07)
StudioRough Customer (Brooklyn Heights)
Genre
Length3:53
LabelBig Machine
Songwriters
Producers
  • Taylor Swift
  • Jack Antonoff
Taylor Swift singles chronology
"Babe"
(2018)
"Getaway Car"
(2018)
"Me!"
(2019)
Audio
"Getaway Car" on YouTube

"Getaway Car" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift from her sixth studio album, Reputation (2017). It was released as the album's final single in Australia and New Zealand on September 7, 2018, by Big Machine Records, to support the Australasian shows of Swift's Reputation Stadium Tour. Swift wrote and produced "Getaway Car" with Jack Antonoff. A synth-pop song, it features pulsing synthesizers, programmed drums, and distorted vocals.

The lyrics depict Swift's narrator attempting to exit a relationship by getting together with someone else, knowing that the new relationship will also end soon because its purpose was only to escape from the first one. Music critics lauded the song's production and lyrics as cinematic, detail-heavy, and intricate. Some critics highlighted it one of the best tracks on Reputation and within Swift's discography. The song charted and has been certified multi-platinum in Australia and New Zealand.