Songfacts®:

• Here, Taylor Swift teams up with Lana Del Rey to sing about two people falling in love. They compare the burgeoning romance to snow on the beach: a dreamlike and beautiful pairing.
  
  "'Snow On The Beach' is about falling in love with someone at the same time as they're falling in love with you," Swift explained in a video on social media. "Sort of in this cataclysmic, fated moment where you realize someone feels exactly the same way that you feel at the same moment."
  
  "And you're kind of looking around going, 'Wait, is this real? Is this a dream? Is this really happening?'" she continued. "Kind of like it would be if you were to see snow falling on a beach."
• Swift and Del Rey nod to Janet Jackson's 2001 song "All For You."
  
  I don't even dare to wish it
  But your eyes are flying saucers from another planet
  Now I'm all for you like Janet
  
  Jackson shared a video of herself listening to "Snow On The Beach." She smiles when Swift and Del Rey sing "Now I'm all for you like Janet."
  
  Swift replied saying she feels like she's "dreaming."
• Swift and Del Rey wrote "Snow On The Beach" with Jack Antonoff. A longtime Swift collaborator, Antonoff also co-produced Lana Del Rey's Norman F---ing Rockwell! and Chemtrails Over The Country Club albums.
• Antonoff's production doubles down on the song's magical romantic imagery by adding Christmassy sleigh bells and pizzicato violin.
• Dylan O'Brien plays drums on the song. The Maze Runner actor became close friends with Swift and Antonoff after the pop star cast him alongside Sadie Sink in her All Too Well short film in 2021.
  
  One day, O'Brien was drinking wine and listening to music with Swift and Antonoff at Antonoff's home studio. "He was just trying out the drum kit there," Swift recalled on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. "He wasn't serious, but as I said, we were drinking wine and so, we were just sort of like, 'Oh, we haven't recorded the drums for this one yet, see if you wanna.' And he just played the drums on the song. Sometimes it just happens like that."
• Lana Del Rey had no idea she was the only feature on the song. "Had I known, I would have sung the entire second verse like she wanted," Del Rey told Billboard. "My job as a feature on a big artist's album is to make sure I help add to the production of the song, so I was more focused on the production. She was very adamant that she wanted me to be on the album, and I really liked that song."
  
  Del Rey added she "thought it was nice to be able to bridge that world" as Jack Antonoff works with both her and Swift.
• Swift performed the song live for the first time on March 24, 2023 at Las Vegas' Allegiant Stadium. "She knows I'm obsessed with her, and she was kind enough to make a song with me for Midnights because she's a generous king," Swift told the crowd about Del Rey, "and I'll never forget how nice she's been to me."
• When Midnights was first released, fans were disappointed by the limited presence of Lana Del Rey on "Snow On The Beach." Responding to her fans' feedback, Swift addressed the situation in her Til Dawn deluxe album. In this special edition, Swift rectified the concern by including a re-recorded version of the song, granting Del Rey an entire second verse.
• Though fans complained they couldn't distinguish Del Rey's vocals from Swift's in the original version of the song, she remains firm on her subtle role. "I can mimic almost anyone, so I am all over the first version of 'Snow on the Beach,'" Del Rey told Harper's Bazaar. "I layer and match her vocals perfectly, so you would never even know that I was completely all over that first song. She wanted me to sing the whole thing, but if it ain't broke, don't fix it."