#Specifically folklore and evermore

[fishandshesmygills]

we need to STOP assuming songs are autobiographical. i would say it's the taylorswiftification of popular music but also like even taylor swift is like hey these songs are fictional narratives that aren't about me and then her entire fanbase still acts like they're her personal experience. man. treat songwriting like creative writing and dont make assumptions. this is what mitski is always talking about, devaluing women's art in particular by saying it's like a diary rather than an intentional craft. and art that is vulnerable and personal and like a diary is of course valuable but you have no way of knowing if that's the case if the artist doesnt share and frankly as a music listener its none of your business if it's "true" or not

[strangeswift]

will byers + web weaving (rewrites and footnotes)

we're in love boygenius / tolerate it taylor swift / gold rush taylor swift / footnote conan gray

[confettidogs]

Taylor Swift sang “were you standing in the hallway, with a big cake, happy birthday” to me on my birthday and my life is complete. I will never need anything else ever again

@taylorswift @taylornation

[the-tortured-artists-department]

New leg of the tour, means a new setlist.

[anotherferalrat]

Rip Ivan i think u would've loved I Can Do It With a Broken Heart

[clarabowmp3]

no one asked and this is so random but rn I'm fairly certain my top ts albums are reputation, fearless, folkmore and maybe red

[multifandom-aroace]

nothoughts just the way Taylor Swift's voice sounds in folklore and evermore

[seinfeldforlife]

pointing a gun to my head at the spotify headquarters, scared and confused, asking why, when i search folk, i have to scroll through the cold and biting corporate waves of taylor swift to get to the safehaven island of tracy chapman and leonard cohen

[itsdelicate]

i need y’all to know my mum randomly came into my room at 2am about a week ago and said taylor’s gonna get married in december this year

[midnightsslut]

also i’m rereading Taylor’s 2020 entertainment weekly interview, and here’s a largely overlooked/forgotten quote about the autobiographical nature of folklore:

I wrote these stories for a specific reason and from a specific place about specific people that I imagined, but I wanted that to all change given who was listening to it. And I wanted it to start out as mine and become other people's. It's been really fun to watch.

[ileftherbackhome]

something swifties need to talk about more is gold rush being the perfect theme song for folklore, summed up by the lyric "my mind turns your life into folklore" because it could never be, she wasnt the one, their greatest love of all time is over now and the coastal town never saw a love as pure as it but thats all dead and gone and buried now but in her defense, she has none other than if she can't give her the life they once promised one another, the least she can do is be open and honest about the love they once shared in her music, turning her into folklore, into songs that will be passed on cause their love will be immortalized now since it could never be in actuality

[allyricas]

Current top 5 from TTPD and The Anthology:

I Hate It Here

Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?

The Prophecy

The Albatross

Guilty as Sin?

[inapoemunlimited]

by definition i would not call myself a swiftie but there is simply no denying the fact that swifties make some of the best damn gifs/graphics on this website

[evermorebytaylorswift]

i am so proud of her for making a very adult album for adults to listen to. i feel like she’s been held to such an insane standard for so long because people expect her music to be palatable to young audiences and specifically young girls. and she doesn’t necessarily owe that to anyone…it’s been really cool to see her embrace her adulthood more in work like folklore, evermore, and midnights, and i feel the tortured poets department is the most mature thing she’s put out. there’s no performance this time, and an astonishingly low amount of people pleasing because she’s laid it all out there, take it or leave it. honest, honest, and so very honest. i LOVE how adult this record is

[likeadevils]

do we know the writing order for the songs off evermore?? i feel like taylor hasn’t ever really discussed the bts of that album a lot :(

taylor hasn’t (i mean she has a little, but kinda skattered all over), but aaron has! so we know some things (this is all mostly taken from these three interviews, if you want sourcing on something specific lmk)

dorothea was the first song, with closure following soon after. both of them were written “around folklore” but “after [it] came out”, so i’d guess sometime in mid july

in “late july” aaron sends the instrumental for willow over to taylor, and it kicks of another round of writing between the two of them (here's a full interview about the making of willow, but fair warning, it is extremely inside baseball)

no body no crime was confirmed to have been written remotely, sometime after aaron visited her in rhode island in early august and gave her a rubber guitar, but before she goes to lpss in mid september.

tis the damn season was explicitly written at long pond, on the second day of filming for folklore lpss (september 17)

champagne problems, gold rush, tolerate it, no body no crime, ivy, long story short, marjorie, evermore, and it’s time to go were all recorded at long pond studios, meaning taylor recorded them sometime between september 16-26, when she was there filming for the folklore lpss

sometime in early october, taylor leaves easter eggs for tolerate it and ivy in her interview with paul mccartney for rolling stone, confirming they were written by this time

coney island and cowboy like me were likely written in october/november, because they were recorded at marcus mumfords home studio in england (they also added joe playing the piano on evermore here). she does an interview from the studio for gma on november 25

right where you left me and happiness were the last two songs (happiness being The last), written one week before the album came out (this is extremely abnormal and insane of everyone involved)

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

It has been so interesting to see the shift in how vulnerable Taylor has been in her works specifically from Lover to Midnights. “The Archer” cracks the door open for songs like “mirrorball,” “this is me trying” and “mad woman” on folklore, “tolerate it” “evermore” and “it’s time to go” on evermore and “Anti-Hero,” “You’re On Your Own, Kid,” “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve” and “Dear Reader” on Midnights. And with the vaults you can see songs that are so vulnerable that didn’t make the cut and I don’t know if they would’ve seen the light of day had her masters not been sold and had she not felt some shift that signaled to her that it was okay to be more vulnerable and talk about her less pretty experiences in life.