#since its the only song we don't know the exact date of in 2016

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do we know anything about dress and/or so it goes 👀

so it goes was recorded in september 2017 and it makes me want to freak out because she had already released lwymmd as a single and depending on exactly when in september she had also already released ready for it. this woman is insane

Theres a bit of timeline fuckery with so it goes but not as much as people make it out to be: Oscar Görres, a cowritter on the song, said he got a call from Max Martin, Shellback, and Taylor asking to use his track after he’d just had a child. According to social media, he had a daughter in 2014/2015 and a son in September of 2017. The interview is a bit confusing, timeline-wise. On one had, Görres says “I’d just become a father,” but then he implies that Max and Shellback had already completed half the album. (For context, English isn’t his first language). I tend to believe the 2017 date since taylor said everything she wrote for reputation she wrote for reputation, not years in advance, and she just really wasn't writing songs in 2015.

DRESS IS A WHOLE THING THAT MAKES ME WANT TO SCREAM

so theres this stupid fucking video (affectionate) of taylor laughing in a studio with bleached hair and wearing a black mesh top and wearing this thin gold choker that she was super fond of in oct 2016 thats posted in all of making of a song trailors, and it's not any studio i recognize (i thought for a while it might be mxm studios in sweden but NO) and i thought "okay, dress sounds like it comes early in the process and doesn't have a studio credited (which taylor does all the time and it makes me SCREAM) maybe she recorded dress someplace weird" but NO dress was recorded in 2017!! JACK ANTONOFF I AM IN YOUR WALLS WHY ARE ALL THE SONGS YOU PRODUCE SO HARD TO FIND A DATE FOR (its because he respects his collaborators privacy and doesn't give out any personal details and instead talks about the artistic process when he's asked about what it was like working on songs and i love and appreciate him for that).

so really all we know about dress was that it was written in 2017. that and new years day are the two songs we know the least about, since we never got any behind the scenes footage of taylor recording them.