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folklore (2020) (Music)
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Folklore (stylized lowercase as folklore) is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released at midnight on July 24, 2020, after being announced with no prior marketing only the morning before. The album was written throughout the spring and while Swift was in quarantine during the COVID-19 Pandemic.The project carved a new path for Swift's discography. It has a folksy, alternative sound, as contrasted with her earlier country work and more recent Synth-Pop. It likewise marked a shift in her lyrical content, focusing more on fictional storytelling and worldbuilding rather than the personal narratives that Swift had previously been known for. Swift continued to work with her frequent collaborator and producer Jack Antonoff, but brought some new faces to her team, including Bon Iver as her only feature and brothers Bryce and Aaron Dessner from The National as writers and producers. The album also feature prominent writing (and production) credit of William Bowery, who was later revealed by Taylor to be her boyfriend at the time Joe Alwyn.While folklore lacked the pop radio appeal of her earlier works, it was still an immense commercial and critical success and demonstrated her continued commitment to exploring new artistic avenues. This new path exposed Swift to a host of new fans and led to a general reevaluation of her entire oeuvre. folklore was named Album of the Year at the 63rd Grammy Awards, making Swift the first female artist to win the award three times.Less than five months after its release, Swift once again announced a surprise midnight album: folklore's "sister record," evermore, which she described as a continuation of the same project and which shares many lyrical and technical similarities with its predecessor. | |
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Love Is a Drug | |
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Love Is a Drug: "illicit affairs" is a Love Martyr song about "A drug that only worked / The first few hundred times." | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: Undoubtedly the darkest album she had ever done. The album has multiple songs with Precision F-Strike, exploration of heavy themes like death, abuse, alcoholism and sexism, and a lack of definitive happy endings for the characters involved. | |
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The Mistress | |
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The Mistress: The narrator of "illicit affairs" has been in a secret relationship with her married lover for quite a while. Much of the song is about how the sneaking around and always being in second place is really wearing her down, but she loves them too much to end it. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: "seven" drops its title in the first verse: "betty" is the first word in the song (and its subject), rather than part of the hook. | |
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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Poor Communication Kills: Miscommunication is one of the major problems in "exile." | |
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all lowercase letters | |
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all lowercase letters: The album and all of the tracks are stylized in all lower case letters. | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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Stealth Pun: "the 1", "seven" and "august" are all arranged to position in the album to exploit their number-related title. | |
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Ambiguous Situation | |
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Ambiguous Situation: While "cardigan," "august," and "betty" are all part of the same story, the way other songs on the album tie in (or if they do at all) is completely up for listeners' interpretation. Did James outright cheat on Betty, or were they not really "together" when James had his fling with “August”? | |
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Childhood Friends | |
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Childhood Friends: "seven" is written to the singer's childhood best friend, whom she has fallen out of touch with but still remembers with great fondness. | |
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Family of Choice | |
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Family of Choice: "the 1" states that the subject of the narrator has one and the narrator reminiscing about celebrating with her subject chosen family and wish she could have been a part of that family: | |
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Nouveau Riche | |
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Nouveau Riche: Rebekah Harkness in "the last great american dynasty" came into her fortune by marrying the heir to an oil baron. She has trouble fitting in with the Old Money "Rhode Island set." | |
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New Sound Album | |
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New Sound Album: Swift's previous albums range anywhere from pure country to pure pop to a hybrid between the two. folklore, on the other hand, is classified as an alternative album and is considerably more low-tempo and minimalist than her work in other genres. The closest thing she'd ever done to it was "Safe and Sound", a collaboration with The Civil Wars created for the first Hunger Games movie. | |
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AlternativeIndie | |
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Alternative Indie: It was Taylor's first album to be classified as "Alternative" rather than country or pop, and the visual and sonic aesthetic incorporate elements commonly associated with soft indie pop, but it's difficult to make a case for such a mainstream artist being either. | |
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Immediate Self-Contradiction | |
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Immediate Self-Contradiction: In "betty," James does this twice. "Betty, I won't make assumptions about why you switched your homeroom / But I think it's 'cause of me." On the subject of his infidelity: | |
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In Medias Res | |
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In Medias Res: The "Teenage Love Triangle" trilogy is arranged on the album on opposite order, with "cardigan" is clearly about an adult Betty, while "betty" takes place in high school, and "august" is about James' unnamed mistress reminiscing about their romance after it's over. | |
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Easter Egg | |
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Easter Egg: The video for "cardigan" contains a picture of Swift’s grandfather Dean in his military uniform. His service in the South Pacific inspired "epiphany". | |
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Concept Album | |
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Concept Album: Loosely organized around the topic of "folklore"—stories that get told and retold and morphed as they travel. | |
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Burn the Witch! | |
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Burn the Witch!: Used metaphorically in "mad woman": | |
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Double Meaning | |
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Double Meaning: "seven" uses the phrase "hit my peak" to refer both to hitting the highest point in the arc of a swing and having the best time of your life. "mad woman" uses mad in both of its senses (angry and insane) simultaneously. A madwoman, it suggests, is often simply a mad woman. | |
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Ambiguous Ending | |
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Ambiguous Ending: Does Betty takes James back? Accordig to Word of God, yes. Despite being the first of the three songs to appear, the storytelling of "cardigan" happens 20 or 30 years later, as Betty recalls the separation and enduring optimism of her relationship with James. | |
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Tranquil Fury | |
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Tranquil Fury: Part of what makes "mad woman" so disquieting is how Taylor delivers it in a completely calm, even tone, even as she spits venom. The song scorns those that treat women like they're crazy and irrational, when in reality they're justifiably angry over being mistreated. Threats are delivered serenely, too: | |
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Album Closure | |
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Album Closure: Out of keeping with her normal pattern, Swift concludes folklore with its saddest song: "hoax," a quiet piano ballad about feeling broken by a lover's betrayal but staying anyway. | |
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Big Fancy House | |
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Big Fancy House: Swift's Rhode Island beach mansion, Holiday House, features heavily in "the last great american dynasty", which is about its previous owner, a Nouveau Riche woman who didn't fit in with the Old Money. The song mentions how she turned the respectable home into quite the party place, "[filling] the pool with champagne and [swimming] with the big names". | |
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Downer Ending | |
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"hoax" is the album's Downer Ending note not counting the deluxe edition bonus track that says, "You knew the hero died, so what's the movie for?" | |
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Their First Time | |
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Their First Time: "august" implies that the unnamed girl and James lost their virginity to each other. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: The ending of "betty" delivers one of these: "I know I miss you... standing in your cardigan" revealing that the subject of the song is the narrator of "cardigan", Betty. | |
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Wise Beyond Their Years | |
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Wise Beyond Their Years: Betty in "cardigan" observes that "When you are young, they assume you know nothing," then says she foresaw all the twists and turns of her romance with James concluding, "I knew everything when I was young." That's in stark contrast to James who, in his POV song, uses his youth as an excuse: "I'm only seventeen / I don't know anything." | |
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Red String of Fate | |
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Red String of Fate: The concept behind “invisible string,” although here the string is gold. | |
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The Grovel | |
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The Grovel: All of "betty" is James groveling to the titular character for her to forgive and take him back. He admits he's cheated on and hurt her, argues that his fling with another girl wasn't anything serious, and says he misses Betty and wants to make it up to her. | |
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It's All My Fault | |
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It's All My Fault: "the 1" uses a variation: In "betty," James admits: | |
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy | |
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: "the 1" has the narrator dreaming about her former lover, whom she still misses, being happy without her: | |
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Last Disrespects | |
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Last Disrespects: "my tears ricochet" is about someone who made the protagonist's life a living hell coming to their funeral as a proverbial last middle finger. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: Implied in "hoax." Heavily implied in "this is me trying": | |
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Anti-Love Song | |
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Anti-Love Song: "august" took this up to eleven, with every verses and chorus started by expressing the singer's longing for the guy... Only to subverted at the end of verse by concluding that "You aren't mine to lose". "illicit affairs" starts with the singer setting up all the way the she and her love interest conducts an affair... right before revealing that all the lies and secrecy has eaten away and exhausted her for the rest of the song and ended the song stating that she can't end the relationship because she loves the man so much. | |
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Location Song | |
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Location Song: Played with. "the last great american dynasty" is about both Rebekah Harkness and Swift herself, whose connection is the beachside house they both owned, fifty years apart. | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot: Apparently averted. In stark contrast to Swift's previous albums, which made her notorious for writing about her real interpersonal relationships, folklore is supposedly composed of stories that aren't about her. Some, like "the last great american dynasty," tell stories which have a clear connection to her life, but the inspiration behind many of the other tracks has been the subject of much speculation. | |
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Colorful Song | |
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Colorful Song: "invisible string" mentions green grass, teal shirt, gold leaves, "the blues and then purple pink skies," and, of course, "one single thread of gold" that tied the narrator to her lover. | |
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Perspective Flip | |
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Perspective Flip: "cardigan," "august," and "betty" give the perspectives of each of the three teens involved in a Love Triangle. | |
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Deconstruction | |
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Deconstruction: "illicit affairs" deconstruct being The Mistress, showing that the all the sneaking up and lies eventually worn out the woman despite still loving the married man so much. | |
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Destructive Romance | |
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Destructive Romance: The relationship described in "hoax" is obviously not a good one, with the narrator hinting that her lover is cheating on her, implying she has suicidal feelings because of her lover's behavior, and outright admitting she's unhappy—but still not wanting to leave, because if she's going to be unhappy, she'd rather do it with someone than without. Depending on how you interpret "illicit affairs," it could also be seen as unhealthy, as the narrator clearly hates the sneaking around, and the final verse sounds a lot like a vicious argument. "exile" implies that the two lovers have extreme difficulties communicate with each other and the male singer (Bon Iver) ignores the signs that their relationship isn't working as well as willing to beat up guys for the female singer. The female singer on her part runs away without any words to the male singer. | |
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Children Are Innocent | |
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Children Are Innocent: A heartbreaking example in "seven." The narrator notices that her friend's father is angry all the time . . . and assumes it must be because their house is haunted. | |
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Truck Driver's Gear Change | |
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Truck Driver's Gear Change: The last chorus of "betty" shifts up a key to capture the singer's more hopeful mood and to make it sound like a Fearless-era country pop tune. | |
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Unfocused During Intimacy | |
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Unfocused During Intimacy: Implied in "betty": | |
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Tuckerization | |
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Tuckerization: James, Inez, and Betty are named after Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively’s three daughters. | |
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Never My Fault | |
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Never My Fault: "mad woman" calls out men who blame their own poor behavior and inadequacies on the women in their lives. | |
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Production Throwback | |
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Production Throwback: The previous album's song "ME!" says, "I never leave well enough alone," self-deprecatingly but proudly. "the 1" says, "In my defense, I have none / For never leaving well enough alone" in It's All My Fault fashion. "betty" is reminiscent of Swift's early country work—songs like "Love Story" from Fearless—with its harmonica, jaunty chorus, and teenage heartache lyrics. It even has a Truck Driver's Gear Change in the final chorus! | |
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Delayed Narrator Introduction | |
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Delayed Narrator Introduction: “the last great american dynasty” tells the story of Rebekah Harkness’s life in the third person until the bridge: | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: "cardigan," "august," and "betty" contain numerous subtle internal references that clue the listener into their connection to each other. "cardigan" says, "Chase two girls, lose the one," setting up the Love Triangle. "betty" and "cardigan" both mention walking on cobblestones and kissing in cars. Both also mention James coming back to Betty, standing on her porch, and saying he misses her. The incident of the unnamed mistress pulling up and telling James to get in the car is discussed in the bridges of "august" and "betty." "betty" mentions the song's subject "standing in [her] cardigan." | |
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Silly Love Songs | |
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Silly Love Songs: "invisible string" plays this the most straight, with the narrator recount all the events that brought her and her love interest together by the string of fate starting from their teenage years. This is the song most explicitly based on Swift and Alwyn's relationship, containing details from their personal lives. "peace" is about the narrator recounting all the things that threaten their relationship but also all the things she is willing to give him. Finally, the narrator asking her love interest if all the things she offers would be enough "if [she] could never give [them] peace?". The narrator in "the lakes" wants to escape with her muse from the business of the world to a quiet nature retreat. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: "invisible string" is a Silly Love Song sandwiched between the very angsty Deconstruction of being The Mistress in "illicit affairs" and the incredibly rageful "mad woman" that decries sexism. | |
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Amicable Exes | |
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Amicable Exes: Referenced in "invisible string" to illustrate how much the narrator has grown and matured over the years. She used to hold grudges against ex-boyfriends who hurt her, but has now let go of her anger enough to send gifts for their children. | |
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Abusive Parents | |
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Abusive Parents: Heavily implied in "seven": | |
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Break-Up Song | |
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Break-Up Song: "exile," a duet between both parties to a failed relationship. It's not clear whether "my tears ricochet" is about a breakup, a literal death, or something else entirely (such as, like some fans believe, Taylor's departure from Big Machine Records and long fight for ownership of her discography), but it can certainly be interpreted as one of these. | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal: The (real) house in "the last great american dynasty" is named "Holiday House." | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: While the majority of this album is much more subtle than Swift's usual works towards people she dislikes, the "peace" lyric video gave us the most obvious dig. Especially notable since the person she insulted wasn't even the main subject of the song. | |
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Love Triangle | |
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Love Triangle: "cardigan," "betty," and "august" are each written from the perspective of one of the teenagers in a tumultuous love triangle: Betty, James, and the unnamed girl James had an affair with. "cardigan" spells this out with the line, "Chase two girls, lose the one." | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: Swift's first album to be given an explicit content label, with five songs considered explicit. "mad woman" and "betty" use the word "fuck", "the last great american dynasty" contains "bitch", and "the 1" and "peace" use "shit". "mad woman" particularly is the only one that uses it degradingly and almost viciously. | |
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Patriot in Exile | |
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Patriot in Exile: The duet song "exile", comparing two ex lovers relationship to this trope: | |
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Self-Referential Track Placement | |
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Self-Referential Track Placement: Three of the album's tracks are arranged in numerological order. Track #1 is called "the 1," track #7 is called "seven," and track #8 is called "august" (August being the eighth month of the year). | |
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Folk Music | |
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Folk Music: Sort of. It's hard for an artist with the Billboard stats Taylor has to release what could be considered "authentic" folk, and the album's production is a lot more polished that usual for the genre. But it manages to capture the ethos and concerns of folk brilliantly. | |
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One-Woman Song | |
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One-Woman Song: "betty", named for the object of the singer's affection. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: "cardigan" references the ending of Peter Pan. In "invisible string", the repeated use of the phrase [X] is the [Y] of ("Green was the color of the grass", "Cold was the steel of my axe", "Gold was the color of the leaves") is almost certainly one to the most famous and often-covered Appalachian folk songs, "Black is the Color (Of My True Love's Hair)". | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: "mirrorball" has a lot of lines where Swift admits to her vulnerability and her great effort to keep people to pay attention to her. | |
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Song of Many Emotions | |
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Song of Many Emotions: "peace" has Swift first lament her journey to maturity and the downsides of celebrity, then proclaims her love for her significant other before asking if that would make up for never giving him peace. | |
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No Name Given | |
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No Name Given: The girl James has a summer fling with is never named by the narrative. | |
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Misery Builds Character | |
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Misery Builds Character: In "the 1," the narrator says, "And if you never bleed, you're never gonna grow," trying to justify the pain of losing her love. | |
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Deliberately Monochrome | |
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Deliberately Monochrome: The album's cover is achromatic, effecting a sense of age (like folk songs and tales) and loneliness (like the solitude it was written in). | |
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One-Word Title | |
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One-Word Title: Like most of Swift's albums, folklore has one. "cardigan," "exile," "mirrorball," "seven," "august," "epiphany," "betty," "peace," and "hoax," also have them. | |
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Come with Me If You Want to Live | |
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The incident of the unnamed mistress pulling up and telling James to get in the car is discussed in the bridges of "august" and "betty." | |
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Love Nostalgia Song | |
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Love Nostalgia Song: In "the 1," the singer reminisces about an old love and wonders what could have happened if they had stayed together. "august" looks back at a summer romance which would never have worked out but which the singer still misses: | |
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Breakout Character | |
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Breakout Character: "the lakes" was originally a deluxe release. However, the song's popularity has caused Swift to release the original version of the song for the 1 year anniversary of the album. | |
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You Can't Go Home Again | |
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You Can't Go Home Again: In "my tears ricochet," the narrator laments: | |
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Recovered Addict | |
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Recovered Addict: The narrator of "this is me trying" is implied to be an alcoholic in recovery. | |
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Album Title Drop | |
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Album Title Drop: The word "folklore" never appears in the album, but "seven" includes several variations on the line: | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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Lyrical Dissonance: "seven" is set to light piano tune. The lyric of the song is about the narrator begging her childhood friend to not forget her while reminiscing about their relationship and innocently plotting the friend's escape from their abusive father. | |
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The Scapegoat | |
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The Scapegoat: Rebekah in "the last great american dynasty" gets blamed for everything, up to and including her husband's untimely death by heart attack. | |
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Ironic Episode Title | |
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Ironic Episode Title: "peace" expresses a lot of tumultuous emotions as the narrator warns her beloved that she can never give them peace. | |
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Switching P.O.V. | |
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Switching P.O.V.: In the "teenage love triangle" trilogy, every character gets their turn in telling the story: "cardigan" is narrated by Betty, "betty" is James groveling to her, and "august" is James' unnamed mistress reminiscing about their past romance. | |
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Innocent Inaccurate | |
| folklore (2020) (Music) / int_e598d4ac | comment |
Innocent Inaccurate: "seven" says the narrator's friend cries and hides in the closet, and their father is always mad; the narrator is too young to know anything about Abusive Parents and thinks this is because their house is haunted. | |
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Grief Song | |
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Grief Song: "epiphany," a song about the COVID-19 pandemic. | |
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Love Martyr | |
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Love Martyr: The narrator of "illicit affairs" admits she's this. The narrator of "hoax" knows her lover is "faithless" and is obviously very broken up about it, but stays anyway. | |
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Letters 2 Numbers | |
| folklore (2020) (Music) / int_f0897540 | comment |
Letters 2 Numbers: "the 1." Bonus as it's the first track on the album. | |
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Female Misogynist | |
| folklore (2020) (Music) / int_f1ac9897 | comment |
Female Misogynist: Discussed in "mad woman". "Women like hunting witches too..." | |
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War Is Hell | |
| folklore (2020) (Music) / int_f1d6144a | comment |
War Is Hell: The first verse of "epiphany" draws on Swift's grandfather's traumatizing experiences as a soldier in World War II. | |
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Platonic Declaration of Love | |
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Platonic Declaration of Love: "seven" says, "Love you to the moon and to Saturn" to a childhood friend. | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending | |
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While all of Taylor's previous albums end on a happy or bittersweet note, this album closes out with "hoax," a very sad and emotional track about a toxic relationship. | |
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Textless Album Cover | |
| folklore (2020) (Music) / int_f8cbda13 | comment |
Textless Album Cover: Neither the standard cover nor any of the eight special editions has any words. | |
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Bittersweet 17 | |
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Bittersweet 17: The main characters in the “teenage love triangle” plot are 17 years old and experiencing heartbreak for the first time. | |
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"Back to Camera" Pose | |
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"Back to Camera" Pose: The inner artwork is a monochrome photograph of Swift's back while she looks out at a grassy field. It is appropriate for the melancholy, self-reflective tone of the album's songs. | |
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