But these lines can also be read as heartbreak—the kind that has seen many spouses pass away in quick succession after the other. —Lizzie Manno, “You knew the hero died so what’s the movie for?” (“hoax”), The bridge in “hoax” is a necessary look into how we lie to ourselves and lose focus, simply because it’s easier than devoting energy to check in with ourselves and make a purposeful change. —Ellen Johnson, “August slipped away like a bottle of wine / because you were never mine” (“august”), “august” captures the fleeting feeling of late summer. • James: The narrator of the song “Betty,” the one who wants to be forgiven. Someone’s secrets written in the sky for all to behold. An embittered tormentor showing up at the funeral of his fallen object of obsession. Peter is our cultural shorthand for immaturity and the struggle of leaving adolescence. Read on for a breakdown. She nearly slips into Lana Del Rey territory as her vocals take on a darker tone than usual, but soaring strings lift “seven” to new heights. Visuals that popped into my mind and piqued my curiosity. With her 2020 release Folklore, Swift tells the story of a teen love triangle. / Or lead me to the garden?” (“betty”), There’s harmonica on this song! —Ellen Johnson, “But if I just showed up at your party / Would you have me? Swift has done that with varying degrees of efficacy throughout her career, but a line from “this is me trying” was one of the first Swift lyrics that really made me feel what her online stans feel, even if only for a moment. A lot of us get told that we’re inadequate, insecure or even self-destructive, and Swift showing listeners that sometimes when she hears that, she doesn’t turn it into flowers and rainbows, but actually falls deeper down that hole by playing into others’ view of her, is exactly the kind of imperfection that young people need to hear about. —Ellen Johnson, “You drew stars around my scars but now I’m bleedin’” (“cardigan”), If this album had been treated to a more standard album cycle and schedule, “cardigan” would’ve been a single. —Ellen Johnson, “And I’ve been meaning to tell you / I think your house is haunted / Your dad is always mad and that must be why” (“seven”), “seven” is one of the strongest songs on folklore as Swift marries whimsical natural imagery to lush dream pop. When she adds “Your dad is always mad and that must be why,” I can’t help but let out a giggle. I’ve told these stories to the best of my ability with all the love, wonder, and whimsy they deserve. —Ellen Johnson, “The doctor had told him to settle down / It must have been her fault his heart gave out” (“the last great american dynasty”), There’s something both hilarious and cruel about old-timey medicine. —Lizzie Manno, “There goes the maddest woman this town has ever seen / She had a marvelous time ruining everything” (“the last great american dynasty”), History has an obsession with making women seem crazy, and sometimes men even successfully convince women that they are, but the best thing women can do is lean the hell into it. But one of the most well-documented and insane trends in primitive medicinal practices was a fundamental misunderstanding of women. Throughout history, people sought ways to “cure” women’s “hysteria” whether via lobotomy, hypnotism or just a really strong Martini. It seems more likely to be those lakes than the U.S.’s Great Lakes or another group of lakes because Taylor Swift is dating an Englishman, actor Joe Alwyn, and as you might have heard, she has spent time with him in England. • India: A country in South Asia that’s home to more than 1.3 billion people, and also, for the purposes of this song, a place that the young protagonists in “Seven” hope to escape to avoid a seemingly abusive father. Hands held through plastic. Planets? And you'll never see this message again. The lines between fantasy and reality blur and the boundaries between truth and fiction become almost indiscernible. Slate is published by The Slate Group, a Graham Holdings Company. People lit candles in their ears, ingested mercury and even took heroin for a cough. Battleships sinking into the ocean, down, down, down. Here she takes the point of view of a regretful teenage boy, which proves her empathy truly knows no bounds. The best of movies, TV, books, music, and more, delivered to your inbox three times a week. You’ve run out of free articles. “betty” also marks the first time Swift has said the word “fuck” multiple times in a song, which is noteworthy in and of itself (and also accurate for her teenage boy character study). Photo illustration by Slate. Swift directed the stunning video released alongside the album and shot by renowned Mexican cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto. Swift’s fans are grown up now, so there’s no reason she shouldn’t be allowed to curse as freely as she pleases. A misfit widow getting gleeful revenge on the town that cast her out. • St. Louis: The Missouri city Rebekah West Harkness came from. folklore, which features The National’s Aaron Dessner on production and songwriting and his brother Bryce on instrumentation, finds Swift strutting into bold new directions: dream pop, indie folk and soft rock. Lovestruck kids wandering up and down the evergreen High Line. Myths, ghost stories, and fables. In isolation my imagination has run wild and this album is the result, a collection of songs and stories that flowed like a stream of consciousness. The line “I’ve been meaning to tell you / I think your house is haunted” possesses a casual cleverness that proves Swift is at the top of her game here. Picking up a pen was my way of escaping into fantasy, history, and memory. • Wendy: The other main character in Peter Pan, the one who ultimately did the responsible thing and left childhood behind. Places! • Holiday House: The historic name for Swift’s mansion in Rhode Island, which dates back to Rebekah West Harkness’ years there. But the “In my defense, I have none” line is classic Swift wordplay, and the rhyme is just too good to ignore. It challenges us to analyze our motives and possibly reorganize our priorities, and sometimes, to realize that we may be in the wrong even when we don’t know it. As the last days of violent heat can feel unbearable during August and September, they’re also like one long golden hour for a year that’s quickly approaching colder temperatures and coming up on its end. If you value our work, please disable your ad blocker. the 1. Pastoral tales of the American countryside?). And sing about it, apparently! Will we pass it on, generation to generation, around a campfire? A single thread that, for better or for worse, ties you to your fate. And just how folkloric is this thing, anyway? Myths handed down through the decades? Thanks ^^ • Standard Oil: A now-defunct oil company that was dismantled for its monopolistic activities but not before robber barons used it to become filthy rich. 1. Speculation, over time, becomes fact. I don’t know, it could; maybe someone will think to save it because it literally says “folklore” on it? Swift herself, who was named after James Taylor. The tree swing in the woods of my childhood. This money was eventually passed on to heirs, and in the case of Standard Oil, much of it went to William Hale Harkness, Rebekah West Harkness’s second husband. It’s a tragic image of justice and accountability never being served in the human plane, but the ghost of his partner pledges a ruthless haunting, and if we’re being honest, that might even be a more satisfying, poetic form of revenge. Here is a list of the most memorable Taylor Swift quotes from Folklore lyrics. As to whether she’s a real person, there’s not a whole lot to go on—and yet that hasn’t stopped fans from speculating that she’s named after everyone from Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds’ third daughter (the other two are named James and Inez, which, see below) to Karlie Elizabeth Kloss to Rebekah Harkness, nickname Betty. Lyrically, she’s as sharp as ever, so we decided to list some of the most vivid lines from folklore for you here. • August: Many people’s least favorite month, making it a thematically appropriate time in which to set songs about failed love affairs, such as the Folklore song of the same name, “August.”.

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