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I can’t believe Taylor’s about to own 4/9 albums tonight

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“you know the greatest films of all time were never made”

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Taylor rhyming “standing in your cardigan” with “kissing in my car again”

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i love how it was a running joke in the fandom to just be like “new album at midnight!!” every time taylor did anything and then the one time we weren’t even thinking about it taylor was literally just like ts8 at midnight

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in one of the reviews on folklore they compared taylor to shakespeare and said it is widely known he also wrote some of his best work during a pandemic (the plague)…..it is proven again taylor > shakespeare

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wait why is it the softest thing in the universe that joe felt like bad blood playing in the cab was a significant enough memory to bring up to her at some point 

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thinking about the lyric “one single thread of gold tied me to you” in invisible string and the trail of golden light and sparkles that was tied to the note taylor got in the delicate music video that led her to the dive bar where she met with him..... her mind

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when taylor said “you know the greatest films of all time were never made” she was talking about the getaway car and cruel summer music videos

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This made me scream

WHY ARE WE NOT TALKING ABOUT THIS

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NO ITS REBECCA AND THE LAST GREAT AMERICAN DYNASTY

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Wow, we really went from, “They see right through me, can you see right through me, I see right through me,” and, “I hate my reflection for years and years,” to “I’m a mirrorball, and I’ll show you every version of yourself tonight.”

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“The only thing she said to me initially was that she didn’t want me to worry about anything that she’d done before and that I should just be myself — just inhabit the emotional space that you’re feeling or your musical and emotional space. And so I really didn’t endeavor to become Max Martin or whoever. I was just sort of being myself. And so was she. I think she’s incredibly versatile, obviously. A lot of these songs, they sound to me as though she could have been doing this all along in her career, this kind of sound or something. It’s not at all unnatural. In fact, it sounds incredible. This is all complete. It’s finished. It feels produced, but I think it will feel fairly organic or raw compared to past things. At some point, Taylor did articulate her vision for folklore. Other songs came after that. I was very inspired by her and what she’d been writing, and then I wrote more music, and she responded to that. We just started to push ahead…She’s just an absolutely brilliant artist. Allowing her to flourish like that, there was no pressure. She wasn’t trying to make something for anyone else except for herself in this time. I don’t think even her label knew. We were just working. That’s maybe the liberating. When you put something in the pipeline of the music industry and it takes months of prep — not to take anything away from that because it’s important, especially if you’re coming up and you don’t have an audience. But once you do, I think it’s nice to play around the form of it. The world is a different place right now, and nobody really knows. All the rules are being rewritten. Live music is not happening. And in a way, it’s nice to make something and just put it out because people are stuck at home and being able to hear something. This will be a really positive gift for her fans.”

— Aaron Dessner on folklore (x)

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I would just like to point out that this album’s addition makes her Spotify Complete Collection THIRTEEN HOURS LONG

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I would just like to point out that this album’s addition makes her Spotify Complete Collection THIRTEEN HOURS LONG

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THIS

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I would just like to point out that this album’s addition makes her Spotify Complete Collection THIRTEEN HOURS LONG

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The Love Triangle Storyline:

Cardigan/August/Betty

Lyrical continuity/Easter eggs:

- The cardigan

- The cobblestones

- The car

- The front porch

- Summer romances

Cardigan: betty’s perspective

- Seems to be the song of Betty’s perspective on her love, she thought it was all they needed in the moment, but then he left (with another woman: “chase two girls, lose the one”), but he returned to her front porch after summer ended

Notable lyrics: High heels on cobblestones/And when I felt like I was an old cardigan, Under someone's bed, You put me on and said I was your favorite/ Chase two girls, lose the one/To kiss in cars and downtown bars, Was all we needed, You drew stars around my scars, But now I'm bleedin'/peter losing Wendy/I knew you'd haunt all of my what-ifs/I knew you'd miss me once the thrill expired, And you'd be standin' in my front porch light, And I knew you'd come back to me

Betty: James’ perspective

This is the song that ties cardigan and August together mentioning things from both, which would makes sense as “James” is the one spending time With the two other participants of the long triangle, it seems Betty was the one he truly loved but he got swept away in a summer romance that he wasn’t fully committed to and later regretted, turning up on bettys porch to ask forgiveness

Notable lyrics:

The worst thing that I ever did, Was what I did to you/ In the garden would you trust me, If I told you it was just a summer thing?/ I was walking home on broken cobblestones/ When she pulled up like A figment of my worst intentions, She said "James, get in, let's drive", Those days turned into nights, Slept next to her, but I dreamt of you all summer long/ Will you kiss me on the porch?/Standing in your cardigan, Kissin' in my car again

August: The Summer lovers perspective

The woman James left with for the summer (she sings about pulling up in her car, which is retold in Betty from James’ perspective) tells her perspective of loving someone who was never hers for a summer, but when he went back to school he didn’t want her. He wasn’t “hers to lose” because he loved and then returns to Betty after their summer affair

Notable lyrics: August slipped away into a moment in time, 'Cause it was never mine/ Will you call when you're back at school?, I remember thinkin' I had you/So much for summer love and saying "us", 'Cause you weren't mine to lose/Remember when I pulled up and said "Get in the car"/