Taylor Swift - Folklore

Now she can be nominated for Album of the Year again next year.

'tis the damn season

keeping it edgy I see

actually v considerate of her to votesplit herself before our EOYs tbh

"excited for the piano magic cover" haha had to scrutinize the tracklist to get this joke.

That’s wild news... Respect.

it's time to go

OTM

lmao @ 'Respect'

hoping "dorothea" is Taylor's musical book report on Middlemarch

if you see "Daniel Deronda," you know she's been busy.

pissed this isn't titled folkmore

she finally admitted in an interview that she'd been inspired by jane eyre, which we all suspected listening to 'invisible string', so now all bets are off, george eliot could be in there, maybe a touch of fanny burney

it is obvious that she is a he!

She said "Hey babe...."

well damn!

It’s a very WASP-y Hanukkah!

This Long Pond Studio Sessions works nice with an edible.

This commercial came on tv and cracked me up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf61VOwW-Ck

This is pretty good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnz5LPIMYYo

I dig the new ("original") version of "The Lakes" that she released - the track is nice this way, with the strings running throughout. (The lyrics are v good, too; I hadn't registered them but looked them up.)

one of the best albums of all time

I think it hits the skids at "Mirrorball"; regains its footing with "Invisible String, "before immediately losing it again; and then has a few pretty good tracks before its shoulda-been closer, "Peace" (why she then stuck "Hoax" at the end, I'll never understand!)

(As a rough draft for "Evermore," it's an OK effort...)

Lol, "Seven" and "August" are probably my two favourite songs here.

Probably the only tracks I'd describe as clearly second tier are "Mad Woman" and "Hoax" (and "The Lakes" if it counts).

Yeah, I agree those are objectively the weakest tracks. My dislike for (say) “August” and “Mirrorball” is probably more personal to myself; I just really don’t care for those melodies.

(“Seven” is probably decent in a vacuum, but somehow “Mirrorball” sours my ears to it…)

"mirrorball" and "august" are some of the best tracks on this

obsessed with "mirrorball"

been listening to this album nonstop recently; i think when it came out i lacked the focus to listen to anything? it is super-good! she sounds like she's trying to sing like joni mitchell on "peace." some of her best lyrics ever on this album.

only second tier song to me is "cardigan"

Haha, see, I like that one

furthermore:

IM STILL A BELIEVER
BUT I DONT KNOW WHY
ILL NEVER BE A NATURAL
ALL I EVER DO IS TRY TRY TRY

...

IM STILL ON THAT TIGHTROPE
IM STILL TRYING EEEEEVERYTHING
TO KEEP YOU LOOKING AT ME

"seven" makes me so sad

just driving in my car, listening to "folklore," feeling feelings

some of her best lyrics ever on this album.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, June 6, 2023 9:30 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

100%. I love all the callbacks/internal references in the lyrics between these two albums. Been listening to this playlist a lot that combines them "in the story order"

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3IWCfag3xFRuQCtLirPTjP?si=e56567854f9b4306

Here's a decent/consumable summary of the mostly fan-driven narrative on this: https://lhstomtom.org/5235/arts-entertainment/a-detailed-guide-to-folklores-love-triangle-explained-through-some-of-taylor-swifts-folklore-and-evermore-songs/

until i pick my daughter up and she makes me play songs sung by Elmo

xp

Still obsessed with "Cowboy Like Me." The soft "ch" sounds in the lines "perched in the dark / telling all the rich folks anything they wanna hear" ... ugh.

I mean, yeah, the Evermore songs are on another level…

For me, Folklore has a similar hit-to-miss ratio as, say, Lover (in fact I slightly prefer that one)… whereas her best albums are no-skip affairs.

only second tier song to me is "cardigan"

lol sorry I just thought that was a pretty heavy song

Here's a decent/consumable summary of the mostly fan-driven narrative on this: https://lhstomtom.org/5235/arts-entertainment/a-detailed-guide-to-folklores-love-triangle-explained-through-some-of-taylor-swifts-folklore-and-evermore-songs/

I don't really get how it deepens one's appreciation of these songs by shoehorning them into this supposed "narrative," rather than doing the opposite (making the songs seem more trivial)... but to each their own! (It reminds me of how some Fiery Furnaces fans kept trying to find/invent a narrative throughline to each of their albums, even though that was only sort of / halfway / not at all a thing for all but one of them.)

WHAT
― brimstead, Tuesday, June 6, 2023 3:20 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I dunno! I find the speaker boring and smug! The slightest of the “cardigan” “August” “betty” triptych. Also “you drew stars around my scars” a rare lyrical misstep on the album

I still listen to it though

furthermore

IF IM DEAD TO YOU WHY ARE YOU AT THE WAKE?

CURSIN MY NAME

WISHIN I STAYED

LOOK AT HOW MY TEARS RICOCHET