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huntytay · 4 years
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Soooo glad everyone can now hear and understand that majesty of this song.
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‪folklore deluxe edition featuring bonus song “the lakes” is now available to stream/download 🌊
‪📷: Beth Garrabrant
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Stood on the cliffside screaming, "Give me a reason." Your faithless love's the only hoax I believe in. (at Malibu Rock) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDaO3yNDonK/?igshid=1q5ygovewq35e
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My folklore analases
First of all I want to say these are ever-changing, free flowing ideas that have occurred to me upon my first 10 or so listens through folklore. There are parallel universes in music where anything could be true or possible or right or wrong. Take things from this, leave things, add, rearrange, explore. It's all just folklore.
the 1
- this is just a friggen breakup bop that she wrote like it was nothing and just slaps. Gives me Mariah Carey vibes so hard.
- there are many contradictions to her own life: a "bus stop," "meeting a girl on the internet" so she is definitely being true to her word (of her insta post she released with the album - v important read) that she is leaning into universal stories with intimate specific heightened imagery.
- I DEFINITELY appreciate the nod to "ME!" when she says "in my defense I have none for Never Leaving Well Enough Alone." Brilliant.
cardigan
This is from Betty's perspective. The first of three in the trilogy.
First mention of cobblestones
Sensual politics gives me False God vibes, a lover track that hints hard at the alternative sound of this album.
"Dance under the street light" she loves street lights so much. This also calls to the lest phrase of Betty "stopped at a street light you know I miss you."
"Choose two girls, lose the one" a call to the cheating that "James" confesses to in Betty
"Kiss in cars" connects to Betty
Heartbeat on highline indicates the story takes place near NYC
the last great american dynasty
Taylor lives in a house in Rhode Island named "holiday house" by it's original owners, Rebekah & Billl, a socialite from the middle class and a Kennedy who has more money than God from oil. But when Bill died, she was a famous nobody. A trophy wife. She called her friends to come to the Rhode Island house (which a hundred years later would be where T would throw her high profile July 4th pool parties), but in the end she neglected the house and moved out of that life.
Taylor puts herself into Rebekahs shoes as the final verse and lyrics "I had a marvelous time ruining everything." Indicate she is leaving this party and moving on and out from that high profile, swimming in money and fame and the boys and the ballet, part of her life.
And where is she going, you ask?
exile
Okay this one is a stretch and is purely my interpretation.
- on the surface, this is a song about a relationship coming to a rough, slow end
- the film they think they've seen before is honestly prolly 500 days of summer lol. But also it could be every national regime in history:
there is more under the surface of this one.
She refers to her ex lover as her "town," her "crown," and her "homeland." Maybe this isn't a person, maybe it's America.
Bon Iver (as Taylor) "I never saw the warning signs"
Taylor (as America) "I gave so many signs".
"I'm leaving out the side door."
- she's not an American Queen or Miss Americana anymore. She's "not our problem anymore."
- she's in London, probably soon to have dual citizenship when she marries Joe.
- she's openly not proud of her country or pretending everything is fine.
- it's a breakup song with a country she worked so hard to win the love of. And it's amazing
My tears riccochet
Scott Borchetta falls asleep listening to her "stolen lullabies," wears the jewels she gave him as he buries her, runs around saving face, told her that when she was brave whenever she would fight, she will haunt him with her music forever, he may have her songs but she has him - he depends on her for his survival.
"I didn't have it in myself to go with grace."
Since last June Taylor has been screaming from the rooftops about her music being stolen and she just couldn't leave big machine quietly. But now the world is behind her and supporting her, and that's how her tears riccochet - they might just come back around to bite him in the ass.
mirrorball
Take a moment to Google Taylor's dress at the 2018 AMA'S. This show was:
- The day after the rep tour closed
- the day after she came out as a Democrat on insta.
- the day she gave us the first Lover Easter Egg "I'm even more excited for the Next Chapter."
If you'll recall, this Easter egg led us to The Story of Us, time stamp 4:26 and we got our first single ME! on 4/26
Now, this dress also ended up being the poster for her doc, Miss Americana.
This dress also makes her a literal disco ball. The shoes that she's wearing (which can be seen in the final moments of miss americana as the archer plays), make her literally stand on her tip toes.
This is to the real fans aka the "masquerade revelers" - we aren't like the regulars. For us, she will take all her broken pieces and let light shine on her so that we can receive it. She will give us her soul in music because she knows we need it and has the spotlight on her so she can reach us this way.
I'm kind of theorizing this will be the song she floats over the crowd during her next tour (in year 2045).
"I'll show you every version of yourself tonight."
This is the job of an artist like Taylor. She has to dip into the world's consciousness (or in her case, Tumblr) and reflect it back at them. She uses her music to reflect our experience. She has always grown up with her fans and listeners and it takes a lot of sacrifice to be in the middle - in the light - in the center of the dance floor.
But, she does it for us. Because she loves us and knows we see her and get it.
seven
"Picture me in the weeds"
"You're always dad is always mad."
"I used to scream ferociously any time I wanted."
"Cross my heart, won't tell no other"
"Passed down like folk songs, our love lasts so long"
- this is obviously a song about Taylor being seven in Pennsylvania and drifts into a folktale about a lifelong friendship
- it could almost me from the perspective of Jenny in Forrest Gump
- it's a song from one friend to another who is hurting saying "I'm here with you, let's pretend we are kids."
august
- the perspective of whoever James cheated with, wishing she was with James
- could be Inez but seems like Inez is just a nosy bitch
-"wanting was enough"
-"so much for summer love" - James will later ask Betty if she would believe that their affair was a summer thing.
- "august sipped away like a bottle of wine, cause you were never mine."
- "so much for summer love and saying us cause you were mine to lose."
- this is a nostalgic magical song about being young and just so in hopeless love
- a jack antonoff classic that fits perfectly next to out of the woods, getaway car, and cruel summer.
The car references and "Meet me behind the mall" seems to allude to the parking lots in illicit affairs and I kinda feel that song is part of the universe this story lives in as well.
this is me trying
I kinda think these lyrics maybe were meant for lover - the "classmates" metaphors match the imagery in that album pretty seamlessly. She also was on the cover of EW with a button that said "I tried" so maybe she was thinking about it.
It's just about resilience. Continuing to show up even when youve made mistakes and aren't sure if you will again. In a relationship or as an artist.
illicit affairs
"Leave the perfume on the shelf that you picked out just for him"
- this is a song from the perspective of the mistress of someone who is in a relationship with a woman
- it could definitely be about Karlie (you can Google theories about their alleged affair) but I think it's probably just a meditation on being Olivia Pope wanting Fitz in the early eps. But if Fitz was married to a man. Yeah, this is a gay song.
invisible string
This is a love song about Joe, who has always been her golden boy.
Joe worked at a yogurt shop when he was 16
He met her during 1989 "bad was the blood of the song in the cab" on his first to her in Los Angeles (presumably near "sunset and vine," if gorgeous is any indication).
Also I'm sure every waitress she's ever had has told her she looks like Taylor Swift because she is.
She references "the lakes" in this song which is the name of the bonus track we haven't heard yet.
She references the dive bar from the first verse of delicate.
"Time, mystical time
Cutting me open, then healing me fine" is just a quintessential Taylor lyric. Reminds me of All Too Well's "Time won't fly it's like I'm paralyzed by it. Like to be my old self again but I'm still trying to find it."
mad woman
Honestly this is just a song about shitty standards we hold women to. I personally think about AOC or Hillary but take your pick.
We also have witches, fire, etc - def calls back to I did something bad.
Also reminds me of that moment in miss americana where she's like "I'm sorry did I raise my voice in my own house about my music that I wrote about my life?"
Oh um also this song mayyyy be about Scooter Braun and his asshole wife but I don't like to think about him so I'm not gonna go into it.
epiphany
- I want to make a petition to have this be featured in the final episode of Grey's Anatomy
- the first verse has some WWII imagery perhaps calling back to get grandfather in the military
- then it becomes about doctors and the Frontline workers. The ones with their hands on the plastic having to care so deeply and intimately for their patients while simultaneously having to emotionally distance themselves.
- it's interesting that this song isn't an epiphany itself, it's about Frontline workers Wishing for an epiphany to come. As Gaga says, "make it all make sense."
betty
Betty is the last of the trilogy
Each is from the perspective of a different character "Inez, James, and Betty" this one is from the perspective of James.
In an ingenious dedication, these three characters are named after Blake livelys kids (Betty previously veiled).
It is a queer anthem in that Taylor is singing from the perspective of a boy but the song is itself about a straight relationship
This is a jack antonoff classic which goes right alongside out of the woods, getaway car, and cruel summer.
Worth noting that Taylor did a cover of "Bette Davis Eyes," another song from a male perspective about a female. Another gorgeous story song about a betty!
The long and short of it is that in August, while Betty was meeting someone behind the mall, and getting sipped away like a bottle of wine, James was having his own summer fling.
"Would you trust me if I told you it was just a summer thing?"
And the trilogy ends with some of Taylor's best lyrics of all time:
standing in your cardigan
kissing in my car again.
(Wowowow)
Stopped at a street light
You know I miss you.
peace
The first lines of this are so important. Very much a dedication to this time. Then it gets so so personal
She again brings up the devil which is maybe a reference to Joe as she did in cruel summer
Robbers to the east clowns to the west.
Almost a hamilton reference repeating "would it be enough"
hoax
I'd say this song is sprinkles of every story throughout this album and beyond. There doesn't seem to be one cohesive narrative it's more of a superconscience of this time.
"Your faithless loves the only hoax I believe in"
"Your sleight of hand" - she often used magic imagery in reference to Joe
Could also be about Scott Borchettas "love" for her over the last 13 years of making records together.
Also Joe is almost always blue
The hero died so what's the movie for ("all of my heroes died all alone")
You knew the password so I let you in the door (ready for it mv reference where Joe's bday is the password)
I am ash from your fire - she uses this metaphor a lot in this album. I think she means that fire and ash are the same entity but one is alive and one is dead. Soulmates are stuck together like fire, meaning when they die they will be the same ash forever.
One of the major ash/ fire references is at the beginning of my tears ricy, further evidence that this song could be about Scott.
"You knew you won so what's the point of keeping score" perhaps a miss americana reference "someday we're gonna win)
"No other sadness in the world would do"
I don't know how I feel about this being the last lyric on the album compared to the first "I'm doing good I'm on some new shit), but it's just so real. We all are sad and if you are lucky enough to do it with people you love, you have to value that over anything else.
the lakes
"is it romantic how all of my elegies eulogize me?"
If you haven't heard this bonus track, figure out a way to. This is about Taylor walking away from all of it hiding with the love of her life and getting the hell out of the spotlight.
Lots of callbacks lyrically to the entire album and wraps it up in this stunning Aftershock of an epilogue.
@taylorswift these are my thoughts do you like dem?
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huntytay · 9 years
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It wasn't in our cards, you said. The timing isn't writ, you said.
This moment wasn't it.
Wasn't ours. You aren't mine and we won't be us.
You've got the time and I dare not trust even one of the million moments.
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huntytay · 9 years
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"Oh my God! Look at that face. You look like my next mistake."
- Taylor Swift
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♥ / I know you better than anyone.
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huntytay · 9 years
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But boys will be boys, oh yes they will. They don’t wanna define it.
I Do Not Hook Up - Kelly Clarkson
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“The inspiration that I found in that city is kind of hard to describe and hard to compare to any other force of inspiration I’ve ever experienced in my life. It’s like an electric city.”
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