Nics

ig: @fearlesslynics | 22 | august heads

[fearlesslynics]

I just wanna say that folklore has helped me through one of the hardest days of my life. It was exactly what I needed to listen to, especially when I needed a good cry. I love you, @taylorswift. I had a marvelous time listening to this album. 🤍🍃🎻🥂✨

@taylorswift @taylornation

[taylorswift]

I got a list of names and yours is in… glittery gel pen with hearts drawn around it 😇

[taylorswift]

I’ve always said that the world is a different place for the heartbroken. It moves on a different axis, at a different speed. Time skips backwards and forwards fleetingly. The heartbroken might go through thousands of micro-emotions a day trying to figure out how to get through it without picking up the phone to hear that old familiar voice. In the land of heartbreak, moments of strength, independence, and devil-may-care rebellion are intricately woven together with grief, paralyzing vulnerability and hopelessness. Imagining your future might always take you on a detour back to the past. And this is all to say, that the next album I’ll be releasing is my version of Red.

Musically and lyrically, Red resembled a heartbroken person. It was all over the place, a fractured mosaic of feelings that somehow all fit together in the end. Happy, free, confused, lonely, devastated, euphoric, wild, and tortured by memories past. Like trying on pieces of a new life, I went into the studio and experimented with different sounds and collaborators. And I’m not sure if it was pouring my thoughts into this album, hearing thousands of your voices sing the lyrics back to me in passionate solidarity, or if it was simply time, but something was healed along the way.

Sometimes you need to talk it over (over and over and over) for it to ever really be… over. Like your friend who calls you in the middle of the night going on and on about their ex, I just couldn’t stop writing. This will be the first time you hear all 30 songs that were meant to go on Red. And hey, one of them is even ten minutes long.

Red (Taylor’s Version) will be out November 19.

https://taylor.lnk.to/RedTaylorsVersion

[taylorswift]

I can’t believe I get to work with Aaron Dessner. When Aaron came into my life, I was ushered into his world of free-flowing creativity where you don’t overthink, you just make music. His generosity of spirit and humility bleeds into every part of his life, and that’s why so many artists have jumped at the chance to be a part of his collaborative project, Big Red Machine. A song we wrote (which also features ⚡️Justin Vernon✨) is out today! It’s called Renegade. Thanks Aaron for asking me to show up at your party. bigredmachine.jagjag.co/renegade

[taylorswift]

It’s been one year since we escaped the real world together and imagined ourselves someplace simpler. With tall tall trees and salt air. Where you’re allowed to wear lace nightgowns that make you look like a Victorian ghost every day & no one will side eye you cause no one is around. It’s just you and your imaginary cabin and the stories you make up to pass the time. To say thank you for all you have done to make this album what it was, I wanted to give you the original version of The Lakes. Happy 1 year anniversary to Rebekah, Betty, Inez, James, Augustine, and the lives we all created around them. Happy Anniversary, folklore. 🌿

https://taylor.lnk.to/thelakesoriginal

[im-yours-to-lose]

“All these people think love’s for show but i would die for you in secret.”

—peace, 2020.

[tylorswift-deactivated20250623]

and when i felt like i was an old cardigan under someone’s bed you put me on and said i was your favorite

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

“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)

[nessa007]

TAYLOR SWIFT | FOLKLORE (2020)

[heartxtaylor]

Okay so I have now listened to folklore in full, and to be quite honest, I am nothing less than SHOOK.

Taylor has the depth to tell stories in various genres and if that’s not talent I don’t know what is. I discovered her in the Fearless era, screamed every lyric, & memorised every guitar riff. When she went full pop for 1989 I embraced it with my whole heart. She had the ability to go so dark and heavy production with rep, for her to then drop lover which was a total contrast. Light, delicate and daydreamy. Now she takes us to her most vulnerable work yet, with a complete diff sound again. How does she do it? I’ve no words. I think that’s what I love about her so much. She can switch genres, switch sounds, switch aesthetics. But one thing remains consistent and it’s that her songs so powerfully tell a story and take you on a journey. It’s all in the lyrics. She’s a gift.

Thank you & congratulations on another masterpiece @taylorswift. I love you ❤️🌿☁️

@taylornation

[jakeperalta]

TAYLOR SWIFT DISCOGRAPHY (2006-2020)

[iknowplacesclean]

“There goes the maddest woman this town has ever seen, she had a marvelous time ruining everything” is the energy I want for the rest of my life

[stumbleonhometomycats]

I’m having a break down over The Last Great American Dynasty!!! Taylor tells the story of Rebekah Harkness and all the trouble she caused in Watch Hill Rhode Island with her insane parties, feuds with neighbors and her general debauchery that was the talk of the town. And then she died and Holiday House sat quietly for 50 years, “free of women with madness, their men and bad habits” AND THEN Taylor has the audacity to say “And then it was bought by me // I had a marvelous time ruining everything” because Taylor was know for her crazy parties there and her “men and bad habits” and we know there were tabloids publishing stories of her fighting with people in town. I REALLY underestimated this song upon first listen. Holy SHIT.

[alchemicalalbum]

When you are young, they assume you know nothing

[fearlesslynics]

Proud is an understatement. I loved everything about this album. Taylor’s vocals just about ended me. The lyrics are so deep and so well-written. The #Cardigan music video—I’ve never seen anything more magical. It’s hard to imagine she did all these things under quarantine?? Her mind?????? Out of this universe. There’s so much to talk about! But I’m still so overwhelmed with everything I still need the time to process. Brb, will listen to the entire album again. I’m a mess, I’m in tears, but then again—we all are. I don’t know how to fully recover after this. @taylorswift @taylornation

[fearlesslynics]

the most beautiful lyrics ive ever heard

[jesicajones]

a friend to all is a friend to none