f o l k l o r e

{al} a figment of my worst intentions.

[folkloremusic]

Peace Lyric Parallels

Whether or not some of these are coincidental parallels, I’m in awe of how Taylor can reference parts of her lasting relationship across albums and have strong connections made to her previous lyrics!

You know that I'd swing with you for the fences, sit with you in the trenches - New Year’s Day

Give you my wild, give you a child, give you the silence that only comes when two people understand each other - You Are In Love

Family that I chose now that I see your brother as my brother - Call It What You Want

Is it enough? - Delicate

But there's robbers to the east, clowns to the West - Call It What You Want

I'd give you my sunshine, give you my best - Daylight

But the rain is always gonna come if you're standing with me - I Know Places

But I'm a fire and I'll keep your brittle heart warm - Call It What You Want

If your cascade ocean wave blues come - Dancing With Our Hands Tied

All these people think love's for show, but I would die for you in secret - Dancing With Our Hands Tied

The devil's in the details but you got a friend in me - It’s Nice to Have a Friend

Would it be enough if I could never give you peace? - Delicate

[taylorspoetry]

[sunsetbabe]

Favorite Taylor Swift Lyrics: All Too Well

[taylorswifh]

This is my last day of life before RED. Midnight. Tonight. (10/21/12)

[xcleanx]

[spendsmychange]

literally

[wasafairytale]

Wondering which album to listen to today

[taylors-polaroids]

Taylor Swift / e v e r m o r e

[whyisntketchupasmoothie]

can we appreciate that taylor unofficial comeback to country music was with a song that is solely about murdering a man who wronged her friend bc im obsessed 

[alltoowsll]

No, no body, no crime...

[thedistrictsleepsalonetonight]

you're laughing. I just told you taylor swift straight up murdered este's husband after he killed her and then framed his mistress and you're laughing

[tshifty]

A FUCKING WILLOW TREE AND IVY I HATE HER SO MUCH

[senatortedcruz]

we waited 3 years for Reputation, a little under 2 years for Lover, less than a year for Folklore, and by this rate we’ll have TS9 December. 

[likedaylighht]

THIS IS FROM AUGUST PLEASE I CANT

[biskywalkerr]

yes we are aware king

[denaerystargaryen]

“Folklore is best listened to alone, on a long walk at sunset, as the wind picks up and the memories and feelings rush in. You have to presume that was Swift’s intention. After exploring the upper reaches of pop maximalism on her recent projects, she makes a powerful about-face on Folklore, an album that’s as much an experiment with emotional delicacy as it is a lush take on the intersection of folksy storytelling and contemporary pop. Swift has been a public figure for well over a decade, but never before has she sounded so consistently vulnerable, so at home in her voice and so willing to play with sounds: hypnotic string plucks, angelic chorus hums, the unexpected gruffness of Bon Iver’s vocals on “Exile.” Her lyrics, meanwhile, are sharp and tinged with layered bittersweetness. Some trade on the nostalgia of adolescence, others on an imagined American mythology, but the best offer hazy, intimate glimpses into the messiness of relationships and their frayed endings: “I didn’t have it in myself to go with grace,” she sings on “My Tears Ricochet.” “No other sadness in the world would do,” she laments on “Hoax.” Folklore is Swift finding the beauty - and pop power - in stillness and reflection. Perhaps that’s the most we could hope to achieve in quarantine.”

— TIME Magazine ranks “folklore” as the best album released in 2020 (November 27th 2020)

[lovestory]

““And I just was thinking, ‘Okay so we have mirrorballs in the middle of a dance floor because they reflect light, they are broken a million times, and that’s what makes them so shiny.’ We have people like that in society too. They hang there, and every time they break, it entertains us. And… and when you shine a light on them, it’s this glittering, fantastic thing, but then a lot of the time when the spotlight isn’t on them they’re just still there, up on a pedestal, but nobody’s watching them. When the lights off, be okay. It was a metaphor for celebrity, but it’s also a metaphor for so many people who have to feel like– Everybody else feels like they have to be on for certain people. You have to be different versions of yourself for different people. Different versions at work, different versions around friends, different versions of yourself around different friends. Different version of yourself around family. Everybody has to be duplicitous, or feels that they have to in some ways, be duplicitous. And, that’s part of the human experience but it’s also exhausting. And you kind of learn that every one of us has the ability to become a shape-shifter. But what does that do to us? —– I realize, here I am writing all this music, still trying, and I know I have an excuse to sit back and not do something, but i’m not, and I can’t- and I don’t know why that is.””

— Taylor explaining ‘Mirrorball’ in folklore: the long pond studio sessions (via itsbrighternow)

[wildestdream]

my tears ricochet original lyrics