“I think that working with Aaron, the music that we were making, he was writing instrumentals and I was writing the melodies and the lyrics. And what ended up happening was, I think we just gravitated towards what both of us simultaneously felt made us feel cozy, which was nature. You know, so many people during the pandemic were going on hikes and trying to go outside because nature symbolized this strange comfort all of a sudden, where everything was completely off-kilter and nobody could really figure out how to get our bearings. So, we all went outside and we all tried to go camping or tried to go hiking or go on drives. And, I think that Aaron’s music and my music both represented that feel, with Aaron’s such an amazing instrumentalist and his instrumentals that he was writing were all sort of dreamscapes. It’s not that this album is all about the forest and the woods and stuff, there’s hints of that and there’s a lot of um, kind of what I wanted to do with ‘folklore’ is I wanted it to represent spring and summer and when I made ‘evermore’, I knew that I wanted to fill in the rest of the seasons of the year and have it reflect fall and winter. So that’s another element that nature came into it.”
Taylor Swift on the nature aesthetic of ‘folklore’ and ‘evermore’ [Apple Music Awards 2020 interview, December 15, 2020]
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