“Betty was… I just heard Joe singing the entire fully formed chorus of ‘betty’ from another room. And I was just like ‘Hello.’ It was a step that we would never have taken because why would we have ever written a song together? So this was the first time we had a conversation where I came in and I was like, ‘Hey, this could be really weird, and we could hate this, so because we’re in quarantine and there’s nothing else going on, could we just try to see what it’s like if we write this song together?’ So he was singing the chorus of it, and I thought it sounded really good from a man’s voice, from a masculine perspective. And I really liked that it seemed to be an apology. And I’ve written so many songs from a female’s perspective of wanting a male apology, that we decided to make it from a teenage boy’s perspective apologizing after he loses the love of his life because he’s been foolish.”
— — Taylor on how ‘betty’ came about and her and Joe deciding to write the song together (folklore: the long pond studio sessions)
I knew it!! Love the song even more!!!!!!!!
