"We have, on this tour, constructed the exact folklore cabin that I had in my imagination, and we’ve taken it to Foxborough, Massachusetts! This was a pandemic album—this was actually an album that I started about two days into the world as we knew it shutting down. And we were all looking for methods of escapism during that time, and I mean, I’m not going to be like, ‘Oh, I wrote an album, I wrote two albums, and I did only constructive things,’ because that’s not true. I watched about 9 billion hours of TV and went through like—there was wine, there was a lot of wine. Yeah! But I also made a few albums. And folklore was one where I tried something new in that, you know, I’ve always kind of liked creating characters, creating fantasies, sort of telling other people’s stories, but with this album, this was the first time I really leaned into it fully as a concept album. And so I was like, you know, I want to create, sort of these fictional characters, and I’ll infuse my emotions into them because of course, but it was really fun to kind of take a break from the constant like, excruciatingly autobiographical songs. Like after awhile, when you put out an album, it just starts to feel like a public autopsy that’s livestreamed on the internet. You just kind of put out on album and you’re like, ‘Okay. I hope you like it, I’m just going to….’ It just feels vulnerable. So with folklore, it feels cool to create characters, and I created a character arc that I affectionally called the teenage love triangle. Do you know about this? If you don’t know about this, but it’s so cool if you do, it’s basically, there’s this teenage boy named James, and one summer, probably in the month of August, he really screws thins up with the love of his life, And he has to get her back, and he has to apologize, and he has to show up at this party she’s at, and he has to lay his feelings bare and tell the truth and say he’s sorry, and well, her name is Betty."
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