Post by Admin on Nov 27, 2020 22:22:20 GMT
On Wednesday, Disney+ released Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions, an intimate concert film in which Taylor Swift performs all 17 songs from her eighth album in order for the first time.
Throughout the film, we see Taylor connect with cowriters Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner to give some insight into the creative process behind the songs on Folklore, the stories they tell, and the emotions they felt while writing.
It's safe to say Taylor dropped some unexpected info about Folklore over the course of the film — so let's take a look at some of the most fascinating things we learned...
1. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, Taylor was unable to record in a studio for the first time in her career, so ended up building a makeshift studio in her bedroom.
2. In Taylor's mind, Betty and James of the Folklore teenage love triangle — "Cardigan," "August," and "Betty" — ultimately ended up together.
"In my head, she ends up with him, but he really put her through it," Taylor explained.
Going on to talk about the protagonist of "August," she said: "She seems like she's a bad girl, but really she's not a bad girl. She's really a sensitive person who really fell for him, and she was trying to seem cool and seem like she didn't care because that's what girls have to do."
"The idea that there's some bad, villain girl in any situation who takes your man is actually a total myth, because that's not usually the case at all," Taylor went on. "Everyone has feelings and wants to be seen and loved."
3. Taylor admitted she's been wanting to write a song about Rebekah Harkness — the eccentric widow of the heir to an oil fortune, who used to live in Taylor's Rhode Island home — since around 2013.
"I'd never found the right way to do it, because there was never a track that felt like it could hold an entire story of somebody's life and move between generations," Taylor explained.
She likens "The Last Great American Dynasty" to classic country songs that seemingly tell a story about someone else, but it turns out in the end to be a story about the artist themselves.
4. She finally confirmed the identity of her mystery cowriter on "Exile" and "Betty" after months of speculation and theories. Like many fans guessed, it's her boyfriend, Joe Alwyn.
Taylor explained that Joe "plays piano beautifully," and wrote the piano melody that appears at the opening of "Exile" out of the blue, alongside the lyrics to Bon Iver's first verse.
As for "Betty," Taylor said she heard him randomly singing the chorus, fully formed, from a different room one day.
She said: "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?'"
5. Taylor revealed that she began work on Folklore with "My Tears Ricochet," which she wrote completely alone.
Throughout the film, we see Taylor connect with cowriters Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner to give some insight into the creative process behind the songs on Folklore, the stories they tell, and the emotions they felt while writing.
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It's safe to say Taylor dropped some unexpected info about Folklore over the course of the film — so let's take a look at some of the most fascinating things we learned...
1. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, Taylor was unable to record in a studio for the first time in her career, so ended up building a makeshift studio in her bedroom.
2. In Taylor's mind, Betty and James of the Folklore teenage love triangle — "Cardigan," "August," and "Betty" — ultimately ended up together.
"In my head, she ends up with him, but he really put her through it," Taylor explained.
Going on to talk about the protagonist of "August," she said: "She seems like she's a bad girl, but really she's not a bad girl. She's really a sensitive person who really fell for him, and she was trying to seem cool and seem like she didn't care because that's what girls have to do."
"The idea that there's some bad, villain girl in any situation who takes your man is actually a total myth, because that's not usually the case at all," Taylor went on. "Everyone has feelings and wants to be seen and loved."
3. Taylor admitted she's been wanting to write a song about Rebekah Harkness — the eccentric widow of the heir to an oil fortune, who used to live in Taylor's Rhode Island home — since around 2013.
"I'd never found the right way to do it, because there was never a track that felt like it could hold an entire story of somebody's life and move between generations," Taylor explained.
She likens "The Last Great American Dynasty" to classic country songs that seemingly tell a story about someone else, but it turns out in the end to be a story about the artist themselves.
4. She finally confirmed the identity of her mystery cowriter on "Exile" and "Betty" after months of speculation and theories. Like many fans guessed, it's her boyfriend, Joe Alwyn.
Taylor explained that Joe "plays piano beautifully," and wrote the piano melody that appears at the opening of "Exile" out of the blue, alongside the lyrics to Bon Iver's first verse.
As for "Betty," Taylor said she heard him randomly singing the chorus, fully formed, from a different room one day.
She said: "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?'"
5. Taylor revealed that she began work on Folklore with "My Tears Ricochet," which she wrote completely alone.
