Taylor Swift wrote 12 songs before realizing ‘folklore’ was an album

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For folklore, Swift worked with her longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff. However, she added a bunch of new people to the mix also. The evermore artist also worked closely with Aaron Dessner of The National. In addition to them, she worked with Bon Iver on the song “exile”. Finally, Swift teamed up with her boyfriend, Joe Alwyn, on the Grammy award-winning album.

But even Swift’s collaborators didn’t know that they were absolutely working toward an album in the beginning. In fact, neither did Swift herself. The “I Bet You Think About Me” singer was just looking to create music with all the downtime she had. Thanks to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Swift had more free time than she’d had in years. Naturally, she thought to fill that time with music.

Though Swift was writing at warp speed with her musical pals, it wasn’t until folklore was nearly complete that she felt it was an album. In an interview with Vulture, Dessner recalled the moment that Swift declared that the body of work was an album.

“It was only after writing six or seven songs, basically when I thought my writing was done, when we got on the phone and said, ‘OK, I think we’re making an album. I have these six other ideas that I love with Jack [Antonoff] that we’ve already done, and I think what we’ve done fits really well with them,'” Dessner recalled.

Though Swift had worked with drastically different collaborators, she felt that the songs could all fit under one theme, and thus folklore was born. In the aforementioned interview, Dessner shared that the albums had an overarching story even if it isn’t super sonically cohesive.

Full: https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/taylor-swift-wrote-12-songs-before-realizing-folklore-album.html/

[spector 1,918]

and just like that… she topped it with another album. tay’s simply magnificent. 😌

[Dennis 8,391]

She has such a natural gift, she writes songs like we eat breakfast.

[Kimmo 80,312]

I mean when you’re a good writer it just comes naturally and it shows… 

[thierryrreiht 20,956]

When you listen to Folklore and Evermore, you realize that many of her upbeat/poppy songs are really lacking in the writing department.

Those two have truly great lyrics and the storytelling is haunting

Whereas me-hee-hee and LWYMMD are… not it

[DelusionalGaga 29,570]

57 minutes ago, Trunks said:

The “I Bet You Think About Me” singer

What a random moniker 

[Taylucifer 5,120]

oh my god, she's insane

[The Fame Monster 4,151]

I have never been a fan of her music until I discovered evermore

It’s such a good album!!! I have also gained a huge respect over her talent and songwriting skills through her last two albums.

[thisboyisamonster 850]

Folklore is a timeless masterpiece

[liquidsunshine 735]

And you could tell she wrote all those lyrics. There’s a very distinct taylor imprint you can tell immediately not just words but melody progression. 

[Versace 7,958]

I hope TS10 is like RED where it has those deep cut/amazingly written stories like the songs on folklore and evermore but at the same time has pop bops like WANEGBT and IKYT. I truly feel RED is her widest appealing album but I know that she sees it as her least cohesive album, so might be something she avoids unfortunately. 

[bpmMonkey 5,411]

I „strongly dislike“ this kind if artical writing.. talking about folklore in one sentence to then go to „the evermore singer” in the next one makes it feel so disconnected to read. I guess some 20 y/o intern really felt her journalist degree. Good job mandy.