Continuing my countdown of the songs on Taylor Swift’s folklore…
#9. ‘cardigan’
The album’s first single, and part of a trilogy about a teenage love triangle, ‘cardigan’ is one of several songs on folklore that would fit neatly on a Lana Del Rey album.
Continuing my countdown of the songs on Taylor Swift’s folklore…
#12. mad woman
A trademark Taylor Swift kiss-off song — this one at least partially about the battle with Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta over ownership of her early material — that works better than most because of the mood created by its minor-key piano line.
A couple of weeks ago, I promised to write more about folklore, the surprise new release from Taylor Swift. Well, this week I’ll keep my word by ranking the album’s 16 tracks in order of my preference.
First, let me say up front that folklore is among the best work Swift has ever released. It’s either #1 or #2 on my ranked list of her albums (last year’s Lover claimed the top spot when I published that ranking back in March).
By some cosmic coincidence, I had a Taylor Swift song scheduled yesterday as a Random Weekend selection. It’s a coincidence because, as the world knows by now, Swift dropped a surprise album — folklore — just a day earlier.
The random song was ‘Sad Tragic Beautiful’ from the 2012 album Red, and I did not have kind things to say about it. In fact, I called it her worst song.
Keeping that post up in light of Swift’s new album release felt particularly tone deaf, so I shuffled some things around.
Continuing my ranking of Taylor Swift’s albums…
The more time I’ve spent with Taylor Swift’s 2019 Lover, the clearer it is to me that this is her very best album. That it is also her newest bodes very well for future releases.
Lover was teased as a blend of pre- and post-pop Taylor, and on a surface level it fulfills that promise. Most of it is less overtly poppy than 1989 or Reputation, but the production does have an edge and sheen that wasn’t present in her earlier work.
Meet Me In Montauk 