Taylor Swift’s Folklore bonus track, “The Lakes,” is now up on streaming services.
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Taylor Swift has shared a behind the scenes video for the easter eggs in “Cardigan.”
Read More “Taylor Swift Shares Easter Eggs in “Cardigan””Taylor Swift Tops the Charts Again
Taylor Swift once again has the number one album in the country.
Taylor Swift’s Folklore reigns at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart for a third week – marking the first album by a woman to spend its first three weeks at No. 1 since 2018. Aided by the arrival of its CD version in stores, Folklore earned 136,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 13 (up 1%), according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data.
Taylor Swift Tops the Charts
Taylor Swift once again has the number one album in the country:
Taylor Swift’s Folklore holds atop the Billboard 200 albums chart for a second week, earning 135,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 6, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. The set is down 84% from its opening of 846,000 units – the biggest week for any album in 2020.
Taylor Swift Moves Lots of Albums
Taylor Swift has the number one album in the country. She sold buckets of albums. The full press release is in the replies.
Read More “Taylor Swift Moves Lots of Albums”On Taylor Swift and the Myth of “Limited Space”
Taylor Swift album cycles are starting to feel like Fall Out Boy lyrics circa 2005: Which came first, the music Taylor Swift record or the misery discourse? And I’m like, I just, I mean… this is exhausting, you know?
This time around, Taylor did something very new (for her). In a move that honestly only really works for the highest rollers in entertainment, she surprise-unleashed a 16 track full length, titled folklore, on the unsuspecting internet at large. Response was massive, immediate, and polarizing. For a huge number of listeners, both in the private and critical spheres, this release has been lauded as one of her best yet. It credits indie heavyweights Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon on the track “exile,” and the record’s production has The National’s Aaron Dessner all over it. To the more casual Swift listener–or to be exact, the “I’ve heard her singles, and that’s it” listener–this venture into the world of “indie” is out of character and out of left field, and as a result… feathers have been ruffled. And as tends to be the case with these things, the resulting discourse has, yet again, overwhelmingly failed to validate its own complaints. As usual with Taylor, it does this by focusing on snippy critiques mired more in misogyny than in the actual issues at play here.
Read More “On Taylor Swift and the Myth of “Limited Space””A Taylor Swift Playlist: “Lightning in a Bottle”
If you haven’t heard by now, Taylor Swift surprise-dropped her eighth studio album folklore last week. This is not another album review, that’s been masterfully handled by Craig Manning, this is a playlist for after you’ve gone deep with the album and are ready to explore the rest of her catalog.
Read More “A Taylor Swift Playlist: “Lightning in a Bottle””Taylor Swift Releases “Cabin in the Candlelight” Version of “Cardigan”
Taylor Swift has shared a “cabin in the candlelight” version of “Cardigan.”
Read More “Taylor Swift Releases “Cabin in the Candlelight” Version of “Cardigan””Review: Taylor Swift – Folklore
Not many songwriters have ever been better than Taylor Swift at opening up a window into their own life. While songwriting is often a deeply personal artform, one of Swift’s greatest strengths has always been her ability to make listeners feel like she was singing to them from the pages of her diary. Some of her greatest songs—“All Too Well,” “Last Kiss,” “Long Live,” “Soon You’ll Get Better,” “Lover”—are snapshots of important moments or milestones of her life that she felt her fans deserved to live along with her: boys who broke her heart; triumphs of her young life; her mom’s battle with cancer; the relationship that might just stand the test of time. She’s always written these stories vividly, with details that make them feel as lived-in to you as your own memories: the places, the dates, the objects, the articles of clothing, the colors, the refrigerator light. Swift got so good so early on at telling her own story that, by the time she got to her most recent albums—2017’s Reputation and last year’s Lover—the songs had begun to feel like her chance to have the last word on all the tabloid bullshit that had built up around her life. The results were thrilling, but they sometimes lacked the lovely, unguarded scene-setting she’d perfected on Speak Now and Red. Instead of feeling like diary pages, the lyrics felt a bit like op-eds—still honest, still written with the strong voice of an obviously skilled scribe, but more clearly meant for public consumption. The thing that had made Swift seem most special at first—that you could picture her writing these songs in her bedroom, with no idea whether anyone would ever hear them—wasn’t as present anymore.
Read More “Taylor Swift – Folklore”The National’s Aaron Dessner Talks Taylor Swift’s New Album
The National’s Aaron Dessner talked with Pitchfork about working on Taylor Swift’s latest album:
So when [Taylor] reached out, I had this large folder of ideas that were pretty well on their way. She was very clear that she didn’t want me to edit any of my ideas; she wanted to hear everything that was interesting to me at this moment, including really odd, experimental noise. So I made a folder of stuff, including some pretty out-there sketches. A few hours later, she sent “cardigan,” fully written in a voice memo. That’s when I realized that this was unusual—just the focus and clarity of her ideas. It was pretty astonishing. Over the next couple months, this would just happen; all of a sudden, I’d get a voice memo. And then another. Eventually, it was so inspiring that I wrote more ideas that were specifically in response to what she was writing.
Taylor Swift – “Cardigan” Video
Taylor Swift has released a video for “Cardigan.”
Read More “Taylor Swift – “Cardigan” Video”Taylor Swift Announces New Album
Taylor Swift has announced that her new album, Folklore, will be released tonight at midnight. Pre-orders are now up.
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A mysterious cover of “Look What You Made Me Do” appeared on Killing Eve last night. The credits list Jack Antonoff and Nils Sjöberg, the alias Taylor Swift created for her writing credit with Calvin Harris, and the internet believes the vocals are Austin Swift, Taylor’s brother.
Read More ““Look What You Made Me Do” Cover on ‘Killing Eve’”Taylor Swift’s ‘City of Lover’ Concert Special Airing This Weekend
ABC will be airing the Taylor Swift “City of Lover Concert Special” this weekend.
ABC announced on Friday (May 8) that it will air the brand-new one-hour concert special Taylor Swift City of Lover Concert on May 17 at 10 p.m. following the season finale of American Idol.
The special, which will be available the next day on-demand on Hulu and Disney+ was filmed in September at the L’Olympia Theater in Paris.
Taylor Swift Performs “Soon You’ll Get Better”
Taylor Swift performed a piano version of “Soon You’ll Get Better” for One World: Together at Home.