Folklore (Taylor Swift album): Difference between revisions

 

{{Quote|text=Taylor has opened the door for artists to not feel pressure to have "the bop". To make the record that she made, while running against what is programmed in radio at the highest levels of [[pop music]]—she has kind of made an anti-pop record.|author=Dessner on Swift's new sonic direction in ''Folklore''||source=''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/grammys/9449110/aaron-dessner-taylor-swift-folklore-grammys|title='There Were Fireworks, Musically': Aaron Dessner Opens Up About Making 'Folklore' With Taylor Swift|last=Havens|first=Lyndsey|date=September 17, 2020|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|access-date=September 19, 2020}}</ref>|title=}}

 

After a few weeks, when Swift and Dessner had written "six or seven" songs, she explained him her concept of ''Folklore''.<ref name="DessnerRS"/> She also told him about the work she had done earlier with Antonoff, concluding that both of her works resonate as an album.<ref name="DessnerVulture"/> Swift and Dessner also wrote "[[The Last Great American Dynasty]]", "[[Mad Woman]]", and "[[Epiphany (Taylor Swift song)|Epiphany]]", the first of which has an array of electric guitars inspired by [[Radiohead]]'s 2007 surprise album ''[[In Rainbows]]''.<ref name="DessnerVulture"/> The lyrics document American socialite [[Rebekah Harkness]], whom Swift had been wanting to write about ever since she bought the [[Holiday House (Watch Hill)|Holiday House]] in 2013.<ref name=":42" /> Dessner composed the piano melody for "Mad Woman" with his earlier work on "Cardigan" and "Seven" in mind.<ref name="DessnerRS"/> On "Epiphany", he slowed down and reversed the sounds of different instruments to create a "giant stack of harmony", and added piano for a cinematic trope.<ref name="DessnerVulture"/> Swift wrote the song based on the experiences of her [[veteran]] grandfather, and healthcare workers in the pandemic.<ref name=":42" />