This document provides summaries of 15 tracks from Taylor Swift's album evermore. It describes the themes, narratives, and references within each song, such as stories of relationships, intrigue, mental illness, murder mysteries, and tributes to Swift's grandmother. The album is a "sister album" to folklore and continues exploring new genres of storytelling through different characters and perspectives.
This document provides summaries of 15 tracks from Taylor Swift's album evermore. It describes the themes, narratives, and references within each song, such as stories of relationships, intrigue, mental illness, murder mysteries, and tributes to Swift's grandmother. The album is a "sister album" to folklore and continues exploring new genres of storytelling through different characters and perspectives.
This document provides summaries of 15 tracks from Taylor Swift's album evermore. It describes the themes, narratives, and references within each song, such as stories of relationships, intrigue, mental illness, murder mysteries, and tributes to Swift's grandmother. The album is a "sister album" to folklore and continues exploring new genres of storytelling through different characters and perspectives.
album, wich is the ''sister'' album to folklore, in fact was realeased five months after it. This is a new genre that Taylor has been exploring and it kinda of centers around telling stories that aren't necessarily her own narrative. In a post, Taylor explained that her excitement over turning 31 (her lucky number, 13, backwards). Track 1, which is also the lead single of the album, is titled ''willow''. Taylor herself says it is about intrigue, desire and the complexity that goes into wanting someone. By compering her life with her lover to a willow tree. She is saying that it is strong but can sometimes look out of control. 'champagne problems' is the second song of the album. The song details the relationship of a man and a woman. The woman turns down the man's proposal right before christmas and surprise him and all of his family members. It seems as though the protagonist has a history of mental illness, which is stigmatized through gossip as ''champagne problems''. With a bittersweet ending the protagonist wishes that the man will find a woman who won't hurt him the way she did. Track 3 titled 'gold rush'. The song is about jealousy specifically being attracted to somebody that everyone else is attracted to as well. In one line she sings 'my mind turns your life into folklore' which is an obvious nod at the preceding album. track 4 titled 'tis the damn season'. Taylor has alluded to the fact that the protagonist in the song is 'Dorothea' who sung about on track 8. The song centers around Dorothea returning to her hometown during the holidays and rekindles with an old flame. She hopeful that this will work out despite her inevitably returning to LA. Track 5 is 'tolerate it'. This song is about giving somebody uncoditional love and wanting to receive the same, but being ignore it and only tolerate it. Track 6 titled 'no body no crime.' This is a murder mystery song that centers around the protagonist 'Este', who is actually Taylor's longtime friend. Este's husband was cheating on her, which is mentioneted in the first verse. Suddenly Este goes missing and the huband reports his missing wife. Taylor believes that the husband murdered Este and Taylor begins to revenge him. The husband is killed and everybody belives that the mistress killed him. When in reality Taylor is the one who murdered him. Track 7, 'happiness', is about the end of a relationship where hope still exists. She acknowledges that when you're with somebody you become a different version of yourself. She sings 'there'll be happiness because of you' shows how just because the relationship made her happy it doesn't mean that she unhappy before them or will be unhappy after them. She changes the lyrics in 'There'lle be happiness after me but there was happiness because of me'. Track 8 is 'dorothea' which is mentioned earlier in track 4. 'Dorothea is a girl who left her small town to chase down Hollywood dreams' as stated by Taylor. This song seems to be sung from the perspective of an old hometown fling who perhaps the one mentioned in 'tis the damn season'. It's about this narrator only sees Dorothea on the television and how he wishes she would come back. Track 9 'coney island', discusses being so consumed in a relationship that you almost lose a part of yourself. It evokes a feeling of loss and nostalgia similar to tolerate it. Where the effort given in the relatioship was not equal on both sides. Track 10 'ivy', tells the story of a woman having an affair, cheating on her husband. People think that 'ivy' is about Emily Dickinson and her relationship with Susan Gilbert and the subsequent marriage to her brother and it makes sense if we see it from Susan's perspective. Track 11 is 'cowboy like me'. 'This song discusses two people who fall in love whole hanging out at fancy resorts trying to score rich romantic beneficiaries' as stated by Taylor. These two people start seeing each other after they have a first dance together, it leads to more and taylor dresses this in the line ''never wanted love just a fancy car'. These two people had the same interests and personal gain but ended up falling in love because of their similarities. When started as a dance ends up with love which is referred to the line 'dancing is a dangerous game' track 12 is 'long story short'. This song is a overview of how she been viewed in the public including her feud with Kanye West, being deemed as a serial dater and any other controversies. track 13 'marjorie' is a tribute to her late grandmother Marjorie Finlay, similarly track 13 on folklore was a tribute to her grandfather Dean. Marjorie was an opera singer and can be heard on the background vocals on this track. In her statement about evermore Taylor says that her grandmother still visits her even if it's only in her dreams. 'Closure' is the 14th track on evermore. It is a wild industrial-folk number with Nine Inch Nails-style drums. The track is supposedly about Taylor’s former friendship with model Karlie Kloss. Lyrics like “staying friends” and “new life” suggest that they are no longer friends, especially as Taylor and Karlie have no longer been seen together. As she recently married, Karlie’s “new life” has spent large amounts of time with her extended Kushner family, Scooter Braun, and new friends.
The titular closing track on the standard edition of
evermore is a meditative piano ballad tracking the narrator’s journey from a seemingly unending period of deep depression and hurt to a place of hope. Like ''happiness'', “evermore” deals strongly with themes of mental health, though this track lays out a more linear path towards healing.