“The initial response. When we first connected, and I sent a folder of music and Taylor wrote ‘Cardigan,’ and she said, ‘This is abnormal. Why do you have all these songs that are so emotional and so moving to me? This feels fated.’ And then she just dove into it and embraced this emotional current. And I hope that’s what people take out of it: The humanity in her writing and melodies. It’s a different side to her. She could have been every bit as successful just making these kinds of songs, but it’s so great that she’s also made everything that she’s ever made, and this is a really interesting shift, and an emotional one. It also opens other doors, because now it’s kind of like she can go wherever she wants, creatively. The pressure to make a certain kind of… bop — or whatever you want to call it — is not there really anymore. And I think that’s really liberating, and I hope her fans and the world are excited by that because I am. It’s really special.”
— Aaron Dessner on the most pivotal moment in making folklore (x)
