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i’ve been seeing lots about the parallels between folklore and reputation but i’m just gonna put it out there: folklore and debut as two sides of the same coin. they cover a lot of the same ideas (summer love, first love, infidelity, childhood) and both are rooted in the storytelling of both taylor’s and other people’s experiences. debut is the young, naive perspective and folklore is the more mature, darker version.

debut is taylor looking at other people’s experiences and imagining herself in them before she had much experience of her own. folklore is taylor looking at other people’s experiences and reflecting on them through the lens of someone who has been through a lot and learned from her experiences.

I don’t know if there are any Bon Iver fans reading this but I got questions. Is it true he normally doesn’t sing like he does in exile...like usually he sings much higher!?!? I heard Aaron Dessner talking about this...and I am like...why...why would you withhold this gift...I...

one of my favorite lyrics on folklore is “i knew you tried to change the ending; peter losing wendy” for multiple reasons. one of these is that in three words, she showcases the maturity difference between betty and james; betty says that despite her youth, james is one of the few things she was sure about (”when you are young they assume you know nothing, but i knew you”), while james is the opposite, using age as an excuse for hurting betty (”i’m only seventeen, i don’t know anything”), and of course, peter pan is the boy who refused to grow up. but the main reason i think this lyric is so incredible is because at the end of peter pan, we find out that despite not having seen peter in many, many years, wendy tells the story to her children and grandchildren so that their adventure will always be remembered. this is the very definition of the word folklore and ties in perfectly to taylor’s album foreword where she said that she wants us to keep the stories she tells on the album and pass them along. with one line, she manages to encompass not only an important piece of betty’s and james’s relationship, but the key to the entire album.

hoax is THE most underrated song on folklore

poor inez. i’m officially enlisting in the inez defense squad