can we just appreciate the little production details on folklore for a sec
the way the music swells and crashes over the vocals when taylor sings ‘the battleships will sink beneath the waves’ in my tears ricochet and how cardigan begins with a sound similar to high heels on cobble stones before the lyrics mention exactly that and how taylor layers ‘I gave so many signs’ repeatedly over bon iver in exile but he ignores it and keeps singing his own part mirroring him ignoring her signs in the relationship and how the beat at the start of tlgad sounds like a train on tracks before the first lyric ‘rebekah rode up on the afternoon train’ and the picking pattern in illicit affairs being chaotic and quick-paced to echo the motif ‘a million little times’ as if the guitar itself is breaking a million little times and the way taylor’s voice trails off on ‘my stolen lullabies’ during my tears ricochet as if her voice is being stolenÂ
