Taylor Swift has "evermore" of a good thing

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Just five months after releasing her Grammy-nominated album “folklore,” Taylor Swift surprised fans with a continuation of sorts — her ninth studio album “evermore.” Working with many of her “folklore” collaborators, Swift says that the team “couldn’t stop writing songs.” Like its sister album, “evermore” shies away from over-the-top pop production, and leans into Swift’s craft. Stripped of the highly produced synth layers from her “Lover” and “Reputation” era, Swift’s lyrics and vocal performance shine in their unvarnished restraint. On this hour-long album, Swift shows her ingenuity with the building blocks of songwriting, giving us more of her signature Swiftian strengths: Lyrics, melody and story. More Read "Figure It Out: The Linguistic Turn in Country Music" by Jimmie N. Rogers and Miller Williams in Country Music Annual 2000 Listen to Jenny Owen Youngs album Night Shift for more rubber bridge guitar and great songs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, you.
0:01.6	Listening to your favorite podcast again.
0:04.9	A little predicted beloved you, don't you think?
0:06.7	My latest heartbreak has been a catalyst that has brought me to London.
0:09.9	I spend my days as a professor and my nights with friends.
0:13.2	It's a generous way to describe them, but I have to stay close.
0:15.7	There's a killer out there picking them off,
0:18.7	all while trying to frame me.
0:20.5	I laugh at the irony if it weren't so serious.
0:23.0	Someone is watching me.
0:24.2	I can feel it.
0:25.3	Is it you?
0:26.4	You, now streaming, only on Netflix.
0:30.1	There's not a lot of things that would pull my collaborator, Nate Sloan,
0:35.6	out of paternity leave for an emergency recording.
0:38.9	However, Nate, something important has happened.
0:42.8	Charlie, I'm here.
0:44.9	Just five months ago, Taylor Swift,
0:49.1	shined in the Swift signal at the moon,
0:51.9	and announced that she dropped a new album.
0:54.4	In quarantine, makes this record folklore.
1:10.6	Surprise, she's done it again.
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