Taylor Swift's 'Folklore': The Ultimate Breakdown

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🗓️ 5 August 2020

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Rob Sheffield and Brittany Spanos join host Brian Hiatt to go track-by-track through Swift's surprise release Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey I'm Brian Hyatt and this is Rolling Stone Music Now. I have with the Rob Sheffield
0:09.8	Brittany Spanos and we are going to talk inevitably about folklore. My favorite tweet about
0:16.6	folklore which is of course the new Taylor Swift album that materialized from
0:21.3	the ether just now.
0:23.0	Someone asked, as we all stayed up at midnight listening to the album,
0:26.0	someone asked,
0:27.0	is this album the vaccine?
0:29.0	Rob, you said it's her best album.
0:31.0	Absolutely.
0:32.0	It's absolutely the one that so many of us have thought that she would make or could make.
0:38.6	Definitely a decisive step into her 30s.
0:41.0	Definitely like a thematic and musical statement absolutely perfect songs no duds at all I
0:46.7	think this is the first album without a single skip yeah even red has you know
0:52.1	Snow Patrol duet
0:55.4	Which I always forget is there because it's not on my playlist of it, but but it's amazing that this is such a perfectly conceived perfectly realized album.
1:03.2	Brittany, is it Taylor Swift's best album?
1:05.6	Are you prepared to as well to say that?
1:07.6	Yeah, I think I am.
1:08.8	Like I think that like Rob said, there's no skips. It feels like such a kind of in the same way
1:14.3	that we talked about with Fionna Apples, vegetable cutters.
1:17.2	Like it feels like such a product of all the albums
1:19.5	leading up to this and feels like such a clear evolution of her as a songwriter as an artist a lot of things that
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