Just like another one of the lovers who fueled Taylor Swiftâs musical themes and schemes, I was seduced, sedated and stuck on Swift with on first listening of âFolklore.â
With an opening piano introduction straight out of a Bruce Hornsby playbook, seamstress Swift spins yarns that stitch her regrets, âWhat ifs?â and âWhat could have beensâ of lost loves into a warm narrative cardigan sweater that everyone would love to wear.
Composed and recorded in a year of quarantine, lockdown and postponed concerts, Swift writes and sings about previous lovers and affairs from high school home rooms to her current four-year relationship with actor Joe Alwyn. He is Swiftâs songwriting partner listed as William Bowery on three songs on âFolklore,â from Republic Records.