I’m half way through folklore and I love it so much! I feel like this is the side of Taylor she felt like she couldn’t express through her music. I feel like Lover was what she thought the fans wanted but Folklore is what she wanted to give us. Don’t get me wrong lover was amazing and I will forever love the album, but I feel like folklore is more mature and just more her.
I’m having a break down over The Last Great American Dynasty!!! Taylor tells the story of Rebekah Harkness and all the trouble she caused in Watch Hill Rhode Island with her insane parties, feuds with neighbors and her general debauchery that was the talk of the town. And then she died and Holiday House sat quietly for 50 years, “free of women with madness, their men and bad habits” AND THEN Taylor has the audacity to say “And then it was bought by me // I had a marvelous time ruining everything” because Taylor was know for her crazy parties there and her “men and bad habits” and we know there were tabloids publishing stories of her fighting with people in town. I REALLY underestimated this song upon first listen. Holy SHIT.