The lines between fantasy and reality blur and the boundaries between truth and fiction become almost indiscernible. A misfit widow getting gleeful revenge on the town that cast her out.Ī tale that becomes folklore is one that is passed down and whispered around. My grandfather, Dean, landing at Guadalcanal in 1942. Lovestruck kids wandering up and down the evergreen High Line.
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An seventeen-year-old standing on a porch, learning how to apologize.
An exiled man walking the bluffs of a land that isn’t his own, wondering how it all went so terribly, terribly wrong. I found myself not only writing my own stories, but also writing about or from the perspective of people I’ve never met, people I’ve known, or those I wish I hadn’t. Pretty soon these images in my head grew faces or names and became characters. A single thread that, for better or worse, ties you to your fate. A mirrored disco ball hovering above a dance floor. The sun drenched month of August, sipped away like a bottle of wine. Hushed tones of "let’s run away" and never doing it. The tree swing in the woods of my childhood.
Battleships sinking into the ocean, down, down, down. A cardigan that still bears the scent of loss twenty years later. Visuals that popped into my mind and piqued my curiosity. Here, that note: It started with imagery. She seemed to call out "betty" specifically with the line "an seventeen-year-old standing on a porch, learning how to apologize." Swift teased this theory in an Instagram note about the album that discussed using her real-life experiences and fictional stories to make folklore. The "cardigan" lyric is from Betty's perspective, "Chase two girls, lose the one / When you are young, they assume you know nothing / But I knew you" contrasts with the "betty" lyric from James' perspective: "I'm only seventeen, I don't know anything / But I know I miss you." These 3 songs explore a love triangle from all 3 people's perspectives at different times in their lives."įans note the parallels in the lyrics of "cardigan," "betty," and "august," including their imagery.įor example, "betty," which would be James' perspective, has the line "I was walking home on broken cobblestones / Just thinking of you." Betty's perspective track, "cardigan," makes mention of cobblestones in the first two lines: "Vintage tee, brand new phone / High heels on cobblestones." She wrote, "There's a collection of 3 songs I refer to as The Teenage Love Triangle. In her live chat on YouTube about the album, she revealed she planted a story in three of the tracks. If you kiss me, will it be just like I dreamed it? I was walking home on broken cobblestones I'm only seventeen, I don't know anything If I told you it was just a summer thing?
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Read on for the song's full lyrics, via Genius, and each Twitter theory.īetty, one time I was riding on my skateboard The three songs "betty," "cardigan," and "august" tell that story, each sung from different perspectives (the boy James, his girlfriend Betty, and the girl he cheated with) at different times. (The couple has not revealed their new baby's name publicly.)Īnd others pointed out that there's a teenage love triangle vignette in the album, something Swift confirmed in a YouTube comment. Some fans think the music may be hinting Swift could be bisexual others think Betty may be the name of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds' third daughter, since Swift uses the names of Lively and Reynolds' other daughters, Inez and James, in the lyrics. The song is told from a male perspective about a teenage boy attempting to apologize to Betty, whom he cheated on with someone else. Of all the songs, fans have the most theories about "betty," which Swift wrote with William Bowery-which fans believe may be a pseudonym for Swift's boyfriend Joe Alwyn. Taylor Swift's folklore album contains 16 songs' worth of lyrics to analyze and speculate about, especially because Swift informed fans that the music is a blend of her own life experience and stories she's telling about other people and characters (some fictional).
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