Comprised of various labels we know and love at Rough Trade (Bella Union, ATO, Speedy Wunderground, Phantasy, Heavenly, Mute and more) PIAS [Recordings] filter through some of the most diverse artistry to our racks, which we greatly enjoy digging into. Judging from its acclaim and commercial success, critic Tom Hull concluded that Swift "caught the spirit of the times" with Folklore. It was accompanied by a music video posted to YouTube, directed by Swift and produced by Jil Hardin. Folklore Is Taylor Swift's Sixth Album to Top the Billboard 200 For Four Weeks: Just Four Other Artists Have Done That".

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Near the end of Folklore's recording process, Dessner reached out to his regular collaborators, including the National bandmates, to provide instrumentation remotely. global streams on the platform, and earned the Guinness World Record for the most opening-day streams for an album by a female artist, surpassing Ariana Grande's Thank U, Next. In Malaysia, Folklore spawned nine top-20 songs on the RIM Singles chart, with "Cardigan", "Exile", "The 1", "My Tears Ricochet" and "The Last Great American Dynasty" entering the top 10.

Swift became the first woman with seven Billboard 200 number-one debuts and tied Janet Jackson for the third-most number-ones. The 1", the opening track, is a soft rock tune [72] driven by a bouncy arrangement of piano, minimal percussion, and electronic accents. Cottagecore faced resurgence on the internet after Swift used the aesthetic, [106] with a sales surge of hand-knitted Aran sweaters in Ireland and the US.

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Like a photo album full of imagery, and all the stories behind that imagery", [9] described "Cardigan" as a song that explores "lost romance and why young love is often fixed so permanently in our memories," [10] and pointed-out the self-written track, " My Tears Ricochet", as the first song she wrote for the album. She is seen standing alone in a misty forest covered by morning fog, [93] wearing a long, double-breasted plaid coat over a white prairie dress, [94] gazing at the height of the trees. Folklore was released eleven months after Lover—the fastest turnaround for a Swift studio album at the time, beating the one year and nine months gap between Reputation (2017) and Lover.Due to the pandemic, all recording studios were closed, so Swift built a home studio at her Los Angeles residence, named Kitty Committee, with help from engineer Laura Sisk. Swift and Dessner also wrote " The Last Great American Dynasty", " Mad Woman", and " Epiphany", the first of which has an array of electric guitars inspired by Radiohead's 2007 surprise album In Rainbows. Folklore debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and topped it for eight weeks, becoming the longest-reigning number-one album of 2020. Anyone who has had the pleasure of seeing Jalen perform live knows that he is one of the most captivating performers on today's soul scene. Some of the imageries the singer developed include: "An exiled man walking the bluffs of a land that isn't his own, wondering how it all went so terribly, terribly wrong.

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While filming the "Cardigan" music video, Swift wore an earpiece and lip-synced to the song to prevent it from leaking. The satirical song tells the story of Harkness, the founder of Harkness Ballet, when she resided in Swift's Rhode Island mansion.Its lyrics portray Swift as a disco ball, pertaining to the reflective quality, describing her ability to entertain people with her music by making herself her vulnerable and sensitive. It depicts the devastation of the pandemic, paying homage to healthcare workers, with whom she empathizes, comparing them to traumatized military soldiers, [58] such as her veteran grandfather, Dean, who fought at the Battle of Guadalcanal (1942). Bernstein, Jonathan; Blistein, Jon; Blake, Emily; Dolan, Jon; Ehrlich, Brenna; Freeman, Jon; Grow, Kory; Hoard, Christian; Leight, Elias; Martoccio, Angie; Shaffer, Claire; Sheffield, Rob (December 7, 2020). 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. I've told these stories to the best of my ability with all the love, wonder, and whimsy they deserve.

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Vulture defined Folklore as "an eerie black-and-white indie period horror film" that pays homage to various cult classic films, especially A24 horror films, with its songs evoking cinematic visuals. She approached the album's creation without subjecting herself to any rules, and explained that she "used to put all these parameters on [herself], like, "How will this song sound in a stadium? It encompasses a music box, backing choir, reverbed ad-libs in the bridge, and reaches a tumultuous climax over shuddering drums.

Cardigan", "Exile", and "The 1" charted in the top-10 of the New Zealand singles chart, and "The Last Great American Dynasty" placed 13th.