they took the crown, but it's alright

marvelous-tunes:

folklore, out midnight eastern

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speaknow:

when I read “tonight at midnight I’ll be releasing my 8th studio album” i literally went through a hundred stages of shock within 0.0001 second

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sparksoftaylors:

Visuals for “folklore”

7.28. Midnight Eastern.

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path-of-my-childhood:

“I was excited and honored when Taylor approached me in late April about maybe writing some songs remotely together. I had been isolating with my family but writing a ton of music in the first months of quarantine which I shared. I thought it would take a while for song ideas to come and I had no expectations as far as what we could accomplish remotely. But a few hours after sharing music, my phone lit up with a voice memo from Taylor of a fully written version of a song - the momentum never really stopped. Over the next few months, we remotely finished 11 songs of her magical new album “folklore”. She also recorded several others with the amazing Jack Antonoff. I’ve rarely been so inspired by someone and it’s still hard to believe this even happened - these songs came together in such a challenging time. It wouldn’t haven’t been possible without so much help from first and foremost my engineer Jon Low. And my brother Bryce Dessner’s beautiful orchestration on several songs from across the ocean. Justin Vernon helped to write and sing a beautiful song and so many other friends from our community contributed brilliantly from their respective isolation. More on them later! I’m very proud of all these songs and profoundly grateful to Taylor Swift for inviting me into and trusting me in her process. She is one of the most talented, hardworking and deeply caring artists I’ve ever encountered. There’s a palpable humanity and warmth and raw emotion in these songs that I hope you’ll love and take comfort in as much as I do.”

— Aaron Dessner, from The National, on working with Taylor on her new album “folklore” (Aaron’s Instagram, July 23rd 2020)

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