‘evermore’ is Taylor Swift final lockdown lesson on knowing when to leave
At it again
ICYMI, while we were all still processing ‘folklore‘, Taylor Swift has suddenly dropped ‘evermore‘, a so-called sister record to her July surprise album.
Like ‘folklore‘, ‘evermore‘ holds the maturity and musical innovation that’s fulfilling to witness as a longtime Swift fan. This era continues to showcase a Taylor without the bells and whistles, a Taylor that seems to shout ‘this is my music, take it or leave it.’
‘evermore‘ opens with ‘willow’ and its accompanying music video, picking up where the ‘cardigan‘ MV left off many months ago. This time, the album enters on a much happier note through wanting to ‘wreck my plans’ with someone new.
As Taylor strays away from her personal life and delves into storytelling as a whole, so does the mood of the ‘mirrored or intersecting’ songs. There’s no sly dig or blowing uppercut to her past relationships, but rather, a unifying lesson on leaving once you know its time.
Through tales of petty criminals artists (‘cowboy like me‘), washed-up celebrities going home for Christmas (‘tis the damn season‘), and cheating spouses (‘no body, no crime’ and ‘tolerate it’), one can’t help but think that these are the kind of people who’ve been pushed to the point of no return – and that’s perfectly alright.
‘folklore may have taught us to grieve broken relationships during the lockdown, but ‘evermore‘ is here to remind us that we have to brush it off eventually, and keep walking our own way.
Nothing screams this louder than the second-to-the-last track ‘closure‘, where Taylor proclaims that ‘I know I’m just a wrinkle in your new life / Staying friends would iron it out so nice’ and ‘I’m fine with my spite / And my tears / and my beers and my candles’.
Another standout includes the gut-punching song ironically titled ‘Happiness‘, as Taylor realizes ‘There’ll be happiness after you / But there was happiness because of you / Both of these things can be true’.
We all know how strong she is as a songwriter, as ‘evermore‘ was borne out of the fact she couldn’t stop writing songs, but there’s also a new beauty in seeing this as a homecoming rather another era.
‘I’ve never done this before. In the past I’ve always treated albums as one-off eras and moved onto planning the next one after an album was released. There was something different with folklore,’ she explains.
‘In making it, I felt less like I was departing and more like I was returning.’
Verdict: Just as TSwift picks us up from the floor she left us from ‘folklore‘, ‘evermore‘ is a reminder to return to life after love (and this lockdown).
Related: ‘folklore’ is Taylor Swift’s lockdown lesson on loving people you can’t keep
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