In Australia, Folklore topped the ARIA Albums Chart as Swift's sixth album to do so, giving her more chart-toppers in the country in 2010–2020 than any other artist. Music fans and critics across genres unveiled hot takes, quoted lyrics like Myspace teens writing on the back of textbooks or crafting the perfect AIM away message, and debated Folklore's place in the unimpeachable Taylor Swift canon. In the edit page, go to the 'Metadata' tab and add your Juno artist, label or release page for listeners to purchase your release / releases. The standard edition of the album closes with "Hoax", a slow piano ballad with emotionally raw lyrics that detail a flawed but everlasting relationship, [50] [24] ending the album on a despondent note of sadness.

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Sung from the perspective of a deceased lover's ghost, "My Tears Ricochet" is an icy arena- goth song [83] that reflects on the tensions following the end of a marital relationship, [12] using funereal imagery—a metaphor for Scott Borchetta and his sale of the masters of Swift's older catalogue. 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? Devoid of radio-friendly pop songs, [8] [54] Folklore eschews the mainstream sound of Swift's older works. The record was surpassed by Swift's own Red (Taylor's Version) on November 12, 2021, [1] and once again surpassed by her own Midnights on October 21, 2022.

Due to COVID-19 concerns, Swift, Antonoff and Dessner quarantined remotely, separate from each other, creating Folklore by continually exchanging digital files of instrumentals and vocals.

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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.

Her second studio album, Fearless (2008), won the Album of the Year in 2010, followed by her fifth studio album, 1989 (2014), winning the award in 2016. Swift, her boyfriend, family, management team, Antonoff, and Dessner were aware of the album's creation; she did not disclose the news or play the album to her friends like she did with her previous works.

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The album title is written in an italicized roman font reminiscent of "a Chronicles of Narnia scrawl".During the YouTube premiere countdown to the "Cardigan" music video, Swift hinted that the album lyrics contained many of her signature Easter eggs: "One thing I did purposely on this album was put the Easter eggs in the lyrics, more than just the videos. a b "Taylor Swift's Folklore Is Now Popular in China, QQ music is becoming this Euramerican star's first choice". A few weeks later, when Swift and Dessner had written "six or seven" songs, she explained him her concept of Folklore. Noting that her album eras have been defined by their own color scheme, fashion and cultural motifs, Teen Vogue described Folklore as simple, neutral-toned wear, with the cardigan helping in understanding the sentimental role clothing plays.

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Its tracks "The 1", [152] "Cardigan", [153] "The Last Great American Dynasty", [154] "Exile", [155] "Mirrorball", [72] "Seven", [156] "August", [157] "This Is Me Trying", [158] "Invisible String" [159] and "Betty" [160] were also named among the best songs of 2020. 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). On July 24, 2021, the first anniversary of Folklore, the original orchestral version of "The Lakes" was also released as a promotional single. Becoming Swift's first album to spend multiple weeks atop the chart, Folklore remained at number one for three consecutive weeks.

She developed "Exile" as a duet, and Dessner recorded a draft of her singing both the male and female parts.