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- Summary: The 16-track surprise release from the pop artist features contributions from Jack Antonoff, Bon Iver, William Bowery, and Aaron Dessner of the National.
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- Record Label: Republic
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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| All I know Is everything is not as it's sold But the more I grow the less I know And I have lived so many lives Though I'm not old And the more I... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 25 out of 27
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Mixed: 2 out of 27
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Negative: 0 out of 27
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Jul 24, 2020Swift explodes the expectations of anyone preparing to call her music "diaristic," writing songs from different perspectives while putting her already-detailed work under a microscope. ... A content smile of an album on which one of the world's biggest pop stars, charts be damned, forges her own path and dares listeners to come along for the ride.
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Jul 24, 2020This strange summer of arrested development is steadily ending. Folklore will endure long beyond it: as fragmented as Swift is across her eighth album – and much as you hope it doesn’t mark the end of her pop ambitions – her emotional acuity has never been more assured.
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UncutAug 13, 2020It's a sharp turn to the left for Swift and a fine reminder that she is more than just a gleaming pop phenomenon, but a remarkable songwriter too. [Oct 2020, p.36]
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Jul 24, 2020One of her best, most perfectly-produced projects ever. In folklore, she wrote a quieter, more thought-provoking chapter in her constantly shapeshifting story.
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Jul 29, 2020The 16 tunes comprising her latest song cycle oscillate gracefully around piano keyboards and introduce a series of portraits of fictional and real-life characters (from a terrified child with a traumatized best friend to a ghost scrutinizing her enemies at her funeral) to complement her reflections on the social distancing of quarantine time.
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Jul 24, 2020While the album tends to lull around its middle, folklore is far less concerned with its individual tracks than the greater, twisting conversation — the sort of hours-long, sanity-affirming chats that have become vital over these last four months.
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Jul 27, 2020“Folklore” songs fall into roughly two camps — excellent Swift-penned songs that are sturdy enough to bear the production, and others that end up obscured by murk.
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Positive: 7,081 out of 7707
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Mixed: 104 out of 7707
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Negative: 522 out of 7707
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Jul 25, 2020
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Jul 24, 2020this album is a **** masterpiece! She surprised us all with such an enchanted and magic album! Probably her best album so far!
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Jul 24, 2020album of the year. amazing lyrics, amazing production, amazing sounds. taylor swift is the best songwriter of this generation. .
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Jul 28, 2020
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Nov 1, 2020
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Jul 24, 2020Greatest album ever!! Taylor Swift did is back and better than ever. I’m so proud of her growth. She gave the world what they needed
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Aug 28, 2020
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