As the year slips away into a moment in time, I'm sitting in my favourite cardigan, in the company of @taylorswift13 and my fellow contributors, reading the new #evermore #evermorealbum cluster over at @AtPost45

http://post45.org/sections/contemporaries/tis-the-damn-season-taylor-swifts-evermore/
'Introduction: from folklore to #evermore' by @JonathanSEllis #evermorealbum

"She revises herself, or almost does." http://post45.org/2020/12/introduction-from-folklore-to-evermore/
Introduction: from folklore to evermore

Taylor Swift has a reputation for many things. Dropping surprise albums is not one of them, at least not before this year.

http://post45.org/2020/12/introduction-from-folklore-to-evermore/
'Growing Sideways, Gazing Back' by @accommodatingly and @goldagoldah

"If you can take up with your hunky ex for a weekend and pretend you never left, pretend that you can go home again, why not?" #evermore #evermorealbum http://post45.org/2020/12/growing-sideways-gazing-back/
Growing Sideways, Gazing Back

But here’s the thing about queerness and childhood, queerness and teenage nostalgia and hometowns.

http://post45.org/2020/12/growing-sideways-gazing-back/
'Bad Songs about Bad Things' by @summerkimlee

"Swift's miscalculated errors, the moments when she falls out of public favor, assure that there's no ascendancy to universality through storytelling." #evermore #evermorealbum http://post45.org/2020/12/bad-songs-about-bad-things/
Bad Songs about Bad Things

So I’m not ready for Swift to be done with autofiction, even if we might be fatigued by the debates around it. This is not just because those “bad songs” about boys doing “bad things” are devastati...

http://post45.org/2020/12/bad-songs-about-bad-things/
'Taylor’s Sweet Escapes' by @Katherine_Ebury and @jtwelsch

"Her speakers teeter forever on the cusp of real escape." #evermore #evermorealbum http://post45.org/2020/12/taylors-sweet-escapes/
Taylor’s Sweet Escapes

2020 is the year Taylor Swift decided to take on William Wordsworth.

http://post45.org/2020/12/taylors-sweet-escapes/
'When She Was Seven' by @Ambientrumbling

"And then Swift resurrects her." #evermore #evermorealbum http://post45.org/2020/12/when-she-was-seven/
When She Was Seven

In folklore and evermore, Taylor Swift engages in a process of remembering and grieving, the songs registering loss even as they speak impossible things into existence.

http://post45.org/2020/12/when-she-was-seven/
'Slow, Swift Grief' by me

"I patch a tapestry of incongruous sentiment: frayed warp, frayed weft." #evermore #evermorealbum http://post45.org/2020/12/slow-swift-grief/
Slow, Swift Grief

 folklore suits my summer mood: its euphoric melancholia, its nostalgia, its living “for the hope of it all,” bears me along dusty desire lines.

http://post45.org/2020/12/slow-swift-grief/
'Some New Shit' by @HelenRingrow

"There is a lot of *language*: six out of the fifteen tracks display the 'explicit' sticker." #evermore #evermorealbum http://post45.org/2020/12/some-new-shit/
Some New Shit

evermore, then, as folklore’s sibling, continues to show us Swift as very much “on some new shit.”

http://post45.org/2020/12/some-new-shit/
'History As Metaphor' by @OliviaStowell

"Everything, for Swift, is subsumed by the personal. History becomes fashion. What, really, could be more American?" #evermore #evermorealbum http://post45.org/2020/12/history-as-metaphor/
History as Metaphor

Despite her apparent commitment to historical fiction, the cottagecore aesthetic of the “cardigan” and “willow” videos rarely bleeds into either album’s lyrics.

http://post45.org/2020/12/history-as-metaphor/
'Spirit Photography' by @hkatewilliams

"We flip through the images like a sheaf of photographs, all crisp-leaved romance, American yearning." #evermore #evermorealbum http://post45.org/2020/12/spirit-photography/
Spirit Photography

This intermingling of past, present, and future is evident in the lyrics to “marjorie,” which take the form of a eulogy, a conversation, an inheritance.

http://post45.org/2020/12/spirit-photography/
'Zelda, Daisy, Taylor: Beautiful Fools?' by @ElishaWise_

"Daisy and Zelda fit within #evermore's tapestry of women who [...] wish to shake off the role of the beautiful little fool and step out of men's shadows once and for all." #evermorealbum http://post45.org/2020/12/zelda-daisy-taylor-beautiful-fools/
Zelda, Daisy, Taylor: Beautiful Fools?

Daisy and Zelda fit within evermore’s tapestry of women who, to use a Swiftian phrase, wish to shake off the role of the beautiful little fool and step out of men’s shadows once and for all — and...

http://post45.org/2020/12/zelda-daisy-taylor-beautiful-fools/
'Somethin' Bout a Truck' by @JeffreyInsko

" #evermore represents Swift's explicit rejection of chest-thumping masculine pickup truck aesthetico-politics." #evermorealbum http://post45.org/2020/12/somethin-bout-a-truck/
Somethin’ ‘Bout a Truck

Here we arrive at what I think are the politics of evermore (and, to a lesser extent, of folklore), the release of which coincides with Swift’s awakened political consciousness . . .

http://post45.org/2020/12/somethin-bout-a-truck/
'folklore 2: folklore harder with a vengeance' by @pamthur

"I'm all for friendship revenge killings. Not enough of those in today's song landscapes." #evermore #evermorealbum http://post45.org/2020/12/folklore-2-folklore-harder-with-a-vengeance/
folklore 2: folklore harder with a vengeance

If I were granted a retrospective COVID time travel wish, I would have hibernated through 2020, emerging every couple of months to stock up on snacks and the new Taylor Swift album.

http://post45.org/2020/12/folklore-2-folklore-harder-with-a-vengeance/
'Old Romantics' by @JonathanSEllis

"By placing a feeling in a letter, it has nowhere to go, nowhere [...] to float away to." #evermore #evermorealbum http://post45.org/2020/12/old-romantics/
Old Romantics

If folklore is guided by Wordsworth’s spirit, evermore is haunted by the attitude and words of his friend Coleridge and their American heir, Dickinson.

http://post45.org/2020/12/old-romantics/
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