Evermore

Evermore (stylized in all lowercase) is the ninth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was surprise-released on December 11, 2020, through Republic Records. Swift conceived Evermore as a "sister record" to its predecessor, Folklore, which had been released in July. She recorded Evermore mainly with Aaron Dessner at his Long Pond Studio in the Hudson Valley. Evermore expands on Folklore s escapist fantasy songwriting with fictional narratives and delves into the imaginary world Swift had ideated while self-isolating during the COVID-19 pandemic. The lyrics depict uneasy emotions like longing, grief, nostalgia, and regret, which stem from unhappy endings caused by complications like forbidden love, divorce, and infidelity. Evermore features an acoustic and atmospheric alternative pop, chamber rock, folk-pop, indie folk, and indie rock soundscape. Its spare arrangements and orchestrations consist of fingerpicked guitars, pianos, strings, subtle synths, and programmed drums. Haim, the National, and Bon Iver appear as featured artists. Evermore was supported by three singles, each released to a different radio format in the United States. "Willow", released to contemporary hit radio, peaked atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart, while "No Body, No Crime" and "Coney Island" were released to country and alternative radio.…

Evermore (stylized in all lowercase) is the ninth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was surprise-released on December 11, 2020, through Republic Records. Swift conceived Evermore as a "sister record" to its predecessor, Folklore, which had been released in July. She recorded Evermore mainly with Aaron Dessner at his Long Pond Studio in the Hudson Valley. Evermore expands on Folklore s escapist fantasy songwriting with fictional narratives and delves into the imaginary world Swift had ideated while self-isolating during the COVID-19 pandemic. The lyrics depict uneasy emotions like longing, grief, nostalgia, and regret, which stem from unhappy endings caused by complications like forbidden love, divorce, and infidelity. Evermore features an acoustic and atmospheric alternative pop, chamber rock, folk-pop, indie folk, and indie rock soundscape. Its spare arrangements and orchestrations consist of fingerpicked guitars, pianos, strings, subtle synths, and programmed drums. Haim, the National, and Bon Iver appear as featured artists. Evermore was supported by three singles, each released to a different radio format in the United States. "Willow", released to contemporary hit radio, peaked atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart, while "No Body, No Crime" and "Coney Island" were released to country and alternative radio. Evermore reached number one and was certified multi-platinum in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. In the United States, it was Swift's eighth consecutive number-one debut on the Billboard 200 chart and was the best-selling alternative album of 2021, being certified four-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Music critics opined that Evermore was musically bold and experimental while expanding on the styles of Folklore. Many reviews lauded Swift's songwriting, deeming the character studies intricate and the narratives well-constructed. Some were more reserved in their praise and considered the album less groundbreaking than its predecessor. Evermore appeared in various publications' rankings of the best albums of 2020, and some listed it alongside Folklore. At the 64th Annual Grammy Awards in 2022, Evermore was nominated for Album of the Year. " is a tribute to Swift's maternal grandmother, Marjorie Finlay (pictured in 1949), who was an opera singer.|alt=Black and white portrait of Marjorie Finlay "Marjorie" is Swift's tribute to her maternal grandmother, Marjorie Finlay, an opera singer who died when Swift was 13. Its lyrics consist of Finlay's advice to her granddaughter, Swift's longing for her grandmother and yearning to keep her memory alive. Its gentle production incorporates rhythmic electronic synth pulses, warm piano, pizzicato strings, and samples Finlay's soprano vocals, taken from old records of her singing that Swift found. "Closure", described by various critics as the most experimental track on Evermore, is built in , an odd time signature. Its instrumentation incorporates clattering, industrial-sounding electro-rock drums and acoustic piano. The lyrics of "Closure" are directed at a pretentious ex-lover: the narrator finds their act of reaching out patronizing, telling the ex-lover that there is no need for them to act out of pretentious amity. The album's closing track for the standard edition, "Evermore", is a piano ballad that progresses into a dramatic bridge with a tempo shift, where Swift is joined midway by Vernon's multitracked falsetto in a call and response. In the lyrics, Swift's narrator struggles through the dark days of November and December and eventually realizes that all the pain and depression is not permanent; she was influenced by the tough times she went through in 2016 and the uncertainty surrounding the 2020 US elections. The two bonus tracks of Evermore, "Right Where You Left Me" and "It's Time To Go", expand on the indie folk sound. "Right Where You Left Me" is a folk-pop track with country influences, incorporating banjo, harmonica, harmonium, and twangy guitars that distort towards the conclusion. It depicts a female narrator's entrapment in heartbreak: she is still hurt over the moment that her ex-boyfriend left her in a restaurant years ago, comparing her own existence to that of a ghost, frozen in time, using imagery of dim lights, dropped hairpins, shattered glasses, and collected dust. In "It's Time to Go", the narrator details her decisions to leave an unhappy marriage in the first verse, to exit a toxic work environment in the second, and to stand up against a greedy person who had imprisoned her in the third. Musically, the track begins as an indie pop song set against insistent piano and one-note guitar sounds, before surging at the end with drums and slide guitar. ===Citations===

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