@@turningthetables It's a tough pick to be honest! Without sounding lame, all of the reactions you too do are always really good and you both have really open minds for music so its always a fun surprise to see what you listen to next, but what comes straight to mind are the Kendrick/drake beef reactions, melodrama and eternal sunshine and any of the mac miller videos!!!!
Taylor still owns Holiday House in R.I. and was there this August after her European tour ended. She was photographed w Travis, Patrick & Britanny Mahomes, Ryan Reynolds & Blake Lively, Bradley Copper & Gigi Hadid
I wish I could go back to when I listened to folklore and evermore for the first time. No record has come close to making me feel that way on first listen ever since.
Your dad's connection to Seven was so beautiful. The way he still remembers his friend's name is so sweet. I think everyone has a past friendship like that.
That almost made me cry because what he is feeling is exactly the feeling Taylor is writing about 😭 so beautiful how this music can connect us, truly a sign of a powerful song/writer
That song is so impactful, I am always in tears. It really does connect us. I was the one who had the father who was an abusive alcoholic father who always was screaming and yelling and I had a best friend that lived 2 doors down and my best friend was a boy, but his mom used to have me and my little brother stay the night with them all the time. There were several times that we watched my dad get pulled out of the house in his underwear getting arrested. Everyone in the neighborhood saw it. People used to try and bully my brother and I and I was so protective of my little brother. He knew nobody would ever mess with him after the first time he was physically attacked. I blacked out and lost my mind. We ended up having CPS remove my dad from our home and started getting family therapy and I got individual therapy. I also took anger management classes to help me with not being physically violent. I’m still work with a therapist to this day. We ended up leaving the neighborhood and by the time I was 16, I moved out of my parents house. It was so toxic. To be honest, my dad never changed and I try to think of him as a very sick person. That’s why watching this, with an amazing father and son who seem to have a great relationship honestly makes me cry. My brother and I both know we will never have that. We have accepted that. We have each other. ❤
You touched on something that Taylor does so well, that gets misconstrued. When fans say she’s an incredibly lyricist, people often expect Leonard Cohen’s cryptic poetry that will need to be deciphered to understand or something like that, but her lyrical prowess comes in the form of immediately drawing the listener into the situation and making them feel exactly what she’s describing, whether they’ve ever been in that situation or not. She’s absolutely brilliant in that regard.
Exactly. I feel like she’s tried to do something like the Leonard cohen cryptic stuff on ttpd, and while some of it worked don’t get me wrong, I think Taylor is at her best when she’s describing a universal feeling in a new context or through a new leave.
Yes! There is no song of hers that I really relate to but still many of them I feel for the characters. All Too Well - never been in that situation but it hits!
AND that she can’t really sing. If you really listen to her her phrasing while singing is as much a part of the story as the words. She is masterful with her voice
Honestly that whole song itches my brain. One of my other favorite lines from the album is from the same song. “I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere” Taylor went off in this song lol.
Finally someone mentioning 'I think your house is haunted your dad is always mad and that must be why ~~~' When I heard the bridge for the first time I cried for 10 minutes. Seven heals my childhood wounds. It's the song that made me obsessed with TS.
Seven broke me when I first heard it. I married my wife in 1972 and one of the first things she disclosed to me was how her father would best her up when he drank. She would try hiding in a closet but he knew where she was and she could see him through the slots in the door taking off his belt and she knew that at any time he would open that door and just whip her mercilessly. He's dead now.
Everyone else is commenting on the music but I just want to say that it is so incredibly touching and inspiring to see a dad and son duo who clearly love and respect each other so much. You guys clearly have a really good bond and it actually stole the show for me more than Taylor's music did. For context, this is the first video of yours I've seen and Folklore is my favorite Swift album. I'll for sure be checking out more of your channel!
Folklore is my favorite TS Album and makes me emotional.... but I am trying not to break down watching these two interact with each other! The daddy issues girlie in me... it embraces my heart to see such good dads.
there really is a reason why August is a popular song despite not being a single. that song is pure pop perfection and definitely one of the bests in her discography. even jack antonoff says it is one of his fave productions ever
@@HappyNBoyI would rather play it more often on other months because it’s sad and I don’t want to feel sad over the loss of a month I’m still in the middle of
I think what you guys mentioned at the end of the video is a direct reflection of your attitude toward every album I've listened to alongside you. You two are such empathetic listeners who truly appreciate music to the fullest. Thank you both for always sharing your thoughts with us! It's always so enjoyable.
This album randomly came up on my spotify during peak Covid and I was hooked instantly. Honestly Taylor has a lot of great songs and people who hate her just haven't really listened to her.
1. 3:05 the one 2. 5:37 cardigan!!!! 3. 8:23 The last great American dynasty 4. 12:18 Exile 5. 15:44 my tears ricochet 6. 18:50 mirrorball 7. 22:44 seven 8. 26:17 August 9. 28:42 this is me trying to 10. 32:19 illicit affairs 11. 34:35 invisible string 12. 36:31 mad women 13. 39:17 epiphany 14. 42:09 Betty 15. 45:29 Peace 16. 47:40 hoax I gotchu you guys 😉
epiphany will never not make me tear up. i remember listening to folklore the night it came out, mid 2020. we were all so scared, everyone we knew had lost someone to covid, we were terrified of the side effects and collectively grieving. i had been suppressing those feelings for months in order to keep myself together, but one night i listened to epiphany and just cried for hours. it helped me relieve everything that was bottled up, even if i wasn’t a healthcare professional. now, every time i listen to that song, i am thrown back to that moment in time. it’s truly a time capsule, it vocalizes that strange comunal feeling in a way that wasn’t cheesy or out of touch. it gets me every single time.
Yes! I was lost my job for 18 months due to Covid and I listened to this while doing puzzles late into to the night all that summer. She managed to capture the total feeling of ennui, uncertainty and fear of that time, while writing about all kinds of emotions.
Epiphany, and largely this album, was what got me through the fact that Covid had rendered me permanently damaged and disabled. Taylor got me through the year of grief and desperation and resignation. Epiphany allowed me to grieve.
@ I’m the same way! I haven’t been able to work since Covid because of the long term effects of it. It really sucks and I’m sorry you’ve had to deal with that too
Honestly, Mr. Dads inital though of "she's not gonna make it" is very valid. Her singing voice at the begining of her career ... not good. But, she's put in the work, remained true to her diaristic, confessional songwriting and it worked
Totally agree. I was kind of the same. I'm Gen X, so I ignored her for many years thinking she was too commercial country and too pop and I hate Top the 40 in those genres. Then folklore and evermore came out during the pandemic. Fast forward to now and I've been obsessed since then. She DEFINITELY put in the work to improve her singing. And I've learned that her lyrics really speak to me from different phases of my life. She's really got something for everyone.
Yeah it was a valid opinion at the time but Taylor really worked on her vocals and now she can definitely sing like ppl always try telling me she can't sing and then I realize that they probably only heard her singing from years ago and are basing their opinion off that but ppl need to realize that if they hear her sing now, they will see that she can actually sing
@IssabellaPerezCruz7 yes she can sing now versus my old opinion of her voice back in time but a hill I will die on is that she will never be a M. Shadows or Cornell
Folklore and evermore converted me from taylor sceptic to fan. Love these so much and as a person who just got into adulhood these really came at the right time for me.
Never watched one of these videos before but I saw a reaction to folklore on my feed and clicked... I love your dad's takes and opinions and would love you to show him evermore, he would adore that too!
The guitar on invisible string has a raised bridge which makes the cute plucky sound, I think if you watch the Long Pond version, you can see the guitar there, Taylor and Aaron talk about it there. It's a beautiful sound!!
it's good that you guys start with this album. as a long time swiftie (was 14 now I'm 28) i'd say that folklore and evermore is her magnum opus as an artist. it perfectly blends her country side with her experimental pop side, lyricism is very poetic and mature, and the storytelling is the most cohesive in concept.
Can I ask for your opinion on TTPD the anthology? I feel like most swifties say every new album is her greatest album, so I trust your opinion more because of this comment tbh. :)
@@sing2meh imma be honest with you it's her weakest (?) at least to me i think the stylistics choices, art direction, lyricism and the melodies are overused by her. out of 20+ songs, i only enjoy 3 because that's somewhat unique. TTPD feels like Midnights 2.0 i said that because im evermore she can make a full album with 15 songs that's sounds unique yet cohesive. TTPD tries to be cohesive but ended up sounds bland and the same.
Love seeing you guys react to classics like Melodrama and folklore so I can relive some of my favorite albums with yall. My taste in music is definitely more female(and kind of indie/pop) skewed, so seeing stuff like this is awesome. Some albums I recommend are: Solar Power, Evermore, Big Ideas (Remi Wolf), Pure Heroine, NO HANDS (Joey Valence & Brae), Found Heaven (Conan Gray), and NO THANK YOU (Little Simz).
Taylor has slowly grown on me this year. I found her a hard artist to get into just because of the sheer abundance of her discography. Now that I have listeners to all of her album I see why so many people follow her so closely. The way she weaves lyrics and concepts together is incredible. She definitely has mediocre overplayed songs but she also has an abundance of lyrical masterpieces. I would definitely recommend Evermore next.
What is so great about Taylor's music are the connections between the songs. Throughout her career, she created a sort of Tay-lore. One of the examples is the 'Peter losing Wendy' line. In a later album, there is an entire song called Peter that plays more on the idea of losing someone because of their refusal to grow up. There are a lot more instances and if you continue covering her, I think you'll notice some.
It's so interesting that 'the 1' made Kevin want to cry, because I find the song so calming and relaxing. It's a song about a lost love, but the music and the tone say to me that 'everything's gonna be okay.' It's a song I listen to when I'm feeling anxious and need to relax.
A song being calming, relaxing, and feeling like "everything's gonna be ok" is precisely why it might make someone cry. Those thing aren't mutually exclusive.
i've noticed that men really love this song! it's interesting bc i wouldn't say it's the saddest on the album but for some reason when I show folklore to men they always connect with this one over others!!
@@josepha133 she doesn't write most of her own stuff, and tell me how her writing is good ? It's the same song over an over again and most of lyrics are 1 liners that don't even connect to the next line
@@racci_fakes5951 she writes ALL of her music. You're seriously delusional if you think she writes the same song. 22 and Soon You'll Get Better, the same song? The sheer stupidity.
To your point about not being impressive live when she was starting out in my opinion Taylor Swift arguably wasnt that great vocally then. Her voice sounded thin and weak often. But her voice has improved soooo much because its matured over the years. Her writing, melodies and hooks have always been solid.
Yeah, I left a comment about this, too. Her voice was weaker and untrained, but she wrote honest, catchy songs about being a young woman and had great charisma, worked her ass off, and had the help of her parents. But it was always her songwriting that made her special: she's been writing her own damn good songs for over twenty years. AND she's obviously put forth major efforts in learning how to use her voice to its greatest extent. Love her.
I agree. I wish fans would just acknowledge that even now, her voice is not why she’s famous. She’s a skilled lyricist, and there’s nothing wrong with that. She has a very pleasant voice that carries her lyrics. Thats great!
Her voice was strong as a young kid, then hormones happen and can affect teen voices. If you sing through the hormonal changes the voice strengthens. I really feel like this happened with Taylor. I do lots of musical theatre with teens and I see it happen all the time
Folklore was also my entry point into Taylor's music in 2021. Within 6 months she and her music surpassed all of my life-long passions, was heartbroken when my concert in Vienna was cancelled. Folklore is my favorite piece of art I've ever experience, a timeless classic. Great reaction! Looking froward for more Taylor. Much love from russia.
Please do the rest of her discography! Even though she's the most popular artist on the planet rn, most people who haven't listened to her music underrestimate it.
So happy to see this! And yes her vocals have improved tremendously in the 18yrs she has been doing this. Just saw her in Miami last week and it was the best time of my life. Amazing show!
Nearly all of Taylor's lyrics have universal appeal. That's a key to why she became so beloved. But she's ALSO been writing for twenty years and uses her own life for inspiration. She's built a world with the accretion of hundreds of songs, allowing this intertextuality that rewards knowledge of past songs and personal details. So it's just an additional layer of the myriad potential meanings, not "THE" meaning.
oh my gosh, I've been waiting for this for a long time. how I wish I could go back in time and listen to folklore for the first time. This album is a masterpiece and establishes Taylor as the great artist that she is, refined, incredible songwriter. For me folklore is Taylor's best album, and of course we owe that to Joe Alwin, Jack and Aaron too. It was with this album in 2021, that I went from listening to some songs, to being a true fan of hers, and understanding the albums and the magic behind the compositions and the music. Happy to see this from 🇧🇷
YES. The Long Pond Sessions are a must. They give amazing insight to her songwriting on this album, and there some juicy extra musical moments/outros. And just to see the chemistry between Aaron, Jack, and Taylor is amazing!!
seven is actually my favourite taylor song of mine, its very personal and always reminds me of these beautiful people in my life and the melodies that just go along with it are somehow even more personal and just idk they make me starstruck for some reason, it is the song i listen when i need to sleep. I LOVED LOVED YOU DADS REACTION, ANALYSIS AND STORY HE RECALLED. this was such a beautiful reactionnn
really cool that you picked up on some of the English verbiage -- her partner of 4 years (at the time) was British, so makes sense that some of it seeped into her vocabulary
This was really enjoyable! Just on a side note: you seemed happy to hear her sing from an apologetic perspective in Betty but then realised she was the boy in that one lol. But she written songs where she admits to her own wrongdoings before - most notably in Afterglow, The Great War and in Happiness where she says they both made mistakes. She's not the self-righteous man hater that casual listeners sometimes accuse her of being.
its kind of funny. seven is my favourite taylor swift song, maybe one of my fave songs ever made and im rlly not a taylor swift fan (i just like folklore and evermore) but the reason i love that song so much is cause to me it sounds like my childhood best friend singing to me. i had an abusive step dad and thus never wanted to be home. i pretty much lived with her family (they lived right next to us) and it felt so nice seeing a normal family. our summers were the best. and we're not friends anymore now but whenever i listen to this song i think of her and i still feel so much genuine love for her. this song feels like both a love letter from and to her. i rlly miss those times which is weird cause i dont miss my step dad or the home we lived in but the world me and my best friend created was so magical. i cant listen to this song without crying (sorry for any mistakes english isnt my first language and im too lazy to check right now lol)
I grew up listening to Taylor but fell off for awhile with her music, but I remember this album and Evermore being just what I needed in that 2020 lockdown era and she's been killing it since! Love seeing people explore the depth of her discography for the first time!
So glad to see you guys diving into Taylor! I enjoy your other reactions, but no reactions are better to than TS reactions! Looking forward to more in the future! 🫶
OH MY GOSH. i don’t call myself a taylor fan, this is my favorite taylor album! the bluegrass and country jazz roots and her story telling is SO PHENOMENAL to me on this album. every song genuinely felt perfect. writing is perfect. production is perfect. vocal performance is perfect. it’s just GREAT MUSIC and i love it! i love this album. and loved this video!
I’m one of those people who was a huge taylor fan as a child, got back into her in 2020 and immediately as i fell my fandom with her slipping, but I saw her live in new orleans and she played my favorite song from speak now (and in her discography) and I’m becoming a superfan again! Folklore is the era where most people sat down but I was stood the entire time. this album is absolutely something special
If you watch Long Pond Studios Sessions they talk about how they connected on these songs. He would send her different little songs he wrote and she would get inspiration from them and write lyrics. A lot of the songs were written like this because they couldn’t be together due to COVID. So yes he helped write it which is why he has a writing credit. But she wrote the lyrics to his tune. He also said that he was impressed are the choices she made and they surprised him.
@@toreysmith5413 She didn't write just the lyrics, she wrote the vocal melodies as well. Aaron wrote the instrumentation/harmonies. Also, iirc, she wrote exile and betty by herself, instrumentation and all
i loooove this album, it was my first Taylor album that made me appreciate her on a new level, to this day it's still my favorite album along with evermore, so I'm happy you liked it!!!!
folklore is an absolute masterpiece, you see a different side of Taylor in this album and it’s truly beautiful. The emotion in exile from both artists is something words can’t even express.
Taylor still owns Holiday House! Edited to add: Taylor has a few songs where she talks about making decisions that led to harm in a relationship or led to a break up. They don't always get as much traction as her radio hits do, but they're out there. One popular one is called Back to December. She certainly doesn't see herself as perfect in relationships which I think is a common misconception. Loved this reaction, thank you! I feel like Evermore is another album in this vein that you should listen to next. Its my favorite of Taylor's!
I've only just started watching you guys so it's amazing getting to see you react to this. This album is somehow both timeless and very of it's time simultaneously. To me all her albums are great but this one truly is iconic. There's so many people, like you're dad, who for so many reasons either hadn't listened to Taylor in the first place or had fallen away from it and this album made them stop and reconsider. I'll be honest the first time I listened to Epiphany I cried my eyes out. Hearing her turn how express the helpless everyone was feeling into not just art but a reminder that we would get through it felt like being seen. Given your dad's love for it I really hope you decide to show him Evermore. Selfishly I'd love to hear his opinions on Margery.
I totally agree that you don’t need to know the lore to understand her songs, but knowing the label drama makes “and when you can’t sleep at night, you’ll hear my stolen lullaby” hit so much harder
Your reactions are goooooold!! I love hearing insight from people with a real background on music. You have no idea how many times I've listened to this album and to reactions of this album, and I heard a bunch of different and new things on these songs because of your comments. Thank you!! I would love to see you react to another taylor album ❤
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@@turningthetables this pushed me over, officially joining the patreon and doing a rewatch of all my favorite reactions, uncut omg
@@telephonewyre which ones are your favourites I’m very curious?!
@@turningthetables It's a tough pick to be honest! Without sounding lame, all of the reactions you too do are always really good and you both have really open minds for music so its always a fun surprise to see what you listen to next, but what comes straight to mind are the Kendrick/drake beef reactions, melodrama and eternal sunshine and any of the mac miller videos!!!!
@@turningthetables I just subscribed to Patreon, excited to see your upcoming reactions to Taylor and other albums!
Taylor still owns Holiday House in R.I. and was there this August after her European tour ended. She was photographed w Travis, Patrick & Britanny Mahomes, Ryan Reynolds & Blake Lively, Bradley Copper & Gigi Hadid
Kevin thinking "peter losing wendy," was a family guy reference has me ROLLING
Petah losing Lois
peter losing lois is one of the funniest things i've heard in a while
I’m dead lmao
HAHAHSHAHGAHXHH
@@georgeandfriendsadventures5073 LMFAO
This is her magnum opus, the record she was born to make
folklore and evermore are masterpiece
oh to hear folklore for the first time ever must be the best sentimental rollercoaster ever.
This is my first time. Very surprised
@@sirachasugarvery jealous. I remember the first time i heard this was the night it came out, laying in bed with the lights off. It was magical
@@sirachasugarsame!
@@sirachasugarif you liked it you should try evermore:) they’re sister albums and it’s my personal favorite of the two in terms of individual songs
I wish I could go back to when I listened to folklore and evermore for the first time. No record has come close to making me feel that way on first listen ever since.
Your dad's connection to Seven was so beautiful. The way he still remembers his friend's name is so sweet. I think everyone has a past friendship like that.
Her name immediately came to my mind when I read ur comment 😭😭😭 20 yrs later
@keridwenx6457 those friendships are so innocent yet they have such an impact!!
That almost made me cry because what he is feeling is exactly the feeling Taylor is writing about 😭 so beautiful how this music can connect us, truly a sign of a powerful song/writer
Seriously this comment. That was so beautiful
That song is so impactful, I am always in tears. It really does connect us. I was the one who had the father who was an abusive alcoholic father who always was screaming and yelling and I had a best friend that lived 2 doors down and my best friend was a boy, but his mom used to have me and my little brother stay the night with them all the time. There were several times that we watched my dad get pulled out of the house in his underwear getting arrested. Everyone in the neighborhood saw it. People used to try and bully my brother and I and I was so protective of my little brother. He knew nobody would ever mess with him after the first time he was physically attacked. I blacked out and lost my mind. We ended up having CPS remove my dad from our home and started getting family therapy and I got individual therapy. I also took anger management classes to help me with not being physically violent. I’m still work with a therapist to this day. We ended up leaving the neighborhood and by the time I was 16, I moved out of my parents house. It was so toxic. To be honest, my dad never changed and I try to think of him as a very sick person. That’s why watching this, with an amazing father and son who seem to have a great relationship honestly makes me cry. My brother and I both know we will never have that. We have accepted that. We have each other. ❤
i prayed for times like these
LITERALLY I havent even made it to the first song but this hour is abt to go crazy
NO LITERALLY
real
Thank you!
Is this their first TS reaction?
Okay but you can’t leave us high and dry after this. We need evermore reaction please. We beg.
PLEASE
i knew kevin was gonna be a folklore girlie hahahha
Mm not really
Why “girlie”?
@@UltimaFantasy oh pls
You touched on something that Taylor does so well, that gets misconstrued. When fans say she’s an incredibly lyricist, people often expect Leonard Cohen’s cryptic poetry that will need to be deciphered to understand or something like that, but her lyrical prowess comes in the form of immediately drawing the listener into the situation and making them feel exactly what she’s describing, whether they’ve ever been in that situation or not. She’s absolutely brilliant in that regard.
Exactly. I feel like she’s tried to do something like the Leonard cohen cryptic stuff on ttpd, and while some of it worked don’t get me wrong, I think Taylor is at her best when she’s describing a universal feeling in a new context or through a new leave.
It’s like reading my favorite books ❤
Yes! There is no song of hers that I really relate to but still many of them I feel for the characters. All Too Well - never been in that situation but it hits!
AND that she can’t really sing. If you really listen to her her phrasing while singing is as much a part of the story as the words. She is masterful with her voice
“They told me all of my cages were mental, so I got wasted like all my potential” itches my brain so good
God same
Honestly that whole song itches my brain. One of my other favorite lines from the album is from the same song. “I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere” Taylor went off in this song lol.
Finally someone mentioning 'I think your house is haunted your dad is always mad and that must be why ~~~'
When I heard the bridge for the first time I cried for 10 minutes. Seven heals my childhood wounds. It's the song that made me obsessed with TS.
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It’s the song that turn my brother into a fan
Seven was my surprise piano song in Pittsburg on fathers day. So damn good.
Seven broke me when I first heard it. I married my wife in 1972 and one of the first things she disclosed to me was how her father would best her up when he drank. She would try hiding in a closet but he knew where she was and she could see him through the slots in the door taking off his belt and she knew that at any time he would open that door and just whip her mercilessly. He's dead now.
You guys hit the nail on the head. Swifties are empaths. Big big empaths.
one of taylor’s best! this album and evermore are some of my personal favs
we’ve been eating good
I wish I liked her other albums as much as I like those two, I adore them both but I dont really connect with her other projects
@@favOriTe-v6ei feel the same way
@@favOriTe-v6e i love her other albums but i think of her as two separate artists for some reason lmao so i think it's fair
ever…more?
Everyone else is commenting on the music but I just want to say that it is so incredibly touching and inspiring to see a dad and son duo who clearly love and respect each other so much. You guys clearly have a really good bond and it actually stole the show for me more than Taylor's music did. For context, this is the first video of yours I've seen and Folklore is my favorite Swift album. I'll for sure be checking out more of your channel!
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Folklore is my favorite TS Album and makes me emotional.... but I am trying not to break down watching these two interact with each other! The daddy issues girlie in me... it embraces my heart to see such good dads.
@@kaylagoebel5443 Thank you :)
Highly recommend the lakes and then all of evermore. Your dad will love the stories in that one. She just kept going!
the story your dad shared about 'seven' brought me to tears. I hope his friend is doing okay
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there really is a reason why August is a popular song despite not being a single. that song is pure pop perfection and definitely one of the bests in her discography.
even jack antonoff says it is one of his fave productions ever
The vibes are simply immaculate
Plus, every year people play it like mad for the entire month of August.
@@HappyNBoyit's like her own version of all i want for christmas is you but like, in summer version lmao
The construction of August is absolute genius level composing. I’m impressed every time I hear it, and I hear it a lot lol.
@@HappyNBoyI would rather play it more often on other months because it’s sad and I don’t want to feel sad over the loss of a month I’m still in the middle of
I think what you guys mentioned at the end of the video is a direct reflection of your attitude toward every album I've listened to alongside you. You two are such empathetic listeners who truly appreciate music to the fullest. Thank you both for always sharing your thoughts with us! It's always so enjoyable.
This album randomly came up on my spotify during peak Covid and I was hooked instantly. Honestly Taylor has a lot of great songs and people who hate her just haven't really listened to her.
Ah, to hear folklore for the first time again 🥹
I wish I could listen to it for the first time again. It's just so gorgeous
I wish
SO excited to see y'all diving into Taylor's discography! I hope you end up doing more of her albums.
Ohhhh do Evermore (deluxe version) next because Right Where You Left Me has to be included! Loved this! :)
folklore is so good so is evermore cowboy like me is my all time favourite song and reputation a no skip album for sure
Rep was the album that made me a fan and folklore is my comfort album
Cowboy like me is really one of her best songs ever, so beautiful
@@Blvrryfool the gardens of babylon line is so clever and beautiful
@@keridwenx6457Same.👏👏👏The reputation era was when I became a fan👌
I like how this album is intimate, mysterious, if you pay attention you will find connections and parallel stories within the songs. really folkloric
1. 3:05 the one
2. 5:37 cardigan!!!!
3. 8:23 The last great American dynasty
4. 12:18 Exile
5. 15:44 my tears ricochet
6. 18:50 mirrorball
7. 22:44 seven
8. 26:17 August
9. 28:42 this is me trying to
10. 32:19 illicit affairs
11. 34:35 invisible string
12. 36:31 mad women
13. 39:17 epiphany
14. 42:09 Betty
15. 45:29 Peace
16. 47:40 hoax
I gotchu you guys 😉
thank youu❤
thanks ily
Bless
My hero
It's literally labeled in the timeline of the video y'all.
The outro to August needs to be used over the end credits of a coming-of-age movie where they drive off down the Pacific Coast Highway at sunset
epiphany will never not make me tear up. i remember listening to folklore the night it came out, mid 2020. we were all so scared, everyone we knew had lost someone to covid, we were terrified of the side effects and collectively grieving. i had been suppressing those feelings for months in order to keep myself together, but one night i listened to epiphany and just cried for hours. it helped me relieve everything that was bottled up, even if i wasn’t a healthcare professional. now, every time i listen to that song, i am thrown back to that moment in time. it’s truly a time capsule, it vocalizes that strange comunal feeling in a way that wasn’t cheesy or out of touch. it gets me every single time.
I was a Nurse during COVID and Epiphany was my lifeboat song!
Yes! I was lost my job for 18 months due to Covid and I listened to this while doing puzzles late into to the night all that summer. She managed to capture the total feeling of ennui, uncertainty and fear of that time, while writing about all kinds of emotions.
My favorite track
Epiphany, and largely this album, was what got me through the fact that Covid had rendered me permanently damaged and disabled. Taylor got me through the year of grief and desperation and resignation. Epiphany allowed me to grieve.
@ I’m the same way! I haven’t been able to work since Covid because of the long term effects of it. It really sucks and I’m sorry you’ve had to deal with that too
Honestly, Mr. Dads inital though of "she's not gonna make it" is very valid. Her singing voice at the begining of her career ... not good. But, she's put in the work, remained true to her diaristic, confessional songwriting and it worked
Totally agree. I was kind of the same. I'm Gen X, so I ignored her for many years thinking she was too commercial country and too pop and I hate Top the 40 in those genres. Then folklore and evermore came out during the pandemic. Fast forward to now and I've been obsessed since then. She DEFINITELY put in the work to improve her singing. And I've learned that her lyrics really speak to me from different phases of my life. She's really got something for everyone.
I've never been a natural, all I do is try try try.
"I'll change everything about myself to fit in"
Yeah it was a valid opinion at the time but Taylor really worked on her vocals and now she can definitely sing like ppl always try telling me she can't sing and then I realize that they probably only heard her singing from years ago and are basing their opinion off that but ppl need to realize that if they hear her sing now, they will see that she can actually sing
@IssabellaPerezCruz7 yes she can sing now versus my old opinion of her voice back in time but a hill I will die on is that she will never be a M. Shadows or Cornell
Folklore and evermore converted me from taylor sceptic to fan. Love these so much and as a person who just got into adulhood these really came at the right time for me.
Same here. There were a few Taylor songs I liked back before that, but these were the albums that hooked me. The production and vibe are impeccable
Never watched one of these videos before but I saw a reaction to folklore on my feed and clicked... I love your dad's takes and opinions and would love you to show him evermore, he would adore that too!
you CAN'T skip The Lakes! 🩷
The guitar on invisible string has a raised bridge which makes the cute plucky sound, I think if you watch the Long Pond version, you can see the guitar there, Taylor and Aaron talk about it there. It's a beautiful sound!!
it's good that you guys start with this album. as a long time swiftie (was 14 now I'm 28) i'd say that folklore and evermore is her magnum opus as an artist. it perfectly blends her country side with her experimental pop side, lyricism is very poetic and mature, and the storytelling is the most cohesive in concept.
Can I ask for your opinion on TTPD the anthology? I feel like most swifties say every new album is her greatest album, so I trust your opinion more because of this comment tbh. :)
@@sing2meh imma be honest with you it's her weakest (?) at least to me
i think the stylistics choices, art direction, lyricism and the melodies are overused by her. out of 20+ songs, i only enjoy 3 because that's somewhat unique. TTPD feels like Midnights 2.0
i said that because im evermore she can make a full album with 15 songs that's sounds unique yet cohesive. TTPD tries to be cohesive but ended up sounds bland and the same.
No matter how many album Taylor would release, I'll always go back to this album.
Love seeing you guys react to classics like Melodrama and folklore so I can relive some of my favorite albums with yall. My taste in music is definitely more female(and kind of indie/pop) skewed, so seeing stuff like this is awesome.
Some albums I recommend are: Solar Power, Evermore, Big Ideas (Remi Wolf), Pure Heroine, NO HANDS (Joey Valence & Brae), Found Heaven (Conan Gray), and NO THANK YOU (Little Simz).
Big ideas remi!
superache by conan gray too!!
found heaven💛💛💛💛
Thanks for noticing that tragic part of seven, i always cried everytime i heard that part from the song, it's just so heartbreaking 😢
Taylor has slowly grown on me this year. I found her a hard artist to get into just because of the sheer abundance of her discography. Now that I have listeners to all of her album I see why so many people follow her so closely. The way she weaves lyrics and concepts together is incredible. She definitely has mediocre overplayed songs but she also has an abundance of lyrical masterpieces. I would definitely recommend Evermore next.
What is so great about Taylor's music are the connections between the songs. Throughout her career, she created a sort of Tay-lore. One of the examples is the 'Peter losing Wendy' line. In a later album, there is an entire song called Peter that plays more on the idea of losing someone because of their refusal to grow up.
There are a lot more instances and if you continue covering her, I think you'll notice some.
No one understands this! Thank you for saying it ❤
love the vibes, guys! there's a song called "the lakes" on the deluxe version of this album, think you'll love it!
that turned out to be like one of my favorite songs of hers and maybe of all time. its so so beautiful
lakes/seven superiority
@@gillian6918 so poetic and incredibly thought out!
@@Cookiimusic what a vibe! me personally, i'd have to go with "the lakes" and "last great american dynasty"
this side of taylor have existed from her early albums. she just more refined now. you can see this album sprinkled across debut, fearless, speaknow,
“You drew stars around my scars
But now I’m bleeding” is the most iconic lyric out there I fear🔥
and "i knew you'd haunt all of my what ifs"
@@matti706 right!!
If that's the most iconic I fear for her fans 😂 she must be farming fans from brainrot tiktok
If that's the most iconic I fear for her fans 😂 she must be farming fans from brainrot tiktok
I don't get it. How could drawing stars around scars cause wounds to open up? Can someone please explain
i was never a swiftie till THIS album came out and my whole perspective was changed.
It's so interesting that 'the 1' made Kevin want to cry, because I find the song so calming and relaxing. It's a song about a lost love, but the music and the tone say to me that 'everything's gonna be okay.'
It's a song I listen to when I'm feeling anxious and need to relax.
A song being calming, relaxing, and feeling like "everything's gonna be ok" is precisely why it might make someone cry. Those thing aren't mutually exclusive.
Well…this song also makes me cry. So
i've noticed that men really love this song! it's interesting bc i wouldn't say it's the saddest on the album but for some reason when I show folklore to men they always connect with this one over others!!
@@allisongormley2195 very interesting….well I am a man and can confirm this one is a tearjerker for sure!
One of the best bondings a father and a son could have. Subscribed!
her best album till this day.
is evermore
Is Reputation 😊
1989 clears
Preach
TTPD:TA clears with ease
Him missing “leaving like a father, running like water” was the disappointment of the century
The twisted in bedsheets part had me crying with laughter
i always hoped to hear kevin’s thoughts on this album specifically, i’m sooo happy rn
I am once again begging for Ethel Cain 'Preacher's Daughter' !!!!!!!!!!
yesss!❤️
Omg plss!!
They will never recover
this album ruined me over and over
Omg yesssss. That album deserves more recognition. Masterpiece!
I'm convinced that those who criticise Taylor for her songwriting lack listening comprehension skills.
@@josepha133 she doesn't write most of her own stuff, and tell me how her writing is good ? It's the same song over an over again and most of lyrics are 1 liners that don't even connect to the next line
@@racci_fakes5951 she writes ALL of her music. You're seriously delusional if you think she writes the same song. 22 and Soon You'll Get Better, the same song? The sheer stupidity.
@@racci_fakes5951 she writes all of her own stuff, lol.
@@laparisiennerm google it, she doesn't.
@@racci_fakes5951 if that is your inference from listening to her songs then you are only proving my point
To your point about not being impressive live when she was starting out in my opinion Taylor Swift arguably wasnt that great vocally then. Her voice sounded thin and weak often. But her voice has improved soooo much because its matured over the years. Her writing, melodies and hooks have always been solid.
Yeah, I left a comment about this, too. Her voice was weaker and untrained, but she wrote honest, catchy songs about being a young woman and had great charisma, worked her ass off, and had the help of her parents. But it was always her songwriting that made her special: she's been writing her own damn good songs for over twenty years.
AND she's obviously put forth major efforts in learning how to use her voice to its greatest extent.
Love her.
The rerecord of Speak Now is proof of that!
I agree. I wish fans would just acknowledge that even now, her voice is not why she’s famous. She’s a skilled lyricist, and there’s nothing wrong with that. She has a very pleasant voice that carries her lyrics. Thats great!
Her voice was strong as a young kid, then hormones happen and can affect teen voices. If you sing through the hormonal changes the voice strengthens. I really feel like this happened with Taylor. I do lots of musical theatre with teens and I see it happen all the time
Folklore was also my entry point into Taylor's music in 2021. Within 6 months she and her music surpassed all of my life-long passions, was heartbroken when my concert in Vienna was cancelled. Folklore is my favorite piece of art I've ever experience, a timeless classic.
Great reaction! Looking froward for more Taylor. Much love from russia.
so excited to see you guys doing this album! probably one of my faves of all time. there’s just a magical energy about it that draws me in.
so happy you guys liked it!! exile is such a dad song i knew he was gonna love it
Oh we need evermore next it has some of her best writing
Please do the rest of her discography! Even though she's the most popular artist on the planet rn, most people who haven't listened to her music underrestimate it.
So happy to see this! And yes her vocals have improved tremendously in the 18yrs she has been doing this. Just saw her in Miami last week and it was the best time of my life. Amazing show!
This album is also my entry point to Taylor! she really put her heart and soul into folklore and evermore!
Nearly all of Taylor's lyrics have universal appeal. That's a key to why she became so beloved. But she's ALSO been writing for twenty years and uses her own life for inspiration. She's built a world with the accretion of hundreds of songs, allowing this intertextuality that rewards knowledge of past songs and personal details. So it's just an additional layer of the myriad potential meanings, not "THE" meaning.
yes, exactly!
oh my gosh, I've been waiting for this for a long time. how I wish I could go back in time and listen to folklore for the first time. This album is a masterpiece and establishes Taylor as the great artist that she is, refined, incredible songwriter.
For me folklore is Taylor's best album, and of course we owe that to Joe Alwin, Jack and Aaron too. It was with this album in 2021, that I went from listening to some songs, to being a true fan of hers, and understanding the albums and the magic behind the compositions and the music. Happy to see this from 🇧🇷
Okay now I *need* them to watch the Long Pond sessions, and hear her talk about her songwriting process.
YES. The Long Pond Sessions are a must. They give amazing insight to her songwriting on this album, and there some juicy extra musical moments/outros. And just to see the chemistry between Aaron, Jack, and Taylor is amazing!!
I BEG
would love to see this
Yes and live taylor is the best
seven is actually my favourite taylor song of mine, its very personal and always reminds me of these beautiful people in my life and the melodies that just go along with it are somehow even more personal and just idk they make me starstruck for some reason, it is the song i listen when i need to sleep. I LOVED LOVED YOU DADS REACTION, ANALYSIS AND STORY HE RECALLED. this was such a beautiful reactionnn
YES! I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS, I'M SO HAPPY
I think Kevin would really enjoy watching the folklore long pond studio sessions
really cool that you picked up on some of the English verbiage -- her partner of 4 years (at the time) was British, so makes sense that some of it seeped into her vocabulary
amazing reaction, loved seeing your dad reacting to it, i was so sure he'd enjoy this album. PLEASE bring evermore next!!!!
i have been waiting for this for YEARSSSS
You guys made me love folklore all over again 🫧🤌🏼😩🩶
Oh my god.. I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE!!! THANK YOU!!! Ahhhh so excited!!
This was really enjoyable! Just on a side note: you seemed happy to hear her sing from an apologetic perspective in Betty but then realised she was the boy in that one lol. But she written songs where she admits to her own wrongdoings before - most notably in Afterglow, The Great War and in Happiness where she says they both made mistakes. She's not the self-righteous man hater that casual listeners sometimes accuse her of being.
Back to December from Speak Now too!
@@dessieangel1021 yes!
Also Guilty as Sin 🫣
this feels like christmas
its kind of funny. seven is my favourite taylor swift song, maybe one of my fave songs ever made and im rlly not a taylor swift fan (i just like folklore and evermore) but the reason i love that song so much is cause to me it sounds like my childhood best friend singing to me. i had an abusive step dad and thus never wanted to be home. i pretty much lived with her family (they lived right next to us) and it felt so nice seeing a normal family. our summers were the best. and we're not friends anymore now but whenever i listen to this song i think of her and i still feel so much genuine love for her. this song feels like both a love letter from and to her. i rlly miss those times which is weird cause i dont miss my step dad or the home we lived in but the world me and my best friend created was so magical. i cant listen to this song without crying
(sorry for any mistakes english isnt my first language and im too lazy to check right now lol)
I grew up listening to Taylor but fell off for awhile with her music, but I remember this album and Evermore being just what I needed in that 2020 lockdown era and she's been killing it since! Love seeing people explore the depth of her discography for the first time!
i would do anything to listen to this album again for the first time
i’m very glad a spoken word version of thug story is in the same video as this folklore reaction
PLEASE WATCH HER LONG POD SESSIONS!!! it goes into depth with how she wrote the album
yay! one of my top 3 Taylor albums! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
i love how much you guys appreciate music and feel it deeply, when i watch I feel like I’m hearing it for the first time too i get goosebumps!!
This whole album makes me feel like I’m reading such an emotional book. 😩😩 her storytelling in this one hits in the feels. 💔
So glad to see you guys diving into Taylor! I enjoy your other reactions, but no reactions are better to than TS reactions! Looking forward to more in the future! 🫶
oh you will absolutely LOVE evermore.
OH MY GOSH. i don’t call myself a taylor fan, this is my favorite taylor album! the bluegrass and country jazz roots and her story telling is SO PHENOMENAL to me on this album. every song genuinely felt perfect. writing is perfect. production is perfect. vocal performance is perfect. it’s just GREAT MUSIC and i love it! i love this album. and loved this video!
I’m one of those people who was a huge taylor fan as a child, got back into her in 2020 and immediately as i fell my fandom with her slipping, but I saw her live in new orleans and she played my favorite song from speak now (and in her discography) and I’m becoming a superfan again! Folklore is the era where most people sat down but I was stood the entire time. this album is absolutely something special
i totally relate to loving her a kid, falling off, and then getting back into her in 2020!! what was the speak now song that was your favorite?
@@katiegrace9036 Haunted! my fav taylor song ever
Those NOLA shows were iconic
Aaron wrote Invisible String… he played the guitar part on his IG about 18 months before he got together with Taylor. Love what she did with it.
If you watch Long Pond Studios Sessions they talk about how they connected on these songs. He would send her different little songs he wrote and she would get inspiration from them and write lyrics. A lot of the songs were written like this because they couldn’t be together due to COVID. So yes he helped write it which is why he has a writing credit. But she wrote the lyrics to his tune. He also said that he was impressed are the choices she made and they surprised him.
@@toreysmith5413 She didn't write just the lyrics, she wrote the vocal melodies as well. Aaron wrote the instrumentation/harmonies.
Also, iirc, she wrote exile and betty by herself, instrumentation and all
OMG I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO SINCE I FIRST MET THIS CHANNEL
Omg, I have been requesting this to y'all for so long (on twitter lol). WE ARE SO BACKKK (Loved this!)
i loooove this album, it was my first Taylor album that made me appreciate her on a new level, to this day it's still my favorite album along with evermore, so I'm happy you liked it!!!!
folklore is an absolute masterpiece, you see a different side of Taylor in this album and it’s truly beautiful. The emotion in exile from both artists is something words can’t even express.
Taylor still owns Holiday House! Edited to add: Taylor has a few songs where she talks about making decisions that led to harm in a relationship or led to a break up. They don't always get as much traction as her radio hits do, but they're out there. One popular one is called Back to December. She certainly doesn't see herself as perfect in relationships which I think is a common misconception. Loved this reaction, thank you! I feel like Evermore is another album in this vein that you should listen to next. Its my favorite of Taylor's!
I feel like at this point she isn’t allowed to sell it lol
@@madeleinehoward3418she’s gotta put in her will to turn it into a cat sanctuary when she dies. 😂
I've only just started watching you guys so it's amazing getting to see you react to this.
This album is somehow both timeless and very of it's time simultaneously. To me all her albums are great but this one truly is iconic. There's so many people, like you're dad, who for so many reasons either hadn't listened to Taylor in the first place or had fallen away from it and this album made them stop and reconsider.
I'll be honest the first time I listened to Epiphany I cried my eyes out. Hearing her turn how express the helpless everyone was feeling into not just art but a reminder that we would get through it felt like being seen.
Given your dad's love for it I really hope you decide to show him Evermore. Selfishly I'd love to hear his opinions on Margery.
love this album SO much
After sleeping on this album for years, I went solo camping at Big Sur last summer and listened to this album front to back. A core memory.
What a time to listen to it around the beauty of nature you must’ve felt so many emotions
I totally agree that you don’t need to know the lore to understand her songs, but knowing the label drama makes “and when you can’t sleep at night, you’ll hear my stolen lullaby” hit so much harder
She dropped this and evermore in the same year, had them on repeat
Evermore will be great to see in the future
As a Swiftie I think a fun listen after this would be Midnights and then you could go back and listen to Evermore for the holidays
Favorite reaction channel ever. You guys vibe to everything and it’s so sweet 🫶🏽
Your reactions are goooooold!! I love hearing insight from people with a real background on music. You have no idea how many times I've listened to this album and to reactions of this album, and I heard a bunch of different and new things on these songs because of your comments. Thank you!! I would love to see you react to another taylor album ❤
I agree that’s why it’s my favorite every time you listen you hear something new ❤
Was not expecting this but so excited
Not a Swiftie but I'm tired of pretending this isn't one of the best albums of the decade
oh to hear folklore/evermore for the first time
I would pay so fucking much money to experience them for the first time again