every song on evermore explained in 8 minutes

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in honor of taylor's birthday and the fact that i've been listening to evermore nonstop, i decided to create a video that explains all 15 songs on the standard version of evermore in a simple way. hopefully you find this video helpful. of course, this video does not go into vivid detail, and none of the explanations are concrete. as we all know, taylor likes to leave her music up for interpretation for the most part, but this just covers the surface!
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intro: 0:00
willow: 0:27
champagne problems: 1:01
gold rush: 1:37
'tis the damn season: 2:01
tolerate it: 2:29
no body, no crime: 2:56
happiness: 3:45
dorothea: 4:18
coney island: 4:48
ivy: 5:04
cowboy like me: 5:27
long story short: 5:57
marjorie: 6:18
closure: 6:43
evermore: 7:15
outro: 7:37

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  • @MadisonGraceN
    @MadisonGraceN3 жыл бұрын

    thank you so much for all of your kind comments on this video! because this was made only two days after the album came out, the explanations are not fully developed and may be incomplete. i've been loving reading your theories in the comments, and after listening to the album many, MANY more times, i agree with a lot of you! i hope this video helped to just scratch the surface of the album. i would love to create a more in-depth video if anyone is interested!

  • @taiagumon

    @taiagumon

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yessss! Make a more in depth video please. 🙌🙏🙏🙏

  • @liisahamilton9136

    @liisahamilton9136

    3 жыл бұрын

    you should do one for foklore

  • @dariadaniellemusic

    @dariadaniellemusic

    3 жыл бұрын

    Definitely do more! I just got into Taylor's music over the last year so I have a lot of catching up to do haha

  • @brookemckinley5709

    @brookemckinley5709

    3 жыл бұрын

    Loved the video!! You should really do more videos like this!!

  • @brookemckinley5709

    @brookemckinley5709

    3 жыл бұрын

    Daria U should also watch Lauren Lipman. She has a ton of videos on Taylor and her songs 😊 it’s always fun for me to watch different people talk about her albums

  • @i_dont_talk_that_much
    @i_dont_talk_that_much3 жыл бұрын

    13 on Folklore - Epiphany (her grandfather) 13 on Evermore - Marjorie (her grandmother) (13 is her favorite number, 13 is her favorite people)

  • @moose3474
    @moose34743 жыл бұрын

    Taylor also said ‘Tolerate It’ is based on/inspired by the book Rebecca. It’s about a woman married to a man who she believes is still in love with dead ex wife Rebecca. He treats her exactly how it is described in the song.

  • @rocioveraortega5390

    @rocioveraortega5390

    3 жыл бұрын

    there´s a movie on netflix based on that book

  • @elrondisaiah

    @elrondisaiah

    3 жыл бұрын

    *Rebekah

  • @JoaoGabriel-fm3ho

    @JoaoGabriel-fm3ho

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@elrondisaiah not really, it's called Rebecca.

  • @chuakooleenashley3282

    @chuakooleenashley3282

    3 жыл бұрын

    How about ivy?

  • @windowseher

    @windowseher

    3 жыл бұрын

    daphne du maurier! my mom loves that book!

  • @saratodd5677
    @saratodd56773 жыл бұрын

    This is so interesting! Honestly I love Taylor's mind, it's like she's telling a whole book in the space of 3 or 4 minutes.

  • @habersimemuero9127

    @habersimemuero9127

    2 жыл бұрын

    Because in a song you can express much more than with words in a book in less time because of the melody

  • @MissNymwhen
    @MissNymwhen3 жыл бұрын

    The line about the tires aludes to tires being used to identify murderers. Muddy tires because you berried someone in the woods, or tires linking a crime scene to a crime.

  • @danielachamorro8783

    @danielachamorro8783

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ooh I hadn’t thought of this! Her MIND!

  • @hkimberly

    @hkimberly

    3 жыл бұрын

    exactly what i was always thinking! finally found someone who had the same thought haha

  • @ellenjohnson3361

    @ellenjohnson3361

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@hkimberly I was about to comment this lol, I watch too much true crime I just knew

  • @amna6842

    @amna6842

    3 жыл бұрын

    At first I thought it meant he murdered Este by running her over thus the new tires

  • @peptobismolveins

    @peptobismolveins

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@amna6842 I also thought the same, that he ran her overt then mud cause he buried her.

  • @rafaelsalinas9540
    @rafaelsalinas95403 жыл бұрын

    In my head, Coney Island is a song written from the perspective of a couple going through a divorce, only for the husband to die in a car accident before it’s finalized. The song takes place as she and his ghost recall why they were leaving each other before his death. Or at least that’s what i think based on the bridge when he says “when i go into the accident the sight that flashed before me was your face” and she follows it with “but when i walked up to the podium i think that i forgot to say your name.” Meaning he likely died in the accident and she forgot to say his name while giving his eulogy because she felt so disconnected from him already.

  • @MadisonGraceN

    @MadisonGraceN

    3 жыл бұрын

    wow this is good!

  • @rafaelsalinas9540

    @rafaelsalinas9540

    3 жыл бұрын

    @RUTH SCHWEISTHAL Taylor wrote coney island with her boyfriend joe. i don’t think she’d care to write each line in the bridge dedicated to her ex boyfriends lol

  • @zaradittu95

    @zaradittu95

    3 жыл бұрын

    Omg this is literally what I felt when I heard the song!!

  • @fairysaurus7557

    @fairysaurus7557

    3 жыл бұрын

    @RUTH SCHWEISTHAL exactly! "did I paint your skies the darkest gray" In dear John she sings about him turning her blue skies to gray

  • @tenleeso10

    @tenleeso10

    3 жыл бұрын

    @RUTH SCHWEISTHAL Also the "Were you standing in the hallway with a big cake happy birthday" is a reference to The Moment I Knew and "When I got into the accident the sight that flashed before me was your face" is a reference to Out Of The Woods where she sings "Remember when you hit the breaks too soon 20 stitches in the hospital room when you started crying baby I did too when the sun came up I was looking at you".

  • @Sofi-cm2bw
    @Sofi-cm2bw3 жыл бұрын

    is it just me or gold rush could be joe's perspective when he first met Taylor? also "what must it be like to grow up that beautiful?" could be about her growing up in the media idk if this makes sense

  • @CorinneA3

    @CorinneA3

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ohhhh that's a really cool interpretation

  • @saara7844

    @saara7844

    3 жыл бұрын

    thats so intresting! ive never thought of ithat

  • @lawlersweeney

    @lawlersweeney

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ooooo that would be really cool

  • @selfishmango5116

    @selfishmango5116

    3 жыл бұрын

    When I song that song , I sing with her in my mind, what must it be like to grow up that beautiful!!! I love herb❤️

  • @blameitoncapitalism

    @blameitoncapitalism

    2 жыл бұрын

    it makes more sense being her own perspective about him tho, cuz she's the one who is ALWAYS talking about how everybody is supposedly obsessed with him and feeling threatened by other girls liking him: "there's a lot of cool chicks out there" "everyone who sees you wants you" "your the kinda guy the ladyes wants" "do the girls back home touch you like I do" "the ladies had their stories about when you pass through town but that was all before I locked it down" "he better lock it down or I won't stick around cuz good ones never wait" "stay here honey I don't wanna SHARE" "if you got a gf, I'm jealous of her" "all eyes on you my magician, I'm so chill but you make me jealous" "I don't wanna miss you like the other girls do". she's constantly talking about how she is feeling threatened by other girls, from is past and present as well, for he is sooooo attractive to everyone and so incredibly gorgeous - according to her. "you should think about the consequences of you magnetic field being a little too strong" "that's a dazzling haze, a mysterious way about you dear", the whole song Gorgeous... so yeah. Taylor is the one sho sees Joe like that.

  • @cameronhamilton5000
    @cameronhamilton50003 жыл бұрын

    no body no crime is AMAZING. it’s like the entire sherlock series in a song.

  • @treearoha
    @treearoha3 жыл бұрын

    The brand new tires in NBNC I believe is because he disposed of the body in his truck and had to get new tires so any tracks at the crime scene won’t match his truck tires.

  • @MadisonGraceN

    @MadisonGraceN

    3 жыл бұрын

    yes this could definitely be it!

  • @drpigglesnuudelworte5209
    @drpigglesnuudelworte52092 жыл бұрын

    I believe ivy is Taylor’s best song lyrically. -Ivy is a symbol of fidelity, but she uses it as a metaphor for infidelity. -Ivy covering a house will eventually destroy that house -“my pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand…my house of stone, your ivy grows, and now I’m covered in you” when you die your body becomes cold, and house of stone could be in reference to a tombstone which adds to the death imagery and fits with how the “old widow goes to the stone everyday” -The protagonist says that their husband will “burn this house to the ground” but ivy is actually fire resistant ;)

  • @immsea
    @immsea3 жыл бұрын

    "No body, no crime" is also a continuation of another song of hers "Should've said no" because of the storyline and the chords that you can hear at the beginning of NBNC, which are the same ones in SSN

  • @MadisonGraceN

    @MadisonGraceN

    3 жыл бұрын

    yes!! i noticed this too

  • @willowwillow1046
    @willowwillow10463 жыл бұрын

    I think the brand new tires is not about este slashing it but the husband changed it after he buried este, so that there's no evidence that he did it.

  • @MadisonGraceN

    @MadisonGraceN

    3 жыл бұрын

    yes after listening more and reading your theories i agree!

  • @hannahmontana4401

    @hannahmontana4401

    3 жыл бұрын

    yea

  • @user-ie8mv1zy1u

    @user-ie8mv1zy1u

    3 жыл бұрын

    This is what I thought too

  • @hannahmontana4401

    @hannahmontana4401

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes, I agree because police would look for somebody with those tire marks if he killed her then buried her in the woods or something like that. The slashing doesn't really fit the scenario unless taylor slashed them

  • @just_in_key
    @just_in_key3 жыл бұрын

    timestamp for anyone who needs it 0:27 willow 1:01 champagne problems 1:37 gold rush 2:01 'tis the damn season 2:29 tolerate it 2:56 no body, no crime 3:45 happiness 4:18 dorothea 4:48 coney island 5:04 ivy 5:27 cowboy like me 5:57 long story short 6:18 marjorie 6:43 closure 7:15 evermore

  • @lenahehe565

    @lenahehe565

    3 жыл бұрын

    thank you ily

  • @astoldb
    @astoldb3 жыл бұрын

    I think Happiness is more about how your relationship can end badly but it doesn't mean you didn't have good memories from it? Like referenced from the bridge about how a good man can hurt you and you can hurt him too. Like it's getting over the relationship and accepting that it doesn't mean you can't find love again bc a good thing didn't work out. Anyway, enjoyed the video! Happy holidays!

  • @MadisonGraceN

    @MadisonGraceN

    3 жыл бұрын

    yea definitely! thank you and you too :)

  • @80kokoro

    @80kokoro

    3 жыл бұрын

    This was my interpretation of the song too. "There is happiness after you, but there was happiness because of you, both of these things can be true" - meaning the relationship is over and I will find happiness again but I can still acknowledge that what we had was good and I was happy

  • @wendyromero2463

    @wendyromero2463

    3 жыл бұрын

    Me too!

  • @emilym9390

    @emilym9390

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@80kokoro yes absolutely!

  • @saswatibhattacharjee7049
    @saswatibhattacharjee70493 жыл бұрын

    I wasn't really a swiftie before quarantine, and just liked a few of her songs like 'Black Space' and 'You belong with me'. Just those two. But 2020 made me a HUGE swiftie... especially my bestie. D A M, Taylor's a Queen. And Selena Gomez also helped me become a swiftie through her friendship with Taylor. Oh, and also, Dorothea is dedicated to Selena Gomez, thought yaa should know :)

  • @MadisonGraceN

    @MadisonGraceN

    3 жыл бұрын

    welcome to the club :)

  • @saswatibhattacharjee7049

    @saswatibhattacharjee7049

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Madison Grace Thank you 😊

  • @avanidugar6932

    @avanidugar6932

    3 жыл бұрын

    I think Dorothea is about the boy's perspective from tis the damn season... it's also about leaving someone and Taylor wonders if they think about her. So it's definitely not about Selena cause she never left Taylor's side.

  • @douaemar3644

    @douaemar3644

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@avanidugar6932 Agree it's from the guy of tis the damn season perpective but I believe its inspired a lot by selena but its not abt her

  • @Meandtherhythm_

    @Meandtherhythm_

    3 жыл бұрын

    Welcome to the clowing 🤡

  • @ryannlewis3955
    @ryannlewis39553 жыл бұрын

    Does anyone think that tolerate it and coney island are connected as well? Like in coney island they are talking about not appreciating their significant other until they were gone and apologizing for that and in tolerate it she is saying that she doesn't feel appreciated

  • @MadisonGraceN

    @MadisonGraceN

    3 жыл бұрын

    definitely!

  • @tavleenkaur6164

    @tavleenkaur6164

    3 жыл бұрын

    I love Coney Island

  • @neeliknowsnothing

    @neeliknowsnothing

    3 жыл бұрын

    I think ivy & tolerate it can both be connected to Coney Island & it's time to let go or No Body No Crime. It's like two different paths that the estranged partners could take

  • @fabi45

    @fabi45

    3 жыл бұрын

    I feel like tolerate can also be from a paternal POV. It can also be a romantic way, but the way is described and how she tells it sounds more from a love that you are supposed to feel

  • @mikarinrolls
    @mikarinrolls3 жыл бұрын

    The bridges of long story short and The Story of Us are quite interesting. In TSOUS, she sang “this is looking like a contest of who can act like they care less”, and then in LSS she said “no more keeping score now, I just keep you warm”. That’s growth.

  • @headrush8535

    @headrush8535

    3 жыл бұрын

    It would make more sense to connect it to So It Goes... "You did a number on me, but honestly baby who's counting?"

  • @maddiedoesntkno
    @maddiedoesntkno3 жыл бұрын

    Ack. Ok but champagne problems is legit slang. It’s a sort of ‘first world problems’ kind of thing. Like ‘oh poor you-you have all this and this and this but she won’t marry you/he wants to marry you and you don’t want that? Yeah, that must be _really hard.’_

  • @esmex2242

    @esmex2242

    3 жыл бұрын

    but it’s also meant literally right? like they bought all this champagne to celebrate the engagement and then it never happened so they didn’t know what to do with all the champagne, a literal champagne problem... so it’s sort of a double meaning?

  • @priyadarshinipatankar994

    @priyadarshinipatankar994

    3 жыл бұрын

    More like "sham-pain" problems

  • @vandana770

    @vandana770

    3 жыл бұрын

    I don't get it? Everyone experiences love and heartbreak. And it's just a song lol

  • @upscaleavenue

    @upscaleavenue

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@vandana770 Have you heard the song?

  • @upscaleavenue

    @upscaleavenue

    3 жыл бұрын

    I think that's what makes the song so interesting - the character is acknowledging that the situation is a problem that some people would only have the _privilege_ of complaining about, but she's simultaneously honoring it and how deeply it impacted her. Like: "yeah, these are champagne problems, but they still hurt."

  • @kerrie6084
    @kerrie60843 жыл бұрын

    I love Taylor Swift's new songwriting style so much!! I think it's a great career move to because after so many albums focusing on her own experiences, this can really help add variety to her work x

  • @GamrTamr
    @GamrTamr3 жыл бұрын

    Ok BUT can we all just take a sec to appreciate the quality of this video and how informative and to-the-point it is???

  • @MadisonGraceN

    @MadisonGraceN

    3 жыл бұрын

    omg thank you!!!

  • @izzyd3857
    @izzyd38573 жыл бұрын

    I always thought Ivy was about someone struggling to move on after their spouse dies, so they feel like they owe their love to their dead spouse and feel guilty for moving on.

  • @myleneminer1265
    @myleneminer12653 жыл бұрын

    Ivy also symbolizes fidelity, making the title of the song very ironic because the wife is having an affair. Or maybe in some way, she's actually faithful towards the person she's having an affair with because she loves them and her husband doesn't love her. Either way, it's not a coincidence that the song is called "Ivy" because it's Taylor obviously!

  • @SunxSurfxSand

    @SunxSurfxSand

    11 ай бұрын

    I wish I understood this song better! It was my steps song and I don’t think I fully appreciated like I wish I had

  • @kumarpandey100

    @kumarpandey100

    7 ай бұрын

    "Ivy" documents a married woman's infidelity, much like Gilbert's supposed cheating on her husband with Dickinson. Emily Dickinson was very close to her sister-in-law, Susan Gilbert, and many scholars interpret their relationship as a romantic one. A mythology developed around "Ivy" that one of Swift's influences for the track was the alleged affair between the poet and her brother's wife. Among the clues: Swift released Evermore on December 10, Dickinson's birthday. Dickinson ends one of her poems addressed to Gilbert with "forevermore."

  • @eshanatiti1733

    @eshanatiti1733

    6 ай бұрын

    sorry i dont understand your last line, what does it mean that it isn't a coincidence that its called ivy? /gen !! thank u 4 the explanation

  • @eshanatiti1733

    @eshanatiti1733

    6 ай бұрын

    completely agree !!! such a beautiful interpretation that makes a lot of sense given how wlw this song & evermore and folklore are @@kumarpandey100

  • @janselongkengco8395
    @janselongkengco83953 жыл бұрын

    Taylor is a genius when it comes to song writing, her choose of words and the story of every song she make, SHE'S A QUEEN

  • @emilymarie5263
    @emilymarie52633 жыл бұрын

    This was so good! Thank you! I haven’t even heard the full album yet, but I heard “no body no crime” and fell in love with it, because I love true crime. I couldn’t finish listening to the album because I thought I heard connections between songs (which I’m obsessed with, I love albums that tell stories) and was trying to search for an explanation.

  • @MadisonGraceN

    @MadisonGraceN

    3 жыл бұрын

    that’s awesome, i’m so glad this helped!!

  • @kpineapple2792
    @kpineapple27923 жыл бұрын

    Champagne problems is my fave from this album too! I love this album but it always makes me want to cry 😭 it’s so beautiful and full of emotion. Thanks for making this :)

  • @talytadossantoscapitandias1106
    @talytadossantoscapitandias11063 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for that! Seeing your video really validated my hypothesis. I think the track “coney island” is about the same couple we see on “tolerate it”, in which case she really didn’t left him and then he died and regretted all the indifference he showed her. Also, in my mind, the widow on “ivy” is the same person from those tracks.

  • @MadisonGraceN

    @MadisonGraceN

    3 жыл бұрын

    ooh yes love that!!

  • @steveb.7278

    @steveb.7278

    3 жыл бұрын

    I definitely agree that Tolerate It, Ivy, and Coney Island are related! I almost see it as a complete story, where the wife first feels neglected by her husband (Tolerate It) to the point where she seeks out attention from another man (Ivy), and all of the negativity ultimately leads to the couple’s demise / end of life (depending on how you interpret the exchange with the accident and forgetting his name at the podium)(Coney Island). I also think Happiness can be linked to these as well because the narrator learns that there were lots of pros and cons to the relationship and despite the relationship ending, both parties know that the other brought happiness into their lives in various ways and they’ll find happiness from other sources going forward.

  • @talytadossantoscapitandias1106

    @talytadossantoscapitandias1106

    3 жыл бұрын

    Steve B. I like your theory and definitely will listen close the next time I hear the album, but I think the husband from “ivy” really cared about his wife to the point where he would get jealous. The husband from “tolerate it” is indifferent, I feel like he wouldn’t care if she got involved with someone else. I still think “ivy” is related to “coney island” in the sense that on one side we have the neglected widow grieving and on the other the beloved wife that cheats. Two extremes of being married, different kinds of pain - but still pain.

  • @akakyndellashby
    @akakyndellashby3 жыл бұрын

    also, did anyone notice taylor’s reference to Wonderland in long story short?

  • @90strend38

    @90strend38

    3 жыл бұрын

    The " rabbit hole " part?

  • @gabyrez1641

    @gabyrez1641

    3 жыл бұрын

    OMG YES

  • @juanabasalem4604
    @juanabasalem46042 жыл бұрын

    I fell like evermore doesn’t get enough love like this is the best song writing I’ve ever seen like the storytelling of each song is so detailed and good that I can visualize it as I’m listening to the song like no body no crime whenever I listen to it I create the settings described in the song all in my mind just like I normally do when I read books in shorter words taylor is genius

  • @raziabegum6776
    @raziabegum67763 жыл бұрын

    It's like a book you never want to end , because reading it is like home again .....

  • @sophia7881
    @sophia78813 жыл бұрын

    in ivy, the lyrics "he's in the room, your opal eyes are all i wish to see, he wants whats only yours" makes me think that the person she's singing about also has a husband, which means she's singing about a woman! :)

  • @paulaw5705

    @paulaw5705

    3 жыл бұрын

    Why? Person who she is promised to wants whats only she has given to the man she really loves.

  • @kayleymps

    @kayleymps

    3 жыл бұрын

    i saw a lot of people were thinking it was about cottagecore lesbians... idek-

  • @nicoleflores871

    @nicoleflores871

    3 жыл бұрын

    YESS Also when Taylor says "and the old widow go to the stone everyday" I think She's talking about the person with she is cheating her husband. And she say "widow" so it is a woman. If you analize all the lyrics again You will notice that the song talked about a woman who had a husband that doesn't love her, and so she fall in love with another woman ( who is widow, bc her husband die). But they can't stay together because of the husband of the first woman.

  • @benjaminsierra5664

    @benjaminsierra5664

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@paulaw5705 She might have pretended that she wanted the man in a time where they could've been killed for being homosexual.

  • @headrush8535

    @headrush8535

    3 жыл бұрын

    I disagree.

  • @oliv.ianailart
    @oliv.ianailart3 жыл бұрын

    I've been a fan of Haim since 2016 and when I heard that Taylor was doing a song with them I was so excited. no body, no crime is definitely my favorite on the album. Also, I loved this video, it was so helpful! Lysm!!!

  • @emilyrudolph2922
    @emilyrudolph29223 жыл бұрын

    I think in “no body no crime” when she says she noticed his new tires - he got the life insurance money. :)

  • @americangirlhearts558
    @americangirlhearts5583 жыл бұрын

    Happy bday Taylor! You’re a queen!

  • @meandmydolls1467
    @meandmydolls14673 жыл бұрын

    This came up on my recommendations and it’s AMAZING! The whole video was so well thought out. IMy favourites on the album are gold rush, evermore, and ivy . :)

  • @EnchantedReader89
    @EnchantedReader893 жыл бұрын

    Can we talk about how perfect this album is? tolerate it is my absolute favorite! I feel like it's underrated 🖤 Love the video!

  • @emiliojrtandoc7877

    @emiliojrtandoc7877

    2 жыл бұрын

    Always perfect mam ok

  • @agstardust9944
    @agstardust99443 жыл бұрын

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO TAYYYYYY

  • @nicoleseltmann2922
    @nicoleseltmann29223 жыл бұрын

    i always thought the “new tires” part meant he got new tires so that he couldn’t be linked to the crime scene, as tire marks can be used as evidence

  • @milkshakeninjaaa2546
    @milkshakeninjaaa25463 жыл бұрын

    Ok hear me out... long story short is from Dorothea's perspective. When she speaks about 'the wrong guy' she could be referring to the guy she was with in her hometown (Tupelo) maybe? And how she let him go when she found someone she really cares about in LA. In the second verse she talks about how he's missing her. And she also speaks about how she looks better in the rear view mirror which could be referring to her leaving Tupelo (her hometown) and when she drove off, the last thing he saw was her reflection in the rear view. But Dorothea has moved on and has found someone else. (She's all about him) (Long story short was also probably inspired by Taylor's real life situation with Joe because in the second part of the second verse she mentions that she's ready to fight back when people disturb their 'peace' which is a reference to the folklore track of the same title.) For the rest of the song Dorothea is talking about her new love and how she's finally happy and has survived everything that happened with her old fling in Tupelo and the fame she's received in LA. This might be far fetched but I really believe this theory... also 'tis the damn season, dorothea and long story short are the same amount of songs apart just like the teenage love triange in folklore!!

  • @MadisonGraceN

    @MadisonGraceN

    3 жыл бұрын

    this is a good theory!!

  • @avanidugar6932

    @avanidugar6932

    3 жыл бұрын

    I think Dorothea is about the boy's perspective from tis the damn season.

  • @headrush8535

    @headrush8535

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wrong.

  • @milkshakeninjaaa2546

    @milkshakeninjaaa2546

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@headrush8535 it's just a theory

  • @headrush8535

    @headrush8535

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@milkshakeninjaaa2546 a game theory?

  • @Em-of3ej
    @Em-of3ej3 жыл бұрын

    Taylor's mind is out of this world. She's a lyricist and an icon. Period.

  • @anushkakhond3780
    @anushkakhond37803 жыл бұрын

    I have a strong feeling that 'dorothea' is about TS's bff selena Gomez. The lines-' you're a queen selling dreams selling makeup and magazines' could be referencing to her new beauty line Rare beauty. ' tiny screen' could be referencing her video chat. These are some things that i found. I think this song has multiple meanings and TS did it intentionally.

  • @synth9876

    @synth9876

    3 жыл бұрын

    selena loves the wizard of oz, and so it would make sense that since the main character is Dorothy she used the name Dorothea bc it ends in an A like selena

  • @anushkakhond3780

    @anushkakhond3780

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@synth9876 yeah...

  • @katieelizabeth9774
    @katieelizabeth97743 жыл бұрын

    okay this was such a good ideaaa also we have the same favorites from the album 😍 I would LOVE to hear you cover no body no crime

  • @MadisonGraceN

    @MadisonGraceN

    3 жыл бұрын

    thank you, i would love to!!

  • @randomgirlrandomthings8573
    @randomgirlrandomthings85733 жыл бұрын

    I like how in ‘Long Story Short’ she was leaning to more of a pop sound but still having it be a alt song.

  • @youtubeuser-oi4wz
    @youtubeuser-oi4wz3 жыл бұрын

    you should make this type of video for folklore !! or even make it into a series and do every album, i’d love to see that :D

  • @MadisonGraceN

    @MadisonGraceN

    3 жыл бұрын

    ooh good idea!

  • @imavery346
    @imavery3463 жыл бұрын

    Taylor is so deep like I can’t even

  • @gracebowler818
    @gracebowler8183 жыл бұрын

    Ok hear me out; Illicit Affairs and Ivy are linked. They are both about affairs between seemingly older people. And also Ivy seems like it is about two women. The narrator seems to have no passion in her marriage which could symbolize her attraction to women instead of men, therefore making the affair the only way she can be fulfilled (“I can’t stop you putting roots in my dreamland”). And “he’s gonna burn this house to the ground” could be a reference not only to the husband’s anger because of the cheating, but also his homophobia. I also think Illicit Affairs could be about two married women secretly in love (“leave the perfume on the shelf that you picked out just for HIM”). Additionally, “you showed me colours you know I can’t see with anyone else” seems to be a reference to a discovered sexuality, or more simply, the pride rainbow.

  • @xaxasluv

    @xaxasluv

    3 жыл бұрын

    yES i always saw ivy as a lesbian love affair,,, and i always thought it was connected to the tis the damn season/dorothea narrative !! in my brain dorothea and ivy are the couple that all three songs are about

  • @gracebowler818

    @gracebowler818

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@xaxasluv Omggg yes I love that theory especially about Dorothea because honestly it gives off wlw vibes

  • @luciepavlova6739

    @luciepavlova6739

    3 жыл бұрын

    I love and agree with the theory about Ivy, however I don't think Illicit Affairs are about lesbians, I think the narrator talks to herself and the new colors are just new levels of passion which is something that can happen even with the same (here hetero)sexual relationships

  • @gracebowler818

    @gracebowler818

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@luciepavlova6739 that is fair. Both Ivy and Illicit Affairs are vague enough to be either heterosexual or homosexual, but still so poetic ✨

  • @avamorgan7860

    @avamorgan7860

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@luciepavlova6739 ur right! it doesnt sound explicitly about 2 women but it could easily be related to since im p sure it never genders a love interest

  • @susannahh2573
    @susannahh25733 жыл бұрын

    ive never really cared about the meaning and theories of songs before but the way taylor creates stories with her music really interests me!! this video was really helpful with understanding the songs as i dont have a lot of experience with it, thank you!!!

  • @swiftspeaknow
    @swiftspeaknow3 жыл бұрын

    honestlyyyyyyy......I think closure is about Karlie Kloss. It's almost too nice to be about scott or scooter, and also in the bridge when she says "staying friends would iron it out so nice" and she wasnt friends with scooter and it doesnt sound like something about scott borchetta

  • @MadisonGraceN

    @MadisonGraceN

    3 жыл бұрын

    this could be true! also.... ur profile pic! i'm so jealous

  • @lilas8217

    @lilas8217

    3 жыл бұрын

    She was friends with Scott burchetta

  • @lilas8217

    @lilas8217

    3 жыл бұрын

    And she had other friends besides karlie kloss.

  • @MadisonGraceN

    @MadisonGraceN

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@lilas8217 she WAS, and he betrayed her, so i think that it could be about him and braun still. we’ll never know though and that’s ok!

  • @swiftspeaknow

    @swiftspeaknow

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@lilas8217 I wouldn’t call a business relationship where she had to fight to release what she wanted a friendship, and she felt like she was the daughter he never had. I know she has other friends, and I honestly LOVE Karlie, i’m not trying to start any drama and hate when people bring drama to karlie unnecessarily but the way the lyrics are, the beginning lyrics to it’s time to go ://// I would never bring drama to karlie because as I said I love her, but this song is not about scott borchetta and honestly it’s too nice to be about him. She would be way more mad about it if it were about him. She has a lottttttttt more pent up anger towards scott borchetta it’s too nice for him

  • @conanedits7689
    @conanedits76893 жыл бұрын

    I wasn’t a swiftie before but I listened to a few of her old songs but right after these two albums I started appreciating her more and my fav so far is Champagne Problems too! 💕

  • @laurene111
    @laurene1113 жыл бұрын

    I know it's not the real meaning but I see Coney Island as a song from the perspective of a father/daughter relationship. The father was absent, emotionally unavailable or abusive ("sorry for not making you my centerfold", "did i close my fist around something delicate"), his daughter was hurt and disappointed but has grown up and is now indifferent to him ("will you forgive my soul when you're too wise to trust me and too old to care"), and it's only now that he realizes what he did wrong and feels tormented by it. I also like to believe this cause I feel there's this childish and family atmosphere with some terms like arcade/gift-wrapped/happy birthday/merry-go, and especially if you try to hear this line that way : "if I can't relate to you any more than who I am related to" (even if I know it's not the right lyrics) that was my little interpretation thank you!!

  • @juliaveloso1043
    @juliaveloso10433 жыл бұрын

    omg, seriously, i just LOVED this video. really really loved it. thank you for this. honestly

  • @gus_viei
    @gus_viei6 ай бұрын

    I love how a lot of the songs in folklore and evermore can be left to our own interpretation and we can fill the blanks with our own projection, like for instance, I always pictured cowboy like me being sung from the perspective of a man to another man, so saying "two people who fall in love" makes sense to me. And when I first listened to ivy all I could think about was the movie The World to Come, where to married women bond over their complicated marriages and fall in love with each other. It's really really cool how an album can give you so much more than the artist orginally intended.

  • @brabiz67
    @brabiz673 жыл бұрын

    Quite an excellent breakdown and well edited video. Great job!

  • @dezlynn
    @dezlynn3 жыл бұрын

    thank you for making this! it really helped me understand the songs better

  • @helenaemery2098
    @helenaemery20983 жыл бұрын

    this woman is unbelievably amazing at song writing

  • @melissapartsafas2556
    @melissapartsafas25563 жыл бұрын

    In my mind the songs Tolerate it, Ivy and Happiness are all connected. Tolerate it is about the wife's observation about her husband not caring about her and her desire to leave him. Ivy is in connection to Tolerate it where the same wife has had enough and is having an affair with someone who appreciates her but she is still married therefore she can't give herself fully in the relationship. Finally, Happiness is about the wife and husband coming to terms with their failed relationship and decide to divorce and the song is like a speech she gives him about moving on, reminiscing of the good times and acknowledging that they will find their happiness again.

  • @faithchapman4109
    @faithchapman41093 жыл бұрын

    this is literally so amazing and helpful!! thank you for making this!

  • @alexafierra3041
    @alexafierra30413 жыл бұрын

    Omg I’m about to watch all of these. I love your account! Keep doing this !♥️

  • @carolineallen2658
    @carolineallen26583 жыл бұрын

    Happy bday

  • @zaym5685
    @zaym56853 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this, maybe my friends will understand her complexity now 😭

  • @skyethetsubaki
    @skyethetsubaki3 жыл бұрын

    I had assumed the truck having brand new tires was a forensic countermeasure so they couldn't track the soil of his truck wheels if the suspicion did fall upon him in no body no crime.

  • @Mdb0514
    @Mdb05143 жыл бұрын

    Great video. I’m obsessed with this album. It’s been kind of a slow burn for me where Folklore was instantaneous. Thanks for sharing your insights.

  • @user-jn4jh4ef8w
    @user-jn4jh4ef8w3 жыл бұрын

    I really needed this video, thank you for that!💞

  • @olivia.16_
    @olivia.16_3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you❤️that helped really much!

  • @OmarLaTorreCh
    @OmarLaTorreCh3 жыл бұрын

    Loved every second of the 8min vid. Thanks a lot!

  • @upscaleavenue
    @upscaleavenue3 жыл бұрын

    I like this. Thank you for sharing. I have to say that my interpretation of 'Happiness' was considerably different. I interpreted it to be about 2020, and all the hardship that people experienced; the death, the isolation, the fear of change, and, strangely, the acceptance (of the pandemic) and life as we know it now. The song could also be about a relationship between two people, but I think it's much bigger picture than that. "Leave it all behind, and there is happiness." I think it's a great note to end the year on.

  • @karenpaolalopes9524
    @karenpaolalopes95243 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Madison! This video is awesome! Keep it up the good work here

  • @pannerbiryani3002
    @pannerbiryani3002 Жыл бұрын

    Gold rush will forever be the song I could most relate too

  • @niemalsmehrdiegleiche
    @niemalsmehrdiegleiche3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for that video. Taylor is such a great songwriter.

  • @emmaalc1721
    @emmaalc17213 жыл бұрын

    I always thought the song Dorothea was about her friendship with Selena Gomez (with most of references like Selena’s makeup line, selling magazine, her new Hollywood toxic friends, seeing her only on screen because they FaceTime a lot)

  • @liluziflirtexe
    @liluziflirtexe3 жыл бұрын

    this was useful. i understood folklore with ease but i couldnt really get into evermore despite really loving the lead single + 2 tracks

  • @roses6595
    @roses65953 жыл бұрын

    I thought in 'no body no crime' the brand new tires refer to him driving Este's dead body somewhere to bury her, and in order to make sure the traces don't lead back to him, he got new tires. Thank you for your explaination, I think it works! Maybe mine is far fetched.

  • @jessicalarlee5466

    @jessicalarlee5466

    2 жыл бұрын

    No your interpretation is how i took it too and makes more sense in the context of the rest of the lyrics.

  • @darwingasacao9938
    @darwingasacao99383 жыл бұрын

    So blessed to have this explained by a native English speaker. so many insights!

  • @yarrowskoblow9036
    @yarrowskoblow90363 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for making this!!!

  • @sarahali2168
    @sarahali21683 жыл бұрын

    you did a wonderful job !

  • @laylagloria9386
    @laylagloria93863 жыл бұрын

    I loved this so much!!

  • @catherinesbookshelf
    @catherinesbookshelf3 жыл бұрын

    "I don't like that falling feels like flying 'til the bone crush" is my favorite line on this album. i love it so much.

  • @tenleeso10
    @tenleeso103 жыл бұрын

    Ivy to me reads as a woman who is in an unhappy marriage or an arranged marriage perhaps and they end up falling in love with another woman. I think the lyrics "And the old widow goes to the stone everyday but I don't I just sit here and wait, grieving for the living" is about her seeing this old woman visiting her husband's grave and she feels the opposite, you have here a woman so in love that she still visits her dead husband's grave meanwhile she wishes she could be free from her husband and be with the other woman. In the end I think they were outed and got hate crimed and burned alive. I read the last "My house of stone, your ivy grows and now I'm covered in you" as ivies have started growing on their tombstones where they're buried.

  • @taiagumon
    @taiagumon3 жыл бұрын

    Loved this!!! 💗

  • @miahua9111
    @miahua91113 жыл бұрын

    I LOVED THIS VIDEO OH MY GOSHHHHH

  • @alanabmiyai
    @alanabmiyai3 жыл бұрын

    Amazing!! Thank you for this ♥️

  • @greenLungs-
    @greenLungs-7 ай бұрын

    Not only in champagne problems does she turn down the proposal, but as well as the man having plans to propose at the dinner, the other character of song planned to break off their relationship at that dinner

  • @kylieazzara7525
    @kylieazzara75253 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much!! I love the album, but was a little confused. This helped so much

  • @MadisonGraceN

    @MadisonGraceN

    3 жыл бұрын

    so glad to hear!!

  • @hope_vega5823
    @hope_vega58239 ай бұрын

    beautiful and informative review, thank you!

  • @vimalthrideep9222
    @vimalthrideep92222 жыл бұрын

    thanks a lot this was amazing you did a really good job!!!

  • @vitorialuizaferrari1537
    @vitorialuizaferrari15373 жыл бұрын

    i love this! thank you so much

  • @dancingwithsofia1192
    @dancingwithsofia11923 жыл бұрын

    Yay someone actually made this!!!! Thanks!!!

  • @frelina7429
    @frelina74293 жыл бұрын

    Taylors mind is just awesome. And the way you explain it is also just awesome

  • @ChelsieGx
    @ChelsieGx3 жыл бұрын

    I think no body no crime is that she confronted him about cheating and he murdered Estee. The line about tires is because tires can be left at crime scenes (woods, mud etc), so he was trying to cover it up. To revenge, the protagonist murders him back and frames the mistress - the fact she took out a big life insurance makes her very suspicious, and Estes sister would swear she was with the protagonist too. I’m not sure it’s deffo open to interpretation but I have watched a lot of true crime stuff so that’s how I read it lol 😂

  • @AnitaVargas
    @AnitaVargas3 жыл бұрын

    Aaaah thanks for this

  • @lamebookreader5232
    @lamebookreader5232 Жыл бұрын

    excuse me while I go watch a recap off all the albums I’ve already heard, because im obsessed with these videos

  • @jamesmarchetti3286
    @jamesmarchetti32862 жыл бұрын

    The 1st video of yours that I watched Liked it so much That I also subscribed In my comments said I was hoping to see a video on evermore and guess that video automatically popped up next.. You have such a great channel.

  • @rorydupe
    @rorydupe8 ай бұрын

    Champagne Problems has recently been rumored to be about characters from Gilmore Girls Logan and Rory how they could never have a perfect relationship because Rory couldn’t decide when he wanted to get married

  • @_mohashazshay2296
    @_mohashazshay22963 жыл бұрын

    Thansk for these I love Taylor just that I’m the person who takes a while to understand a album or song

  • @MadisonGraceN

    @MadisonGraceN

    3 жыл бұрын

    nothing wrong with that!

  • @jessie0202100
    @jessie02021003 жыл бұрын

    My favorite song is happiness. I for some reason cry when I hear it.

  • @19ayittahj76

    @19ayittahj76

    3 жыл бұрын

    well it is rly sad

  • @_gihborges
    @_gihborges3 жыл бұрын

    loved the video *-*

  • @purplealchemistofficial
    @purplealchemistofficial3 жыл бұрын

    I always felt like happiness was about morning a relationship and it tells the story of how you thought your ex loved you but really they didn’t. But you loved them completely. I also felt like the line “you haven’t met the new me yet” was another way of saying “you better watch out because I’m not the same person as before”. As in: “you may be gone, but if you ever try anything with me again, you’ll wish you didn’t”.

  • @aisha_s
    @aisha_s3 жыл бұрын

    i love this so much that i sent it to all of my swiftie friends haha. anyway tysm i really liked your interpretations!

  • @MadisonGraceN

    @MadisonGraceN

    3 жыл бұрын

    yay, thank you!

  • @sillysara6
    @sillysara63 жыл бұрын

    i always thought dorothea was taylor singing about selena gomez, “selling makeup and magazines”: selena launched her rare beauty line not too long ago!

  • @mernaahmed2542
    @mernaahmed25423 жыл бұрын

    I really enjoyed it🥰🥰 i love it🤭 😍😍 thank you🥰

  • @amirashahirah277
    @amirashahirah2773 жыл бұрын

    my fav fav fav album after red!! Thank you for doing this!!

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