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This leads us to believe that Cardigan is from many years later while the

other two take place in the moment. We think that Betty took James back,
but eventually ended the relationship a few years later because she just
couldn’t trust him. Some lyrical consistencies between the songs:

● “Standing in your cardigan” /“when I felt like I was an old cardigan”
● “And you’d be standing in my front porch light”/ “will you kiss me on the

porch”
● “Walking home on broken cobblestones”/ “high heels on cobblestone”

● “She said ‘James get in let’s drive’”/ “when I pulled up and said ‘get in the
car’”

● “To kiss in cars”/ ”kissing in my car again”
● “When you are young they assume you know nothing”/”I’m only 17 I don’t
know anything”

● “I dreamt of you all summer long”/ “so much for summer love and saying
‘us’”
Another story song on folklore, the last great american dynasty, tells

the story of Taylor Swift’s Rhode Island beach house called Holiday House.
The song talks about Rebecca Harkness, a former resident of Holiday House
and the widowed wife of the heir to the Standard Oil money. After her

husband dies, she disrupts high society using crazy pranks with her pack of
friends. When Harkness finally dies, the house is empty for 50 years until

Swift purchases it.
Seven, appropriately the seventh track on folklore, deals with the

naivety of childhood and how the purest form of happiness is experienced.
Mad Woman is a feminist anthem about how women’s anger is villainized
and the double standards in Swift’s life. Invisible String is one of the most

autobiographical tracks, and Swift cites specific events in her relationship
with her current boyfriend and soulmate Joe Alwyn. She believes that the

invisible string of fate has been leading them together their whole life.

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Eye Can See You
Emma Gabara, Class of 2026

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