Taylor Swift Goes Dark on New Song ‘Carolina’
Taylor Swift released “Carolina” at midnight tonight. It’s not pop Taylor, more dark noir Taylor.
She tweeted out:
I wrote this one alone in the middle of the night and then @AaronDessner and I meticulously worked on a sound that we felt would be authentic to the moment when this story takes place. I made a wish that one day you would hear it. ‘Carolina’ is out now 🥺
I wrote this one alone in the middle of the night and then @AaronDessner and I meticulously worked on a sound that we felt would be authentic to the moment when this story takes place. I made a wish that one day you would hear it. ‘Carolina’ is out now 🥺 https://t.co/2xqE0fEr10
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) June 24, 2022
“Carolina” is from the upcoming movie Where the Crawdads Sing.
The movie revolves around a girl living in isolation accused of murder.
Taylor’s song plays over the end credits. Swift wrote the song with the help of The National’s Aaron Dressner.
The chorus, on paper, reads well just by itself:
Into the mist, into the clouds
Don’t leave
I make a fist, I’ll make it count
And there are places I will never, ever go
And things that only Carolina will ever know
My interpretation is that secrets stay buried out there in the marsh.
Did the Internet like it? Of course.
I think @taylorswift13 is our greatest musical chameleon. It sounds trite, but objectively: no one has shifted more effectively between genres and generations. This woman made Reputation! She’s bridged not just decades but centuries. What an artist. https://t.co/RooWLjtsBh
— Nathan Hubbard (@NathanCHubbard) June 24, 2022
imagine taylor waking aaron up in the middle of the night to write yet another song about murder
— mirrorball 18/11 (@fancysnaake) June 24, 2022
the fact that Taylor Swift adapted 368-page novel into a 4-minute song and it's absolutely perfect? like she really embodies the mindset of the character
— hannah | eras hangover era (@sippingaugust) June 24, 2022
Taylor keeps on dropping hints that she wants to kill someone
— kla (taylor's version) 🫶 (@blessedswift) June 24, 2022
hearing taylors voice after a long time feeling like a wife receiving a letter from her husband that went off to war
— gio (@thislovve) June 24, 2022
Drake, Beyonce and Taylor Swift released music this week. This is a pretty epic week in music.
