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Evermore
Cover artwork of evermore, a photo of Swift's back showing her braided hair and flannel shirt. She is seen standing in front of a barren field
Studio album by
Taylor Swift
ReleasedDecember 11, 2020 (2020-12-11)
RecordedSeptember – December 2020
Studio
Genre
Length60:38
LabelRepublic
Producer
Taylor Swift chronology
Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions (From the Disney+ Special)
(2020) 		Evermore
(2020) 		Fearless (Taylor's Version)
(2021)
Singles from Evermore
  1. "Willow"
    Released: December 11, 2020
  2. "No Body, No Crime"
    Released: January 11, 2021
  3. "Coney Island"
    Released: January 18, 2021

Evermore (stylized in all lowercase) is the ninth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was surprise-released on December 11, 2020, by Republic Records. Swift conceived Evermore as a "sister record" to its predecessor, Folklore, which had been released in July. She recorded Evermore mainly with Aaron Dessner at his Long Pond Studio in the Hudson Valley.

Evermore expands on Folklore's escapist fantasy songwriting with fictional narratives and delves into the imaginary world Swift had ideated while self-isolating during the COVID-19 pandemic. The songs explore the emotions, including longing, grief, nostalgia, and regret, that stem from unhappy endings of forbidden love, divorce, and infidelity. Evermore features an atmospheric indie folk, folk-pop, chamber rock, alternative rock, and alternative pop soundscape. Its spare arrangements and orchestrations consist of fingerpicked guitars, pianos, strings, subtle synths, and programmed drums. Haim, the National, and Bon Iver appear as featured artists.

Evermore was supported by three singles, each were released to a different radio format in the US—"Willow" was released to contemporary hit radio and peaked atop the US Billboard Hot 100 chart; "No Body, No Crime" and "Coney Island" were released to country and alternative radio. Evermore reached number one in Australia, Canada, Greece, New Zealand, Portugal, and the UK. In the US, it was Swift's eighth consecutive number-one debut on the Billboard 200 chart and was the best-selling alternative album of 2021. The album has earned multi-platinum certifications in Brazil, Canada, and New Zealand.

Music critics opined that Evermore was musically bold and experimental while expanding on the styles of Folklore. Many reviews lauded Swift's songwriting, deeming the character studies intricate and the narratives well-constructed; several were more reserved in their praise and considered the album not as groundbreaking as its predecessor. Evermore appeared in various publications' rankings of the best albums of 2020, and some listed it alongside Folklore. At the 64th Annual Grammy Awards in 2022, Evermore was nominated for Album of the Year.

Background

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Taylor Swift wrote and produced her eighth studio album, Folklore, while self-isolating during the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020. It was surprise-released on July 24, 2020, via Republic Records. On Folklore, Swift worked on half of the album with Jack Antonoff, who had collaborated with her since 2014; and the other half with Aaron Dessner of the National, a first-time collaborator.[1] Swift had been fond of Dessner's works for the National and reached out to him to collaborate in April 2020, but without requesting for a specific sound. Dessner thought that the National's 2019 album I Am Easy to Find could have been a subconscious influence.[2]

Other first-time collaborators were Dessner's brother Bryce Dessner,[a] who orchestrated several tracks; Justin Vernon of the indie folk band Bon Iver and Joe Alwyn (credited under the pseudonym William Bowery)—her boyfriend at the time, who co-wrote several songs.[2] Due to lockdown restrictions, Swift recorded her vocals from her home studio in Los Angeles and sent audio files to Dessner and Antonoff, who operated from their studios on the US East Coast. Folklore's indie folk and alternative rock sounds and fictional songwriting with imaginary characters and narratives were new aspects to Swift's artistry.[3][4] The critical acclaim that Folklore received encouraged Swift to continue experimenting with its styles.[5]

In September 2020, Swift, Antonoff, and Dessner assembled to film the documentary Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions in person at Dessner's Long Pond Studios in the Hudson Valley, one of the recording locations of Folklore. After filming, the three continued writing songs spontaneously during their stay at Long Pond.[1][6] Dessner described their collaboration as a "weird avalanche"[6] and a natural extension of their works on Folklore, but with more room for experimentation as the two did not subject themselves to limitations.[7] He would send Swift instrumentals, and she would write the lyrics to them and send the songs back to him.[1][7] After Swift, Alwyn, and Vernon had written the title track, "Evermore", Dessner concluded that they were working on a new album.[7]

Recording and writing

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Aaron Dessner in a blue shirt, playing a guitar
Swift recorded much of Evermore with Aaron Dessner (pictured) at his Long Pond Studio in the Hudson Valley.

On Evermore, Dessner produced 14 out of the 15 tracks that made the standard edition and two bonus tracks, and Antonoff co-produced one.[8] According to Dessner, he was attuned to Swift's way of structuring a song with verses, refrains, and bridges, and thus did not edit her outputs much. Whereas Swift's vocals were processed remotely for Folklore, she recorded most of her vocals for Evermore in person at Long Pond, using Dessner's Telefunken microphone and Siemens preamplifiers.[1] Other collaborators, such as Vernon and Bryce, collaborated virtually due to pandemic restrictions.[5] They recorded the album in secrecy, having passwords, data encryption, and specific communications when sharing mixes of the tracks.[1] For songs that feature orchestration, Dessner sent Bryce chord charts, and Bryce orchestrated the songs from his studio in France before sending them back to Dessner, who then coordinated other musicians to record instruments individually from their home studios.[1]

Several Evermore tracks were creations from scratch.[1][6] Swift wrote two tracks, "Closure" and "Dorothea", for Dessner and Vernon's supergroup Big Red Machine; the songs were eventually recorded for Evermore.[6] For "Closure", Vernon played a drum loop and Dessner added piano to it, imagining it as a track in 5/4 time. Dessner pinpointed "Closure" as the track that opened up more possibilities for the album, in that Swift and the production team did not subject themselves to any limitations.[1] Dessner composed "Westerly", an instrumental track named after the town Westerly, where Swift's Rhode Island home was located. It took Swift an hour to write what became "Willow" on that instrumental.[7] "No Body, No Crime" is the only Evermore track that Swift wrote without collaborators;[8] she wrote it on a rubber-bridge guitar and sent Dessner a voice memo, which he produced upon. The track's feature artist, the pop rock band Haim, recorded their vocals at Ariel Rechtshaid's Los Angeles home and forwarded it to Swift and Dessner.[7]

Other tracks were Dessner's works he had created for his own projects or Folklore.[6] "'Tis the Damn Season" was a product of Swift's songwriting when she was drunk and Dessner's instrumental track that he had written "a long time ago".[6][7] "Coney Island" was based on a track that Dessner and Bryce had written for the National. Swift and Alwyn wrote the lyrics to it, and the National's lead singer Matt Berninger duetted with Swift while other members played instruments including drums, pocket piano, and bass on it.[7] The bridge of "Marjorie" samples the drone from Folklore's "Peace"; Swift wrote "Marjorie" about her maternal grandmother Marjorie Finlay, whose operatic vocals were also sampled.[9] Dessner had composed "Right Where You Left Me" and "Happiness" for Big Red Machine since 2019. Swift finished writing and recording the two songs as the last two for Evermore;[7] "Happiness" was completed six days before the album was mastered.[10] All 17 tracks were mixed by Jonathan Low at Long Pond.[7][8]

Composition

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Music and production

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"Willow"
Evermore expands on the folk sounds of Folklore, as demonstrated with "Willow", a folk song instrumented with picked guitars and orchestral accents.[11]
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Swift envisioned Evermore as a nostalgic wintry album, as opposed to Folklore as a spring and summer record.[7][12] As with Folklore, Evermore explores atmospheric indie rock and folk styles that were different from Swift's previous country and synth-pop releases,[1][13] showcased through the subdued and nuanced production and relaxed pacing over straightforward, arena-friendly hooks.[3][14][15][16][17] It incorporates indie folk,[18] chamber rock,[19] folk-pop,[20] alternative rock,[21] and alternative pop,[22] with chamber pop embellishments,[23] bringing forth an introspective listening experience.[12][24][25] The music critic Steven Hyden wrote that the album exuded "wintery-country vibes".[26] Comparing Evermore to Folklore, Stereogum's Tom Breihan opined that the music of Evermore is straightforward "indie", while that of Folklore is "indie"–styled pop music.[27]

Dessner's compositions are based on both acoustic and electronic instruments,[19] largely characterized by programmed drum sounds using the iOS app FunkBox or analog drum generators such as the Vermona DRM1, the Roland TR-8 and TR-8s, and the Teenage Engineering OP-1; layered electric guitars; and piano-based arrangements using a Yamaha U1 upright piano.[1] Bryce added orchestration to nearly every song.[28] Compared to Folklore, Evermore retains the minimal soundscape and spare arrangements[28][29] but is less consistent and more experimental: it has a more spacious ambience[30] and its songs contain looser structures and textures[3] and use varied instruments,[31] namely fingerpicked or plucked guitars, glockenspiel, modular synthesizers, strings, and subtle layers of Mellotrons, French horns, and flutes.[21][23][32]

Swift's vocals in Evermore are generally breathy and soft, accompanied by layered backing vocals,[15][19] and deliver the songs in a conversational tone.[33] In a profile for Sound on Sound, Tom Doyle wrote that Swift's voice "is very much front and centre and high in the mix, and generally sounds fairly dry".[1] Dessner processed Swift's vocals such that they retained what he described as a "warmth" that he found lacking in "pop-oriented records" to sound "very bright and [...] cut really well on the radio". The final song mixes were often the unedited mixes, such as the case of "Willow": Dessner said that the production team "settled back almost to the point where it began".[1] According to the music theory professor Alyssa Barna, both Swift's singing and the song's arrangements embrace flat dynamics with little shifts in tempo or volume, and a static timbre that maintains consistent throughout each track: her timbre sounds "breathy and bright" when she sings in her upper register and "full and dark" in her lower.[31]

Lyrics and themes

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The cover of 1938 book Rebecca
The cover of 1925 book The Great Gatsby
Evermore's literary influences include Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel Rebecca on "Tolerate It", and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby on "Happiness".

Evermore expanded on the imaginary world that Swift had ideated when creating Folklore:[34] its songs incorporate fictional narratives and characters not based on Swift's personal experience—a deviation from the autobiographical songwriting that she had been known for.[27][35] Evermore contains intertextual concepts, language, and imagery with Folklore, such as fragmented memories, cabin-like settings, and shifting scenes of nature including seascapes, forests, cliffs, and cosmic phenomena.[35][36] Also in the same vein with Folklore, Evermore was influenced by authors of modernist literature, such as the poets Robert Frost ("'Tis the Damn Season") and Emily Dickinson ("Ivy"), and the writer F. Scott Fitzgerald ("Happiness").[37]

In an Apple Music interview with Zane Lowe in December 2020, Swift detailed the relationship between Folklore and Evermore, which she designated as "sister records". Whereas Folklore deals with "conflict resolution" and reconciliations, Evermore explores "endings of all sorts, sizes and shapes" and the painful aftermath.[9] It explores multiple themes related to unfulfilled romance—forbidden love, neglect, divorce, and infidelity,[15][38] in addition to other painful endings such as fallen friendships and unrealized self-actualization.[39] Narrated from the perspectives of complicated women who construct their stories based on fragments of distant or recent memories,[28][40] the songs are set in winter, particularly events related to the Christmas and holiday season such as returning to one's hometown during a weekend, a Christmas party dinner, and a wrenching December that leaves one "feeling unmoored".[28]

Slate's Carl Wilson dubbed Evermore an anthology without an integrated storyline.[30] Compared to the restraint of Folklore, Evermore is more uninhibited and playful, demonstrated through tracks like "No Body, No Crime", "Long Story Short", and "Dorothea",[41][42] although most songs' narratives do not have happy endings.[12][43] The overall mood of Evermore nonetheless is hopeful and warm, amidst the wintry settings and bittersweet feelings.[23][28][42] In the views of the English-language scholar Maria Juko, while the title Evermore suggests the lasting legacy of the tales that have become folklore, the album's content questions the concept of eternity.[44]

Despite its escapist fantasy concept,[32][43] Evermore not only includes purely fictional stories but also narratives informed by Swift's biographical influences—as demonstrated most notably by the song "Marjorie". This type of narrative is autofiction—a combination of autobiography and fiction that presented perspectives of Swift's alter egos rather than her own self; Swift said that although there is an element of fiction to most of the songs, she still found herself in them.[45] Commenting on Swift's framing of Evermore as a departure from her previous confessional, first-person songwriting, The New Yorker's Amanda Petrusich argued that every kind of writing is "an invention of sorts, honed and sharpened and shaped to fit a particular narrative".[46]

Songs

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Matt Berninger, dressed in black, staring to his right while holding a mic
Justin Vernon playing a guitar and singing onto a mic, in dim stage lights
Matt Berninger (left) duets with Swift in "Coney Island", and Justin Vernon (right) in "Evermore".

"Willow" is an ambient folk ballad instrumented with picked guitars and orchestral accents,[29][11] and its lyrics describe the unexplainable magic that happens when the narrator connects romantically with another person; Swift described the song as "witchy" and likened it to a spell that could make somebody fall in love.[11] "Champagne Problems" is a mid-tempo piano ballad with a spacious arrangement,[47][48] composed of oompah piano chords, a guitar arpeggio, and backing vocals singing "ah".[29] In the song, the narrator is a woman who has turned down her boyfriend's marriage proposal: he was so confident that things would go well and has told his family about his wedding plans, but she could not give a reason for turning him down and hopes that he would find someone else more compatible.[48] "Gold Rush" is a chamber pop track[43] with influences of 1980s synth-pop;[41] it incorporates drums, horns, strings, and Mellotron over insistent, pulsing beats.[33][46][49] Swift's narrator in "Gold Rush" is infatuated with a subject who is too attractive that everyone else falls in love with them, and she is insecure in her own qualities, until she wakes up from her daydream and concludes that it is best to not pursue this connection.[46][50]

"'Tis the Damn Season" details a female character named Dorothea and her return to her hometown Tupelo during the Christmas holiday;[12] she rekindles with a lover back in her high school days and wonders whether leaving her hometown for an acting career in Los Angeles was the right move.[51] The spare arrangement of "'Tis the Damn Season" combines a fingerpicked electric guitar riff and strings to evoke a nostalgic soundscape.[7][52] Dessner and Bryce composed "Tolerate It" in 10/8, an odd time signature. The song is built on insistent programmed drum beats, an orchestration, and somber piano to depict "trying to love someone who is ambivalent", inspired by Daphne du Maurier's 1939 novel Rebecca.[53] The lyrics describe the young female narrator as yearning and in agony, and the male subject, who is much older, as aloof and unappreciative.[12][27] "No Body, No Crime" combines Americana and roots music styles such as country, folk, and old-school rock and roll,[7][21][41] featuring police sirens and a harmonica in the background[33] and a twang in Swift's vocals.[54] Lyrically, it is a murder ballad[7] that details a revenge plotted by a friend of Este, who was murdered by her husband: this friend kills the husband and frames his mistress for the crime.[34]

"Happiness" is a melancholic, ambient ballad[32][43] that incorporates synths, guitars, pianos, and church organs that build up from a soft drone to a soaring climax.[27][29] The lyrics of "Happiness" tell the story of how a female narrator consoles herself and her ex-husband, navigating the aftermath of a divorce from their seven-year marriage; they draw parallels with the narrative of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby and directly reference the novel through Swift's description of the female narrator as "a beautiful fool" and invocation of the "green light" on Daisy Buchanan's dock beckoning Jay Gatsby.[55] An acoustic Americana and folk song,[7][56] "Dorothea" is instrumented by a honky-tonk piano, tambourines, and guitars;[43][49] it is narrated from the perspective of the male subject in "'Tis the Damn Season": he grew up with Dorothea in Tupelo and remains in their hometown but still longs for her and has observed her achievements from afar, wondering what it would be if they returned to the simple rural life before.[21][56] "Coney Island" is an alternative rock and indie folk song[21][28] featuring Swift, singing with melodious vocals, duetting with Berninger, using his baritone.[15][49] Lyrically, it is a couple's nostalgic recount of their past romance in Coney Island.[49]

"Ivy"
The wintry soundscape of Evermore is portrayed through production choices like the faint sleigh bells in "Ivy",[57] which also features lightweight guitar riffs, banjos, trumpet, and gentle vocal harmonies.[29][47]
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"Ivy" is a folk song with lightweight guitar riffs, faint sleigh bells,[57] banjos, trumpet, and Vernon's gentle vocal harmonies.[29][47] The lyrics of "Ivy" are about infidelity: a married person is in love with someone who is not their spouse, and their extramarital relationship develops from winter through spring, akin to ivy vines growing and winding around the narrator. By the end of the song, the marriage crumbles in a blazing battle due to the affair.[58] In the melancholic track "Cowboy like Me", Swift's narrator falls in love unexpectedly with a fellow con artist: even though both she and the subject had been scamming wealthy people by feigning love, their scheming on each other turned into real feelings, leaving the narrator anxious and heartbroken.[59][60] Similar to "No Body, No Crime", "Cowboy like Me" evokes strong country music influences;[47] it is instrumented by hushed guitars, harmonica, mandolin, piano,[49][61] and backing vocals from Marcus Mumford.[41] "Long Story Short" stands out musically from its preceding tracks thanks to its propulsive tempo, frantic drum machine beats, and strong pop influences.[30][49][62] In the lyrics, Swift's narrator reflects on her wrong romantic decisions due to low self-esteem, before announcing her present-day relief that she is finally in a healthy relationship.[62]

"Marjorie" is a tribute to Swift's maternal grandmother, Marjorie Finlay (pictured), who was an opera singer.

"Marjorie" is Swift's tribute to her maternal grandmother Marjorie Finlay, an opera singer who died when Swift was 13.[62] Its lyrics consist of Finlay's advices to her granddaughter, and Swift's longing memories for her grandmother.[47][62] Its gentle production incorporates rhythmic electronic synth pulses, warm piano, pizzicato strings,[29][47][61] and samples Finlay's soprano vocals, taken from old records of her singing that Swift found.[62] "Closure", described by various critics as the most experimental track on Evermore,[3][29][63] is built on 5/4, an odd time signature.[7] Its instrumentation incorporates clattering, industrial-sounding electro-rock drums and acoustic piano.[3][22] The lyrics of "Closure" are directed at a pretentious ex-lover: Swift's narrator finds their act of reaching out patronizing, telling the ex-lover that there is no need for them to act out of pretentious amity.[63] The album's closing track for the standard edition, "Evermore", is a piano ballad that progresses into a dramatic bridge with a tempo shift, where Swift is joined midway by Vernon's multitracked falsetto in a call and response.[30][20][41] In the lyrics, Swift's narrator struggles through the dark days of November and December and eventually realizes that all the pain and depression is not permanent; she was influenced by the tough times she went through in 2016 and the uncertainty surrounding the 2020 US elections.[64]

The two bonus tracks of Evermore, "Right Where You Left Me" and "It's Time To Go", expand on the indie folk sound.[65] "Right Where You Left Me" is a folk-pop track with country influences,[66] incorporating banjo, harmonica, harmonium,[65][67] and twangy guitars that distort towards the conclusion.[68][69] It depicts a female narrator's entrapment in heartbreak: she is still hurt over the moment that her ex-boyfriend left her in a restaurant years ago, comparing her own existence to that of a ghost, frozen in time,[69] using imagery of dim lights, dropped hairpins, shattered glasses, and collected dust.[66] In "It's Time to Go", the narrator details her decisions to leave an unhappy marriage in the first verse, to exit a toxic work environment in the second, and to stand up against a greedy person who had imprisoned her in the third.[70] Musically, the track begins as an indie pop song set against insistent piano and one-note guitar sounds, before surging at the end with drums and slide guitar.[70][71]

Release and promotion

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Swift announced Evermore, including the cover artwork and track listing, on December 10, 2020, as her second surprise album of 2020 after Folklore.[72][73] The titles of the album and its tracks are stylized in all lowercase; Juko commented that this stylization evokes the continuation of folk tales: the songs' narratives have no definite beginning and instead are a collection of fragmented stories.[44]

The artwork shows Swift, standing with her back to the camera, looking over a barren field with trees in the distance.[36][74] She is wearing a French braid[75] and a checked flannel coat from a collection by the English designer Stella McCartney,[74][76] which sold out hours after the album's announcement.[77] As with Folklore, Evermore embraces a cottagecore aesthetic that reflected the escapist fantasy content which resonated with many listeners seeking comfort during the pandemic, and represented Swift's effort to reinvent her image.[78] In the views of the English literature scholar Ryan Hibbett, the cover art shows Swift as a "fellow-spectator and thinker" rather than an object of sexualization common to pop stars.[79]

Distribution and singles

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Paul McCartney playing a guitar and singing onto a mic
Paul McCartney delayed the release of his album McCartney III by one week out of respect to Swift's release of Evermore.

The standard edition of Evermore was released on December 11, 2020, onto download and streaming platforms, via Republic Records.[80] Due to the surprise release and the time it took to manufacture physical albums, Evermore had delayed releases on physical formats: the CD edition was released on December 18, 2020; followed by cassette on February 12, 2021; and vinyl LPs on May 28, 2021.[81] The deluxe edition, which contains the two bonus tracks previously relegated to physical releases, was made available for streaming on January 7, 2021.[82] A limited number of autographed CDs were sold at select independent record stores.[83] Swift released three streaming-exclusive playlists, each consisting of six tracks taken from Evermore and Folklore, and described them as "chapters" based on the songs' collective theme: Dropped Your Hand While Dancing,[84] Forever Is the Sweetest Con,[85] and Ladies Lunching.[86]

Evermore was supported by three singles, each released to a different radio format in the US—a strategy Swift had implemented for Folklore.[87] "Willow" was released to adult contemporary and pop radio, and its music video was unveiled the same day as the album's release.[88][89] It was accompanied by seven official remixes.[90] "Willow" debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and peaked atop the Adult Pop Airplay chart in the US,[90][91] and it also debuted atop the Australian ARIA Singles Chart.[92] "No Body, No Crime" was released to US country radio on January 11, via Republic in collaboration with MCA Nashville,[93] and "Coney Island" to US adult album alternative radio on January 18, 2021, via Republic.[87][94]

Swift appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on December 14, 2020, to promote Evermore; she discussed the making of the both Folklore and Evermore with the host Jimmy Kimmel.[95][96] On a December 15, 2020, episode of Howard Stern's Sirius XM radio show, the English singer-songwriter Paul McCartney revealed that Swift had shared with him the planned release Evermore on December 18 to respect McCartney's planned December 11 release of his album McCartney III. Upon learning this, McCartney decided to release his album on December 18 instead, so that Swift could move forward with her Evermore rollout as initially planned.[97]

Theme park lawsuit

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On February 2, 2021, the theme park Evermore Park in Pleasant Grove, Utah, sued Swift and her team for allegedly infringing its "Evermore" trademark, seeking to prevent Swift's further use of the word, and demanded "statutory damages of $2 million per counterfeit mark per type of goods or services sold". The park had sent a cease-and-desist letter to Swift on December 29, 2020, to which the singer's team declined to abide. According to the park, Swift's album title affected its searchability and confused its consumers. Swift's team referred to the suit as "baseless" and stated that the confusion between the park's products and Swift's music was "inconceivable".[98][99]

On February 24, 2021, three weeks after the lawsuit, TAS Rights Management—Swift's copyrights company—countersued the park for allegedly infringing Swift's songs "Love Story", "You Belong with Me", and "Bad Blood" by regularly using them in their performances without a license.[100] In March 2021, a spokesperson for Swift stated to the press that both parties had resolved to dismiss their respective suits without monetary settlement.[101][102]

Commercial performance

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Republic Records reported that Evermore was Swift's eighth album to sell over a million copies first-week worldwide.[103] In the US, it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart dated December 26, 2020, becoming her eighth number-one album.[80] The gap between the number-one debuts of Folklore and Evermore was 140 days, registering the shortest gap between two chart-topping albums by a woman.[104] All the album's 15 tracks entered the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously;[105] with "Willow" at number one, it marked the second time Swift had both a number-one single and number-one album the same week, after Folklore and "Cardigan" in 2020.[90] All tracks also debuted on the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, except "No Body, No Crime", which debuted on the Hot Country Songs chart.[106]

Evermore spent four non-consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard 200, aided by delayed physical releases such as autographed CDs and a record-breaking vinyl sales week: by selling 102,000 vinyl copies for the week ending June 3, 2021, the album registered the highest single-week vinyl figure since MRC Data began tracking US album sales in 1991.[107] Evermore also debuted atop the Alternative Albums chart, dethroning Folklore;[106] it spent 16 weeks at number one.[108] According to MRC Data, it was the tenth-best-selling album of 2020 in the US[109] and the sixth-best-selling of 2021.[110] Evermore surpassed one million US album units as of April 2021[91] and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in October 2022.[111]

Evermore also peaked at number one in Belgian Flanders,[112] Canada,[113] Greece,[114] New Zealand,[115] and Portugal.[116] In Australia, the album earned a "Chart Double" by peaking atop the ARIA Albums Chart while "Willow" peaked atop the ARIA Singles Chart;[92] topping the Australian chart 19 weeks after Folklore, it helped Swift register the shortest gap between two number-one albums, surpassing Ariana Grande's record of 25 weeks.[117] In the UK, Evermore made Swift the female artist with the fastest duration to accumulate six number-one albums (2012–2020), surpassing Madonna (1997–2008); she also became the first female to score six chart toppers in the 21st century.[118] Evermore was the best-selling Americana album of 2021 in the UK.[119] The album has been certified triple platinum in Brazil and Canada,[120][121] double platinum in New Zealand,[122] and platinum in Australia, Denmark, Poland, and the UK.[123][124][125][126]

Critical reception

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Evermore ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?8.0/10[127]
Metacritic85/100[128]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[42]
And It Don't StopA−[129]
Clash8/10[38]
Entertainment WeeklyA[61]
The Guardian[21]
The Independent[14]
NME[41]
Pitchfork7.9/10[47]
Rolling Stone[43]
The Sydney Morning Herald[34]

Evermore received critical acclaim upon release.[130][131] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized score out of 100 to ratings from publications, the album received a weighted mean score of 85 based on 29 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[128]

Swift's songwriting received unanimous praise. Reviews from The Independent's Helen Brown, The Guardian's Alexis Petridis, Stereogum's Tom Breihan, and The Sydney Morning Herald's Lancaster Brodie lauded the character studies as intricate for depicting complex emotions with well-written stories,[14][21][27][34] while those from Spin's Bobby Olivier and NME's Hannah Mylrea highlighted Swift's command of language, focusing on her wordplay and turn of phrase.[20][41] Jon Pareles from The New York Times opined that the character studies of Evermore were more extensive than those in Folklore,[29] and Patrick Ryan of USA Today thought that the imaginary world of Evermore was richer and "more spellbinding".[32] Alan Light of Esquire considered Swift's songwriting mature and "even literary".[3] A less enthusiastic review came from The Atlantic's Spencer Kornhaber, who wrote that there were imprecise and self-indulgent metaphors that could have been edited.[132]

Reception of the production and sounds was not as uniformly positive. Multiple critics regarded Evermore as musically riskier and more experimental than Folklore, such as Light,[3] Breihan,[27] and Mylrea;[41] several considered Evermore a better record than Folklore thanks to this greater musical reach, including Olivier,[20] The A.V. Club's Annie Zaleski,[28] and Entertainment Weekly's Maura Johnston.[61] There were compliments that deemed the production choices nuanced and meticulous from Pareles and Rolling Stone's Claire Shaffer.[29][43] Billboard's Jason Lipshutz and Pitchfork's Sam Sodomsky contended that the production choices complemented Swift's lyrics,[133][47] while Clash's Shannon McDonagh wrote that Evermore built on what worked on Folklore to greater success.[38] Samdosky and Variety's critic Chris Willman also praised Swift's expressive and agile vocals;[47] the latter opined that the impressionist narratives fully "come into focus on second or third listen".[23]

Some critics were more reserved in their praise. Brown, Breihan, and Robert Christgau contended that it took time for the melodies to fully draw the listeners in.[14][27][129] Several reviews regarded Evermore as a sequel to Folklore and thus it was not as impactful as its predecessor, although they upheld the quality of the songcraft; these included Wilson,[30] Hyden,[26] and Neil McCormick of The Daily Telegraph.[15] The Globe and Mail's Brad Wheeler contended that Evermore was not as tuneful as Folklore but was more "album-oriented" and had a timeless quality.[22] Kitty Empire of The Observer opined that the muted production "smears Vaseline on [Swift's] otherwise keen lens".[134] Mikael Wood of the Los Angeles Times felt that while there were several "incredible songs", many Evermore tracks sounded like leftovers of Folklore, with unfinished experiments both musically and lyrically.[19] In an outright negative review, Chris Richards of The Washington Post criticized the "indie" label and contended that while Folklore was surprising, Evermore turned out lyrically subpar, with "Marjorie" as the exception.[135]

Year-end lists

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By the time Evermore was released, many publications had already issued their year-end rankings of best albums of 2020.[136] The album nonetheless managed to appear on multiple lists: it ranked first (shared with Folklore) on lists complied by NJ.com,[137] USA Today,[138] and Chris Willman of Variety;[139] and within the top 10 by Jon Bream of the Minnesota Star Tribune,[140] The Philadelphia Inquirer,[141] and the Tampa Bay Times.[142] Evermore finished at number 19 on Metacritic's aggregated list of 2020 year-end rankings, based on placements in publications' year-end lists.[143]

Select year-end rankings of Evermore
Critic/Publication List Rank Ref.
Chris Willman (Variety) Best Albums of 2020 1[b] [139]
Financial Times Best 10 Albums of 2020 9 [144]
Metro Times Best New Music of 2020 2[b] [145]
NJ.com The 50 Albums That Saved Us From 2020 1[b] [137]
Our Culture Mag The 50 Best Albums of 2020 4[b] [136]
Robert Christgau 71 Best Albums of 2020 20 [146]
Rob Sheffield (Rolling Stone) Top 20 Albums of 2020 5 [147]
Slate The Music Club, 2020 – 13 Best Albums 2[b] [148]
Tampa Bay Times The 10 Best Albums of 2020 5 [142]
USA Today The 10 Best Albums of 2020 1[b] [138]

Impact and commentary

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Swift dressed in an orange dress and black cloak singing onto a mic
Swift performing the Evermore act of the Eras Tour in 2023

At the 2021 American Music Awards, Evermore won the American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Album; it marked Swift's record-breaking fourth win in the category.[149] It also helped Swift win Best International Artist at the 2021 ARIA Music Awards in Australia.[150] At the 64th Annual Grammy Awards, Evermore was nominated for Album of the Year, marking Swift's fifth nomination in the category, after Fearless (2008), Red (2012), 1989 (2014) and Folklore. This nomination resulted in a last-minute decision from the Recording Academy, who decided to expand the number of nominees for Album of the Year from eight to 10, just 24 hours before the nominees were announced.[151] The album was also nominated for International Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2021 in Canada.[152]

The five-month gap between Folklore and Evermore received commentary in the press. Willman compared this short gap to the successes of the Beatles[139] and U2 with Achtung Baby (1991) and Zooropa (1993),[23] while Sheffield termed it a "hot streak" reminiscent of Prince in 1987, David Bowie in 1977, and Lil Wayne in 2007.[147] Swift considered releasing Evermore a departure from her previous treatments of albums as "one-off eras" that required careful planning after each release cycle.[153] In the views of Vulture's Justin Curto, by abandoning traditional album rollouts involving extensive promotion and marketing, Evermore demonstrated Swift's embrace of artistic autonomy, which contributed to a larger discourse over album release strategies in the 2020s decade.[153] Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal's Neil Shah argued that the quick rollout was influenced by hip-hop and R&B artists who would release their music spontaneously—a strategy that proved to be economically lucrative in the streaming era.[154]

Swift included songs from Evermore in an act as part of the Eras Tour, her sixth headlining concert tour, in 2023, having not toured since 2018's Reputation Stadium Tour due to the pandemic.[155] Evermore, often analyzed upon together with Folklore, reinvented Swift's image from a pop star to an esteemed songwriter.[156][157] According to Hibbett, the two albums aligned Swift with both the singer-songwriter tradition of the 1960s and 1970s, and the contemporary indie rock scene. In doing so, they represented a paradox of "mainstream alternative" or "high-pop" binaries—contrasts between esteemed, poetic styles and accessible, "pop" styles—which Hibbett contended to have reached an unprecedented level due to Swift's "mega-stardom [that she] brings to the table".[158] Evermore's embrace of the cottagecore aesthetic contributed to Swift's newfound popularity among liberal and queer audiences, who found solace in it to cope with the tumultuous times of American politics that entailed white supremacy, racism, and homophobia; several critics however alleged her of cultural appropriation and romanticizing the legacy of settler colonialism of white Americans in the US.[159]

Sales revenues from Evermore helped Swift become 2020's highest-paid solo musician in the world[160] and highest-paid musician overall in the US.[161] Many publications attributed Evermore with Swift's status as one of the most prominent artists during the pandemic;[162][163][164] Billboard cited it as a notable example of how the pandemic fostered new creative directions for musicians.[165] Artists who have cited Evermore as an influence include Mia Dimšić, who was inspired to write "Guilty Pleasure", her entry song representing Croatia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022;[166][167] Christina Perri, who was influenced to create heartfelt, melancholic songs like her 2020 single "Evergone", defying external expectations on her to create upbeat music;[168] and Noah Kahan, who credited it with providing a mainstream prominence for his "brand of alt-folk".[169] The Independent ranked Evermore 14th on their 2024 list of the 20 most underrated albums; Roisin O'Connor argued that it was "arguably [...] her biggest creative flex".[170]

Track listing

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Evermore standard track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Willow"
A. Dessner3:34
2."Champagne Problems"
  • Swift
  • A. Dessner
4:04
3."Gold Rush"
  • Swift
  • Antonoff
3:05
4."'Tis the Damn Season"
  • Swift
  • A. Dessner
A. Dessner3:49
5."Tolerate It"
  • Swift
  • A. Dessner
A. Dessner4:05
6."No Body, No Crime" (featuring Haim)Swift
  • Swift
  • A. Dessner
3:35
7."Happiness"
  • Swift
  • A. Dessner
A. Dessner5:15
8."Dorothea"
  • Swift
  • A. Dessner
A. Dessner3:45
9."Coney Island" (featuring the National)
  • A. Dessner
  • B. Dessner
4:35
10."Ivy"
  • Swift
  • A. Dessner
  • Antonoff
A. Dessner4:20
11."Cowboy like Me"
  • Swift
  • A. Dessner
A. Dessner4:35
12."Long Story Short"
  • Swift
  • A. Dessner
A. Dessner3:35
13."Marjorie"
  • Swift
  • A. Dessner
A. Dessner4:17
14."Closure"
  • Swift
  • A. Dessner
3:00
15."Evermore" (featuring Bon Iver)
  • Swift
  • A. Dessner
5:04
Total length:60:38
Deluxe edition bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
16."Right Where You Left Me"
  • Swift
  • A. Dessner
A. Dessner4:05
17."It's Time to Go"
  • Swift
  • A. Dessner
A. Dessner4:15
Total length:68:58

Notes

  • ^[a] signifies an additional producer.
  • All track titles are stylized in all lowercase.

Credits and personnel

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Adapted from the liner notes of Evermore[8]

Musicians

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  • Taylor Swift – lead vocals, songwriting, production (2, 3, 6, 15)
  • Aaron Dessner –  production (1, 2, 4–17), songwriting (1, 4, 7–14, 16, 17), drum machine programming (1, 4–5, 7, 9–17), percussion (1, 10–12), keyboards (1, 5, 7, 11–12, 16–17), synthesizers (1–2, 4, 6–7, 9–12, 14–17), piano (1–2, 4–8, 11, 13–15, 17), electric guitar (1, 4, 6–12, 16–17), bass guitar (1, 4–10, 12, 14, 16–17), acoustic guitar (1–2, 4, 6–13, 16–17), synth bass (2, 10–13, 17), mandolin (6), field recording (6), tambourine (8), high string guitar (9–10), drum kit (10), rubber bridge guitar (10), drone (13), banjo (16)
  • Bryce Dessner – production (9), songwriting (9), orchestration (1, 4–5, 7, 9–17), piano (9, 14), pulse (9), electric guitar (12)[c]
  • James McAlister – synthesizers (1, 5, 10, 12, 14), drum machine programming (1, 5, 10, 12), percussion (5), keyboards (5, 10), Vermona pulse (13), drum kit (14, 16)[c]
  • Bryan Devendorf – percussion (1, 10, 13), drum machine programming (1, 5, 9–10, 13, 17), drum kit (9, 12)
  • Yuki Numata Resnick – violin (1, 4–5, 7, 9–17)
  • Clarice Jensen – cello (1, 4, 5, 9–13, 15, 17)
  • Jason Treuting – glockenspiel (1), percussion (5, 9, 13), drum kit (9), crotales (12, 15), metal percussion (12), chord stick (13–14, 17)
  • Alex Sopp – flute (1, 15)[c]
  • CJ Camerieri – French horn (1)[c]
  • Thomas Bartlett – keyboard (1, 4, 7, 8, 16–17), synthesizers (1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 17), piano (8, 16–17)[c]
  • William Bowery – songwriting (2, 9, 15), piano (15)
  • Logan Coale – upright bass (2, 10–11, 14–15)
  • Jack Antonoff – production (3), songwriting (3, 10), drums (3), percussion (3), bass (3), electric guitar (3), acoustic guitar (3), slide guitar (3), piano (3), Mellotron (3), backing vocals (3)
  • Mikey Freedom Hart – DX7 (3), electric guitar (3), nylon guitar (3), Rhodes (3), celeste (3)[c]
  • Sean Hutchinson – drums (3)[c]
  • Michael Riddleberger – drums (3)
  • Evan Smith – horns (3)[c]
  • Patrik Berger – OP-1 (3)
  • Bobby Hawk – violin (3)
  • Nick Lloyd – Hammond B3 Organ (4, 16)[c]
  • Josh Kaufman – harmonium (4, 16), lap steel (4, 6, 11), electric guitar (6, 8, 16), acoustic guitar (8), organ (6), harmonica (6, 11, 16), mandolin (11)[c]
  • Benjamin Lanz – trombone (4, 10), horn arrangement (4), modular synthesizer (8, 10)[c]
  • Danielle Haim – vocals (6)
  • Este Haim – vocals (6)
  • JT Bates – drum kit (6–8, 10, 17), percussion (8, 16–17)[c]
  • Ryan Olson – Allovers Hi-Hat Generator (7, 13, 17)[c]
  • Matt Berninger – vocals (9)
  • Scott Devendorf – bass guitar (9), pocket piano (9)[c]
  • Justin Vernon – backing vocals (10, 13), triangle (10), drum kit (10–11, 14), banjo (10), electric guitar (10–11, 17), Prophet X (13), Messina (14), synthesizers (15), field recording (15), vocals (15), bass guitar (17), acoustic guitar (17)[c]
  • Kyle Resnick – trumpet (10, 12, 14, 17)[c]
  • Marcus Mumford – backing vocals (11)
  • Marjorie Finlay – backing vocals (13)
  • Trever Hagen – trumpet (14), no-input mixer (14)[c]
  • BJ Burton – additional production (14)
  • James McAlister –  additional production (14)
  • Gabriel Cabezas – cello (14–15)
  • Dave Nelson – trombone (14, 17)[c]
  • Stuart Bogie – alto clarinet (15), contrabass clarinet (15), flute (15)[c]
  • Jonathan Low – drum machine programming (16)

Additional instrument recording

  • Kyle Resnick – violin (1, 4–5, 7, 9–17)
  • Bobby Hawk – violin (3)
  • Aaron Dessner – vermona pulse (13)
  • Robin Baynton – piano (Bowery on 15)

Technical

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  • Taylor Swift – executive producer
  • Jonathan Low – recording (1–2, 4–17), vocal recording (1–5; Swift on 6, 9; 10–14; Swift on 15; 17), mixing (all tracks)
  • Aaron Dessner – recording (1–2, 4–17)
  • Greg Calbi – mastering
  • Steve Fallone – mastering
  • Laura Sisk – recording (3), vocal recording (8)
  • John Rooney – assistant engineering (3)
  • Jon Sher – assistant engineering (3)
  • Ariel Rechtshaid – vocal recording (Danielle and Este Haim on 6)
  • Matt DiMona – vocal recording (Danielle and Este Haim on 6)
  • Robin Baynton – vocal recording (7; Swift on 9; Mumford on 11; 16)
  • Sean O'Brien – vocal recording (Berninger on 9)
  • Justin Vernon – vocal recording (Bon Iver on 15)

Design

[edit]
  • Beth Garrabrant – photography

Charts

[edit]

Certifications

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Certifications for Evermore
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[123] Platinum 70,000‡
Austria (IFPI Austria)[236] Gold 7,500‡
Belgium (BRMA)[237] Gold 10,000‡
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil)[120] 3× Platinum 120,000‡
Canada (Music Canada)[121] 3× Platinum 240,000‡
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[124] Platinum 20,000‡
France (SNEP)[238] Gold 50,000‡
Germany (BVMI)[239] Gold 100,000‡
Italy (FIMI)[240] Gold 25,000‡
New Zealand (RMNZ)[122] 2× Platinum 30,000‡
Norway (IFPI Norway)[241] Gold 10,000*
Poland (ZPAV)[125] Platinum 20,000‡
Portugal (AFP)[242] Gold 3,500‡
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[243] Gold 20,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI)[126] Platinum 300,000‡
United States (RIAA)[111] Platinum 1,000,000‡

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

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Release dates and formats for Evermore
Initial release date Format(s) Edition(s) Ref.
December 11, 2020
Standard [81]
December 18, 2020 CD Deluxe
January 7, 2021
  • Digital download
  • streaming
 [82]
February 12, 2021 Cassette [81]
May 28, 2021 Vinyl LP

See also

[edit]

Footnotes

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  1. ^ For consistency and clarity, this article hereafter refers to Aaron Dessner as "Dessner", and Bryce Dessner as "Bryce".
  2. ^ a b c d e f Shared with Folklore
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s This performer is also credited with recording their instrumentation.

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