peter losing wendy
"And so we have brought the folklore cabin to Minneapolis! So the folklore cabin, it was something that pretty much only existed in my imagination, because basically, like, you know, we all had our coping mechanisms and our escape hatches during the pandemic—you know what yours are, I know what mine are—one of mine was folklore! Making folklore, and creating this world that wasn’t the reality I was living in, but it seemed like a great place to be. It was like a fantasy, right? I just imagined myself as you know, instead of being like a lonely millennial woman surviving on television and white wine, I was like a pioneer woman. I was a Victorian lady wandering through the forest and like, you know, writing poetry with a feather quill on a piece of parchment paper. It was all, like my imaginary world during the pandemic, was just exactly what folklore seems like. So I kind of just imagined I lived in this cabin, and then so when I wanted to make music videos and stuff, and do the art for the album, I definitely leaned into like, exactly what I had pictured in my imagination. But another thing I did during the making of this album was I kind of made a decision that I was going to choose to take a step back from being so excruciatingly autobiographical with my writing, just for a minute, you know? Just take a second to be like—cause guys, you know, when you’re writing about your life, in detail, from the time you’re like, I don’t know, 12 years old, and those songs all end up going out into the world, you’re like, I mean, that’s a problem of my own creation, I understand, but it can get pretty intense when you have an album release. But for folklore, I was like, ‘What if we took a more fictional take on this? And I could create characters, and character arcs, and they could interact with each other?’ And I would obviously infuse my feelings into them, but I just thought that would be so fun. And it was, it was really fun. I’m glad you agree, I’m so glad, that works out perfectly. So there were these characters that I created that have a teenage love triangle situation going on. I mean, you know about this, good! So there’s this character I created named James, this teenage boy who really, really, really screws things up with the love of his life, and he has to try to get her back, and he has to try to apologize really sincerely, and well, I mean, long story short, her name is Betty."
— Taylor before singing betty in Minneapolis, MN on June 24th
