Megan Brownell social media editor
For this week’s music review, I decided to go with one of the more underrated Taylor Swift albums. Evermore is a great album, though it doesn’t go up high in my album ranking, it is a fantastic album that many people don’t appreciate.
The album was another surprise drop by Swift during the pandemic, coming out on December 11th. The album quickly shot up to number one on the Billboard hot 200, with all 15 songs charting on the 100. Willow went number one and stayed there for three weeks.
Willow was a great album opener. It brought with it those folklore vibes, showing being its sister album. It was slower, having that interesting beat. It’s not a bad song, I just think that since it was a leading single it got a little overplayed. I love the song live, as Swift has fun and interesting choreography with the song on tour. She wears a fun cape and they play with orange orb looking balls, and of course any song is better when you hear it live.
Moving on down to Swift’s infamous track five, ‘tolerate it’ takes its place. I love this song, it sits in my top three on the album. But, I have to owe the live performance to why I love the song now, and I wish I always appreciated it as much as I do. It is an incredible song that throws out the pains of being in a relationship with someone who doesn’t appreciate your love, they only tolerate it. I think the bridge is what really makes this song, getting angry at the partner, yelling out that emotion.
Swift wrote some more story-like songs on evermore as well, which gives us my favorite of those, no body, no crime. The story of the song is about her friend Este, who randomly disappears one day, and her husband is acting very suspicious that we had something to do with it. So Swift’s character then supposedly ‘kills’ the husband, and blames it on his mistress. It is a super fun song and the story ties you in even more.
Later down the track list, comes another one of my favorites and more sentimental ones. ‘Marjorie’ is written about Swift’s grandmother, who passed away when she was little. It is a song that those who have lost a loved one can easily relate to, having lyrics of ‘I’d think you were talking to me now’, ‘the autumn chill that wakes me up’.
Swift also released a deluxe version, with songs ‘it’s time to go’ and ‘right where you left me’. Right where you left me is one of my all time favorite Taylor songs. It is so fun to sing and listen to, having a mouthful of lyrics that I really enjoy. The song is all about feeling like you can’t move on from something, being ‘still at the restaurant’.
Overall, I still give evermore a 9/10, being a great album but there’s a few songs on the album that I am not a huge fan of. I think the other songs make up for them though, showing how deep and beautiful Swift’s lyrics can get.