On Sunday, just one year after a dispute with the Recording Academy kept Taylor Swift off of the Grammys stage, the pop star took to one of the night’s outdoor stages with an unusual live setup. Following the model explored in a Disney+ documentary from November, Swift appeared with longtime producer and co-writer Jack Antonoff and multi-instrumentalist Aaron Dessner, who is also a member of the band the National.
Surrounded by grass on her back, Swift began to sing “Cardigan,” the first single from her July 2020 album Folklore, eventually sitting up to show that she was on top of a structure. The set harkened back to the song’s music video, which was directed by Swift herself, but for the song “August,” she joined Dessner and Antonoff in a lean-to that looked a bit like the facade Dessner's Long Pond Studio in New York’s Hudson Valley. Next, she sand “Willow,” the first single from Evermore, the second album she released in 2020. In a custom Etro gown with ruffled hemline and sleeves, also covered in sequins, she danced while flanked by her collaborators.
In his introduction, host Trevor Noah referenced the albums that Swift release during 2020. “It was like medicine for many people and not just because it came in two doses,” he said.
Folklore is one of eight nominees for Album of the Year, a prize Swift has won twice before, for Fearless in 2009 and 1989 in 2015. Unlike most of the music being honored at Sunday’s 63rd annual Grammy awards, the album is the product of a collaboration that happened entirely after coronavirus lockdowns began. After meeting Dessner after a concert a few years prior, Swift reached out to ask if he was interested in working together once Swift couldn’t visit traditional recording studios. The album was produced at Dessner’s Long Pond Studio, but Swift recorded her contributions from a makeshift home studio. In the documentary, Swift announced that two songs on the record, “Betty” and “Exile,” were co-written by Swift’s boyfriend, actor Joe Alwyn, who appeared on the album’s credits as William Bowery.
“[Taylor Swift] said that Folklore was this life raft for us, emotionally and creatively,” Dessner recently told the New York Times. “I think that’s the beauty of this time—the way that communities of artists have adapted and been able to work remotely, so everyone’s in their bedroom with a microphone, and you can actually get a lot done really quickly.”
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