Taylor's new album 'evermore' out at midnight tonight!

Same with me. I think this song hit almost too close to home when I first listened to it. I love it so much. It’s probably my favourite on evermore.

Someone on instagram said their all-time fave is August but the masterpiece of her career is Marjorie so good to see some sense hitting the fandom for once lmao

I really think All Too Well is overrated anyway, but I really hope these albums start to diversify people's favourite songs by Taylor. Some of these songs are absolute masterpieces.

Is this the thread we are going to post our thoughts about 'Evermore' in?

Over the past few days I've sort of had to take a break from the online world or the Taylor world because I could feel a lot of anxiety coming on even before Taylor announced the album. Then after she announced the album, there was anticipation for the album, then she released a sh*t ton of new merch, and everything in my life was becoming too much for me and I felt overwhelmed. I had to take some time because I was experiencing high anxiety but I think I feel better now. The releases of merch has had me quite anxious also and causing me anxiety. I wasn't really on the forum for the last few days because of how I was feeling.

I think my opinion or thoughts on the songs on 'Evermore' has stayed the same so far over the past few days and I haven't listened to the album too much. Certainly not on repeat but I've listened to it a few times in between. I will say in general that I think after the first listen of this album, I can say I think I like it quite a bit more in general than I did for 'Folklore'. Part of that could be because 'Folklore' prepared me for a different sound of music that Taylor was trying on these albums. But I think they have different themes or feelings to the albums as Taylor described 'Folklore' like a spring/summer album and 'Evermore' as a fall/winter album. I can definitely say I'm a fall/winter or cold weather person and I love fall/winter and cold weather. I also like the sound of more of the songs on the album at first than I did with 'Folklore' when it was released I think.

I LOVED 'Willow' from the first listen when the music video premiered at midnight on the album's release, and the music video is so beautiful. I really can't get over how beautiful she was in the white dress with how her hair was with the accessory in it, her perfect makeup, etc. Her makeup and red lips made her look so beautiful. I felt jealous and still do of how beautiful she is, and I wish I was even a fraction of how beautiful she is.

When I went on to listen to the rest of the album on 'Amazon Music' (it SHOCKINGLY was on there pretty much just after midnight), there were quite a few songs I could tell I liked from them first listen. I loved 'Willow', and I really liked 'Champagne Problems', 'Gold Rush', 'Tis The Damn Season', and 'No Body No Crime'. I liked (didn't "really like" yet) 'Long Story Short', 'Ivy', 'Dorothea', and 'Happiness'.

Like on 'Folklore', there are songs that will need to grow on me (that I knew when I first heard them and still feel about them), which includes 'Coney Island', 'Cowboy Like Me', 'Tolerate It', 'Closure', and 'Evermore'. 'Evermore' was pretty, then ugh. Bon Iver just ruins it...I don't like his voice in 'Exile' either.

I left one song out, 'Marjorie'. I don't know where to start on it. I think it will be a very special song to me. When the tracklist was released for 'Evermore' before the album was released and when I read that the 13th track was about her grandma and how it was named 'Marjorie', it sort of gave me chills. My mom's mom (my grandma) was named Marjorie. I know there are millions of Marjories in the world and lots of people can say that's my grandma's name too, but I feel more connected to Taylor because of this now. I had some tears in my eyes the first time I listened to it. It's just beautiful and I think it will mean a lot to me. I relate it to my late grandma Marjorie and my other late grandma Maxine and all of my pets/animals that have passed away in my lifetime. I really love the chorus "What died didn't stay dead, what died didn't stay dead, you're alive you're alive in my head..." That applies to all of the family members and pets/animals I've lost in my life. I think the song really fits with my grandma Marjorie too because she has the same exact name after all, and a lot of the lyrics apply to my life.

"And I complained the whole way there...The car ride back and up the stairs...I should've asked you questions...I should've asked you how to be...Asked you to write it down for me...Should've kept every grocery store receipt...'Cause every scrap of you would be taken from me..." These lyrics in the song also cut me because my grandma with the same name passed away in 2012, and I was only 14 then. There are so many things I regret in my life, and one of those was not spending more time with my grandma (and other grandma) when they were here. I was a stupid kid and I know that's no excuse, but I still feel regret for not going with my mom to visit my grandma more when she would go. Sometimes I would want to stay home and I hate myself for that now. So those lyrics in the song really apply in that way.

The chorus is so beautiful and I can relate to it so much and it's sort of the thinking I've tried to have or my mom tells me to have in regards to the pets/animals and loved ones we've lost. The lyrics: "And if I didn't know better...I'd think you were listening to me now...If I didn't know better...I'd think you were still around...What died didn't stay dead...What died didn't stay dead...You're alive, you're alive in my head...What died didn't stay dead...What died didn't stay dead...You're alive, so alive..." After listening to the song more and more I can relate to it even more. It really applies to the pets/animals I have lost in my lifetime because I'm a huge animal lover and every loss has been hard. I or we can go through so many losses of pets/animals, but it doesn't mean it gets any easier. And the hardest part is knowing that they aren't physically here anymore and thinking that you're never going to see them again. I try to remind myself and my mom says that they're still with it. It just gets hard some days when I'm really missing my pets/animals that have passed away. Maybe I will have to try to listen to this song when I have a bad day and am missing my pets/animals and grandmas or loved ones, except I know it will make me cry every time I listen to it. I think it applies more to my pets/animals, which makes me a little sad or weird to say, because my grandmas have been gone for 8 and 11 years. It feels like it's been forever since they were still here. I don't think or know we had the closest relationship (with either of them) and that makes me feel bad too. I was young when they were still alive. And I was a stupid kid and I wish I would've done things differently and spent more time with them. We can't go back and change things we regret, but I think I will always feel bad about it and hold it with me.

'Marjorie is also basically the first song of Taylor's that addresses the loss of someone close to you (by death) and missing them. I'm thankful that Taylor finally wrote a song like that. I feel more connected to her now I think because of 'Marjorie'.

So I love 'Marjorie' and it already means a lot to me. I think I will cry anytime I hear it just like with 'Never Grow Up'.

I'm calling it. Mumford and Sons need to cover Marjorie

But I don't likeeee Mumford and Sonsssss. XD