Taylor Swift and the English Romantics

Brittany Spanos at Rolling Stone notices that Taylor Swift "goes deep on the Romantic poet references for Folklore bonus track 'The Lakes.'" How so? Well: "she fends off a 'namedropping sleaze' who wants to 'tell me what are my words worth,' a clever reference to the Romantic-era poet William Wordsworth." More:

For much of the Jack Antonoff-produced song, Swift pines for her “muse,” crying near England’s Windermere Lake. “Take me to the lakes, where all the poets went to die/I don’t belong and my beloved neither do you,” she sings on the sweeping, string-laden chorus.

Swift released Folkore in July. It debuted at Number One on the RS Albums chart with the biggest first week of the year so far. Meanwhile, lead single “Cardigan” debuted at Number One on the RS 100. Swift has topped the Artists 200 chart for two weeks straight with the album, which she wrote and recorded while in quarantine, collaborating remotely primarily with the National’s Aaron Dessner.

Watch the video and listen for yourself at Rolling Stone.