{"id":121400,"date":"2020-11-27T11:40:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T08:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-taylor-swifts-folklore-the-long-pond-studio-sessions-review\/"},"modified":"2020-11-27T11:40:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T08:40:38","slug":"watch-taylor-swifts-folklore-the-long-pond-studio-sessions-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-taylor-swifts-folklore-the-long-pond-studio-sessions-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8216;Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions&#8217; Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3da78642e39\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3da78642e39\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-taylor-swifts-folklore-the-long-pond-studio-sessions-review\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Taylor_Swifts_%E2%80%98Folklore_The_Long_Pond_Studio_Sessions_Review%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8216;Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions&#8217; Review&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-taylor-swifts-folklore-the-long-pond-studio-sessions-review\/#%E2%80%9CTaylor_Swifts_%E2%80%98Folklore_The_Long_Pond_Studio_Sessions_Review%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8216;Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions&#8217; Review&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Taylor_Swifts_%E2%80%98Folklore_The_Long_Pond_Studio_Sessions_Review%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8216;Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions&#8217; Review&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CTaylor_Swifts_%E2%80%98Folklore_The_Long_Pond_Studio_Sessions_Review%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8216;Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions&#8217; Review&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        Taylor Swift\u2019s music has always been the most interesting thing about Taylor Swift, and she\u2019s rarely more interesting than when she\u2019s talking about her music. You would think this would be obvious, considering she\u2019s one of the defining singer-songwriters of her generation, but for large portions of her decade and a half career, the conversations around her have focused on just about everything else: her romances, her feuds, her aesthetics, her strategic alliances, her business calculations, her imagined politics, her actual politics, her role as a feminist icon, her role as an avatar of white fragility, her authenticity, her inauthenticity, her videography, her numerology, her cats. Last winter\u2019s Sundance documentary \u201cMiss Americana\u201d allowed her to tackle most of these issues head-on, often with a frankness that we rarely saw out of the increasingly private star, but even there, Swift\u2019s music sometimes risked getting lost in all the noise.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps that\u2019s why \u201cFolklore,\u201d the decidedly low-key album she recorded during quarantine and released with zero fanfare in July, felt like such a breath of fresh air. It also didn\u2019t hurt that it was one of the best things she\u2019s ever done. Working remotely with veteran collaborator Jack Antonoff and new producer\/co-writer Aaron Dessner (best known as the guitarist for sad-dad-rock mainstays the National), Swift used \u201cFolklore\u201d to cast off the spectacle, the commercial calculations, and the meta-framing of her last few albums and focus instead on the fine-tuned intimacy and incisive turns of phrase that made her such a singular voice to begin with. The one thing that album was missing, however, was the im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>cy of a studio setting, and so for this week\u2019s Disney Plus release \u201cFolklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions,\u201d she\u2019s assembled Dessner and Antonoff in person to play through each song live.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from some brief home videos of Swift recording the album earlier this year, the entire film takes place at the titular studio in New York\u2019s Hudson Valley: a cozy, exposed-wood cabin situated on a picturesque piece of waterfront real estate, surrounded by chairs, string lights and fire pits where the artists can retire to sip wine and tea while discussing the day\u2019s progress. (Frankly, the most succinct way to describe the setting would be \u201cextremely Taylor Swift-like,\u201d even though the studio is actually Dessner\u2019s.) It wouldn\u2019t be a Swift project without a few strategically teased Easter eggs \u2014 in this case, some hints about the love-triangle narrative that pops up irregularly throughout the album, and a revelation about the identity of her mysterious collaborator \u201cWilliam Bowery\u201d \u2014 but the remote getaway vibe of the location mostly allows the focus to stay on the music.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Swift herself, the film is handsomely mounted though never flashy, and follows a simple repeated structure: We get a drone shot of the surroundings, then a brief interlude discussing the next song, and then a performance. The discussion sections are of highly variable quality, at times offering fascinating glimpses into Swift\u2019s creative process, and at others sounding suspiciously like the sort of rehearsed banter she might have offered from the stage of an arena tour. As the newcomer to Swift\u2019s circle, Dessner tends to draw the most out of her in conversation, offering his own interpretations of Swift\u2019s lyrics and opening up about his personal struggles with depression during a chat about the song \u201cPeace.\u201d Longtime associate Antonoff is more likely to simply \u201cyes, and\u201d whatever Swift is saying, which can be slightly frustrating. When she mentions that \u201cpicking a track five is sort of a pressurized decision,\u201d you want someone to ask her to elaborate, instead of knowingly nodding.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the film\u2019s main attractions are the performances, as the three run through each of \u201cFolklore\u2019s\u201d tracks \u2014 bonus ones included \u2014 in order. None of the live renditions here are radically different from what\u2019s heard on the record, though one can easily imagine Swiftian scholars endlessly debating the merits of each, the way Dylanologists still fight over which take of \u201cIdiot Wind\u201d is the canonical one. But it\u2019s obvious that these three are enjoying the chance to once again exchange ideas in person rather than over email and Skype, and it\u2019s impressive to watch just how thoroughly Dessner and Antonoff manage to re-create the record\u2019s sparse yet carefully textured soundscapes with just a few guitars, a piano, some light drum machine and a solitary snare. (\u201cFolklore\u2019s\u201d lone guest star, Justin Vernon, does Skype in his performance for the duet \u201cExile\u201d from his own home studio, and adds enough improvised touches to keep the song from feeling overly familiar.)<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most striking element of the film is its deep focus on Swift as a singer. Back in her \u201cFearless\u201d days, Swift was subject to substantial criticism for her limited vocal prowess, which was always unfair. Swift was a lyrics-first singer-songwriter long before she was a pop star, and she deserved to be considered in the company of the former rather than contrasted with the Mariah Careys of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the control she has developed over her instrument in the years since is remarkable to behold, and Swift\u2019s vocals sound simply lovely here. She still never allows a flourish or a tricky run to compromise the clarity of a lyric, but she knows exactly how to work wonders within her register, and she\u2019s perfectly comfortable exploring its further reaches.<\/p>\n<p>On \u201cMy Tears Ricochet,\u201d Swift gives her voice a husky edge that almost calls Chan Marshall to mind \u2014 this is probably the oldest she\u2019s ever sounded, and it becomes her nicely. Meanwhile, she can still summon the old wide-eyed \u201cTeardrops on My Guitar\u201d innocence when a song calls for it, and she\u2019s practically bouncing off her seat when \u201cBetty\u201d hits its big key-change at the end.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, it seems as though Swift envisions every album release or career move as another chapter of an elaborate, neverending bildungsroman, and \u201cLong Pond\u201d doesn\u2019t give much indication of what the next one might look like. (Although she does note that \u201cFolklore\u201d taught her the value of songwriting that looks outward, rather than plumbing exclusively from her own experiences \u2014 for those of us left somewhat cold by her more tabloid-baiting \u201cReputation\u201d period, that\u2019s certainly a welcome note.) With this film, she just does the two things she does best: making excellent music, and giving people a new reason to talk about Taylor Swift. 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