![]() ![]() You have to believe in love stories and prince charmings and happily ever after. But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. Then, moving on and being alright…That’sFEARLESS too. I think allowing yourself to cry on the bathroom floor is FEARLESS. I think loving someone despite what people think is FEARLESS. It’s FEARLESS to say “you’re NOT sorry”, and walk away. And when someone apologizes to you enough times for things they’ll never stop doing, I think it’s FEARLESS to stop believing them. I think it’s FEARLESS to fall for your best friend, even though he’s in love with someone else. FEARLESS is having the courage to say goodbye to someone who only hurts you, even if you can’t breathe without them. ![]() It’s FEARLESS to have faith that someday things will change. FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again… even though every time you’ve tried before, you’ve lost. FEARLESS is walking into your freshmen year of high school at fifteen. FEARLESS is falling madly in love again, even though you’ve been hurt before. To me, FEARLESS is living in spite of those things that scare you to death. And I’ve written so many songs from a female’s perspective of wanting a male apology, that we decided to make it from a teenage boy’s perspective apologizing after he loses the love of his life because he’s been foolish.“To me, “FEARLESS” is not the absence of fear. And I really liked that it seemed to be an apology. ![]() And I was just like, ‘Hello.’ It was a step that we would never have taken, because why would we have ever written a song together? So this was the first time we had a conversation where I came in and I was like, “Hey, this could be really weird, and we could hate this, so because we’re in quarantine and there’s nothing else going on, could we just try to see what it’s like if we write this song together?” So he was singing the chorus of it, and I thought it sounded really good from a man’s voice, from a masculine perspective. ‘betty’ was… I just heard Joe singing the entire fully formed chorus of ‘betty’ from another room. She also explained in folklore: the long pond studio sessions that Joe Alwyn, her boyfriend as of the song’s release, wrote the chorus under the name William Bowery. I named all the characters in this story after my friends' kids… and I hope you like it! I’ve always loved that in music you can kinda slip into different identities and you can sing from other people’s perspectives. ![]() Everybody makes mistakes, everybody really messes up sometimes and this is a song that I wrote from the perspective of a 17-year-old boy. I think we all have these situations in our lives where we learn to really, really give a heartfelt apology for the first time. has lost the love of his life basically and doesn’t understand how to get it back. Swift spoke to Billboard about the inspiration behind James' character, and the story as a whole, as well as revealing the inspiration behind the names in the song: So that’s what I did on this one–and I named all the characters in this story after my friends' kids." has lost the love of his life basically and doesn’t understand how to get it back…Everybody makes mistakes, everybody really messes up sometimes and this is a song that I wrote from the perspective of a 17-year-old boy. However, Taylor confirmed James' gender while explaining the song on country radio: Interestingly, James' gender is never explicitly stated-James and Inez (mentioned in the pre-chorus) are, in fact, the names of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds‘ eldest daughters-leading some to believe that James could be a girl and that the Teenage Love Triangle is, in fact, a sapphic love story. The storyline is preceded by “cardigan” and “august.” “betty” is believed to be the third part of folklore’s “Teenage Love Triangle,” told from the point of view of James. Sonically, the song exudes a strong sense of nostalgia, delivering production and instrumentals reminiscent to Taylor’s earlier projects like Fearless and Speak Now, both of which were records written by Taylor in her similarly naïve adolescence. The song takes a more feminist approach, portraying the narrator as a person named James who can’t own up to their mistakes, all while Betty flourishes on her own and recognizes her worth. Listeners learn that while the summer affair was going on, the speaker, James, was still dating their classmate, Betty. “betty” touches on the aftermath of “august,” which describes a summer love that was doomed from the start. ![]()
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