Song
dorothea
Evermore · 2020 · Track 8
Co-written
Written byTaylor Swift, Aaron Dessner
Produced byAaron Dessner
Mash-ups & Live Pairings
- It's Nice to Have a Friend / dorothea (Eras Tour, Edinburgh)
Details
- Stated inspiration
- From the Evermore prologue: "Dorothea, the girl who left her small town to chase down Hollywood dreams, and what happens when she comes back for the holidays and rediscovers an old flame."
two sides of one hometown romance
“you got shiny friends since you left town”
“And the road not taken looks real good now And it always leads to you and my hometown” — tis the damn season
Community readers hear 'tis the damn season and Dorothea as the same story told from opposite sides: her voice returning to the hometown lover, his voice watching the girl who left for Hollywood and wondering whether she still thinks of him. The one who comes back for the weekend and the one who stays behind are a matched pair, and the songs sit two tracks apart on the same album.
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