Taylor Swift Wrote 'Willow' Lyrics In 10 Minutes, Aaron Dessner Reveals

Taylor Swift's songwriting prowess has cemented her as one of the greatest songwriters on the planet today and in music history.

Her spell-binding lyrics that articulate the most fibrous human emotion there is have become her formula for quite some time that her loyal legion of fans, and even critics, couldn't help but listen to.

Now, one of her recent collaborators, Aaron Dessner of The Nationals, opened up about his experience in working with the global pop sensation.

Taylor Swift Wrote 'Willow' Lyrics In 10 Minutes

Speaking to People Magazine, Aaron Dessner revealed that Taylor Swift wrote the "willow" lyrics in not more than 10 minutes.

"There are so many stories I could share. When I sent Taylor the music for our song 'Willow' - I think she wrote the entire song from start to finish in less than 10 minutes and sent it back to me," he revealed. "It was like an earthquake. Then Taylor said, 'I guess we are making another album.'"

If you would inspect the "Willow" lyrics, you would think that it was a product of days of brain power and a group of people to come up with such subversive and amazing storytelling of a woman head over heels for a man. It was Swift's seventh No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Dessner revealed that "Willow" essentially birthed the idea of creating "Evermore," the surprise pandemic album that came after "Folklore."

"We were on FaceTime at midnight on the night Folklore came out and the first reviews and responses started coming in and it was really one of the most exhilarating, life-affirming feelings I have ever had," he recalled to the publication. "The fragile songs we had made remotely during lockdown were suddenly becoming part of the fabric of so many people's lives."

Taylor Swift 'Evermore'

Released in December 2020 as an early Christmas gift for the fans, "Evermore" was highly acclaimed by critics too. They praised Swift's vocals, her experimental foray into Alternative rock and folk-pop, and her more nuanced storytelling.

It was even nominated at the 65th Grammy Awards for Album of the Year.

American Songwriter compared the second album to its predecessor, "Folklore," describing the former to be the "archetypal older sister-a careful, yet hopeless romantic" while the latter is the "bold, scrappy younger one", despite the huge evolution from the first to the new one.

In the same interview, Dessner teased what fans could expect from Swift.

"I think Taylor has so many stories to tell. She will keep writing better songs and experimenting stylistically," he added, "I think she'll keep inventing new ways and methods of writing and keep expanding this enchanted universe of her own making that we all get to enjoy."

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