{"id":2716,"date":"2020-08-29T16:59:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T16:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/?page_id=2716"},"modified":"2025-09-16T20:35:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T19:35:18","slug":"the-last-great-american-dynasty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/folklore-album\/folklore-songs\/the-last-great-american-dynasty\/","title":{"rendered":"the last great american dynasty"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2716\" class=\"elementor elementor-2716\" data-elementor-settings=\"{&quot;ha_cmc_init_switcher&quot;:&quot;no&quot;}\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5131a13e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no 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class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-xl\">the last great american dynasty<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-30bdd63 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"30bdd63\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">folklore (2020)<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9740215 elementor-hidden-mobile\" data-id=\"9740215\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-646e55d elementor-hidden-phone 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class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-44ce5982 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"44ce5982\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cthe last great american dynasty\u201d is track three on Taylor\u2019s eighth studio album, <a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/folklore-album\/\"><em>folklore<\/em><\/a> (2020). It follows the story of Rebekah Harkness, a patron of the arts and founder of the Rebekah Harkness Foundation. In 2013, Taylor bought a Rhode Island mansion once owned by Rebekah, which is known as \u201cHoliday House.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e56ab06 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e56ab06\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cthe last great american dynasty\u201d narrates the story and satirizes the vilification of American socialite and composer Rebekah Harkness, who previously inhabited the Holiday House \u2014 Taylor\u2019s mansion in Watch Hill, an affluent coastal village in Westerly, Rhode Island. Written in a townsfolk third-person narrative, it details the following: Rebekah West, a middle-class divorc\u00e9e from St. Louis, married William \u201cBill\u201d Harkness in 1947, who was the heir to Standard Oil, an oil-refining company that was the 19th-century\u2019s first and largest multinational corporation in the world. The couple bought a seaside estate in Watch Hill, Rhode Island, and nicknamed it \u201cHoliday House\u201d. Bill died of a heart attack in 1954, for which Rebekah was blamed by the town. After her then-husband\u2019s death, Rebekah inherited his enormous wealth and became one of the wealthiest women in the history of the United States.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f3fbdd7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-table-of-contents\" data-id=\"f3fbdd7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;headings_by_tags&quot;:[&quot;h3&quot;,&quot;h5&quot;],&quot;exclude_headings_by_selector&quot;:[],&quot;no_headings_message&quot;:&quot;No headings were found on this page.&quot;,&quot;marker_view&quot;:&quot;numbers&quot;,&quot;hierarchical_view&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;min_height&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;min_height_tablet&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;min_height_mobile&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]}}\" data-widget_type=\"table-of-contents.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toc__header\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-toc__header-title\">\n\t\t\t\tTable of Contents\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-toc__f3fbdd7\" class=\"elementor-toc__body\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toc__spinner-container\">\n\t\t\t\t<i class=\"elementor-toc__spinner eicon-animation-spin eicon-loading\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2a86d49 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2a86d49\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Background and Lyrical Theme<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-10f9cbd elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"10f9cbd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTaylor wanted to write a song about Rebekah Harkness and Holiday House for a long time. \u201cI don\u2019t think we often hear about women who did whatever the hell they wanted,\u201d she told <em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em> in 2020. She first learned about Harkness from a real estate agent who walked her through the Rhode Island property. Consequently, Taylor started reading a lot about Harkness\u2019 life and found her stories interesting. It led to the development of parallels between Harkness and herself, both of them \u201cbeing the lady that lives in that house on the hill that everybody gets to gossip about\u201d. Taylor stated she was looking for a chance to write about Harkness, and finally found it when she heard the instrumental track that Dessner sent. She employed a narrative device in the song\u2019s lyrics commonly found in country music, which she described as: \u201cthe first verse you sing about someone else, the second verse you sing about someone else who\u2019s even closer to you, and then in the third verse, you go, \u2018Surprise! It was me\u2019. You bring it personal for the last verse\u201d. In the documentary<a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/videography\/concert-movies\/folklore-long-pond-studio-sessions\/\"><em>\u00a0folklore<\/em>: the long pond studio sessions<\/a> (2020) she told Aaron Dessner and Jack Antonoff:\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b341acb elementor-blockquote--align-left elementor-blockquote--skin-border elementor-widget elementor-widget-blockquote\" data-id=\"b341acb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"blockquote.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<blockquote class=\"elementor-blockquote\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-blockquote__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\u00abWhen [Aaron] sent me the track to \u2018the last great american dynasty\u2019 I had been wanting to write a song about Rebekah Harkness since 2013, probably. I\u2019d never figured out the right way to do it because there was never a track that felt like it could hold an entire story of somebody\u2019s life and moving between generations. When I heard that [the track] I was like, \u2018Oh my God, I think this is my opening. I think this is my moment. I think I can write the Rebekah Harkness story!' It has that country music narrative device. In country music, it\u2019s like, \u2018This guy did this, then this woman did this, then they met...and their kid was me! I was that kid!' Which is the best because when you listen to country music it\u2019s like, \u2018Shivers everywhere, my whole body!'\u00bb\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-q-footer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"elementor-blockquote__author\">Taylor Swift<\/cite>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4515538 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"4515538\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-9609324988608069\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\r\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9609324988608069\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"2216476285\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-93b2d9c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"93b2d9c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Production<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fc65a57 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fc65a57\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAiming for an uptempo and enticing sound, Aaron Dessner composed the instrumentals of \u201cthe last great american dynasty\u201d, inspired by the electric guitars in Radiohead\u2019s album, <em>In Rainbows<\/em> (2007). He sent the music sample to Taylor; she liked the sound, and wrote the lyrics to the song in under the time Dessner would go out for a run and return.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-90897ab elementor-blockquote--align-left elementor-blockquote--skin-border elementor-widget elementor-widget-blockquote\" data-id=\"90897ab\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"blockquote.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<blockquote class=\"elementor-blockquote\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-blockquote__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\u00abI wrote that after we\u2019d been working for a while. It was an attempt to write something attractive, more uptempo and kind of pushing. It was very much in this sound world that I\u2019ve been playing around with, and she immediately clicked with that. Initially I was imagining these dreamlike distant electric guitars and electronics but with an element of folk. There\u2019s a lot going on in that sense. I sent it before I went on a run, and when I got back from the run, that song was there. It\u2019s almost like a song would come out like a lightning bolt. It\u2019s exhilarating. The shared focus, the clarity of her ideas, and the way she structures things, it\u2019s all there. But I think she works really hard when she\u2019s working, and then she tweaks. She keeps going, so sometimes things would evolve or change. By the time she actually sings it, she\u2019s really inside of it. She doesn\u2019t do very many vocal takes before she nails it.\u00bb\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-q-footer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"elementor-blockquote__author\">Aaron Dessner<\/cite>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0bba973 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"0bba973\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The Folklore of Holiday House<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-424e2c4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"424e2c4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTaylor draws subtle comparisons between herself and Rebekah Harkness in the song. Rebekah, whom people actually called Betty. She was infamous for not fitting in, entirely, in society, which only heightened Taylor\u2019s interest in her. She told <em>People<\/em> in 2021, \u201cIt can be a real pearl-clutching moment for society when a woman owns her desires and wildness, and I love the idea that the woman in question would be too joyful in her freedom to even care that she\u2019s ruffling feathers, raising eyebrows or becoming the talk of the town. The idea that she decided there were marvelous times to be had, and that was more important\u201d. She also told <em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em> in 2020:\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ef26732 elementor-blockquote--align-left elementor-blockquote--skin-border elementor-widget elementor-widget-blockquote\" data-id=\"ef26732\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"blockquote.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<blockquote class=\"elementor-blockquote\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-blockquote__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\u00abAnyone who's been there before knows that I do 'The Tour,' where I show everyone through the house. And I tell them different anecdotes about each room, because I've done that much research on this house and this woman. So in every single room, there's a different anecdote about Rebekah Harkness. If you have a mixed group of people who've been there before and people who haven't, [the people who\u2019ve been there] are like, \"Oh, she's going to do the tour. She's got to tell you the story about how the ballerinas used to practice on the lawn.\u201d And they'll go get a drink and skip it because it's the same every time. But for me, I'm telling the story with the same electric enthusiasm, because it's just endlessly entertaining to me that this fabulous woman lived there. She just did whatever she wanted.\u00bb\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-q-footer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"elementor-blockquote__author\">Taylor Swift<\/cite>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7aa37f4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7aa37f4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRebekah invited \u201cbig names\u201d and her \u201cbitch pack\u201d\u2014a group of female city friends\u2014to the house, and spent her new money by throwing numerous high-class events and \u201coutrageous\u201d parties; Watch Hill scorned her for causing the downfall of the Harkness family, calling her the maddest and the \u201cmost shameless\u201d woman in the town\u2019s history. Pursuing her passion for arts, Rebekah founded a professional ballet company in 1964, called the Harkness Ballet.\n<br><br>\nIn the song\u2019s bridge, Taylor reveals her purchase of the Holiday House after 50 years of its vacancy, and in the final chorus, she shifts to first-person narrative, proclaiming herself \u201cthe loudest woman\u201d the town has ever seen, and correlates between her celebrity life and Rebekah\u2019s controversies. Taylor resonates her highly criticized moves with elements of Rebekah\u2019s story, and concludes the song with an outro of \u201cI had a marvelous time ruining everything\u201d. Mainstream media has linked several moments of Taylor\u2019s unfavorable press to that of Rebekah\u2019s, including the scrutiny she faces because of her highly publicized romantic life, her \u201csquad\u201d of popular celebrities, the Fourth of July parties she threw at the Holiday House, Watch Hill residents\u2019 concerns about the attention Taylor brings to the community, and the governor of Rhode Island, Gina Raimondo, suggesting a tax on secondary homes costlier than $1 million, which was famously dubbed \u201cthe Taylor Swift tax\u201d.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-33a1d77 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"33a1d77\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-9609324988608069\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\r\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9609324988608069\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"4532745910\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-597e16c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"597e16c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Live Performances<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-32e8a79 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"32e8a79\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTaylor first performed \u201cthe last great american dynasty\u201d as part of the concert film and documentary <a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/videography\/concert-movies\/folklore-long-pond-studio-sessions\/\"><em>folklore: the long pond studio sessions<\/em> <\/a>(2020), together with Aaron Dessner and Jack Antonoff. On \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/tours\/taylor-swift-the-eras-tour\/\">The Eras Tour<\/a>\u201d (2023-2024), the song was part of the regular setlist until May 2024. From then on it was cut in order to make room for the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/the-tortured-poets-department\/\">TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT<\/a><\/em> set. On July 24, 2024, Taylor played an acoustic mashup of \u201cthe last great american dynasty\u201d with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/re-recordings\/red-taylors-version\/run\/\">Run<\/a>\u201d (2021) in Hamburg. In Toronto on November 22, 2024, she paired the song with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/speak-now-album\/speak-now-songs\/ours\/\">Ours<\/a>\u201d (2010).\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e6675b1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"e6675b1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Critical Reception<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7f457c7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7f457c7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCritics praised \u201cthe last great american dynasty\u201d for Taylor\u2019s signature wordplay and the storytelling plot. Hannah Mylrea of <em>NME<\/em> lauded the song for its brooding instrumentals, Taylor\u2019s peculiar vocals, and storytelling style reminiscent of works by Mary Chapin Carpenter and Bob Dylan, and pitted it as \u201ca contender for the best Taylor Swift song ever written\u201d. Noting its historical details, Americana imagery and \u201cFitzgerald-esque\u201d lines, <em>Pitchfork<\/em> writer Julian Mapes hailed the song as \u201cthe all-timer, the instant classic\u201d that celebrates society-defying women, and stated that the lyrics \u201cplay out in your mind like a storybook\u201d, but successfully point out society\u2019s reception of assertive women.\u00a0 <em>PopMatters<\/em> critic Michael Sumsion labelled the song a shrewd comparison that upgrades a small-town tale into a \u201ctowering myth\u201d. Rob Sheffield of <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> wrote that the song satirizes the upper-class environment of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/red-album\/red-songs\/starlight\/\">Starlight<\/a>\u201c, the fifteenth track on Taylor\u2019s 2012 album <a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/red-album\/\"><em>RED<\/em><\/a>, and matched the similarities between the songs\u2014the usage of the word \u201cmarvelous\u201d and the muses being people who lived decades before Taylor\u2019s birth.\n<br><br>\nIn her list ranking all 161 songs by Taylor yet, Hannah Mylrea of <em>NME<\/em> placed the song at No. 2, only behind \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/red-album\/red-songs\/all-too-well\/\">All Too Well<\/a>\u201d (2012). <em>NME<\/em> placed the song at No. 8 on its list of \u201c50 Best Songs of 2020\u201d. <em>Uproxx<\/em> listed the track as the 15th best song of 2020. <em>Pitchfork<\/em> named it the 32nd best song of 2020 on its list ranking the year\u2019s 100 best songs. <em>Billboard<\/em> ranked it as the 39th best song of 2020, while <em>American Songwriter<\/em> listed it amongst its 20 best songs of the year.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6c544c4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"6c544c4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-9609324988608069\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\r\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9609324988608069\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3146414578\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-915f40f elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"915f40f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Commercial Performance<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e5728bc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e5728bc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUpon release of <em>folklore<\/em>, \u201cthe last great american dynasty\u201d reached top-20 in many countries worldwide. In the US, all of the album\u2019s sixteen tracks debuted on the <em>Billboard Hot 100<\/em> simultaneously, with \u201cthe last great american dynasty\u201d at No. 13, one of its five top-20 hits. The song further debuted at No. 42 on the <em>Billboard Digital Song Sales<\/em> chart. The song peaked at No. 13 on both of the <em>Canadian Hot 100<\/em> and <em>New Zealand Top 40 Singles<\/em> charts.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-285557e elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"285557e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">In Popular Culture<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e5d915a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e5d915a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cthe last great american dynasty\u201d became a fan-favorite from <em>folklore<\/em>. Upon release, the song ignited a phenomenon of viral memes on the internet, with the phrase \u201cthere goes the last great American dynasty\u201d applied to several fictional families or friends that appear in films and television shows, such as <em>The Twilight Saga<\/em>, <em>High School Musical<\/em>, <em>Succession<\/em>, <em>Gilmore Girls<\/em>, <em>Schitt\u2019s Creek<\/em>, <em>This Is Us<\/em> and <em>Jersey Shore<\/em>, <em>Disney Channel<\/em> releases like <em>Hannah Montana<\/em>, <em>Wizards of Waverly Place<\/em>, and many more.\n<br><br>\nOn September 8, 2020, a <em>Twitter<\/em> user proposed the idea for a film inspired by \u201cthe last great american dynasty\u201d, with a cast featuring Blake Lively as Rebekah, Ryan Reynolds as Bill and Jesse Tyler Ferguson as the neighbor, to which the three actors responded affirmatively. Taylor extended her support to the idea, along with Gigi Hadid.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-244eb13 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"244eb13\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d8eacf5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"d8eacf5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Lyrics<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c6e7c9f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c6e7c9f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>[Verse 1]<br \/><\/b>Rebekah rode up on the afternoon train<br \/>It was sunny<br \/>Her saltbox house on the coast<br \/>Took her mind off St. Louis<br \/>Bill was the heir to the Standard Oil name<br \/>And money<br \/>And the town said<br \/>\u201cHow did a middle class divorc\u00e9e do it?\u201d<br \/>The wedding was charming<br \/>If a little gauche<br \/>There\u2019s only so far new money goes<br \/>They picked out a home and called it \u201cHoliday House\u201d<br \/>Their parties were tasteful<br \/>If a little loud<br \/>The doctor had told him to settle down<br \/>It must have been her fault his heart gave out<\/p><p><b>[Chorus 1]<br \/><\/b>And the said<br \/>There goes the last great American dynasty<br \/>Who knows if she never showed up what could\u2019ve been<br \/>There goes the maddest woman this town has ever seen<br \/>She had a marvelous time ruining everything<\/p><p><b>[Verse 2]<br \/><\/b>Rebekah gave up on the Rhode Island set<br \/>Forever<br \/>Flew in all her Bitch Pack friends from the city<br \/>Filled the pool with champagne and swam with the big names<br \/>And blew through the money on the boys and the ballet<br \/>And losing on card game bets with Dal\u00ed<\/p><p><b>[Chorus 1]<br \/><\/b>And they said<br \/>There goes the last great American dynasty<br \/>Who knows if she never showed up what could\u2019ve been<br \/>There goes the most shameless woman this town has ever seen<br \/>She had a marvelous time ruining everything<\/p><p><b>[Bridge]<br \/><\/b>They say<br \/>She was seen on occasion<br \/>Pacing the rocks staring out at the midnight sea<br \/>And in a feud with her neighbor she stole his dog and dyed it key lime green<br \/>50 years is a long time<br \/>Holiday House sat quietly on that beach<br \/>Free of women with madness, their men and bad habits<br \/>Then it was bought by me<\/p><p><b>[Chorus 2]<br \/><\/b>Who knows if I never showed up what could\u2019ve been<br \/>There goes the loudest woman this town has ever seen<br \/>I had a marvelous time ruining everything<\/p><p><b>[Outro]<br \/><\/b>I had a marvelous time<br \/>Ruining everything<br \/>A marvelous time<br \/>Ruining everything<br \/>A marvelous time<br \/>I had a marvelous time<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e5c963b elementor-share-buttons--view-icon elementor-share-buttons--skin-framed elementor-share-buttons--color-custom elementor-share-buttons--shape-square elementor-grid-0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-share-buttons\" data-id=\"e5c963b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"share-buttons.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div 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href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/biography\/\">Taylor Swift<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Album<\/th><td><a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/folklore-album\/\"><em>folklore<\/em><\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Released<\/th><td>July 24, 2020<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Recorded<\/th><td>May\u2013July 2020<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Studios<\/th><td>Kitty Committee (Los Angeles)<br \/>Long Pond (Hudson Valley)<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Genre<\/th><td>Indie Folk<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Length<\/th><td>3:51<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Label<\/th><td><a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/wiki\/republic-records\/\">Republic Records<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Songwriters<\/th><td>Taylor Swift<br \/>Aaron Dessner<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Producer<\/th><td>Aaron Dessner<\/td><\/tr><tr><th class=\"infobox-header description\" style=\"text-align: center;\" colspan=\"2\"><h6>FOLKLORE CHRONOLOGY<\/h6><\/th><\/tr><tr><td class=\"infobox-full-data\" colspan=\"2\"><table><tbody><tr><td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"33%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/folklore-album\/folklore-songs\/cardigan\/\">cardigan<\/a><\/td><td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"33%\"><b>the last great american dynasty<\/b><\/td><td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"33%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/folklore-album\/folklore-songs\/exile\/\">exile<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e78d062 elementor-widget-divider--view-line_text elementor-widget-divider--element-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"e78d062\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider__text elementor-divider__element\">\n\t\t\t\tSingle Certification\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fda8f09 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"fda8f09\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-6594\" alt=\"&quot;2x Platinum&quot; certification by the Recording Industry Association of America. 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It follows the story of Rebekah Harkness, a patron of the arts and founder of the Rebekah Harkness Foundation. In 2013, Taylor bought a Rhode Island mansion once owned by Rebekah, which is known as \u201cHoliday House.\u201d\u201dthe last great american dynasty\u201d narrates the story and satirizes the vilification of American socialite and composer Rebekah Harkness, who previously inhabited the Holiday House \u2014 Taylor\u2019s mansion in Watch Hill, an affluent coastal village in Westerly, Rhode Island. Written in a townsfolk third-person narrative, it details the following: Rebekah West, a middle-class divorc\u00e9e from St. Louis, married William \u201cBill\u201d Harkness in 1947, who was the heir to Standard Oil, an oil-refining company that was the 19th-century\u2019s first and largest multinational corporation in the world. The couple bought a seaside estate in Watch Hill, Rhode Island, and nicknamed it \u201cHoliday House\u201d. Bill died of a heart attack in 1954, for which Rebekah was blamed by the town. After her then-husband\u2019s death, Rebekah inherited his enormous wealth and became one of the wealthiest women in the history of the United States. Table of Contents Background and Lyrical Theme Taylor wanted to write a song about Rebekah Harkness and Holiday House for a long time. \u201cI don\u2019t think we often hear about women who did whatever the hell they wanted,\u201d she told Entertainment Weekly in 2020. She first learned about Harkness from a real estate agent who walked her through the Rhode Island property. Consequently, Taylor started reading a lot about Harkness\u2019 life and found her stories interesting. It led to the development of parallels between Harkness and herself, both of them \u201cbeing the lady that lives in that house on the hill that everybody gets to gossip about\u201d. Taylor stated she was looking for a chance to write about Harkness, and finally found it when she heard the instrumental track that Dessner sent. She employed a narrative device in the song\u2019s lyrics commonly found in country music, which she described as: \u201cthe first verse you sing about someone else, the second verse you sing about someone else who\u2019s even closer to you, and then in the third verse, you go, \u2018Surprise! It was me\u2019. You bring it personal for the last verse\u201d. In the documentary\u00a0folklore: the long pond studio sessions (2020) she told Aaron Dessner and Jack Antonoff: \u00abWhen [Aaron] sent me the track to \u2018the last great american dynasty\u2019 I had been wanting to write a song about Rebekah Harkness since 2013, probably. I\u2019d never figured out the right way to do it because there was never a track that felt like it could hold an entire story of somebody\u2019s life and moving between generations. When I heard that [the track] I was like, \u2018Oh my God, I think this is my opening. I think this is my moment. I think I can write the Rebekah Harkness story!\u2019 It has that country music narrative device. In country music, it\u2019s like, \u2018This guy did this, then this woman did this, then they met\u2026and their kid was me! I was that kid!\u2019 Which is the best because when you listen to country music it\u2019s like, \u2018Shivers everywhere, my whole body!\u2019\u00bb Taylor Swift \u00a0 Production Aiming for an uptempo and enticing sound, Aaron Dessner composed the instrumentals of \u201cthe last great american dynasty\u201d, inspired by the electric guitars in Radiohead\u2019s album, In Rainbows (2007). He sent the music sample to Taylor; she liked the sound, and wrote the lyrics to the song in under the time Dessner would go out for a run and return. \u00abI wrote that after we\u2019d been working for a while. It was an attempt to write something attractive, more uptempo and kind of pushing. It was very much in this sound world that I\u2019ve been playing around with, and she immediately clicked with that. Initially I was imagining these dreamlike distant electric guitars and electronics but with an element of folk. There\u2019s a lot going on in that sense. I sent it before I went on a run, and when I got back from the run, that song was there. It\u2019s almost like a song would come out like a lightning bolt. It\u2019s exhilarating. The shared focus, the clarity of her ideas, and the way she structures things, it\u2019s all there. But I think she works really hard when she\u2019s working, and then she tweaks. She keeps going, so sometimes things would evolve or change. By the time she actually sings it, she\u2019s really inside of it. She doesn\u2019t do very many vocal takes before she nails it.\u00bb Aaron Dessner The Folklore of Holiday House Taylor draws subtle comparisons between herself and Rebekah Harkness in the song. Rebekah, whom people actually called Betty. She was infamous for not fitting in, entirely, in society, which only heightened Taylor\u2019s interest in her. She told People in 2021, \u201cIt can be a real pearl-clutching moment for society when a woman owns her desires and wildness, and I love the idea that the woman in question would be too joyful in her freedom to even care that she\u2019s ruffling feathers, raising eyebrows or becoming the talk of the town. The idea that she decided there were marvelous times to be had, and that was more important\u201d. She also told Entertainment Weekly in 2020: \u00abAnyone who\u2019s been there before knows that I do \u2018The Tour,\u2019 where I show everyone through the house. And I tell them different anecdotes about each room, because I\u2019ve done that much research on this house and this woman. So in every single room, there\u2019s a different anecdote about Rebekah Harkness. If you have a mixed group of people who\u2019ve been there before and people who haven\u2019t, [the people who\u2019ve been there] are like, \u201cOh, she\u2019s going to do the tour. She\u2019s got to tell you the story about how the ballerinas used to practice on the lawn.\u201d And they\u2019ll<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19,"parent":4106,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"unboxed","site-sidebar-style":"unboxed","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2716","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>the last great american dynasty | Taylor Swift Switzerland<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cthe last great american dynasty\u201d is the third song on Taylor Swift&#039;s album folklore (2020). 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