{"id":55779,"date":"2023-01-09T19:53:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T18:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/?page_id=55779"},"modified":"2025-10-27T21:52:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T20:52:32","slug":"the-alcott","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/features\/the-alcott\/","title":{"rendered":"The Alcott"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"55779\" class=\"elementor elementor-55779\" 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 wpr-equal-height-no\" data-id=\"5131a13e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" 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wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-equal-height-no\" data-id=\"63f85dd\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ha_eqh_enable&quot;:false}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6b16286\" data-id=\"6b16286\" 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-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 Alcott\u201d is an upcoming collaboration between Taylor and The National on the band\u2019s ninth studio album, <em>First Two Pages of Frankenstein<\/em>. The song will be released on April 28, 2023. Set to a sparse backdrop of piano and strings, the song finds Matt Berninger and Taylor inhabiting the roles of a couple attempting to resurrect a troubled relationship.\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-89840fe elementor-widget elementor-widget-table-of-contents\" data-id=\"89840fe\" 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__89840fe\" 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-2df42bb elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2df42bb\" 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 Recording<\/h3>\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\tAfter the release of <em>I Am Easy to Find<\/em> (2019) and the cancellation of The National\u2019s touring as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the band members retreated from each other. During that time, Aaron Dessner produced two of Taylor\u2019s albums, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/folklore-album\/\">folklore<\/a><\/em> (2020) and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/evermore\/\">evermore<\/a><\/em> (2020), and became one of her most trusted collaborators. He also recorded <em><a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/work-for-other-artists\/how-long-do-you-think-it-is-gonna-last\/\">How Long Do You Think It\u2019s Gonna Last?<\/a><\/em> (2021), the second studio album with Bon Iver\u2019s Justin Vernon as part of their side-project Big Red Machine. Taylor features on two of the songs, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/work-for-other-artists\/how-long-do-you-think-it-is-gonna-last\/renegade\/\">Renegade<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/work-for-other-artists\/how-long-do-you-think-it-is-gonna-last\/birch\/\">Birch<\/a>\u201c.\n<br><br>\n\u201cThe Alcott\u201d marks the second collaboration between Taylor and The National. The band was previously featured on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/evermore\/evermore-songs\/coney-island\/\">coney island<\/a>\u201d from <em>evermore<\/em>. Multiple members of the band had notably also worked on <em>folklore<\/em>, which Taylor was ecstatic about; The National is one of her favorite bands. \u201cTaylor can sing any National song word for word, pretty much,\u201d Aaron told <em>The New Yorker<\/em> in April 2023. Taylor herself said:\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-89aeab0 elementor-blockquote--align-left elementor-blockquote--skin-border elementor-widget elementor-widget-blockquote\" data-id=\"89aeab0\" 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\u00abMy love for The National stems from the lyricism and the soundscapes the band creates to perfectly compliment them. There are so many lines in their songs that are disturbingly, courageously truthful. I\u2019ll always marvel at how their lyrics have the ability to express such stark darkness and wistful romanticism at the same time. There\u2019s also such a synergy to the deadpan spoken-word quality of Matt\u2019s vocals and the vistas the band is creating around him. That entire verse in \u2018I Need My Girl\u2019 where he\u2019s talking about her losing her shit, driving the car into the garden and then apologizing to the vines. It really sums up what sets them apart. They set an entire scene.\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-08fe73e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"08fe73e\" 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<em>First Two Pages of Frankenstein<\/em> came after a period when lead singer Matt Berninger was in \u201ca very dark spot where I couldn\u2019t come up with lyrics or melodies at all. Even though we\u2019d always been anxious whenever we were working on a record, this was the first time it ever felt like maybe things really had come to an end.\u201d Bryce Dessner noted that eventually, the band \u201cmanaged to come back together and approach everything from a different angle, and because of that we arrived at what feels like a new era for the band.\u201d Aaron Dessner added, \u201cTo me, the power of this record has to do with the intentionality and structure of the music meeting with a lot of accidental magic.\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-3f3424a elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"3f3424a\" 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=\"8124553326\"><\/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-0bca0c1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"0bca0c1\" 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\">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-de62490 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"de62490\" 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\tSet to a gorgeously sparse backdrop of piano and strings, \u201cThe Alcott\u201d finds Matt Berninger and Taylor inhabiting the roles of a couple attempting to resurrect a troubled relationship, forging a finely drawn story nearly novelistic in scope. In an interview on <em>The Zane Lowe Show<\/em>, Berninger shared that he wrote the song about his wife and frequent collaborator, Carin Besser:\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-9ae54f5 elementor-blockquote--align-left elementor-blockquote--skin-border elementor-widget elementor-widget-blockquote\" data-id=\"9ae54f5\" 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\u00abIt\u2019s about two people with a long history returning to a place and trying to relive a certain moment in time. It\u2019s got the feeling of a last-ditch effort to hold onto the relationship, but there\u2019s a hint of something positive where you can see the beginnings of a reconnection.\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\">Matt Berninger<\/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-ca55c8a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ca55c8a\" 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\tThe song eventually took the form of a pensive yet luminous duet between him and Taylor. Matt Berninger added: \u201cI was imagining a scene\u2014a contained moment and narrative between two people. Someone meeting someone at a place they used to hang out, or maybe the other person wasn\u2019t expecting them, but knew they\u2019d be there. It\u2019s just two people that maybe have a chance to reconnect and maybe they don\u2019t. I wrote and I sent it to Aaron, and when he sent Taylor a few things, she heard that one and was able to instantly get into the mindset of the person I was talking about. So she wrote all her stuff as a response to me, and very much from the perspective of my wife, who I was writing about. So when Carin heard that one, and heard Taylor Swift embodying her character in a song, writing responses to me, that was really fun for everybody. It was a really cool moment. It was like walking down a path and thinking you\u2019re alone, and all of a sudden somebody appears out of nowhere and joins you on this path.\u201d Aaron Dessner similiarly recounted to <em>Alt 104.5<\/em>:\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-1dae583 elementor-blockquote--align-left elementor-blockquote--skin-border elementor-widget elementor-widget-blockquote\" data-id=\"1dae583\" 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\u00abMatt wrote the main part of the song to some music I had written which Taylor had heard and I knew liked, so I thought it might be something she would really click with. I sent it to her, and was a little nervous as I didn't hear back for 20 minutes or so. By the time she responded, Taylor had written all her parts and recorded a voice memo with the lyrics she\u2019d added in a dialogue with Matt, and everyone fell immediately in love with it. It felt meant to be.\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-a2e1c90 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"a2e1c90\" 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-d4a4b01 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d4a4b01\" 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 Alcott\u201d received acclaim from music critics. Writing for <em>The Atlantic<\/em>, Spencer Kornhaber wrote: \u201cNow it appears that Swift may have pushed the men of The National in new directions too. On the band\u2019s latest album, <em>First Two Pages of Frankenstein<\/em>, out in April, Swift\u2019s influence feels pervasive. It\u2019s not just her voice, which she lends to the lilting track \u2018The Alcott\u2019; she seems to have taught them something about the mode of candid self-expression that she has mastered. In so doing, The National and Taylor Swift have become one of the unlikeliest and most productive synergies in contemporary music \u2014 the cross-pollination of a gloomy indie-rock fraternity and proudly sentimental, stadium-charming pop.\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-eef38b9 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"eef38b9\" 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-f1b3474 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"f1b3474\" 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-23a1f91 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"23a1f91\" 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><strong>[Verse 1: Matt Berninger]<\/strong><br \/>I\u2019d get myself twisted in threads to meet you at the Alcott<br \/>I\u2019d go to the corner in the back where you\u2019d always be<br \/>There you are, sitting as usual with your golden notebook<br \/>Writing something about someone who used to be me<\/p><p><strong>[Chorus 1: Matt Berninger & Taylor Swift]<\/strong><br \/>And the last thing you wanted<br \/>Is the first thing I do<br \/>I tell you my problems<br \/>You tell me the truth<br \/>It\u2019s the last thing you wanted<br \/>It\u2019s the first thing I do<br \/>I tell you that I think I\u2019m falling back in love with you<\/p><p><strong>[Verse 2: Matt Berninger]<\/strong><br \/>I sit there silently, waiting for you to look up<br \/>I see you smile when you see it\u2019s me<br \/>I had to do something to break into your golden thinking<br \/>How many times will I do this and you\u2019ll still believe?<\/p><p><strong>[Chorus 2: Matt Berninger & Taylor Swift, <em>Taylor Swift<\/em>]<\/strong><br \/>It\u2019s the last thing you wanted <em>(Tell me, which side are you on, dear?)<\/em><br \/>Is the first thing you do <em>(Give me some tips to forget you)<\/em><br \/>You tell me your problems <em>(Have I become one of your problems)<\/em><br \/>I tell you the truth <em>(Could it be easy this once?)<\/em><br \/>It\u2019s the last thing you wanted <em>(Everything that\u2019s mine is a land mine)<\/em><br \/>It\u2019s the first thing I do <em>(Did my love aid and abet you?)<\/em><br \/>I tell you that I think I\u2019m falling back in love with you<\/p><p><strong>[Bridge: Matt Berninger, <em>Taylor Swift<\/em>]<\/strong><br \/>And I\u2019ll ruin it all over<br \/>I\u2019ll ruin it for you<br \/>I\u2019ll ruin it all over and over<br \/>Like I always do<em> (Why don\u2019t you?)<\/em><br \/>I\u2019ll ruin it all over <em>(Rain on my parade)<\/em><br \/>I\u2019ll ruin it for you<em> (Shred my evening gown)<\/em><br \/>I\u2019ll ruin it all over and over <em>(Read my sentence out loud)<\/em><br \/>Like I always do <em>(\u2018Cause I love this curse on our house)<\/em><\/p><p><strong>[Final Chorus: Matt Berninger & Taylor Swift, <em>Taylor Swift<\/em>]<\/strong><br \/>It\u2019s the last thing I wanted <em>(Tell me, which side are you on, dear?)<\/em><br \/>Is the first thing I do <em>(Give me some tips to forget you)<\/em><br \/>I tell you my problems <em>(Have I become one of your problems)<\/em><br \/>And you tell me the truth <em>(Could it be easy this once?)<\/em><br \/>It\u2019s the last thing I wanted <em>(Everything that\u2019s mine is a land mine)<\/em><br \/>It\u2019s the first thing I do <em>(Did my love aid and abet you?)<\/em><br \/>I tell you that I think I\u2019m falling back in love<br \/>Back in love with you<\/p><p><strong>[Outro: Taylor Swift]<\/strong><br \/>Back in love with you<\/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-6dd7277 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=\"6dd7277\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"share-buttons.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-grid\" role=\"list\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-grid-item\" 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elementor-divider__element\">\n\t\t\t\tGeneral Information\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-fed76dc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fed76dc\" 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<table><tbody><tr><th>Album<\/th><td>First Two Pages of Frankenstein<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Feature<\/th><td><a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/biography\/\">Taylor Swift<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Released<\/th><td>April 28, 2023<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Recorded<\/th><td>2020-2022<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Studio<\/th><td>Long Pond (Hudson Valley)<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Genre<\/th><td>Alternative<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Length<\/th><td>4:27<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Label<\/th><td>4AD<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Songwriters<\/th><td>Taylor Swift<br \/>Matt Berninger<br \/>Aaron Dessner<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Producer<\/th><td>The National<\/td><\/tr><tr><th class=\"infobox-header description\" style=\"text-align: center;\" colspan=\"2\"><h6>FIRST TWO PAGES OF FRANKENSTEIN CHRONOLOGY<\/h6><\/th><\/tr><tr><td class=\"infobox-full-data\" colspan=\"2\"><table><tbody><tr><td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"33%\">Alien<\/td><td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"33%\"><strong>The Alcott<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"33%\">Grease In Your Hair<\/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-70e49d9 elementor-widget-divider--view-line_text elementor-widget-divider--element-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"70e49d9\" 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 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Signifying 500,000 units sold in the United States of America.\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\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-3037fc0 elementor-widget-divider--view-line_text elementor-widget-divider--element-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"3037fc0\" 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\tTeaser\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-529d67c elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"529d67c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" 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The song will be released on April 28, 2023. Set to a sparse backdrop of piano and strings, the song finds Matt Berninger and Taylor inhabiting the roles of a couple attempting to resurrect a troubled relationship. Table of Contents Background and Recording After the release of I Am Easy to Find (2019) and the cancellation of The National\u2019s touring as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the band members retreated from each other. During that time, Aaron Dessner produced two of Taylor\u2019s albums, folklore (2020) and evermore (2020), and became one of her most trusted collaborators. He also recorded How Long Do You Think It\u2019s Gonna Last? (2021), the second studio album with Bon Iver\u2019s Justin Vernon as part of their side-project Big Red Machine. Taylor features on two of the songs, \u201cRenegade\u201d and \u201cBirch\u201c. \u201cThe Alcott\u201d marks the second collaboration between Taylor and The National. The band was previously featured on \u201cconey island\u201d from evermore. Multiple members of the band had notably also worked on folklore, which Taylor was ecstatic about; The National is one of her favorite bands. \u201cTaylor can sing any National song word for word, pretty much,\u201d Aaron told The New Yorker in April 2023. Taylor herself said: \u00abMy love for The National stems from the lyricism and the soundscapes the band creates to perfectly compliment them. There are so many lines in their songs that are disturbingly, courageously truthful. I\u2019ll always marvel at how their lyrics have the ability to express such stark darkness and wistful romanticism at the same time. There\u2019s also such a synergy to the deadpan spoken-word quality of Matt\u2019s vocals and the vistas the band is creating around him. That entire verse in \u2018I Need My Girl\u2019 where he\u2019s talking about her losing her shit, driving the car into the garden and then apologizing to the vines. It really sums up what sets them apart. They set an entire scene.\u00bb Taylor Swift First Two Pages of Frankenstein came after a period when lead singer Matt Berninger was in \u201ca very dark spot where I couldn\u2019t come up with lyrics or melodies at all. Even though we\u2019d always been anxious whenever we were working on a record, this was the first time it ever felt like maybe things really had come to an end.\u201d Bryce Dessner noted that eventually, the band \u201cmanaged to come back together and approach everything from a different angle, and because of that we arrived at what feels like a new era for the band.\u201d Aaron Dessner added, \u201cTo me, the power of this record has to do with the intentionality and structure of the music meeting with a lot of accidental magic.\u201d Lyrical Theme Set to a gorgeously sparse backdrop of piano and strings, \u201cThe Alcott\u201d finds Matt Berninger and Taylor inhabiting the roles of a couple attempting to resurrect a troubled relationship, forging a finely drawn story nearly novelistic in scope. In an interview on The Zane Lowe Show, Berninger shared that he wrote the song about his wife and frequent collaborator, Carin Besser: \u00abIt\u2019s about two people with a long history returning to a place and trying to relive a certain moment in time. It\u2019s got the feeling of a last-ditch effort to hold onto the relationship, but there\u2019s a hint of something positive where you can see the beginnings of a reconnection.\u00bb Matt Berninger The song eventually took the form of a pensive yet luminous duet between him and Taylor. Matt Berninger added: \u201cI was imagining a scene\u2014a contained moment and narrative between two people. Someone meeting someone at a place they used to hang out, or maybe the other person wasn\u2019t expecting them, but knew they\u2019d be there. It\u2019s just two people that maybe have a chance to reconnect and maybe they don\u2019t. I wrote and I sent it to Aaron, and when he sent Taylor a few things, she heard that one and was able to instantly get into the mindset of the person I was talking about. So she wrote all her stuff as a response to me, and very much from the perspective of my wife, who I was writing about. So when Carin heard that one, and heard Taylor Swift embodying her character in a song, writing responses to me, that was really fun for everybody. It was a really cool moment. It was like walking down a path and thinking you\u2019re alone, and all of a sudden somebody appears out of nowhere and joins you on this path.\u201d Aaron Dessner similiarly recounted to Alt 104.5: \u00abMatt wrote the main part of the song to some music I had written which Taylor had heard and I knew liked, so I thought it might be something she would really click with. I sent it to her, and was a little nervous as I didn\u2019t hear back for 20 minutes or so. By the time she responded, Taylor had written all her parts and recorded a voice memo with the lyrics she\u2019d added in a dialogue with Matt, and everyone fell immediately in love with it. It felt meant to be.\u00bb Aaron Dessner Critical Reception \u201cThe Alcott\u201d received acclaim from music critics. Writing for The Atlantic, Spencer Kornhaber wrote: \u201cNow it appears that Swift may have pushed the men of The National in new directions too. On the band\u2019s latest album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein, out in April, Swift\u2019s influence feels pervasive. It\u2019s not just her voice, which she lends to the lilting track \u2018The Alcott\u2019; she seems to have taught them something about the mode of candid self-expression that she has mastered. In so doing, The National and Taylor Swift have become one of the unlikeliest and most productive synergies in contemporary music \u2014 the cross-pollination of a gloomy indie-rock fraternity and proudly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56072,"parent":7651,"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-55779","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 Alcott (feat. 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