Taylor Swift's new album, folklore, is about storytelling instead of settling scores

“I’m doing good. I’m on some new sh-t.” That’s how Taylor Swift’s new album folklore opens, the opening lyrics to the opening track, “the 1”. It’s a promise she’s made before. And it’s a promise she hasn’t quite kept …until now. After all, Lover was supposed to be a new era and the first song on tha...