Musically, the song is set in the key of E major with a tempo of 95 beats per minute. The lyric "Or hide in the closet" also possibly alludes to her friend's queerness. Eric Mason of Slate highlighted the song's summer imagery, comparing it to that of " August" and " Betty". Rebecca Karpen of PopMatters compared the themes of childhood nostalgia and the inevitability of growing up to her songs "Stay Beautiful" and "Mary's Song (Oh My My My)" from her self-titled debut album (2006), " The Best Day" from Fearless (2008), "Never Grow Up" from Speak Now (2010), and her 2012 charity single " Ronan". Several lines also see Swift "pay tribute" to the innocence of her infancy, reminiscing the purity of her relationship with her friend, whom she cannot fully remember. Problems playing this file? See media help. The song hints at her witness of the abuse and her inability to stop it in lyrics such as: "And I've been meaning to tell you / I think your house is haunted / Your dad is always mad and that must be why / "And I think you should come live with me / And we can be pirates". The song switches between the use of past and present tense.
The song also describes young Swift's naive efforts to help her friend's escape from the abusive household, and run away to India. "Seven" is a nostalgic and "wistful" folk song innocently presenting "the pureness of childhood friendship" being dragged out of a seven-year-old Swift by her inability to comprehend the emotional and physical abuse of her friend from their parents. The song was also included in Folklore: The Escapism Chapter and Folklore: The Saltbox House Chapter, streaming compilations by Swift released on August 21 and August 27, 2020, respectively. Hushed tones of let's run away" and never doing it." Lyric videos of each song on the album were released to Swift's YouTube channel "Seven" has since garnered over 14.4 million views as of October 2022. In the primer that preceded the release, Swift teased imageries of various tracks, with "Seven" being about "the tree swing in the woods of my childhood. On July 23, 2020, Swift announced that her eighth studio album, Folklore, would come out at midnight and revealed its track listing, where "Seven" placed seventh. Describing the writing process as "looking back at childhood and those childhood feelings, recounting memories and memorializing them," he identified the lyric "And just like a folk song, our love will be passed on" as a defining moment of Folklore, commemorating friendship and nostalgia. He classified the song as "wistful and nostalgic", a contrast to its "hazy" predecessor "Mirrorball" and the following track " August", which he viewed as the most pop song on the record. Dessner recalled that "Cardigan" and "Seven" laid out the roadmap for writing the rest of the album. "Seven" was the second song that Swift and her co-writer and producer, Aaron Dessner, wrote for the album, following " Cardigan".
It also reached the top 30 in Australia, Canada, Malaysia, and Singapore.Īll tracks of Folklore were conceived by Swift as imageries and visuals from her deep subconscious, a result of her imagination "running wild" while isolating herself during the COVID-19 pandemic. Following the release of Folklore, "Seven" debuted at number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 11 on the Rolling Stone Top 100, and number 7 on the US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, simultaneously with the album's 15 other songs. The song garnered universal acclaim from music critics, many of whom chose it as a standout on Folklore for dealing with a sensitive topic like child abuse, and lauded its experimental composition and Swift's "lustrous" vocals, in addition to the undertones indicating the subject's queerness. The song is led by Swift's upper register over a swirling piano line, complemented by acoustic guitars, drums, and a variety of strings. "Seven" is a folk song with nostalgic lyricism blending present and past perspectives, which convey a 30-year-old Swift introspecting on her childhood and recalling the purity of her relationship with an old friend, and the then 7-year-old Swift incapable of understanding the domestic violence her friend experienced but realizing it years later, respectively. Swift co-wrote the song with its producer, Aaron Dessner. " Seven" (stylized in all lowercase) is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, taken from her eighth studio album, Folklore, which was released on July 24, 2020, via Republic Records.
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