| Cardigan | |||||
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| Single by Taylor Swift | |||||
| Album | Folklore | ||||
| Released | July 27, 2020 | ||||
| Genre(s) | Folk, soft rock, indie rock | ||||
| Length | 3:59 | ||||
| Label(s) | Republic | ||||
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Cardigan (stylized in all lowercase) is a song recorded by Taylor Swift and the second track on her eighth studio album, Folklore (2020), released on July 24, 2020 through Republic Records. It impacted radio stations on July 27, 2020 as the album's lead single. Swift co-wrote the song with its producer Aaron Dessner.
"Cardigan" is a slow-burning folk, soft rock and indie rock ballad with stripped-down instrumentals of tender piano, clopping drums and melancholic violins. Lyrically, it sees Swift singing about a comforting romance lost in memories, from the perspective of a woman named Betty, one of the many fictitious characters narrated in Folklore.