How Many Times Does Taylor Swift Swear on "Folklore"? A S***Load

Otherwise calculated as a metric f*tonne.**

Her teenage days are long behind her, but Taylor Swift has struggled over the years to be taken seriously as a mature songwriter, despite being one of the absolute best craftspeople in the game).

On "The Man", from her 2019 album Lover, she even stressed how she’s often disregarded as such (while also being reduced to a conniving manipulator as opposed to marketing genius).

So, with her surprise, recorded-in-iso new release folklore, she’s done what so many artists have done before her, and retreated to the woods to finally shake off those misconceptions. And, she's also started swearing.

This new album is definitely more downbeat and "serious" than its predecessors (there is nothing like "ME!", mercifully), even earning her recognition in the Alternative Rock charts. The cover art is black and white. The song titles are all lowercase. Taylor, clearly, means business.

But nothing demonstrates her growth more than the fact that folklore is, without exception, her filthiest album to date, at least in terms of coarse language.

She, of course, has used "damn" throughout her career, and on reputation even said "s***" once. But folklore literally opens with a "s***", before Swift goes on to drop three further F-bombs. This is, by the standards of her discography, equivalent to the 905 curses on Tupac’s All Eyez on Me.

In total, her swears comprise about 15 seconds of the entire album’s runtime. Handily, Twitter has prepared them for you in a compilation below. Enjoy. (Language warning, obviously.)