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(WGHP) — Joining the Old Crow Medicine Show, James Taylor, Eric Church and more, world-famous singer-songwriter Taylor Swift will soon be releasing her own song about North Carolina.
On Thursday, Swift posted to her Instagram Story an image of a lake with the word “Carolina” in quotation marks, confirming the song’s title. The post included a link to pre-save the song on Spotify. The song is expected to be released on Thursday at midnight.
The song will be Swift’s first all-new song since her surprise release “Evermore” in 2020, not counting her re-recordings of past “Taylor’s Version” albums.
Carolina was written for film “Where the crayfish sing” set in North Carolina and slated to open in theaters on July 15. The film directed by Olivia Newman is based on 2018 Delia Owens bestseller of the same name.
Newman told Variety that they didn’t ask Swift to write the song. The singer wrote it of her own free will and sent it.
“She went and wrote this song just out of sheer inspiration and kind of said, ‘I don’t know if you like it, but here it is,'” Newman said.
Reese Witherspoon, who is producing the film alongside Lauren Neustadter, said that Swift wrote the song with the same team that worked on her 2020 Folklore album.
“She read this book and she really liked it, and then she found out that we were making a film. [while] she was recording her Folklore album and then she wrote a song with all this Folklore crew that was so breathtaking and magical and beautiful,” Witherspoon told Variety.
We know very little about the song’s content or sound, but Newman told Variety that Swift wrote the song using only the instruments available before 1953, when the story takes place. It was recorded in one take, as was the custom at the time.
“The first time I heard this, I just started sobbing and said, ‘I don’t know what’s happening to me right now,’” Newman said. “I love to sing along to Taylor Swift songs, but I never cry like that.”
“Where the Crawfish Sing” tells the story of Kiya, an abandoned girl who lived to adulthood in the dangerous swamps of North Carolina, reads the synopsis for the film from Sony Pictures. “For years, Swamp Girl rumors have haunted Barkley Cove, isolating the smart and vivacious Kia from her community. Attracted by two young men from the city, Kya discovers a new and amazing world; but when one of them is found dead, the community immediately names her as the prime suspect. As the case unfolds, the verdict on what really happened becomes more and more unclear, threatening to expose many of the secrets that lurk in the swamp.”
The film stars Daisy Edgar-Jones as Kia Clark, Taylor John Smith as Tate Walker, Harris Dickinson as Chase Andrews, Michael Hyatt as Mabel, Sterling Macer Jr. as Leaper, and David Strathairn. as “Tom Milton”.
