Illicit Affairs

So sometime between April 23rd to April 25th, 2021, like I just said in the timeline, the Academy formally recognized Joe Alwyn for his contributions to Folklore, and at the time-Time when folklore was originally announced, we knew that "William Bowery," quote-unquote, was credited as a co-writer on both Exile and Betty.

But what we did not know was that William Bowery, Joe Alwyn, would later be credited as a co-producer on Exile and Betty, but also My Tears Ricochet, August, This Is Me Trying, and Illicit Affairs.

So this is where things get really interesting, right? Because when folklore won that Grammy in March, so over a month prior to where we're at in the timeline, Joe Alwyn not a part of it to that degree.

And the Grammys did have a rule at the time that you had to be a part of 33% or more of an album's runtime, not like a number of songs, but an album runtime, in order to qualify to win a Grammy.

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illicit affairs, tolerate it.

You can see the timeline and the trajectory of her lyricism from something like this into those later songs where it is daggers to the heart i mean it just like

it just shows how she literally grew up in front of us yeah because her love stories and her breakups go from this all the way to dear john is probably in the middle then you have all too well then you have the mecca the mothership tortured poets department

Thank you very much.

Given what we found out about Klaran and the poet in the last episode, I'm going to guess that her song is Illicit Affairs.

Oh, that is a good guess.

It is not her song.

It's like my haters hate me and I love my man.

And I think that does not have that delicious, addictive, narcotic quality that a song like Ivy, a song like Guilty as Sin, a song like Illicit Affairs, a song like or, you know, the fear of losing someone in terms of a Cornelia Street or a false god about, you know, the stakes are so high here.

There's so much of that.

It's why in

Okay.

So today we are doing Illicit Affairs.

This is our second to last, um, folklore track.

Yeah.

Swift and Off.

Um, okay.

So Illicit Affairs, right off the bat you see the title, and you go, "Okay, this is about an affair," um, or it's going to give views of an affair-

Mm-hmm