From whose viewpoint is Taylor Swift's “august” narrated?

Taylor Swift’s “august” is narrated from the viewpoint of an unnamed female character.

The narrator describes a short summer romance with James, a boy who is already in a relationship with Betty. She remembers the relationship wistfully and realizes that James was never truly hers. The character is not given a formal name in the song.

Swift has referred to the character in her imagination as Augustine or Augusta, and fans often call her Augustine. Those labels are informal identifiers rather than a name stated in the song’s lyrics.

The unnamed narrator is one of three perspectives in Folklore’s connected teenage love triangle. “cardigan” follows Betty, while “betty” follows James. Together, the songs present overlapping versions of the same fictional events.