Three Folklore songs tell Taylor Swift’s interconnected James-Betty-Augustine love triangle.
The group consists of “cardigan,” “august,” and “betty.” Each song presents a different perspective or part of the fictional story: Betty’s viewpoint appears in “cardigan,” James’s in “betty,” and the unnamed August narrator’s in “august.”
Swift created the storyline as an imaginative narrative rather than a straightforward account of her own life. James is a 17-year-old boy who has a summer romance with the narrator of “august” before returning to Betty, his former lover.
The songs are sometimes called a trilogy, although that term describes their connected storytelling rather than a separate release. They appear on the same album and use recurring names and events to create a shared fictional world.