Taylor Swift’s Folklore song is officially titled “august,” with a lowercase initial letter.
The track appears on Swift’s eighth studio album, Folklore, released in 2020. Its title refers directly to the late-summer setting of the song’s story, which centers on a brief and ultimately unreturned romance.
The lowercase styling is part of the song’s official presentation, just as several Folklore titles use distinctive capitalization or punctuation. This is sometimes confused with the ordinary calendar-month spelling “August,” but the song’s stylized title is “august.”
Its seasonal subject has helped make it an annual online and streaming phenomenon. Listeners commonly revisit it when August begins, giving the six-year-old track a recurring cultural moment rather than a one-time release cycle.