Evermore supplied “willow,” the song Taylor Swift performed after “august” at the 2021 Grammys.
Swift’s Grammy medley on March 14, 2021, combined two Folklore songs—“cardigan” and “august”—with “willow” from her ninth studio album, Evermore. Evermore was released in December 2020, only a few months after Folklore, and continued Swift’s turn toward fictional storytelling and atmospheric production.
The albums are often grouped together because they were created during the same broad creative period and share collaborators, visual themes, and an emphasis on imagined narratives. However, they remain separate studio albums. Folklore is Swift’s eighth album, while Evermore is her ninth.
The Grammy staging moved from the cottage interior associated with “august” to an outdoor setting for “willow.” That visual transition helped make the medley feel like one continuous story even though the final song belonged to a different album.