Taylor Swift’s ‘Carolina’ Is Now Out

Taylor Swift’s “Carolina” is now out.

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She wrote her new song for “Where the Crawdads Sing.”

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The drama/mystery will be released on July 15.

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“Carolina” was finally released at midnight.

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Taylor Swift said that she wrote the song when the trailer dropped on March 22.

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On Twitter, Taylor revealed that she wrote the song over a year ago.

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“I wrote this one alone in the middle of the night,” she revealed.

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She and Aaron Dessner then worked on the song with “old acoustic instruments.”

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Dessner tweeted that he wanted to channel the “eery beauty of the North Carolina marsh where the story is set.”

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