Taylor Swift has joined The National on the song ‘The Alcott,’ taking off the band’s new album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein, out now .  First Two Pages of Frankenstein also features Phoebe Bridgers on two songs, “This Isn’t Helping” and “Your Mind Is Not Your Friend.”

Guitarist Aaron Dessner previously worked with Taylor on her two 2020 albums, folklore and evermore.  He said in a statement:“[Frontman] Matt [Berninger] wrote the main part of the song to some music I had written which Taylor had heard and I knew liked, so I thought it might be something she would really click with. I sent it to [Taylor], and was a little nervous as I didn’t hear back for 20 minutes or so … By the time she responded, Taylor had written all her parts and recorded a voice memo with the lyrics she’d added in a dialogue with Matt, and everyone fell immediately in love with it. It felt meant to be.”

Berninger added that “The Alcott” is about “two people with a long history returning to a place and trying to relive a certain moment in time … It’s got the feeling of a last-ditch effort to hold onto the relationship, but there’s a hint of something positive where you can see the beginnings of a reconnection.”

You can listen to “The Alcott” now via digital outlets and via the lyric video on YouTube (here).

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