Taylor Swift releases new song ‘Carolina’

Taylor Swift released her new song ‘Carolina’ from the soundtrack of the upcoming film ‘Where the Crawdads Sings’. It marks her first newly written original song since her 2020 album ‘Evermore’.

The song, revealed in a lyric video, comes as Sony Pictures gears up for the July 15 theatrical release of the film, based on Delia Owens’ novel and starring Daisy Edgar-Jones.

“Into the mist, into the clouds,” the 32-year-old pop star sings in “Carolina,” her breathy lower register floating over a sprawling web of acoustic instruments. “I’ll make a fist, I’ll make it count.”

“There are places I will never, ever go,” she later sings. “Things that only Carolina knows.”

Swift first announced her musical contribution to the film in a March Instagram post explaining that she’d penned “Carolina” after reading ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’, the debut novel written by Delia Owens, which inspired the film. “Where the Crawdads Sing is a book I got absolutely lost in when I read it years ago,” the pop star wrote.

“I wrote the song ‘Carolina’ alone and asked my friend Aaron to produce it,” she continued. “I wanted to create something haunting and ethereal to match this mesmerizing story.”