Castles Crumbling

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"Castles Crumbling"
Song by Taylor Swift featuring Hayley Williams
from the album Speak Now (Taylor's Version)
ReleasedJuly 7, 2023 (2023-07-07)
Genre Emo
Length5:06
Label Republic
Songwriter(s) Taylor Swift
Producer(s)
Lyric video
"Castles Crumbling" on YouTube

"Castles Crumbling" [note 1] is a song by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift featuring the American singer-songwriter Hayley Williams. Swift wrote the track and intended to include it in her third studio album, Speak Now (2010), but left it out of the track-list. She produced the track with Jack Antonoff for the re-recording of Speak Now, the 2023 album Speak Now (Taylor's Version) . "Castles Crumbling" is an indie folk-influenced emo ballad driven by a piano, and its lyrics are about the pressure of fame.

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Music critics interpreted that "Castles Crumbling" was influenced by the incident involving Swift and the rapper Kanye West at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. They gave the song generally positive reviews and described its nature as delicate. The song peaked in the top 40 on the Billboard Global 200 and on the charts in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. Swift performed it live on the Santa Clara stop of her Eras Tour on July 28, 2023.

Background and release

Hayley Williams (pictured) featured on "Castles Crumbling". ParamoreO2200423 (26 of 88) (52833507917) Cropped.jpg
Hayley Williams (pictured) featured on "Castles Crumbling".

Taylor Swift released her third studio album, Speak Now , on October 25, 2010, under Big Machine Records. [2] Swift released three more studio albums under Big Machine, as per her recording contract, which expired in November 2018. She hence withdrew from Big Machine and signed a new deal with Republic Records, which secured her the rights to own the masters of any new music she would release. [3] In 2019, the music executive Scooter Braun acquired Big Machine; [4] the ownership of the masters to Swift's first six studio albums, including Speak Now, transferred to him. [5] In August 2019, Swift denounced Braun's purchase and announced that she would re-record her first six studio albums to own their masters herself. [6] Swift began the re-recording process in November 2020. [7]

On May 5, 2023, at the first Nashville date of her sixth concert tour, the Eras Tour, Swift announced Speak Now (Taylor's Version) and its release date on July 7. [8] She subsequently revealed in social media posts, "I love this album because it tells a tale of growing up, flailing, flying and crashing ... and living to speak about it." [9] Swift emphasized the hardships she faced in her life during the time she wrote the record, among them "brutal honesty, unfiltered diaristic confessions and wild wistfulness". [10] On June 5, 2023, Swift announced the track-list of Speak Now (Taylor's Version). It contains twenty-two tracks, including six new "From the Vault" songs that were written for the 2010 album but never included. [11]

Hayley Williams, the frontwoman of the rock band Paramore and a friend of Swift, was one of the influences on Swift's songwriting when she was conceiving Speak Now. [12] According to a statement on Swift's social media, this was a factor that made Swift choose Williams as a collaborator for Speak Now (Taylor's Version). [13] In a July 2023 interview with Coup de Main magazine, Williams expressed her gratitude and enjoyment of the track because she thought it portrayed an experience that both she and Swift went through. [14] [15] "Castles Crumbling" was released on July 7, 2023, as the 20th track off Speak Now (Taylor's Version) via Republic Records. [16]

On July 28, Swift performed the song live during the Eras Tour show in Santa Clara, California, as a "surprise song" outside the regular setlist. [17] CBS News called the performance "show stopping", [18] while The Ringer placed it as the tenth best "surprise song" set of the tour. [19] "Castles Crumbling" debuted at number 31 on the Billboard Hot 100; this expanded Swift's amount of top-40 entries to 119. [20] The song was Williams's first entry on the US Hot Country Songs chart, peaking at number 13. [21] The song entered charts in Canada (42), [22] Australia (33), [23] and New Zealand (30), [24] and it peaked at number 30 on the Billboard Global 200. [25]

Music and lyrics

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"Castles Crumbling"
A 29-second sample of the song's outro, when both singers harmonize with each other over a piano-led track. Los Angeles Times ' writer Mikael Wood likened the track's sonicscape to Swift's 2020 indie folk sister albums Folklore and Evermore . [26]
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Production and composition

"Castles Crumbling" has a length of five minutes and six seconds. [27] Swift is the track's sole writer. She produced it with Jack Antonoff, who also provided programming and played instruments including acoustic, bass, electric guitar, drums, piano, and synthesizer. Others musicians on the song were Bobby Hawk (violin), Eric Byers (cello), Evan Smith (flute, saxophone), Mikey Freedom Hart (synthesizer), and Sean Hutchinson (drums, percussion). Antonoff, Smith, David Hart, and Laura Sisk engineered the track, with assistance from John Rooney, Jon Sher, and Megan Searl. Christopher Rowe and Taylor York engineered the song's vocals. It was mixed by Serban Ghenea with mix engineering from Bryce Bordone, and was mastered by Randy Merrill. [1] Music commentary labeled "Castles Crumbling" as an emo song [14] [28] with indie folk influence. [26] The song is built off a prominent piano line. [28] The first verse is performed by Swift, while Williams sings the second. [29] The two singers perform the chorus together, and they harmonize with each other during the song's outro . [30] Mikael Wood from Los Angeles Times compared the song's soundscape to indie folk sound of Folklore and Evermore (both 2020). [26]

Inspiration and lyrical content

During the development of Speak Now, Swift was under public scrutiny, with her love life being the subject of mainstream media gossip, and the singer's transition from country music to pop music receiving skeptical opinions—sentiment she carries over the first verse of "Castles Crumbling". [29] Various critics and fans drew a connection between it and Kanye West's interruption of Swift's acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] Maura Johnston, in a review for Rolling Stone, drew comparison between the themes of "Castles Crumbling" and "Innocent", a Speak Now track released in 2010 that also addressed the MTV incident. [36] Some publications thought that Swift referenced its title in the opening line of the song "Call It What You Want" ("My castle crumbled overnight") from Swift's 2017 album Reputation . [35] [37] [38]

Some critics compared "Castles Crumbling" to "Nothing New" (2021), another vault track featuring Phoebe Bridgers (pictured). Phoebe Bridgers at Surly Brewing Festival Field in Minneapolis, MN.jpg
Some critics compared "Castles Crumbling" to "Nothing New" (2021), another vault track featuring Phoebe Bridgers (pictured).

The chorus sees Swift ensuring someone to not get involved in a relationship with her. [31] Uproxx writer Flisadam Pointer opined that it might be a nod to Swift's fans, as she assumes that their support for her can be fragile. [39] The second verse featuring vocals from Williams has lyrics, "Once, I was the great hope for a dynasty/ Crowds would hang on my words and they trusted me", which Glamour UK editor Suzanne Cordeiro thought to metaphorize Swift's early-career role in bringing country music to a younger generation. [29] Bustle journalist Jake Viswanath meanwhile wrote that the said lyrics illustrate how small missteps might have a catastrophic influence over someone's career, a narrative that continues through the pre-chorus: "Power went to my head and I couldn't stop/ Ones I loved tried to help, so I ran them off." [14]

Some fans of Swift thought "Castles Crumbling" was a "dark sister" of "Long Live", a Speak Now track that is about Swift's promise to her fans that "we will be remembered". [14] Various publications pointed out how the lyrics of "Castles Crumbling" parallel with those from Swift's sixth studio album, Reputation, as both address themes surrounding reputation and "[falling] from grace". [40] [16] [41] Others compared "Castles Crumbling" to "Nothing New", a vault track included on Red (Taylor's Version) (2021) featuring Phoebe Bridgers, since it is a self-written piece with a guest vocals from female friend, "[grappling] with a particular kind of self-doubt, caused by the glare of a spotlight in her eyes" as put by Callie Alhgrim from Business Insider . [28] [35] The theme of "self-loathing" also received comparisons to other songs by Swift: "The Archer" from Lover (2019), "Mirrorball" from Folklore (2020) and "Anti-Hero" from Midnights (2022). [29] [31] [35] [40]

Critical reception

In The Daily Telegraph , Poppie Plat said that listeners who expected the Swift–Williams collaboration might be disappointed by the "somewhat saccharine tone" but picked it as a standout and said it was a "perfect companion" to other ballads such as "Enchanted" and "Last Kiss". [42] Kelsey Barnes from The Line of Best Fit agreed and said that the production resembles Williams's solo projects. [43] Additionally, Parade 's Jessica Sager noted that the title might be a nod to Paramore's "Brick By Boring Brick" (2009), within which Williams sings "bury the castle". [16] Maura Johnston of Rolling Stone described it as a "gauzy surveying of a ruined personal landscape". [36] Laura Snapes from The Guardian said it is a "crestfallen, delicate song" and a "prescient song for Swift to have written at the outset of her imperial phase". [44]

Labeling the track as "a duet for the ages", British Rolling Stone critic Mark Sutherland praise how the singers' voices "gorgeously intertwin[e] as they wrestle with the fear that the cheers may one day turn to jeers". [45] Consequence 's Mary Siroky named "Castles Crumbling" the song of the week, writing that it is "a soft — but poignant — reclamation of the narrative". [30] In the article published on Spin , Bobby Olivier opined that it is a "stronger" duet offered in Speak Now (Taylor's Version) than "Electric Touch", a collaboration with the band Fall Out Boy, calling it a "deliciously emo piano burner". [28] Despite placing the song last on his ranking of the album's "From the Vault" tracks, Jason Lipshutz of Billboard wrote that the production is "brimming with ethereal voices and Swift and Williams maintaining mournful attitudes as they examine their personal wreckage". [46]

Credits and personnel

Credits are adapted from the liner notes of Speak Now (Taylor's Version). [1]

Charts

Chart performance for "Castles Crumbling"
Chart (2023)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [23] 33
Canada (Canadian Hot 100) [22] 42
Global 200 ( Billboard ) [25] 30
Greece International (IFPI) [47] 87
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) [24] 30
UK Audio Streaming (OCC) [48] 54
US Billboard Hot 100 [49] 31
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [50] 13

Notes

  1. ↑ Officially titled "Castles Crumbling (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault)" [1]

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