Louis.” Born in 1915 to a family the Times described as “rich” and “emotionally frigid” her primary caretaker was a nanny who was selected namely because she had once been employed by an “insane asylum.” She attended a finishing school where her main goal, according to her scrapbook, was to “do everything bad.” (Craig Unger wrote a 14-page profile that later became a book, Blue Blood, about Harkness for New York in 1983. “Her saltbox house on the coast took her mind off St. “Rebekah rode up on the afternoon train, it was sunny,” Swift sings at the top of the track. She was a mid-century socialite whose tale aligns nicely with Swift’s demonstrated lyrical love of all things Champagne, swimming pools, and narratives about patriarchal society. The song is called “ the last great american dynasty” and tells the story of Rebekah Harkness. Swift later bought said house for $17 million and used it, notably, to host Fourth of July parties seen round the world. Louis–born debutante who married the heir to Standard Oil, bought a giant house in Rhode Island, lived a wild life, died, and had some of her remains toted home by her daughter in a Gristedes bag because they would not all fit the urn custom-made by Salvador Dalí. It’s got … a lengthy semi-nonfictional track about Rebekah Harkness, a St. It’s got collabs with Bon Iver and the National’s Aaron Dessner. Taylor Swift’s eighth album, folklore, is out of the woods and into our ears.
Oil heiress Rebekah Harkness’s life inspired a stranger-than-fiction track on Taylor Swift’s new album, folklore.
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