Taylor Swift Debuts ‘Haunting and Ethereal’ New Song ‘Carolina’ in 1st Trailer for ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’
usmagazine.comMusic to our ears! Taylor Swift unveiled her new song, “Carolina,” in the first look at the upcoming film Where the Crawdads Sing — and it is just as eerie as the movie trailer.“Where The Crawdads Sing is a book I got absolutely lost in when I read it years ago,” the 32-year-old musician wrote via Instagram on Tuesday, March 22, alongside the film teaser. “As soon as I heard there was a film in the works starring the incredible @daisyedgarjones and produced by the brilliant @reesewitherspoon, I knew I wanted to be a part of it from the musical side.”The Grammy winner revealed that she wrote “Carolina” by herself and later asked her friend Aaron Dessner to help produce it.“I wanted to create something haunting and ethereal to match this mesmerizing story,” Swift explained. “You’ll hear it fully soon, but for now check out the @crawdadsmovie trailer for a clip!”The “Exile” songstress’ voice can be heard throughout the movie trailer, which dropped on Tuesday, ahead of Where the Crawdads Sing’s release later this year.In the film, which is an adaptation of Delia Owens’ bestselling novel by the same name, Daisy Edgar-Jones plays a young woman named Kya.
Growing up, Kya was abandoned by the marshes of North Carolina and had to raise herself.She was an outcast who was all but forgotten by the townspeople.
However, when the boy she loves (played by Harris Dickinson) dies, she is the first, and seemingly only, suspect in his murder.
Throughout the trailer, Kya reveals what it’s like to go unnoticed for so long and then all of a sudden become the center of a witch hunt.“Being isolated was one thing.
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