Taylor Swift releases new song 'Carolina'

Taylor Swift has released her new song "Carolina," a soundtrack for the mystery thriller "Where The Crawdads Sing."

In an Instagram post, the pop star said she wrote the song a year and a half ago, and that it's "an incredible story ... of a girl who always lived on the outside, looking in."

 

 

 

 

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"I wrote this one alone in the middle of the night and then @aarondessner and I meticulously worked on a sound that we felt would be authentic to the moment in time when this story takes place. I made a wish that one day you would hear it," she added.

"Where The Crawdads Sing" is a masterful mystery thriller and a best-selling book about Kya, an abandoned girl living in the marshland in the outskirts of a North Carolina town.

Later referred to as the "Marsh Girl," the isolated Kya soon found herself drawn to two young men, Tate Walker and Chase Andrews. It takes a chilling turn when Chase Andrews was found dead, with Kya a principal suspect.

Taylor said her song encapsulates "The juxtaposition of [Kya's] loneliness and independence. Her longing and her stillness. Her curiosity and fear, all tangled up. Her persisting gentleness… and the world’s betrayal of it."

"Where The Crawdads Sing" stars Daisy Edgar-Jones (Normal People) as “Kya Clark,” Taylor John Smith (Sharp Objects) as “Tate Walker,” Harris Dickinson (The King’s Man) as “Chase Andrews,” Michael Hyatt (Snowfall) as “Mabel,” Sterling Macer, Jr. (Double Down) as “Jumpin’,” and David Strathairn (Nomadland) as “Tom Milton.” —JCB, GMA News