{"id":11843,"date":"2023-08-14T14:45:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T14:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=11843"},"modified":"2023-08-14T14:45:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T14:45:07","slug":"taylor-swift-gives-nod-opera-singing-grandmother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2023\/08\/14\/taylor-swift-gives-nod-opera-singing-grandmother\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Gives A Nod To Opera-Singing Grandmother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11844\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/08\/Taylor-Swift-opera.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1199\" height=\"677\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Taylor Swift\u2019s record-breaking Eras Tour includes \u201cMarjorie,\u201d a tribute to her grandmother Marjorie Finlay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s up?:<\/strong> Clocking in at over three hours and in ten distinct acts, Taylor Swift comes by the operatic scope of her Eras tour honestly. Swift\u2019s maternal grandmother, Marjorie Finlay, was an award-winning coloratura soprano who Swift claims inspired her to pursue a music career.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wait, really?:<\/strong> Yep. Swift was so influenced by her grandmother she wrote a song for her on her 2020 Evermore album, \u201cMarjorie.\u201d Her producer and the co-writer of \u201cMarjorie,\u201d Aaron Dessner, sampled archival recordings of Finlay\u2019s soprano for the final portion of the song.<\/p>\n<p>Rolling Stone magazine considers \u201cMarjorie\u201d the centrepiece of Swift\u2019s evermore album.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did Swift herself ever consider a career in opera?:<\/strong> Not so much. Swift described being influenced by Shania Twain, Dolly Parton and The Chicks as a young singer, rather than Callas and Caball\u00e9. But the scope of her tour, its costuming, visuals, length and fervour decidedly demonstrate operatic influence.<\/p>\n<p>Those lucky enough to have secured tix will enjoy the late Marjorie Finlay\u2019s coloratura soprano pouring through speakers midway through her granddaughter\u2019s set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift\u2019s record-breaking Eras Tour includes \u201cMarjorie,\u201d a tribute to her grandmother Marjorie Finlay.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":11844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[86,2,3,80],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/08\/Taylor-Swift-opera.gif","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11846,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11843\/revisions\/11846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11843"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}