Taylor Swift was keen to collaborate on the “weirdest” song The National had.
The ‘Shake It Off’ hitmaker struck up a friendship with the group in 2014 then Aaron Dessner produced her 2020 albums ‘Folklore’ and ‘Evermore’, with the band appearing on the latter’s track ‘Coney Island’, and she returned the favour with guest vocals on ‘The Alcott’, taken from the rockers’ record ‘First Two Pages of Frankenstein’.
