​marjorie

​marjorie

Taylor Swift

“marjorie” is track 13 off of Taylor Swift’s ninth album evermore, and is a tribute to her late grandmother Marjorie Finlay. Appropriately, “epiphany” (the 13th track on evermore’s sister album, folklore), was in part about her grandfather, Dean.

Marjorie, who passed in 2003, was an opera singer and helped inspire Taylor to pursue music. In the album notes, Marjorie is credited with background vocals.

Given that evermore also has a track titled “dorothea,” fan speculation suggests that this song may also allude to the story of Marjorie West, a four year-old girl who disappeared in Pennsylvania, where Swift grew up. Dorothea was the name of Marjorie West’s sister, and was reportedly the last person to see her before she went missing.