Last week, Taylor Swift released her ninth album, Evermore, to rave reviews.
The album comes just five months since her last release, Folklore, and continues its premise of blending stories of Taylor's personal life with fictional worlds and characters.
And perhaps the song where this is most evident is the magnificent "No Body, No Crime" — a collaboration with Haim about the disappearance of a woman named Este. The protagonist eventually decides to avenge her death by murdering Este's husband — who she believes is responsible for killing her — and framing his girlfriend.
It's quite a ride.
And the story behind the song is just as batshit, with Taylor revealing that she set out to write a murder mystery after becoming obsessed with true crime podcasts, and included Este's name because she thought her friend would be "stoked."
"Working with the Haim sisters on 'No Body, No Crime' was pretty hilarious because it came about after I wrote a pretty dark murder mystery song and had named the character Este, because she's the friend I have who would be stoked to be in a song like that," Taylor explained during a fan Q&A.
"She chose Olive Garden, and a few days later, I sent her the song and asked if they would sing on it. It was an immediate 'YES,'" Taylor added.
And it turns out that they all had a blast recording the track, with Haim proving just how proud they are of the collaboration by posting this video of themselves pretending to dine at an Olive Garden while singing along to the song.
Our dream of singing on a COUNTRY FOLK SONG with the one and only queen of storytelling, miss TAYLOR SWIFT is our second Hanukkah present to you! AND ITS A MURDER MYSTERYYYYYY. We think he did it...... @taylorswift13
For anyone who hasn't heard "No Body, No Crime," Olive Garden was where Este and her friend used to dine every Tuesday night, and suspicions over her whereabouts were raised after she failed to show up one week.
But they didn't stop there. The ladies went on to post this frankly iconic photo alongside the caption: "Get in loser we're gonna go find his ass at Olive Garden."
And who should show up in the comments despite rarely commenting on anything these days? None other than Ms Taylor Swift herself!
"Is it possible to tattoo a whole post on my face," she wrote. "Asking for a friend 😂😂😂"
