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"Tolerate It" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, taken from her ninth studio album, Evermore (2020). She wrote the track with its producer, Aaron Dessner. A slow building piano ballad, "Tolerate It" features a midtempo production and an odd time signature. Inspired by the Daphne du Maurier novel Rebecca (1938), its lyrics are narrated by a young woman who addresses her unstable relationship with an older man who does not seem to like her.
Critics praised "Tolerate It" for its vulnerable songwriting from Swift and an engaging production, with many selecting it as a highlight from Evermore. Commercially, the song peaked at number 28 on the Billboard Global 200 and entered the charts of Australia, Canada, Portugal, the United States. It received certifications from Australia, Brazil, and the UK. It was included on the regular set list of the Eras Tour (2023–2024).
On July 24, 2020, the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift released her eighth studio album, Folklore, to critical and commercial success. On November 25, Swift and the album's co-writers and co-producers, including the first-time collaborator Aaron Dessner, assembled at Long Pond Studio in Hudson Valley to film a concert documentary titled Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions, which was released on Disney+. They continued writing songs at Long Pond, with Swift penning lyrics to Dessner's instrumental tracks, a process that was present on much of the songs they had worked on Folklore. Their sessions resulted in a project that was a natural extension of the album, which became Evermore (2020).
One of the songs both Swift and Dessner wrote was "Tolerate It". Dessner produced the track prior to writing it with Swift. Before sending the instrumental to her, he thought that "she won't be into it" because of its "odd" elements. However, after Dessner sent the instrumental to Swift, she sent it back with finished lyrics. He recalled in a Rolling Stone interview that he cried upon hearing "Tolerate It" for the first time and described it as a "crushingly beautiful song". It was recorded by Dessner and Jonathan Low at Long Pond, where Low also recorded the vocals. The track was mixed by Low at Long Pond and mastered by Greg Calbi and Steve Fallone at Sterling Sound in Edgewater, New Jersey.
"Tolerate It" is a slow building piano ballad that runs for four minutes and five seconds. It features an odd time signature; Dessner said the song was set in a 10
8 signature, while Jon Pareles of The New York Times and Nate Jones of Vulture thought it was in a 5
4 signature. The midtempo production contains bass guitar, cello, percussion, violin, and skittering synth beats with recurring keyboard chord patterns. Critics described the piano as "solemn, chilly", "muffled", and "frosty". Ray Finlayson of Beats Per Minute opined that the song could have fit on Folklore because he thought it had similar musical elements.
"Tolerate It" details the difficulties of loving someone who undervalues their relationship; Swift wrote that the track is about "ambivalent toleration" and that it was inspired by the Daphne du Maurier novel Rebecca (1938). In the lyrics, it describes an unstable relationship between two characters with a big age gap, narrated from the young woman's perspective. She delivers "acts of service" to her partner, such as setting the table with "the fancy shit". The woman admits that she has worth and professes about it ("I know my love should be celebrated"), yet is faced with indifference ("but you tolerate it"). Swift employs her upper register as the woman realizes that she has the power to leave the relationship: "You assume I'm fine, but what would you do if I / Break free and leave us in ruins [...] / Gain the weight of you then lose it / Believe me, I could do it".
Some critics drew similarities to other songs and a few highlighted lyrics from the track. In The Guardian, the music journalist Alexis Petridis thought that Swift inhabited the character of a "disenchanted wife" on "Tolerate It" and believed it evoked the one on the Smiths' song "Asleep" (1985). Rolling Stone's writer Rob Sheffield found the track to be more in line to a 1970s Carole King song. Emily Algar from Atwood Magazine interpreted the lyric, "I made you my temple, my mural, my sky/ Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life", to be the feeling of loving someone who loves you less. For Katherine Rodgers of The Quietus, she thought the lyric, "You're so much older, and wiser, and I", revealed the age difference of the relationship.
"Tolerate It" was released as the fifth track on Evermore on December 11, 2020, by Republic Records. The song reached number 28 on the Billboard Global 200 and charted in the countries of Canada (18) and Portugal (101). In the United States, it debuted and peaked at number 45 on the Billboard Hot 100 and increased Swift's total entries to 128. Meanwhile, the track opened at number eight on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, where it lasted for 14 weeks and appeared on the chart's 2021 year-end at number 47. In Australia, "Tolerate It" peaked at number 28 on the ARIA Singles Chart and received a platinum certification from the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). In the United Kingdom, the song reached number 59 on the OCC's Audio Streaming Chart and was certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). In Brazil, it received a gold certification from Pro-Música Brasil.
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Tolerate It
"Tolerate It" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, taken from her ninth studio album, Evermore (2020). She wrote the track with its producer, Aaron Dessner. A slow building piano ballad, "Tolerate It" features a midtempo production and an odd time signature. Inspired by the Daphne du Maurier novel Rebecca (1938), its lyrics are narrated by a young woman who addresses her unstable relationship with an older man who does not seem to like her.
Critics praised "Tolerate It" for its vulnerable songwriting from Swift and an engaging production, with many selecting it as a highlight from Evermore. Commercially, the song peaked at number 28 on the Billboard Global 200 and entered the charts of Australia, Canada, Portugal, the United States. It received certifications from Australia, Brazil, and the UK. It was included on the regular set list of the Eras Tour (2023–2024).
On July 24, 2020, the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift released her eighth studio album, Folklore, to critical and commercial success. On November 25, Swift and the album's co-writers and co-producers, including the first-time collaborator Aaron Dessner, assembled at Long Pond Studio in Hudson Valley to film a concert documentary titled Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions, which was released on Disney+. They continued writing songs at Long Pond, with Swift penning lyrics to Dessner's instrumental tracks, a process that was present on much of the songs they had worked on Folklore. Their sessions resulted in a project that was a natural extension of the album, which became Evermore (2020).
One of the songs both Swift and Dessner wrote was "Tolerate It". Dessner produced the track prior to writing it with Swift. Before sending the instrumental to her, he thought that "she won't be into it" because of its "odd" elements. However, after Dessner sent the instrumental to Swift, she sent it back with finished lyrics. He recalled in a Rolling Stone interview that he cried upon hearing "Tolerate It" for the first time and described it as a "crushingly beautiful song". It was recorded by Dessner and Jonathan Low at Long Pond, where Low also recorded the vocals. The track was mixed by Low at Long Pond and mastered by Greg Calbi and Steve Fallone at Sterling Sound in Edgewater, New Jersey.
"Tolerate It" is a slow building piano ballad that runs for four minutes and five seconds. It features an odd time signature; Dessner said the song was set in a 10
8 signature, while Jon Pareles of The New York Times and Nate Jones of Vulture thought it was in a 5
4 signature. The midtempo production contains bass guitar, cello, percussion, violin, and skittering synth beats with recurring keyboard chord patterns. Critics described the piano as "solemn, chilly", "muffled", and "frosty". Ray Finlayson of Beats Per Minute opined that the song could have fit on Folklore because he thought it had similar musical elements.
"Tolerate It" details the difficulties of loving someone who undervalues their relationship; Swift wrote that the track is about "ambivalent toleration" and that it was inspired by the Daphne du Maurier novel Rebecca (1938). In the lyrics, it describes an unstable relationship between two characters with a big age gap, narrated from the young woman's perspective. She delivers "acts of service" to her partner, such as setting the table with "the fancy shit". The woman admits that she has worth and professes about it ("I know my love should be celebrated"), yet is faced with indifference ("but you tolerate it"). Swift employs her upper register as the woman realizes that she has the power to leave the relationship: "You assume I'm fine, but what would you do if I / Break free and leave us in ruins [...] / Gain the weight of you then lose it / Believe me, I could do it".
Some critics drew similarities to other songs and a few highlighted lyrics from the track. In The Guardian, the music journalist Alexis Petridis thought that Swift inhabited the character of a "disenchanted wife" on "Tolerate It" and believed it evoked the one on the Smiths' song "Asleep" (1985). Rolling Stone's writer Rob Sheffield found the track to be more in line to a 1970s Carole King song. Emily Algar from Atwood Magazine interpreted the lyric, "I made you my temple, my mural, my sky/ Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life", to be the feeling of loving someone who loves you less. For Katherine Rodgers of The Quietus, she thought the lyric, "You're so much older, and wiser, and I", revealed the age difference of the relationship.
"Tolerate It" was released as the fifth track on Evermore on December 11, 2020, by Republic Records. The song reached number 28 on the Billboard Global 200 and charted in the countries of Canada (18) and Portugal (101). In the United States, it debuted and peaked at number 45 on the Billboard Hot 100 and increased Swift's total entries to 128. Meanwhile, the track opened at number eight on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, where it lasted for 14 weeks and appeared on the chart's 2021 year-end at number 47. In Australia, "Tolerate It" peaked at number 28 on the ARIA Singles Chart and received a platinum certification from the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). In the United Kingdom, the song reached number 59 on the OCC's Audio Streaming Chart and was certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). In Brazil, it received a gold certification from Pro-Música Brasil.