Taylor Swift’s New Song ‘Carolina’ for ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ Is Finally Here: Stream It Now - Billboard

"I wanted to create something haunting and ethereal to match this mesmerizing story," Swift has said of the song.

After teasing more than three months ago that her new song “Carolina” would be coming “soon,” Taylor Swift has at last dropped the full original song she penned for the Where the Crawdads Sing film soundtrack.

“About a year & half ago I wrote a song about the story of a girl who always lived on the outside, looking in.

Figuratively & literally,” Swift tweeted when the song arrived.

Swift first announced her musical contribution to the film in a March Instagram post explaining that she’d penned “Carolina” after reading Where the Crawdads Sing, the debut novel written by Delia Owens, which inspired the film.

“Where the Crawdads Sing is a book I got absolutely lost in when I read it years ago,” the pop star wrote.

“I wrote the song ‘Carolina’ alone and asked my friend @aarondessner to produce it,” she continued.

About a year & half ago I wrote a song about the story of a girl who always lived on the outside, looking in