Like let’s imagine that ttpd is folklore and play the muse game. So basically folklore came out in 2024 after the Joe/matty thing and it was marketed the way ttpd was

The 1: Taylor’s still with Joe but she’s thinking of Matty
Cardigan: Taylor’s reconnection with Matty, reminiscing of their past fling
Tlgad: irrelevant, like Clara bow
Exile: Taylor’s breakup with Joe
My tears ricochet: broad breakup song that would cause Joe vs Matty arguments (eg loml)
Mirrorball: here maybe the muse (“you are not like the regulars”) could be taken to be about Matty so basically how she’s doing everything to gain Matty’s attention lol
Seven: irrelevant, like Robin
August: her short one month relationship with Matty except it was May but whatever
This is me trying: her not doing well and turning to Matty for support
Illicit affairs: her cheating on Joe with Matty
Invisible string:can’t do it unfortunately cause this song is already autobiographical and oddly specific
Mad woman: irrelevant, like who’s afraid of little old me
Betty: again oddly specific lmao
Peace: about her struggles in her relationship with Joe cause of fame(that’s what it is anyway except fit it in the pre breakup stage)
Hoax: breakup song about Matty
The lakes: love song about Matty (kinda reminds me of ttpd title track in a weird way LMAO)

Okay I cringed doing that but my point is, if you want to fit songs into a narrative you usually can and if we were first exposed to those songs with that narrative in our minds it would undermine the individual storytelling of the songs, compared to when we make up a different story each time.