Taylor Swift made the best out of 2020, releasing two documentaries and two albums.
Swift joined Zane Lowe on Apple Music Tuesday to discuss her latest album, Evermore, her previous album Folklore, as well as winning the Apple Music award for songwriter of the year.
The singer spoke about how she released Folklore not long after writing it and just a week after its release, she decided to keep going. And five months later, Evermore debuted. “I feel differently today than I felt the day after releasing ‘Folklore’ because, even the day after releasing ‘Folklore,’ Aaron and I were still bouncing ideas back and forth and we just knew we were gonna keep writing music,” she said. “With this one, I have this feeling of sort of quiet conclusion and sort of this weird serenity of we did what we set out to do and we’re all really proud of it, and that feels really really nice.”
While almost every song on Swift’s first seven albums relates to an experience from her life, Folklore shares stories about people or places she made up. The album allowed her to explore storytelling, “My world felt opened up creatively,” she said.
Like Folklore, Evermore is the product of remote collaboration. For Folklore, Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner joined her for the first time for a recorded performance of the album, and for Evermore, the album was constructed through virtual communication. Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon was featured on both albums and has songwriting credits, but he hasn’t met with Swift in person yet.
