Taylor Swift is back to rocking the stage for her Eras Tour after resuming it a few days back in Tokyo. The pop sensation announced her new album when she received the Grammy Award for Best Album this year. She also released the titles of the tracks a few days later, raising anticipation among fans.
During her recent Eras Tour date in Australia, Taylor opened up about her feelings of loneliness while writing her acclaimed album ‘Folklore’, despite being in a relationship with Joe Alwyn — who is also rumored to be the muse of her upcoming album.
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“I Was A Ghostly Victorian Lady Wandering Through The Woods”: Taylor Swift Gets Nostalgic During Melbourne Eras Tour Performance
During her Melbourne show’s ‘Folklore‘ set, Taylor Swift shared her experience of crafting the album during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
“Imagining that, instead of being a lonely millennial woman covered in cat hair drinking my weight in white wine, I was a ghostly Victorian lady wandering through the woods with a candle in a candlestick holder, and I wrote only on parchment with a feathered quill,” she revealed in a fan-shared clip from the concert.
“That was in my mind, what I thought I looked like writing ‘Folklore.’ That is not what I looked like … So that’s all that matters — the delusion,” she said.
Though she was in a relationship with British actor Joe Alwyn at the time, Swift confessed to feeling alone during the creative process. Alwyn also contributed to some tracks on the 2020 album, such as ‘Exile‘ and ‘Betty’.
Taylor Swift started dating Joe Alwyn in 2016. The couple initially kept their romance private, a decision Taylor had opened up about in a 2020 interview with Paul McCartney for The Rolling Stone.
Swift said that being with Alwyn allowed her to make life decisions that made her existence feel more real. “I think that in knowing him and being in the relationship I am in now, I have definitely made decisions that have made my life feel more like a real life and less like just a storyline to be commented on in tabloids,” she told the Beatles member after she praised him for living such a private life,” she said.
“Whether that’s deciding where to live, who to hang out with, when to not take a picture — the idea of privacy feels so strange to try to explain, but it’s really just trying to find bits of normalcy,” she added.
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The pop sensation seems to have evolved a lot with her approach to relationships and how she wants to live her life since. “Life is short. Have adventures. Me locking myself away in my house for a lot of years — I’ll never get that time back,” she said while speaking to Time Magazine during her 2023 Person of the Year profile last December. “I’m more trusting now than I was six years ago,” the superstar added.
Though she had a guarded approach to personal matters for a very long time, Taylor is now considerably open about her relationship with NFL star Travis Kelce. She started dating the Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce in September. The couple has since been open about their love, with Kelce supporting Swift during her Eras Tour and flying across the globe to be by her side.
As Swift announced her new album, ‘The Tortured Poets Department‘ at the 2024 Grammys, fans speculate it may contain references to a group chat Alwyn shares with friends Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott. During a concert in Melbourne, Taylor called writing the upcoming project “a lifeline.”
“It sort of reminded me of why songwriting is something that actually gets me through life and I’ve never had an album where I’ve needed songwriting more than I needed it on ‘Tortured Poets,’” Taylor said.
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