Taylor Swift says she was ‘lonely’ while writing ‘Folklore’ despite being in a relationship with Joe Alwyn https://t.co/2YeA5lWMAn pic.twitter.com/1glO0ZgEzi
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Halfway through her Eras Tour stop in Melbourne, Australia, on Saturday (2/17), Taylor Swift paused to reflect on being “lonely” while writing her 2020 album, Folklore, during the COVID-19 lockdown.
“[I was] 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,” Swift said in a video before performing her song “Betty.”
“And I wrote only on parchment with a feathered quill,” she continued. “That was in my mind, what I thought I looked like writing Folklore.” The Grammy winner added, “So that’s all that matters — the delusion.”
While writing Folklore, Swift spent her time in quarantine with then-boyfriend Joe Alwyn, 32, who helped the artist pen songs including “Exile” and “Betty.
