Taylor Swift surprises fans with new album announcement
In a surprise announcement earlier today, Taylor Swift revealed that she will be releasing a new album titled 'Evermore' at midnight tonight.
Taylor Swift is not holding back, she is coming for it all this summer!
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Taylor also shared that a video for a new song from the album titled 'Willow' will arrive along with the album — and to make this announcement even sweeter, Swift will be logging into the YouTube premiere page at midnight to answer fan questions.
Ever since I was 13, I’ve been excited about turning 31 because it’s my lucky number backwards, which is why I wanted to surprise you with this now. You’ve all been so caring, supportive and thoughtful on my birthdays and so this time I thought I would give you something! pic.twitter.com/wATiVSTpuV
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) December 10, 2020
The exciting news is that the album continues the working relationships from 'Folklore', which was cowritten and coproduced with Jack Antonoff and the National’s Aaron Dessner, and also includes a contribution from “WB,” William Broad, a pseudonym that she recently revealed is her boyfriend, British actor Joe Alwyn. Keep the news coming Taylor, we love it!
According to the tracklist that Swift posted, it also includes a collaboration with Haim called “No Body, No Crime”; a second duet with Bon Iver (who sang on the “Folklore” song “Exile”) on the title track; and a song with the National as her backing band called “Coney Island.”
The announcement definitely came as a surprise even to insiders, no one was expecting a whole new release just as the year was ending.
In a series of social media posts on Thursday morning, Swift described the album’s origins as:
To put it plainly, we just couldn’t stop writing songs. To try and put it more poetically, it feels like we were standing on the edge of the folklorian woods and had a choice: to turn and go back or to travel further into the forest of this music. We chose to wander deeper in. I’ve never done this before. In the past I’ve always treated albums as one-off eras and moved onto planning the next one after an album was released,” she continued. “There was something different with folklore. In making it, I felt less like I was departing and more like I was returning. I loved the escapism I found in these imaginary/not imaginary tales. I loved the ways you welcomed the dreamscapes and tragedies and epic tales of love lost and found into your lives. So I just kept writing them. And I loved creating these songs with Aaron Dessner, Jack Antonoff, WB, and Justin Vernon
The string of posts continued with details about the album:
Ever since I was 13, I’ve been excited about turning 31 because it’s my lucky number backwards, which is why I wanted to surprise you with this now,” she wrote to her fans. “You’ve all been so caring, supportive and thoughtful on my birthdays and so this time I thought I would give you something! I also know this holiday season will be a lonely one for most of us and if there are any of you out there who turn to music to cope with missing loved ones the way I do, this is for you. There are 15 tracks on the standard edition of evermore, but the deluxe physical edition will include two bonus tracks – “right where you left me” and “it’s time to go.
All (digital downloads) of the album will include an exclusive, digital booklet with 16 brand new photos. You can pre-order evermore now at https://taylor.lnk.to/evermorealbum.
I’m elated to tell you that my 9th studio album, and folklore’s sister record, will be out tonight at midnight eastern. It’s called evermore.
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) December 10, 2020
📷: Beth Garrabrant pic.twitter.com/xdej7AzJRW
Swifts 'Folklore', has already garnered six 2021 Grammy nominations, the album is actually Swift’s third release of the year. But wait just two weeks ago, Swift released a video on Disney Plus of live, stripped-down performances of songs from 'Folklore' called 'The Long Pond Studio Sessions'.
Taylor we here for it all!