Taylor Swift says she felt ‘alone’ writing ‘folklore’ during pandemic

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Taylor Swift is opening up about her emotional state during the pandemic.

Midway through her Eras Tour stop at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia, on Saturday (February 17), the 34-year-old pop superstar paused to reflect on being “alone” while writing her 2020 album. Folkloreduring the COVID-19 confinement.

“(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 the woods with a candle in a candelabra,” Swift said in a video captured by a fan before performing her song “Betty.”

“And I wrote only on parchment with a quill,” he continued. “That was in my mind, what I thought it looked like to write Folklore.” The Grammy winner added: “So that’s all that matters: the deception.”

while I write Folklore, Swift spent her time in quarantine with her then-boyfriend Joe Alwyn, 32, who helped the artist write songs like “Exile” and “Betty.” The “Cruel Summer” hitmaker reflected on how she and the British actor spent time during the pandemic in a December 2020 interview.

“I didn’t expect to make an album. At the beginning of quarantine I started watching a lot of movies. We watched a different movie every night,” she said. said Entertainment Weekly. “I am ashamed to say that I had not seen The Pan’s Labyrinth before. One night she would see that, then she would look Los Angeles Confidentialthen we would look The rear windowthen we would look Jane Eyre.”

He added: “I feel like consuming other people’s art and storytelling opened this portal in my imagination and made me feel, ‘Well, why have I never done this before?’ Why have I never created characters and stories that intersect? And why have I never freed myself to do that from a narrative point of view?’”

Swift and Alwyn split last April after six years of dating.

Swift’s three-night stand at Melbourne Cricket Ground launched on Friday (February 16) and concluded on Sunday (February 18). Next, she has back-to-back concerts scheduled at Sydney’s Accor Stadium (February 23-25). Other international stops include Singapore, France, Sweden, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Europe and Canada.