{"id":31842,"date":"2020-12-11T15:42:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T23:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/?p=31842"},"modified":"2020-12-11T15:44:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T23:44:07","slug":"taylor-swift-drops-another-surprise-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/concerts\/taylor-swift-drops-another-surprise-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Drops Another Surprise Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Taylor Swift - willow (Official Music Video)\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RsEZmictANA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/taylor-swift-tickets\">Taylor Swift<\/a> has released her second surprise album of 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>Evermore<\/em> is described as a &#8220;sister album&#8221; to her last album\u00a0<em>folklore<\/em>, which itself arrived out-of-the-blue in July.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recorded remotely in quarantine, that record topped the US and UK charts and earned Swift nominations for six Grammy awards, including album of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Swift said the new 17-track collection featured songs from the same sessions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;To put it plainly, we just couldn&#8217;t stop writing,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8221; she explained in a series of tweets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;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.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve never done this before,&#8221;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> she continued. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;In the past I&#8217;ve always treated albums as one-off eras and moved onto planning the next one after an album was released.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;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.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As with Folklore, the new album will contain collaborations with indie artists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/bon-iver-tickets\">Bon Iver<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/aaron-dessner-tickets\">Aaron Dessner<\/a>, as well as female rock trio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/haim-tickets\">Haim<\/a> &#8211; who are one of Swift&#8217;s competitors in the Grammys&#8217; album of the year category.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The star also said she has directed the video for the song \u201cWillow\u201d, which was released at midnight on Friday, 11 December.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 30-year-old has also begun re-recording all of the material from her first six albums after the master tapes were sold against her will last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Swift opened up about her experience re-recording her older songs, including her breakout 2008 hit \u201cLove Story\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI\u2019ve been having a really good time re-recording my older music,\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s been the most fun doing Love Story, because the older music \u2026 My voice was so teenaged and sometimes when I hear my older music and my young teenage voice, it makes me feel like I\u2019m a different singer now.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s been the most fun to go back and re-record ones that I feel like I can actually, possibly improve upon.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So that has been a really amazing, fun adventure.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift has released her second surprise album of 2020. 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