Taylor Swift is getting candid on stage and admitting she felt “lonely” during her time writing folklore.
As captured by a fan video, Taylor Swift opened up about her feelings while working on folklore, her eighth studio album, which came out in the summer of 2020, during the Australian leg of her Eras World Tour.
“[While writing folklore, 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, and I wrote only on parchment with a feathered quill,” Swift told thousands of concert-goers on Saturday, February 17, while onstage in Melbourne.
“That was in my mind, what I thought I looked like writing folklore,” the singer continued before adding, “That is not what I looked like, but it was what I thought I was like, so that’s all that matters, you know, it’s the delusion. I did something a little different on folklore. I decided that instead of a song about my own personal stuff … I thought I would create characters for the first time.”
