Taylor Swift made a surprise announcement that she will be releasing her eighth studio album, “Folklore,” Thursday midnight.
In a social media posts, Swift explained that the album is the result of many of her plans for 2020 — including a short stadium tour supporting her 2019 album “Lover” — were scrapped due to the pandemic. In lockdown, she wrote the new album’s songs in isolation, collaborating with Aaron Dessner of the National, Bon Iver, William Bowery and Jack Antonoff. The full track list appears below.
Swift is a longtime National fan who was seen mingling backstage at the band’s June 2019 concert at Prospect Park in Brooklyn, N.Y.
At some point on Thursday evening she will release a music video for the song “Cardigan,” which she directed, noting that the shoot was “overseen by a medical inspector, everyone wore masks, stayed away from each other, and I even did my own hair, make-up and styling.”
At some point on Thursday evening she will release a music video for the song “Cardigan,” which she directed, noting that the shoot was “overseen by a medical inspector, everyone wore masks, stayed away from each other, and I even did my own hair, make-up and styling.”
The album is also a change in direction in that Dessner co-wrote or produced 11 of the 16 songs — a key-collaborator role that Antonoff played on her last two albums and Max Martin or Nathan Chapman on preceding ones. She did not elaborate on Antonoff’s contributions but said he is “basically musical family at this point”; he mentioned two in a social media post. Bon Iver co-wrote several tracks and sang on the album, while Bowery — a new collaborator, which may be a pseudonym — co-wrote two songs.
(Excerpt) Read more in: Variety