Taylor Swift's Surprise Album, 'Evermore,' Is a Follow-Up to 'Folklore'

Taylor Swift stunned fanatics through pronouncing the discharge "Evermore," a sister album to "Folklore." Details on when it's going to come out and what she said.

Back in the summertime of 2020, track celebrity Taylor Swift surprised her fanatics when she introduced the discharge of her 8th studio album, "Folklore," simply a day before it was once set to be released.

Prior to "Folklore," Taylor was once recognized to tease the main points of her albums to her lovers at period prior to dropping new track. She'd share additional details about song titles, lyrics, and the which means in the back of them within the song movies for her singles. 

The "Cardigan" songstress is unexpected the public all over again! She published on Dec. 10 that she is freeing her next album, "Evermore," at the hours of darkness EST. 

Her 9th paintings is arriving not up to five months after "Folklore" — confirming the fact that she has spent a lot of her time in quarantine churning out new song. Before that, the shortest time between Taylor's albums used to be 11 months. 

What did Taylor Swift say about the "Evermore" free up? The Grammy Award winner mentioned how the album is related to "Folklore" and what listeners can expect to hear first. 

Here's what you want to find out about Taylor Swift's 'Evermore' album liberate:

Though Taylor's "Evermore" announcement did surprise the general public, she did include a few of her vintage signatures within the expose. For one thing, two weeks ahead of the reveal, she posted a photo on Instagram with the caption, "Not a lot going on at the moment."

She wrote the similar caption on a put up before she launched "Folklore."

The timing of "Evermore" is significant as smartly. It will come out at nighttime EST on Dec. 11. The date is just two days before Taylor's 31st birthday. The singer defined that 31 is the opposite of her favorite number, 13, and she wanted to have a good time that by giving fans new music.

She shared that she wanted to help people who find themselves struggling right through the pandemic, who would possibly use music to get through tricky occasions.

The pandemic is also the explanation that the album handiest exists in digital shape. 

As for the quick smash in between albums, it is because "Evermore" is directly comparable to its predecessor, "Folklore." In her album announcement submit on Instagram, Taylor noted that she ceaselessly views every album as its own era. After finishing "Folklore," Taylor felt a continuation of the same inspiration and determined to unencumber extra songs with a similar sound. 

"To put it plainly, we just couldn't stop writing songs," she wrote in a part of the caption on considered one of her "Evermore" posts. "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. There was something different with 'folklore.' 

"In making it, I felt less like I was departing and extra like I was returning. I loved the escapism I found in those imaginary/now not imaginary tales. I beloved the tactics you welcomed the dreamscapes and tragedies and epic stories of affection lost and found into your lives," she added. "So I simply stored writing them." 

Like she did with "Folklore," Taylor also released all of the titles of the songs to be featured on Evermore.

The first single is "Willow," and it is joined on the work by "Happiness," "'Tis the Damn Season," "Champagne Problems," "Tolerate It," "Gold Rush," "Marjorie," "No Body, No Crime," "Coney Island," "Ivy," "Long Story Short," "Cowboy Like Me," "Closure," and "Evermore."

Taylor also has two bonus tracks, which are "It's Time to Go," and "Right Where You Left Me."

The two featured groups on "Evermore" are Haim and The National, and Bon Iver worked on "Evermore."

What does evermore mean?

The title of Taylor's latest album will surely continue to fuel the rumors that she has gotten engaged to longtime boyfriend, Joe Alwyn. Per Merriam-Webster, the word evermore is synonymous with "without end" and "always."

Evermore is also associated with a time "sooner or later," that can be "eternal."

The album's title also plays off of "Folklore," its sister work. 

How many albums does Taylor Swift have?

The 31-year-old has created nine albums since the start of her professional career in 2006. Her eponymous album, Taylor Swift, was a country work, and it debuted in 2006. Notable singles from her debut were "Tim McGraw," "Teardrops on My Guitar," "Our Song," and "Picture to Burn."

Her follow-up album, "Fearless," was also country (and the cover art featured her formerly-signature blonde ringlets). Top songs from the 2008 work included "Fifteen," "Fearless," "You Belong with Me," and "Love Story."

The Valentine's Day actress released her third and final country-esque album, Speak Now, in 2010. 

The most popular tracks were "Sparks Fly," "Mean," and "Back to December" (which many believe is about her ex-boyfriend and former co-star, Taylor Lautner).

Taylor officially transitioned into a bonafide pop star with 2012's Red, which still had elements of rock and country as well. Fans gravitated toward "All Too Well," "Red," "I Knew You Were Trouble," and, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together."

Her fifth studio work, "1989," was released in 2014, with singles including "Blank Space," "Shake It Off," and "Bad Blood."

The biggest time gap in between albums took place after "1989" came out. "Reputation," her last work with Big Machine Records, debuted in 2017. Taylor took shots at her doubters and enemies with "...Ready for It?," "Reputation," "Look What You Made Me Do," and "Delicate."

More recently, Taylor's first post-BMR work was Lover, which came out in the summer of 2019. 

She released Easter egg-laden music videos for "Me!," "Lover," "You Need to Calm Down," and "The Man."

Eleven months later, "Folklore" came out in the midst of quarantine. Taylor is, once again, breaking her own mold by putting "Evermore" out on Dec. 11, 2020. 

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