Taylor Swift feared her songwriting would “dry up” as soon as she was “actually completely satisfied”.
Taylor Swift thought she may solely write about ‘torment and ache’
The 35-year-old pop idol has simply launched her twelfth studio album, The Lifetime of a Showgirl, and as she’s happier than ever – having simply bought engaged to her longtime companion Travis Kelce – Taylor was involved she’d don’t have anything to write down about, as a result of she’d all the time assumed she was a tortured poet.
Talking on the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast With Greg James about her follow-up to 2024’s The Tortured Poets Division, she mentioned: “It’s great. I used to sort of have this darkish concern that if I ever have been actually completely satisfied and free, being myself and nurtured by a relationship, what occurs if the writing simply dries up?
“What if writing is immediately tied to my torment and ache? And it seems that’s not the case in any respect, and we simply have been catching lightning in a bottle with this report.”
“What if writing is immediately tied to my torment and ache? And it seems that’s not the case in any respect, and we simply have been catching lightning in a bottle with this report.”
A lot of Taylor’s albums have included manifestations concerning the future, however this time, she targeted on the current.
She mentioned: “With this album, my life is in precisely the identical spot as once I wrote the report.”
Taylor reunited with pop producers Max Martin and Shellback on the report, and for the reason that final time she’d labored with the pair, she has honed the artwork of making characters.
The Truly Romantic singer defined: “I made this album with Max Martin and Shellback, who I hadn’t labored with in possibly seven or eight years.
“Within the time that we sort of took a break from working collectively, we have been all on the market honing powers of various sorts, and one of many issues that I used to be actually enjoying with in our time away was writing in character, and sort of creating these characters and these character arcs and issues – and that’s current on this report.
“Regardless that it’s about my life, generally you cosplay, like, it is a love tune by means of the lens of Elizabeth Taylor’s life.
“There’s totally different motifs that I feel we’re attempting out on this report which might be kind of a end result of me working towards and dealing as much as the purpose the place I may make this sort of album.”
