Taylor Swift considered releasing ‘Folklore’ and ‘Evermore’ next year

nme.com:

Taylor Swift said she considered pushing the release of ‘Folklore’ and ‘Evermore’ to next year due to the pandemic, in a new interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe.The live interview, spanning more than 50 minutes, also celebrated Swift’s crowning as Apple Music’s songwriter of the year for her work on the two surprise albums.Swift has previously said she considers each album to be a “one-off era”, so writing two related records involved her completely rewriting her own rulebook.

She also said she contemplated releasing the albums in 2021 when there would be a greater sense of normalcy.“This is one of those things where I kind of had to just sort of throw out any playbook I had,” she told Lowe.“In times like these when everything is.