TAYLOR SWIFT TEMPEST : WRITINGS

Los Angeles : Taylor Swift 'just kept writing' for 'EVERMORE'. The singer surprised fans with second  2020 album this week.

Last Thursday - Taylor Swift - announced the arrival of a second complete surprise album in five months, saying ''we just couldn't stop writing songs.''

Swift told her 141 million followers on Instagram that the album called Evermore would be released at midnight ET [ 0500GMT] on Thursday, along with a music video for the first single Willow.

She described the 15-track album as a ''sister record'' to Folklore, which she produced entirely during the coronavirus pandemic lockdowns and released unexpectedly in July.

Folklore, a change of style showed an  indie folk sensibility, earned Swift some of the best reviews of her career, as well as triggering the Grammy nominations, including for the coveted  Album of the Year.

''To put it plainly, we just couldn't stop writing songs,'' Swift wrote on Thursday. '' I loved the escapism I found in these imaginary/not imaginary tales. I loved the way you welcomed the dreamscapes and tragedies and epic tales of love lost and found into your lives.

''SO I just kept writing them,'' she added.

The singer-songwriter said  the Evermore team, again, included alternative artist Bon Iver and Aaron Dessner, guitarist with indie rock band The National.

The mysterious  William Bowery, who Swift last month revealed was a pseudonym for the British actor boyfriend Joe Alwyn, is also credited as a co-writer on the new album. [Reuters]