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Breaking News:Superstar singer Taylor Swift passionately declared, “So many people want to trash and break my relationship with Travis Kelce.” I hear you answer a resounding YES if you’re one of my fans and you want my relationship to last and be strong… Breaking News:Superstar singer Taylor Swift passionately declared, “So many people want to trash and break my relationship with Travis Kelce.” I hear you answer a resounding YES if you’re one of my fans and you want my relationship to last and
[My songs are] kind of like journaling for you or something,’ Taylor told her massive audience. ‘[And] I wanted to do a different thing that I had done before [with Folklore].’
Earning thunderous applause, the pop megastar went on to describe the ‘excruciatingly autobiographical’ nature of her first seven albums, likening them to ‘live-streamed public autopsies.’
‘You know,’ she explained, ‘my albums have characteristically been, sort of, excruciatingly autobiographical where, like, when I put out an album, it just feels like getting some sort of live-streamed, public autopsy.’
Taylor continued to discuss the different approach she took when writing Folklore, crafting ‘characters and storylines’ instead of purely using her own experiences.
The hitmaker said: ‘With [Folklore], I thought, “Wouldn’t it be so fun to create characters and storylines? They’ll live in different times, and they’ll do all these things and fall in love and hurt each other, go to wars and all these things.” So, I created all these characters.’
Released in 2020, Swift’s smash hit album Folklore featured a pair of characters inspired by the two daughters of her close friends Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively – James, seven, and Betty, three.
Taylor wove the two characters into a storyline for the song called Betty, which revolved around a very romantic apology.
Swift said: ‘This is a song about a teenage [boy] named James trying to apologize to the love of his life and her name is Betty.’