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Taylor Swift: ‘We Never Stopped Writing Songs’

Taylor Swift has released another song to country radio called “no body, no crime” from her evermore album; it was one of two albums she released in 2020, including folklore….

Taylor Swift: 'We Never Stopped Writing Songs'
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Taylor Swift has released another song to country radio called "no body, no crime" from her evermore album; it was one of two albums she released in 2020, including folklore.

Taylor says the reason she released her second album, evermore (which she calls the sister to folklore) so close to the release of the first was because she didn’t want to stop writing and recording songs.

Swift said, “To put some context behind why this album has come out so quickly – we just never really stopped writing songs. I mean folklore came out and I just kept on writing. We never really paused. I think we did that because it was so much fun to create, and this time is such a wild, ridiculous year, and I think we needed to create things. We didn’t really know what for.”

She adds, “Pretty soon it became evident that this was another album, and it came together in almost the same amount of time that folklore did. I’ve never put out an album this quickly in succession after a brand new album, but then again I’ve never had a concept like this come to me before where I wanted to continue exploring even after an album was released. I didn’t want to move on to something else, I just wanted to keep on digging."

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.