On the four-year anniversary of Taylor Swift's "Folklore" album release, she explained to a sold-out Eras Tour crowd how she crafted and created her eighth era two days into the pandemic.

This is high art, folks! This is peak Storytelling ... I never expected her to produce a 16-track, no-skips album of cohesive, shimmering, emotional folk-pop. And yet, this feels like the Taylor ...

reflected on how her eighth studio album came together during the COVID-19 pandemic during her second Eras Tour show in Hamburg, Germany on July 24. While setting up for her Folklore set on stage ...