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 ...

"I feel like consuming other people's art and storytelling sort of opened ... a part in Taylor Swift's creative process for her album folklore. The "Cardigan" singer, 30, appears on the cover ...