Taylor Swift was fresh off her 31st birthday during her remote appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to talk about her latest surprise album, evermore, and the whispers of another surprise LP called woodvale.
During the Monday (December 14), Swift admitted that she was feeling just fine after her milestone day and spoke about the rumors of a third surprise album after dropping two LPs during lockdown: folklore and the aforementioned evermore. "Well, this takes a bit of explanation. I tend to be sort of annoyingly secret-agenty about dropping clues and hints and Easter eggs," the pop titan said during the interview. "It's very annoying, but it’s fun for fans and it’s fun for me because they like to pick up on things. And they’ll notice lots of things in music videos or photos or whatever. Sometimes I take it too far and make a mistake."
Swift went on to admit that while she was making folklore in July she was "was too afraid to even unveil the title of the album to even my closest teammates and management." She ended up moving forward with a codename with the same exact numbers of letters as folklore, prompting the creation of woodvale.
In typical Swift fashion, the chart-topper prioritized the detail and “wanted to see how it would look on the album covers," before deciding that she didn't want to have a title on the artwork, after all. "And we forgot to take the fake code name off of one of them," she said of the name, squashing rumors of yet another surprise album.
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