Taylor Swift loves to share news about upcoming music while streaming live on social media, and the Lover album cycle is no exception. On YouTube Live today, Swift had lots to say about her Lover songs, fashion line with Stella McCartney, and what's next.

Here, all the major things Swift said during the livestream. This post will be updated as Swift reveals more.

How Lover is as an album versus Reputation: "This album felt aesthetically very daytime, very sunlit fields...I really just pictured this and wrote music from a perspective of a much, more open, just free romantic, whimsical place, and I’m so happy to share that with you soon. There’s 18 songs on this album, that’s more than I’ve ever put on an album."

On her diary entries included in the deluxe editions: "I started writing in diaries when I was 13. These are the four deluxe editions of this album, and each one contains 30 pages of my diary entries from my life. Because you know metaphorically I’ve been sharing my diaries for year so I figured why not just do it for real?"

Swift read a couple of her diary entries, including one where she wrote about how she felt like "I'm the girl before the one. Yeah...I might get married, but I think it’s my fate to light candles and roll my eyes and resent Valentine’s Day."

There's juicier diary entries in the deluxe editions. "I wanted to save the ones I think you should really read yourself for when you read them yourself."

On the song closest to her heart on the album (Swift couldn't choose): "This is an album where every song is close to my heart. There’s a song called 'Cornelia Street' that I love. There are so many things on this album that I want you to hear and it’s really hard to pick a favorite. It’s like a heart-shaped album."

On her advice to aspiring musicians: "I would say try your best to own your own work. And if at all possible, start writing your own song. Be involved in the creative process....Being a writer gives you more control over your own legacy. And it’s really fun to write your own song. I recommend it to anyone who wants to be a singer. I really just want you guys to tell your own stories…It’s one of the most cathartic, healing things I’ve ever done."

On her hardest song to write: "There’s a song called 'Soon You’ll Get Better' that was really, really hard to write, and it was a family decision to even put on the album, and I think songs like that that are really hard for you to write emotionally maybe they're hard to write and hard to sing because they’re really true. We as a family decided to put this on the album. It’s something I’m so proud of. I can’t sing it. It’s hard to emotionally deal with that song. You’ll understand what I mean in a couple of hours."

On how she chooses album titles, including Lover's: "I decide an album title based on something that has a nice theme to it and a ring…it’s very mood board how I go about [it]....The only time I ever started with a title was Reputation but with this album, I actually thought the title of this album was going to be Daylight for a couple months." Swift said writing the song "Lover" changed this completely.

"It’s a really romantic album, but it really celebrates love in all its complexity. Not just flowers and sunshine but the patchwork emotions that go into any love you feel."

You can watch Swift's YouTube Live here:

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