Anglophile and global pop sensationTaylor Swift has made no secret of the fact that she loves theLake District.
The singer, 34, who landed at Edinburgh airport yesterdayahead of the first concert on the UK leg of her Eras tour, firstwitnessed the natural beauty of the Windermere peaks in 2012 when she visited with then boyfriendHarry Styleswhilecelebrating her 23rd birthday.
The two young stars created a stir with locals as they were spotted in and around Cumbria, and even enjoyed a day out in picturesque Bowness.
Indeed, the emerald landscape made such an impression on the pop star that she went on toeulogise the nature-filled region in the poetic lyrics of her song 'The Lakes', which featured on her 2020 album Folklore.
She wrote:'Take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die. I don't belong, and my beloved, neither do you. Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry. I'm setting off, but not without my muse.'
Taylor Swift,who landed at Edinburgh airport yesterday ahead of the first concert on the UK leg of her Eras tour, first fell for the rural beauty of the Cumbrian National Park in 2023
The landscape of the Lake District has been a huge influence on some of England's best-known writers,such as William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, Thomas de Quincey and John Ruskin.
They were known as the Romantic poets of the late eighteenth and nineteenth century, and were strongly influenced by the region's rustic beauty.
In an excerpt from her documentary, Long Pond Studio Sessions, Taylor spoke about the meaning behind her song 'The Lakes'.
Speaking to American musician Jack Antonoff in the clip from the TikTok page,Escape to the Lakes, the songstress,explained the motivation behind the song whichwas a bonus track on her 2020 album, Folklore.
Jack, her musical collaborator and friend, asked Taylor 'what is the Lake District?' to which she replied: 'It's in England and in the 19th Century it had a lot of poets. Like William Wordsworth and John Keats would spend a lot of time there and there was a poet district. These artists that moved there.
'So The Lakes is really talking a lot about relating to people that hundreds of years ago had the same exit plan and did it. I may not be able to go to the Lakes right now but I am going there in my head and the escape plan is working.
'The Lakes is the overarching theme of the whole album, trying to escape, or having something you want to protect your own sanity and saying look they did this hundreds of years ago, I'm not the first person who has felt this way, they did this.'
When The Lakes was released, the song received universal critical acclaim for its poetic and romantic style.
The singer, 34, first witnessed the natural beauty of the Windermere peaks in 2012 when she visited with then boyfriend Harry Styles while celebrating her 23rd birthday
The landscape of the Lake District has been a huge influence on some of England's best-known writers, such as William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, Thomas de Quincey and John Ruskin
Although Taylor first visited the Lake District with Harry, it's believed the popular track The Lakes refers to her romance with English actor Joe Alwyn, (pictured) which began in late 2016 and ended in 2023
While Harry Styles helped her fall in love with the National Park, it's believed The Lakes is actually a song written abouther romance with English actor Joe Alwyn, which began in late 2016 and ended in 2023.
After the popstar sang the tune on her world tour the track went viral on TikTok, gaining more than 3.4 million views tagged #thelakestaylorswift.
Since then the 'Taylor Swift effect' has been credited byUK holiday provider Parkdean Resort for a 311 per cent increase in bookings to The Lake District.
A spokesman for the company said: 'Taylor Swift fans are wanting to visit the Lakes as a result of her song, The Lakes.
'Over the past month, we have not only noticed an increase in search volume, but a spike in Lake District bookings also.
After the popstar sang the tune on her world tour the track went viral on TikTok, gaining more than 3.4 million views tagged #thelakestaylorswift
While the American pop sensation will be performing in some of the UK's biggest cities it has been reported the singer will be escaping to the country for time to herself
'With this in mind, the Lake District is seemingly the go-to UK destination this summer for Swifties. After TikTok went viral in May we noticed bookings started to double.'
It is quite possible that the singer will have the opportunity to visit the lakes during her visit to the UK as she is here for two and a half months.
Taylor is on British soil from the start of June and her last performance in the UK is in London on 20 August.
While the American pop sensation will be performing in some of the UK's biggest cities it has been reported the singer will be escaping to the country for time to herself.
She has reportedly booked a £3.3million cottage in the Cotswolds where she will stay during the UK leg of her legendary Eras tour and it is a mere four hour car journey to her beloved beauty spot in the Lake district.
'Taylor has booked the cottage while she is over in the UK,' a source told The Sun.
'She wants a place to unwind away from the tour and the countryside is her happy place. Taylor loves dressing up in sequins on stage but is most at home in muddy boots in the fresh air.'
The Bad Blood hitmaker will kick off her UK tour in Edinburgh on June 7, followed by Liverpool, Cardiff, and a slew of live gigs in London between June and August.
