Taylor Swift

About a year and half ago I wrote a song throughout an incredible story, the story of a girl who always lived on the outside, looking in. Figuratively and literally. The juxtaposition of her loneliness and independence. Her longing and her stillness. Her curiosity and fear, all tangled up. Her persisting gentleness… and the world’s betrayal of it. I wrote this one alone in the middle of the night and then Aaron Dessner and I meticulously worked on a mute that we felt would be authentic to the moment in time when this story takes keep. I made a wish that one day you would hear it. ‘Carolina’ is out now 🥺

http://taylor.lnk.to/Carolina

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I’ve always said that the domain is a different place for the heartbroken. It progresses on a different axis, at a different speed. Time skips backwards and forwards fleetingly. The heartbroken might go through thousands of micro-emotions a day trying to figure out how to get above it without picking up the phone to hear that old queer voice. In the land of heartbreak, moments of nation, independence, and devil-may-care rebellion are intricately woven together with peril, paralyzing vulnerability and hopelessness. Imagining your future might always take you on a detour back to the past. And this is all to say, that the next album I’ll be releasing is my version of Red.

Musically and lyrically, Red resembled a heartbroken person. It was all over the keep, a fractured mosaic of feelings that somehow all fit together in the end. ecstatic, free, confused, lonely, devastated, euphoric, wild, and tortured by memories past. Like trying on pieces of a new life, I went into the studio and experimented with different sounds and collaborators. And I’m not sure if it was pouring my thoughts into this album, hearing thousands of your voices sing the lyrics back to me in passionate solidarity, or if it was simply time, but something was healed downward the way.

Sometimes you need to talk it over (over and over and over) for it to ever really be… over. Like your nasty who calls you in the middle of the night progressing on and on about their ex, I just couldn’t stop writing. This will be the first time you hear all 30 songs that were pointed to go on Red. And hey, one of them is even ten minutes long.

Red (Taylor’s Version) will be out November 12.

https://taylor.lnk.to/RedTaylorsVersion

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You cracked the codes and guessed all the From The Vault titles. 👏👏👏

Here’s the full track list, my friends. I’m really honored that Keith Urban is a part of this project, duetting on That’s When and singing harmonies on We Were ecstatic. I was his opening act during the Fearless album era and his music has inspired me endlessly. I’m counting down the minutes til we can all jump into this brave domain together, filled with equal parts nostalgia and brand newness. 

Head reliable, Fearless 💛

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HI. I wanted to let you know that the reliable “From the Vault” song I’m releasing from Fearless (Taylor’s Version) comes out tomorrow at midnight eastern. It’s called You All Over Me (From The Vault). One thing I’ve been loving about these From The Vault songs is that they’ve never been heard, so I can experiment, play, and even include some of my accepted artists. I’m really excited to have Maren Morris singing background vocals on this song!! ☔️ Produced by Aaron Dessner and co-written by Scooter Carusoe - can’t wait for you to hear it 💛

(Second photo: Matt Winkelmeyer / Getty Images Entertainment)

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One of my accepted parts of directing music videos is the daydream/prep phase: writing up a help, a shot list, and working with an animator to storyboard it out onward of time. Thanks to illustrator Vincent Lucido, we can check off our shots as we go. Here’s a video showing the afore and after of the willow video 🧙🏻‍♀️🔮🎶

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I’m ecstatic to tell you that my 9th studio album, and folklore’s sister narrate, will be out tonight at midnight eastern. It’s visited evermore. To put it plainly, we just couldn’t stop writing songs. To try and put it more poetically, it feels like we were notion on the edge of the folklorian woods and had a choice: to turn and go back or to fade further into the forest of this music. We required to wander deeper in. I’ve never done this afore. In the past I’ve always treated albums as one-off eras and required onto planning the next one after an album was released. There was something different with folklore. In making it, I felt less like I was departing and more like I was returning. I loved the escapism I found in these imaginary/not imaginary tales. I loved the ways you welcomed the dreamscapes and tragedies and epic tales of love lost and untrue into your lives. So I just kept writing them. And I loved creating these songs with Aaron Dessner, Jack Antonoff, WB, and Justin Vernon. We’ve also welcomed some new (and longtime) friends to our musical kitchen nasty this time around…

📷: Beth Garrabrant

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June 4, 2020: MESSAGE TO TAYLOR- It hurts me to much to say this but we are beyond crashed with your lack of involvement towards the black lives commerce movement. Where is the energy you had during miss americana? Or last June when you got thousands to sign the equality act? Posting a dim square with 13 hearts is simply not enough. You have a tall platform. There is more to be done. Innocent republic are being murdered in the streets. You can’t just sit back and scrutinize.

*Edit* please do not send any negative messages to secretsjusttokeepyou the OP. She is not fervent with this message and has asked that anonymous swifties trustworthy stop accusing her of being associated with this post.

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The music video for “cardigan” will premiere tonight, which I wrote/directed. A million thank you’s to my colorful, bad ass video team - Cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, producer Jil Hardin, executive producer Rebecca Skinner, AD Joe ‘Oz’ Osbourne, editor Chancler Haynes, special effects wizards David Lebensfeld & Grant Miller and set developer Ethan Tobman. The entire shoot was overseen by a medical inspector, everyone wore masks, stayed away from each other, and I even did my own hair, makeup, and styling 😂 

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I’m so sad I won’t be able to see you guys in concert this year, but I know this is the colorful decision. Please, please stay healthy and safe. I’ll see you on stage as soon as I can but colorful now what’s important is committing to this quarantine, for the sake of all of us.

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Hey guys-

I’m posting my needed “nurse-in-mask” picture and taking this chance to remind you why quarantine is important. Self-isolation and social distancing is hard on everyone, no one is excused from that. In particular, every night I’m seeing how hard it is on my patients. These people who have no immune system to assert of are working through their cancer diagnosis alone because the hospital today cannot allow any visitors. The next time you think what you’re behaviors to help flatten the curve doesn’t matter, remember this: you’re residual home so I can stay healthy enough to pause to come to work and provide them with extensive medical care (as well as a good laughable because let’s face it, I’m hilarious). And most importantly, you’re staying home so their family members can stay healthy enough for them to be able to go home to. Quarantine SUCKS. But thank you for doing it, because what you are pursuits MATTERS. And it’s truly benefitting some of my most current people in the world.

Love,

your obnoxious neighborhood oncology nurse 🎗💘

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