Learn English with Taylor Swift Interview English Subtitles

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I’ve been writing the new album for two

years and I started writing it in 2010

and finished it in 2012 so those are

some really important years in my life I

went through a lot I learned a lot of

lessons and so to get to write about

your life as it’s happening to you I I

really love that the fans want to know

what’s going on with me

the album speak now was a completely

different project than the new album

read there are so many differences in

how it was made why I made it

you’re the reasons behind the songs

speak now was really about saying things

that I had been either too shy or too

scared to say in the past and as you

grow up I think making that album and

promoting that album taught me to be

more bold about how I feel what I think

and in incorporating that into my life

you end up in some some intense

tumultuous conversations or

relationships and I think in living my

life in a little bit more of a braver

way I got to experience the kind of life

experiences that would inspire an album

like red

I collaborated a lot on this new

because I wanted to I just felt like as

an artist you know putting out your

fourth album you have two choices you

can stay the same or you can evolve and

I really wanted to bring in my

influences these people who I’m a huge

fan of and have them help shape this

album and so I felt so lucky that my

favorite people in music wanted to be a

part of this record

I’m inspired to write songs at any time

of day when I’m going through something

or when the dust has settled and I’m

over it

it can be anything it can be you know

I’ll just be doing dishes or something

or you know in the middle of an

interview and I could get an idea in my

head that just kind of sticks out as

like that could be a hook that could be

a pre-chorus that’s like a first line

like you know sometimes it’s lyrical

sometimes it’s got a fragment of melody

attached to it and the unpredictability

of it is what makes me continue to fall

in love with songwriting over and over

again

when I’m writing songs the only thing

I’m thinking about is portraying that

emotion as accurately as possible

so that if I were to play it for the

person that’s about they would know it’s

about them and they would know exactly

what I was talking about and you know

then I think about my fans and if that’s

going to help them with something

they’re going through in their life if

it’s something they could relate to and

then I think about what it would be like

to play it in an arena and how we would

treat that and what the lighting would

look like and it’s kind of the third

thing I think about

I think for me having a magnifying glass

on my life has been a good thing and

kind of a difficult thing at times

because you feel like you literally just

can’t get away with anything sometimes

you’re like wow if I make a mistake

that’s gonna be it’s gonna be really

loud that’s gonna be everywhere

but it also helps to kind of shape your

decision-making process and because

everything that I do is going to be

documented and in computers forever it

makes me think about what what the

little kid in the front row would think

and what what my grandchildren would

think one day if I made this choice or

that choice I think it’s kind of a good

governing tool it makes you more

responsible for how you act

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