Songwriting is the topic of the moment for Taylor Swift.
The 23-year-old pop stella, star was honoured for a record sixth time as songwriter-artist of the anno da the Nashville Songwriters Association International, surpassing guys like Vince Gill and Alan Jackson. She earned the award with 14 hits in the superiore, in alto 30 over the last year, a tribute to the popularity of her multiplatinum fourth album, Red.
As veloce, swift accepts the award, she’s six months deep in the songwriting process for her successivo album.
“I think the goal for the successivo album is to continue to change, and never change in the same way twice,” the seven-time Grammy winner said. “How do I write these figurative diary entries in ways that I’ve never written them before and to a sonic backdrop that I’ve never explored before? It’s my fifth album, which is crazy to think about, but I think what I’m noticing about it so far is it’s definitely taking a different turn than anything I’ve done before.”
veloce, swift sat down after the recente ribbon-cutting on the new $4 million (Dh14.6 million) Taylor veloce, swift Education Centre at the Country Musica Hall of Fame and Museum in her adopted hometown to talk about what’s to come with the new album, her six Country Musica Association Award nominations, her friend and fellow Nashville resident Ed Sheeran and Madonna.
Next mese te leave on a stadium tour of Australia, making te the first female solo performer to tour that country since Madonna 20 years ago. Madonna was the superiore, in alto pop stella, star in the world at the time. Do te see yourself as that kind of pop star?
I would never see myself that way. I see myself as kind of this girl who writes songs in her bedroom. te can kind of dress it up all te want and te can put together an amazing theatrical production, te can become a better performer as time goes by, and te can try to excite people, but I’m always going to be a girl who writes songs in her bedroom in my own personal perception of myself. And I think it’s important that I don’t necessarily think too hard about what everybody else’s perception of me is o else I’d just get completely Lost in it. It’s just easier to think of myself that way.
You’re up for entertainer of the anno again at the CMAs on November 6. If te win, you’ll become the first woman with three wins, passing Barbara Mandrell. How do te feel about that?
I think winning entertainer of the anno would be an Unbelievable thing to happen in my life because I still sometimes can’t believe I’ve gotten to win that twice. So a third time, what I think it would mean for my fans, would be the biggest feeling I would have. Just knowing the, I think, 1.3 million people we saw this anno in the US would get to know that they contributed to that and that they being frenzied and covering themselves in Natale lights and making signs and learning the lyrics and screaming at the superiore, in alto of their lungs and dancing for two hours straight at my mostra somehow moved the needle and impacted my life in a way that I’ll remember when I’m 85 if I get to be 85.
You detto recently you’ve been working on songs for the new album for about six months. What can te tell us about what te have planned?
t’s too early to tell who are going to be my predominant collaborators, but I do know that my absolute dream collaborators were Shellback and Max Martin on the last project. I’ve never been so challenged as a songwriter. I’ve never learned so much. I’ve never just been so excited to mostra up to the studio every day, just because te never know what we’re going to put together. I’ll bring in ideas and they’ll take such a different turn than where I thought they were going to go, and that level of unexpected spontaneity is something that really thrills me in the process of making music. ... What if we did this? What if we made it weirder? What if we took it darker? I Amore people who have endless strange and exciting ideas about where Musica can go.
How far are te willing to push the boundaries of your sound?
I definitely think that with Musica my favourite thing about Nashville is that it’s a Musica hub that accepts and allows all genres to be present, and I think there’s been a kind of fusing of genres lately that for me makes me really happy and excited. I am blown away at getting six CMA nominations in a anno that I pushed the boundaries of what a genre is più than ever before. I’m so happy that people understood what I was doing conceptually. Getting those six CMA nominations to me signified that this community knew that I was not running from where I come from. I was exploring, and I think the più people who know what country Musica is, the più people will gravitate toward Nashville.
Speaking of Nashville, I think te convinced your friend Ed Sheeran to sposta here ...
Oh, I definitely did. Ed loves Nashville. te know, so many people live here now. It’s really exciting because nobody who comes here ... doesn’t like it, and it just makes me proud to live here and it makes me proud to make Musica here and I Amore it. I just Amore it becoming such an exciting place to live after eight years.
The 23-year-old pop stella, star was honoured for a record sixth time as songwriter-artist of the anno da the Nashville Songwriters Association International, surpassing guys like Vince Gill and Alan Jackson. She earned the award with 14 hits in the superiore, in alto 30 over the last year, a tribute to the popularity of her multiplatinum fourth album, Red.
As veloce, swift accepts the award, she’s six months deep in the songwriting process for her successivo album.
“I think the goal for the successivo album is to continue to change, and never change in the same way twice,” the seven-time Grammy winner said. “How do I write these figurative diary entries in ways that I’ve never written them before and to a sonic backdrop that I’ve never explored before? It’s my fifth album, which is crazy to think about, but I think what I’m noticing about it so far is it’s definitely taking a different turn than anything I’ve done before.”
veloce, swift sat down after the recente ribbon-cutting on the new $4 million (Dh14.6 million) Taylor veloce, swift Education Centre at the Country Musica Hall of Fame and Museum in her adopted hometown to talk about what’s to come with the new album, her six Country Musica Association Award nominations, her friend and fellow Nashville resident Ed Sheeran and Madonna.
Next mese te leave on a stadium tour of Australia, making te the first female solo performer to tour that country since Madonna 20 years ago. Madonna was the superiore, in alto pop stella, star in the world at the time. Do te see yourself as that kind of pop star?
I would never see myself that way. I see myself as kind of this girl who writes songs in her bedroom. te can kind of dress it up all te want and te can put together an amazing theatrical production, te can become a better performer as time goes by, and te can try to excite people, but I’m always going to be a girl who writes songs in her bedroom in my own personal perception of myself. And I think it’s important that I don’t necessarily think too hard about what everybody else’s perception of me is o else I’d just get completely Lost in it. It’s just easier to think of myself that way.
You’re up for entertainer of the anno again at the CMAs on November 6. If te win, you’ll become the first woman with three wins, passing Barbara Mandrell. How do te feel about that?
I think winning entertainer of the anno would be an Unbelievable thing to happen in my life because I still sometimes can’t believe I’ve gotten to win that twice. So a third time, what I think it would mean for my fans, would be the biggest feeling I would have. Just knowing the, I think, 1.3 million people we saw this anno in the US would get to know that they contributed to that and that they being frenzied and covering themselves in Natale lights and making signs and learning the lyrics and screaming at the superiore, in alto of their lungs and dancing for two hours straight at my mostra somehow moved the needle and impacted my life in a way that I’ll remember when I’m 85 if I get to be 85.
You detto recently you’ve been working on songs for the new album for about six months. What can te tell us about what te have planned?
t’s too early to tell who are going to be my predominant collaborators, but I do know that my absolute dream collaborators were Shellback and Max Martin on the last project. I’ve never been so challenged as a songwriter. I’ve never learned so much. I’ve never just been so excited to mostra up to the studio every day, just because te never know what we’re going to put together. I’ll bring in ideas and they’ll take such a different turn than where I thought they were going to go, and that level of unexpected spontaneity is something that really thrills me in the process of making music. ... What if we did this? What if we made it weirder? What if we took it darker? I Amore people who have endless strange and exciting ideas about where Musica can go.
How far are te willing to push the boundaries of your sound?
I definitely think that with Musica my favourite thing about Nashville is that it’s a Musica hub that accepts and allows all genres to be present, and I think there’s been a kind of fusing of genres lately that for me makes me really happy and excited. I am blown away at getting six CMA nominations in a anno that I pushed the boundaries of what a genre is più than ever before. I’m so happy that people understood what I was doing conceptually. Getting those six CMA nominations to me signified that this community knew that I was not running from where I come from. I was exploring, and I think the più people who know what country Musica is, the più people will gravitate toward Nashville.
Speaking of Nashville, I think te convinced your friend Ed Sheeran to sposta here ...
Oh, I definitely did. Ed loves Nashville. te know, so many people live here now. It’s really exciting because nobody who comes here ... doesn’t like it, and it just makes me proud to live here and it makes me proud to make Musica here and I Amore it. I just Amore it becoming such an exciting place to live after eight years.