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iHeart Secret Sessions special - excerpts of Taylor talking about some of the songs on her new album reputation
With this album the first song is a song called Ready For It - that’s already out.
Ready For It kind of introduces a metaphor that you may hear more of throughout the rest of the album.
It’s like this crime and punishment metaphor where it talks about robbers and thieves and heists and all that.
I found that to be a really interesting metaphor but twisted in different ways throughout the album.
The way it’s represented in Ready For It is finding your partner in crime and it’s like,
“Oh my God! We’re the same! We’re the same! This is great!
“You will hear that kind of theme carried out throughout the rest of the record but not exactly the same.
Taylor introducing Ready For It on iHeartRadio (via thisloveisglowing)
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This was the first song where Max and I felt like we really did something different from 1989.
We were like, “Ohhhh, that is alright. Okay.” This song is called ‘I Did Something Bad' and I wrote this song on piano - it’s not going to sound like it though.
You’re not going to say that after you hear it, its not that kind of song.
I brought it into them and I was trying to explain the production.
I had had a weird dream - you’re like “Here we go again.” I had woken up with this sound that was a sound that was so hooky and so catchy that I knew it had to be in a song.
It was that annoying, it wouldn’t stop going around in my head.
The sound was “La da da da da da DA DA.” It will always get your attention.
Like after the chorus that’s what I want to hear but I don’t want it to be my voice, I want it to be an instrument.
So what instrument is that?
So I was playing the voice memo to Max and he’s like, “Theres not, like, an instrument that can do that but what we can do is take your voice and pitch it down so that it sounds like an Enchantress/dude.”
So that’s what you’re hearing after the chorus.
Anyway, this is called I Did Something Bad and this is when we kind of knew we might be onto something with the album.
Taylor introducing I Did Something Bad on iHeartRadio
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The next song is Look What You Made Me Do.
It actually started with a poem that I wrote about my feelings.
It’s basically about realizing that you couldn’t trust certain people but realizing you appreciate the people you can trust.
Realizing that you just can’t let everyone in but the ones you can let in you need to cherish.
It had all the verses in it just as is.
When the beat hit we were like, “Oooh! Look what you made me do! Look what you made me do!!” and we were just like, “Oh my God, we need to edit out the rest of the words just do that.
I’m very excited because that just went #1 on pop radio
Taylor introducing LWYMMD on iHeartRadio
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This is a song called dress where some lines I came up with a year before and then when I was writing the song I cherry picked and was like, “Like that, like that, like that!”
And I was really proud of the hook of his because it sounds like a pick up line.
Yet it’s a love song about deep and tender feelings.
Taylor introducing Dress on iHeartRadio
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I think it’s very interesting when people talk about their love stories.
Like when you guys blog about, “my and my husband, me and my boyfriend” or just anyone talking about how they fell in love.
There seem to be these very definitive phases.
It doesn’t matter how long that phase lasts.
There seems to be a moment where you know it transitioned to the next phase.
People will be like, “Oh my God, we were friends for six years and there was this moment and we knew and then it changed.
Then there was a moment and it got even deeper.
Then there was a moment and we knew” or like “I saw this person and there was this moment and we knew.”
Everyone has a different story with how they connect with someone else and what i find interesting is the moment where it switches.
You always hope that switch is going to move forward and not backwards because it can happen either way.
I always wanted to structure the song where each individual section of the song sounded like a move forward in the relationship but still being listenable. So I wanted the verse to seem like it’s own phase of a relationship, the pre-chorus to sound like it’s own phase of a relationship, and the chorus to sound like it’s own phase of a relationship.
I wanted them to all have their own identity but seem like they were getting deeper and more fast paced as the song went on.
So finally I was able to achieve that in a song
Taylor introducing King of My Heart on iHeartRadio
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This is about when people take really nice things for granted.
Like friendship or like trusting people or being open or whatever. Letting people into your life, trusting people, respect, those are all really nice things and so this is a song called This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
Taylor introducing TIWWCHNT (via thisloveisglowing)
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This is a song called Delicate.
There is an effect that you may hear on the vocals throughout the rest of the album that is recurring and it’s a vocoder.
It’s a vocal effect where you sing and the vocoder splits your voice into chords and you can play your voice on a keyboard in chords.
So if you’re singing the notes of a piano you can play your own voice.
That’s what you’ll hear in the beginning of this song and then you’ll hear it several times - we tried it in the studio and I thought it sounded really emotional and really vulnerable and really sad but beautiful.
This is a song where the idea of reputation is definitely something that I play on for the entire album but when the album started off it’s much more bombastic.
“I don’t care what you say about me! I don’t care say about my reputation. Blah.”
But, like, then it hits this point on track 5 where it’s like what happens when you meet someone who you really want in your life and then you start worrying about what they’ve heard before they met you?
You start to wonder like, “Could something fake, like your reputation, affect something real like someone getting to know you?”
You start to wonder how it all matters.
This is the first point of vulnerability in the record where you’re like, “Oh, maybe this does actually matter a little bit” and questioning the reality and the perception of a reputation and how much weight it actually has.
So this is called Delicate.
Taylor introducing Delicate to iHeartRadio (via thisloveisglowing)
iHeart Secret Sessions special - excerpts of Taylor talking about some of the songs on her new album reputation
With this album the first song is a song called Ready For It - that’s already out.
Ready For It kind of introduces a metaphor that you may hear more of throughout the rest of the album.
It’s like this crime and punishment metaphor where it talks about robbers and thieves and heists and all that.
I found that to be a really interesting metaphor but twisted in different ways throughout the album.
The way it’s represented in Ready For It is finding your partner in crime and it’s like,
“Oh my God! We’re the same! We’re the same! This is great!
“You will hear that kind of theme carried out throughout the rest of the record but not exactly the same.
Taylor introducing Ready For It on iHeartRadio (via thisloveisglowing)
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This was the first song where Max and I felt like we really did something different from 1989.
We were like, “Ohhhh, that is alright. Okay.” This song is called ‘I Did Something Bad' and I wrote this song on piano - it’s not going to sound like it though.
You’re not going to say that after you hear it, its not that kind of song.
I brought it into them and I was trying to explain the production.
I had had a weird dream - you’re like “Here we go again.” I had woken up with this sound that was a sound that was so hooky and so catchy that I knew it had to be in a song.
It was that annoying, it wouldn’t stop going around in my head.
The sound was “La da da da da da DA DA.” It will always get your attention.
Like after the chorus that’s what I want to hear but I don’t want it to be my voice, I want it to be an instrument.
So what instrument is that?
So I was playing the voice memo to Max and he’s like, “Theres not, like, an instrument that can do that but what we can do is take your voice and pitch it down so that it sounds like an Enchantress/dude.”
So that’s what you’re hearing after the chorus.
Anyway, this is called I Did Something Bad and this is when we kind of knew we might be onto something with the album.
Taylor introducing I Did Something Bad on iHeartRadio
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The next song is Look What You Made Me Do.
It actually started with a poem that I wrote about my feelings.
It’s basically about realizing that you couldn’t trust certain people but realizing you appreciate the people you can trust.
Realizing that you just can’t let everyone in but the ones you can let in you need to cherish.
It had all the verses in it just as is.
When the beat hit we were like, “Oooh! Look what you made me do! Look what you made me do!!” and we were just like, “Oh my God, we need to edit out the rest of the words just do that.
I’m very excited because that just went #1 on pop radio
Taylor introducing LWYMMD on iHeartRadio
-----
This is a song called dress where some lines I came up with a year before and then when I was writing the song I cherry picked and was like, “Like that, like that, like that!”
And I was really proud of the hook of his because it sounds like a pick up line.
Yet it’s a love song about deep and tender feelings.
Taylor introducing Dress on iHeartRadio
-----
I think it’s very interesting when people talk about their love stories.
Like when you guys blog about, “my and my husband, me and my boyfriend” or just anyone talking about how they fell in love.
There seem to be these very definitive phases.
It doesn’t matter how long that phase lasts.
There seems to be a moment where you know it transitioned to the next phase.
People will be like, “Oh my God, we were friends for six years and there was this moment and we knew and then it changed.
Then there was a moment and it got even deeper.
Then there was a moment and we knew” or like “I saw this person and there was this moment and we knew.”
Everyone has a different story with how they connect with someone else and what i find interesting is the moment where it switches.
You always hope that switch is going to move forward and not backwards because it can happen either way.
I always wanted to structure the song where each individual section of the song sounded like a move forward in the relationship but still being listenable. So I wanted the verse to seem like it’s own phase of a relationship, the pre-chorus to sound like it’s own phase of a relationship, and the chorus to sound like it’s own phase of a relationship.
I wanted them to all have their own identity but seem like they were getting deeper and more fast paced as the song went on.
So finally I was able to achieve that in a song
Taylor introducing King of My Heart on iHeartRadio
-----
This is about when people take really nice things for granted.
Like friendship or like trusting people or being open or whatever. Letting people into your life, trusting people, respect, those are all really nice things and so this is a song called This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
Taylor introducing TIWWCHNT (via thisloveisglowing)
-----
This is a song called Delicate.
There is an effect that you may hear on the vocals throughout the rest of the album that is recurring and it’s a vocoder.
It’s a vocal effect where you sing and the vocoder splits your voice into chords and you can play your voice on a keyboard in chords.
So if you’re singing the notes of a piano you can play your own voice.
That’s what you’ll hear in the beginning of this song and then you’ll hear it several times - we tried it in the studio and I thought it sounded really emotional and really vulnerable and really sad but beautiful.
This is a song where the idea of reputation is definitely something that I play on for the entire album but when the album started off it’s much more bombastic.
“I don’t care what you say about me! I don’t care say about my reputation. Blah.”
But, like, then it hits this point on track 5 where it’s like what happens when you meet someone who you really want in your life and then you start worrying about what they’ve heard before they met you?
You start to wonder like, “Could something fake, like your reputation, affect something real like someone getting to know you?”
You start to wonder how it all matters.
This is the first point of vulnerability in the record where you’re like, “Oh, maybe this does actually matter a little bit” and questioning the reality and the perception of a reputation and how much weight it actually has.
So this is called Delicate.
Taylor introducing Delicate to iHeartRadio (via thisloveisglowing)