Post by neoswiftie on Nov 17, 2020 11:19:21 GMT -5
“Shit, I’m already on my fourth record. What can I offer people?” - Taylor on recording ‘Red’
“I wanted to see how every producer, that I admired, worked and I got to on ‘Red’.” - Taylor on ‘Red’
“I was actually really, like, heartened to see that it was ‘Red’ because ‘Red’ was the reason why 1989 happened.” - Taylor on ‘Red’ being in their Top 100 Greatest Albums
“I love Jackson Pollock and I really do see this album as my splatter paint album. Just, like, using all the colors and throwing it at the wall and seeing what sticks.” - Taylor on ‘Red’
“The fans make fun of me for saying this so much over the course of a couple years - but it’s lack of being, you know, sonically cohesive. ” - Taylor on ‘Red’
“I look back on this as like, this is my only true breakup album.” - Taylor on ‘Red’
“The first songs I wrote for the Red album are the Nashville songs. The ones that I did with @painintheart.
Those are songs that I wrote first and then I made this journey out to LA and started working with other people.” - Taylor on ‘Red’
“‘Red’ was like a wellspring of really important relationships that I carried with me for the rest of my career.” - Taylor on ‘Red’
“I was telling them a story about what I was going through, and, then I started just, like, kind of, singing “WE ARE NEVER EVER EVER…”” - Taylor on writing WANEGBT
“I don’t know if we could have, like, some kind of really intense bass drop or something, like, dubsteps really awesome.” - Taylor on writing IKYWT
“I would just go off into a corner and I felt like I had this amazing assignment. The challenge of it was so thrilling for me.” - Taylor on writing with Max and Johan
“My sound guy was like, ‘I burned a CD of that thing that you were doing in case you want it.’ I was like, ‘sure’. I ended up listening to it. I was like, 'I actually really like this’ but it definitely is like 10 minutes long” - Taylor on All Too Well
“She came over and I played it for her and she was like ‘Whoa…I love this.’. So, we edited and paired it down to what it is now. That was a very serendipitous creation of a song.” - Taylor on writing All Too Well with Liz Rose
“I look back and I’m like, ‘Wow, we really didn’t pick that one as being one. I thought it was too dark, too sad, too intense. Just too many things’. I thought, you know, so it’s fun when things surprise you like that.” - Taylor on All Too Well
“I will always look back on [Red] and think, ‘Wow, that was really the beginning of everything that I’m doing now.'” - Taylor on Red being a turning point in her career
“I wanted to see how every producer, that I admired, worked and I got to on ‘Red’.” - Taylor on ‘Red’
“I was actually really, like, heartened to see that it was ‘Red’ because ‘Red’ was the reason why 1989 happened.” - Taylor on ‘Red’ being in their Top 100 Greatest Albums
“I love Jackson Pollock and I really do see this album as my splatter paint album. Just, like, using all the colors and throwing it at the wall and seeing what sticks.” - Taylor on ‘Red’
“The fans make fun of me for saying this so much over the course of a couple years - but it’s lack of being, you know, sonically cohesive. ” - Taylor on ‘Red’
“I look back on this as like, this is my only true breakup album.” - Taylor on ‘Red’
“The first songs I wrote for the Red album are the Nashville songs. The ones that I did with @painintheart.
Those are songs that I wrote first and then I made this journey out to LA and started working with other people.” - Taylor on ‘Red’
“‘Red’ was like a wellspring of really important relationships that I carried with me for the rest of my career.” - Taylor on ‘Red’
“I was telling them a story about what I was going through, and, then I started just, like, kind of, singing “WE ARE NEVER EVER EVER…”” - Taylor on writing WANEGBT
“I don’t know if we could have, like, some kind of really intense bass drop or something, like, dubsteps really awesome.” - Taylor on writing IKYWT
“I would just go off into a corner and I felt like I had this amazing assignment. The challenge of it was so thrilling for me.” - Taylor on writing with Max and Johan
“My sound guy was like, ‘I burned a CD of that thing that you were doing in case you want it.’ I was like, ‘sure’. I ended up listening to it. I was like, 'I actually really like this’ but it definitely is like 10 minutes long” - Taylor on All Too Well
“She came over and I played it for her and she was like ‘Whoa…I love this.’. So, we edited and paired it down to what it is now. That was a very serendipitous creation of a song.” - Taylor on writing All Too Well with Liz Rose
“I look back and I’m like, ‘Wow, we really didn’t pick that one as being one. I thought it was too dark, too sad, too intense. Just too many things’. I thought, you know, so it’s fun when things surprise you like that.” - Taylor on All Too Well
“I will always look back on [Red] and think, ‘Wow, that was really the beginning of everything that I’m doing now.'” - Taylor on Red being a turning point in her career