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Video Clip: Grammys BTS 2 (Taylor — Making 1989)
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Grammys BTS 2 (Taylor — Making 1989)
I can't embed the video because it's not on youtube, but there's a 13 minute interview here.
Here's Part 2
In this segment of the interview (conducted last night at a record studio in NYC), She goes in depth about each of Her first three albums, Red being a crossover album, working with Max Martin, losing Album of the Year to Daft Punk, and the making of 1989 (focusing on Blank Space). Also note that the audience consists of Grammy voters.
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Her debut album
"When it came time to make my record, Scott was like, 'You know what? We're gonna put you with producers who have actually made albums before.' And I was like, 'But this guy is so great.' And he's like, 'But has he made an album before?' 'Technically no, but, um...' ... After a lot of begging and pleading, I got my record label to let Nathan Chapman produce my entire debut album, and he has worked on every album I've done since."
Fearless
"I got to make my next album, and I had a lot more say."
"The breakthrough album. It was my first international #1 with "Love Story." It was the first time I ever got to hold a Grammy in my hand, and then drop it in the press room... which was really embarrassing for me. It was the album that was simple, to the point, a really accurate snapshot of my life at that time. It was just exactly what I was going through, and it was said very simply. It was sonically cohesive."
Speak Now
"I had a lot of people who would say, 'Oh, you know, she's an 18 year old girl. There's no way that she actually carried her own weight in those writing sessions. And that was a really harsh criticism, I felt, because there was no way I could prove them wrong other than to write my entire next record solo. So that's what I did."
"There are two albums that I kinda think are like a little bit patchwork-quilty, and Speak Now was one of them... String section, banjo... what's going on? But it was just us... stretching."
Red
"Actually a really relevant part of how I got to 1989. I was getting the ideas the same way I always did. Then, a few months in, they started coming to me as pop melodies. And I could not fight it, and I just embraced it. I just wanted to see what it was like to work with Max Martin. Cause, you know, the idea of Max Martin, he's so enigmatic, so like mysterious. You're like, 'What does he look like? What does he talk like? Does he wear a cloak?' And I just wanted to know... He's a Swedish pop mastermind. What does that look like? ... I called him, and he came over to my house and I said, 'I love what you do, I wanna combine it with what I do, and I'm a little scared, but I'm not really that scared because I think it could be great."
"We went in, we did three songs. Two of which were I Knew You Were Trouble and We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, and that was as much as I was kinda allowed to work with Max on that project. I was also attached to being a country artist at that point. Just really, you build these relationships with radio, and with the community, and it's sacred. We labelled Red a country album, and it came out and it was universally agreed on that the songwriting was great, but it was also noted that it was a little bit multiple personality, and it was."
"I got nominated for Album of the Year with 'Red', going up to it everyone comes up to you like - "you're gonna win, you're gonna win!", and I wish they wouldn't do that, because cause you don't know if you're gonna win, and someone else very well did. When they announced the AOTY winner, it was like "and the Album of the Year goes to: RRRRRRRRRRandom Access Memories, Daft Punk", and they really dragged out the "RAAAA", and I was like, for a second there I kinda thought "we had it!", and we didn't. I remember not going to after parties, I went home and I cried a little bit, and I got In-N-Out burger and ate a lot."
"I was thinking a lot before bed about what I had made so far for the next album, that was to become 1989 but I didn't know that then. We don't make music to win awards, but you have to take your cues from somewhere if you want to continue to evolve. You have a few options when you don't win an award, you can decide like "oh! they're wrong, they all voted wrong." Second, you can be like, 'I'm gonna go up on stage and grab the microphone from whoever did win it,' or third, you can say, 'Maybe they're right. Maybe I did not make the record of my career. Maybe I need to fix the problem, which was that I had not been making sonically cohesive albums. I need to really think about whether I'm listening to a scared record label, and what that's doing to the art I'm making."
1989
"I went to bed and I woke up at 4 in the morning, like... It's called 1989, I've been making 80s synth pop, I'm just gonna do that. I'm calling it a pop album. I'm not listening to anyone at my record label. I'm starting tomorrow... I got like a dozen sit downs over the music that I made for this album."
"It was gonna be a very small team of maybe 4 people, and Max and I were gonna oversee it."
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Love it. So honest. 
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tbh I'm not gay enough to watch a 13 minutes interview of Taylor Swift
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Originally posted by Free hugs
tbh I'm not gay enough to watch a 13 minutes interview of Taylor Swift
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Marina And The Diamonds
Mariah Carey | Katy Perry | Lady Gaga
One Direction | Charli XCX | Lana Del Rey
yes you are
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hoeofulyl she wins album of the year
that video was so interesting wish it was longer
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I live for these types of interviews
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Britney should do this. I'd love to hear more about her In the Zone and Blackout sessions.
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And that was a really harsh criticism, I felt, because there was no way I could prove them wrong other than to write my entire next record solo. So that's what I did."
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Originally posted by geddymonster
Britney should do this. I'd love to hear more about her In the Zone and Blackout sessions.
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ITZ is one of my favorite albums ever and you can definitely tell it was Brit's creative peak and that she was very involved in the process, I'd live for an interview like this from her!
Taylor knows her stuff 
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kinda like very interesting
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This is quite honest  Slay me legend!1
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I loved what she said about Speak Now.
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I love how she is in control of her music.
Hopefully they release longer version
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Originally posted by MonsterNavy
Marina And The Diamonds
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drag ha 
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When is Part II coming I need to hear about all those
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omg yas i live, wheres part 2 queen
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Originally posted by holocene
And that was a really harsh criticism, I felt, because there was no way I could prove them wrong other than to write my entire next record solo. So that's what I did."
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She has always been a vengeful, mean bitch.
Loves it!
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Originally posted by MonsterNavy
Marina And The Diamonds
Mariah Carey | Katy Perry | Lady Gaga
One Direction | Charli XCX | Lana Del Rey
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dyusei
So nice to hear her being in a setting beyond "Katy!1! Bad Blood!1! Nicki!"
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