Q: Did you get added affirmation from the audience response during the North American leg of your “Red” tour?
A: There’s no way of defining why something connects or why it doesn’t, why a certain song works or why it doesn’t. We can try to explain it all we want, or why it’s escalated to the level that we’re now playing stadiums. I’m grateful for it, but there’s no way you can ever explain the connection you have with your fans. It’s more a gut-feeling kind of thing.
So SSS was dropped because they thought the crowd wasn't feeling it?
Q: As you start work on your fifth album, how is it to begin again?
A: I can’t believe we’re going on five albums now, when I feel like it’s still just the beginning. With this album, I’m not trying to open up a new chapter; I’m trying to start a completely new book.
Q: Did you get added affirmation from the audience response during the North American leg of your “Red” tour?
A: There’s no way of defining why something connects or why it doesn’t, why a certain song works or why it doesn’t. We can try to explain it all we want, or why it’s escalated to the level that we’re now playing stadiums. I’m grateful for it, but there’s no way you can ever explain the connection you have with your fans. It’s more a gut-feeling kind of thing.
So SSS was dropped because they thought the crowd wasn't feeling it?
I think she's more just talking in generalities about the music industry--why a song will do well on the charts and sell and connect with audiences or why it won't. Like she is saying she doesn't know why her music connected with so many people that she is playing stadiums. I don't think this necessarily has to do with the songs she doesn't play/stopped playing.
