1989
1989 October 27, 2014 This article is about the album. For the 2023 re-recording, see 1989 (Taylor’s Version).1989 is Taylor’s fifth studio
«It [the 1980s] was a very experimental time in pop music...People realized songs didn't have to be this standard drums-guitar-bass-whatever. We can make a song with synths and a drum pad. We can do group vocals the entire song. We can do so many different things. And I think what you saw happening with music was also happening in our culture, where people were just wearing whatever crazy colors they wanted to, because why not? There just seemed to be this energy about endless opportunities, endless possibilities, endless ways you could live your life. And so with this record, I thought, 'There are no rules to this. I don't need to use the same musicians I've used, or the same band, or the same producers, or the same formula. I can make whatever record I want.'»
Taylor Swift
«Since I was a teenager, I’ve wanted to own my music, and the way to do it was to re-record my albums and call them Taylor’s Version. And the way that you have embraced that, the way that you have celebrated that, you really decided that it was your fight too, and that you were 100% behind me, and if I cared about it, you cared about it. I’ll never stop thanking you for that. It is so generous of you to care about something that I cared about. And so now, here we are, on the last night of the US leg of 'The Eras Tour', in the eighth month of the year, on the ninth day of the month. You might have noticed there are some new outfits for this show, there’s some blue stuff going on. And there’s something that I’ve been planning for a really, really, really, really, ridiculously, embarrassingly long time. And I think instead of just like, telling you about it, I think I’ll just sort of show you something I decided to show you.»
Taylor Swift
«It was the night of the Grammys this year. […] I remember going home and playing a lot of the new music I had recorded for some of my backup singers and one of my best friends. We were all sitting in the kitchen and I was playing them all this music, and they were just saying, ‘You know, this is very eighties. It’s very clear to us that this is so eighties.’ We were just talking and talking about how it’s kind of a rebirth in a new genre, how that’s a big, bold step. Kind of starting a part of your career over. When they left that night, I just had this very clear moment of, ‘It’s gotta be called 1989.’»
Taylor Swift
1989 October 27, 2014 This article is about the album. For the 2023 re-recording, see 1989 (Taylor’s Version).1989 is Taylor’s fifth studio
«In the past, I've written mostly about heartbreak or pain that was caused by someone else and felt by me. On this album, I'm writing about more complex relationships, where the blame is kind of split 50–50 ... even if you find the right situation relationship-wise, it's always going to be a daily struggle to make it work.»
Taylor Swift
1989 October 27, 2014 This article is about the album. For the 2023 re-recording, see 1989 (Taylor’s Version).1989 is Taylor’s fifth studio
«You know, last week was a really, really important week. [...] I know that there are a lot of people watching [...] from all different parts of the world, which is absolutely an honor, and so anyone anywhere who is listening to this right now, thank you so much for supporting my version of 1989. You know, I really knew I needed to get it right. 1989 is such, such an important album in my life, so for you to have embraced it the way you did, like it had the biggest debut sales week of my entire career! I am so blown away! And you did something else that is absolutely beyond my comprehension, which is that a song I wrote for 1989 which didn’t make the album, you guys got that song to go No. 1 on the Hot 100!»
Taylor Swift
Artist | Taylor Swift | |||
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Released | October 27, 2023 | |||
Recorded | 2021-2023 | |||
Studios | Audu (Brooklyn) Big Mercy (New York) Conway Recording (Hollywood) Electric Lady (New York City) The Hideaway (London) Hutchinson Sound (Brooklyn) Kitty Committee (New York, London, Belfast) Mandarin Oriental (Milan) Pleasure Hill (Portland) Prime Recording (Nashville) Rough Costumer (Brooklyn) Sharp Sonics (Los Angeles) Studio 112 (Jonstorp) | |||
Genre | Synth Pop | |||
Length | 77:49 | |||
Label | Republic Records | |||
Producers | Taylor Swift Christopher Rowe Jack Antonoff Ryan Tedder Noel Zancanella Imogen Heap Shellback Patrik Berger | |||
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