{"id":803,"date":"2020-08-23T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T00:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/?page_id=803"},"modified":"2026-10-17T21:44:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T20:44:27","slug":"its-nice-to-have-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/lover-album\/lover-songs\/its-nice-to-have-a-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Nice To Have A Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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It's Nice To Have A Friend<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cIt\u2019s Nice To Have A Friend\u201d is the seventeenth track on Taylor\u2019s seventh studio album, Lover<\/a><\/em> (2019). Released on August 23, 2019, it was co-written by Taylor, Louis Bell and Adam King Feeney (Frank Dukes). The song follows two childhood friends as their relationship develops over the years, eventually leading to marriage. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cIt\u2019s Nice To Have A Friend\u201d features an unexpected collaboration with young musicians from Toronto\u2019s Regent Park School of Music. Their work appears through a sample of \u201cSummer in the South,\u201d created as part of producer Frank Dukes\u2019 Parkscapes <\/em>project. Royalties from the sample help fund the school\u2019s music programmes, giving the song a connection to the community that extends beyond the recording studio.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTaylor began working on Lover<\/em> during a week in New York in July 2018 while still on the \u201creputation Stadium Tour<\/a>,\u201d before the album\u2019s main recording sessions began after the tour concluded that November. \u201cIt\u2019s Nice To Have A Friend\u201d emerged during the making of a record Taylor approached from a markedly different creative place than its predecessor, reputation<\/a><\/em> (2017). In an interview with Vogue<\/em> in summer 2019, she described Lover<\/em> as a \u201cnew beginning\u201d and a \u201clove letter to love, in all of its maddening, passionate, exciting, enchanting, horrific, tragic, wonderful glory,\u201d recalling that she wrote from an \u201copen, free, romantic, whimsical place.\u201d \n

\n\u201cIt’s Nice To Have A Friend\u201d was written by Taylor, Louis Bell, and Adam King Feeney (Frank Dukes), with the trio also collaborating on \u201cAfterglow<\/a>,\u201d \u201cI Forgot That You Existed<\/a>,\u201d \u201cAll Of The Girls You Loved Before<\/a>\u201d and \u201cNeed<\/a>.\u201d Taylor spoke about the song at a fan event in Tokyo on November 6, 2019, when asked which track on Lover<\/em> resonated with her most:\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\u00abThere\u2019s a song on Lover<\/i> about flashback and childhood. It compares childhood friendships to when you find someone to fall in love with when you\u2019re older, called 'It\u2019s Nice To Have A Friend.' It\u2019s very nostalgic.\u00bb\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHer comments offered a rare glimpse into the personal significance of a track that had received relatively little attention during the album\u2019s pre-release promotion.\n

\n\u201cIt\u2019s Nice To Have A Friend\u201d was released on August 23, 2019, as the seventeenth track on Lover<\/em>. Its recording also brought an unexpected Canadian connection to the album: the song incorporates a sample from \u201cSummer in the South,\u201d a composition created by students at Toronto\u2019s Regent Park School of Music for producer Frank Dukes\u2019 Parkscapes<\/em> project. The youth choir and student-performed instrumentation became part of Taylor\u2019s finished track, with royalties from the sample helping support the school\u2019s music education programmes. The collaboration gave the song a distinctive place in the album\u2019s credits while directing attention and financial support towards the young musicians whose work helped shape it.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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