Taylor Swift: New Album Promises 'Change' From 'Red' Record and Different Styles of Songwriting
Taylor Swift has been writing the follow-up to her quadruple-platinum album Red for the past six months and recently talked to The Associated Press about her efforts, saying the new record will highlight a different side of her.
"I think the goal for the next album is to continue to change, and never change in the same way twice," the 23-year-old explained after receiving her sixth songwriter-artist of the year award from Nashville Songwriters Association International. "How do I write these figurative diary entries in ways that I've never written them before and to a sonic backdrop that I've never explored before?"
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The seven-time Grammy winner praised her songwriting partners and "dream collaborators" on Red, Shellback and Max Martin. Talking about what she has planned for her new album, she described how those writers pushed her when they wrote the hits We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together and 22.
"I'll bring in ideas and they'll take such a different turn than where I thought they were going to go, and that level of unexpected spontaneity is something that really thrills me in the process of making music," she said. "What if we did this? What if we made it weirder? What if we took it darker? I love people who have endless strange and exciting ideas about where music can go."
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Swift received six Country Music Awards nominations this year. She saw 14 of her hits in the top 30 over the last year and her success led her to open the Taylor Swift Education Center at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, a project that cost $4 million.
Swift leaves on a stadium tour of Australia in November, making her the first female solo performer to tour that country since Madonna 20 years ago. The singer refused being labeled a "pop star" when the AP compared her to Madonna.
"I would never see myself that way," she said. "I see myself as kind of this girl who writes songs in her bedroom."
