Taylor talks about headlining, collaboration
Through a conference call, Taylor Swift explained her collaboration with T-Pain, Def Leppard, headlining her own tour and more.
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On her broad appeal:
The funny thing is that I never, ever think about demographics when I’m writing a song. I never think about what genre of music this is going to fall under or what stations are going to want to play it or who’s going to relate to it. The only thing I think about is the person that I’m writing the song about. Music is very confessional to me. It’s a chance for me to say things I wouldn’t be brave enough to say to a person’s face. A lot of times I feel things for somebody that I’m just not going to tell them because they’re not in my life anymore or I’ve got too much pride to say it. I think it’s a universal feeling.
On working with T-Pain:
I’m a rapper now! (Giggles) CMT came to me and said, ‘We want you to be the focal point of the intro (for the Country Music Awards).’ I was so flattered and so excited. They wanted to play on the fact that all of these specials I do focus on me having a dream and setting sights on it and accomplishing it. They said, ‘We want you to think of some crazy things people would not expect you to do.’ And the first thing I said was, ‘I wanna do a rap video with T-Pain.’ (I chose) T-Pain because if I had some other rapper do it, I would probably be the one singing the hook and the other person would be rapping. But I wanted to be rapping and I wanted the other person to be singing the hook. I told them I wanted it to be called Thug Story instead of Love Story. So we had a track made up and they let me write the entire rap and it was really hilarious to be in the studio with T-Pain … I got up and rapped this thing for him and he could not stop laughing. To shoot the video was really awesome too. I went to the mall and bought bling at one of those gangsta-street jewelry places for, like, $40.
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