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210 postsTaylor Swift is an American singer, born in Pennsylvania in 1989. She signed to RCA records in 2003 and released her self-titled album in 2006. Her hit singles include Teardrops On My Guitar, Our Song, Love Story, We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, You Belong With Me and Shake It Off
Swift releases the full track listing to her fifth studio album 1989. The full list was posted via her Instagram. The list features singles Out Of The Woods and Welcome To New York.
This new album was a rebirth for me. I’ve been working on a new album for two years. I feel like two years give you two years to grow and to live.
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Swift previews a fifth song from her new record 1989 in her commercial spot for Target. The track is titled Style and is the third song on her album.
Swift performs Shake It Offduring the finale of X Factor Australia from her album1989
Swift shares a picture of her gown from the Met Gala designed by de la Renta following the news of his death. She captions the photo:
My all-time favorite designer has passed away. Oscar, it was an honor to wear your creations and to know you. In loving memory.
Swift releases a 30-second preview for Welcome to New York.
I started the album with Welcome to New York because New York has been an important landscape and location for the story of my life in the last couple of years. It’s like an electric city, and I approached moving there with such wide-eyed optimism. I saw New York as a place of endless potential and possibilities, and you can hear that reflected in this music and in this song.
Swift appears on the cover of a October 2014 issue of People magazine. She talks about this year and being single.
I made the decision to spend time on my own and figure out who I am. When you take the other person out of the scenario and you’re walking through life on your own, you end up figuring out what you actually like without anyone else’s input. I’m not too worried about whether I meet someone. I’m going to be happy either way.
Swift performs Love Story during the Radio 1 Teen Awards show Promoting her album Red.
Swift releases footage from behind the scenes of her 1989 Secret Sessions project. Conducted throughout the last year, Swift’s social media team called in Swift’s mega fans for secret performances of the entire album, 1989, from Taylor Swift.
Here it is… your behind the scenes look at the
#1989SecretSessions. Love you guys so much.
Swift features a teaser of a new song in her commercial for Diet Coke. The song is yet to be named, but Swift confirmed it was a new song via her Twitter.
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Swift releases her single Out Of The Woods from her upcoming album 1989. Swift co-wrote the song with musician Jack Antonoff. Swift on the relationship type the song is about:
It was a relationship where you, kind of, never feel like you’re standing on solid ground.
Swift releases a teaser to her second single Out Of The Woods on Good Morning America. The single, which Swift co-wrote with musician Jack Antonoff, will be featured on her album 1989. Swift on what this song is about:
This was a relationship where I was kind of, living day to day, wondering where it was going, if it was going to go anywhere, if it was going to end the next day.
Swift is named 2014 Billboard Entertainer of the Year. She is the only artist to ever receive the award twice. Janice Min, co-president and chief creative officer of Guggenheim Media’s Entertainment Group:
As one of the most influential artists of her generation, Taylor Swift has seen incredible success on the Billboard charts. Over the course of her career, she’s charted 60 entries on the Billboard Hot 100 — the most of any female artist since her debut in 2006. We are tremendously excited to be honoring her as the 2014 Billboard Woman of the Year for the second time.
Swift performs a cover of Vance Joy’s single Riptide in the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge.
In an interview with Rolling Stone Swift details her recent move to New York and talks about how much she loves living there. (She still owns a condo in Nashville.) The story also reveals the singer won’t attend any country music awards shows and that she rebuffed requests from her record label to include country songs on her upcoming album 1989. She also says she is done with songs relating to past relationships, and is tired of not being taken seriously.
Different phases of your life have different levels of deep, traumatizing heartbreak. And in this period of my life, my heart was not irreparably broken. So it’s not as boy-centric of an album, because my life hasn’t been boy-centric.
Swift goes on to discuss how she has not even been on a date since her last breakup. She intends on concentrating on her her music, and not relying so much on “boys”.
Swift appears on the cover of the second September 2014 issue of Rolling Stone magazine. She talks about her lack of privacy, her public dating life, and on 1989’s song Bad Blood.
For years, I was never sure if we were friends or not. She would come up to me at awards shows and say something and walk away, and I would think, ‘Are we friends, or did she just give me the harshest insult of my life?’ [Then last year] she did something so horrible. I was like, ‘Oh, we’re just straight-up enemies.’ And it wasn’t even about a guy! It had to do with business. She basically tried to sabotage an entire arena tour. She tried to hire a bunch of people out from under me. And I’m surprisingly non-confrontational – you would not believe how much I hate conflict. So now I have to avoid her. It’s awkward, and I don’t like it…I’m not the female police — but it broke my heart. Because I have such a high priority on girls sticking together.
In an outtake video for Shake It Off Swift talks about her cheerleader training:
I’ve done a million basket tosses and I’ve never done one before the shoot. It’s really terrifying to know that you’re going to be thrown into the air, but they catch me so that’s good…I did a lot of running, which I hate! I’ve been running a lot [for a month] just to do this amount of cardio. These are the longest shoot days I’ve ever done.
Swift performs her single Shake It Off during the MTV Video Music Awards.
Swift releases the album cover art for 1989.
Having been born on Dec. 13 1989, this album is called ‘1989.
Swift release the first single, Shake It Off, during a Yahoo livestream from her first pop album called 1989 (the year she was born). The album will be released on October 27, 2014. She says the album is a “rebirth”:
We made the most sonically cohesive album I’ve ever made.
Swift accepts the ALS challenge and nominates Selena Gomez , Ed Sheeran and Emma Stone.
