One of the saddest songs I’ve ever written just got sadder 🙃Drove up to Long Pond Studios to record All Too Well (Sad Girl Autumn Version) with the besties Aaron Dessner and Jonathan Low

http://taylor.lnk.to/atw-sadgirlautumn

I can’t begin to express my gratitude to Sadie and Dylan for giving us everything they had in order to tell this story. All Too Well The Short Film is out on YouTube, and showing all week at the AMC 13 theater in NYC. For you, from us.

http://taylor.lnk.to/ATWshortfilm

Strawberry Cheesecake Waffle Cone Parfaits

I’ve always said that the world is a different place for the heartbroken. It moves on a different axis, at a different speed. Time skips backwards and forwards fleetingly. The heartbroken might go through thousands of micro-emotions a day trying to figure out how to get through it without picking up the phone to hear that old familiar voice. In the land of heartbreak, moments of strength, independence, and devil-may-care rebellion are intricately woven together with grief, paralyzing vulnerability and hopelessness. Imagining your future might always take you on a detour back to the past. And this is all to say, that the next album I’ll be releasing is my version of Red.

Musically and lyrically, Red resembled a heartbroken person. It was all over the place, a fractured mosaic of feelings that somehow all fit together in the end. Happy, free, confused, lonely, devastated, euphoric, wild, and tortured by memories past. Like trying on pieces of a new life, I went into the studio and experimented with different sounds and collaborators. And I’m not sure if it was pouring my thoughts into this album, hearing thousands of your voices sing the lyrics back to me in passionate solidarity, or if it was simply time, but something was healed along the way.

Sometimes you need to talk it over (over and over and over) for it to ever really be… over. Like your friend who calls you in the middle of the night going on and on about their ex, I just couldn’t stop writing. This will be the first time you hear all 30 songs that were meant to go on Red. And hey, one of them is even ten minutes long.

Red (Taylor’s Version) will be out November 19.

https://taylor.lnk.to/RedTaylorsVersion

“My second song is Style by Taylor Swift. I can’t even look at the camera cause I can already tell that comments are gonna be like, ‘Of course it is Conan.’ But of course it is! What am I supposed to say, am I supposed to lie? If I could, I would put Taylor’s entire discography on this playlist of my life. My Spotify wrapped was just 10 Taylor songs. I’m choosing Style because I love the song, I think something about the movement, and the beat, and the way it’s just so simple yet so complicated - it’s something that I’m constantly kind of looking towards as a goal of mine. She just did such a good job at telling the story in such a catchy way. I think that’s what Taylor does so well - she can tell an entire story with just a few lines. When this album came out, I bought the album - I bought 1989 for my sister and I bought the Target exclusive version for my sister. I remember like playing the song in her car, blasted the music, and it would destroy the speakers. And it was just such a religious experience. I remember just wishing I could write a song like that one day.”

– Conan Gray makes a playlist of his life and includes “Style” by Taylor Swift (Teen Vogue, May 4th 2021)

“This isn’t the one I wanted!”/“I’m not asleep, my mind is alive.”

a marvelous time 🥲

pastel colours

Show me a moment that changed your life

I’ll go first ...

Folklore.

your laugh is the best sound i have ever heard

my strangest legacy - in high school, for one reason or another (I can’t remember) my friends and I wrote “34 days until March 2nd” on the whiteboard in the drama classroom. It was completely arbitrary but we kept it it up, “30 days until March 2nd”  ”23 days until March 2nd” etc. It spread around enough that the entire school is buzzing about what is going to happen on March 2nd. We figure we should think of something and decide to bring in cake. There were about 13 of us in total committed to bringing a cake. On March 2nd, during 3rd period lunch we all entered the cafeteria in a line (the parade of the cakes) and laid them out—a grand cake buffet for everyone in that lunch period. We did it the next year. And after we graduated it kept going.

This past March 2nd was the 9th year they’ve done it. It’s become a school sponsored event. There are t-shirts for this thing every year. March 2nd is cake day. I am a god. 

In my mind all of the evermore and folklore album ladies are a part of the same universe, so I put them in a playlist together 💛💛 taylor.lnk.to/ladieslunching

I’m thrilled to tell you that my new version of Fearless (Taylor’s Version) is done and will be with you soon. It has 26 songs including 6 never before released songs from the vault. Love Story (Taylor’s Version) will be out tonight. Pre-order now at https://taylor.lnk.to/fearlesstaylorsversion 💛💛

Taylor wining ‘Album of the Year’ for Fearless is one of the most beautiful memories that I have in my life and I know is one of her’s too

TS8 - folklore - 07.24.20

i think this is truly symbolic of taylor’s development as an artist and as an individual. the fact that she’s releasing music because she wants to, because it’s hers, because she loves it, with no regard for the expectations of others artistically, i’m so happy for her. and i’m still so grateful she’s willing to share it with us.