Taylor Swift revealed what inspired one of the best albums of the year! Like most of Taylor's music, most of the song lyrics are about relationships - but she was single when she wrote it. Musician Ryan Adams (who did a cover album of 1989) interviewed Taylor for GQ.
"For 1989, I would watch John Hughes movies, and I would think, 'OK, pause. Freeze frame. What's she thinking in this moment? What's he thinking in this moment?' Because 1989 I wrote when I was single. I didn't have much, you know, intense drama going on. I was like living for my friends and I was living in New York and everything was exciting, so to access those emotions again I would kind of put myself into other people's perspectives."
Taylor tapped into her imagination, and dreams for the song 'Stay': "In the song 'All You Had to Do Was Stay,' there's this really high-pitched 'Stay.' I had a dream that my ex showed up at my door, knocked on the door, and I opened it up and I was about ready to launch into like the perfect thing to say, and instead, all that would come out of my mouth was that high-pitch chorus of people singing 'Stay!'"
Watch the full interview below!
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