Welcome to New York - I wanted to start the album with this song because New Yor

k has been an important landscape and location for the story of my life in the l
ast couple of years. I've dreamed about moving to New York. I'm obsessed over mo
ving to New York, and I did it, and the inspiration that I found in that city is
kind of hard to describe and hard to compare to any other force of inspiration
that I ever experienced in my life. It's like an electric city, and I approached
moving there with such wide-eyed optimism and sort of saw it as a place of endl
ess potential and possibilities. You can kinda hear that reflected in this music
, and then in this first song, especially.
Blank Space - Blank Space is one of the only songs that I've ever written that I
started out writing as a complete joke. I think as a songwriter, you have to be
pretty well aware of who you are as a person, but then I think you have to have
what I on, what people think of you, and kinda wrote a general perception is of
you out in the world, and in the last couple of years, I've noticed there's bee
n sort of a pretty sensational, fictionalization of my personal life. You know,
they kinda drawn up this profile of this girl who is a serial dater, "jet-setti
ng" with all her new boyfriends, and then, you know, she can get up, but you can
't keep them, because she's too emotional and she's needy, then she gets her hea
rt broke, because they leave, and she's "jilt", and then she goes to her evil la
ir and write songs about it for revenge. It's just kind of this very complex pro
file of a person. Then, I got to thinking about it, and I started to think about
how interesting that character is. If she were a real person who had all these
qualities and attributes, what song would she write, and I'm pretty sure it was
a song that'll look like this.
Style - Style is a song that I wrote about, kind of, observing fashion trends an
d cultural trends and seeing how there are certain things that are constants. Yo
u know, like, you may not wear a little black dress for a while, but you're alwa
ys gonna go back to it. No one's gonna say, 'Oh, red lips are so two years ago.'
There are certain staples, and I, sort of, think about that in terms of a feeli
ng. You know, there are certain feelings like that. There are certain people tha
t float in and out of your life, sort of, like a trend that keeps coming back in
style and never fully fades away. And so, that's the inspiration behind this so
ng.
Out of the Woods - One of the goals that I set out to accomplish when I wanted t
o make this album is I wanted to make sure that these songs sounded exactly the
way that the emotions felt when I felt them. This song is about the fragility, a
nd, kind of, breakable nature of some relationships. THis was a relationship wer
e, kind of, living day-to-day wondering where it was going, if it was gonna go
anywhere, if it;s gonna end the next day - it's the relationship where you, kind
of, never feel like you're standing on a solid ground, and that kind of feeling
brings on excitement, but also extreme anxiety, and "frantic" feeling of wonder
ing endless questions, and this song sounds lexactly like the frantic feeling of
anxiety and questioning, but stresses that even relaitonship is breakable and f
ragile, and full of anxiety, it doesn't mean that it' u exxiting, beautiful, and
all the things that you look for.
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AYHTDWS - This song was inspired by a weird dream that I Had. It was one of the
dreams that