{"id":153935,"date":"2015-05-20T07:35:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T07:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/20\/do-you-know-how-many-sit-downs-i-got-at-the-label\/"},"modified":"2015-05-20T07:35:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T07:35:36","slug":"do-you-know-how-many-sit-downs-i-got-at-the-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/20\/do-you-know-how-many-sit-downs-i-got-at-the-label\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you know how many sit downs I got at the label about that? A lot of me making this album was me going in the studio, making something I loved, and showing it to the label and getting a principle\u2019s-office discussion. Like, \u201cYoung lady, you know you\u2019re not going to sell as many albums if you\u2019re not labeled as country.\u201d I wasn\u2019t kicking and screaming, but I was very firm about the fact that to call this album a country album would be the biggest mistake. Because when you\u2019re trying to fool people, you insinuating that you think they\u2019re stupid. And insinuating that people aren\u2019t going to see through your transparent motives is the one worst mistake you can make as an artist who is supposed to respect their fans. That was my argument. I got really, really lectured about not putting my name on the title on the front of the album cover\u2015that was fun. And then it was suggested to me that we use a different picture for the album cover because, they kept saying, \u201cWe need eyes, lips, hair on an album cover. You know no one\u2019s going to know who that is.\u201d And I was like, \u201cThat\u2019s the point. We\u2019re starting over.\u201d Also, the reason I didn\u2019t put my face on the album cover is because I didn\u2019t want people to fully diagnose the emotional DNA of this album before it came out. If I\u2019m smiling, it\u2019s a happy record; if I\u2019m frowning, it\u2019s a sad record. I wanted people to be able to detect no emotion on my face. It was just taken on this \u201880s Polaroid camera that I have. I knew that I was doing something that I fully believed in when I was confronted with these people on my team, who were only going by what they knew\u2015which is that there hasn\u2019t been a successful country-to-pop crossover, really ever, who has sold as well as their country career did. They\u2019d say \u201cYou\u2019re not going to sell as much.\u201c and I would say, \u201cI don\u2019t care. This is the album I made, this is what I\u2019m going to call it, this is how I\u2019m going to label it.\u201d I knew that I\u2019d made songs that my fans would like; I was like, \u201cYou guys don\u2019t know them like I do. You sit in an office, I\u2019m out there at shows with them, I\u2019m on tumblr talking to them, I know what they want from me.\u201d Thank God it worked out. If we\u2019d sold one album less than a million in the first week, it would have been two years of \u201cTaylor, we told you.\u201d So glad we sold almost 1.3 [million] in the first week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Taylor Swift about 1989 (Elle Magazine)<\/p>\n

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Do you know how many sit downs I got at the label about that? A lot of me making this album was me going in the studio, making something I loved, and showing it to the label and getting a principle\u2019s-office discussion. Like, \u201cYoung lady, you know you\u2019re not going to sell as many albums … <\/p>\n

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