Welcome to New York (Commentary) - Taylor Swift
Lyrics by：Taylor Swift/Becca Walls
Composed by：Taylor Swift/Becca Walls
Thanks for listening to Big Machine Radio
As we celebrate the milestones of Taylor Swift
You know she releases albums in the fall
So right around October or November
There is always so much to celebrate
Her album 1989 came out October 27th, 2014
Which means this is the fourth anniversary of that album
And of course
This is the album where Taylor Swift firmly planted her flag
In the pop music world
And she took everybody by storm
The album sold 1,287 million copies in the US in its first week of release
And we're gonna actually hear from Taylor about all the songs on the album
As we take this little retrospective look at 1989
And the first song on the album is Welcome to New York
And Taylor explains why she chose to put this song first on the album
The first song on 1989 is a song called Welcome to New York
I wanted to start the album with this song
Because New York has been an important landscape and location
For the story of my life in the last couple of years
I dreamed about moving to New York
I obsessed over moving to New York and then 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
I've 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 endless potential and possibilities
And um you can kind of hear that reflected in this music
And in this first song especially
This is a song I did with Ryan Tedder called Welcome to New York