💬| Taylor Swift names The Art Of Loving & Lux as her favourite records of the past year during her press conference
"Olivia Dean's album is like a warm hug; I listen to it constantly, in almost any situation. For her part, Rosalía has created an ambitious and expansive concept album that could only have emerged from her own life experience. These records are wonderful because they are human, they are made by people and deal with the human experience; that's why human beings connect with them. And it seems to me that, when human beings create something so extraordinary, that should, first of all, elevate us to all others and inspire us; and also, it should make us feel that, indeed, we continue to win. Human beings continue to win in this."
(Via @VanityFairSpain)
I wish she would talk about the more technical aspects of making music sometimes. Her breadth of knowledge is obviously vast but she tends to let the music speak for itself, even though she has some of the greatest instrumentals and so many variants of genre among her songs
💬| Taylor discusses how wanting to honor Randy Newman's original musical aesthetics for Toy Story 'stretched her musically with chord progressions she would not typically write for herself' when composing the song with Jack Antonoff.
"It's on that line of 'Life has ways of leaving those days behind,' I would have gone for an A minorz Instead we go to an A7 and then resolve in a D minor. It almost feels like you're about to modulate but you don't."
"We've got tenor sax, we've got baritone sax and they're playing in a way that is structured in a different way than we would normally do it. We would normally have very structured parts. Whereas in our world of trying to reach towards Randy Newman, we felt it could feel more like a jam band with individual players acting as characters."
The article also mentions that the song features a virginal harpsichord, an instrument Taylor does not usually include in her music.
@dotdotdotpopop Creative director literally confirmed they decorated it with glitter to make it fit the costume. But it’s undeniably a heart rate monitor
Fashion designer and entrepreneur Humberto Leon, also the creative director for Katseye, liked a post about the heart rate monitor Megan was wearing at their show in Dallas, confirming that it was one
#KATSEYE@katseyeworld
I know her brain is just on repeat “don’t throw up. Don’t pass out. Don’t throw up. Don’t pass out. Don’t throw up. Don’t pass out.” She’s has a heart monitor band on so her crew knows if her heart rate dips from concussive symptoms and if she’s about to lose consciousness.
🎤 | Taylor Swift is set to perform at the 60th Annual CMA Awards.
– The #CMA Awards will take place on Wednesday, November 18, in Nashville.
(Via: @GMA)
Nelly Furtado claimed she was "like a bird", however she also claimed to be a "maneater", so it doesn't take a paleontologist or ornithologist to deduce that Nelly Furtado is in fact a Velociraptor