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Taylor Swift announces details of 1989 world tour

Including her first live show in Scotland and a Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park headline slot, her 2015 tour starts in Louisiana in May

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As sales of her fifth album gain momentum, Taylor Swift has announced news of a huge world tour for 2015 - including her first date in Scotland.

Beginning on 20 May in Louisiana, the world tour spans across fifty dates, eight countries and throughout four continents, and follows her record breaking Red Tour, which encompassed more than 85 shows, included five sold out shows at London’s O2 and was described by the Guardian as a “slick spectacular” in its five star review.

From spring to autumn, Swift will perform in Europe and America, headlining Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park 2015 in London on 27 June and stopping by at The SSE Hydro in Glasgow on 23 June, dates which notably align with this year’s Glastonbury festival, which takes place from 24 - 28 June. Her ode to New York gets its closest airing in New Jersey, at the MetLife Stadium in July. Vance Joy will support her throughout her north American leg with “viral sensation” Shawn Mendes also on the bill.

The tour follows the release of Taylor’s acclaimed new album 1989, which topped iTunes’ sales charts in 95 countries on its release and was the highest selling first week release of the year in the US.

Seven-time Grammy award winner Taylor Swift has sold 30 million albums, clocking almost 80 million song downloads to date.

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20 May Bossier City, LA CenturyLink Center

22 May Baton Rouge, LA LSU Tiger Stadium

30 May Detroit, MI Ford Field

2 June Louisville, KY KFC Yum! Center

3 June Cleveland, OH Quicken Loans Arena

6 June Pittsburgh, PA Heinz Field

8 June Charlotte, NC Time Warner Cable Arena

9 June Raleigh, NC PNC Arena

13 June Philadelphia, PA Lincoln Financial Field

20 June Cologne, Germany Lanxess Arena

21 June Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ziggo Dome

23 June Glasgow, UK The SSE Hydro

24 June Manchester, UK Arena

27 June London, UK British Summertime Hyde Park

6 July Ottawa, ON Canadian Tire Centre

7 July Montreal, QC Bell Centre

11 July East Rutherford, NJ MetLife Stadium

13 July Washington, DC Nationals Park

18 July Chicago, IL Soldier Field

24 July Foxborough, MA Gillette Stadium

25 July Foxborough, MA Gillette Stadium

1 August Vancouver, BC BC Place Stadium

4 August Edmonton, AB

5 August Edmonton, AB Rexall Place

8 August Seattle, WA CenturyLink Field

15 August Santa Clara, CA Levi’s Stadium

17 August Glendale, AZ Gila River Arena

18 August Glendale, AZ Gila River Arena

25 August Los Angeles, CA Staples Center

26 August Los Angeles, CA Staples Center

29 August San Diego, CA PETCO Park

4 September Salt Lake City, UT EnergySolutions Arena

5 September Denver, CO Pepsi Center

6 September Denver, CO Pepsi Center

9 September Fargo, ND Fargodome

11 September St. Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center

12 September St. Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center

16 September Indianapolis, IN Bankers Life Fieldhouse

17 September Columbus, OH Nationwide Arena

18 September Columbus, OH Nationwide Arena

21 September Kansas City, MO Sprint Center

22 September Kansas City, MO Sprint Center

25 September Nashville, TN Bridgestone Arena

26 September Nashville, TN Bridgestone Arena

2 October Toronto, ON Rogers Centre

3 October Toronto, ON Rogers Centre

8 October Des Moines, IA Wells Fargo Arena

9 October Omaha, NE CenturyLink Center

10 October Omaha, NE CenturyLink Center

13 October St. Louis, MO Scottrade Center

14 October St. Louis, MO Scottrade Center

17 October Dallas, TX AT&T Stadium

20 October Lexington, KY Rupp Arena

21 October Greensboro, NC Greensboro Coliseum Complex

24 October Atlanta, GA Georgia Dome

27 October Miami, FL AmericanAirlines Arena

31 October Tampa, FL Raymond James Stadium

General ticketing and on-sale information for The 1989 World Tour, including VIP packages, will be available at TaylorSwift.com .

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It’s official: Fans will be able to shake it off with Taylor Swift all through 2015.

The singer officially announced a 1989 World Tour Monday morning (Nov. 3), writing on Twitter , “So yeah, #The1989WorldTour is happening!! Go to http://TaylorSwift.com  for details. I CANNOT WAIT!”

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The tour will kick off in Louisiana on May 20, 2015 and will hit North America and Europe before heading to Australia in December 2015.  Vance Joy , whose song “Riptide” Swift memorably covered last month, is supporting all North American dates. Shawn Mendes will also join the tour for select performances, per her official site . General public tickets for the North American leg will go on sale Nov. 14; American Express cardholders and members of the TaylorSwift.com email list will be able to purchase tickets Nov. 7. 

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May 20, 2015 – Bossier City, LA – CenturyLink Center May 22, 2015 – Baton Rouge, LA – LSU Tiger Stadium May 30, 2015 – Detroit, MI – Ford Field June 2, 2015 – Louisville, KY – KFC Yum! Center June 3, 2015 – Cleveland, OH – Quicken Loans Arena June 6, 2015 – Pittsburgh, PA – Heinz Field June 8, 2015 – Charlotte, NC – Time Warner Cable Arena June 9, 2015 – Raleigh, NC – PNC Arena June 13, 2015 – Philadelphia, PA – Lincoln Financial Field June 20, 2015 – Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany – Lanxess Arena June 21, 2015 – Amsterdam, North Holland Netherlands – Ziggo Dome June 23, 2015 – Glasgow, Scotland United Kingdom – SSE Hydro June 24, 2015 – Manchester, NW England United Kingdom – Arena June 27, 2015 – London, England United Kingdom – British Summertime Hyde Park July 6, 2015 – Ottawa, ON – Canadian Tire Centre July 7, 2015 – Montreal, QB – Bell Centre July 11, 2015 – East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium July 13, 2015 – Washington, DC – Nationals Park July 18, 2014 – Chicago, IL – Soldier Field July 24, 2015 – Foxborough, MA – Gillette Stadium July 25, 2015 – Foxborough, MA – Gillette Stadium August 1, 2015 – Vancouver, BC – BC Place Stadium August 4, 2015 – Edmonton, AB – Rexall Place August 5, 2015 – Edmonton, AB – Rexall Place August 8, 2015 – Seattle, WA – CenturyLink Field August 15, 2015 – Santa Clara, CA – Levi’s Stadium August 17, 2015 – Glendale, AZ – Gila River Arena August 18, 2015 – Glendale, AZ – Gila River Arena August 25, 2015 – Los Angeles, CA – Staples Center August 26, 2015 – Los Angeles, CA – Staples Center August 29, 2015 – San Diego, CA – PETCO Park September 4, 2015 – Salt Lake City, UT – EnergySolutions Arena September 5, 2015 – Denver, CO – Pepsi Center September 6, 2015 – Denver, CO – Pepsi Center September 9, 2015 – Fargo, ND – Fargodome September 11, 2015 – St. Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center September 12, 2015 – St. Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center September 16, 2015 – Indianapolis, IN – Bankers Life Fieldhouse September 17, 2015 – Columbus, OH – Nationwide Arena September 18, 2015 – Columbus, OH – Nationwide Arena September 21, 2015 – Kansas City, MO – Sprint Center September 22, 2015 – Kansas City, MO – Sprint Center September 25, 2015 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena September 26, 2015 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena October 2, 2015 – Toronto, ON – Rogers Centre October 3, 2015 – Toronto, ON – Rogers Centre October 8, 2015 – Des Moines, IA – Wells Fargo Arena October 9, 2015 – Omaha, NE – CenturyLink Center October 10, 2015 – Omaha, NE – CenturyLink Center October 13, 2015 – St. Louis, MO – Scottrade Center October 14, 2015 – St. Louis, MO – Scottrade Center October 17, 2015 – Dallas, TX – AT&T Stadium October 20, 2015 – Lexington, KY – Rupp Arena October 21, Greensboro, NC – Greensboro Coliseum Complex October 24, 2015 – Atlanta, GA – Georgia Dome October 27, 2015 – Miami, FL – American Airlines Arena October 31, 2015 – Tampa, FL – Raymond James Stadium

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It's coming! Taylor Swift announced her 1989 World Tour on Monday (November 3) with a teaser video.

Just one week after releasing her fifth album, 1989 , last week, the singer is spreading the word about her global trek to promote the record. If you haven't heard, Swift is on her way to going platinum with her latest release -- which would be her third album in a row to reach that sales peak in week one.

Swift will start her journey on May 20 in Louisiana, bringing along folk singer Vance Joy for the ride. Shawn Mendes will join the two for stadium dates. For more information, go to TaylorSwift.com.

Tickets will go on sale November 14 and American Express cardholders will have early access on November 7.

Here are the 1989 World Tour dates:

» 5/20 - Bossier City, LA @ CenturyLink Center

» 5/22 - Baton Rouge @ LSU Tiger Stadium

» 5/30 - Detroit @ Ford Field

» 6/2 - Louisville, KY @ KFC Yum! Center

» 6/3 - Cleveland @ Quicken Loans Arena

» 6/6 - Pittsburgh @ Heinz Field

» 6/8 - Charlotte, NC @ Time Warner Cable Arena

» 6/9 - Raleigh, NC @ PNC Arena

» 6/13 - Philadelphia @ Lincoln Financial Field

» 6/20 - Cologne, Germany @ Lanxess Arena

» 6/21 - Amsterdam, Holland @ Ziggo Dome

» 6/23 - Glasgow, U.K. @ SSE Hydro

» 6/24 - Manchester, U.K. @ Arena

» 6/27 - London @ British Summertime Hyde Park

» 7/6 - Ottawa @ Canadian Tire Centre

» 7/7 - Montreal @ Bell Centre

» 7/11 - East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium

» 7/13 - Washington, D.C. @ Nationals Park

» 7/18 - Chicago @ Soldier Field

» 7/24 - Foxborough, MA @ Gillette Stadium

» 7/25 - Foxborough, MA @ Gillette Stadium

» 8/1 - Vancouver, BC @ BC Place Stadium

» 8/4 - Edmonton, Alberta @ Rexall Place

» 8/5 - Edmonton, Alberta @ Rexall Place

» 8/8 - Seattle @ CenturyLink Field

» 8/15 - Santa Clara, CA @ Levi's Stadium

» 8/17 - Glendale, AZ @ Gila River Arena

» 8/18 - Glendale, AZ @ Gila River Arena

» 8/25 - Los Angeles @ Staples Center

» 8/26 - Los Angeles @ Staples Center

» 8/29 - San Diego @ PETCO Park

» 9/4 - Salt Lake City @ EnergySolutions Arena

» 9/5 - Denver @ Pepsi Center

» 9/6 - Denver @ Pepsi Center

» 9/9 - Fargo, ND, Fargodome

» 9/11 - St. Paul @ Xcel Energy Center

» 9/12 - St. Paul @ Xcel Energy Center

» 9/16 - Indianapolis @ Bankers Life Fieldhouse

» 9/17 - Columbus, Ohio @ Nationwide Arena

» 9/18 - Columbus, Ohio @ Nationwide Arena

» 9/21 - Kansas City, MO @ Sprint Center

» 9/22 - Kansas City, MO @ Sprint Center

» 9/25 - Nashville @ Bridgestone Arena

» 9/26 - Nashville @ Bridgestone Arena

» 10/2 - Toronto @ Rogers Centre

» 10/3 - Toronto @ Rogers Centre

» 10/8 - Des Moines @ Wells Fargo Arena

» 10/9 - Omaha @ CenturyLink Center

» 10/10 - Omaha @ CenturyLink Center

» 10/13 - St. Louis @ Scottrade Center

» 10/14 - St. Louis @ Scottrade Center

» 10/17 - Dallas @ AT&T Stadium

» 10/20 - Lexington, KY @ Rupp Arena

» 10/21 - Greensboro, NC @ Greensboro Coliseum Complex

» 10/24 - Atlanta @ Georgia Dome

» 10/27 - Miami @ AmericanAirlines Arena

» 10/31 - Tampa @ Raymond James Stadium

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After months of preparing for her The 1989 World Tour , Taylor Swift has finally revealed the dancers who will be a part of her journey! The singer shared the group photo below, captioning it, "Baby, we're the New Romantics…", and we couldn't help but notice that every one of her dancers is a guy! And only one of them is returning from her RED tour!

Obviously, we wanted to get the scoop on everyone she chose, so we did a little digging! Two of the guys have performed with Taylor's arch-nemesis Katy Perry , and one of them toured with Miley Cyrus in the past. Some of the guys have even worked with her friends like Demi Lovato and Zendaya .

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BOSSIER CITY, La. — Toward the end of Taylor Swift ’s concert at the CenturyLink Center here on Wednesday night, she strapped on an electric guitar for the first time of the night and began playing some tart riffs while singing hungry little fillips. She was setting the stage for “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” the 2012 song that became her first No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and helped turn her inexorably away from country and toward pop megastardom.

In the song, she’s lashing out at a dunderheaded ex: “You would hide away and find your peace of mind/ With some indie record that’s much cooler than mine.”

On the album, she delivers that self-referential line with an eye roll, but when she sang it here, she turned it into a defiant shout. Suddenly, the song wasn’t about fretting over someone’s opinion; it was about knowing you’ve been the cool one all along, and finally owning it.

Whatever underdog anxieties Ms. Swift might have had earlier in her career are mostly gone. With the release in the fall of “ 1989 ” (Big Machine), her fifth album, Ms. Swift neatly ascended to the top of the pop hierarchy, largely by bypassing and ignoring most of her peers. She used the same blend of guilelessness and savvy that made her a radical figure in country music, and applied it to 1980s-influenced sounds that made her one of the most conservative figures in pop.

So she’s still a kind of underdog, but a big dog, too. The “1989” album has gone platinum four times over, and this show was the first stand-alone date of the American leg of her “1989” world tour, which will mainly play stadiums. (This arena was far smaller, holding about 13,000 people.)

The album “1989” is what got her here, and “1989” is what she largely stuck to — newly grown-up songs about letdown, regret and letting go. “Out of the Woods” was booming and “Shake It Off” was cheeky and breezy. Even songs that felt like outliers on “1989” were here both integral and enrapturing, like “Clean,” which lost its spaciness; and “I Know Places,” notionally about hiding from prying eyes in a new relationship, which sounded like an action-movie soundtrack. For that song, her dancers wore drapey, futuristic jackets and shimmering full head masks similar to the ones Kanye West wore on his “Yeezus” tour — spies from the future sent to swarm Ms. Swift, who dodged them easily.

She largely didn’t meddle with the songs from “1989,” but when it came to older material, she bent the music in unexpected ways. She performed “Love Story” in the style of “1989.” On the catty, ecstatic “I Knew You Were Trouble,” she spent part of the song singing in a dusky, Lorde-like tone. And for “Enchanted,” one of her most starry-eyed and least convincing songs, she sat at a Thunderdome-esque piano and sang in a knowing manner, yanking the big notes hard and giving the song new depth.

Ms. Swift has always been comfortable onstage, but as she gets older (she’s 25), she is more willing to make herself awkward when it serves the moment. During “Blank Space,” she acted out that song’s angst, contorting her body and face and, at one point, wielding a golf club with casual menace.

Though her lyrics have gradually begun to acknowledge the sensual, she remains effectively chaste onstage, even when flanked by shirtless dancers on “I Knew You Were Trouble.” But her between-song chatter, always inspirational, now carries the weight of experience. “You are not damaged goods just because you’ve made mistakes,” she said. “You are not someone else’s opinion of you.”

This pep talk was for herself and for the crowd, which consisted mostly of girls, who might have been seeing Ms. Swift for the first time, and young women, who might have been seeing Ms. Swift since they were girls. At various intervals, Ms. Swift disappeared offstage and the huge screen showed clips of some of her well-known friends — Selena Gomez, Karlie Kloss, Lena Dunham, the sisters of the band Haim, and more — singing her praises. It was a public service announcement for the healing powers of female friendship.

Ms. Swift has been actively cultivating these friendships as part of her retreat from the tabloids in recent years. Rather than be known as a serial dater, she’d prefer to be thought of as a serial befriender. Even in “Bad Blood,” a song from “1989” about an intense rivalry with another female performer (most likely Katy Perry), Ms. Swift has found a way to turn it positive. The video is a feminist superhero fantasy, with oodles of famous guests — proof of the power and depth of Ms. Swift’s Rolodex and her desire to form alliances more than cast aspersions.

In an interview in the June issue of Elle magazine, Ms. Swift briefly alluded to the pop landscape she’s arrived at: “I don’t really have much of a queen complex,” she said. “There’s this feeling in music right now where you have to just stand on this castle turret and not come down and talk to anyone and not be approachable and not be excitable, and you should be sexy and edgy and all these things.”

No names were named — Beyoncé and Rihanna come to mind, though — but the comment highlights just how little Ms. Swift has in common with her new peers: almost as little as she had in common with her old peers. “I stalk you on a daily basis,” she told the crowd; it’s hard to imagine any other multiplatinum star doing that, much less admitting it.

Notably, there wasn’t even a hint of country here, unless you count the very young fans who still wore sundresses and cowboy boots, as Ms. Swift did a decade ago. She played acoustic guitar briefly, on “Wonderland,” a lesser-known song that wasn’t quite ready to be so exposed, but otherwise she’d fully decorated this new home, covering up all the traces of the old. (There were also some opening-night sound issues.)

If she can remake herself so thoroughly in just a couple of years, what changes are yet to come? Will she collaborate with Mr. West, her former adversary, as he has said he’d like to do? Will she go full Joni Mitchell? Could she become a romantic-comedy staple, a millennial Meg Ryan? Or will she stick with her current path, letting the arbiters of cool look at her with a side eye while she trounces them all?

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1989 may have been Taylor Swift’s fourth album overall, but it was actually her very first pop album. Departing from her country roots, the singer-songwriter played around with synth sounds and pop friendly beats and it paid off. The album sold over a million copies in just its first week out. It dominated the Billboard charts and landed Taylor the Grammy for Album of the Year.

So it stands to reason that the tour that accompanied this album would be just as epic. Fans found out just how huge it was when The 1989 World Tour kicked off on May 2, 2015 at the Tokyo Dome in Japan.

The setlist was almost exclusively songs from 1989 , with 14 out of 18 songs from the album dominating the night. In Tokyo this meant there were plenty of live debuts: “New Romantics,” “I Wish You Would,” “How You Get the Girl,” “I Know Places,” “All You Had to Do Was Stay,” “You Are In Love,” “Clean,” “This Love” and “Bad Blood.”

The few previously released songs Taylor performed were remixed specifically for the tour to fit with the synth-pop feel of 1989 . “Love Story” and “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” notably were changed for the tour.

The actual show was broken up across eight “acts,” with a few songs featured in each. Back-up dancers, costume changes, floating platforms and more made up the stage show, though there was also time for Taylor alone on stage with a grand piano to perform a mash-up of “Enchanted” and “Wildest Dreams.” The show closed out with the album’s hit lead single “Shake It Off,” accentuated by fireworks and confetti.

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That night in Tokyo was the start of something big. The tour went on to be a global success and was notable for featuring surprise songs and surprise guests at each of the dates. But none of it happens without Taylor herself setting the standard on that first date eight years ago at the kick off, with a brand new sound and a brand new show.

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«I have so many things I've been dreaming up for this. If you look at the makeup of my previous music, as far as production elements go, there are a lot of live drums, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and live bass. And if you look at the landscape of 1989 , it's mostly synths and automated drums and these kind of big epic synth pad sounds, and key bass, and layered vocals. I have a very big band, there are 14 of us, so what you’re going to end up with is more of a live feel in that it's going to be filled in and more dramatic with more layers to it, but never to the point where it's going to feel noisy or overcrowded.» Taylor Swift

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As is tradition for her tours, Taylor regularly hosted after-show meet and greets for some of her lucky fans. During the concert, her mom Andrea and some members of Taylor Nation carefully watched the crowd to see which fans were the most excited to be there. The bigger the poster, the shinier the costume, the better. If chosen, fans got to enter the backstage VIP experience Loft ’89 backstage hangout after the end of the show. The space was inspired by Taylor’s own New York City apartment that fans had become deeply familiar through her social media. The setup included brick walls, couches, and foods including pizza and homemade cookies.

During the fan meetup, fans would wait around on couches, chatting with others until Taylor would come out to greet them. To pass the time, Loft ’89 included artifacts that every super fan would recognize from previous tours or photoshoots, as well as additional photo opportunities. When Taylor eventually showed up, she would spend time with each group of people, getting to know them and cracking jokes. They would then take a photo together and Taylor would sign one of their belongings, or a laminated tour photo.

Critical Reception

Concert film.

Taylor Swift on the The 1989 World Tour (2015)

  • 1. Welcome to New York
  • 2. New Romantics
  • 3. Blank Space
  • 4. I Knew You Were Trouble. (Rock Version)
  • 5. I Wish You Would
  • 6. How You Get The Girl
  • 7. I Know Places
  • 8. All You Had to Do Was Stay
  • 9. You Are In Love (acoustic surprise song)
  • 11. Love Story (Pop Vesion)
  • 13. This Love
  • 14. Bad Blood
  • 15. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (Rock Version)
  • 16. Enchanted/Wildest Dreams (Mashup)
  • 17. Out of the Woods
  • 18. Shake It Off

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1989 (Taylor's Version)

1989 (2014), 1989 world tour live, discography.

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I Know Places

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  • 1 Hidden message
  • 3 Taymoji pack
  • 4 Live performances
  • 5 References

Hidden message [ ]

Hidden message : And everyone was watching.

  • Album version

[Intro] I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I-I I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I-I I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I-I (I, I, I, I) [Verse 1] You stand with your hand on my waistline It's a scene and we're out here in plain sight I can hear them whisper as we pass by It's a bad sign, bad sign Something happens when everybody finds out See the vultures circling, dark clouds Love's a fragile little flame, it could burn out It could burn out [Pre-Chorus 1] 'Cause they got the cages They got the boxes and guns They are the hunters We are the foxes and we run [Chorus] Baby, I know places we won't be found And they'll be chasing their tails Trying to track us down 'Cause I, I know places we can hide I know places, I know places [Verse 2] Lights flash and we'll run for the fences Let them say what they want, we won't hear it Loose lips sink ships all the damn time Not this time [Pre-Chorus 2] Just grab my hand And don't ever drop it, my love They are the hunters We are the foxes, and we run [Chorus] Baby, I know places we won't be found And they'll be chasing their tails Trying to track us down 'Cause I, I know places we can hide I know places [Bridge] They are the hunters We are the foxes, and we run Just grab my hand And don't ever drop it, my love [Chorus] Baby, I know places we won't be found And they'll be chasing their tails Trying to track us down 'Cause I, I know places we can hide I know places [Outro] They take their shots but we're bulletproof (I know places) And you know, for me, it's always you (I know places) In the dead of night, your eyes so green (I know places) And I know, for you, it's always me (I know places) I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I-I I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I-I

So, over the years A lot of people have asked me to sort of Describe my song writing process from beginning to end How long does it take? Where do you write? what are the circumstances? Do you start with music? Do you start with lyrics? And my answer is always that it happens differently every time And that's why I'm still so in love with song writing So, what I've done here, is shown you three different examples Of the beginning stages of these songs And how they each started, different ways So, I'll explain them to you And maybe that will help you understand Kind of how I put songs together I sent this voice memo to Ryan Tedder Because I'd always wanted to work with him And finally, we scheduled some studio time So, I always want to be prepared I wanted to send him the idea that I was working on Before we went into the studio Just in case he wrote back and said, "I can't stand that I want to work on something else Think of something else" So, I just sat down with the piano Put my phone on top of the piano And just, kind of explained to him Where I wanted to go with the song How I saw the melody sitting in And we ended up recording the song the next day And it ended up being on the record called "I Know Places" So, this was the voice memo that I sent to him The night before we ended up finishing the song Okay, so this is kind of this rough idea thing Uh-uh-uh Oh, oh-oh-oh-I Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-I Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-I-I-I Na-na-na-na waiting at the back door They're around and the vultures come around And you know that they won't They won't us Say what they want 'bout, say what they want 'bout us And you come and sing and listen I would not think about it but I'm not done Every know that a thing or two about it, thing or two about it, I [Pre-Chorus 1] 'Cause they got the cages They got the boxes and guns They are the hunters We are the foxes and we run [Chorus] Baby, I know some places we won't be found And they'll be chasing their tails Trying to track us down 'Cause I, I know places we can hide I know places, I know places Uh-uh-uh-I Uh-uh-uh-I Oh-oh-I Uh-uh-uh-I Know places Or whatever I don't know But that's basically just like a dark Really dark lyric, like, bridge thing And it's about, like, everybody's, like Trying to get into and ruin a love, or whatever And it's like, you just, whatever, you know And the chorus would just go to that major And just be like "Ooh" chorus So, I hope you like it It wouldn't be a piano thing It would be, like [*vocalizing*] Like, very, like, beat Now, I'm just making weird sounds Hope you like it!

Taymoji pack [ ]

Compasses and love both work by magnetism.

Live performances [ ]

Swift performed "I Know Places" from May 5, 2015, in Tokyo, Japan, to December 12, 2015, in Melbourne, Australia, on The 1989 World Tour , as the seventh song on the setlist. [4] The song was also performed as a surprise song in Tokyo, Japan, on November 20, 2018, on The Reputation Stadium Tour . Swift performed the song once again as the first surprise song in Los Angeles, CA, on August 8, 2023, on The Eras Tour .

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References [ ]

  • ↑ https://www.breatheheavy.com/taylor-swift-on-1989-birthday-best-year-of-my-life/
  • ↑ https://www.theperfecttempo.com/blog/2014/10/28/taylor-swift-1989-deluxe-track-by-track-review
  • ↑ https://www.vulture.com/article/taylor-swift-songs-ranked-from-worst-to-best.html
  • ↑ https://genius.com/Taylor-swift-1989-tour-setlist-lyrics
  • 1 List of Taylor Swift's ex-boyfriends
  • 2 Andrea Swift

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