Taylor Swift Yahoo Live Stream 'Shake It Off' Single & Video Premiere & '1989' Album News
HERE WE GO!!! Are you guys ready to hear the MASSIVE Taylor Swift news. During the Yahoo live stream, which was just broadcasted around the world. The once country singer turned pop diva announced that she had not one but three massive surprises for her Swiftie's out there.
Brace yourselves because this new is gonna be HUGE.
The first of the three surprises was that T. Swizzle has a new song that she was going to play for the first time during the live stream. She collaborated with Max Martin and Schellback on the new sure to be hit who she also worked with on "I Knew You Were Trouble," and "We Are Never Getting Back Together."
The title of the new song is "Shake It Off."
During the stream she says that the main premise of the song is that, "people can say whatever they want about us at any time and we can not control that. We can only control our reactions to it."
She says that you can either let the situation change you and make you bitter or you can "Shake it Off."
With that she prompts everyone in the audience, who she hand picked to be members of the New York studio audience, to have a dance off with her as she plays her new song for the first time.
"The players gonna play and the haters gonna hate and I'm gonna shake it off."
As for secret surprise number two.... she reveals that she has spent the last two years working on a new album.
"Two years gives you enough time to grow," she says during the stream.
The last two years have lead Taylor to discovering a new style of music, different than she's ever made before, and she reveals that this album has been the best she has ever made.
As for the influences she says that she has been listening to a lot of late 80's pop music, because she loved how bold and ahead of its time it was.
She goes on to say that this new album was like a rebirth for her, and it brought with it endless possibilities.
She then drops the surprise on us saying that because she was born on December 13, 1989 that this is what the album will be called 1989.
She also says that she is breaking away from her country roots, calling this her first ever documented pop album. It is up now on her website, TaylowSwift.com for preorder. For all those deciding to wait for the album it will be released on October 27, 2014
She spends a few minutes after this surprise to answer a few of the fans questions, which gives viewers a little reprise as surprise number three is still on the way.
She mentions that there will be a deluxe version of the album, with three unreleased songs, which will document the song writing process. She also says that there will also be secret messages hidden in the album lyrics, like usual, and that she will keep on doing this until her fans tell her to stop.
With all that news comes surprise number three, which is the music video for the brand new song.
She says that the theme for the video comes from the fact that she loves how much you can tell about someone by the way they dance.
The video shows her dancing amongst a ton of pros as she literally dances to the beat of her own drummer.
As the video ends, she thanked all her fans for tuning into the first ever-worldwide live stream, and bid all her fans ado as they were left to digest the AMAZING news.