Welcome to New York - Commentary

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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 1287 million copies in the US in its first week of release

And we're going to 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"

And 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 dreamt 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 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"

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