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Post by Admin on Nov 9, 2013 0:15:59 GMT
Taylor Swift has certainly been putting in a lot of miles, even heading to South Africa to film "The Giver," opposite Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes and Jeff Bridges. What did she think about working with the Hollywood elite?
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Post by Admin on Nov 14, 2013 15:56:31 GMT
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Post by Admin on Dec 13, 2013 5:36:53 GMT
The country rock star's Sweeter Than Fiction from the biopic One Chance has been nominated in the Best Original Song category of the 71st Golden Globes, honoring the year's best in film and television. Aziz Ansari, Zoe Saldana and Olivia Wilde revealed the nominees on Thursday morning at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. It's Taylor's second nomination. Last year she got a shout out for Safe And Sound from The Hunger Games, but lost to Adele's James Bond theme Skyfall.
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Post by Admin on Dec 23, 2013 21:11:15 GMT
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So you wouldn’t really expect an original song of yours on a modest British indie comedy, how did this come about?Taylor Swift: I fell in love with the film after I got to see it. I was lucky to be one of the first people to see it. I think [producer Harvey Weinstein] knew what he was doing. He contacted us and said, “I think I have a film Taylor should see.” I don’t think he needed to say a word; he knew I’d go and write an end-credits song. So for me there were so many different amazing themes about the movie to draw from. My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it’s so drawn from my own life and my own stories. There’s something so unique about that and I get a special buzz from that. But it’s also kind of cool to focus on somebody else’s storylines. You get to step outside yourself for the song.Give yourself a little bit of a break from the introspection. How was it collaborating with Jack Antonoff? Any chance of that happening again? There’s a huge chance of that happening again. This is the first time that Jack Antonoff and I had collaborated. We had been friends for awhile, because I’m really good friends with [Antonoff's girlfriend Lena Dunham] and the three of us are always hanging out. And one time we were together, we were going over tracks and stuff, and there was a lightning bolt that went off between both of us that we should work together. So he was the first person I contacted. Jack is so good at mixing ’80s nostalgia into his music and I wanted that to be reflected in this song because I wanted something so different from the opera that is at the forefront of the movie. And also a great deal of the plot line of the movie takes place in the ’80s and ’90s. And there was the Golden Globe nomination. Do you still get a surge of emotion when nominations happen?I got a text from Lena as soon as it happened and she’s like, “Holy Golden Globe nomination!” And I texted back: “Don’t lie, that’s not funny.” And I called her up and I was screaming. And she was screaming. And then Jack woke up and he was screaming. It happened on my birthday so it was the most unbelievable occurrence. Is there another artist that you’ve always wanted to work with?I’m kinda obsessed with Sia. Always have been. What have you not accomplished career-wise that you really want to do?Oh so much! How much time do you have? Well, what’s a couple of the biggest things you want to accomplish?One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead. There’s a line in the movie that’s almost word-for-word that metaphor. That’s the way I’ve always looked at my career. I would love to win another Grammy. I would love to get to go the Oscars someday. That’s why I’m so happy to get to be a part of movies. Speaking of next steps, you recently said your next album is ahead of schedule. Roughly when should that be expected?They would be so mad at me if I told you what I have in my head as far as the plan goes, and I hate to say a plan and then change it. A great deal of what will happen this year has to do with what will happen this next month. But for me writing the next record, it usually takes me awhile to find the new sound. It usually takes me a year to shed the last album’s sound and start anew. And this one just started on new territory. You keep segueing perfectly to the next question on my list–Yes! Which is: You’ve said you have a new sound for this album. How would you describe that?Hmm. Describing it is difficult. At the core of what I do, it’s always going to revolve around a confessional storyline and filling my fans in on what my life has actually been. It’s become this lifeline between me and my friends and they know that no matter what they read in some magazine, they’re going to hear the actual accounting of it when the album comes out. I’ve always written songs for the same reason — to sort through my emotions. As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing — hopefully. We also have some questions for our Christmas survey. The first song you want to listen to when you start playing Christmas music each year?So many! Colbie Caillat has a great Christmas album I’m obsessed with. I love the She & Him Christmas stuff. Bing Crosby, of course. “All I Want for Christmas Is You” by Mariah Carey. Beach Boys have great Christmas music. Train has this song called “Shake Up Christmas.” I have so many favorite Christmas songs right now. What’s the hidden-gem Christmas song you wish more people knew about?Huh … Can I get out my phone? Absolutely. That’s not cheating.Okay. I’m on it! … There’s one called “It’s Christmas Time” by Jules Larson, that I find to be just delightful. Oh, and Fountains of Wayne has a song called “ Valley Winter Song.” I’m obsessed with it and I’ve turned it in my mind into a Christmas song. And what is the one Christmas song that you cannot stand?I don’t have one really. I only download the ones I like.
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Post by Admin on Jan 5, 2014 0:25:00 GMT
Taylor Swift energetically paced the room of her West Hollywood hotel on a recent visit to Los Angeles. "I'm trying to outrun the jet lag," she said with a smile, looking far from ragged in her matching purple sweater and skirt. Before landing in L.A., she'd flown from Australia to London, then on to Nashville on her way back from the latest leg of her "Red" tour. Taylor Swift performs in Melbourne, Australia. Her song "Sweeter Than Fiction" for the film "One Chance" is nominated for a Golden Globe. "When you're watching the movie, at times you sit there and you can't believe it really happened," Swift said. "It's a true story that seems like a fairy tale — and I loved that. If you watch a fairy tale, there's an element of fiction to it, but pairing it with the truth — a real-life story with this fairy tale feeling — was something I found to be unique and really beautiful." Swift said she hadn't known much more about Potts beyond the popular YouTube clip of his first audition singing Puccini's "Nessun Dorma" aria."I'd seen the viral video, so many people had seen that and were moved by that," she said. "But I never had any idea how much of the story we never saw." "There were a lot of different, obvious ways to go with the concept of the song," Swift said of " Sweeter Than Fiction." "One of them," she said, adopting an artificially callow voice, "was 'I want to achieve my dreams and I'm not going to stop till I do.'" Instead, she wrote "Sweeter Than Fiction" from the perspective of Potts' girlfriend, Jules, whom he marries well before entering the "Britain's Got Talent" contest. Her unflagging support of her husband's dream through thick, and mostly thin, is what got Swift's attention. "This woman stood by him and worked at this pharmacy and supported him while he was at one point unemployed … with this crazy dream that he wanted to be an opera singer," she said. "And no matter what, she never told him to stop. She unselfishly supported him throughout the good and the bad. I just found it to be beautiful. It's this amazing story of love after the butterflies are gone, when it really has to be love and support. That's why I chose that story line." Swift collaborated with Jack Antonoff of the band fun. on the movie's end-credits song, which has something of an '80s Brit-pop feel. "I really wanted to work with Jack Antonoff on the song because he does an amazing job of walking this line between very current-sounding music and shades of nostalgic-sounding music," she said. "You're transported a little bit back to late '80s and early '90s, which a lot of the story takes place. That's what we were going for."
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