Taylor Swift, five-time Grammy award winner, who has delivered hits after hits is now releasing her fourth studio album, "Red" on Monday.
Swift made her major label debut when she was 16, and delivered songs which got her the stardom and life she always wished for as a child. Her new album "Red" has 10 songs written by Swift and 6 more with collaborators. She expresses her excitement and joy linked with this album. Swift said in a telephone interview that this album is more of her "diary entries" of her last two years.
"There were beginnings and ends and there were ups and downs, and lessons that I learned and then had to learn all over again the exact same way ... the ups and downs of the whole experience of falling in love and being let down and letting go and starting over," she said.
Swift's last hit "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" was Billboard's most-downloaded first week digital single. And now "Red" is all set to set new records.
Swift is working with co-writers and producing collaborators in this album, including Max Martin, Dan Wilson and Shellback. Her desire to work with other song-writers was because she wanted to come out of her comfort zone of writing alone. Swift said in an interview published in Chicago Tribune: "Although it's a cozy place to go-and there are 10 of 16 songs written by me alone on this album-I still felt that in order to really push myself and make the adventurous record I wanted to make, I wanted to work with new people who could teach me new things."
Swift had her inspirations for the songs but would like to keep it private.
"For me, keeping my private life private and only sharing it with people through my music allows me to have that connection with my fans and not shut them out of anything," she told Reuters. "But it allows me to also have something that's just mine."
Swift expressed her immense joy and excitement on winning an award, she defines it as a "crazy experience" when her name is called out. "If you really take that advice to heart, you freak out when you win an award.
"If you're really living in the moment, you're not bored that you won an award. I got a Grammy this year, and I really tried hard not to be as excited - not to act so excited when I won. But," she said, breaking into laughter, "I get so excited and I just was; I was really, really happy about it."