WATCH: Taylor Swift talks to Liza Fromer on Global’s The Morning Show.
TORONTO — Taylor Swift says her fifth studio album, 1989, is not just named for the year of her birth — it is inspired by the music of the time.
“One of the huge influences on the sound of this album was late-’80s pop like Peter Gabriel and Annie Lennox and The Eurythmics and Madonna ‘Like a Prayer’ and Fine Young Cannibals’ ‘She Drives Me Crazy’ — songs like that that were taking such risks at that time, production-wise,” she explained.
“They were trying out all kinds of production styles and drum sounds and vocal sampling — I love it.”
In an interview with Liza Fromer that aired Monday on Global’s The Morning Show, Swift said she wanted 1989 to be “sonically cohesive.”
“I want for my fans to hear a song from this record and know that it doesn’t belong on any other one of my albums, that it solely belongs on this one,” said the 24-year-old singer.
Released early Monday, 1989 is poised to become the first release of 2014 to be certified platinum. (Actress Lena Dunham tweeted: “Hope you enjoy October 27th or, as it shall now be called, national Taylor Swift day.”)
The album contains 13 songs, including the smash hit “Shake It Off” as well as songs about her relationship with One Direction’s Harry Styles (“Style”) and an apparent feud with Katy Perry (“Bad Blood”).
Swift said she knows the risks of getting so personal.
“I’ve been essentially opening up my diary for the world to read since I was 16 so that’s an interesting kind of vulnerability to have when you are telling your life story and revealing your life narrative and all the feelings you had about those things happening to you to people who are going to understand it and see your side of it,” said Swift.
“But you’re also revealing your life and your true emotions to people who just kind of want to take you down and make fun of you and don’t understand you.”
The second part of the conversation airs Tuesday on The Morning Show.
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