Taylor Swift - I Know Places (Voice Memo)(2014)

[00:00.63] So over the years, a lot of people have asked me
[00:02.99] To sort of describe my song writing process from beginning to end
[00:07.15] How long does it take?
[00:08.26] Where do you write?
[00:08.91] What are the circumstances?
[00:10.28] Do you start with music?
[00:11.27] Do you start with lyrics?
[00:12.69] Um, and, you know my answer is always that it happens differently every time
[00:17.21] And that's why I'm still so in love with songwriting
[00:19.50] So what I've done here is shown you three different examples of, um
[00:24.72] The beginning stages of these songs and how they each started, uh, different ways
[00:29.79] So um, I'll explain them to you and maybe that will help you understand kind of
[00:35.16] How I put songs together
[00:37.22] I sent this voice memo to Ryan Tedder because I'd always wanted to work with him
[00:41.03] And finally we, we scheduled some studio time
[00:44.05] So I always wanna be prepared
[00:47.50] I wanted to send him the idea that I was working on before we went into the studio
[00:51.71] Just in case he wrote back and said
[00:53.14] "I can't stand that, I wanna work on something else, think of something else"
[00:56.20] So, um, I just sat down with the piano, put my phone on top of the piano
[01:01.04] And just kind of explained to him where I wanted to go with the song
[01:04.82] How I saw the melody sitting in
[01:07.17] And, um, we ended up recording the song the next day
[01:11.11] And it ended up being on the record called, uh, "I Know Places"
[01:14.03] So this was the voice memo I sent to him
[01:16.22] The night before we ended up finishing the song
[01:20.13] Okay so this is kind of this rough idea thing
[01:31.21] Uh-uh-uh-oh
[01:32.84] Oh-oh-oh-I
[01:34.28] Oh-oh-oh-oh
[01:35.90] Oh-oh-oh-I
[01:37.58] Oh-oh-oh-oh
[01:39.08] Oh-oh-oh-I-I-I
[01:43.35] Na na na na, waiting at the back door
[01:46.54] They're around and the vultures come around
[01:49.59] And you know that they, what they want us
[01:52.64] Say what they want 'bout, say what they want 'bout us
[01:55.81] And you come and sing [?]
[01:58.89] I would not think about it, but I'm not done
[02:01.75] Ever know that a thing or two about it, thing or two about it, I
[02:07.32] 'Cause they got the cages, they got the boxes
[02:12.52] And guns
[02:13.94] They are the hunters, we are the foxes
[02:18.28] And we run
[02:19.74] Baby, I know some places we won't be found
[02:25.68] And they'll be chasing their tails trying to track us down
[02:31.45] Cause I, I know places we can hide
[02:41.34] I know places, I know places
[02:53.19] Uh-uh-uh-uh
[02:54.59] Uh-uh-uh-I
[02:56.25] Uh-uh-uh-I
[02:57.84] Uh-uh-uh-I
[02:59.21] Know places
[03:00.53] Or whatever, I don't know, but that's basically
[03:02.66] Just like a dark, really dark, like, um, lyric, like bridge thing and it's about like, uh
[03:09.75] Everybody's like, trying to get into and like, ruin a love or whatever and it's like, you just
[03:15.35] Whatever, you know
[03:17.10] Um, and then the chorus would just go to that major and just like, be like ohh, chorus
[03:21.56] Um, so I hope you like it
[03:24.50] It wouldn't be a piano thing, it would be like
[03:26.19] Nnn, ss, nn nnn, ss, nn
[03:29.36] Like very, like, beat
[03:30.88] Now I'm just making weird sounds
[03:32.97] Hope you like it
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