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New album “about heartbreak”, says Taylor Swift
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 18 January 2012
Well, here’s a surprise… country music darling Taylor Swift writing her next album about love and loss? Well, it worked well for Adele.
The 22 year old, who last year broke from a high-profile relationship with actor Jake Gyllenhaal, tells Vogue that her fourth record – the successor to 2010’s top-selling ‘Speak Now’ – will be inspired by “earth-shattering, not recent, but absolute crash-and-burn heartbreak”. Says a now single Swift: “That will turn out to be what the next album is about. The only way that I can feel better about myself – pull myself out of that awful pain of losing someone – is writing songs about it to get some sort of clarity”.
Noting the various “red flags” she’s now wary of when searching for her perfect match, the singer points out that, “if a dude is threatened by the fact that I need security [guards], that’s a bad sign”.
She adds: “I don’t have security to make myself look cool, or like I have an entourage. I have security because there’s a file of stalkers who want to take me home and chain me to a pipe in their basement”. Ah, that seems fair.
Read Taylor’s full Vogue cover story here.
