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Taylor Swift is not on the new Frank Turner album
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 18 June 2015
Frank Turner had the opportunity to have Taylor Swift on his new album, ‘Positive Songs For Negative People’, and he turned it down.
Swift was suggested by Turner’s label Universal/Polydor to appear on ‘Silent Key’, a song about Christa McAuliffe, the primary school teacher who died on the Challenger space shuttle when it exploded shortly after take off in 1986.
“I wanted the end [of the song] to be sung by an American woman [pretending] to be Christa”, explained Turner to the NME. “The record label were suggesting some of the more famous people that [producer] Butch [Walker] has worked with, like, fucking Taylor Swift. No contact was ever made but they were like, ‘Let’s ask Taylor’. I was like, ‘That’s a fucking rubbish idea'”.
Rubbish? Or awesome? Anyway, in the end singer-songwriter Esmé Patterson did it.