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Prior to the release of her The 1989 World Tour Live concert film, Taylor Swift sat down with Zane Lowe, Beats 1 radio host to talk about her music, squad & her viral letter that she wrote to Apple Music back in June. 

Taylor posted a letter to her Tumblr page, criticizing Apple for offering a free three month trial for users who signed up for the service, thus not allowing artists, producers and writers to not be compensated during that time.

She worried Apple would turn against her,

 

“I was struck by this overwhelming sense of fear. Like, ‘Are they gonna turn my phone off? Are they gonna turn the video camera on? Are they watching me right now? Am I gonna wake up tomorrow and all my music is off of iTunes? Like, absolute terror hit,” she said. “Fast forward a couple hours and everything was different. They had shown so much humility in what they did that I think not only me, but I think a lot of other artists gained a reverence and a respect for the fact that they actually listened to our community.”

 

All is well that ends well though, as it was announced over the weekend that Taylor would release her ‘1989 World Tour LIVE’ concert film exclusively to Apple Music on December 20th.

 

 

Below are other excerpts from her interview via Billboard.

 

On 1989 As a Pop Album Rather Than Country:

 

 “I tend to go one dream at a time. And the thing about 1989 was that it was a huge change for me. I knew I wanted to step out of country and go into pop, I knew I wanted to be very transparent about it. Of course, I got a lot of resistance from every part of my team on that, because if something’s working, a lot of people feel like, why would you change that? But I just wanted to make something different than I’d ever made before. So I just kind of made this record on my own, turned it in to the label and said, ‘This is what it is. It’s gonna be labeled pop. I know this is a huge change for you guys, but this is what’s natural for me.’”

 

On Her Friends Being Part of the Album and Tour:

 

 “It would be weird to not include my friends. These are the people who helped me get to the point where I could make this album. These were the ones who were like, ‘Don’t listen to your label. Do whatever you want. Don’t listen to anyone saying you can’t change into something that you feel like doing.’ And so when this album came about, I’d have my friends walk down the cat walk because it was fun. The reasons we did any of that is just because it was fun to. And we had some of the most amazing memories just around this tour.”

 

On Her Past Year:

 

“I’ve had a few years that I’d consider career breakthrough years; one of them was when I had that album Fearless that I did when I was 18. And that was just a whirlwind and amazing and huge and successful, but I was caught in it like it was a tornado… It was a lot of stress and anxiety that I didn’t have this year. This year was really big, but it was also equally as fun. And that’s what I’m so happy about.”

 

On Dealing With the Downsides of Success:

 

“Something that scares me a little bit is how valuable it would be to find something that I’ve done wrong, or to find something that is problematic about me. I do have moments where I get really scared, like, ‘Who’s trying to take pictures inside my hotel room window?’ You live your life with the blinds drawn in every room you go into. And that’s the part that kind of gets to me sometimes, is that every day — like right now, there’s someone in TMZ trying to dig through my trash and figure out what I did wrong. “It’s only when I look down the line that I see it being a problem. You have moments where you just get really scared and really paranoid and you feel like there are people just kind of nipping at your heels all the time, blaming stuff on you that you didn’t do, all that. But I can take that, because I wanted this and I get to stand on the stage and I love this. It’s just when other people would be affected that I think that I would have a real issue.”