Blank Space
“Blank Space” is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for her fifth studio album 1989. Swift co-wrote the song with its producers, Max Martin and Shellback. She conceived the song as a satirical self-referent nod to her reputation as a flirtatious woman with a series of romantic attachments. Musically, it is an electropop song with minimal hip hop-influenced beats.
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“Blank Space” is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for her fifth studio album 1989. The song was released to US radio stations as the second single from 1989 on November 10, 2014, by Republic Records in partnership with Swift’s label at the time, Big Machine. Swift co-wrote the song with its producers, Max Martin and Shellback. She conceived the song as a satirical self-referential nod to her reputation as a flirtatious woman with a series of romantic attachments, which blemished her once-wholesome girl next door image. Musically, it is an electropop song with minimal hip hop-influenced beats. It was certified eight times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America and had sold 4. 6 million copies in the US by July 2019. It also topped charts in Australia, Canada, Iceland, Scotland, and South Africa. The video won Best Pop Video and Best Female Video at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards. Swift has included the song on the set lists for two of her concert tours: the 1989 World Tour and Reputation Stadium Tour. It has been adapted into cover versions of different genres by several rock musicians including I Prevail and Ryan Adams. It featured on decade-end lists by such publications as Billboard, Rolling Stone, and Slant Magazine. Swift said that she envisioned the song to be a satiricalSelf-referent nod to the media perception of her image as a girl who’s crazy but seductive but glamorous but nuts but manipulative. She admitted that she had felt personally attacked for a long time before realizing \”it was kind of hilarious\”.
In the lyrics, she describes herself as a “nightmare lover dressed like a daydream”. The chorus contains the line: “Got a long list of ex-lovers, But I’ve got a blank space, And I’ll write your name, baby” The song earned three nominations at the 58th Grammy Awards, including two general categories: Record of the Year and Song of the year. Swift disliked the media portrayal of her as a \”serial-dater\”, feeling that it undermined her professional works, and became reticent to discuss her personal life in public. The tabloid scrutiny on her image prompted her to write satirical songs about her perceived image, in addition to her traditional romantic themes. In 2015, she told NME that when she wrote the song, she felt like the people who thought she was a psychopath were “really owning the fact that I’m really a psychopath”. The line is often misheard as \”All the lonely lovers\”, prompting a response from Starbucks themselves upon the song’s release, including including a response to a long-list of Starbucks lovers. Swift and Swedish producer Max Martin served as executive producers for 1989, and Martin and his frequent collaborator Shellback produced seven out of 13 songs on the album’s standard edition. The recording process began in mid-2013 concurrently with the start of Swift’s headlining world tour in support of her fourth studio album Red.
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