Knew You Were Trouble

Taylor Swift sat down with USA Today to discuss her new album, Red. Highlights from the interview can be found below.

On her song “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”: “a definitive portrait of how I felt when I finally stopped caring what my ex thought of me…So I made a song that I knew would absolutely drive him crazy when he heard it on the radio. Not only would it hopefully be played a lot, so that he’d have to hear it, but it’s the opposite of the kind of music that he was trying to make me feel inferior to.”

On working with new artists and people on Red: “I chose the artists and the producers because I like their style. I didn’t choose them because I wanted to force my style on them; I chose them because I wanted to learn from them. So they’re true collaborations, it’s not just somebody else singing on one of my songs that sounds like one of my songs. It’s a real mixture of the two influences.”

On her song “Treacherous”: “That song was about a person that I knew, from the minute I saw him, that it would end in fiery, burning wreckage. There’s something about that magnetic draw that doesn’t really let up. You walk toward it anyway.”

You can check out Taylor’s full interview, including more about her songs from Red, here. Red hits shelves this Monday, October 22!