Taylor Swift dropped her concert film "The 1989 World Tour LIVE" exclusively via Apple Music yesterday, December 20, and it revealed some fast facts about the 26-year-old singer that fans may not know about her.
The two-hour film was shot at Sydney's ANZ Stadium in November, and it is reportedly loaded with behind-the-scenes commentary from the talented singer herself. Apart from the tons of surprise guests featured in the video, Swift revealed many surprising facts about herself.
Below are five interesting facts about Taylor Swift revealed in the "1989 World Tour Live," as previously reported by People.
· Taylor likes "Blank Space" more than any of her other songs on "1989."
Swift said "Blank Space" is a highlight for her during each night of her tour, especially as she and her team makes it a point to replicate the music video perfectly for the "1989" stage.
· Taylor didn't expect Justin Timberlake to say yes to guesting on her tour.
"Of course I invited him, but I did not expect him to say yes," she said at the behind-the-scenes commentary during a shot of their duet on "Mirrors" at L.A. In a shot of their rehearsal, Timberlake even told Swift that the last time he'd done pyro was during his 'N SYNC days.
· The first question Taylor asks each of her guests is what color they want the audience to be.
As noted by Rolling Stone, Swift revealed in the "1989 World Tour Live" video that she offers all her musical guests the choice of what they want to see the audience in with their color-changing light-up bracelets, which is offered to each concert goer upon entry.
The American singer also asks her guests whether they liked pyrotechnics for their shows, too.
"I didn't want them to come and donate their time and their energy to be on my stage and not have it feel like I cared enough to give them anything that made it feel huge. I just wanted us to go all out," Swift shared.
"...we would just decide together what the performance should look like," Swift said in the ABC News preview.
- It's all about the squad.
Swift said the "1989" album and tour was more about doing it with friends than doing it on her own, which explains the number of people she shared her stage with.
- "1989" was inspired by her Grammy failure in "Red."
After losing the Grammy for the album of the year award with her "Red" album, Swift said she thought a lot about her life's direction and decided that she needed to change something.
"I went to bed, and I woke up at 4 in the morning, and I knew what the next album needed to be ... Everything about this new phase and this new chapter has to be different," Taylor said.