Songwriting is the topic of the moment for Taylor Swift.

The 23-year-old pop 星, つ星 was honoured for a record sixth time as songwriter-artist of the 年 によって the Nashville Songwriters Association International, surpassing guys like Vince Gill and Alan Jackson. She earned the award with 14 hits in the 上, ページのトップへ 30 over the last year, a tribute to the popularity of her multiplatinum fourth album, Red.

As 迅速, スウィフト accepts the award, she’s six months deep in the songwriting process for her 次 album.

“I think the goal for the 次 album is to continue to change, and never change in the same way twice,” the seven-time Grammy winner said. “How do I write these figurative diary entries in ways that I’ve never written them before and to a sonic backdrop that I’ve never explored before? It’s my fifth album, which is crazy to think about, but I think what I’m noticing about it so far is it’s definitely taking a different turn than anything I’ve done before.”


迅速, スウィフト sat down after the 最近 ribbon-cutting on the new $4 million (Dh14.6 million) Taylor 迅速, スウィフト Education Centre at the Country 音楽 Hall of Fame and Museum in her adopted hometown to talk about what’s to come with the new album, her six Country 音楽 Association Award nominations, her friend and fellow Nashville resident Ed Sheeran and Madonna.

Next 月 あなた leave on a stadium tour of Australia, making あなた the first female solo performer to tour that country since マドンナ 20 years ago. マドンナ was the 上, ページのトップへ pop 星, つ星 in the world at the time. Do あなた see yourself as that kind of pop star?

I would never see myself that way. I see myself as kind of this girl who writes songs in her bedroom. あなた can kind of dress it up all あなた want and あなた can put together an amazing theatrical production, あなた can become a better performer as time goes by, and あなた can try to excite people, but I’m always going to be a girl who writes songs in her bedroom in my own personal perception of myself. And I think it’s important that I don’t necessarily think too hard about what everybody else’s perception of me is または else I’d just get completely ロスト in it. It’s just easier to think of myself that way.

You’re up for entertainer of the 年 again at the CMAs on November 6. If あなた win, you’ll become the first woman with three wins, passing Barbara Mandrell. How do あなた feel about that?

I think winning entertainer of the 年 would be an 驚異 thing to happen in my life because I still sometimes can’t believe I’ve gotten to win that twice. So a third time, what I think it would mean for my fans, would be the biggest feeling I would have. Just knowing the, I think, 1.3 million people we saw this 年 in the US would get to know that they contributed to that and that they being frenzied and covering themselves in クリスマス lights and making signs and learning the lyrics and screaming at the 上, ページのトップへ of their lungs and dancing for two hours straight at my 表示する somehow moved the needle and impacted my life in a way that I’ll remember when I’m 85 if I get to be 85.

You 発言しました recently you’ve been working on songs for the new album for about six months. What can あなた tell us about what あなた have planned?

t’s too early to tell who are going to be my predominant collaborators, but I do know that my absolute dream collaborators were Shellback and Max Martin on the last project. I’ve never been so challenged as a songwriter. I’ve never learned so much. I’ve never just been so excited to 表示する up to the studio every day, just because あなた never know what we’re going to put together. I’ll bring in ideas and they’ll take such a different turn than where I thought they were going to go, and that level of unexpected spontaneity is something that really thrills me in the process of making music. ... What if we did this? What if we made it weirder? What if we took it darker? I 愛 people who have endless strange and exciting ideas about where 音楽 can go.

How far are あなた willing to push the boundaries of your sound?

I definitely think that with 音楽 my favourite thing about Nashville is that it’s a 音楽 hub that accepts and allows all genres to be present, and I think there’s been a kind of fusing of genres lately that for me makes me really happy and excited. I am blown away at getting six CMA nominations in a 年 that I pushed the boundaries of what a genre is もっと見る than ever before. I’m so happy that people understood what I was doing conceptually. Getting those six CMA nominations to me signified that this community knew that I was not running from where I come from. I was exploring, and I think the もっと見る people who know what country 音楽 is, the もっと見る people will gravitate toward Nashville.

Speaking of Nashville, I think あなた convinced your friend Ed Sheeran to 移動する here ...

Oh, I definitely did. Ed loves Nashville. あなた know, so many people live here now. It’s really exciting because nobody who comes here ... doesn’t like it, and it just makes me proud to live here and it makes me proud to make 音楽 here and I 愛 it. I just 愛 it becoming such an exciting place to live after eight years.