Clean (Commentary)

Thank you so much for joining us For the 1989 album release retrospective We' ve been looking back at Taylor Swift's album Because this is the fourth anniversary of that album In fact, all of her albums were released in either October or November And so, we are celebrating all of them But we've got one more song to play off of 1989 And It's kind of interesting Because it seems thus thogh Taylor was turning a corner As she was finishing this album And she explaines why she chose to make "Clean" The last track on 1989 "Clean" is the last song on the album for lot of reasons But, It's mostly the last song on the album because it felt like a completion Of this, kind of emotional process I'd been going through For the last couple of years I feel like my personal life was really, really discussed And critisized, and debated, and talked about To a point where it made me feel kind of almost tarnished and away, you know And the discussion wasn't about music, and it broke my heart That I'd made an album that I was proud of And I was touring the world And playing to so lot stadiums, and still They managed to want to only talk about my personal life At a certain point I felt a switch And it was at the end of recording this album That I began to feel like my life was mine again And my music was at the forefront again And I was living my life on my own terms And I really no longer cared what people were saying about me And that was when I started to see people talk less About the things that don't matter This song was one that I did with Imogen Heap Who I've idealised for so long And um, when I was over in London for the Red Tour She reached out and said "Hey, if you wanna come work, I'm here" And so I drove hours out of the city And went to her studio And watching her work Creating the track for the song Was the most inspiring experience She's comping vocals, and editing, and creating the track Playing the instruments I was absolutely astonished by that level of talent and skill So we wrote the song "Clean" which is essentially About allowing yourself to really feel pain And then, all of a sudden, time passes And, you've survived it, and you've made it out to the other side I would say she has done more than survive She has thrived, and this is a great song from Taylor It's "Clean" on Big Machine Radio