{"id":764365,"date":"2026-04-30T20:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/764365\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T20:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:38:15","slug":"how-taylor-swift-writes-a-song-in-her-own-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/764365\/","title":{"rendered":"How Taylor Swift Writes a Song, In Her Own Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">The New York Times Magazine polled more than 250 music insiders and gathered six Times critics to choose the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2026\/magazine\/greatest-american-songwriters-alive.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">30 Greatest Living American Songwriters<\/a>. One artist who made the list was Taylor Swift. The writer Joe Coscarelli met with Swift in Los Angeles to talk about the craft of songwriting. In this 30-minute interview, Swift explains her process, the stories behind some of her biggest hits, her love of a \u201crant bridge\u201d and how life in the public eye informs the stories she tells in her songs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">Who do you think are the greatest living American songwriters? <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2026\/04\/27\/magazine\/greatest-american-songwriters-vote.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nominate up to 10 names here.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1p889w5 etfikam0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Interview by Joe Coscarelli<\/strong><br \/><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Directed by Joshua Charow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Video Credits<\/strong><br \/>Camera Operator: Jackson Montemayor<br \/>Sound Mixer: Tessa Murphy<br \/>Gaffer: Michael Tellup<br \/>Editor: Abraham Howard<br \/>Colorist: Stephen Derluguian<br \/>Post Sound Mixer: Bobb Barito<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Archival Image Credits<\/strong><br \/>Videos: YouTube<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Times Magazine polled more than 250 music insiders and gathered six Times critics to choose&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":764366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,313933,155799,3988,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,49330,313932,39567,18912,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-764365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-americansongwriters2026","tag-content-type-personal-profile","tag-country-music","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-pop-and-rock-music","tag-reputation-album","tag-swift","tag-taylor","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116495588238063319","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}