ABC/Richard Harbaugh(NEW YORK) — Taylor Swift has revealed the first track on her new album.
“The first song on 1989 is a song called ‘Welcome to New York,’” she explained on Monday’s Good Morning America. “And I wanted to start the album with ‘Welcome To New York’ because New York has been an important landscape and location for the story of my life in the last couple of years,” Taylor said.
Written by Taylor and Ryan Tedder,”Welcome to New York” is available tonight at midnight exclusively on iTunes, but only if you’ve pre-ordered 1989. “Welcome to New York” follows the release of the singles “Out of the Woods” and “Shake It Off.”
Taylor said the Big Apple definitely inspired the track. “I dreamt about moving to New York, I obsessed over moving to New York and then I did it,” Taylor said. “The inspiration that I found in that city is kind of hard to describe and hard to compare to any other force of inspiration I’ve ever experienced in my life.”
“It’s like an electric city and I approached moving there with such wide-eyed optimism and sort of saw it as a place of endless potential and possibilities and you can kind of hear that reflected in this music and in this first song especially,” she continued.
1989 will be officially released October 27. Three days afterward, Taylor will perform live on GMA in Times Square.
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