Co-penned by hitmaker Ryan Tedder, the upbeat track was inspired by Swift's move to the Big Apple.
- October 21, 2014
AceShowbiz -
Taylor Swift has released a new song from her upcoming album, "1989". Hitting iTunes on Monday night, October 20, just hours after being previewed, the song called "Welcome to New York" was co-penned by the singer and OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder.
The upbeat and poppy track was inspired by New York City, the town where she lives now. In a video she shared on her YouTube page earlier on Monday, Swift says, "I dreamt about moving to New York, I obsessed over moving to New York and then I did it."
"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," she continues.
"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 adds.
"Welcome to New York" is the third song to have surfaced from "1989", following "Shake It Off" and "Out of the Woods". The album will be hitting shelves on October 27. To promote the release, Swift will make a bunch of TV appearances including on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" , "Good Morning America" and "The View".
