{"id":634096,"date":"2026-04-28T12:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/634096\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T12:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:26:07","slug":"how-taylor-swift-writes-a-song-in-her-own-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/634096\/","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-1p889w5 etfikam0\">Interview by Joe Coscarelli<br \/>Directed by Joshua Charow<\/p>\n<p>Video Credits<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>Archival Image Credits<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":2,"featured_media":634097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[237169,49,48,4398,75,341,236921,237168,12409,12408],"class_list":["post-634096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-americansongwriters2026","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-country-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-pop-and-rock-music","tag-reputation-album","tag-swift","tag-taylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}