News has been swirling on social media about Taylor Swift who appeared without makeup in a behind the scenes Instagram post Monday as a way to celebrate her song \u201cOpalite\u201d as it soared to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.<\/p>\n
The raw video showed her in the recording studio with natural hair and no make-up, in contrast to the usual glitz and glam of her signature red lips and winged eyeliner.<\/p>\n
In a post on Instagram she wrote: \u201cJust a few Opalite memories to celebrate the Hot 100 #1<\/a> you guys just got this song!!<\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t even sum up my excitement and I\u2019m so blown away by the love you\u2019ve shown this song and video. To put this into perspective\u2026 This is actually the first time I\u2019ve had two Hot 100 #1s<\/a> off of one album since my album 1989 came out in 2014, nearly twelve years ago!<\/p>\n \u201cI know that\u2019s a lot of numbers but it all adds up to me being so thankful to the fans who helped make this happen by welcoming this song into your lives with open arms. Seriously bouncing off the walls about this!! Just wanted to say THANK YOU, might go buy a giant pretzel at the mall to celebrate, iykyk \ud83e\udd68\ud83c\udf35\ud83e\udea8”<\/p>\n The Instagram post also featured intimate, behind-the-scenes footage from her recording sessions to celebrate the success of her 14th No. 1 single.<\/p>\n Watch<\/p>\n In the footage, she\u2019s seen looking perky with a fresh new face and natural, wavy hair while working with producers in the studio.<\/p>\n Then, in an account on people.com <\/a> Swift shared an intimate glimpse into the studio alongside Max Martin and Shellback in the early production stages of the song.<\/p>\n Then in other photos and videos, Swift records vocals for \u201cOpalite\u201d and celebrates with Martin, 54, and Shellback, who also produced her 12th studio album, the story added.<\/p>\n She also would elaborate on the importance of her achievement, indicating that this was only the second time in her illustrious career that two songs from the same album reached the top of the Hot 100 \u2014 and listed the last as 2014\u2019s \u201c1989\u201d as was noted in a story on aol.com<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI know that\u2019s a lot of numbers but it all adds up to me being so thankful to the fans who helped make this happen by welcoming this song into your lives with open arms,\u201d she continued. \u201cSeriously bouncing off the walls about this!!\u201d the story on aol.com quoted her as saying.<\/p>\n MORE ON TAYLOR SWIFT<\/p>\n Interestingly, Swift is the highest grossing live music artist, the wealthiest female musician and one of the best-selling music artists of all time.<\/p>\n In 2022, she won Artist of the Year at the American Music Awards and Video of the Year for \u201cAll Too Well: The Short Film.\u201d<\/p>\n She also won the Grammy Award for Best Music Video.<\/p>\n The following year, she again won the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year with \u201cAnti-Hero,\u201d and became the first musician to rank at number one on Billboard\u2018s year-end top artists list in three different decades (2009, 2015 and 2023).<\/p>\n Read the original article on silive.com<\/a>. Add silive.com<\/a> as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n