{"id":215896,"date":"2026-04-30T20:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/215896\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T20:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:51:07","slug":"how-taylor-swift-writes-a-song-in-her-own-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/215896\/","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\">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":215897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[83911,174,1613,9,11,10,20075,85178,83906,22027],"class_list":["post-215896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-americansongwriters2026","tag-content-type-personal-profile","tag-country-music","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-pop-and-rock-music","tag-reputation-album","tag-swift","tag-taylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}