Out of the Woods isn't just a different-sounding song for Taylor Swift, it represents a whole new approach to songwriting for her.
Released this morning on iTunes and streaming at RyanSeacrest.com, Out of the Woods has massive, '80s-inspired production and an apprehensive melody that "sounds exactly like that frantic feeling of anxiety and questioning" in a fragile relationship, the singer told Good Morning America Monday.
But the second song made available from Swift's forthcoming album 1989, written and recorded with Jack Antonoff of fun. and Bleachers, is also the first Swift has written to a pre-existing track. "I tend to want to create something with my guitar or piano and bring it in, then we create the track from the ground up," Swift tells USA TODAY. "But with Jack, he has something very emotional about what he does when creating a track. I can kind of read that emotion as soon as I hear it, and we work very well that way."
The song's arrangement layers '80s and contemporary elements, especially when it comes to the synthesizers. "I used a Yamaha DX7 a lot on that song, which is so uniquely '80s, but then countered it with a super-distorted Minimoog Voyager in the chorus," Antonoff says. "That sounds extremely modern to me. It's that back-and-forth."
Out of the Woods may never be a single for radio, Swift says, but she wanted people to hear it before the rest of 1989, out Oct. 27, because "I think it's the greatest example of the sound of this album."
Out of the Woods isn't just a different-sounding song for Taylor Swift, it represents a whole new approach to songwriting for her. Released this morning on iTunes and streaming at RyanSeacrest.com, Out of the Woods has massive, '80s-inspired production and an apprehensive melody that "sounds exactly like that frantic feeling of anxiety and questioning" in a fragile relationship, the singer told Good Morning America Monday.
But the second song made available from Swift's forthcoming album 1989, written and recorded with Jack Antonoff of fun. and Bleachers, is also the first Swift has written to a pre-existing track. "I tend to want to create something with my guitar or piano and bring it in, then we create the track from the ground up," Swift tells USA TODAY. "But with Jack, he has something very emotional about what he does when creating a track. I can kind of read that emotion as soon as I hear it, and we work very well that way." The song's arrangement layers '80s and contemporary elements, especially when it comes to the synthesizers. "I used a Yamaha DX7 a lot on that song, which is so uniquely '80s, but then countered it with a super-distorted Minimoog Voyager in the chorus," Antonoff says. "That sounds extremely modern to me. It's that back-and-forth." Out of the Woods may never be a single for radio, Swift says, but she wanted people to hear it before the rest of 1989, out Oct. 27, because "I think it's the greatest example of the sound of this album."