Taylor Swift is releasing new political song with Netflix documentary "Miss Americana"
Taylor Swift addresses her mother’s health, confirming that the reason she is abbreviating her traditional yearlong tour is her need to be there for her mom: “While she was going through treatment, they found a brain tumor” https://t.co/wpsIstMIBz
- Variety (@Variety) January 21, 2020
In a new interview with Variety, Taylor Swift comments on her new documentary, her role in Cats, and a new political song called "Only the Young."
- “The doc doesn’t lack for its own protest songs though. In the wake of her midterm disappointment, Swift is seen writing an anthem for millennials who might have come away disillusioned with the political process.
- In the documentary, viewers will see Taylor working on the song. Its lyrics include: “You did all that you could do / The game was rigged, the ref got tricked/ The wrong ones think they’re right / We were outnumbered - this time.””
- The documentary is described as a film that "spends much of its opening act juxtaposing the joys of creation with the aggravations of global stardom - the grist of many a pop doc, if rendered in especially intimate detail - before taking a more provocative turn in its last reel to focus more tightly on how and why Swift became a political animal."
- In regards to Cats, she says, "I had a really great time working on that weird-ass movie. I’m not gonna retroactively decide that it wasn’t the best experience. I never would have met Andrew Lloyd Webber or gotten to see how he works, and now he’s my buddy."
- She also mentions that her tour will be shorter this year due to her mother's brain tumor.
https://instagram.com/p/B7lec5coaLz
Sources: 1, 2