| chocoloco said: First off she should drop all country music for pure pop. [...] |
She did:
"Swift’s 2012 release ‘Red’ featured some songs with her well-known country sound, but the new album won’t nod toward her country roots at all. The reason? While Swift doesn’t totally explain the full-on switch, she admits to Rolling Stone, “… At a certain point, if you chase two rabbits, you lose them both.”
It’s because of this that she’s focusing on “blatant pop music.”
Not only will her album be a sonic reinvention, but Swift will be absent from country music awards shows and will not promote her album to country radio — a first for the singer whose early hits included a song titled ‘Tim McGraw.’
Swift explains that when she first turned in the record, famed Big Machine label head Scott Borchetta begged for more. “This is extraordinary – it’s the best album you’ve ever done,” he told her, asking, “Can you just give me three country songs?”
Swift’s response was short and sweet: “Love you, mean it … but this is how it’s going to be,” she says she told him."
http://tasteofcountry.com/taylor-swift-pop-country-songs-1989/
