Taylor Swift expresses desire to honor country music roots

In a career-spanning interview with Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. for the Icon Sessions series, Taylor Swift expressed a growing desire to honor her country music roots. Swift reflected on her formative years in Nashville, noting that the people there shaped her identity as an artist and writer.

Swift discussed her early career milestones, including her goal to perform at the Bluebird Cafe and her debut single, ‘Tim McGraw’. She noted that her early work contained hints of her future musical trajectory. This nostalgia follows her recent release, ‘I Knew It, I Knew You’, which became a historic country hit as the first song by a female artist to have every country radio station reporting to Mediabase agree to play it within its first week.