The Grammy-winning singer also tells the audience how newspaper headlines about her inspired her to write the song.
- Jan 8, 2016
AceShowbiz - Taylor Swift performed a stripped-off version of her hit "Blank Space" when she visited the Grammy Museum in September. The 26-year-old singer made an introduction to the performance by telling the audience of how she came up with the song.
"In the last couple years, the media have had a really wonderful fixation on kind of painting me as the psycho, serial dater girl. It's been awesome - I loved it," Swift said, inviting laughter from the audience. She went on reading some of the headlines, saying every one of them described her personality different than the reality.
"My first reaction was to be like 'Man that's a bummer, this isn't fun for me'. But then my second reaction ended up being, hey that's actually kind of a really interesting character they're writing about, she jet sets around the world collecting men, and she can get any of them, but she's so clingy that they leave and she cries, and then she gets another one in her web and she traps them and locks them in her mansion and then she's crying in her marble bathtub surrounded by pearls." Then she jumped into the acoustic version of the song.
"Blank Space" appears on Swift's "1989" album which was released in 2014. She also performed other songs from the album including "Wildest Dreams" and "Out of the Woods" at the Grammy Museum.
