Taylor Swift releases upbeat new single and video 'ME!'

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Taylor Swift releases upbeat new single and video 'ME!'

 

Singer Taylor Swift arrives for the iHeartRadio Music Awards in Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 14, 2019. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/Files

 

(Reuters) - Grammy-winning singer Taylor Swift on Friday released a cheerful pop duet called "ME!" along with a colorful video filled with pastel-drenched images of butterflies, rainbows and a young couple in love.

 

"ME!" features Brendon Urie, the lead singer of Panic! at the Disco, who at the video's start is fighting with Swift in a conversation in French. The video turns upbeat as the music starts. "I promise that you'll never find another like me," Swift sings.

 

"I'm the only one of me. Baby that's the fun of me," she adds.

 

Swift, 29, had been teasing an announcement for days on social media with pastel images that turned out to be scenes from the new video.

 

"'ME!' is a song about embracing your individuality and really celebrating it and owning it," Swift said hours earlier during an interview with ABC TV host Robin Roberts on the network's broadcast of the National Football League draft in Nashville.

 

"With a pop song, we have the ability to get a melody stuck in people's heads and I just want it to be one that makes them feel better about themselves," she said.

 

Swift began her career as a country singer in Nashville, Tennessee, at age 15 before branching out with pop hits such as "Shake It Off" and "Bad Blood."

 

On Thursday afternoon, Swift surprised hundreds of her fans by joining them at the unveiling of a butterfly wing mural in the Gulch area of Nashville. "ME!" was written in the center of the mural as a hint to her evening announcement.

 

The new video and single provided a stark contrast to her last album, 2017's "Reputation," which included songs such as "Look What You Made Me Do" that took aim at people who had attacked her personally and professionally.

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-04-27

[HuskerDo]

Taylor WHO? You mean the self absorbed woman who can't keep a guy and then writes a songs about how mean they were to her? Just imagine if all those guys wrote a song about their "experience" with her. I'm sure it would win album of the year, song of the year and collaboration of the year at the Grammys. ????

[sensei]

There's no more appropriate title than that!

[Proboscis]

20 hours ago, HuskerDo said:

Taylor WHO? You mean the self absorbed woman who can't keep a guy and then writes a songs about how mean they were to her? Just imagine if all those guys wrote a song about their "experience" with her. I'm sure it would win album of the year, song of the year and collaboration of the year at the Grammys. ????

Not all her songs are about how guys were mean to her! Actually very few are of the theme 'bad guy, he dumped me.' What about Blank Space? Perhaps the satire was too extreme for you and it definitely was not about a woman who could not keep a guy!

 

Perhaps you should get out more.

[tandor]

1 hour ago, sensei said:

There's no more appropriate title than that!

..ME..ME..ME...should be a hit in Thailand.

[BritManToo]

A once attractive teen that aged badly.

And her music aged badly too.

Edited April 28, 2019 by BritManToo

[HuskerDo]

13 hours ago, Proboscis said:

Not all her songs are about how guys were mean to her! Actually very few are of the theme 'bad guy, he dumped me.' What about Blank Space? Perhaps the satire was too extreme for you and it definitely was not about a woman who could not keep a guy!

 

Perhaps you should get out more.

Yes I'll have to rush right out and buy that new album. Most likely the greatest piece of music ever written. Yeesh!

 

Perhaps I should get out more? I have no idea what that has to do with poor music but OK!