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Taylor Swift on Why Real People Inspired Her Album 'Speak Now'
By Christopher John Farley Speakeasy recently traveled down to Nashville to interview country star Taylor Swift, who has a new album due out next week called "Speak Now." You can read our interview with Swift here. Swift had much more to say beyond what made it into the story in today's Wall Street Journal, so we'll be running some of the excerpts this weekend. Check back in to see them. Swift says the songs on the album were all inspired by real people from her life. The tracks have already set up a Web-wide guessing game about whom the lyrics are really about: John Mayer? Taylor Lautner? Kayne West? All of them and more? "I think growing up is a tricky business," says the 20-year-old singer-songwriter. "I've learned all these lessons and come to all these realizations in a very intense two-year period of time. I felt a lot of different intense emotions that I wrote about for this album." Swift says her songs are focused on the people in her life–including ex-boyfriends–because the trappings of her career as a star musician don't inspire her as a writer. "I never write about the road," Swift says. "I never write about hotels or anything like that. I write about how people make me feel. And how what people say makes me feel, And how I wish people would feel about me." Want to check out Swift's new album? Here's a clip from the title track....
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