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"She reached out — she’s very hands-on and in control of what she’s doing. So she came to my little studio in Venice [Calif.], showed up by herself, with no entourage. She brought her guitar and sat down and said, ‘Hey, thanks for meeting with me – I’ve got this song I’d love you to produce. Here it is.’ And she played this song all the way through on her guitar on my couch, and said, ‘What do you think?’ And I’m like, ‘That’s amazing.’ Here’s a complete thought, a complete thing. She did the homework, she laid all the groundwork beforehand. There’s no smoke and mirrors or fluke or trendiness going on with her – this is music she writes from her experiences. That’s a real artist.

 

I’ll tell you one other little tidbit about Taylor’s sessions, to give you an idea of how tough this girl is. It was a summer day, and in my vocal booth, sometimes I turn the air conditioning off so it won’t make noise while we’re recording. I had kind of forgotten about that, and she’d been in there for a long time. And she was like, ‘Can I come out? It’s kind of hot in here.’ And she came out, and she’s all sweating – it was hotboxed in there. I’m about to kill this poor girl! I almost sent Taylor Swift to the hospital for dehydration! And she did not complain, she did not diva out – she came to work. I was just mortified. [laughs]

 

But that was one of the big things where I realized Man, she’s a really hard worker. Talent is important, but the common denominator with all these people we’re talking about is that they’re the hardest working people out there. And that’s all you can ask for, as a producer – to ride with them. You need a buddy. You [the artist] need someone there where, like, if you’re tired, you keep going, you pick each other up, you encourage each other, you challenge each other. You always want to be around people who are smarter and better than you."

Taylor Swift was so moved when she saw a film that charts Paul Potts’s journey from amateur opera singer to unlikely maestro of a TV reality show that she decided to write a song for it.

 

The number, Sweeter Than Fiction, will be unveiled next Friday when the movie One Chance, starring James Corden as Potts, has its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

 

The song — which Taylor wrote with Jack Antonoff, guitarist for the band Fun — plays during the  movie’s final credits, but Taylor might be persuaded to give a live rendering following the gala screening in Toronto. 

 

James Corden might even do a duet with her.

 

Actually, it’s a good, poppy song that makes the point that ‘life is sweeter than fiction’. 

 

That’s certainly true of Potts’s rise from obscurity to national attention on Britain’s Got Talent.

 

Movie impresario Harvey Weinstein graciously credited Simon Cowell for getting Taylor involved in the soundtrack.

 

‘Simon knows her through the One Direction connection and he thought she’d be touched by the film, and he was right because she was,’ 

 

Weinstein said when I bumped into him in New York. I gather Taylor’s looking at screenplays because she has hopes of making her big-screen debut. 

 

There are certainly one or two musical films being developed that would suit her down to the ground.

 

I’m sure she’ll be bombarded by producers and studio executives when she joins James and actress Alexandra Roach on the red carpet in Toronto.

 

Taylor’s last involvement in a movie soundtrack  was Safe & Sound on The Hunger Games.

Singer has a list of collaborators for ‘Red’ follow-up

 

On Saturday, Taylor Swift brought her massive stadium spectacle to New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium,  surprising 55,000 shrieking fans by inviting Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump onstage for “My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)" and hovering over the crowd on a platform during “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together." Backstage after the show, Swift toldRolling Stone she is already looking ahead to her next album, the follow-up to last year’s Red.

 

"The floodgates just opened the last couple weeks," she says of the songwriting process. “I’m getting to that point where I’m irritating to be around because I’ll be with you for half the conversation and then the second half of the conversation I’m clearly editing the second verse of whatever I’m writing in my head."

 

On Red, Swift experimented with pop collaborations, writing with hitmakers like Max Martin, Shellback and Dan Wilson. And she already has a list of artists she wants to work with on her next LP.

 

"I really loved collaborating," she says. “You work with a lot of different people and you find the people you have this dream connection with in the studio. I know those people and I know the ones I want to go back to. But I also have a really long list of the people I admire and I would really love to go and contact. So that’s kind of where that is."

 

But one thing is for sure: she’s not looking to repeat Red.

 

"I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What’s the point? It’s so overwhelming that when you’re starting a project there are such endless possibilities if you’re willing to evolve and experiment. If you’re willing to become a different version of yourself, you can really go anywhere with it. And that’s kind of where I am. The kind of the laboratory experimental stage of really catching onto a new thing that I’m liking."

 

And what is that ‘new thing’?

 

"I can’t tell you," she says with a smile.

When Bhasker’s not writing for other artists, he’s producing their ideas and helping make their personal songs come to life, something he did for Taylor Swift and her most recent album Red. “That’s the ultimate thing, to put on the production hat and realize their visions; framing what they have in an interesting way or contemporary sense,” he explains. “Taylor brought in two songs that she had completely written and played them for me perfectly on the guitar. She asked me for my thoughts, and I said they were amazing. Once we tracked her vocals and guitar, we added the musical elements I would usually add and gave it a different flavor than if she would have recorded it in Nashville with a bunch of Nashville musicians.”

 

Bhasker says their collaboration, a song called “The Lucky One” about the trappings of fame, was one of his personal favorites from last year: “I was really impressed when she brought that. That track falls into a little bit more of a Springsteen, Joni Mitchell vein, which I think shows a lot of maturity and what a good songwriter she is. The lyrics are kind of about her, it has a story, and at the end I think she’s talking about Joni Mitchell rejecting fame, even though she never mentions her. She was on tour in a hotel room alone feeling a little too famous when she wrote that. To be able to express your feelings through music, that’s what it’s all about.”

In a triple threat collaboration, Tim McGraw is releasing “Highway Don’t Care” with Taylor Swift, featuring Keith Urban on guitar, as the next single from his No.1 album Two Lanes Of Freedom (Big Machine Records). The track caused a feverish reaction from country music fans, igniting early airplay and leading to a No. one debut on the Country Digital Songs chart before its official release to radio. The track the Washington Post calls “sublime” is already closing in on 30 on the radio charts.

 

Written by Brad Warren, Brett Warren, Mark Irwin and Josh Kear, the lyrics find McGraw and Swift trading vocals that emote the undeniable pain of being torn apart by distance. Along with soulful guitar licks by Urban, the dream team combines forces to create a landmark musical event being hailed by critics.

Swifties are squealing for joy as  Taylor Swift announces she will release “22” as the next single from “Red” on… drumroll please, April 1st.

 

The upbeat, feel good anthem was produced by Max Martin and Shellback, and has been sent for radio play in the U.S.

 

The pop tune has a hint of country with a catchy chorus that will sure become a hit on radio stations all across the world… but are we really surprised? Do you think ’22′ should be her next single? Listen to her perform “22″ acoustic, and let us know your thoughts in the comments below!