Taylor Swift spills on her two fave things: British people and ‘bed rotting’ | Capital

8am on Capitol Breakfast and normally at this time on a Friday we go big but this isn't any old Friday. Today is the release day of the most anticipated album of the year. It's called The Life of a Showgirl and I can't believe I'm actually saying this. The lady who created it is joining the chat this morning. It's Taylor Swift! How are you? Oh never better. Yeah? Never better. Never been so excited about an album coming out and I think it's part of it's part part of it is maybe the fact that usually when you put out an album you made it like a year before so your life can change a lot between when you make it and when you put it out but with this album it's exactly where I'm at in my life. You know I'm exactly in the same spot as I was when I made this record so it feels very like it feels very accurate to my uh just my my life experience right now which feels kind of cool. That's so satisfying because you can listen to it and you know that you're still in that zone. Yes exactly exactly and I'm so proud of it. I made this record with Max Martin and Shellback who I hadn't worked with in maybe seven or eight years and it was really exciting to make it because it felt like we had all kind of gone out into the world and learned new skills and honed our powers and then come back together with new information and you hopefully hopefully better bigger stronger. Oh it's like the Avengers assemble we are actually getting straight into this track aren't we now? So many Swifties listening do you want to say hello to all of them? Hi guys I miss you all I used to you know I used to get to see your your beautiful faces every single you know three day yes period of time when we were doing the Eras tour so it's like I miss getting to see everybody. Oh well they are listening so I think we go straight in with the first song on the album would you like to introduce it to us please Taylor? This is the first single off of this album and the first song on the album it is a song I love so much I hope you do too it's called the fate of Ophelia. It's capital breakfast that song is called the fate of Ophelia and you know it was made by this lady that is with us right now it's Taylor Swift! Oh my god you just played it! That is so surreal listening to that with you and knowing it's going out live and all the audience the whole of the UK hearing that for the first time. Oh thank you for playing it it's crazy to me to have like to have to keep a secret for a very long time when you you make an album I'm big on secrecy I'm big on like surprising the fans and rolling it out a specific way so I you know it's weird to be making an album you're so proud of you're so obsessed with it but you can't talk about it to really anybody and it's this little secret you have and then all of a sudden it's out in the world and you guys are playing it for the entirety of the UK I'm so excited. It's so cool I mean just a lyric that stood out for me was that if you had never called I might have lingered in purgatory it's a great line what does that mean? So it means basically this it's all kind of a play on Ophelia from Hamlet who was driven mad by love and because of that you know she ends up like being driven mad and drowning and the play on it is like you saved me from that fate right you rescued me like meeting someone and finding someone who took you away from that way that your life could have gone so it's all very dramatic obviously because it's me but you know using kind of sometimes with with songwriting I'll use a specific language based on either the story I'm telling the characters I'm singing about or the kind of the subject matter at hand so when you're dealing with Shakespeare it's kind of fun to you know say things like you know I might have lingered in purgatory or you know using kind of like you wrap around me like a chain a crown a vine but then mixing the language with kind of more modern vernacular like you know like pledge allegiance to your hands your team your vibes like that's much more like modern day and then the bridge is me kind of like riffing off of riffing off of like different uh plays on on not lyrics lines from Hamlet actually amazing we're just gonna pause that we're just gonna sort out your microphone for a second apparently it slipped sorry it wasn't you didn't make it tall enough guys there's that happy guys there we go here we go um and am i right in thinking that most of this album was written on the european leg of your era's tour which you are right you're correct you are a machine how do you manage to write an album do this tour that everyone's talking about it are any of the tracks inspired by us brits or the uk maybe i mean you guys are like i was always based here so i would you know when i wasn't going to sweden i would come to london and you know i love london i love it here i love england i love like just getting to travel outside of where i was from to the places where most of my favorite writers wrote my favorite poems and things like that and also it's just like i think you guys are the coolest i love your sense of humor oh you know that yes you know you guys are cool um we have a very mickey taking sense of humor we take them what we say they're making absolutely yeah it's the sarcasm it's just it's all good and that's why so many of my friends and best friends or whatever are are british right you know surround myself with good people and i was going from playing shows on this tour to sweden like so that was that i know it sounds like it was exhausting but it's a different type of um feeling you get like when you're on stage three and a half hour show it's physically exhausting i needed to like stimulate my creative mind and my and my brain and and make something that would kind of fuel the fatigue i was feeling at that point in the tour because at that point we've been on tour for like two years i see so so most people go home get on the sofa and watch friends to chill out which i do all the time oh good i do i do that too okay you are human yeah yeah of course of course it's just like when you're inspired to write like for me that's like the most fun possible um but i also just like i just lay around so much i lay around i watch so much tv dossing just rotting dossing and dotting right look all the swifties are getting in touch we need to play another track we do can we play oh polite track three from the album i would love it would you please do let's get it on this is oh polite on capital breakfast oh polite playing this friday morning on capital breakfast it's jordan chris and sean if you've just put us on then not much happening on the show today apart from yeah you know taylor swift is here are we right in saying that that is your fiancee's favorite track travis loves i would i would say that you're right about that too yeah just been absolutely accurate on everything that you've assumed today um that that is i think that's his favorite he loves that one that one was like i kind of well i have like favorite words favorite phrases things that i'll put in like an endless file of lyrics that i'm just constantly gonna like go and cherry pick from when i'm writing and i had written down the word opalite because i learned that it's actually a man-made opal like opal can be man-made just like diamonds and so uh travis's birthstone is an opal so it's like that that i've always fixated on that i've always loved that stone and i thought it was a kind of a cool metaphor that like it's a man-made opal and happiness can also be man-made too yes so that's kind of what the song is about is that the kind of juxtaposition of those two oh there's already always so many layers with you taylor i'm always so impressed thanks it's so cool um also we need to say congratulations on the engagement we haven't seen you since that happened and it would be very rude of us because you are the queen of gifts for us not to give you a gift so here's so sweet of you oh and it's just it's perfect i mean look at the matchy matchiness of all this um and it says ts12 on it which is we've tried to get the orange the right shade it's so perfect okay all right all right yeah this is a great start what we're if you're listening we're i'm opening up a jewelry box that is mint colored and it has a cat in it it's a little opalite cat it's a perfect gift oh we're so chuffed we just wanted to get something that we knew you'd like present i'm so pleased so cute song's nailed it it's so cute no this is perfect and i'll always remember this from getting to like talk to you guys and come over here and and celebrate the album release with you guys oh it's amazing every time i look at this i'm going i love that don't forget mine no don't forget jordan's been very keen to impress you we both was so i love the fact no no did you bake i yeah sure um i love the fact pick me up some bread from the bakery no so right i love the fact that you make sourdough for your friends for special occasions and usually you give them cinnamon and raisins i've got a friend of mine who makes sour to put in a little surprise for you oh my god we did all the puns on the stickers oh my god elizabeth taylor is really good actually domantic fantastic thank you oh my god the fate of dophilia is so good oh my god that is so sweet see taylor thinks i'm funny jordan tell her what you what flavor you made so we made a greg sausage roll flavor god this is fantastic look at thank you this is great this is going to be my lunch yes love it we've nailed it all right a great sausage roll and i we're all big swifties right but you went up in my estimation at the era's tour when you organized a greg's van to be backstage for all your crew and workers because obviously we love greg's in the uk so we've put a little surprise in the bake for you there what did you put no in the middle of it is a full sausage roll is a sausage roll i i clocked that the first time you said sorry that's why that's why i said it's lunch just trying to get more praise this is so sweet thank you so these are perfect gifts no i'm not even joking thank you and congratulations genuinely we're so happy for you and all the swifties are thank you so much before you go you're gonna be asked all the same questions over the next few weeks um is there one question i'm actually not doing that many interviews and so you can do whatever you want i mean don't go crazy or whatever but like i'm i'm not doing a lot of interviews i won't worry i won't roll my eyes at you if you ask me a question you think is predictable you can roll your question you can roll your eyes at me but the one question i want to ask you is what is the one question you would like to be asked on this tour is there something you've not been asked yet don't make me do your job for you she's got you i'm not gonna make you no no i think you're doing a great job i think you should just keep do it just keep asking what you what you are curious about okay all right um well i'll tell you this before you gotta go that this is my favorite song on the album and i'm gonna play it right now it's wish list oh that means the world to me because that might be my favorite yeah that makes me so happy thank you for um thank you for saying that well also can we just say that i've never ever been more excited about an album like knowing that every single track is a banger like we were mind blown genuinely thank you yeah let's get it on first this is wish list from the album life of a showgirl it's out now go stream it help break taylor's own record but give it up mostly importantly for our guests this morning taylor swift thank you