Blank Space - Voice Memo

So this next clip is, uh, from a session that I had with Max Martin and Johan

Schellback.

And what we like to do is we like to run, um, a recording on our phones of everything we're doing when we're putting a song together, just in case one of us blurts out a cool melody and then we forget about it.

We wanna go back and then, and replay the tape so that we can remind ourselves what exactly we were saying.

Um, so I brought in this idea called Blank Space, and this was me playing it for Max and Johan for the first time, and they're shouting out these producs- production ideas like, you know, the oh at the beginning of the chorus.

Um, and that ended up in the song.

So this is the very beginning stages of a song on the album called Blank Space.

Like, nice to meet you, where you been? I could show you incredible things.

Diamonds, seasides, all these dreams. I said something, it's in the air. Oh my God.

Listen up. I said that I do too.

I assume much, I assume you.

Honest, honest, honest, I. We can all assume you're so good.

All you think about is time. Understand it's standing there. Oh my God. Listen to me.

Do you get what you heard about me? Don't believe what you hear about me. Hear about me.

'Cause it's gonna be forever. Or gonna go, yeah. Ay.

-It's gonna be forever. -Ay.

-Ay. -We're gonna go down in flames.

-Someone tell me when it's over. -Oh.

This is like a, this is like a m- early 2000s Nelly track now.

Look in this star next star. Got along like star-crossed lovers.

Till, tell you I'm a say.

That I've got a blank space baby. I'll write your name.

-Do it. You gotta do the. . . Mm-mm.

-What it says, "Baby, I'll write your -name. " -That's awesome. So annoying. I love it.

-Yeah, that's really good. -I love it.

Oh my God, everyone's gonna -kill you. -Yeah.

Good thing-