We are celebrating the many milestones of Taylor Swift. It's the fourth anniversary of the release of her 1989 album and this next song that she recorded, it almost sounded like she was kind of poking fun at herself and it turns out, this actually didn't start out as a real song. Blank Space is one of the only songs I've ever written that I started out writing as a complete joke. I think as a songwriter you have to be pretty well aware of who you are as a person, but then I think you also have to have one eye on what people think of you and kind of what the general perception is of you out in the world. And in the last couple of years I've noticed there's been sort of a pretty sensational fictionalization of my personal life. I mean to the point where it's just sort of like, wow, that too? You know, they've kind of drawn up this profile of this girl who is a serial dater, jet-setting around with all her boyfriends and then, you know, she can get them but she can't keep them because she's too emotional and she's needy. Then she gets her heart broken because they leave and she's jilted so she goes to her evil lair and writes songs about it for revenge. It's just kind of this very complex profile of a person. I got to thinking about it and I started to think about how interesting that character is. If she were a real person who had all these qualities and attributes, what song would she write? And I'm pretty sure it would sound a little like this. This is Blank Space off 1989 on Big Machine Radio.