Thank you so much for joining us for the 1989 album release retrospective. We've been looking back at Taylor Swift's album because this is the fourth anniversary of that album. In fact, all of her albums were released in either October or November, and so we are celebrating all of them, but we've got one more song to play off of 1989. And it's kind of interesting because it seems as though Taylor was turning a corner as she was finishing this album, as she explains why she chose to make Clean the last track on 1989. Clean is the last song on the album for a lot of reasons, but it's mostly the last song on the album because it felt like a completion of this kind of emotional process I've been going through for the last couple of years. I feel like my personal life was really, really discussed and criticized and debated and talked about to a point where it made me feel kind of almost tarnished in a way, you know? And the discussion wasn't about music, and it broke my heart that I had made an album that I was proud of and I was touring the world and playing to sold-out stadiums and still they managed to want to only talk about my personal life. At a certain point, I felt a switch, and it was at the end of recording this album that I began to feel like my life was mine again, and my music was at the forefront again, and I was living my life on my own terms, and I really no longer cared what people were saying about me, and that was when I started to see people talk less about the things that didn't matter. This song was one that I did with Imogen Heap, who I've idolized for so long, and when I was over in London for the Red Tour, she reached out and said, hey, if you want to come work, I'm here, and so I drove hours out of the city and went to her studio, and watching her work, creating the track for this song, was the most inspiring experience. She's comping vocals and editing and creating the track, playing the instruments. I was absolutely astonished by that level of talent and skill. So we wrote the song Clean, which is essentially about allowing yourself to really feel pain, and then all of a sudden, time passes, and you've survived it, and you've made it out the other side. I would say she has done more than survive. She has thrived, and this is a great song from Taylor. It's Clean on Big Machine Radio.