After 13 years, Taylor Swift is within the raze environment the parable straight: No, her tune “Hi there Stephen” will not be any longer about Stephen Colbert. The 31-yr-dilapidated singer-songwriter stopped by The Gradual Indicate With Stephen Colbert on Tuesday (April 13) to within the raze rupture the records to the gradual-evening comic that he did no longer encourage the country be aware.
Or did he? Because the two discussed who the particular Stephen is, Swift printed increasingly private bits of recordsdata about Colbert — even unveiling a mood board she covered with photos of his face — and he started to ask the veracity of her claims. Within the tip, nonetheless, she printed that the tune was in actual fact written about prolific scare creator Stephen King.
“I’ve never printed this sooner than to anybody nonetheless ‘Hi there Stephen’ is set Stephen King,” she acknowledged. “He’s unbelievable. The Darkish Tower series changed my lifestyles, plus The Sparkling, The Stand, and create no longer even gather me started on his brief tales. Entirely luminescent.”
“Hi there Stephen” is one of 26 tracks on Valorous (Taylor’s Version), a re-recorded version of her 2008 album, which was launched on April 9. Swift is remastering her total discography up to 2019’s Lover to invent full ownership of her tune after her master recordings had been bought and then sold by her ancient management. Valorous (Taylor’s Version) is her first fully re-recorded album, nonetheless Swift had fans abuzz with theories that her album 1989 can also fair be next in line after losing more than one references to all of it the blueprint in which thru her interview with Colbert.
Talking to Of us about the technique of re-recording Valorous, Taylor acknowledged: “We in actual fact did run in and verify out to do a ‘the identical nonetheless better’ version. We kept your total identical ingredients that I within the origin dreamed up for these songs. However if there was any manner that we might maybe well possibly give a opt to upon the sonic quality, we did.”
