Thanks for listening to Big Machine Radio as we celebrate the milestones of Taylor Swift. You know, she releases albums in the fall, so right around October or November, there is always so much to celebrate. Her album 1989 came out October 27th, 2014, which means this is the fourth anniversary of that album. And of course, this is the album where Taylor Swift firmly planted her flag in the pop music world and she took everybody by storm. The album sold 1.287 million copies in the U.S. in its first week of release. And we're going to actually hear from Taylor about all the songs on the album as we take this little retrospective look at 1989. And the first song on the album is Welcome to New York, and Taylor explains why she chose to put this song first on the album. The first song on 1989 is a song called Welcome to New York. And I wanted to start the album with this song because New York has been an important landscape and location for the story of my life in the last couple of years. I dreamt about moving to New York, I obsessed over moving to New York, and then I did it. And the inspiration that I found in that city is kind of hard to describe and hard to compare to any other force of inspiration I've ever experienced in my life. It's like an electric city. And I approached moving there with such wide-eyed optimism and sort of saw it as a place of endless potential and possibilities and you can kind of hear that reflected in this music and in this first song especially. This is a song I did with Ryan Tedder called Welcome to New York.