Imogen Heap carries out at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony at Microsoft Theater on Jan. 26, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. Timothy Norris/Getty Images
Imogen Heap, that co-wrote and co-produced the 1989 track “Clean” with Taylor Swift, penciled a note regarding her experience tape-recording the 13th track on the 2014 cd and re-recording it for the just-released variation, 1989 (Taylor’s Version).
“Today marks the release of ‘Taylor’s version’ of 1989 …the album originally released in 2014. The latest in line towards @taylorswift’s endeavour to re-record every album she’s ever done as part of an old record deal,” Heap composed Friday (Oct. 27) on Instagram, where she shared images from the workshop.
“This is Taylor playing a bada– card to stay in control of her work in a commercial music industry that largely works against musicians,” she claimed.
Heap captioned an image in her blog post: “Here’s me in my studio re-recording my bits on Clean last year, almost a decade on from the day Taylor swooped in to visit me at my home the @theround.house for 10 hours between 2 sold out shows at the 02 arena!”
She additionally captioned a photo of both when they initially interacted, creating, “downstairs in the @thehideaway.studio…Two ladies, in a room. We wrote and produced 90% of the track and still managed to eat lunch and dinner!”
“Now you can have fun playing spot the difference,” joked Heap, that gave thanks to Swift on Instagram “for inviting me into your world!”
In a 2014 interview with the author of this post, Swift remembered that “meeting Imogen Heap was an amazing experience for me because she was all I listened to in high school. Getting to not only meet her, but work with her and watch to see what she does in the studio, was really inspiring.”
So what did Swift initially state upon very first conference among her music idolizers? “Hi, I’m so happy to meet you?” she addressed with a laugh. “I try to keep it in check. I try to act as, like, normal as humanly possible.”
“The song ‘Clean’ is one that I wrote about sort of coming out of a relationship or trying to move on from some struggle that you had in your life, and feeling kind of tarnished by it,” Swift claimed throughout our conversation, which occurred prior to the launch of 2014’s 1989. “And it kind of talks about how if you really allow yourself to feel pain, I think maybe it’s easier to get past it. For most people that I’ve known who’ve fought through struggle, a lot of them who have really just faced the pain head on have come out OK a lot faster than the ones who just pretended to be in denial of it.”
“Almost every line in that song is one that I’m proud of,” she informed me.
Meanwhile, when the initial 1989 was launched that year, Heap admitted on her blog that before in fact collaborating, she’d incorrectly thought Swift didn’t actually compose her very own songs.
“I have to be honest here and say that I ever so slightly had not done my homework on Taylor Swift but had done what I HATE others do of me, which is to pre-judge a person based on assumptions,” Heap composed. “I had assumed Taylor didn’t write too much of her own music (as is the case with many young, extremely successful artists these days who sell a shed load of records), and was likely puppeteered by an aging gang of music executives.”
At the moment Heap wished to make it understood that she’d been “reading the odd report or tweet here and there that the reason the lyrics to ‘Clean’ are so good is because I wrote the song with her but FOR SURE they are all hers she deserves all the credit!”
See Imogen Heap’s complete note regarding re-recording “Clean” for 1989 (Taylor’s Version) listed below and on Instagram. Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) offered over 250,000 duplicates in the U.S. on its very first day of launch, according to initial reports to information monitoring company Luminate. After simply someday, the cd has the third-largest sales week of 2023.
