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On Monday, Taylor Swift kicked off the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge Month with a six-song set from the New York City satellite lounge. In what can be (not-canonically) be considered the first of his old master rerecordings, Taylor Swift gives fans a gift with a slow-down, piano ballad version of her Red track "Holy Ground." Bathed in Ultrafragola-worthy pink-gold light and playing in front of a backdrop of the Brooklyn Bridge, Swift recontextualized the track with a soulful, wise, post-post- "Welcome to New York" maturity. As Swift put it: "I wanted to kind of flip the corner of the song and show another side of it."
Also, in the crossover event of the century (or at least the crossover event of BBC Live Lounge Month Radio), Swift opened the set with a performance of her Anglophile coil track "London Boy," which is presumably about her boyfriend Joe Alwyn but really is when you just imagine that she's singing about Paddington. Swift bopping around Shoreditch and Brixton and saying things like "fancy" and "united" in front of a majestically sun-kissed Brooklyn Bridge is definitely a whole and is worth a watch.
Swift also covered the Phil Collins hit "Can not Stop Loving You," which is actually a cover of a 1978 Leo Sayer song. It's swoony and romantic Swiftian. Swift cited Collins as an influence on her album 1989 in 2014, which was also last performed at the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge. You can watch the rest of her here.
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