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Taylor Swift Returns To Country Radio With ‘Betty’: Listen Here

Taylor Swift just released her new song “betty” to country radio. The song is featured on her new Folklore album. Taylor told said of the new song, “‘betty’ is about…

Listen: Taylor Swift's Return To Country Radio 'Betty'
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Taylor Swift just released her new song “betty” to country radio. The song is featured on her new Folklore album.

Taylor told said of the new song, “‘betty’ is about a 17-year-old named James learning to apologize, because James has lost the love of his life basically and doesn’t understand how to get it back. I think we all have these situations in our lives where we learn to really, really give a heartfelt apology for the first time. Everybody makes mistakes. Everybody really messes up sometimes, and this is a song that I wrote from the perspective of a 17-year-old boy."

She adds, "And I always loved that in music you can kind of slip into different identities and you can sing from other people’s perspectives. So, that’s what I did with this one. I named all the characters in this story after my friends’ kids, and I hope you like it.”

NOTE: Song includes explicit language. 

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.