
“I was playing it on piano, and he didn’t recognize it until about halfway through,” she says. McCartney remembers Swift singing Foo Fighters’ “Best of You” at one such intimate confab, eventually egged on by Dave Grohl. Swift talks about the few times they’ve been together at parties, at which either might be inevitably cajoled into an impromptu performance. The ostensible subject matter is comparing notes on the albums both stars made during lockdown, her “Folklore” and his upcoming “McCartney III,” though plenty of other personal anecdotes enter in amid the comparisons on songwriting and recording techniques. Swift is said in the introduction to the article to have arrived at McCartney’s place without a team, doing her own hair and makeup for the photo shoot conducted by the ex-Beatle’s daughter, Mary McCartney, and describing the trip overseas during quarantine as “feel(ing) like a rare school field trip that you actually want to go on.” The special edition is a “Musicians on Musicians” issue that also features conversations between pairings like Lil Baby with Lil Wayne, Elvis Costello with Iggy Pop and Future with Roddy Ricch.
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Instead, they ended up teaming up for a different kind of collaboration - a charmingly intimate in-person conversation and cozy, sweater-filled photo shoot at McCartney’s London office that is the basis for a cover story in the new issue of Rolling Stone. I was going to ask you.” He reveals his thwarted plan: “I would’ve done ‘Shake It Off.’ …. “Were you going to invite me?” she responds. “It would’ve been great, wouldn’t it? And I was going to be asking you to play with me,” McCartney told Swift when they met up recently.

Not that Swift herself was aware of this.
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"They are all great commercial tracks but it doesn't roll through like a Pink Floyd album used to, or a Fleetwood Mac album.If you want to rue the pop music events that did not happen in 2020, you can add to the list the fact that Paul McCartney had planned to sing “Shake It Off” with Taylor Swift when they both would have been headlining the Glastonbury Festival in the UK this past summer. He said: "These days you have the big stars like Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar, particularly the first two, their songs are a collection of singles. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' and their peers Pink Floyd did on 1979's 'The Wall' and 1983's 'The Final Cut', as he prefers the format to a "collection of singles" which many pop stars put out these days.

Macca went down the old-fashioned route of giving his fans a record which takes them on a journey on his 17th solo LP like his own band did with 1966's 'Sgt. Meanwhile, the Beatles star previously admitted that he chose to make a concept album because he doesn't think he can compete with the likes of the 'Shake It Off' hitmaker and Beyonce. "Then I say, 'Who cares about the idiots? Who cares about all this? Who cares about you? Well. "And I was imagining talking to one of these young fans and saying, 'Have you ever been bullied? Do you get bullied?' In an interview with BBC Music, he said: "I was actually thinking about Taylor Swift and her relationship to her young fans and how it's sort of a sisterly thing. The 76-year-old music legend has revealed the track on his new 'Egypt Station' is about the cruelty of cyber bullying and when he was penning the lyrics, he imagined asking the 28-year-old pop star's fanbase - known as Swifties - if they'd ever had to face trolls online. Sir Paul McCartney's song 'Who Cares' was inspired by Taylor Swift's fans.
