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"Blank Space" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for her fifth studio album, 1989 (2014). It was written by Swift, Max Martin and Shellback. The song was released to contemporary hit radio by Big Machine Records on November 10 2014 as the album's second single, after "Shake It Off". It is the second track on the album, after "Welcome to New York" and it is one of the three songs to have a voice memo version included in the deluxe version of the album.
"Blank Space" is an electropop song with influences of minimal pop. Many critics compared the song to the works of fellow singer-songwriter Lorde. It makes fun of Swift's recent exposure in the media about her dating life, portraying "an overly attached man-eater who dates for songwriting material" as herself. The song was written by Swift along with Martin and Shellback, and produced by the latter two. Swift's vocals range from A3 to C5, and is in the key of F major.
The accompanying music video was directed by Joseph Kahn who said that Swift approached him with the idea for the treatment, saying she was all too aware of the jokes made about all of her ex boyfriends and how she likes to include them in her songwriting. She told him that she wanted to address the general thought of her in the clip in a fun way by playing a crazy villain. The video was shot over three days in September at two different Long Island locations; 12 hours in day one, 18 hours in day two and 10 hours for filming the American Express Unstaged app. Most of the scenes depicting Swift were filmed at Oheka Castle in Huntington, New York, while some of the interior scenes were shot at the Woolworth Mansion. After two days of filming with Swift, a second unit crew kept going, taking much of the photography and that would later be used to construct the world within the American Express Unstaged: Taylor Swift Experience app. The video borrows inspiration from Steven Spielberg's early works and was partly inspired by A Clockwork Orange. Kahn explained, "There’s a lot of symmetrical framing that’s Kubrickian, which is a really funny way to approach a pop video. But it’s there if you look at the way there’s center-framing and symmetry throughout the whole thing," Swift's love interest in the video is portrayed by model Sean O'Pry.The video accidentally leaked on Yahoo! on November 10, 2014. Kahn tweeted about the accidental early release, "I'll link video later when I think it's clear. I think it may be a mistake on yahoo's part — they may have released it early by accident." To which he later added, "Yup. Yahoo effed up. Wait to see the Blank Space video. Let Taylor introduce it herself. It'll be worth it :)"
The song topped the Hot Digital Songs charts with sales of 155,000 copies in its first week, making it the third song from 1989 to reach number 1 on the Hot Digital Songs, becoming Swift's ninth number one on that chart. Swift stood at rank three as the artist with the most number-one Digital Songs tying her with Eminem and surpassed Rihanna for the most number-one debuts. The song debuted at number 18 on the Billboard Hot 100.[19] On its second week the song sold 164,000 copies (up 5%) and moved up to number 13 at the Hot 100 being the Airplay Gainer.
In New Zealand, it debuted at number 26. On its third week the song jumped from number 33 to number four, becoming Swift's sixth top five hit in New Zealand. In Australia, it debuted at number twenty nine on the Australian Singles Chart, before reaching number 2 on November
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"Blank Space" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for her fifth studio album, 1989 (2014). It was written by Swift, Max Martin and Shellback. The song was released to contemporary hit radio by Big Machine Records on November 10 2014 as the album's second single, after "Shake It Off". It is the second track on the album, after "Welcome to New York" and it is one of the three songs to have a voice memo version included in the deluxe version of the album.
"Blank Space" is an electropop song with influences of minimal pop. Many critics compared the song to the works of fellow singer-songwriter Lorde. It makes fun of Swift's recent exposure in the media about her dating life, portraying "an overly attached man-eater who dates for songwriting material" as herself. The song was written by Swift along with Martin and Shellback, and produced by the latter two. Swift's vocals range from A3 to C5, and is in the key of F major.
The accompanying music video was directed by Joseph Kahn who said that Swift approached him with the idea for the treatment, saying she was all too aware of the jokes made about all of her ex boyfriends and how she likes to include them in her songwriting. She told him that she wanted to address the general thought of her in the clip in a fun way by playing a crazy villain. The video was shot over three days in September at two different Long Island locations; 12 hours in day one, 18 hours in day two and 10 hours for filming the American Express Unstaged app. Most of the scenes depicting Swift were filmed at Oheka Castle in Huntington, New York, while some of the interior scenes were shot at the Woolworth Mansion. After two days of filming with Swift, a second unit crew kept going, taking much of the photography and that would later be used to construct the world within the American Express Unstaged: Taylor Swift Experience app. The video borrows inspiration from Steven Spielberg's early works and was partly inspired by A Clockwork Orange. Kahn explained, "There’s a lot of symmetrical framing that’s Kubrickian, which is a really funny way to approach a pop video. But it’s there if you look at the way there’s center-framing and symmetry throughout the whole thing," Swift's love interest in the video is portrayed by model Sean O'Pry.The video accidentally leaked on Yahoo! on November 10, 2014. Kahn tweeted about the accidental early release, "I'll link video later when I think it's clear. I think it may be a mistake on yahoo's part — they may have released it early by accident." To which he later added, "Yup. Yahoo effed up. Wait to see the Blank Space video. Let Taylor introduce it herself. It'll be worth it :)"
The song topped the Hot Digital Songs charts with sales of 155,000 copies in its first week, making it the third song from 1989 to reach number 1 on the Hot Digital Songs, becoming Swift's ninth number one on that chart. Swift stood at rank three as the artist with the most number-one Digital Songs tying her with Eminem and surpassed Rihanna for the most number-one debuts. The song debuted at number 18 on the Billboard Hot 100.[19] On its second week the song sold 164,000 copies (up 5%) and moved up to number 13 at the Hot 100 being the Airplay Gainer.
In New Zealand, it debuted at number 26. On its third week the song jumped from number 33 to number four, becoming Swift's sixth top five hit in New Zealand. In Australia, it debuted at number twenty nine on the Australian Singles Chart, before reaching number 2 on November
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