Taylor Swift releases upbeat new single and video 'ME!'
Grammy-winning
singer Taylor Swift on Friday released a cheerful pop duet called
"ME!" along with a colorful video filled with pastel-drenched images
of butterflies, rainbows and a young couple in love, Ewuters reported on Friday.
"ME!"
features Brendon Urie, the lead singer of Panic! at the Disco, who at the
video's start is fighting with Swift in a conversation in French. The video
turns upbeat as the music starts. "I promise that you'll never find
another like me," Swift sings.
"I'm the only one of me. Baby that's the fun of me," she adds.
Swift,
29, had been teasing an announcement for days on social media with pastel
images that turned out to be scenes from the new video.
"'ME!' is a song about embracing your individuality and really
celebrating it and owning it," Swift said hours earlier during an
interview with ABC TV host Robin Roberts on the network's broadcast of the
National Football League draft in Nashville.
"With a pop song, we have the ability to get a melody stuck in
people's heads and I just want it to be one that makes them feel better about
themselves," she said.
Swift began her career as a country singer in Nashville, Tennessee, at age
15 before branching out with pop hits such as "Shake It Off" and
"Bad Blood."
On Thursday afternoon, Swift surprised hundreds of her fans by joining
them at the unveiling of a butterfly wing mural in the Gulch area of Nashville.
"ME!" was written in the center of the mural as a hint to her evening
announcement.
The new video and single provided a stark contrast to her last album,
2017's "Reputation," which included songs such as "Look What You
Made Me Do" that took aim at people who had attacked her personally and
professionally.