- First of all, the two songs you're singing today.
I love "Out Of The Woods," I love that song.
- Thank you.
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- And we're all very excited.
- I know, they're very excited.
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- Because this is very exciting.
And the miracle is, it has not leaked yet.
That's amazing.
- No, it hasn't, not really.
Yeah.
I'm very excited about it, I mean
it's been something I've wanted to do for a really long time,
and I took two years to make it.
- And you should be excited.
It's a fantastic-- the entire thing.
And to take two years off and you've
been on such a roll, and yet--
I mean, Shake It Off is such a great song,
and so catchy, and so amazing, that it just went crazy.
Now, Out Of The Woods, and I think Rolling Stone
just gave it a four star review.
Isn't that--
- Yeah, and said a bunch of nice stuff.
I was almost crying.
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- I did.
Yeah it happens to the best of us.
- You fell down in some water.
- I did, I fell down.
And--
- And you got up and then they took the picture?
- -- but you get back up, and you keep going with the photo
shoot.
That's the message behind that.
- Now we know.
- It's to persevere.
- Now we know.
So you invited a bunch of your fans
to your house called The Secret Sessions.
- Yes.
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- So you-- how did you choose--
and how many people went?
- OK, so this was something I kind of came up
with the concept for before I was even done with the album.
I just knew I was going to be so excited about this record,
that I was going to want to play it for the fans early.
And there's so many people who I had seen on the internet,
like who have been to so many shows,
or they've been to something like this,
or they've waited and have never met me before
and they've been so incredible.
So I wanted to do something specifically
catered towards those people.
And the more and more I thought about it, I kept amping it up,
I kept being like, well it'll just be like,
it'll just be one little secret gathering.
And then I made it, oh it'll be at my house.
And then I was like, oh we'll do it at all my houses!
And then, so it ended up being 89 people in LA,
89 in Nashville, in New York, Rhode Island, and in London.
- Wow, and had you had more houses--
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- If I, yes!
So we'll work on that for next time.
But yeah, I mean, we would spend just hours together,
with me playing my own for them essentially in my living room
and explaining to them what I wrote it about.
And that's hundreds of people who
have heard the entire thing now, and you
can't find any information they've given online about it.
- That's really cool.
That's amazing.