{"id":973540,"date":"2019-11-14T22:21:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T05:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=911988"},"modified":"2019-11-14T22:21:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T05:21:59","slug":"hear-taylor-swifts-new-cats-soundtrack-song-beautiful-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/hear-taylor-swifts-new-cats-soundtrack-song-beautiful-ghosts\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Taylor Swift\u2019s New \u2018Cats\u2019 Soundtrack Song \u2018Beautiful Ghosts\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/CatsTaylor.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/taylor-swift\/\" id=\"auto-tag_taylor-swift\" data-tag=\"taylor-swift\">Taylor Swift<\/a> gets cinematic on the wistful new ballad \u201cBeautiful Ghosts,\u201d which highlights the soundtrack for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-news\/cats-2019-movie-trailer-860885\/\">upcoming film adaptation<\/a> of Andrew Lloyd Webber\u2019s classic musical <em>Cats<\/em>. The Tom Hooper-directed feature hits theaters December 20th.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollow me home if you dare to\/I wouldn\u2019t know where to lead you,\u201d Swift sings on the song over simmering strings and piano. \u201cShould I take chances when no one took chances on me?\/So I watch from the dark, wait for my life to start with no beauty in my memory.\u201d The track, which Swift co-wrote with Webber, builds to a rousing climax with the singer\u2019s voice in a full roar.<\/p>\n<p>In a video discussing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-andrew-lloyd-webber-cats-song-beautiful-ghosts-903615\/\">making of \u201cBeautiful Ghosts,\u201d<\/a> Swift said, \u201cThere was an ambition and an aspiration to have an original song in the movie. Just very much this understanding of like, \u2018Let\u2019s write the best song we can.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lloyd Webber said he played the song\u2019s music for Swift. \u201cYou said, \u2018I\u2019ll do the lyric,\u2019 and you did it then and there, more or less,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>While Swift will appear in the film as the flirty red queen Bombalurina, her character will not be singing the song. Instead, Victoria (played by Francesca Hayward) will deliver the tune after hearing Grizabella (Jennifer Hudson) sing the classic \u201cMemory.\u201d Swift\u2019s version will play over the film\u2019s end credits.<\/p>\n<p><em>Cats<\/em> will also feature Jason Derulo, James Corden, Idris Elba, Rebel Wilson, Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian McKellen and others. It made its Broadway debut in 1982 after originally running in London. Webber\u2019s show is notable for being one of the longest-running shows in Broadway history, with nearly 8,000 performances.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-beautiful-ghosts-cats-movie-new-song-911988\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift gets cinematic on the wistful new ballad \u201cBeautiful Ghosts,\u201d which highlights the soundtrack for the upcoming film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber\u2019s classic musical Cats. The Tom Hooper-directed feature hits theaters December 20th. \u201cFollow me home if you dare to\/I wouldn\u2019t know where to lead you,\u201d Swift sings on the song over simmering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 16:39:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}