{"id":973899,"date":"2019-12-05T22:21:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T05:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=922584"},"modified":"2019-12-05T22:21:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T05:21:31","slug":"watch-taylor-swifts-childhood-videos-in-christmas-tree-farm-clip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/watch-taylor-swifts-childhood-videos-in-christmas-tree-farm-clip\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Taylor Swift\u2019s Childhood Videos in \u2018Christmas Tree Farm\u2019 Clip"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TaylorSwiftChristmasTreeFarm.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/taylor-swift\">Taylor Swift<\/a>, as you may have heard, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.refinery29.com\/en-us\/2015\/09\/93289\/taylor-swift-throwback-photo-farm-tractor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">grew up on Pine Ridge Farm<\/a> in Reading, Pennsylvania. In the video for her new holiday song, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/christmas\/\" id=\"auto-tag_christmas\" data-tag=\"christmas\">Christmas<\/a> Tree Farm,\u201d which premiered at midnight on Thursday, the pop star takes us back to her semi-rural childhood through home movies shot by her mother and father on the Reading Christmas tree farm property.<\/p>\n<p>Swift wrote the song on Sunday and immediately hit the studio to turn it around five days later, according to a statement. The song has a classic cheerful holiday vibe, where she reminisces about the warmth that can be found among family during Christmas. \u201cYou would be there, too\/Under the mistletoe\/Watching the fire glow,\u201d she sings. \u201cAnd tell me, I love you\/Just being in your arms\/Takes me back to that little farm\/Where every wish comes true.\u201d In the clip, her mother and father, Andrea and Scott, and brother Austin appear alongside Taylor. The adorable footage shows them frolicking in the snow, sledding, hanging by the Christmas tree and Taylor is wowed when she opens a gift of an acoustic guitar.<\/p>\n<p>Swift has had a busy year as it is, releasing her seventh album&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/taylor-swift-lover-album-rob-sheffield-875724\/\"><em>Lover<\/em><\/a> \u2014 which earned her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-lover-grammy-nominations-snubs-915085\/\">three Grammy nominations<\/a> \u2014 and performing at numerous award shows, including at the American Music Awards as that ceremony\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-delivers-career-spanning-medley-at-amas-914644\/\">Artist of the Decade<\/a>. She also stars in the film adaptation of the long-running Andrew Lloyd Webber musical&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-news\/cats-trailer-914494\/\"><em>Cats<\/em><\/a>, out December 20th, and collaborated with Webber on several original songs for the movie, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-beautiful-ghosts-cats-movie-new-song-911988\/\">\u201cBeautiful Ghosts.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On top of that, the pop star is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-absolutely-plans-to-re-record-catalog-after-big-machine-deal-874173\/\">currently embroiled in a legal dispute<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/scooter-braun-taylor-swift-instagram-916384\/\">Scooter Braun<\/a> and her former label Big Machine, involving the ownership of Swift\u2019s masters. Swift alleges that Big Machine attempted to bar her from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/big-machine-taylor-swift-ama-netflix-controversy-913176\/\">performing her old songs<\/a> at the AMAs, as well as premiering her new Netflix documentary&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-st-vincent-go-gos-documentary-sundance-2020-lineup-922367\/\"><em>Miss Americana<\/em><\/a> at Sundance, although Braun and Big Machine founder Scott Borchetta deny this claim.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-christmas-tree-farm-922584\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift, as you may have heard, grew up on Pine Ridge Farm in Reading, Pennsylvania. In the video for her new holiday song, \u201cChristmas Tree Farm,\u201d which premiered at midnight on Thursday, the pop star takes us back to her semi-rural childhood through home movies shot by her mother and father on the Reading [&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-973899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 10:59:20","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\/973899","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=973899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}