{"id":974168,"date":"2019-12-23T10:43:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T17:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=930754"},"modified":"2019-12-23T10:43:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T17:43:43","slug":"watch-taylor-swift-craft-christmas-tree-farm-in-behind-the-scenes-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/watch-taylor-swift-craft-christmas-tree-farm-in-behind-the-scenes-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Taylor Swift Craft \u2018Christmas Tree Farm\u2019 in Behind-the-Scenes Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Taylor-3.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/taylor-swift\/\" id=\"auto-tag_taylor-swift\" data-tag=\"taylor-swift\">Taylor Swift<\/a> unveiled a video diary documenting the creation of her new holiday song, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-christmas-tree-farm-922584\/\">\u201cChristmas Tree Farm.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Swift released \u201cChristmas Tree Farm\u201d on December 6th, just five days after coming up with the idea for the song. The first video in the new behind-the-scenes clip is dated December 1st and finds Swift filming herself at a piano as she picks out a few chords and sings some scattered lyrics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cSo, the idea I have for the song is \u2018Christmas Tree Farm,\u2019 because I grew up on one,\u201d she says, adding moments later with slight laugh, \u201cIt\u2019s about how you\u2019re in the city and you\u2019re stressed out and your life is feeling really low, but in your heart is a Christmas tree farm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The following day, Swift was in the studio fleshing out the lyrics and melody with producer Jimmy Napes and laying down her vocal track. The day after that, the finishing touches arrived in the form of a small group of singers who provided the song\u2019s choral vocals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Swift released \u201cChristmas Tree Farm\u201d along with a music video featuring some of her childhood home movies. This year, she also released her new album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/taylor-swift-lover-album-rob-sheffield-875724\/\"><i>Lover<\/i><\/a> and starred in the film adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/cats-movie-review-taylor-swift-927486\/\"><i>Cats<\/i><\/a>, collaborating with Webber on original songs for the film, 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> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-taylor-swift-craft-christmas-tree-farm-in-behind-the-scenes-video-930754\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift unveiled a video diary documenting the creation of her new holiday song, \u201cChristmas Tree Farm.\u201d Swift released \u201cChristmas Tree Farm\u201d on December 6th, just five days after coming up with the idea for the song. The first video in the new behind-the-scenes clip is dated December 1st and finds Swift filming herself at [&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-974168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 03:56:16","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\/974168","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=974168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}