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Taylor Swift teaches listeners a lesson about self-love and confidence with “ME!” featuring Panic! at the Disco frontman Brendon Urie. It’s a stark turn from her sixth studio album, reputation, released in 2017, which is known for its dark visuals and mature themes.

After a YouTube credits leak the day before its release, the collaboration was confirmed by Swift herself when she appeared with Robin Roberts on ABC. Before Swift went on air, a Spotify billboard in London, England began to promote the track.

The music video for the song gained 65.2 million views on YouTube in its first 24 hours, making it the biggest 24-hour debut for a female or solo artist on the platform, as well as breaking the record for the biggest 24-hour VEVO debut, which she previously achieved with “Look What You Made Me Do.” It also broke the record for most first-day plays on US pop radio, another record previously held by “LWYMMD.”

Contradicting her own pattern, this is the first cover of one of Taylor’s lead singles to not feature a picture of herself.

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What did Taylor Swift say about "ME!"?
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Swift announced the single with Robin Roberts of Good Morning America just hours before its release, saying:

‘ME!’ is a song about embracing your individuality and really celebrating it, and owning it. I think that with a pop song, we have the ability to get a melody stuck in people’s heads, and I want it to be one that makes them feel better about themselves.

In an interview with KIISFM, Swift stated about the track:

This song is such a celebration and it’s so playful. The ultimate main purpose of this song when I thought of this melody … I was like, ‘It’s so catchy, what do we want to get stuck in people’s head?’ And what I wanted was to make people happy about themselves because I think everyone literally is so neurotic and insecure and anxious about things, you know? … I think there should be a way for us to have a song stuck in our heads that reinforces the fact that we’re different, and obviously there are a lot of songs about ‘I’m special,’ but I hadn’t heard one recently that was about ‘I’m special because of who I am.’

How was the song teased?
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“ME!” was first teased on her social media on 13 April 2019, with an image of a diamond heart with the caption “4.26.” Simultaneously, her website was revised, featuring a countdown with a background of shimmering hearts.

Until the song’s official release, Taylor continued this trend, posting various images of objects, with the caption, “4.26.” The song was finally confirmed after a YouTube representative leaked the credits of the music video a day prior to its release. Taylor also commissioned and appeared at a mural to commemorate the single, teasing the song further throughout the night during ABC’s 2019 NFL Draft.

What has Taylor said about working with Brendon?
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Swift said the following in the live chat prior to the track’s music video premiere on YouTube:

Brendon has always been one of my favorite performers and I’ve always had it in the back of my mind that it would be INSANE to find the right thing to collab on and when I wrote this chorus I KNEW

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Recorded At
Electric Lady Studios (New York, NY) and Golden Age West (Auckland, NZ)
Released on
April 26, 2019
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