Taylor Swift: 'My team really didn't want me to change my sound'

'Shake It Off' songstress Taylor Swift has revealed that when she pitched '1989' and her plans to create a poppier sounding record to her label, they were 'scared' of how fans would react.

During a recent interview with MTV News, which she did with 'Out Of The Woods' co-writing partner Jack Antonoff, she confessed that her label was very wary of her plans for new music as the direction she wanted to take was so far removed from the style that made her famous:

"The main thing that happened for me with this album was everybody was really scared for me to change up the formula. From the way people at my label would see it was, 'Why are you messing with that? It's our job to mess with that'."

She went onto explain that her label eventually got on board with her new pop sound, but tried to get her to include a couple of country songs on '1989', which she didn't agree with: "I just felt like that felt very exploitive."

Watch her new music video for 'Blank Space' here: