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Taylor Swift on new tour: 'You're not going to see me playing the banjo'

Taylor Swift says her 1989 tour represents a fresh start.

Her 2014 album of the same name saw the US star ditch country influence and go pop.

Speaking in a new interview with Rolling Stone, the 'Style' singer said she almost went 180 degrees when planning her shows.

"I was very adamant that every decision I've made creatively in the past had to be almost flipped.

"You're not going to see me playing the banjo. It's not a country show, it's not a multi-genre show and it's not a mixed-influence show."

The tour has now opened in the US, with dates in Europe and further States shows planned for later in the year.

Swift added that the success of '1989' meant that she can easily perform a lot of material from the record.

She said: "If this album hadn't been so impactful to the fans, if they hadn't gone out and broken so many records and made sure that I knew that this album was the most important one to them and the one they liked the most, I probably would have had to pull more old hits into the set."

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