"It was great fun. We had gone on tour in between the sessions and reconnected with the audience and got a lot of energy back from them, a lot of positive energy"
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There is a kind of rock-star realism in Taylor's phrasing: joy is real, but it is also procedural. "Great fun" lands first as disarming simplicity, the sort of language musicians reach for when they want to keep the myth-making at bay. Then he pivots to the mechanics of momentum: touring "in between the sessions" isn't just a scheduling detail, it's a statement about how records get rescued from their own isolation. Studio work can be meticulous, inward, and frankly claustrophobic; the tour becomes a pressure valve and a compass.
The key move is the way Taylor frames the audience as a power source. "Reconnected" implies a relationship that can thin out over time, even for established acts. That word carries a little anxiety beneath the warmth: you can lose the thread, lose the feel for what lands, lose the shared language. Touring restores that feedback loop. "Energy" repeats like a mantra, and the repetition is the point. He's describing something that is hard to quantify but easy to recognize: the crowd as proof of life.
Subtextually, this is also a defense of relevance. Going out on the road mid-process isn't only about vibes; it's about testing identity in public. The "positive energy" becomes validation that what they're making still matters, that the band isn't just manufacturing nostalgia in a sealed room. Taylor's intent reads less like bragging and more like a work note: this is how the spark gets back into the machine.
The key move is the way Taylor frames the audience as a power source. "Reconnected" implies a relationship that can thin out over time, even for established acts. That word carries a little anxiety beneath the warmth: you can lose the thread, lose the feel for what lands, lose the shared language. Touring restores that feedback loop. "Energy" repeats like a mantra, and the repetition is the point. He's describing something that is hard to quantify but easy to recognize: the crowd as proof of life.
Subtextually, this is also a defense of relevance. Going out on the road mid-process isn't only about vibes; it's about testing identity in public. The "positive energy" becomes validation that what they're making still matters, that the band isn't just manufacturing nostalgia in a sealed room. Taylor's intent reads less like bragging and more like a work note: this is how the spark gets back into the machine.
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