Song
Welcome to New York
1989 · 2014 · Track 1
Co-written
Written byTaylor Swift, Ryan Tedder
Produced byTaylor Swift, Ryan Tedder, Noel Zancanella
Also known as: WTNY
Mash-ups & Live Pairings
- Say Don't Go (TV) / Welcome to New York / Clean (Eras Tour, Stockholm)
- Hits Different / Welcome to New York (Eras Tour, New Orleans)
Dancing
Incidental
Movement
“It's a new soundtrack, I could dance to this beat, beat, forevermore”
Personal
the lights of the city
“The lights are so bright but they never blind me”
“No one in my small town Thought I'd see the lights of Manhattan” — Clara Bow
A community reading sets Clara Bow's 'lights of Manhattan' against Welcome to New York's 'the lights are so bright but they never blind me.' The same arrival image (the small-town newcomer reaching the bright city) carries opposite charges: the earlier song's lights are an exhilarated welcome the speaker can withstand, while Clara Bow's are the opening of a cautionary cycle, the dazzle that precedes being used up.
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