Taylor Swift and Andrew Lloyd Webber Team Up for New 'Cats' Song (via PopCrush)
In addition to her role as Bombalurina, the 29-year-old pop star teamed up with the famed composer to write "Beautiful Ghosts" — an original song that will be performed by actress Francesca Hayward, who stars as Victoria in the musical-to-film adaptation. Swift’s studio version will appear during the film’s end credits.
Universal Pictures also released a video that offers a behind-the-scenes look at Swift and Webber's creation. In in, the pair discussed the writing process and why it was important to create a song for Victoria. “When I first read the screenplay — and the film is seen through Victoria’s eyes — the first thing I said was, ‘We have to have a song for Victoria. It’s an incredibly important central part of the whole film,'" Webber explained.
“There was an ambition and aspiration to have an original song in the movie,” Swift added. “Just very much this understanding of, ‘Let’s write the best song we can.'”world. "What I couldn't believe was the extraordinary beauty of these lyrics that Taylor had written," he said.
. “T.S. Eliot is such a specific type of writer and uses such specific language and imagery, so reading through his work and everything, I just really wanted to reflect that within,” Swift explained., so if you can’t get T.S. Eliot, get T.S.,” she jokingly added, referring to her own initials. “I’m here for you!”eligible for an Oscar, which means there's a chance the singer could earn her EGOT status soon.
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