Full Version of Mayer/Swift Song
November 6, 2009
I’m so excited! The full version of John Mayer and Taylor Swift’s duet has been released! The song is titled “Half of My Heart” and John had some interesting things to say about Taylor as well as the song:
“She is on the record,” he told MTV News, adding that the collaboration, which appeared online Friday, originally came together after he tweeted that he wanted to work with the singer. “You know what — it’s like the tweet version of the secret, no better way to put it out into the universe than to tweet it.”
Swift also openly expressed a desire to work with Mayer in interviews, but the details of how it actually came to be are a bit fuzzy to Mayer. “Well, you know, tweeting it is more just sort of the exposition of my idea,” he explained. “But then it’s not like she reads the tweet and goes, ‘I’m in,’ although she may have. I don’t remember.”
The idea for the song came to Mayer in a dream. “I woke up with the song in my head called ‘Half Of My Heart,’ ” he recalled. “And the idea is that it’s this real sort of updated — not that it needs to be updated — sort of Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks thing.”
On the track, Mayer sings lead with Swift lending back-up vocals. “I thought, ‘Well, if this is going to be my love letter to that style of music, who’s going to be the Stevie Nicks in this equation?’ ” he recalled. “And I thought, ‘This Taylor Swift girl is going to be around for a long time.’
“Two Better Than One” Song Release
August 25, 2009
“Boys Like Girls” and Taylor recently recorded a duet which will be featured on the band’s new album, which is due in September. The song entitled “Two Better Than One” has been released, just click play to have a listen:
