Frank Turner Thought it’d be “Rubbish” to Work with Taylor Swift
As announced earlier this week, UK folk-rocker Frank Turner will release his forthcoming album 
Positive Songs for Negative People on August 7. You can watch his new video for “The Next Storm,” right here.
When giving NME a track-by-track run through of the album, Turner explained that his label, Universal, wanted Taylor Swift to appear on it because she previously worked with its producer Butch Walker.
You see, the albums contains “Silent Key,” a song Turner wrote about Christa McAuliffe, an elementary school teacher who died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. The goal, explained Turner, was to have an American, female voice on the song.
“I wanted the end [of the song] to be sung by an American woman [pretending] to be Christa,” Turner told NME. “The record label were suggesting some of the more famous people that Butch has worked with, like, fucking Taylor Swift. No contact was ever made but they were like, ‘Let’s ask Taylor’. I was like, ‘That’s a fucking rubbish idea.'”
Singer-songwriter Esmé Patterson wound up appearing on the song instead.
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