Listen to Taylor Swift’s new track with gay nod in lyrics

Taylor Swift has unveiled another new song from her upcoming album 1989.

The singer has debuted the album’s opening track Welcome to New York, with just under a week until the record is released in the UK.

The song features a nod to her gay fans, with the line: “Everybody here was someone else before/And you can want who you want/Boys and boys and girls and girls.”

Speaking about the song, Swift said: “I wanted to start the album with this song because New York has been an important landscape and location for the story of my life for the last couple of years… the inspiration that I found in that city is kind of hard to describe and hard to compare to any other force of inspiration I’ve ever experienced in my life.

“It’s like an electric city. I approached moving there with such wide-eyed optimism and sort of saw it as a place of endless potential and possibilities and you can kind of hear that reflected in this music and this first song especially.”

Welcome to New York follows Swift’s lead single Shake It Off and last week’s release Out of the Woods, which is thought to be about her relationship with One Direction’s Harry Styles – listen here.

Swift recently revealed that she has ongoing feud with another high-profile female popstar, with an indirect tweet from Katy Perry leading fans to believe she is the singer in question – read more here.

Listen to Welcome to New York below: