“Seven is the number of completion,” Taylor says of the meaning behind her debut album. “Seven actually has different meanings, but for me, I feel like I’ve been in the business for seven years and [there have] been a lot of bumpy roads and detours and all types of stuff going on within those seven years. But now in the seventh year, everything is finally completed and is coming together. It’s done and I can give you a full body of work. So that number means a lot to me and this year is very important to me.”
Taylor’s fight to get her music out was made more clear when Kayne West claimed that Def Jam nearly dropped her from the label.
“[Expletive] wanted to drop Big Sean, [expletive] wanted to drop Teyana and [expletive] wanted to drop Pusha [T],” West said at Taylor’s album release party in Los Angeles. “Everybody always wanna be late or drop somebody and not believe in them all the way through. This is about artistry and fighting for artists to get their visions out.”
