Dancing With Strangers (album)

## ***Dancing With Strangers***Studio album by Taylor Swift

* Standard
* Deluxe

## Singles

1. "In The Bar"
Released: July 27, 2018
2. "Papercuts"
Released: August 14, 2018
3. "Beautiful Devils"
Released: October 14, 2018
4. "Dancing With Strangers"
Released: November 13, 2018
5. "Took Too Many Drinks Tonight"
Released: December 30, 2018

## Promotional Singles

1. "A Dress Soaked In Wine"
Released: October 30, 2018
2. "Better Be Good"
Released: January 23, 2019
3. "No Thank You"
Released: February 12, 2019
4. "Being Solo Loco"
Released: March 12, 2019

"Dancing With Strangers" (originally titled Queen Know Who's Boss) is the 7th studio album by Taylor Swift. It was released on October 23, 2018, through Republic Records.

The album debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard 200, earning 230,000 album-equivalent units in its first week, with 132,000 coming from pure sales. The album was supported by five singles, including the US *Billboard* Hot 100 top ten's "In The Bar" and "Dancing With Strangers", and international top ten hit "Beautiful Devils". On October 21, 2019, *Dancing With Strangers* was certified Platinum by the RIAA for combined album sales, on-demand audio, video streams and track-sale equivalent of 1 million units.

## Background

On July 20, 2018, Swift said that she would be pausing the Reputation Stadium Tour and be coming back in 2019. Many fans were wondering why Swift was pausing the tour, as she seemed to be enjoying performing at the shows. Two days after the announcement, Swift released a snippet of a song. The lyrics sang "All I want is to love and drink in the bar". fans were speculating that a new song would be released. On July 27, Swift dropped the single "In The Bar". On her appearance on the Tonight Show she said that she was working on an album called "Queen Know Who's Boss". She said that the album would have a total of 12 tracks and would be released on October 1, 2018.

### Renaming to Dancing With Strangers

On August 14, 2018, Swift dropped the second single from her upcoming album, called "Papercuts". In an interview with Apple Music. she talked about the song and said that she changed the name of the album. "Queen Know Who's Boss is a very strong album title, but this album is more about finding love in a bar and more about just having a great time and partying, and Dancing With Strangers really represents that idea.", said Swift.

### Changing release date and release of Beautiful Devils

On October 1, 2018, fans excitedly checked their streaming apps but found no new album. Swift replied by saying "I decided to postpone the album release date so I can add more songs to Dancing With Strangers. Instead of 12 tracks, there will be 32 tracks.". She then said that in 13 days her single "Beautiful Devils" would be released and shared a snippet of an acoustic version of it.

## Singles

The lead single "In The Bar" was released on July 27, 2018.

The second single "Papercuts" was released on August 14, 2018.

The third single "Beautiful Devils" was released on October 14, 2018,

The fourth single "Dancing With Strangers" (featuring Camila Cabello) was released on November 13, 2018.

The fifth single "Took Too Many Drinks Tonight" (featuring Nicki Minaj) was released on December 30, 2018.

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## Tour

*Main article: Reputation Tour: The Bar*

On March 19, 2019, Swift announced that she would be embarking on The Reputation Tour: The Bar. She said it was a tour combining the songs from Reputation and Dancing With Strangers. She announced the tour dates for North America, Europe, and Asia on March 23, 2019, and announced the tour dates for Oceania on March 27, 2019. Swift embarked on the tour on April 1, 2019, and ended the tour on January 9, 2020.

## Trivia

* Swift said that this was the hardest album to record.
* The first song recorded was Your Mind and the last song recorded was No Thank You.
* It was her first album to have a Parental Advisory warning label.
* On June 12, 2019, Swift said that her top 5 songs from *Dancing With Strangers* were "A Dress Soaked In Wine", "Better Love", "Dancing With Strangers", "Papercuts" and "Sober".

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### Photoshoot / Promotional

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