Why Lil Nas Declined Taylor Swift Collaboration

Lil Nas X attends the iHeartRadio Music Awards in Los Angeles on May 27, 2021.

Don’t count on a Lil Nas X and Taylor Swift collaboration anytime soon, as the rapper recently revealed that a project the two were working on fell through.

“We were working on something,” the singer said in an interview with E! News last week at the GLAAD Media Awards.

“She offered to let me try a verse on something, but I couldn’t catch a vibe for it, so it didn’t happen,” he said, adding that he didn’t “even want to talk about” it.

Despite the song not happening, Lil Nas X said that he’s “proud of my girl.”

“I love the album,” he added. “She’s been doing her thing. She’s at the very tippety top. I’m thankful that she even considered me.”

Lil Nas X attends the iHeartRadio Music Awards in Los Angeles on May 27, 2021.

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While Lil Nas X and Swift are still working on finding their perfect song, SZA recently opened up about a possible forthcoming collaboration with Swift.

“Every time she walks up to me or approaches me, I’m just like, ‘All right, this is happening, because that’s fully Taylor Swift,’” SZA said during a March appearance on “The Jennifer Hudson Show.”

“I think I mentioned that I would love to write with her and build some things together,” she said. “I love her storytelling. She was open to it.”

Country music artist Keith Urban has spoken about the process of collaborating with Swift before, and said that two songs came together in the most unexpected place ― a food court.

“So I’m at the shopping mall, doing my Christmas shopping and I get a text from Taylor saying, ‘I’ve got these couple of songs I want you to sing on, do you want to hear them?’” Urban said during a 2021 appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.”

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“So she sends me the songs, I’m sitting in the food court at the shopping center, listening to these two unreleased Taylor Swift songs,” he added. “It was an unusual place to be hearing unreleased Taylor Swift music. But I loved the songs and luckily got to put a vocal on both of those.”

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