How Taylor Swift's New Song 'Christmas Tree Farm' Is Her Most Personal One Yet

Taylor Swift released her new song just in time for the holidays. The timing is especially note-worthy, considering the song is a Christmas ballad -- one that stems from a very intimate place in Swift’s life.

On Thursday, the 29-year-old “Lover” singer posted a video on Twitter, captioned: “When in doubt, ask the itty bitty pretty kitty committee. When they shun you with silence, ambivalence, and judgmental brush offs... just put the song out anyway. NEW XMAS SONG AND VIDEO (made from home videos) OUT TONIGHT #ChristmasTreeFarm”

In the video, Swift speaks with her cat Meredith about how she’s conflicted. She had just written a song but didn’t want to wait a year to release it, given that it is a Christmas song. Swift concludes that she’ll release the song that very night.

Sure enough, the song premiered around midnight Thursday and it’s already garnered nearly 2 million views.

The music video for Swift’s “Christmas Tree Farm,” is something pulled straight from Swift’s life: home videos of her throughout the years. The videos show her on Christmas day throughout the years, with an aging Swift opening and enjoying her new gifts -- most notably her very first guitar.

Also, she “actually did grow up on a Christmas tree farm," the singer Tweeted. "In a gingerbread house, deep within the yummy gummy gumdrop forest. Where, funnily enough, this song is their national anthem."

While no one can substantiate the “gingerbread house” or “gumdrop forest” setting, the Swift Christmas tree farm is a very real place.

As years pass in the video, one may notice the setting doesn’t exactly change much at all. Swift wrote this song about her own Christmas experience, pulling from her own life. She and her family owned that Christmas tree farm, a place she lived for many years.

One of the videos even shows a barely walking Swift stumble around freshly grown evergreen Christmas trees.

Christmas may be something particularly significant for the singer, as this isn’t her first venture into holiday music. Back in 2007, Swift released the “Taylor Swift Holiday Collection EP,” which featured the country-pop artist singing all of the classic Christmas songs, from “Silent Night” to “Santa Baby.”