Taylor Swift hires new publicist

A month after bidding adieu to her publicist of seven years, Taylor Swift is teaming up with a Warner Music Nashville executive for public relations. MusicRow reports that Tree Paine will leave Warner at the end of May to launch Premium PR, which will have Swift as its first client. Paine has more than two decades of experience and has been with Warner since 2007, when she joined after spending five years at the Academy of Country Music. She was promoted to her current post just last year.

The hiring of Paine comes after Swift and Paula Erickson, who began representing the singer after her first album began to climb the charts, parted ways last month amid talk that Swift wanted to bring PR in-house.