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The Taylor Swift Interview: Behind the Scenes

5/1/202633 min

Using excerpts from Swift’s new songwriting chat with Joe, he and Jon go deep on the exclusive interview, which is available in full at NYTimes.com/Taylor-Swift.

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Clips

Rebuilding All Too Well
The paternity test line
Taylor’s rule on comments
Calling for male vulnerability
The next Taylor Swift
Prepared and anticipating
Emo shaped her pen

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Speaker 00:00

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  2. Taylor Swift· Soundbite0:29

    [singing] He said the way my blue eyes shined put those Georgia stars to shame that night. I said, "That's a lie."

  3. Jon Caramanica· Host0:41

    Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your first album, first song, first verse of weekly culture chat. I'm Jon Caramanica. I'm the critic.

  4. Joe Coscarelli· Host0:50

    I'm Joe Coscarelli. I'm still the reporter.

  5. Jon Caramanica· Host0:53

    And today more than ever, you are the reporter. Uh, we are here in the week that is now and will always in the future be known as Songwriter Week at the New York Times. [laughs] Um- We made it canon. We did ma- [laughs] And we apologize to everybody who's been texting me about Jason Isbell, and John Fogerty, and Billy Joel.

  6. Joe Coscarelli· Host1:18

    George Clinton. [sighs] We'll get to that on another podcast.

  7. Jon Caramanica· Host1:22

    It's another... D- do you know how many podcasts we're gonna be on? [laughs] Not enough, apparently. Uh, it's incredibly important to have a Jon

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