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00:11Hi, that was nice. Oh, it's great to be here. This is amazing. Now, we were talking before,
00:16you've actually been here before. Yes, I came here, I think about five years ago. I was 16
00:22and just about to release my first single, Tim McGraw. And so we were traveling up the West
00:29Coast in a rental car in a Taurus. And I was doing my homework in the backseat. I was like
00:37homeschooled in 10th grade. So that was when we made this trip to San Jose and came to see you
00:41guys for the first time. And it's wonderful to be back here and have so many of you come out
00:45this time around. It's amazing. We're a very forward-thinking company, apparently,
00:50having you here when you're 16. So I want to thank you for being here, first of all,
00:55from all of us. This is really an honor and a treat. Now, you're in the middle of your tour
00:59for Speak Now. And I know that you've posted some videos to your channel sort of outlining your tour
01:05and specifically your trip to Asia. And I want to show a clip from when you were in Singapore. Now
01:11you're in Chinatown, but the Chinatown of Singapore. Is that right? Yes. We started out the year going
01:17on tour and started off in Asia. And then we were in Europe for two months. So it was like
01:22three months
01:23of major worldwide touring. So Singapore was the first place that we went on the tour.
01:28All right. Let's roll that clip.
01:37They're everywhere. I'm sort of fascinated by the waving cats because, of course, as long as you keep
01:45fresh batteries in them, they're always going to be saying hello to you. Just always just
01:51symbolize forever, I think, is waving cats. What's better than a cat that's just always like,
01:56hey? There's nothing better than that.
02:02So this, of course, has all the makings of a viral video. I mean, there's a big celebrity.
02:07It's a global thing. There's a cat in the video. That'll do it. I think that you just said it.
02:12That's the essential ingredient is a cat. Now your YouTube channel is very popular. I know you have
02:18over a half a million subscribers that get your vlogs when you post them, which is really cool.
02:23I wanted to ask you off the bat, how important is your channel and social media in general
02:28as a tool for expression, but also for connecting with your audience?
02:32I think we've all seen the effects of social media and how that can connect people. And
02:38for me, I grew up when that was just about to set fire to the world. I was, I think,
02:45in seventh and
02:46eighth grade when everybody started having a profile online and everybody was, it was all about who's
02:52your friend and who's commenting on whose page. And then it became the YouTube generation where
02:57everybody's looking at videos. Everybody's making video blogs and, you know, makeup tutorials or this
03:04or that or back to school outfit shopping. You know, everybody is kind of catching on to communicating
03:11by making videos and learning how to edit them. And it's, I think it's fantastic because it's just
03:17a new skill set for this new generation.
03:20And I would be remiss if there were a YouTube video interview and I didn't ask you if you had
03:24any favorite, I know you're really busy, but you have any favorite YouTube videos or channels that
03:27you like to watch?
03:28Yes. I have watched this one like three times this week because it makes me so happy. And it's got
03:34these like five or six lion cubs and there's the lion trainer and you're like, oh, the lion cubs are
03:42cute. And they're walking around and then they, they jump up on the lion trainer and they start
03:46hugging him. And then they're like making all these little lion sounds that you don't know. You don't,
03:52know what the sounds are that lion cubs make, but it's amazing. It's just like,
03:56like, they're like hugging him. And he's like, oh, you always go for my hair. You keep going for
04:03my hair. And then he's like, oh, you're telling me stories.
04:06Where, where was this zoo?
04:07It's amazing. It's because he's like Scottish and they're like hugging him and they love him so much.
04:13And I don't know. It's you got, it's just watch.
04:17I guess everybody's going to run. That's going to be popular now. Um, so, well, this isn't just
04:23our interview, right? This is also your fans interview and you have some very rabid fans
04:26of Swifties, right? I believe is how they call themselves. Um, I know, I think it's so cute.
04:31They came up with that. They're very serious by the way. They don't, they don't mess around. Um,
04:36they, uh, they submitted 30,000 questions, um, to this interview and, uh, and over, uh,
04:44so many questions are so curious. Yeah. So we only can do a few of them and we also have
04:49some from Google, but, um, uh, the biggest topic by far was songwriting. Cause I think
04:54that a lot of your fans have a big connection to, um, the stories that you tell in your songs.
04:57And so let's start with that topic. And this one comes from PandaBearLover13. I mean, a lot
05:04of the usernames are not meant to be read out loud. So we're just have to, uh, she's, this
05:08is from Florida. Uh, which comes first for you as a songwriter, the music or the lyrics?
05:13I think for me, it more comes as a general idea. Um, and my favorite thing about songwriting
05:18is that it's so spontaneous and unpredictable. What's going to hit me first, whether it's
05:24going to be a general thought. Um, like for example, um, you know, I'll be going through
05:30something. Um, when I wrote the song love story, that's a song I wrote sitting on my bedroom
05:35floor because I liked a guy and my parents didn't want me to date him. And so I got this
05:41idea
05:41in my head. It just popped into my head. You were Romeo, you were throwing pebbles. And
05:45my daddy said, stay away from Juliet. And I didn't know where in the song that was going
05:49to fit, but I just started there and I built out from there. And, um, it's crazy how the
05:56fastest songs that I write end up being my favorites. Um, the ones that just happen in just a surge
06:01of idea, um, a surge of inspiration. And it's usually something I'm going through at the time.
06:06It's very hard for me to, um, come up with just some random metaphor for a situation if
06:13I'm not going through it or haven't recently just gone through it. But, um, you know, I
06:18think when I was growing up, my mom was all, my mom talks in metaphor a lot. And so I
06:23think
06:24I grew up just understanding metaphor and just kind of loving that, how you could take something
06:31you're going through and speak about it in a different way that, um, applies how you're
06:38feeling to, um, something completely different, but connects it. So, um, I think for me, it
06:45starts as an idea and a feeling and an emotion.
06:48Yeah. We had a lot of questions about, about the process from, um, budding songwriters, um,
06:53who submitted questions that are big fan of fans of yours, um, from Buffalo and a bunch
06:57of different places. And, um, I mean, you know, we're wondering, is there, uh, one favorite
07:02part of the songwriting process that you have? I mean, is it when you get that idea or when
07:07you're sitting on the floor in the bedroom or, you know, when you're in the studio?
07:10There are, there are several moments in a song. Um, and I won't finish a song if I don't
07:16have these moments where you go, Ooh, Ooh, Ooh, Ooh, Ooh, like after you read a line.
07:20Um, and it's always that same feeling of like, Oh, that's that, that's exactly what I meant.
07:25Um, you know, if you're in a co-writing session, I'm always the one who will like, be like sitting
07:30there for a second and then I'll say a line. And if it's that moment where you're just like,
07:36that, that's the one, that's the line. I have to have about four or five of those
07:40lines in a song for me to put it on a record. Like lines where I'm just like, yes. Um,
07:47so that's my favorite part is then when the song goes into its phase of being recorded
07:52and then being put on an album. And when you're playing it for people for the first time, when
07:56it comes across those lines that you really feel are like, I don't know, like zingers
08:00or like say it really well. Um, I love watching people's reactions if they, if they, if it comes
08:07across, like if they get those lines, I'm like, yes, knew it. Um, we'll, we'll get back
08:13to the co-writing thing in a second. Cause, um, there were some questions about that as
08:15well. But, um, uh, and here's another question. This is from music maniac in Los Angeles. Uh,
08:21you've said you're already writing for the next record. Can you tell us anything about it?
08:26Well, um, yeah, for me, I never, um, really switched the, the writing switch off. It's always
08:33on because I kind of have always felt like to make an album that I am proud enough of to
08:40give
08:40to my fans and, and say, here, you know, allow this into your life. It has to be like, it
08:46has to
08:46be two to two and a half years of writing. And that way, you know, you have your best stuff
08:51because
08:51I'm so tough on myself. I drive myself insane writing records and albums because it's like,
08:58I'll write like 40 to 50 songs and then 13 or 14 make it. That's a lot of paring it
09:04down and making
09:05sure you're getting to the best stuff. Um, so for me, it takes a while. And, um, I've been writing
09:12ever since I stopped writing the last album and there's been a lot that's happened and, um, I
09:18never really talk about my personal life, but I write about it. So that's basically what the album
09:23is about as always. Yeah. Um, the unreleased thing was something that came up a lot. And
09:28one of the top voted questions, um, was about, uh, you know, would you ever make a CD of your
09:33unreleased songs? It's from Tay Swift, Fearless in Missouri. But, um, I mean, what happens to
09:39those songs that don't make it to the album? And, you know, would you ever release some of
09:43the songs you wrote, especially when you're younger, like 14, 15?
09:46Well, I'm very, I'm, I'm obsessed with the latest song that I've written. I'm very guilty of
09:52that because like my favorite thing is always the newest thing that I've written. But lately
09:57I've become a little more self-aware because I had this song that I wrote when I was 16
10:03and, um, it's called Spark Sly. And I played it, um, in a few shows, this, these little bar
10:09shows when, you know, when I was playing to crowds of like 40 and 50 people and being psyched
10:16about that many people showing up. Um, and I played it a few times and it got on the internet.
10:21And when I was putting together the Speak Now album, the fans just kept saying over and
10:25over again, sparks fly, we want this to be on the record. And so I went back and I revisited
10:29it and I kind of rewrote some things and updated it. And, um, when we put it out as a
10:36single,
10:36it's, it's been one of the fastest rising songs we've had on the record. So it's kind
10:40of taught me a lesson about the old stuff, maybe possibly, uh, being good enough to put
10:46on new projects.
10:47Yeah. I'm sure there's a lot of people that would love to hear some of that stuff.
10:50Um, let's move on to some of the released songs. Um, this is a question from cookie13cupcake.
10:57Um, this is in the United Kingdom. This is gonna be a long one. Uh, all right. So out
11:03of all your release songs, uh, which song took the longest to write?
11:07Uh, I think that, um, uh, the song sparks fly, the fact that it technically was started
11:16when I was 16 and ended up on an album, uh, in sort of a different form in 2010, that
11:22took
11:23a while for it to turn into what it was gonna be. Um, so I'd say that was probably the
11:28longest
11:29developing song that I've ever, um, put out because most of them, and especially having
11:35written this entire new record without any co-writers, it all happened really fast. Cause
11:39I'm very impatient. Like if I don't have a song finished, I'll obsess over it. I won't
11:44sleep that night and I'll just edit constantly to the point where I can't focus on a conversation.
11:51Everyone around me is annoyed because they're like, clearly you're working on something,
11:54just finish it. Um, so, um, that, that one was a long time to kind of get where it needed
12:01to be. Cool. So let's talk about that co-writer thing for a second. You, as you mentioned,
12:06this album, um, was all you, um, as far as if we're speak now. Um, and, but you do often
12:12work with, with co-writers and, uh, how do you decide if you're going to write a song with
12:15a co-writer or whether you're going to tackle it yourself?
12:18Well, there are a bunch of different circumstances that could bring about a co-write. If, if I'm
12:22writing for somebody else's project, that's always exciting for me. Like I love to put myself
12:28in somebody else's shoes and, um, you know, think about their style of music, incorporating
12:35their storyline, what they're feeling. It's really fun for me to do that. So I love, you
12:39know, writing for other people. And, um, then, you know, if I'm working on an idea, but there's
12:45like a stopping point where I can't really figure out like where this course is going or if I'm
12:52right, if my hunch is right about the hook or things like that, if there's a definite stopping
12:57point, I'll bring it to a writer that I trust or a writer that I admire and, um, just ask
13:04them what they think. A lot of times co-writing, you know, I write really well with people who
13:09don't even play instruments or sing. Um, because, you know, a lot of times my best co-writers
13:14are just really great at giving advice. Like, do you think this course is too long? Yes.
13:22Like, thank you. Yeah. Is there anybody you're working with right
13:27now that you could talk about? Yes. Um, you know, for me, since I write so
13:33much and I don't know what's going to end up on the record, it's, um, I never want to
13:37say, well, you know, wrote with this person and because then what if it doesn't make it
13:41on the record, but, um, and then writing for some other people's projects, um, in which
13:46case I feel weird talking about it because it's like their project. So I don't know.
13:50So yes, but yeah. Okay. Um, this was a, a popular, uh, a lot of votes
13:59for this question. This is from Quadratic Formula in Michigan. It's appropriate for the Google.
14:04Wow. Um, do you sing your own songs in the shower? Yeah. Awesome. That's great.
14:23Um, is it, do you have like any sort of favorite place for writing songs? No, actually. I kind
14:29of have become, you have to adapt yourself to a million different places to write when
14:35you're always on the road because I just, I don't have the luxury of, uh, saying, well,
14:43I have to be in this certain room at this certain part of town and it has to be, you
14:47know, all
14:48one color tone and there has to be smart water in there, you know, like it's just, you're never
14:54ever anywhere from more than two and a half seconds. So, you know, I've written songs in
15:00airport bathrooms on paper towels. I've written songs, which, what song was on a, on a bathroom
15:06towel at one point? Oh, it hasn't come out yet. Oh, okay.
15:10Um, you know, in the bus bunk, you'll wake up in the middle of the night and you'll have
15:14this idea. And then, so you write it and you're up at 4 AM or, you know, I get awakened
15:21by song ideas all the time. And it's just, it's like, I wake up and I'm just like, oh,
15:25great. Because I know I won't forget, I won't remember it in the morning. So you have to
15:29record it. And then it's this whole thing where you check your phone and it's like mumbling
15:33and you don't understand, you thought it was great at the time.
15:39Yeah, actually, uh, one of our, our, our Googler questions, uh, was about, um, about
15:43you recording songs into your cell phone. Is that something that you do regularly?
15:47Yeah. The ideas, um, always end up in my phone because it has a great recording thing
15:53in there. And, um, you know, for me, it's like, you just write wherever, whenever you
15:59can. And, um, that's been really fun for me because sometimes I'll walk into a hotel
16:04room and I'll be like, I've been here. I wrote back to December here. Like it's, it's fun
16:11because you have these memories of writing songs all over the world.
16:13Yeah. Cool. Um, so I know a lot of your songs are very personal songs and, um, a lot of
16:19your
16:19fans are very interested in that stuff, but, uh, this one came from Michaela K in South Florida.
16:25Um, has any guy asked you not to write a song about him before you went on a date?
16:32Not at that point in the relationship, because at that point they're thinking that, you know,
16:39I would never have any reason to write a bad song about them. And then it's when, you know,
16:46when they start to, you know, treat me in a way that wouldn't reflect well on them in a song,
16:51if I were to be honest about it. Oh, okay. Yeah. I've had a guy be like, you're not going
16:57to write
16:57about this, are you? I'm like, yeah, I am. I think that's interesting. That's a point in a
17:05relationship that you would have to have is this is the part where I tell her not to write a
17:09song
17:09about me, you know? Well, and you'd think that they would decide that before asking me on the
17:14date or before we become a couple or before all this stuff happens, but it only occurs to it only,
17:20well, him, it only occurred to him when, um, when it, when he, it occurred to him that it wouldn't
17:26be a good song. I see. Um, do you always write about, um, you know, people that, you know?
17:34Yeah. Um, because I feel like in a song, I love it when a song is a story and the
17:39story develops and,
17:40uh, my favorite stories have really beautiful characters and I feel like you can most accurately
17:46describe a character if you know them. Um, one of my favorite songs that I've ever, um, put out is
17:53called 15 and it's about my freshman year of high school and it kind of chronicles my best friend
17:59Abigail and, and me and the way that we went through our freshman year of high school and the lessons
18:04we
18:04learned. And, um, that's kind of how I like to tell a story is from the point of view of
18:09really
18:10knowing what you're talking about and knowing where you're coming from because you were there.
18:14Yeah. Um, so let's actually go to another video, our first video question. Um, and this one comes
18:22from Cleveland, Ohio. So let's roll it. Hey Taylor, I have a question for you. I know a lot of
18:31us can
18:31relate really strongly to your songs and your lyrics and considering I've gotten choked up a couple of
18:37times just listening to your songs. I wonder if you ever get choked up on stage or what you're
18:43thinking about when you're on stage. She's pretty. Um, I, I'm really in it when I'm on stage and,
18:53um, you know, I go through a roller coaster of emotions when I'm performing my show because,
18:58um, these are all songs about people who have been in my life who a lot of them, some of
19:05them aren't
19:05in my life anymore. And, um, you know, sometimes that'll hit you in just the right way. And when,
19:13when an emotion hits you strongly, it doesn't matter if you're in front of 20,000 people,
19:17it hits you. And, um, you know, for me, I'm, I'm in those songs, fully feeling all of it. Um,
19:26until I hear the crowd start screaming at the end of the song, at which point I'm just like,
19:31like, can't stop smiling because my favorite sound in the world is, um, the sound of thousands of
19:37people screaming all at once. It's, it's a really amazing sound. And, um, so I'm completely feeling
19:44all the sadness and frustration and anger and hurt. And then the crowd starts screaming and
19:49then everything is right in the world. Wow. Well, we'll talk about the tour and some of
19:53that stuff in a second. I want to ask one more Googler question about songwriting. And that was,
19:58has that process that you sort of talked about earlier, has that changed, uh, over the years?
20:02Cause, um, you know, you've grown up a lot and everybody's heard you sort of grow up.
20:06Yeah, I think it really has. I think that you can only hope that as a writer, you start trying
20:11different things and you try different chords or different structures of songs, different beats
20:16that you've never really explored that path before. Um, you know, and I think having always
20:24been a writer first, I'm obsessed with the syncopation of, of the way that words sound
20:30when they're said a certain way. And, um, once I've kind of done something once, I always want
20:35to go to a different direction and never repeat myself. So, um, as a writer, I think that I've
20:42always hoped that my music would constantly be changing because, um, you never want to
20:47make the same album twice, the same song twice. And, um, you know, my greatest hope has been
20:54that as I grow, um, my fans will grow up with me. And as I change and my life changes,
21:00my music
21:01will change as well. So, um, wish me luck there.
21:04Um, let's talk about your fans a little bit more. This is a question from Canada, from
21:09YouTube. Um, what was the funniest thing a fan has ever done to get your attention?
21:14Well, there's a lot of that lately because we have this thing called the tea party room
21:18and, um, you know, I have like four or five meet and greets before the show. Um, but after
21:24the show, there's a meet and greet for surprise, uh, people who did not know that they were going
21:30to get a meet and greet because they were picked for the tea party room, which means that they
21:35were like going crazy, dancing the whole time, dressed in some absurd, crazy costume from
21:41one of my music videos or just knew every single word. And we're just screaming the whole time.
21:47Like people get picked for different reasons, but it's, it's been crazy lately because a lot
21:53of people have been going for the costume route.
21:56Really?
21:57So we'll look out and like my guitar player will like lean over to me and be like, that
22:02girl is dressed like a chicken. And I, and like, I'm trying to find the meaning. I don't
22:10know why, but you know, we'll look out and there's like a Santa Claus.
22:16And those, these are just, that person had a Santa Claus outfit?
22:18Or like people who've like duct taped their entire body in neon duct tape or people who
22:22have just like made giant cupcakes around themselves and they're like, they're this big or people
22:30who have like dressed up from the mean video or something like that. But then there's just
22:34these ones where like the girls dressed as like, there's like a clown and a starfish.
22:40And we're like, I don't know why, but I love it. Like, and so there's, there's been a lot
22:46of costume stuff going on lately on the tour. So if you look around and you see someone dressed
22:51up as a giant cow and you don't know why, we don't know why either, but it's, it's welcome.
22:58Now this is a, I love Swift one from Toronto. Another Canada question. Has a fan ever made
23:04you cry?
23:06Yeah. Um, you know, for me, like it's never going to be okay. No matter how many times
23:14I see little kids with cancer, like there's, there's at no point do you ever become accustomed
23:20to it. At no point do you ever just brush it off and say, oh, well, there's another kid
23:25who's dying, you know? And I, over the years I've toured in these places and you see like
23:32a little girl who come through and she's like so full of life, but she's lost her hair.
23:38Um, and then you come through a year later and you're like, Hey Lexi, how are you doing?
23:43She's like, I'm doing good. And then the, her parents update you and, and then you come
23:47by like a year and a half later and she's not there. So it's yeah.
23:53Yeah. Um, you have all these fans, uh, all over the world of all different ages and types
23:59and, uh, you know, when you were young, did you think there would be any other career
24:03paths that you were going to take that you might not have ended up in this way?
24:06Yeah. I mean, ever since I was a little kid, ever since I was like eight years old, my
24:10dad has been telling me to save my money or invest in utilities. Um, and, uh, cause my
24:18dad is a stockbroker and he lives and breathes it. I mean, he's like, my dad is so passionate
24:25about what he does in the way that I'm passionate about music. This guy lives for being a stockbroker.
24:31That is his thing. Like, and anybody who talks to him, like he'll talk about me for the first
24:38five minutes and then it's like, we'll say, what are you investing in? Like, and I mean,
24:42it's just like, he loves it. And so I thought like, I didn't know what a stockbroker was when
24:48I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be. Like, you know,
24:52it would be at like, you know, first day of school and they're like, so what do you guys
24:56want to be when you grow up? And everybody's like, I want to be an astronaut or like, I
24:59want to be a ballerina. I'm like, I'm going to be a financial advisor. And I don't know.
25:06I love my dad so much because he's so gung ho for his job. And I just saw how happy
25:12it made
25:12him. And I just thought like, I can broke stocks. Like Taylor Swift, commodities trader.
25:19Um, all right, let's talk about music videos for a second. Uh, there's a lot of questions
25:23about your music videos. As I mentioned before, um, the music videos that you have on YouTube
25:27have been seen over half a billion times. Um, was there, uh, what was your favorite music
25:32video to make and why? That's from Sophie Carey in London.
25:36My favorite music video to make. Um, okay. Well, I love, um, I loved making the video for mine.
25:43Because it dealt with this whole storyline and it's like got flashbacks and flash forwards.
25:49And, uh, there were also a bunch of little kids on the set and they're so fun. They make
25:53it so much fun because, um, there's a lot of sitting around and waiting on, um, sets and
25:59we were in Maine. So we're sitting around and waiting on a beach. And so all of a sudden
26:04you're just playing with like 10 kids and they're like wrestling with each other and throwing
26:08sand and like playing catch. And it just makes the whole thing much more
26:12fun. Um, so I think that was my favorite one to make.
26:16Yeah. Were there any cool locations or anything, um, for many of those videos?
26:20Well, yeah, we went to Kennebunkport, Maine, which was this little town that I've always
26:24dreamed of going to. And so shooting a video there was amazing. It's this little coastal
26:28town. And it was, it was really awesome. I loved it.
26:31Yeah. Um, so let's talk about the tour for a second. Um, you're in the middle of the Speak
26:36Now tour and, um, very famously, you've had some really cool, uh, surprise duets, um, that
26:42you've done. And, uh, you also do, um, some very classic, uh, you do covers of some classic
26:47songs, um, all the time, pretty much every night. How do you choose, uh, what covers you'll
26:51end up doing in any particular concert?
26:53Well, I, um, I go online and I just kind of Google like what people, uh, what famous musicians
27:00are from a certain area. And, um, I just pick my favorites because, you know, I've, I've loved
27:08so many different kinds of music and I've, I've never really been genre specific as far
27:12as what I listened to. So there's always like a favorite song of mine for, from a certain
27:17area. And, um, you know, it's really fun to do like a few every night, like, you know,
27:23in California, I do like God Only Knows by the Beach Boys and then Sweet Escape by Gwen
27:29Stefani. It's like, it's just been really, really fun because it's just me and my guitar
27:33during the acoustic set and you can just do whatever because it's just you and your instrument.
27:39It's a really spontaneous part of the show.
27:41Yeah. Have you done any particularly unusual ones?
27:44Yeah. Um, you know, it's kind of unusual, unusual when I rap.
27:53You know, people don't really like, I guess people don't see that coming, but I love Lose
27:59Yourself. And so, um, we were in an area where we were like, I think we were in Michigan and
28:05I just started like, I started playing acoustically Lose Yourself and I just started off with like,
28:10yo. And everybody's just like, what is happening? This is really weird. But, um, I just, I love
28:17a great song. I don't care what genre it's in. I don't care if it's completely opposite
28:22from what people think is, you know, country music. And I just, I love a great song.
28:27Yeah. Um, one of the, uh, Googler questions that we got, um, was about, uh, which song of
28:34yours, um, is the most fun for you to perform?
28:38Um, I really like Better Than Revenge. It's a song off of the album Speak Now and, um, it's
28:45about a girl who stole my boyfriend and I got mad and I wrote a song about it. And, um,
28:55we do this like, just, it's just furious and angry and fun. And like, we have this gigantic
29:02bridge that drops down from the ceiling and me and my, my two backup singers are on the
29:07bridge just like throwing our hair around and head banging. Um, and so that's a really
29:12fun one to do. And, um, for me, they're all, they're all really, I think Dear John has a
29:19fun payoff. Yeah. Um, if you go see the show, I really love singing that because in the end
29:24it's got this, you know, pyro filled payoff in the end.
29:29Would you say those are two of the songs to get the crowd going the most or are there
29:32other ones? Um, I'd say, you know, you gotta come to a show because the crowds are really
29:40kind of steadily ear piercingly loud throughout the whole show. They're amazing. Like it's
29:46really hard to gauge like which is the moment that they're the loudest because they're just
29:51really, really loud all the time.
29:55Um, here's a, a, a funny question. This is from Ally Law in, um, Dunlap, Tennessee.
30:02Uh, you seem like the kind of person that would name their guitars. Do you name your guitars
30:07and what are their names?
30:08I do seem like that kind of person, but I, I haven't done it yet. I kind of think back
30:13on, um, the situations when I got them. Like when, when I fell in love with that particular
30:19guitar, like there's one of my guitars, it's an acoustic and it's blue and it's got koi fish
30:24swimming up the neck and like inlays. It's just beautiful. And it was, um, Bob Taylor sent
30:30it to me for my 18th birthday.
30:32Oh wow. So I remember the first time I like opened up this guitar case and I'm just like,
30:36oh, there's fish on the guitar. It's like this gorgeous guitar. And, um, so that's what
30:42I remember about that. And then there's this sparkly guitar that I play that has hundreds
30:47of tiny little crystals on it. And it looks like we had it specially made, but really we
30:52just glued them on.
30:54Oh really?
30:55Yeah. And, and sometimes little ones fall, they fall off. And so we'll have to super glue
31:01more on with tweezers. Um, so that's always what cracks me up about that because it's like,
31:07everyone's like, where did you have your guitar specially made? I'm like super glue. Like,
31:13um, how many, how many guitars do you use in a show? How many of those do you go through?
31:17Oh, okay. Well, um, that was a weird sound I just made. That was weird. Sorry. Um, the first
31:24one is electric. The second one is acoustic koa. Then there's the 12 string. Then there's
31:34the blue koi fish one. And then there's like four or five.
31:40Yeah. Wow. And then there's a ukulele and a ganjo.
31:43Of course. And a piano. Yeah.
31:46Um, obviously you're, you're on tour a lot and you, um, you're, that's where you spend
31:53a lot of your time. Um, but there were a lot of questions about what you do when you're
31:56not performing and you're in between gigs besides writing songs, um, like you do. Um,
32:02and so, you know, I guess first question, are there any movies that you like to watch while
32:06you're, um, on tour? I, I watch a lot of TV, like a lot of TV. Um, and my favorites
32:13are
32:13like the crime shows where it starts out and you know, you can't miss the first scene or
32:18else you miss like the discovery of this crime scene. And, and then, you know, the, the like
32:23twists and turns of it all. I love, um, CSI, uh, Law and Order SBU, Without a Trace, NCIS,
32:32uh, Lock Up Raw. Like...
32:36Uh, wow.
32:37I just am really afraid of getting in trouble. You have no idea.
32:42All right. So that's who watched his Lock Up. It's Taylor Swift, actually.
32:45Yeah.
32:46That's awesome. Oh, no. Um, but also, uh, one of the questions that we got was about what
32:51books that you read, um, in your free time. Oh, uh, mostly history. I'm obsessed with
32:57other time periods and like, I just, I'm always looking up museums or like the historical society
33:04or, um, like historical landmarks that we can go to in a particular city where we are. Um,
33:10and recently I've been reading a lot of books on like John Adams and Abraham Lincoln. And,
33:15um, I read this like 750 page book called The Kennedy Women and it dates back to like,
33:21the, the, the lineage of, um, the first Kennedy, um, woman who came across from Ireland on
33:28the boat and like the 1860s. And it's just this crazy, interesting read. Um, so that's
33:35what I've been reading lately. I'm, I'm sort of obsessed with history.
33:38Yeah. Well, let's talk about books for a second. One of the questions that we got actually
33:41from one of the, uh, future Googlers, uh, in the, in the audience, uh, was that about how
33:47you wrote a novel when you were 11 years old? I was 14. 14? No, wait. You were younger?
33:55I was like 13, I think. 13? Yeah, but I did. I was, um, I was, I have a lot
34:02of different
34:02epiphanies. I'm always have different ideas as to like, Ooh, you know, this would be a
34:07good idea. And, um, one summer I was, um, I was at the shore. We used to spend our summers
34:13in Stone Harbor, New Jersey and all my friends were back in Pennsylvania. And so I had nothing
34:17to do. And so I had this epiphany. I'm going to be a novelist. Um, and I'm going to write
34:22novels and that's going to be my career path. Um, and, uh, so I would write different chapters
34:29of this book and send them back to my friends. And, um, I'd write them into the, into the book
34:35under different names, but totally describe their personalities. And, um, it was a really fun
34:40way to spend the summer. And my parents were so frustrated cause I would never go outside.
34:44I'd just be like locked in this little study with my computer. Um, but I've always been
34:48a writer first. It's, it's my favorite thing is how you can convey a thought or a story or
34:54completely distract, describe a character or a situation through words and the right combination
35:00of words and the whole process of editing and re-editing and rethinking and imagining.
35:06And you get these little mini, um, just epiphany ideas that come to you.
35:13And, um, I think that that's what I loved about writing the novel.
35:17And that's what I love about poetry and it's what I love about songwriting.
35:19Yeah. Um, and, uh, while on this topic of things you do while you're on, you're on tour
35:24and, and stuff, we had a lot of questions about what it is that you like to do, um, when
35:28you're
35:28on tour and you're not performing. Is there any other things that you like to spend your time doing?
35:33What I love to do. Um, you know, I, I watch a lot of TV.
35:38Mm-hmm. Right.
35:40Crime shows.
35:41Yeah. Crime shows. That's pretty much the, the hobby list.
35:45Uh, so we, uh, have another question from a Googler here. Um, and, uh, this is, it says, uh, as
35:53a father
35:53of a teenage daughter, it's great to see that solid songwriting and hard work can get recognized.
35:57Do you have any advice for young aspiring musicians?
36:01Absolutely. I think that, um, you have to love it more than anything else and you have
36:06to love it for so many more reasons other than your idea of what the end result could be.
36:12Like you don't make an album so that you can get a platinum record to hang on your wall.
36:17Right.
36:17And you don't go on tour so that you can, um, hang the sold out plaques up in, you know,
36:25your bedroom. It's like, it's, it's so many little stepping stones and so many people have
36:30this idea that it's like you get discovered and then you get the record deal and then
36:35you record the song and then the song goes number one. And then, you know, and it's like,
36:39it's never like that. Like it very rarely is it like one thing leads to another, which
36:44leads to another end result. It's, it's so many dead ends and switching directions and
36:51going back and replanning and rethinking and so many interviews and strategy meetings and
36:56management meetings and PR meetings and so many things that are so outside of music that
37:03you have to love music so much that just your hour and a half to two hours on stage every
37:08night
37:09is worth everything else that you're going to go through. Um, and also I would say play your own
37:14instrument cause it's easier than dragging around like a karaoke machine, you know, like
37:20when you're starting out, you have to provide your own background music and it's just so much
37:25easier to play your own instrument.
37:26Okay, cool. Um, all right. So we're gonna, we have one last question. This is a, um, this is a
37:31video
37:31question, another video question. And, uh, it comes from Chicago, Illinois. It's a little bit different
37:36than some of the questions we've been talking about. Um, so let's roll that.
37:40Hey Taylor, it's Nick. Um, I have a question for you. What does being beautiful mean to you?
37:47I mean, define your definition of beauty, what beauty means in your eyes and why?
37:55Oh, I love him. Um, I think for me, beauty is sincerity.
38:01I think that there are so many different ways that someone can be beautiful. You know, someone's
38:08so funny that they're, it makes them beautiful no matter how they look because they're sincere
38:13in it. Um, or somebody is like really emotional and like moody and thoughtful and stoic, but
38:18that makes them beautiful because that's sincerely who they are. Or you look out into the crowd
38:22and you see someone so happy that they're smiling from ear to ear and that sincerity comes through.
38:28Um, I think that's what makes somebody beautiful. And I've never, uh, felt like there's just one way
38:36to be beautiful, you know, tall or short straight hair or curly or, or whatever. Some people have their
38:43definitions of their types. You know, for me, I think that when I meet someone and there's that magical
38:50thing about them that makes them unforgettable is that they're sincere and honest in whoever they are.
38:57Be that funny, happy, sad, you know, going through a rough time, sarcastic. I think that these personality
39:06traits that come through when somebody is really sincere is what makes them beautiful.
39:10Cool. I think that's a great note to end this on. Um, since this is a YouTube interview, there's a,
39:16there's sort of a tradition that we have, um, that, uh, where, where are they? Oh, there they are.
39:24So you, it's honorary for me to give you a pair of the YouTube tube socks.
39:30Thank you. Um, and, uh,
39:39I can wear these with sandals and you're going to be wearing those are going to look so great.
39:45That'd be really great for you on tour. Um, now we actually, uh, some, we handed out some tube socks
39:50to people that were coming in who got tube socks, uh, here. So, uh, we actually, there's a thing
39:56inside, uh, everybody that, all of you guys have got tube socks. You're actually getting tickets to
40:00Taylor's show tonight. So I will see you later. So, uh, let's hear it one more time for Taylor Swift.
40:07Thank you for being here. Thank you.
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