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