our first guest is a seven-time Grammy award-winning singer and songwriter Who Sold over 30 million
albums 30 million albums for the love of God 30 million her brand new CD is entitled 1989.
here She is welcome back to the program the lovely delightful Taylor Swift Taylor [Applause]
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how are you
Taylor Swift
you know um
okay thank you
I was yeah yeah I like it I want you to realize some some of that's for me I know I was assuming
that I said you know we were uh getting ready to talk to you this afternoon and we we put
up the video I think when last time you were here and you did one of those uh internet
shows after the show that's the internet yes oh my God and you're in a red dress oh it
was just stunning I mean beautiful uh it sounded wonderful and it was reminiscent of real show
business you know they had everything you want in performance glamor lovely music beautiful
woman it was great thank you wow
the idea of show business I love um you know making a big deal out of putting out an album
and getting to dress up and the whole thing it's it's amazing to to be a songwriter and
then to get to put on performances I was just told that the new album has already sold like
600 000 copies or something yeah in 24 hours in 24 hours
I'm like yeah I'm like always about a half step away from crying like at any point and
it's named 1989 and this is the other thing that uh why I'm about to cry it's named 1989
because you were born in 1980 yeah born in 1989. I have ties older than you
uh well I mean things are great aren't they and you're in New York City and you're like
the official Welcome to New York kid what do you do for New York is that you get money
for that aren't you no I don't get any money for it but I have a song called Welcome to
New York and I recently moved to New York and so the city named me the welcome Ambassador
for tourism which I thought was really nice of that I knew when you moved you moved from
where did you move I moved from Nashville to New York Nashville to New York and you
originally are from Pennsylvania yeah yeah just kind of yeah how long did you live in
Nashville um I lived in Nashville for 10 years nice Town yeah it's amazing great music um
great musicians yeah absolutely it's incredible now here you are in New York City and you
got a house an apartment where you stay in the Y what are you doing
I have an apartment in Tribeca yeah yeah very nice I'm really excited about it big big place
yeah it's nice it's good yeah it's really good it's kind of like one of those where
you wake up and you're like I I live here huh yeah how long have you been in the place
um I've been so I've been like obsessing over moving to New York for a year but I didn't
find the perfect place till like like winter last year and um so I've been there ever since
then I had the most amazing summer here and just all my friends are here now no two things
on that first of all I let's don't give people the wrong impression there is no perfect place
to live in New York City just get that right out of your heads that ain't gonna happen
now the other thing is the first couple of days you wake up and oh my God here I am I'm
living in New York City that's a nice feeling isn't it it's an amazing feeling and the thing
is like as soon as I moved there when I love something I'm very very vocal about it me
too yeah so everywhere did you hear me talking about M M's
exactly right
so you're really a cheerleader for New York yeah anytime I talk to anyone or anytime I
do an interview I was just like you don't understand you have to go there now you have
to go to New York just drop what you're doing you have to go there it's amazing it's the
greatest place ever and I think I think the city like I guess picked up on that and they're
like she's she's the most enthusiastic obnoxious person to ever love New York she loves it
with like 18 exclamation points afterward underlying but it's nice you know it's really
nice you know New York City is flattered by your presence and your enthusiasm for the
city itself that's good that I thank New York City do you still uh I remember I tried to
encourage you to write a snarky song about our relationship but you I I don't remember
hearing that do you still do that sort of thing um a snow I would never write a snarky
song about our relationship you're like my favorite person oh God bless you ladies God
it's very sweet I have this picture on my phone of us like pounding it and it's like
my favorite it's it's saved to my phone so you only have so much storage I I kind of
feel like when you come by it's just a drop in on the elderly see how they are
you don't do that anymore because it always uh ended up working the wrong way didn't it
I don't write snarky songs yeah about old boyfriends and stuff lousy boyfriends well
I mean I just haven't really had any lousy boyfriends in the last year and a half it's
been good uh I've never dated guys but but looking around I would think it would be hard
to find a decent guy because a guy is just generally are jerks I just kind of I'm just
not really looking around for them at them shopping I'm not doing any of that so I you
know what uh you and Lena Dunham are buddies now we are my friends uh well actually Lena
I I was watching girls when it first came out about two years ago and I just thought
she's so empowering this person writes direct stars in this incredible show and so I went
out and I did what you do when you are interested in someone I like Googled her and went to
her Twitter and the first thing I saw was her quoting my lyrics and at first I thought
um like that has to be she has to be doing that ironically like she's clearly making
fun of me because I have this big like loser complex from school oh really um but it turned
out she was following me and it was completely unironic and she actually liked my music and
she direct messaged me and she said we need to be best friends I feel like you've been
my best friend in my head for months and almost years now so I need to see you in person and
then I will lavish you with compliments in person and she did she did do that that's
amazing yeah there must have been a connection there the Transcendent of show business because
that's that's a pretty immediate pretty urgent request to be buddies I think we both since
we're both writers first she writes her show and I write my music and everything we do
stems from that creative process we have a lot to relate to each other on and we're also
both way enthusiastic about everything well you know why not because if the world doesn't
need a little enthusiasm what does it need for God's sake you know what I mean exactly
now here's another thing uh I used to do as well you invite your fans uh to your home
did you really used to do that
trying to make myself seem better person but how does that work how many I mean how do
you get selected okay so this was a thing that I thought of called the 1989 secret sessions
and what I decided was I want to play my entire new album for fans before it comes out like
months before it goes out party it's a listening party and so I decided just the most logical
thing to do it would just be to have them come over anywhere I had a house and just
hang out in the living room and play them the album um and so it was the screening process
how did one qualify to come sit in your living room well it was like each house that I have
so that was La New York Rhode Island Nashville and then we in my hotel room in London um
but yeah the screening process was like like a girl taking a selfie and I can see she's
got my poster in the background and she writes me a cute comment on Instagram or you know
somebody saying I've been to five shows I've never met you before none of these people
who came to the secret sessions that ever met me so I wanted to meet them in sort of
a situation where they never felt rushed they weren't waiting outside were they I mean was
there were their parents there where was there security there was it if they were under 18
then they could bring their parents they could bring their parents which was hilarious yeah
and and uh this sounds great but how do you get them out of there well we would we would
spend like it was like dinner and then I'd play them yeah and then I'd tell them stories
you fixed them dinner you have to feed people at a party that's gonna last five hours oh
my God but the coolest thing you are Mother Teresa
now listen here we go uh later in the program uh a song uh with uh from the new album 1989
yes we're very excited that you're here oh look at that beautiful cover there there you
like that yeah very nice uh Taylor Swift ladies and gentlemen [Music] foreign [Music]