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Taylor Swift
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Taylor Swift and Ella you're on the
cover of Entertainment Weekly you have
all these Easter eggs on here right yeah
yeah and I feel like explain what the
eggs are to people who don't underst I
think that is necessary so it's like
when we say Easter eggs were not only
talking about like Easter eggs that you
would go on an Easter egg hunt for on
Easter it's like it's kind of a like a
it's kind of like a clue like a
foreshadowing kind of thing I like to
plant Easter eggs in a video like that
will be like a lyric from unreleased
music or like a little hint or a little
link to what's coming in the future
and usually your fans are pretty good at
figuring it out right they're excellent
at figuring what is the worst what what
how far off have they been what's the
worst they've been oh man well there
were some fans that thought I had
something to do with Avengers endgame oh
really
which I would which I would have loved
to have been asked but I wasn't know she
wants to be in it at all yeah because we
had the single coming out the same day
and I have a song that was called
endgame and so they were like oh my god
she's gonna defeat Thanos and
I let everyone down yeah yeah again
there's actually a lot to learn in this
quick conversation about Easter eggs
first do you know what an Easter Egg is
and what she means by to go on an Easter
egg hunt so it's like when we say Easter
eggs were not only talking about like
Easter eggs that you would go on an
Easter egg hunt for on Easter an Easter
egg is a candy egg or an egg decorated
for the Christian or cultural holiday of
Easter as Taylor explains on and before
Easter children like to go on Easter egg
hunts an Easter egg hunt is a
traditional activity in which chocolate
eggs decorated eggs or sweets are hidden
for children to find why are you so
angry and gee I don't know maybe it's
because I was always the subject of her
little experiments did you get to the
chapter where she staged the Easter egg
hunt with no eggs to see how long I keep
looking
the answer by the way June to hunt means
to chase and kill an animal but it can
also mean to search for something or
someone for example if you're looking
for a job you could say I'm job hunting
or that you're going to go on a job hunt
in the following example Rachel is
looking for a new apartment to live in
so apparently I'm available for lunch
you're moving Taylor actually means a
different sense of the word in this case
Easter eggs are hidden details or items
in a movie television show or other
visual media like Taylor's music video
that you can only see if you watch very
closely there's actually been a lot of
Easter eggs and Friends if you watched
the first season in episode 9 Joey does
some modelling work that puts him on
posters all around the city
[Music]
a few episodes later the poster is still
up on some walls in the city this is an
easter egg in the picture of her
magazine cover all these buttons
represent Easter eggs that she put or as
she said planted in her music video me
by the way we did a lesson with that
music video click on the top right
corner to watch it in her conversation
with Ellen Taylor goes on to explain
what Easter eggs are in this case she
says it's kind of like a clue like it's
kind of like a it's kind of like a clue
note how it all links together into one
word kind of a we're going to see other
examples of how of a links together
usually the word before of also connects
to it and we get for example out of all
becomes out of all if it's of any help
becomes if it's of any help
hell of a becomes helluva Chandler I cut
you out of all my pictures so what you
want I have a bag with just your heads
well if it's of any help I've read all
the great moral philosophers including
dr. Seuss for your information I also
gave Leonard one hell of a high-five is
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up like a foreshadowing kind of thing I
like to plant Easter eggs in a video
like that will be like a lyric from
unreleased music or like a little hint
or a little link to what's coming in the
future to foreshadow is to show or say
in an indirect or symbolic way that
something will happen in the future to
use another example from friends if you
know the story of Chandler and Monica
you'd understand how this back and forth
foreshadowed their eventual romantic
relationship no fear I do even have one
how come they get to get one oh yeah
when all right I'll tell you what when
we're 40 if neither of us are married
what do you say you and I get together
and have one why would I get married
when I'm 40 oh no no no I just meant
hypothetically okay hypothetically why
won't I be married when I'm 40 Taylor
also explains that her Easter eggs are
hints or weeks to her future music a
hint is something that you say or do to
suggest something to someone without
telling them directly a wink on the
other hand is this expression which we
use to signal something to someone
Taylor uses these two words hint and
wink in a similar way
what do you think you kidding okay I'll
give you and I'll give you aim I got
glasses by the way did you notice how
often she uses like in her speech it's
kind of like a it's kind of like a clue
this is what we call a discourse marker
in XS this one in particular can be
considered a bad habit of spoken
communication we did a linguistic
analysis of this and other discourse
markers in this lesson with Emma Watson
and usually your fans are pretty good at
figuring it out right
we know that Taylor likes to drop
different types of hints in her videos
but can her fans take those hints she
says they're excellent at figuring them
out in this case figure out means to
understand how something works or
consider all the parts of something and
come to a conclusion they're excellent
at figuring what is the worst what what
how far off have they been what's the
worst they've been when Taylor Swift's
fans try to figure out all these Easter
eggs that she plants in her videos they
might end up being right or as we might
say spot-on if they're not completely
right you could say their guess is close
but if they're off they just missed the
real meaning of something completely to
be off means to not be close to right
hence Ellen's question how far off have
they been let's now pay attention to an
important feature of pronunciation that
if you haven't already incorporated into
your spoken English you definitely will
want to which I would have loved to have
been asked but I wasn't no notice here
that I would have loved to becomes I
would have loved to let's take a look at
other examples of would have I really
wish that you would have called first
look I'm telling you if you'd been there
you would have probably cried you think
this would have totally helped
game and so they were like oh my god
she's gonna defeat Thanos and I let
everyone down yeah
to defeat means to win in a contest or
game or in a fight against Thanos to
beat him I wanted the power to defeat my
enemies you gave me the power to defeat
by demons to let someone down is to make
someone disappointed by not doing
something that they are expecting you to
do for example if you're given a
promotion at work you might say this to
your boss or manager congratulations
thank you sir
I won't let you down did the speaking
French in the beginning of it does that
mean something yeah don't okay did you
know French already or did you learn it
for that I've tried it to learn French
several times in my life because I think
it's a really beautiful beautiful and I
definitely made sure that I had native
French speakers on set because I didn't
want to butcher the language of life
like that's not what I came here a
singing French right now you're putting
me on the spot
Geneva thought to pelacone sake I'm
sorry oh that's good that's good one
thanks no know what that means but that
sounded real French all right so I love
casts and I definitely made sure that I
had native French speakers on set
because I didn't want to butcher the
language of light Taylor's music video
has a short intro of her speaking French
coma Austin
Eddy for no fee oh please no see this is
by the way yet another Easter Egg set is
the area where a movie TV show or music
video is filmed she then talks about not
butchering French a butcher is someone
who carves and sells meats it can also
refer to the shop where the meat is sold
however as a verb as Taylor uses it here
we often use it to say that we're badly
mispronouncing a word in another
language for example in this clip from
friends
Phoebe believes that Monica is
butchering a French name by confusing it
with the brand of cookies seen here
what was her name Nestle Tolosa
Nestle Tollhouse you Americans always
butchered the french-language hey if
you're a Taylor Swift fan she is really
fantastic for learning English and we've
done a bunch of lessons with her you can
find all those in this playlist by
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description below that's not what I came
here based on your little french right
now you're putting me on the spot this
is a very common expression we used to
say that someone is putting us in a
position of potential embarrassment by
asking us to do something difficult
especially in front of other people and
without enough time to come up with the
right answer or solution for example you
might feel on the spot if someone asks
you how do you say this in English and
you can't think of the best translation
in that moment what do you want to know
do you love me
I didn't mean to put you on the spot or
anything I was just asking more for
informational purposes it's to keep the
video up-to-date as possible
well I'll do is I'll read a question and
then you will answer the question and
then hit this for no apparent reason I
love it it's fun right yeah yeah all
right if you can't sleep in the middle
of the night what do you do I go
downstairs and rummage through the
kitchen and eat whatever I can find and
it's really less like a human being and
more like a raccoon in a dumpster like
the next morning we just we walk down so
knowing what it what happened here I
don't remember
does that help you sleep well if you eat
a whole lot and then it's not really
voluntary oh do you sleep eat I think so
it sounds like I'm you know sleeping and
doing it yes it sounds like you've got
an issue yep
okay I'll answer the question and then
hit this for no apparent reason
if you do something for no reason or to
add more emphasis for no apparent reason
you're saying that something is done
without an obvious cause I'm having
lunch at Monica's and this guy starts
talking to me and it turns out he works
for a buyer at Bloomingdale's and there
happens to be an opening in his
department so I gave my phone number DS
gonna call me this weekend to see if he
can get me an interview what so this
guy's helping you for no apparent reason
and he's a total stranger yeah his name
is them not something huh
sounds like Marc something once they
have some sex I'm just saying I mean why
else would he just you know swoop in out
of nowhere for no reason to be nice hey
Joey
are men ever nice to strange women for
no reason
no only for say thank you I go
downstairs and rummage through the
kitchen and eat whatever I can find and
it's really less like a human being and
more like a raccoon in a dumpster like
to rummage is to search for something by
moving things around in a careless messy
way this is exactly the verb that best
describes what a raccoon would do in a
dumpster it's quite funny to think of a
singer like Taylor who seems quite
confident and elegant making a mess in
her kitchen at night like a raccoon in
the trash
does that help you sleep well if you eat
a whole lot and a whole lot is a more
emphatic way of saying a lot see Raj's
kinda naive he hasn't dated a whole lot
of women from this moment on you are my
mortal enemy don't worry it doesn't take
up a whole lot of your time I'll be
asleep 8:00 we use the colloquial
expression to sleepwalk to describe what
someone with so Namgyel ism does then
consciously become active and walk
around while they are sleeping
however if people do other things while
they are asleep we can use the same
collocation for example sleep talking or
sleep driving and in Taylors case Ellen
says she's asleep eater so she has the
tendency to eat while sleeping well
Taylor does not actually have any
medical condition like this it is a
funny excuse for this out of character
behavior
it sounds like I'm you know sleeping and
doing it yes it sounds like you've got
an issue it sounds like you've got an
issue it sounds like you've got an issue
it sounds like I'm you know sleeping and
doing it yes it sounds like you've got
an issue generally an issue is a problem
when we say someone has an issue we mean
that that person has a personal problem
or difficulty it's the kind of
difficulty that some people go to
therapy for just seems as though that
maybe you have intimacy issues you know
that you use your humor as a way of
keeping people at a distance what is the
most rebellious and rebellious thing you
did as a teenager probably when I like
put Joe Jonas on blast on your show that
was too much
wow that's held on to you because I
don't remember that at all what's your
favorite movie that's a tough one oh how
do you narrow it down to Wyatt you can
know but you can't you oughta have to go
favorite movie I've seen in the last
week okay someone great on Netflix yeah
don't know that one it's a great movie
oh well okay what is the most
rebellious and rebellious thing you did
as a teenager probably when I like put
Joe Jonas on blast on your show that was
too much was it yeah
a rebellious person is a person who
likes to challenge authority something
rebellious a teenager would do is
something that defies Authority control
or convention like dyeing their hair red
or skipping school Taylor here says she
put Joe Jonas on blast what she means is
that she exposed embarrassing
information about him by saying
something private in public she's
referring to what she said back in 2009
in this clip I'm not even gonna be able
to remember the boy who broke up with me
over the phone in 25 seconds
don't confuse this with to put something
on blast which means to turn the volume
up for example on music or the TV to the
maximum then she says that was too much
this is a way of saying she might have
gone a little overboard with the
accusation that's held on to you because
I don't remember that at all if someone
holds on to you they remain with you or
they accompany you through a difficult
time if a memory holds to you you never
forget it
what's your favorite movie that's a
tough one oh honey and narrow it down to
Wyatt
you can't narrow it down to Wyatt Wyatt
how do you narrow it down to Wyatt
we often say that's a tough one when
it's difficult to make a decision for
Taylor it's difficult to decide what her
favorite movie is more generally though
it's often a synonym of hard or
difficult example I'm having a tough
time trying to wake up early now that
it's cold to narrow something down means
to reduce the number of possibilities or
options so the wedding caterer sent me
this list of 12 appetizers and I have to
narrow it down to 6 now it is time to
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