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  • Taylor Swift: Hi.

  • That was nice.

  • Taylor Swift: It's great to be here.

  • This is amazing.

  • Kevin Allocca: We were talking before, you've actually been here before; is that right?

  • Taylor Swift: 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 we were traveling up the West Coast in a rental car, in a TAURUS, and I was doing

  • my homework in the back seat, I was home schooled in 10th grade.

  • That was when we made this trip to San Jose and came to see you for the first time.

  • It's wonderful to be back here and have so many of you come out this time around.

  • It's amazing.

  • Kevin Allocca: We're a very forward-thinking company apparently, having you here when you

  • were 16.

  • I want to thank you for being here, first of all, for all of us.

  • This is really an honor and a treat.

  • You're in the middle of your tour, Speak Now.

  • I know you have posted some videos to your channel, sort of outlining your tour, and,

  • specifically, your trip to Asia.

  • And I want to show a clip from when you were in Singapore.

  • I know you were in Chinatown, but the Chinatown of Singapore?

  • Is that right?

  • Taylor Swift: Yes.

  • We started out the year going on tour and started off in Asia.

  • And then we were in Europe for two months.

  • It was, like, three months of major worldwide touring.

  • So Singapore was the first place that we went on the tour.

  • Kevin Allocca: Cool.

  • Let's roll that clip.

  • Everywhere, sort of fascinated by the waving cats, because, you know, of course, as long

  • as you keep fresh batteries in them, they're always going to be saying hello to you, just

  • always.

  • Symbolize forever, waving cats.

  • What's better than a cat that's always like, hey?

  • There's nothing better than that.

  • Kevin Allocca: So this, of course, has all the makings of a viral video.

  • There's a big celebrity.

  • It's a global thing.

  • There's a cat in the video.

  • Taylor Swift: That will do it.

  • I think you just said it.

  • That's the essential ingredient is a cat.

  • Kevin Allocca: Now your YouTube channel is very popular.

  • I know you have over a half a million subscribers that get your blogs when you post them, which

  • is really cool.

  • 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 connecting with your audience.

  • Taylor Swift: I think we've all seen the effect of social media and how that can affect people.

  • 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.

  • Kevin Allocca: And I would be remiss if it were a YouTube interview and I didn't ask

  • you if you had any favorite -- I know you're busy -- but any favorite YouTube videos or

  • channels that you like to watch? Taylor Swift: Yes.

  • I have watched this one three times this week because 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 jump up on the lion trainer and start hugging him.

  • And then they're, like, making all these little lion sounds that you don't -- you didn't know

  • what the sounds are that lion cubs make, but it's amazing.

  • It's just like RRRR.

  • They're like hugging him, and he's, like, oh, go for my hair.

  • You keep going for my hair.

  • And then he's like, oh, yeah, telling me stories.

  • Kevin Allocca: Where was this zoo? Taylor Swift: It's amazing.

  • It's -- Taylor Swift: 'Cause he's like Scottish and

  • they're, like, hugging him and they love him so much.

  • And -- I don't know.

  • It's – you -- just watch it.

  • Kevin Allocca: I guess everybody is going to run -- it's going to be popular now.

  • Kevin Allocca: Well, this isn't just our interview.

  • This is also your fans' interview.

  • And you have some very rabid fans, the Swifties I believe is how they call themselves.

  • Taylor Swift: I know.

  • It's so cute.

  • They came up with that.

  • Kevin Allocca: They're very serious, by the way.

  • They don't mess around.

  • They submitted 30,000 questions to this interview.

  • Kevin Allocca: And overTaylor Swift: That's so much questions.

  • They're so curious.

  • Kevin Allocca: Yeah.

  • We only can do a few of them.

  • And we also have some from Google.

  • But the biggest topic by far was songwriting, because I think that a lot of your fans have

  • a big connection to the stories you that tell in your songs.

  • Let's start with this topic.

  • This one comes from pandabearlover13.

  • I mean, a lot of the user names are not meant to be read outloud.

  • This is from Florida.

  • Which comes first for you as a songwriter, the music or the lyrics?

  • Taylor Swift: 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 going to hit me first, whether it's going to be a general thought.

  • Like, for example, you know, I'll be going through something.

  • When I wrote the song "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.

  • 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.

  • I didn't know where that was going to fit, but I started there and 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 (snapping fingers) in just a surge of idea, a surge of inspiration.

  • 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 through it.

  • But, you know, I think when I was growing up, my mom was always -- my mom talks in 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.

  • Kevin Allocca: Yeah.

  • We had a lot of questions about the process, from budding song writers who submitted questions

  • that are big 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?

  • I mean, is it when you get that idea?

  • Or when you're sitting on the floor in the bedroom or --

  • Taylor Swift: Yes.

  • Kevin Allocca: -- in the studio? Taylor Swift: There are several moments in

  • a song -- and I won't finish a song if I don't have these moments -- where you go, "ooh,

  • ooh, ooh," like, after you write a line.

  • It's always that same feeling of, like, oh, that's exactly what I meant.

  • You know, if you're in a cowriting 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.

  • Kevin Allocca: Yeah.

  • Taylor Swift: Like, lines where I'm just like, "Yes!"

  • 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 zingers

  • or, like, say it really well.

  • I love watching people's reactions if they -- if it comes across, like, if they get those

  • lines.

  • I'm like, "Yes.

  • I knew it."

  • Kevin Allocca: We'll get back to the cowriting thing in a second.

  • There were some questions about that as well.

  • Here's another question, from musicmaniac in Los Angeles.

  • You've said you're already writing for the next record.

  • Can you tell us anything about it?

  • Taylor Swift: Well, yeah.

  • For me, I never really switch 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 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.

  • 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 talk about my personal life, but I write about it.

  • So that's basically what the album is about, as always.

  • Kevin Allocca: 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.

  • This is from tayswiftfearless in Missouri.

  • But, I mean, what happens to those songs that don't make it to the album?

  • And would you ever release some of those songs that you wrote especially when you were younger,

  • like 14, 15?

  • Taylor Swift: Well, I'm obsessed with the latest song that I've written.

  • I'm very guilty of that.

  • Because my favorite thing is always the newest thing I have written.

  • But lately, I've become a little more self-aware, because I had this song that I wrote when

  • I was 16.

  • It's called "Sparks Fly."

  • And I played it in a few shows, 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 been one of the fastest-rising songs we've had

  • on the record.

  • So it kind of taught me a lesson about the old stuff maybe possibly being good enough

  • to put on new projects.

  • Kevin Allocca: I'm sure there are a lot of people who would love to hear some of that

  • stuff.

  • Let's move on to some of the released songs.

  • This is a question from cookie13cupcake.

  • Kevin Allocca: This is in the United Kingdom.

  • This is going to be a long one.

  • All right.

  • So out of all of your released songs, which song took the longest to write?

  • Taylor Swift: 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 cowriters -- it

  • all happened really fast, because 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 one was a long time to kind of get where it needed to be.

  • Kevin Allocca: Cool.

  • So let's talk about that cowriter thing for a second.

  • As you mentioned, this album was all you as far as for Speak Now.

  • But you do often work with cowriters.

  • And how do you decide if you're going to write a song with a cowriter or whether you're going

  • to tackle it yourself? Taylor Swift: Well, there are a bunch of different

  • circumstances that could bring about a cowrite.

  • 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 story line, 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 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, cowriting, you know, I write really well with people who don't even play

  • instruments or sing.

  • Because, you know, a lot of times, my best cowriters are just really great at giving

  • advice.

  • Like, do you think this chorus is too long?

  • "Yes."

  • Like, "Thank you."

  • Kevin Allocca: Is there anybody you're working with right now that you can talk about?

  • Taylor Swift: Yes.

  • You know, for me, since I write so much and I don't know what's going to end up on the

  • record, it's -- 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?

  • Kevin Allocca: Of course.

  • Taylor Swift: 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 I -- So yes, but -- Kevin Allocca: Okay.

  • Taylor Swift: Yeah.

  • Kevin Allocca: This was a popular -- a lot of votes for this question.

  • This is from quadraticfomulaabc in Michigan.

  • Appropriate for the Google.

  • Taylor Swift: Wow.

  • Kevin Allocca: Do you sing your own songs in the shower?

  • Taylor Swift: Yeah.

  • Kevin Allocca: Awesome.

  • That's great.

  • Kevin Allocca: Do you have, like, any sort of favorite place for writing songs?

  • Taylor Swift: 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, all one color tone and there has to be Smart Water in there."

  • Taylor Swift: You know?

  • It's just like you're never, ever anywhere for more than two and a half seconds.

  • So I've written songs in airport bathrooms, on paper towels.

  • I've written -- Kevin Allocca: What song was on a bathroom

  • towel at one point?

  • Taylor Swift: Oh, it hasn't come out yet.

  • Kevin Allocca: Oh.

  • Taylor Swift: You know, in the bus bunk, you'll wake up in the middle of the night and have

  • this idea.

  • 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 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.

  • Kevin Allocca: Yeah.

  • Actually, one of our Googler questions was about you recording songs into your cell phone.

  • Is that something that you do regularly? Taylor Swift: 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 whenever and wherever 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 fun, because you have these memories of writing songs all over the world.

  • Kevin Allocca: 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 MicaylaK in south Florida.

  • Has any guy asked you not to write a song about him before you went on a date?

  • Taylor Swift: Not at that point in the relationship.

  • Taylor Swift: Because at that point, they're thinking that, you know, I would never have

  • any reason to write a song about them.

  • And then it's when, you know -- Taylor Swift: 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 honest

  • about it, I've had a guy be, like, "You're not going to write about this, are you?"

  • Taylor Swift: I'm like, "Yeah, I am."

  • Kevin Allocca: I think that's interesting.

  • 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, you know.

  • Taylor Swift: 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 -- well, him, it only occurred to him when --

  • Taylor Swift: -- when he -- it occurred to him that it wouldn't be a good song.

  • Kevin Allocca: Do you always write about, you know, people that you know?

  • Taylor Swift: 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."

  • It's about my freshman year of high school.

  • And it kind of chronicles my best friend Abigail and me and the way that we went through our

  • freshman year of high school and the lessons that 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.

  • Kevin Allocca: Yeah.

  • So let's actually go to another video -- our first video question.

  • And this one comes from Cleveland, Ohio.

  • Let's roll it.

  • Video: Hey, Taylor, I have a question for you.

  • I know a lot of us can relate really strongly to your songs and your lyrics.

  • Considering I have gotten choked up a couple of times just listening to your songs, I wonder

  • if you ever get choked up on stage or what you're thinking about when you're on stage.

  • Taylor Swift: She's pretty.

  • I'm really in it when I'm on stage.

  • And I go through a roller coaster 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 will hit you in just the right

  • way.

  • And 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 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 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.

  • Kevin Allocca: Wow.

  • 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?

  • 'Cause, you know, you've grown up a lot and everybody has sort of heard you grow up.

  • Taylor Swift: 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 set 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.

  • Kevin Allocca: Let's talk about your fans a little bit more.

  • This is a question from Canada, from YouTube.

  • What was the funniest thing a fan has ever done to get your attention?

  • Taylor Swift: 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 going to 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 were just screaming

  • the whole time.

  • Like, people get picked for different reasons.

  • But it's been crazy lately because a lot of people have been going for the costume route.

  • Kevin Allocca: Really? Taylor Swift: So we'll look out, and, like,

  • my guitar player will lean over to me and say, "That girl is dressed like a chicken."

  • 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.

  • Kevin Allocca: And these are just -- Taylor Swift: Or, like, people who like duct-taped

  • their entire body in neon duct tape.

  • Or people who have just made giant cupcakes around themselves, and they're, like -- they're

  • this big.

  • Or people who have likelihood dressed up from the mean video or something like that.

  • But then there's just these ones where, like, the girl is dressed as this -- there's like

  • a clown and a starfish.

  • And we're, like, "I don't know why, but I love it."

  • Taylor Swift: Like, and so there's been a lot of costume stuff going on lately on the

  • tour.

  • So if you look around you and see someone dressed up as a giant cow and you don't know

  • why, we don't know why, either.

  • But it's welcome.

  • Kevin Allocca: Now, this is iloveswift1 from Toronto.

  • Another Canada question.

  • Has a fan ever made you cry? Taylor Swift: Yeah.

  • You know, for me, like, it's never going to be okay, no matter how many times I see little

  • kids with cancer.

  • Like, there's -- 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.

  • And over the years, I've toured in these places, and you see, like, a little girl who will

  • 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, Lexie, how are you doing?"

  • She's, like, "I'm doing good."

  • And then her parents update you.

  • And then you come by, like, a year and a half later, and she's not there.

  • So it's....

  • Kevin Allocca: Yeah.

  • Taylor Swift: Yeah.

  • Kevin Allocca: You have all of these fans all over the world of all different ages and

  • types.

  • And when you were young, did you think there would be any other career paths that you would

  • take that you might not have ended up in this way?

  • Taylor Swift: 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.

  • Kevin Allocca: What?

  • Taylor Swift: And -- 'cause my dad is a stock broker.

  • And he lives and breathes it.

  • 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.

  • Taylor Swift: 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, "Say, what are you investing in?"

  • It's just like he loves it.

  • And so I thought -- 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, 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 is, "I want to be an astronaut" or "I want to be a ballerina."

  • And I'm, like, "I want to be a financial advisor."

  • Taylor Swift: I don't know.

  • 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, I can broke stocks.

  • Kevin Allocca: 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 sophiekerrie in London.

  • Taylor Swift: My favorite music video to make.

  • I loved making the video from Mine, because it dealt with this whole story line, and it's

  • 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.

  • All of a sudden, you're just playing with 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.

  • Kevin Allocca: Were there any cool locations or anything for any of those videos?

  • Taylor Swift: We went to Kennebunkport, Maine, which was this little town that I've always

  • dreamed of going to.

  • It was amazing.

  • It's a little coastal town.

  • It was really awesome.

  • I loved it.

  • Kevin Allocca: Let's talk about the tour for a second.

  • You're in the middle of the Speak Now tour.

  • Very famously, you've had some really cool surprise duets.

  • And you do covers of classic songs pretty much every night.

  • How do you choose what covers you'll do in any particular concert?

  • Taylor Swift: Well, I go online and just kind of Google what people -- what famous musicians

  • are from a certain area, and I just pick my favorites, because, you know, I've -- I've

  • loved so many different kinds of music, and I've never really been genre-specific as far

  • as what I listen to.

  • There's always, like, a favorite song of mine 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 just been really, really fun, because it's just me and my guitar during the acoustic

  • set.

  • You can just do whatever because it's just you and your instrument.

  • It's a spontaneous part of the show.

  • Kevin Allocca: Have you done any particularly unusual ones?

  • Taylor Swift: Yeah.

  • You know, it's kind of unusual when I rap. Taylor Swift: You know.

  • People don't really, like -- I guess people don't see that coming.

  • But I love "lose yourself," so we were in an area, I think Michigan, and I just started

  • -- like, I started playing acoustically, Lose Yourself.

  • And I just started off, like, "Yo."

  • And everybody's just, like, "What is happening?

  • This is really weird."

  • But 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 love a great song.

  • Kevin Allocca: Yeah.

  • One of the Googler questions that we got was about which song of yours is the most fun

  • for you to perform.

  • Taylor Swift: 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 boyfriends.

  • Taylor Swift: And I got mad.

  • And I wrote a song about it.

  • And we do this, like, just -- it's just furious and angry and fun and, like, we have this

  • gigantic bridge that be drops down from the ceiling, and me and 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 really -- I think Dear John has a fun payoff.

  • 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.

  • Kevin Allocca: Would you say those are two of the songs that get the crowd going the

  • most?

  • Or are there other ones? Taylor Swift: I'd say -- you know, you ought

  • to come to a show, because the crowds are really kind of steadily ear-piercingly loud

  • throughout the whole show.

  • They're amazing.

  • Like, it's really hard to gauge, like, which is the moment that -- that they're the loudest,

  • because they're just really, really loud.

  • Taylor Swift: All the time.

  • Kevin Allocca: Here's a funny question.

  • This is from alylaw42 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? Taylor Swift: 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

  • in, like, inlays.

  • It's just beautiful.

  • It was -- Bob Taylor sent it to me for my 18th birthday.

  • I remember the first time I opened up this guitar case.

  • And I'm just like, "There's fish on 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 especially made.

  • But, really, we just glued them on.

  • Kevin Allocca: Oh, really?

  • Taylor Swift: Yeah.

  • And sometimes little ones fall -- they fall off.

  • So we'll have to super glue more on with tweezers.

  • That's always what cracked me up about that.

  • It's like, everyone is, "Where did you have your guitar specially made?"

  • I'm like, "Super glue."

  • Kevin Allocca: How many guitars do you use in a show?

  • How many of those do you go through? Taylor Swift: Okay.

  • That was a weird sound that I just made.

  • That was weird.

  • Sorry.

  • 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.

  • There's, like, four or five.

  • Kevin Allocca: Yeah, wow. Taylor Swift: And then a ukulele and a ganjo

  • and a piano.

  • Kevin Allocca: Obviously, you're on tour a lot, and you -- that's where you spend a lot

  • of your time.

  • But there were a lot of questions about you what do when you're not performing and you're

  • in between gigs besides writing songs like you do.

  • So I guess the first question, are there any movies that you like to watch while you're

  • on tour? Taylor Swift: 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 then, you know, the -- the, like, twists and turns of it all.

  • I love CSI, Law and Order SVU, Without a Trace, NCIS, Lockup Raw.

  • Kevin Allocca: Wow. Taylor Swift: I just am really afraid of getting

  • in trouble.

  • You have no idea.

  • Kevin Allocca: All right.

  • That's who watches Lockup, is Taylor Swift, actually.

  • Taylor Swift: Yeah.

  • Kevin Allocca: That's awesome.

  • But also one of the questions that we got was about what books that you read in your

  • free time.

  • Taylor Swift: 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 lineage of the first Kennedy woman who came across from Ireland on the boat in, like,

  • the 1860s.

  • It's just this crazy interesting read.

  • So that's what I've been reading lately.

  • I'm sort of obsessed with history.

  • Kevin Allocca: Let's talk about books for a second.

  • One of the other questions that we got, actually, from one of the future Googlers in the audience

  • was about how you wrote a novel when you were 11 years old.

  • Taylor Swift: I was 14.

  • Kevin Allocca: 14?

  • Taylor Swift: No, wait.

  • Kevin Allocca: You were younger? Taylor Swift: I was, like, 13, I think.

  • Kevin Allocca: 13?

  • Taylor Swift: Yeah.

  • But I did.

  • I was -- I was -- I have a lot of different epiphanies.

  • I always have different ideas as to, ooh, this would be a good idea.

  • And one summer, 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 going to be a novelist and I'm

  • going to write novels and that's going to 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 book under different names, but totally describe their personalities

  • and -- it was a really fun way to spend the summer.

  • My parents were so frustrated, because I would never go outside.

  • I'd just be, like, locked in this little study with my computer.

  • But you've always been a writer first.

  • It's my favorite thing, is how you can convey a thought or a story or completely 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 that's what I love about songwriting.

  • Kevin Allocca: Yeah.

  • And while we're on this topic of things you do while you're on tour 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 to spend your time doing?

  • Taylor Swift: What I love to do.

  • Yeah, I watch a lot of TV.

  • Kevin Allocca: Mm-hmm.

  • Right.

  • Crime shows.

  • Taylor Swift: Yeah, crime shows.

  • That's pretty much the hobby list.

  • Kevin Allocca: So have another question from a Googler here.

  • And this is -- it says as a father of a teenaged daughter, it's great to see that solid songwriting

  • and hard work can get recognized.

  • Do you have any advice for young aspiring musicians?

  • Taylor Swift: 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.

  • Kevin Allocca: Right.

  • Taylor Swift: 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 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 the song goes number one and -- and it's like, it's never like that.

  • Like, very rarely is it, like, one thing leads to another which leads to another, end result.

  • It's so many dead-ends and switching directions and going back and replanning 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 of stage every night is worth everything else that

  • you're going to go through.

  • And also, I would say play your own instrument, because it's easier than dragging around,

  • like, a karaoke machine.

  • Taylor Swift: 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.

  • Kevin Allocca: Okay.

  • Cool.

  • All right.

  • So we have one last question.

  • This 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.

  • Let's roll that.

  • > Hey, Taylor.

  • It's Nick.

  • 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.

  • Taylor Swift: 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 so funny that it makes them beautiful no matter how they look, because

  • they're sincere in it.

  • Or somebody's, like, really emotional and moody and thoughtful and stoic, but that makes

  • them beautiful because that's sincerely who they are.

  • Or you look out into the crowd you and 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 whatever, some people have their definitions of their "types."

  • For me, I think that when I meet someone and there's that magical think about them that

  • makes them unforgettable, it's that they're sincere and honest in 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.

  • Kevin Allocca: Cool.

  • I think that's a great note to end this on.

  • Since this is a YouTube interview, there's sort of a tradition that we have that -- where

  • are they?

  • Oh, there they are.

  • So you -- it's honorary for me to give you a pair of the YouTube tube socks.

  • Taylor Swift: Thank you.

  • Kevin Allocca: And I'm sure -- Taylor Swift: I can wear these with sandals

  • and -- Kevin Allocca: You're going to be --

  • Taylor Swift: Those are going to look so great.

  • Kevin Allocca: They'll be really great for you on tour.

  • We actually -- we handed out some tube socks to people who were coming in.

  • Who got tube socks?

  • All of you who got tube socks, you're actually getting tickets to Taylor's show tonight.

  • Taylor Swift: I will see you later.

  • Kevin Allocca: Let's hear it one more time for Taylor Swift.

  • Thank you for being here.

  • Taylor Swift: Thank you.

Taylor Swift: Hi.

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