Shadowing Practice: Iconic Taylor Swift interview moments that all swifties know Part 2 - Learn English Speaking with YouTube
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You know what?
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You know what?
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It's like when I find that person that is right for me and he'll be wonderful.
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And when I look at that person,
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I'm not even going to be able to remember the boy
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who broke up with me over the phone in 25 seconds when I was 18.
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See, this one even comes with a phone.
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See, so he can break up with other dolls.
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Okay.
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Okay?
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Why 13?
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What is the reason?
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Okay.
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I was born on the 13th.
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I turned 13 on Friday the 13th.
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My first album went gold in 13 weeks.
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Also, thanks.
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Um, my first song that ever went number one,
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it had a 13 second intro.
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And I need to do that on purpose.
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And every time I've ever won an award in an award show,
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I've either been seated in the the 13th row or row M which is the 13th letter.
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And when I won the Horizon Award at the CMA Awards,
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the producer came up to me when I was sound checking and said,
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all right, we're gonna go in 13 seconds.
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There are so many numbers.
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Wow.
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Your perfume, right?
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Yes.
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And it's called Wonderstruck.
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Wonderstruck.
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Wonderstruck.
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And why is it called Wonderstruck?
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Well, it's called Wonderstruck.
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Because of a lyric in one of my songs.
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And the song's called Enchanted,
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and it has this line in it that says,
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I'm wonderstruck blushing all the way home.
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How would you describe what it smells like to people?
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Because you created this whole thing, right?
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There's all kinds of stuff in there.
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It's like, it's got vanilla and amber and freesia,
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also notes of peach and also raspberry.
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What happened to your voice just now?
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And does your boyfriend like the way it smells?
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I don't have one, I keep telling you that.
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Just trying, trying.
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I just don't, like it's not,
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like if I didn't and I was like,
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I don't have a boyfriend,
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like it'd be like, my God, like.
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You know I had a boyfriend,
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I for real, like don't have a boyfriend.
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I sit by myself and I watch Law and Order.
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I don't, like, have a boyfriend.
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I don't have like even kind of a boyfriend.
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Not even kind.
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I don't have someone that I'm texting that's a guy
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that might someday be my boyfriend There's like nothing going on right now.
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That's pathetic.
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Yeah You're busy My fans came up with a name for themselves,
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and it's so cute they call themselves Swifties,
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and it's adorable because they made it up on their own If you want to like Alright, ready?
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Yeah.
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Helen works a long day Giving weird interviews And a slick cool sweater And it gets kinda weird Yeah,
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calling us out Like we're boyfriend and girlfriend But it's not cause what you're sitting here
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And we got cat videos And dance on Betty White and stuff And it's always gonna be weird
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This is about being weird
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I still remember Ellen hiding in the bathroom
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With a hidden camera And she scared me so bad and I fell and I coulda died
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She always asks me who I'm dating every time I'm on the show And I don't even know why
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But it gets 5 million hits on YouTube Cause every single time I come on this show It's really weird,
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really weird All because of Ellen Every single time I come on this show It's really weird,
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really weird Always in the dancing Wow!
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Oh!
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Oh!
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Oh!
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I don't want to go in it.
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Do you guys hear the music you're playing?
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I don't want to go in it.
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I really am.
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I don't want to go in it.
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Okay, the music is getting better.
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Okay, the music is less scary now.
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I don't want to do it.
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I don't want to do it.
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I don't want it, I don't want it,
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I don't want it, I don't want it.
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Why am I doing that?
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Oh Stop
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it stop it stop it stop it stop it stop it Stop it, stop it.
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Are you good?
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Bye.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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I hated it.
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I hated it.
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New music.
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Everybody is waiting.
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I think for me, I answer too many questions starting with I think for me,
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and it's been pointed out to me and I need to work on it,
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so I'm going to start that over.
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So, when are we going to hear new music?
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I think...
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I think for me, um...
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I think for me, um...
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I think for me...
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I think for me, um...
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I think for me, um...
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I think for me, uh...
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Do you know what a sea urchin is?
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Do you know what they are?
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If you knew what sea urchins were, you would be terrified.
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Well, listen.
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They're just these, they're in the...
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They're on rocks and they're spiny looking.
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There.
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And the poor things are just minding their own business.
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No, they're not.
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They're not.
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That's the thing.
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They're just...
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They're like...
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They're like, they're sitting there waiting to completely injure you to the point where,
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okay, so you step, you can't see a sea urchin.
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If you're okay, like if you're in the Caribbean,
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you're like, this water is so beautiful, it's amazing.
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And you're walking, it's clear water.
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You can't see a sea urchin's right there.
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And then you step on one and then it has barbs and it goes into whatever it touches.
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And then you have to go to the emergency room and it has to be surgically removed.
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You could lose your foot,
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you could lose your hand.
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You could lose your hand trying to get it off of your foot.
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So I don't like sea urchins.
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Listen.
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Didn't you invite a load of people to your house?
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Fans to your house?
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I heard that on the radio yesterday.
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I would go online, I would look at their Instagram pages
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or their Tumblr or their Twitter or whatever and just kind of watch them for months and months.
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A stalker.
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And then I invited them over and.
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They came.
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And they came and there have been like,
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We've had them at every one of my houses and...
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This is sweet, right?
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So the fans, because the fans who go to do it,
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they then of course want to blog about it because they've had this amazing experience.
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When they blog about it,
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it's borderline confusing on whether they had a good time or not.
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So here are some of the blog things.
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So we were asked to go to the living room,
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sit down, not to how much I was sweating during that moment.
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I was like, the fuck is gonna happen?
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My poor heart could not keep up,
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then all of a sudden she just popped up out of nowhere.
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She appeared on a thin air like David Copperfield and we all died like for real.
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I love them so much because they always talk about dying.
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Dying, yeah.
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I died.
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They're like, rest in peace me, RIP me.
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I died dead.
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So you shake it off and you shake your booty.
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You can shake really any, just there's anything.
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There's so many things.
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Hair, hands, hips, ankles. When I...
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One funny thing that happened,
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and tell me, I heard this happen,
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and it sounded like a joke to me,
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but in Canada, I think two days ago,
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they put your song up on iTunes.
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It instantly went to number one.
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It was the third track of the song.
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But then what was the track that everybody heard?
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It was a mistake, and it wasn't a song that they ended up posting.
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They ended up posting seven seconds of static noise.
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And it went to number one.
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And so it went number one,
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and I was like, what is going on?
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Well, it just goes to show you,
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you really don't need to work that hard on this stuff.
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You know?
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Yes, I've been really overthinking this entire thing.
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I've been really trying too hard, clearly.
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Like the Beatles' White Album,
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this is your take on that.
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It's just white noise that you put out.
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Um, usually, well, I actually call her,
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um, a name that doesn't really make any sense,
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but, uh, we...her name is,
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um, in the house, it's Dibbles.
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Because it suits her personality more than Olivia.
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She's like a scrappy little cat.
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So her name is like Olivia,
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but it's like, her personality's more like,
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here you go to the duples.
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In the last couple of years,
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the media have had a really wonderful fixation on kind of painting me as like the psycho serial dater girl.
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It's been awesome.
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I loved it.
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And they're like, you know,
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it was, It got pretty out of control there for a couple of years because it would be like,
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every article was like, Taylor Swift standing near some guy.
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Watch out, guy. And .
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I have this scar on my leg,
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and it's a very prominent scar that I've had for probably since I was 10 or 11.
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And everybody always asked me about it.
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When I was 10, I would sit up in my attic and make castles out of popsicle sticks,
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and I used a super industrial strength hot glue gun because I was really serious about it.
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And I was creating a slide
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and I was just like glue glue glue glue glue glue glue glue
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And then suddenly I was gluing off the table
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and a big glob of just like hot glue Was just there
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and I was like oh and your first instinct is to go Oh,
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I'll just pull that off and then you know you pull off 17 layers of skin with it.
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Oh my What is that even is it a spaceship?
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Nobody cares that I want to get home to see my cats and watch Friends.
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Can you show me a really cool or bizarre talent?
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Okay, I'm well aware that this is not a talent,
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but this is like the only thing that I can do.
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I have double jointed elbows.
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Oh, man.
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Yeah, they're weird.
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They're a little bit weird.
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What's something you can't do?
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I can't do a cartwheel or a handstand.
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The song All You Had To Do Was Stay.
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There's this really high-pitched, stay.
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I had a dream that my ex showed up at my door,
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knocked on the door, and I opened it up,
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and I was about ready to launch into,
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like, the perfect thing to say.
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And instead, all that would come out of my mouth was that high-pitched chorus of people singing, stay.
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It is like, all you had to do was stay.
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Sorry about it.
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I don't miss you, and now you're back.
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You're on the cover of Entertainment Weekly,
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and you have all these Easter eggs on here, right?
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Yeah, yeah.
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And I feel like.
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Explain what the eggs are to people who don't understand.
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Yeah, because I think that is necessary.
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So it's like when we say Easter eggs,
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we're not only talking about Easter eggs that you would go on an Easter egg hunt for on Easter.
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It's like it's kind of like a clue,
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like a foreshadowing kind of thing.
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I like to plant Easter eggs in a video that will be like a lyric from unreleased music,
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or like a little hint or a little wink to what's coming in the future.
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Right.
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So yeah, that was kind of the theme of what we did the Entertainment Weekly thing on.
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And it's just been really fun to kind of expand the musical experience past just listening to a song.
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I also want people to be watching the music video,
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and what's that thing in the background,
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and what's that song playing underneath there,
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and is there a reason she said that in French?
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Right.
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Because people, and usually your fans are pretty good at figuring it out, right?
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They're excellent at figuring it out.
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How far off have they been?
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What's the worst they've been?
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Oh, man.
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Well, there were some fans that thought I had something to do with Avengers Endgame.
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Oh, really?
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Which I would have loved to have been asked, but I wasn't.
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No, you weren't.
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Asked to be in it at all.
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Yeah.
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Because we had the single coming out the same day,
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and I have a song that was called Endgame.
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And so they were like,
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oh my God, she's going to defeat Thanos.
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And I let everyone down.
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Yeah.
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Again.
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That's well.
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About This Lesson
In this lesson, learners will focus on improving their English speaking and pronunciation skills by practicing with a memorable interview featuring Taylor Swift. By engaging with her responses, learners can explore the nuances of spoken English, including emotion and tone. This exercise will help you improve English pronunciation while enjoying the charm and wit of one of pop culture’s most iconic figures. The transcript contains conversational phrases and themes that reflect personal experiences, which can enhance your ability to relate and express similar emotions in English.
Key Vocabulary & Phrases
- Wonderstruck - A feeling of amazement or awe.
- Break up - To end a romantic relationship.
- Intro - The beginning segment of a song, often distinguishing its style or theme.
- Award show - An event held to honor achievements in various fields, often in entertainment.
- Seated - The arrangement of where someone sits, often significant in formal settings.
- Notes - In music, these are sounds of specific pitches, which can also refer to distinct scents in perfume.
- Freesia - A type of flower that is often used to describe fragrances.
- Blushing - The reddening of the face, often due to embarrassment or emotion.
Practice Tips
To maximize your learning experience from this interview, try the following shadowing tips. Since the conversation has a relaxed yet expressive pace, it's ideal for practicing shadowspeak:
- Listen carefully to Taylor’s tone and emotion. Notice how she conveys feelings through her voice and inflection.
- Start by repeating short phrases or sentences in sync with her, focusing on matching her speed and emotion. This will help improve English pronunciation and make your speech sound more natural.
- Once you're comfortable with the phrases, try to add your own emotion or context. Think about how you would share a similar story in English.
- Utilize a shadowing site to practice alongside video playback, which allows you to mimic not just the words, but the rhythm and flow of the conversation.
- Record yourself after each session and compare your pronunciation with the original audio. This feedback loop will be invaluable for your progress with learn English with YouTube resources.
With dedication and practice, you will find that shadowing Taylor Swift’s iconic moments not only enhances your English speaking skills but also makes learning enjoyable!
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.
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