All You Had To Do Was STAY - Episode 169 - Taylor Talk: The Taylor Swift Podcast
Taylor Talk: The Taylor Swift Podcast | reputation | 1989 | Red | Speak Now | Fearless | Taylor Swift
Adam Bromberg
4.3 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2015
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Episode 169 - Let me remind you, this was what you wanted… a new episode of Taylor Talk! In Episode 169 of Taylor Talk: The Taylor Swift Podcast, we discuss track five on 1989, “All You Had To Do Was Stay.” The panel is split about their opinions on the song — feel free to weigh in and let us know your thoughts. Do you think Taylor will perform this song on tour even though the high note STAY would be intense for her voice? I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. Enjoy the episode!
Main Discussion: “All You Had To Do Was Stay” Song Analysis
– You can’t talk about this song without belting STAY. #SwiftFact
– Steve calls this song “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” 1.0.
– Where do you see AYHTDWS fitting into the story of 1989?
– What is it about this song that makes it get stuck in your head so easily?
– How do you think Taylor will pull off singing the STAY part on tour?
– This policeman from Delaware is famous for Shaking it Off.
– Have a Stump the Host question? Send em in! We love a good challenge.
– Hooray for the return of the If This Was a Movie segment!
– Mark your calendars! The Grammys are coming up on Feb. 8th and the BRIT Awards are on Feb. 25th.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Taylor Talk, the number one Taylor Swift podcast brought to you by Taylor Talk. dot org. of Taylor Swift Podcast. |
| 0:23.0 | My name's Adam. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm Diane. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm Sammy. |
| 0:26.0 | And I'm Steve. |
| 0:27.0 | And we have got an awesome episode plan for you guys today. |
| 0:30.0 | We change things up a little bit, which we do from time to time you know but this |
| 0:35.6 | happens to be based on the survey responses we've been getting so thank you to all |
| 0:39.4 | of you who have been submitting to those surveys if If you haven't yet, you can visit |
| 0:43.6 | Taylor Talk.org slash survey and fill out the survey for a chance to win a |
| 0:49.7 | free no it's Becky t shirt and even if you don't win there's actually something else that's kind of cool on there if you fill it out right at the end you can check yes or no as to whether or not you want this awesome PDF document with Taylor's Chai Tea Sugar Cookie recipe. |
| 1:05.0 | So that's kind of neat. |
| 1:06.5 | We've been getting some great responses. |
| 1:08.4 | We're tweaking and altering the show |
| 1:10.1 | based on what you guys wanted. |
| 1:11.3 | So that's that. Sh shout out to you guys yeah yeah |
| 1:15.1 | yeah and thank you the difference and also speaking to those responses |
| 1:18.9 | shout out to uh Tyler Oakley not that he needs one from us because he's bigger |
| 1:22.4 | than we are but it turns out a lot of our |
| 1:24.4 | listeners also listen to Psycho Babble which is his podcast so |
| 1:28.2 | You got me really scared for a second. I was like wait did Tyler Oakley say that me too I was like no no he doesn't |
| 1:36.7 | he doesn't need a shout out from us we could use one from him but maybe Maybe one day. |
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