Clean - Episode 162 - Taylor Talk: The Taylor Swift Podcast -- Swifties Are Also Listening To Imogen Heap
Taylor Talk: The Taylor Swift Podcast | reputation | 1989 | Red | Speak Now | Fearless | Taylor Swift
Adam Bromberg
4.3 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2014
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Episode 162 -- Just because you’re clean don’t mean you can miss Taylor Talk! In Episode 62 of Taylor Talk: The Taylor Swift Podcast, we discuss what Taylor Swift calls the most important song off her 1989 album, “Clean.” For Taylor, the song is about moving on passed a bad relationship, but you could also apply it to getting over any sort of tough situation. What do you think of the incredible imagery in “Clean”? We welcome your thoughts. Happy listening!
Main Discussion: “Clean” Song Analysis
– What is “Clean” about to you?
– We marvel at the imagery in nearly every single lyric in this song.
– It’s raining and she’s drowning, but she can finally breathe. What does this meeeean?
– What is the purpose of this song being the last song on 1989?
– Keep your fingers crossed that Taylor will perform “Clean” on tour!!
– We imagine what the music video for “Clean” could look like.
– That awkward moment when Taylor Swift sells more albums in her fifth week of 1989 than some artists ever sell.
– Don’t miss the 13 Days of Taylor deals at store.taylorswift.com!!
– You know you’re a Swifty when Sami gives you a lesson on how to sneak your headphones on in class. Hey, it’s a perfect (and secretive way) to listen to Taylor Swift!
– Swifties are listening to Imogen Heap, Taylor’s cowriter on “Clean.”
– This episode is dedicated to two very special pups, Hershey and Cooper.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Taylor Talk, the number one Taylor Swift welcome to episode 162 of Taylor Talk the Taylor Swift Podcast, my name is Adam. |
| 0:23.7 | I'm Diane. |
| 0:24.7 | And I'm Sammy. |
| 0:26.1 | How's everyone doing this week? |
| 0:28.0 | I'm okay. |
| 0:29.0 | How about you? |
| 0:30.0 | I hate to disappoint you, but the blank space marathon has officially ended. |
| 0:34.6 | I thought that's what we're going to talk about forever. |
| 0:37.6 | I know every episode would be about blank space. |
| 0:40.8 | I don't know that people would complain about that. |
| 0:43.0 | Well, ironically, when Sammy, you get to your news segment, there is blank space in the news, so we can't get rid of that song entirely. |
| 0:51.0 | But we are here to discuss a listener voted song analysis. We put a poll up on the website on |
| 0:59.1 | tailor talk.org. We put up bad blood versus clean versus how you get the girl and clean came out on top with 48% of the vote |
| 1:06.8 | So that's what we're gonna be chatting about today just as soon as we get through some news and calendar so So Sammy what's been going on |
| 1:13.2 | Taylor's life lately? So Taylor became the top selling act in the US that has |
| 1:18.2 | emerged since 2000 or January of 2000 selling 25.1 million albums. |
| 1:24.0 | There's a lot of albums. |
| 1:26.0 | Heck yeah! |
| 1:28.0 | Blank space was number one on Billboard Hot 100 for the second week in a row. |
| 1:33.0 | There's the blank space. |
| 1:35.0 | And 1989 had the number two album spot in the US this week, |
| 1:41.0 | selling another 214,000 albums for a grand total of 2.2 million |
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