Does Taylor Swift's Music Empower Women? - Episode 61 - 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
🗓️ 6 May 2013
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Episode 61
Lately, the media has been debating whether or not Taylor Swift's music can be considered feminist. Our special guest, Erica Morgan, an up and coming country singer, joins Adam, Diane, and Steve to tackle this huge question: does Taylor's music empower women? Please let us know your own opinions on this topic by tweeting, emailing, or leaving us a voicemail! We'd love to hear your thoughts.
In Episode 61:
- We wish Grant Mickelson and Daniel Sadownick very happy (belated) birthdays!
- Jay Z's new song "$100 Bill" name drops Taylor Swift in his new song, but we're not sure how positive this is.
- Taylor Swift visits Lauren Murphy, a patient in critical condition at Cedar-Sinai hospital in LA, proof of her generous spirit.
- Taylor Swift is a confirmed performer at CMA Fest 2013 on Thursday, June 6th. Buy your tickets now!
- "Highway Don't Care" music video premieres on May 6th on Google+ Hangout and youtube.com/timmcgraw at 4pm CST. We'll discuss the video on next week's show
- Be sure to watch Taylor Swift on New Girl on May 14th
- VOTE for Taylor for the 2013 Billboard Milestone Award
- The hosts debate whether or not Taylor Swift empowers women
- We use the Huffington Post article "Sexism, Feminism, & Taylor Swift" as a launching pad
- Daily Beast interview with Taylor where she answers whether or not she considers herself a feminist
- The hosts go head to head in "Stump the hosts!" Got a tough Taylor trivia question? Send it in to Adam at taylortalk@taylorswift13.org
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Taylor Talk, the number one Taylor Swift podcast brought to you by |
| 0:09.1 | TaylorTalk.org. |
| 0:12.4 | Welcome to episode 61 of Taylor Talk, everybody. This is Adam. |
| 0:20.6 | Diane. Diane. |
| 0:21.5 | Steve. |
| 0:22.7 | And we also have a very special guest host with us today. |
| 0:26.5 | Her name is Erica Morgan. |
| 0:28.0 | She's a country singer and songwriter who we actually featured in the What |
| 0:31.5 | are Swifties listening to segment on episode 22. |
| 0:36.4 | Can anyone verify that? I can verify that, Adam. It is episode 22. Okay. Erica was featured on 22 as what are Swiftie's listening to, and she's going to join us as a guest panelist today for a very special discussion. We got planned for you. So hi, Erica. Hi, thanks so much for having me. Yeah, it's nice to have you here. I love Taylor Talk. |
| 0:55.7 | Oh, good. |
| 0:56.2 | Well, then you're in the right place. |
| 0:59.4 | Before we get going, we wanted to wish a very special, happy belated birthday to both Grant |
| 1:05.4 | Michelson, whose birthday was on April 30th, and also Daniel Sedanick, whose birthday was on May 2nd, just a few days ago. |
| 1:14.2 | Each of them had a birthday. |
| 1:15.5 | So happy birthday to the two of you. |
| 1:17.2 | Grant Bing, Taylor's guitar player, of course, and Daniel was Taylor's percussionist on the |
| 1:21.8 | Speak Now tour. |
| 1:22.6 | So happy birthday to those two. |
| 1:25.3 | Diane, could you please give us the news? |
| 1:27.9 | I will. |
| 1:33.8 | So, starting off, Jay-Z came out with a new song called 100 Bill for the Great Gatsby movie, and in the song, he name drops Taylor Swift, but he doesn't do it in a very flattering |
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