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Taylor Talk: The Taylor Swift Podcast | reputation | 1989 | Red | Speak Now | Fearless | Taylor Swift

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW - Liv Spencer - Taylor Swift Biographer - Episode 81 - Taylor Talk: The Taylor Swift Podcast

Taylor Talk: The Taylor Swift Podcast | reputation | 1989 | Red | Speak Now | Fearless | Taylor Swift

Adam Bromberg

Kids & Family, Music

4.31.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2013

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Episode 81 - An EXCLUSIVE interview with 50% of Liv Spencer, Jen Knoch. Jen and her friend, Crissy Calhoun, are the dynamic writing duo behind the Taylor Swift biography, Taylor Swift: The Platinum Edition. Jen tells us why she decided to write a biography about Taylor Swift and how this biography offers insight other Taylor Swift biographies lack. We also put Jen to the test in a round of Taylor Swift trivia with facts taken from her own book! We hope you enjoy listening to the interview as much as we enjoyed recording it. Happy listening!

Highlights from Episode 81 of Taylor Talk: The Taylor Swift Podcast

- Scott Borchetta gives Swifties an update on when we can expect Taylor's "Sweeter Than Fiction" to be released. 

- Sami gives us the weekly RED Tour Wrap-Up from @TSwiftonTour.

- We interview one of the authors, Jen Knoch, of Taylor Swift: The Platinum Edition, who happens to be a huge Swifty!

- She also writes Taylor Swift fanfiction on wattpad.com/livspencer about the stories behind each track on RED!

- The most interesting thing Jen learned about Taylor in the research process? How incredibly determined she's been since the tender age of 13. 

- See how well you do against Jen, the Taylor Swift biographer in a round of Taylor Trivia! Spoiler alert: all the answers can be found in Taylor Swift: The Platinum Edition

- Be sure to pick up Taylor Swift: The Platinum Edition!. Check it out on Amazon.com or from Barnes & Noble.

- You know you're a Swifty when you make Diane explain what a simile and a metaphor is using the song "Red."

- You know how Taylor Swift is feeling 22? Well, Emily's Army is feeling "Lost at 17."

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Taylor Talk, the number one Taylor Swift podcast brought to you by TaylorTalk.org.

0:14.5

Welcome, welcome, Taylor Nation, to another episode of Taylor Talk. My name is Adam.

0:21.0

I'm Maya. And I'm Dan.

0:23.6

How's everyone doing today?

0:25.4

Good. How are you?

0:26.6

Good, good. So we have a special guest with us on this episode. She's going to be joining us in just a little bit. But before we get there, Maya, can you tell us what has been going on in the news?

0:38.0

Sure. Taylor attended the premiere of One Chance at the Toronto Film Festival on Monday, September 9th.

0:44.2

She wrote a song for this film about Britain's Got Talent winner, Paul Potts, and the song is called Sweeter Than Fiction.

0:50.5

The official audio hasn't been released yet, but the song plays during the credits, so some audience members did manage to record it, like on their phones and stuff, and there's some poor quality audio files floating around if you want to try and look for them.

1:03.2

And Scott Borchetta tweeted, the One Chance movie will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, but the song will not be released until closer to the movie.

1:10.5

So I think we still probably have to wait like a month or two to get the actual song. But yeah, I've heard little bits of it. It sounds catchy and cute. I'm excited. Sounds like a Taylor song. Yeah. Basically. That's because it is. Thank you, Captain Obvious. You're welcome. I guess I was Captain Obvious before with my comment, but that's irrelevant.

1:31.0

So before we get to our interview, let's hear what has been going on on the tour from our partners over at T-Swift-on-Tour.

1:38.1

Sammy, take it away.

1:39.4

Hey, guys, it's Sammy at Sam I am 1331 from T-Swift-on Swift on tour here with your weekly Red Tour wrap-up.

1:46.0

Taylor is on the final stretch of the North American leg of the Red Tour.

1:49.4

First, on September 12th, Taylor was in Greensboro, North Carolina, where the Secret Song was changed.

1:54.8

Then, on the 13th, Taylor was in Raleigh, North Carolina, where the Secret Song was Our Song.

1:59.6

And finally, on the 14th, Taylor was in Charlottesville, Virginia, where the secret song was Red Tour opener at Sharon's favorite Taylor's song, Last Kiss. Next week are the last three North American Red Tour shows in Nashville, Tennessee. That's your weekly Red Tour wrap-up. Bye, guys. See you next week. All right. Thank you so much for that, Sammy. Remember, guys,

2:18.1

if you want down to the second tour updates, go follow T Swift on tour on Twitter. But for now,

2:23.8

we're moving on to our interview. So let's hear it. All right, guys, we are here with our special

2:30.2

guest interview. We have Jen Knock with us, who is one half of Liv Spencer, who wrote the book

2:36.2

Taylor Swift, the Platinum Edition. So,

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