EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW - Shane Drake - Director of "Highway Don't Care" Music Video
Taylor Talk: The Taylor Swift Podcast | reputation | 1989 | Red | Speak Now | Fearless | Taylor Swift
Adam Bromberg
4.3 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2013
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Episode 62 - Interview with Shane Drake, Director of the "Highway Don't Care" Music video
Prepare yourselves Swifties, you're in for a treat! Join Adam, Diane, and Steve for an EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with Shane Drake, the music video director of "Highway Don't Care." Shane Drake has worked with countless artists from Paramore to Kelly Clarkson, but he sits down with us in Episode 62 to discuss what it was like working with Tim McGraw, Taylor Swift, and Keith Urban to create this powerful music video.
Have any questions for the director? Comment, tweet, or email us your questions, and we'll forward them along to Shane Drake and read his replies in future episodes of Taylor Talk. Enjoy!
In Episode 62:
- Listen up for our exclusive interview with Shane Drake, director of the "Highway Don't Care" music video
- Drake has worked with numerous artists in all genres including hip hop, pop, punk, but now he's trying his hand at country
- Drake worked closely with Tim to create the story of the video
- This was Shane Drake's first time meeting Taylor Swift, and he was very impressed!
- Who's idea was it really to have Tim McGraw walk around shirtless?
- We ask Shane Drake about his music video creating process
- Drake hopes to direct more of Taylor's videos in the future!
- International RED Tour dates have been announced: Taylor is going to Australia and New Zealand!
- Neither Taylor nor Ed will be in the "Everything Has Changed" music video
- If you're into fashion, you should enter Diet Coke's "Young Designer Challenge"!
- Reminder to watch the New Girl on May 14th! Be on the lookout for Taylor at white veil occasions!
- Also, vote for Taylor for the 2013 Billboard Milestone Award! This is a fan voted award, so she has no excuse not to win!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Taylor Talk, the number one Taylor Swift podcast brought to you by TaylorTalk.org. |
| 0:13.0 | Yay! |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome ladies and gents to episode 62 of Taylor Talk. My name is Adam. I'm Diane. And Steve. |
| 0:24.5 | What's up, guys? How you doing? Hey, how's it going, Adam? Good, good, doing well. So, we know that a lot of you listeners are here for a very special guest interview this episode. So, we are going to play that for you right now. For those that want the news and |
| 0:41.7 | calendars, be sure to stay, stay, stay after the interview, and we'll do those then. Thanks, |
| 0:47.3 | guys. Here's our interview. So last week we promised all you guys a very, very special discussion on |
| 0:53.6 | the Highway Don't Care music video. And we brought in a very very special discussion on the highway don't care music video |
| 0:55.2 | and we brought in a very special guest to chat about it with us you probably recognize his |
| 1:01.3 | name because it appears in the opening credits we have Shane Drake with us Shane how you |
| 1:04.8 | doing hey I'm doing great great to be here awesome thanks for coming we appreciate it quite a bit so we've got a bunch of questions |
| 1:12.8 | for you Shane that we're hoping you have some answers for yeah far away so i guess before we actually |
| 1:19.5 | get into the video itself just a little background um looking at some of the videos you've done in the |
| 1:24.7 | past you you know several years back you did videos for panic at the disco fallout boy've done in the past, you know, several years back, you did videos for Panic at the Disco, Fallout Boy, those type of bands. How do you find yourself |
| 1:31.9 | transitioning into country? Well, you know, I've always, I mean, I started, you know, doing |
| 1:38.3 | metal bands, you know, when I first got started in the business, and that was, uh, and like |
| 1:43.1 | little punk bands for like tooth and |
| 1:44.5 | nail and you know it's it's like with any sort of craft you do develop and you grow and I |
| 1:49.9 | eventually grew into sort of bigger rock bands and even when I first started did the first paramour video |
| 1:54.4 | and they were they were nobody I mean I did a video for them in their hometown for for pressure |
| 1:58.8 | I think the video was maybe eight grand total, and, you know, |
| 2:03.5 | no one knew who they were, and they were just kids. |
| 2:06.9 | And we were just, you know, shooting, you know, just what seemed like just another fun sort |
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