Hit Parade: Taylor’s Version of Country, Part 1

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🗓️ 17 April 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Taylor Swift’s new album is a reboot of an old album: Fearless, her 2008 chart-topping juggernaut that made her the biggest star on the Billboard charts. But Fearless (Taylor’s Version)—filled with banjos, steel guitars and fiddles—is also a reminder for those who forgot: Swift was once the top act in country music, too. From Dolly Parton to Shania Twain, the Chicks to Faith Hill, no country artist has ever crossed over to pop the way Taylor did, utterly dominating one genre before she took over another. In this episode, Chris Molanphy focuses on Taylor: the country years, dissecting how she gradually, step by step, became the new queen of pop one irresistible song at a time. She went from interviewing bigger stars on MTV’s red carpet one year, to being the talk of the Video Music Awards the next—even before Kanye took that microphone away from her. He told Taylor he would let her finish, but the game was already over. Swift had the most played song in the USA. Podcast production by Asha Saluja, with help from Rosemary Belson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Have you ever thought, ugh, this water is too wet?
0:04.5	Or this beach is too sandy.
0:06.6	My name's Christine.
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0:32.0	We hear about the good, the bad, and that one time spirit Halloween sent someone a dildo
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0:49.4	What you're about to hear is part one of this episode.
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