Hit Parade: Taylor’s Version of Country, Part 2

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🗓️ 30 April 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In Part 2 of this episode of Hit Parade, Chris Molanphy continues his analysis of 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	What's up guys, I am Ashley Gavin, and I am your father.
0:03.1	I'm Elena Joy, I am Mommy, and I'm Mackin from your hot teenage brother.
0:08.4	Baby, Mack is baby.
0:09.7	We are your chosen family, because you don't have a gay family, and you need a gay family.
0:14.3	Every week, we bring a topic to the family dinner table from gender dysphoria,
0:17.9	to monogamy, to how to figure out if someone is into you.
0:20.5	Listen to Chosen Family every Wednesday on your favorite podcast app,
0:24.0	or watch full episodes on YouTube to get the full family experience.
0:27.8	Chosen Family is a part of the Forever Dog podcast network.
0:34.8	Welcome back to Hit Parade, a podcast of pop chart history from Slate magazine
0:40.7	about the hits from coast to coast. I'm Chris Malanfi,
0:44.4	chart analyst, pop critic, and writer of Slates Why is this song number one series?
0:49.8	On our last episode, we talked about Taylor Swift's Country Years,
0:55.1	which are now being revisited in her 2021 re-recording of her 2008 album Fearless.
1:03.2	Long before Swift made a deliberate move toward pop music,
1:07.2	she was bringing young fans to her country music,
1:10.8	and appearing in youthful mainstream spaces,
1:14.1	like the MTV Video Music Awards.
1:17.3	In 2009, Swift arrived at the VMAs with a song and video,
1:22.3	You Belong With Me, that was about to be the most played US radio hit,
1:27.6	and the winner of a Moonman trophy.
1:30.5	But that win was where the troubles started.
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