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

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🗓️ 30 April 2021

⏱️ 53 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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0:35.0	Welcome back to Hip Parade, a podcast of pop chart history from Slate magazine about the hits from Coast to Coast.
0:43.0	I'm Chris Malanfi, chart analyst, pop critic, and writer of Slate's Why Is This Song No.1 series.
0:50.0	On our last episode, we talked about Taylor Swift's Country Years, which are now being revisited in her 2020
0:58.0	2021 re-recording of her 2008 album Fearless.
1:04.0	Long before Swift made a deliberate move toward pop music, she was bringing young fans to her country music,
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