Paper Doll vs. Dear John - Taylor Talk: The Taylor Swift Podcast - Episode 69
Taylor Talk: The Taylor Swift Podcast | reputation | 1989 | Red | Speak Now | Fearless | Taylor Swift
Adam Bromberg
4.3 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2013
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Episode 69 - Paper Doll vs. Dear John
Taylor Swift and John Mayer's alleged romance may be so four years ago, but it might not be in the past for John Mayer. His newest single, entitled "Paper Doll", could be about none other than Taylor Swift. Your Taylor Talk hosts dissect the lyrics of "Paper Doll" to try and figure out if this song is Mayer's response to Taylor's "Dear John" or just a publicity move. Either way, give "Paper Doll" and "Dear John" another listen and join us for lots of laughs and insight in episode 69 of Taylor Talk.
In Episode 69:
- Reminder: this is the last week to play Taylor Swift Jeopardy & send us your scores
- If you haven't bought a Taylor Talk t-shirt and you wear an XL, hurry, because we've only got a few left.
- Taylor Swift just hit 30 million followers this week!
- @TSwiftonTour brings you your weekly RED Tour Update
- Taylor Swift played "Long Live" for the first time on the RED tour in Vancouver
- YKYASW if your boyfriend cheats on you, you skip the sad songs and skip to revenge songs like "Picture to Burn"
- Main Discussion: "Paper Doll" by John Mayer as a possible response to Taylor's "Dear John"
- Is "Paper Doll" a dissection of Taylor Swift as a person?
- Maybe Taylor doesn't "know what she's running from"
- "Sure was fun being good to you" as a direct reply to Taylor's message from "Dear John"
- John Mayer may have referenced "22" and "Red" in "Paper Doll"
- Maya is SUPER creeped out by one of the lyrics in "Paper Doll"
- Similarity between the "paint you another sky" lyrics ("Someone's gonna paint you another sky" / "You paint me a blue sky and go back and turn it to rain")
- Check out Vanity Fair's list of Taylor Swift's outfits referenced in "Paper Doll"
- Adam thinks "Paper Doll" was a huge publicity move for John Mayer, not necessarily an emotional outburst
- Some Taylor Talk listeners weigh in on whether or not "Paper Doll" is about Taylor Swift
- Return of Stump the Hosts
- Diane and Taylor Swift have the same shoe size! So exciting ;)
- Swifties are listening to "Who I Am" by Jessica Andrews
- Maya and Diane come out of the closet as internet nerds.... DFTBA
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Taylor Talk, the number one Taylor Swift podcast brought to you by TaylorTalk.org. |
| 0:12.7 | Yay! |
| 0:16.4 | Welcome everybody to episode 69 of Taylor Talk. This is Adam. |
| 0:20.4 | I'm Maya. And I'm Diane. |
| 0:22.9 | Hi, guys. Hey. Hello. So, some quick announcements before we get started. This is going to be the last |
| 0:29.7 | week you get a chance to play Jeopardy on episode 67 and submit your scores to us for a chance to compete |
| 0:35.4 | on the show and try and win a Taylor Talk t-shirt. And speaking of the Taylor Talk t-shirts, there are only three extra-larges left. So if that's your size, I would go to TaylorTalk.org really, really quickly and get it. All right. Cool. Because I haven't done this in a long time, have to do it and Maya's going to be like |
| 0:55.1 | how come I'm not going to be like eh because you already know what I'm going to do |
| 0:59.8 | oh okay share with the class all right so Maya yes so a blonde walks into a library and says to |
| 1:07.8 | the librarian can I have a burger and fries the librarian responds sorry this is a library and says to the librarian, can I have a burger and fries? The librarian responds, |
| 1:12.7 | sorry, this is a library. So the blonde whispers, oh, sorry, may I have a burger and fries? |
| 1:24.1 | That was slightly better than usual. I will you that that was like i think you're improving |
| 1:32.4 | slightly in your joke telling abilities he is and i'm a blonde but i love blonde joke so i'm totally |
| 1:39.2 | cool with it but yeah that was funny i liked it i thought it was a. I liked it. |
| 1:48.8 | I thought it was a funny joke, but carrying on with the episode, Maya, can you give us the news, please? |
| 1:57.6 | Sure. We only have one news item this week, and that is that Taylor just hit 30 million followers on Twitter. |
| 2:00.4 | Just a lot of people. That's crazy. |
| 2:06.8 | And she tweeted in Vancouver, just realized you guys got my Twitter up to 30 million followers. |
| 2:09.9 | So cool, considering I only tweet about my cat and food. |
| 2:11.8 | Which is true. |
| 2:13.3 | That is mostly what she tweeted about. |
| 2:15.7 | But that's why we love her. |
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