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13: A Taylor Swift Fan Podcast

Sad Beautiful Tragic (Taylor's Version)

13: A Taylor Swift Fan Podcast

Ana Szabo, Nick Adams, Amy Nichols and Lacey Gee

Music

4.6 β€’ 1.3K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

This beautiful song sounds like it could go on Folklore.. And Ana has a lyrical theory that totally works! Who inspired this song and what has Taylor said about it? We take a deep dive into this hauntingly beautiful song!
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0:00.0

Yay Networks.

0:04.0

Network.

0:05.0

Thirteen has been my lucky number for a while.

0:07.0

Like it's always a sign of good things to come for me.

0:09.0

This is 13, a Taylor Swift fan podcast, breaking down every song, every Easter egg, every era, and every theory.

0:19.6

Hosted by the biggest Swifties, Nick Adams, Anna Kasey host Amy Nichols and Lacy G.

0:27.0

Welcome to 13 A Taylor Swift fan podcast. My name's Nick Adams.

0:32.0

I'm Anna, Amy, and I'm Lacy G and today we're breaking down

0:34.9

Taylor's sad beautiful tragic.

0:38.7

What is sad beautiful tragic love

0:44.1

love. So this is the 12th track on red Taylor's version. It was written by Taylor all by herself.

0:57.0

I just love saying that way more now after whatever his name was that called her out

1:02.0

in that dumb article.

1:03.2

Yeah.

1:04.2

It feels so much better to say she wrote it all by herself.

1:06.4

Yeah.

1:07.4

So here is Taylor talking about what this song is all about.

1:10.7

Sad Beautiful Tragic is a song that I wrote while I was on tour and I was on a tour bus that was moving

1:16.3

and I just started playing this really haunting sad chorus and it just kind of was very simple like what a sad beautiful tragic

1:25.2

love affair and it was just reflecting on something that was lost you know and

1:30.0

you can't get it back I went home and I called up Nathan Chapman and said,

1:34.0

hey, I wrote a song, please, please, please, can we record today?

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