SPECIAL EDITION - CMA Awards Coverage - Episode 96 - Taylor Talk: The Taylor Swift Podcast
Taylor Talk: The Taylor Swift Podcast | reputation | 1989 | Red | Speak Now | Fearless | Taylor Swift
Adam Bromberg
4.3 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2013
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Episode 96 - CMA Awards Coverage! Your Taylor Talk hosts discuss what an incredible night it was for Taylor Swift; Not only did she take home four CMAs, but one of them was the highly coveted Pinnacle Award (*cough*pinneapple award*cough*)! We revel in what an amazing achievement this was for Taylor as well as analyze her special performance of "Red," featuring Vince Gill & Alison Krauss. Let us know what you thought of the CMAs and enjoy the show!
Highlights from Episode 96 of Taylor Talk: The Taylor Swift Podcast
- Taylor won four awards tonight: Musical Event of the Year & Video of the Year for "Highway Don't Care," the International Artist Achievement Award, and the coveted Pinnacle Award.
- Check out Episode 62 for our interview with Shane Drake, the video director for "Highway Don't Care"
- What did y'all think of Taylor's CMA performance of "Red"?
- Be sure to purchase the 2013 CMA Awards version of "Red" on iTunes now!
- Diane got very emotional when Taylor was presented with her Pinnacle Award! Raise your hand if you cried too.
- The Pinnacle Award proves how incredibly influential Taylor Swift is, not only in the country music scene, but in music itself.
- "And most of all the fans, who filled stadiums… thank you thank you I love you made me feel so special right now." -From Taylor Swift's Pinnacle Award acceptance speech
- Fun Fact: The only other artist to be honored with the Pinnacle Award was Garth Brooks in 2005.
- We challenge you to make a Taylor Swift meme holding the "pineapple award" before Steve does!!
- Reminder: please vote for us daily in the 9th annual Podcast Awards! We are nominated for People's Choice & Entertainment. Thank you so much for voting!
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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! |
| 0:16.8 | Hello, ladies and jents, and welcome to another episode of Taylor Talk, the Taylor Swift podcast. |
| 0:22.2 | This is episode 96, and my name is Adam. |
| 0:25.8 | I'm Diane. |
| 0:27.2 | And I'm Steve. |
| 0:28.3 | And we're here for a very special edition. |
| 0:30.4 | The CMA Awards were tonight, that is Country Music Association Awards. |
| 0:34.9 | So we're here to chat about them with you. |
| 0:36.8 | Taylor got four awards tonight. |
| 0:39.3 | Musical event of the year for Highway Don't Care. Video of the year. Also for Highway Don't |
| 0:44.3 | care. And on that note, special shout out to Shane Drake, the director of that music video, who we |
| 0:49.4 | actually had here on Taylor Talk on episode 62. So if you miss that, he talks a lot about the behind-the-scenes |
| 0:55.8 | stuff of the video that just won a CMA award. Taylor also won international artist achievement |
| 1:02.4 | award. And finally, of course, the Pinnacle Award, which is a huge deal that we will talk about |
| 1:07.9 | in just a bit. But first, I wanted to talk to my cohorts, or rather co-hosts, about Taylor's performance. |
| 1:19.2 | What did you guys think? |
| 1:21.3 | Wow. |
| 1:22.3 | That's the first thing that came into my mind was wow. |
| 1:26.6 | It was very breathtaking and beautiful like she |
| 1:30.4 | really toned down the song a lot because you know red um the actual version of it is you know very |
| 1:37.4 | i don't know pop-rocky very high-powered and this version like she completely softened it and it was just beautiful. |
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