SPECIAL EDITION - Highway Don't Care
Taylor Talk: The Taylor Swift Podcast | reputation | 1989 | Red | Speak Now | Fearless | Taylor Swift
Adam Bromberg
4.3 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2013
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Highway Don't Care - Episode 49
In this special edition of Taylor Talk, Adam, Diane and Haley break apart Taylor Swift's return to her country roots in "Highway Don't Care" just minutes after the song's release. After you've heard the hosts' opinions, be sure to tweet us @TaylorTalk13 to share your thoughts! We might read them on the next episode.
In Episode 49:
Reminder to watch Taylor perform at the Grammy’s on CBS on Feb. 10th, 8/7c
The Diet Coke endorsement…. Yay or nay? We discuss the possibility that Taylor is promoting an unhealthy lifestyle.
Taylor Swift goes back to her country roots with Tim McGraw and Keith Urban in “Highway Don’t Care.” The hosts love it!!
Diane and Haley share their impressions of the story of the song.
The highway must be metaphorical… what does it represent? Another person? An escape? A force? Regardless, the highway don’t care.
This is the first time in a long time Taylor was a featured singer in a song she did not help write – what impact does that have?
“Highway Don’t Care” is an homage to “Tim McGraw”
We debate whether or not this song is lyrically similar to a Taylor Swift song.
Will Taylor perform “Highway Don’t Care” on the RED with special guests Tim McGraw and Keith Urban?? Nashville anyone?
Adam encourages you to listen to “Highway Don’t Care” ANYWHERE!
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Taylor Talk. |
| 0:03.2 | The number one Taylor Swift podcast brought to you by the fan site, |
| 0:06.9 | taylor swift13.org. |
| 0:11.8 | All right, guys, something very special happened tonight. |
| 0:15.1 | And when special things happen, we get special editions of Taylor Talk. |
| 0:18.1 | So for episode 49, this is Adam. |
| 0:22.4 | Diane. And Haley. |
| 0:28.1 | We only got three of us right now. It's late at night. Okay. New song just came out. As you guys know, Highway Don't Care, Tim McGraw's new album featuring Taylor Swift, which is totally awesome. |
| 0:34.5 | We're going to get to that discussion just a sec. We just got a quick calendar and news item to give you. |
| 0:38.9 | So, Diane, what's on the calendar? |
| 0:40.9 | Okay, this is a reminder for you to watch Taylor Swift perform at the 55th Grammy Awards next week. |
| 0:47.0 | She is up for three Grammy nominations for Record of the Year for We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, |
| 0:52.8 | Best Country Duo slash group performance, |
| 0:55.3 | and best song written for visual media, both for safe and sound featuring the Civil Wars. |
| 0:59.8 | The Grammys will air on CBS on February 10th at 8.7 Central. |
| 1:04.1 | So there's only one major news item that's happened in the last week, and that is that Taylor |
| 1:09.8 | announced via YouTube that she's teaming up with Diet Coke for the |
| 1:13.6 | Red Tour. |
| 1:14.1 | They're doing some behind the scene stuff and whatnot. |
| 1:16.3 | And I know you all are here for the Highway Don't Care discussion, but this is something |
| 1:19.6 | I wanted to touch on really quick and see what my co-host thought about it because there |
| 1:23.8 | has been a lot of negative feedback on that. |
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