Taylor Swift's Push to Change Music Ownership
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🗓️ 16 November 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Anna Kasta Yehos, host a morning radio show based in Dallas. |
| 0:10.1 | But when she's not doing that, she's probably listening to Taylor Swift. |
| 0:14.2 | I've always kind of joked and said that Taylor Swift writes music for me specifically, |
| 0:19.5 | because the way that her music has lined up for my life has just been so perfect. |
| 0:24.0 | She released the song 15 when I was 15 and the song 22 when I was turning 22. |
| 0:28.5 | I say that it's the soundtrack to my life because it is. |
| 0:31.6 | Anna's such a Swift fan, the Chico hosts a fan podcast. |
| 0:36.4 | Her favorite album is Red, because some of those songs helped her through a tough time. |
| 0:42.2 | I did a long distance relationship for like two years, and I would go and visit my |
| 0:46.0 | long distance boyfriend and then get on the plane and listen to Red, and I would listen |
| 0:49.6 | to the song Come Back Be Here. |
| 0:51.6 | And she sings about having a long distance relationship in New York, and he was in New |
| 0:55.0 | York, out flying to New York. |
| 0:56.2 | So it was just the details were just very fitting for me specifically. |
| 1:01.5 | Red originally came out in 2012, but last week Swift re-released the album with new versions |
| 1:08.2 | of songs and some extra tracks. |
| 1:11.2 | I was so excited. |
| 1:12.4 | I was over the moon. |
| 1:13.8 | I was running on adrenaline. |
| 1:15.2 | I was looking forward to it all week. |
| 1:16.6 | I called it Taylor Swift Week because we were leading up to Taylor Swift Day is what I called |
| 1:20.4 | it. |
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