Taylor Swift
Tiny Desk Concerts - Audio
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4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Bob Boylan from All Songs Considered. The following is the audio from our latest Tiny Desk concert. |
| 0:05.2 | To see the video, subscribe to the All Songs Considered Tiny Desk Concerts. |
| 0:10.2 | Or go to NPR.org slash Tiny Desk concerts. |
| 0:14.0 | Wow! Wow, this is a lot of people in a tiny office, I love it. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Taylor. Welcome to my tiny desk concert. Wow, it's great to be in DC. You guys had anything exciting going on last couple weeks? |
| 0:46.0 | Or any possible changes in play? |
| 0:50.0 | Do us a favor. Give a round of applause to NPR for putting this whole thing on. |
| 0:57.0 | Tiny desk is like one of my favorite corners of the internet and I always love |
| 1:06.1 | seeing like it's an opportunity for artists to decide a different way to showcase |
| 1:11.6 | their music and so you're kind of inundated by |
| 1:14.8 | overwhelming opportunity and choices like I was I just decided to kind of take this |
| 1:19.8 | as an opportunity to show you guys how the song sounded when I first wrote them. |
| 1:24.1 | So it's just me. |
| 1:27.4 | There's no dancers, unfortunately. |
| 1:33.4 | So, you know, I have this album that just came out called Lover. |
| 1:40.4 | Real happy you like it. lover. |
| 1:45.0 | Real happy you like it. It's one of those albums where I wrote everything on one instrument first. |
| 1:50.0 | So it's really fun to pick songs to do acoustically because they all |
| 1:54.4 | started out that way. And there's a song that I had wanted to write conceptually for a very long time because over the course of my life |
| 2:06.8 | it has occurred to me that we have a bit of a double standard issue in our society. |
| 2:14.0 | It's something I've thought about about |
| 2:19.0 | 700 million times a day |
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