The Global Story: Could Taylor Swift swing the US election?
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BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Our colleagues on The Global Story made this episode on a subject we know is close to many Americaster's hearts. So we thought we'd put it in your feeds.
It's presented by Europe editor Katya Adler. To look at Taylor Swift's potential political sway, she's joined by North America business correspondent Erin Delmore.
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This podcast was made by Alice Aylett Roberts, Richard Moran and Emilia Jansson. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Sergi Forcada Freixas and the senior news editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hi, AmeriCasters, it's Mariana here. |
| 0:07.2 | I hope you enjoyed the previous episode which looked at President Biden's age and |
| 0:11.2 | memory. |
| 0:12.2 | Go back and listen if you've not had a chance. I also |
| 0:14.8 | wanted to highlight an episode from our sister podcast The Global Story with |
| 0:18.7 | Katia Adler. She's looked into one of America's favorite topics, Taylor Swift and her influence. |
| 0:25.0 | There's loads of talk of her swinging the US presidential election result. |
| 0:29.0 | Republicans close to Donald Trump seems spooked. |
| 0:32.0 | What's their thinking? Have a listen to this episode of the |
| 0:35.0 | global story and if you like it, subscribe to the podcast. |
| 0:38.0 | Hello, I'm Katia Adler from the BBC World Service, this is the Global Story. |
| 0:44.0 | Monday to Friday, we focus on one story in detail with the help of the BBC's best journalists. |
| 0:52.0 | Today, we're talking about the world's biggest pop star. |
| 0:55.6 | She's just like an inspiration to like everyone and I just love her so much. |
| 0:59.2 | Her mind-blowingly popular era's concert tour, the Asian leg of it has just opened in Japan, is so huge, |
| 1:06.2 | it's boosted the economies of the country she's visited as part of it. |
| 1:09.9 | And her romance, with one of the star players at the Super Bowl this Sunday |
| 1:14.0 | will cement her influence in almost every corner of American culture. |
| 1:18.0 | Of course, I'm talking about Taylor Swift. |
| 1:21.0 | Hi, I'm Taylor. |
| 1:22.0 | But as much as... talking about Taylor Swift. Hi, I'm Taylor. |
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