The Taylor Swift Interview: Behind the Scenes
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The New York Times
3.4 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the way my blue eyes shined, but those Georgia stars to shame that night, |
| 0:09.4 | he said that's a lie. |
| 0:11.7 | Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your first album, first song, first verse of weekly culture chat. |
| 0:18.5 | I'm John Caramonica. |
| 0:19.5 | I'm the critic. |
| 0:20.5 | I'm Joe Cuscarelli. I'm still theamanca. I'm the critic. I'm Joe Cascarlli. |
| 0:21.7 | I'm still the reporter. |
| 0:23.2 | And today, more than ever, you are the reporter. |
| 0:27.0 | Uh, we are here in the week that is now and will always in the future be known as songwriter week at the New York Times. |
| 0:35.8 | Um, we made a canon. |
| 0:37.2 | We didn't make... |
| 0:37.9 | And we apologize to everybody who's been texting me about Jason Isbell and John Fogarty and Billy Joel. |
| 0:48.6 | George Clinton. |
| 0:50.9 | We'll get to that on another podcast. |
| 0:52.3 | Do you know how many podcasts we're going to be on? |
| 0:55.0 | Not enough, apparently. |
| 0:57.0 | It's incredibly important to have a John and Joe exclusive popcast audio only episode. |
| 1:04.0 | Special edition. |
| 1:05.0 | Here's a thing. |
| 1:06.0 | We know that the heads are here. |
| 1:08.0 | We know you're listening on audio. |
| 1:10.0 | We're grateful if you're watching on audio. We're grateful if you're watching |
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