Tracing the origin story of Taylor Swift
The Story
The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
From Pennsylvania to New Jersey to Tennessee, The Times’ Megan Agnew spent three weeks on the Taylor Swift trail, discovering the origins of the supersonic star. How does someone go from teenage guitarist to pop phenomenon? Was her fame just luck and talent, or was there a master plan behind it all?
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Guest: Megan Agnew, Senior Features Writer, The Times and The Sunday Times.
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| 1:40.0 | I'm just driving up the road where Taylor Swift spent much of her childhood in why |
| 1:51.1 | you're missing in Pennsylvania. |
| 1:55.0 | For three weeks, the Times and Sunday Times |
| 1:57.5 | Meghan Agnew went on what I can only describe |
| 2:00.5 | as one of the most envy-inducing reporting missions I have ever heard of, |
| 2:05.0 | tracing the trail of Taylor Swift. |
| 2:11.0 | From Pennsylvania to New Jersey to Tennessee, |
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