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[Audience Applauding]
Ellen DeGeneres: We have had a lot of fun
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with our first guest over the years,
take a look.
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Our next guest has had the number one
album on the Country's charts for a record
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ten weeks in a row.
Please welcome Taylor Swift.
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[Audience Cheering]
♫...That's what people say, mm mm ♪
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Your musical crush, somebody in the
business?
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Taylor Swift: Oh, Justin Timberlake.
Ellen: Justin Timberlake is your favorite?
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Justin!
[Audience Cheering]
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Taylor Swift: That's the best surprise
ever! This is the best day ever!
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Justin Timberlake: [Laughing] That's great!
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Ellen: Finish this statement: I am
Taylor blank.
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Taylor Swift: I think just like birth
certificate wise it's Swift.
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Ellen: Like I am Ellen blank.
I am Ellen DeGeneres.
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I am Ellen DeGeneres and I am married
to Portia de Rossi.
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I am Taylor Swift, I am dating blank.
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[Audience Laughing]
Taylor Swift: Nobody.
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[Audience Laughing]
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That's true though.
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Ellen: I am Taylor Swift and my publicist
told me to say blank.
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Taylor Swift: My publicist told me not to
answer any personal questions.
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Ellen: Now we're getting somewhere.
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♫...Shake it off, shake it off...♪
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Ellen: The kitty corner is a show for
people who love cats.
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Taylor Swift: I will answer your questions
about cats. [Laughs]
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Ellen: Yeah.
Taylor: You can call us with your questions.
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Ellen: And we can call it cat calls!
[Audience Laughing]
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Taylor: Or, look what the cat called in!
[Audience Laughing]
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Taylor Swift & Zac Efron: ♫ Every single
time I come on this show, ♫
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♫ It's really weird, really weird
All because of Ellen ♫
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♫ I've been on this show
8 times now and I still remember ♫
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♫ Ellen hiding in a bathroom ♫
[Audience Laughs]
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♫ With a hidden camera and she
scared me so bad ♫
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[Ellen Screams]
♫ I fell and I could've died ♫
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[Audience Laughing]
[Music Continues]
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Ellen: Taylor! Taylor!
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♫
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Dinosaur: Woah!
Taylor Swift: [Screams] Why did you do that?
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♫
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Ellen: Up in the air.
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Taylor Swift: Being on Ellen's show is
one of the best--
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Ellen: Monotone like that.
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Taylor Swift: Being on the Ellen show is
one of the best experiences you can have.
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Ellen: Now laugh in a monotone way.
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[Taylor Laughing]
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[Ellen Laughing]
Ellen: Yes.
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[Audience Cheering]
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Taylor Swift: That was an amazing montage!
Ellen: I know!
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And that's--no, no one's in there.
Taylor Swift: Okay.
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Ellen: We're not going to do it to you
today.
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Taylor Swift: And it's not amateur hour.
Ellen: No, no.
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I'm not gonna, you're, because I can't
top how I did it the first time.
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You were the best scare,
well I don't know Sara Paulson was
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pretty good too, but--
Taylor Swift: That was a near death experience.
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Ellen: It kind of was.
You went down.
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Taylor Swift: Yeah. There were several
ways I could've died.
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Ellen: Well, now you're being dramatic.
Taylor Swift: Yeah.
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Ellen: Yeah. No that's extreme.
Taylor Swift: Yeah.
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It's, it, I really just was watching that
backstage and I was just thinking like,
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thank you so much for going so above and
beyond to make people happy.
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[Ellen Laughing]
Yeah, and well, that's not a good example.
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Ellen: No, no, no.
Taylor Swift: But--
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Ellen: No you could've hit your head on
the toilet bowl.
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Taylor Swift: It was funny afterwards you
did this laugh afterward that I have found
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myself, I loved the sound so much,
that I've found myself doing it sometimes
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when I laugh hard enough.
You went [grunting].
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[Ellen Laughing]
Taylor Swift: You went [grunting].
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And you couldn't breathe!
Ellen: Uh-huh. That's how happy I was.
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Taylor Swift: That's how happy you were
to see me fall down like that.
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Ellen: Yes, yes. And now you do it too,
you said.
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Taylor Swift: It's caught on. It's a great
sound. If you go back and watch it on YouTube,
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listen for her laugh and then who'll be
the one who's embarrassed?
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Not the one on the ground.
[Audience Laughing]
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Ellen: Keep in mind, that you haven't
been here in four, no,
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how long has it been?
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Taylor Swift: Yeah, four years.
I was recovering from the fall.
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Ellen: No, no, no!
[Audience Laughing]
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But look at all the content we had,
and you haven't been here in four years.
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You'd think you'd want to come back
as you had so much fun.
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Taylor Swift: I know, and now I have.
Ellen: Okay, and now you've come back.
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Taylor Swift: Yeah I have come back.
I mean, I had an album out called Reputation
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Ellen: I know.
Taylor Swift: --and I really--
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[Audience Cheering]
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Thank you guys.
You guys are friendly.
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Yeah, with the album I just basically
wanted to just make music and not
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explain it.
Ellen: Yeah.
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Taylor Swift: But, I missed you so much.
It was really--
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Ellen: You sold a bunch of albums
without even talking.
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[Everyone Laughing]
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I mean usually people go to promote their
music because it helps sell albums.
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You don't have to do that.
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Taylor Swift: Well that's nice of you to
say.
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I mean I am having fun being back here.
It's been really great to be back here and
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like, I definitely do, I think as a
songwriter I enjoy communicating
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about what I've made, like I really do
like that part of the process,
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but I also just feel like with my career
I want to do what feels right at the time.
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Ellen: Yeah.
Taylor Swift: You know? Like, so it just,
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at that time I coined this phrase
"there will be no explanation,
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there will be just reputation"
'cause I am dramatic.
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Ellen: Yes.
Taylor Swift: That's a very dramatic thing,
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but it rhymed, it was kind of catchy,
and so I stuck with it.
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Ellen: Right, is that in one of your songs
'cause if it isn't it should be.
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Taylor Swift: Thank you, no. And I think
it's a little late for that 'cause now
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we're on to another, different album.
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Ellen: I know, but you still could
have that.
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Taylor Swift: For the, for an album
that's not Reputation?
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Ellen: Yeah.
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[Audience Laughing]
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Taylor Swift: So, it's a little off
brand, but I will think about it.
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Ellen: No, no. Just like clothing comes
back in style,
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you can come right back around to that
topic again if you'd like.
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Taylor Swift: It could be like a vintage.
Ellen: You can do anything
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you want Taylor Swift.
Taylor Swift: Thank you for saying that!
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[Audience Cheering]
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Ellen: You know, you, I mean really,
people thought "oh god she's been away
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for so long, how is this album going to
do?"
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And they put so much, I don't think
pressure on you 'cause I don't think
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you felt pressure--
Taylor Swift: Yeah there's pressure.
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Ellen: Really?
Taylor Swift: Yeah, for sure.
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Ellen: Oh, okay. But 'cause it seemed like
people were like expecting this not to be
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as good, or that album to not be as,
and you just came back and proved
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them all wrong.
Taylor Swift: Aww.
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Ellen: You know, it's true!
Taylor Swift: Thanks.
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Ellen: 'Cause you didn't worry about how
certain people do things,
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you do things your own way and it all
works out for you.
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Taylor Swift: Thank you so much.
Ellen: Well you're welcome.
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Now let's talk about me.
[Everyone Laughing]
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No, not talk about me.
But so these, these, here let's talk
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about you're on the cover of Entertainment
Weekly, you have all these Easter eggs
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on here right?
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Taylor Swift: Yeah. And I feel like--
Ellen: Explain what the eggs are
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to people who don't understand.
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Taylor Swift: Yeah 'cause I think it's,
I think that is necessary.
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So it's like when we say "Easter eggs"
we're not only talking about like
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Easter eggs that you would go on an Easter
egg hunt for on Easter.
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It's like, it's kind of a, like a, it's
kind of like a clue,
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like a foreshadowing kind of thing.
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I like to plant Easter eggs in a video
like, that would be like a lyric from
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unreleased music, or like a little hint or a
little link to what's coming in the future.
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Ellen: Right.
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Taylor Swift: Um, so yeah, that was kind
of the theme of what we did at the
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Entertainment Weekly thing on, and it's
just been really fun to kind of expand
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the musical experience past just listening
to a song.
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Like I also want people to be like,
watching the music video,
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and what's that thing in the background and
what's that song playing underneath there and
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what's, is there a reason she said that
in French? So.
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Ellen: Right. [Everyone Laughing]
Because people, and usually your fans are
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pretty good at figuring it out, right?
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Taylor: They're excellent at figuring it out.
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Ellen: What is the worst-- what, how far off have they been?
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What's the worst they've been?
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Taylor: Oh man. Umm...
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Well, there were some fans that thought
I had something to do with Avengers: Endgame.
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[audience laughs]
Ellen: Oh, really?
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Taylor: Which I, which I would've loved
to have been asked, but I wasn't--
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Ellen: No, you weren't.
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Taylor: --asked to be in it at all.
Ellen: Yeah.
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Taylor: Because we had the single coming out the same day
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and I have a song that was called Endgame,
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and so they were like, "oh my god, she's
going to defeat Thanos," and... [audience laughs]
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I let everyone down, again.
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Ellen: Yeah, yeah. Well, that was confusing.
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Oh your jacket, you have a lot of things on here,
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but you don't have something that,
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next time you wear a jacket,
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Taylor: [gasps] Thank you!
Ellen: You're welcome.
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Taylor: It's you as a kitty cat!
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Ellen: Yeah, and that's two things you love.
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Taylor: Those are the two things I love the most.
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Ellen: Together, put together.
Taylor: Yeah!
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Ellen: Alright. We have to take a break. I'll let you cry about that.
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Taylor: Thank you!
Ellen: We'll be back.
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We're back with Taylor Swift, who was just
telling me about washing her legs in the shower.
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I couldn't hear you.
Did you say you do wash them or you don't?
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Taylor: I do, because when you shave your legs, isn't,
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the shaving cream is like soap, right?
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Ellen: Yeah, it is. That is, I think that's the reason
that most women wash their legs,
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because we have to because we shave our legs.
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Taylor: Yeah.
Ellen: Yep.
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Taylor: So that counts, so, yeah.
Ellen: Oh for sure.
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It's, it's--
Taylor: On the right side of history, though.
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Ellen: Unless you're not shaving and then you're,
then you're not washing.
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So whenever you're not shaving,
you don't wash, you're saying.
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Taylor: No, I don't, I don't think I would say that.
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[audience laughs]
Ellen: Well, it seems like you did just say it.
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Taylor: But I kind of always shave my legs.
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Ellen: Every day?
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Taylor: Well, I mean, yeah.
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Ellen: Every day?
Taylor: Yeah.
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Ellen: You must be hairy.
[audience laughs]
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Alright. So...[laughs]
Taylor: So sweet.
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Ellen: Let's talk about-- [chuckles]
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I don't know why you don't come here more often.
[audience laughs]
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Alright. Let's talk about Me.
We were just playing it during the commercial break,
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which I love that song. I love that video so much.
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Taylor: Thank you.
Ellen: That must've been so fun to shoot.
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Taylor: It was, it was so fun. That's actually, um...
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Ellen: Is that your new kitten?
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Taylor: That's my new kitten, Benjamin.
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Ellen: Wait, did-- first of all, let's finish talking about the video, because it's so good.
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Brendon Urie, right, is that his last name?
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Taylor: Brendon Urie is one of the most--
Ellen: From Panic at the Disco!
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Taylor: -- incredible performers. [audience cheers]
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Ellen: Yeah, he is amazing. I love that y'all were together in that.
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Taylor: Oh yeah. I mean, he does this little dance coming up. Or he already did it.
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But all his little dances are like, that! [laughs] Look at him.
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He's just like, he would raise the energy in any situation, like.
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Ellen: Yeah, I love him.
Taylor: He was, he was just amazing.
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Ellen: Alright. We're going to get to the kitten in a minute, but,
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did the speaking French in the beginning of it,
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does that mean something?
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Taylor: Yeah, definitely.
Ellen: Okay.
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Did you know French already or did you learn it for that?
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Taylor: I've tried to learn French several times in my life,
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because I think it's a really beautiful language.
Ellen: It is beautiful.
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Taylor: And, I definitely made sure that I had native French speakers on set,
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because I didn't want to butcher the language of love.
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Ellen: Right.
Taylor: Like, that's not what I came here to do.
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Ellen: Say something in French right now.
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Taylor: Um, you're putting me on the spot, but I mean,
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je suis calme.
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Ellen: Ah, thank you.
Taylor: I don't know.
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Ellen: What does that mean?
Taylor: It means I am calm.
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Ellen: Oh.
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Taylor: Uh, [other French phrase]
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Ellen: Oh, that's good. That's a good one.
Taylor: Thanks.
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Ellen: I don't know what that means, but that sounded real French.
[audience laughs]
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Taylor: It means "I love cats."
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Ellen: Ok, so let's talk about cats.
Taylor: No it doesn't.
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Ellen: So was that kitten-- it doesn't? [chuckles]
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So was that kitten, um, just there to be in the video or did you-
and then you took it home?
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Or did you put it in the video and it was yours already?
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Taylor: He was, he was a little cat actor. He was there.
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Apparently there was, I didn't know this at the time.
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All I know is there's, we had to have a kitten in the scene
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because I wanted to have to have this scene where it's like, you know,
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he gives me a ring, I'm like "no". He gives me flowers, I'm like "no".
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And then he gives me a kitten and I'm like "yes, absolutely. You know me, clearly."
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And so, you know, they show up with this little kitten
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and the, his handler was like, "Do you want to hold him first?"
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I was like, "Absolutely I do."
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And so they hand me this tiny cat and I've never really experienced a cat that,
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the second I held this little kitten, he started purring, like a motor.
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And I was like, "Okay, whose cat is this? You're really lucky, whoever owns this cat."
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And then, the girl was like, "Actually, he doesn't have a home."
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And then I just, my eyes turned into hearts--
Ellen: Yes. [audience laughs]
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Taylor: And I, I just immediately was like, "I can't think about anything else."
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Ellen: And so, how do the other two get along?
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You can't just bring a cat home. Cats don't, they're not like that.
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Taylor: They're like little puffballs getting into fights,
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like marshmallows throwing each other. [audience laughs]
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Ellen: Oh. That's good then. And his name is Benjamin?
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Taylor: Benjamin Button.
Ellen: Mhmm. That's right.
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Taylor: Because it's an incredible movie.
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Ellen: Yes it is.
Taylor: It's an incredible film.
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Ellen: He ages backwards.
Taylor: Yeah. [audience laughs]
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Ellen: Alright, so, [laughter continues]
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we're back with the only person who loves cats possibly as much as I do, or more,
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or, but I think, no.
Taylor: I don't want to get into a fight about it.
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[audience laughs]
Ellen: No, but--
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No, we both love cats. Let's just leave it at that.
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Alright. Taylor Swift is who I was talking about.
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Um, okay. So there's video of your other two cats, on the plane, I think. Is that what we have?
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Taylor: I think it's just a picture, but, it's a good demonstration of like,
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just what my personal life looks like.
Ellen: Yep.
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Taylor: It's just, well, that's-- oh I mean, that's just Olivia stretching.
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Ellen: That's just?
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Taylor: That's my middle child.
Ellen: Yep.
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Taylor: She's, she's kind of like a seal.
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Ellen: And she just lays on her back? Oh my god.
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Taylor: Yeah. Isn't she amazing? And her tail just never grew.
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Ellen: Oh my god.
Taylor: And then she stands up, here's meerkat.
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Ah, get it.
She's a really special animal.
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And that was when she was a baby.
Ellen: Oh my god. They're just so cute.
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And now, so you would be, and you're doing the movie Cats,
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so you probably have a, you know, an advantage,
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because you probably act more like--
Taylor: I understand them.
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Ellen: Yes.
Taylor Yeah.
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Ellen: Because James Cordon had to learn, he went to cat school.
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Taylor: We all went to cat school. You have no idea.
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It's like all my dreams came true on the set of this film. [audience laughs]
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It was like, they literally, um, they're like, "You can come to set as much as you want"
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and I ended up being there, like, every day for four months.
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Just like, they're like, "Oh, Taylor's doing cat school again." [audience laughs]
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"Again. She's still here. She's still doing cat school."
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Ellen: What did you learn?
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Taylor: Well, you crawl around on the floor and you pretend to be a cat.
[audience laughs]
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Ellen: Right. I bet you're really a good cat.
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Taylor: I mean, I don't-- we'll see. I really don't know.
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I had the most fun. I had the best time.
Ellen: Yeah.
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Um, alright. So wait. There's a new album coming out.
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Are you finished with the album yet?
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Taylor: Yeah. And, unless I like write something else.
Ellen: Okay.
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Taylor: Then I'll just like probably put it on the album.
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Ellen: Okay. And then you have another video coming out soon.
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Taylor: Ish, yeah.
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Ellen: When is it coming out?
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Taylor: Uh, I don't know yet because we have to finish it first.
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Ellen: Okay.
Taylor: Yeah.
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Ellen: And then, um, I think you said you wanted me in it?
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[audience laughs]
Taylor: Yeah, I mean,
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that would be a dream.
Ellen: Yeah.
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Taylor: Would you want to do that?
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Ellen: Mm, I don't know, but I-- [audience laughs loudly]
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I'll think about it, for sure.
Taylor: Okay. Please do.
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Ellen: Yeah.
[audience laughs]
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Okay.
[audience laughs loudly]
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Taylor: Great.
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Ellen: Yeah, I'll do it.
Taylor: Cool.
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Ellen: Okay. Alright.
Taylor: That's great.
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Ellen: Umm... [audience laughs] [Taylor and Ellen laugh]
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Alright, we have to take a break and then,
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we're going to come back and she's going to talk all about her boyfriend.
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We'll be back.
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What I'll do is I'll read a question
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and then you will answer the question and then, [bell dings] hit this for no apparent reason.
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Taylor: [bell dings] I love it.
Ellen: It's fun, right? [bell dings]
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Taylor: Yeah.
Ellen: Yeah.
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It's like a game show, but yet you win nothing. [audience laughs]
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What's the title of your next single?
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Taylor: Oh. Um, I can't tell you that. That's crazy. [audience laughs]
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Ellen: Well, I was gonna try.
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Can you sing some of it?
Taylor: Uh, no... [audience laughs] [bell dings]
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Ellen: Alright. If you can't sleep in the middle of the night, what do you do?
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Taylor: I got downstairs and rummage through the kitchen
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and eat whatever I can find. And it's realy less like a human being
-
and morel like a raccoon in a dumpster. [audience laughs]
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Like, the next morning we just, we walk downstairs and we're,
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"What happened here?"
And I don't remember. [bell dings]
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Ellen: Does that help you sleep, if you eat a whole lot and then..?
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Taylor: It's not really voluntary. [bell dings] [audience laughs]
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Ellen: Oh, do you sleep eat?
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Taylor: I think so. I don't really remember it,
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but I know it happens because it could've only have been me, or cats.
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Ellen: Right. Well that wasn't the question. We're learning something different.
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I said, "If you can't sleep at night, what do you do?"
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but it sounds like--
Taylor: I'm still sleeping and doing it?
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Ellen: Yes, it sounds like you've got an issue. [audience laughs]
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Taylor: Yep. [bell dings] [audience laughs]
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Ellen: Okay. Currently, what is your favorite TV show?
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Taylor: Oh god, okay. So, Killing Eve, Game of Thrones,
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Downton Abbey, Queer Eye, I'll just, got to stop though. [bell dings] Getting too excited.
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Ellen: Yeah, Killing Eve is [bell dings repeatedly]
Taylor: Yes!
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Ellen: What is the most rebellious thing you did as a teenager?
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Taylor: [laughs] Probably when I put Joe Jonas on blast on your show.
[audience laughs]
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That was too much! [bell dings]
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Ellen: Was it?
Taylor: Yeah. That was too much.
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Ellen: Okay.
Taylor: I was 18. Yeah. [audience laughs] [bell dings]
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We laugh about it now. That was, mouthy.
Ellen: Yeah.
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Taylor: Yeah, just--
Ellen: Alright.
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Taylor: Teenage stuff there.
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Ellen: Well that's held onto you because I don't remember that at all. [audience laughs loudly]
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What is your favorite curse word?
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Taylor: Okay, you say yours, and we'll say it together
on one, two, three.
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In unison: One, two, three
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[BEEP]
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[bell dings] [audience cheers]
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Ellen: It's just a good, solid one.
[Taylor laughs]
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Cause it can also mean like, really good, like,
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[BEEP]
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Who'd you share your first kiss with?
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Taylor: Um, I think- it was my high school boyfriend
when I was fifteen.
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Ellen: What was his name?
[bell rings]
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Taylor: Drew.
[bell rings]
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Ellen: Drew, aww.
Taylor: Yeah
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Ellen: Did you leave an easter egg during our interview?
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Taylor: Yes.
[bell rings]
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Ellen: Really!?
Taylor: Yes! (laughs)
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I'm not supposed to do it every word?
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Ellen: No. [bell rings]
Taylor: Okay.
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Ellen: Your friend invites you to dinner,
what do you bring?
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Taylor: White wine.
[bell rings]
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Ellen: What kind?
[bell rings]
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Taylor: Sancerre Pino Grigio
or Sauvignon Blanc.
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[bell rings twice]
Ellen: Good choices.
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Taylor: Thank you.
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Ellen: I just found a really good one
I'll tell you about. [rings bell]
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What's your favorite holiday?
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Taylor: I think it's Christmas.
Definitely Christmas. [bell rings]
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Ellen: Okay, what's your favorite place to go
on holiday?
-
Do you like cold, do you like snowing,
do you like island?
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Taylor: I'm sorting, I'm sorting.
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Ellen: Okay, sorry. I'll stay quiet
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Taylor: I'm sorting... I think umm,
Rhode Island.
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[rings bell]
Ellen: Okay...
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[audience laughs]
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Taylor: It's a great state.
Ellen: Yeah.
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What's your favorite movie?
-
That's a tough one.
How do you narrow it down to one?
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Taylor: You can't, you can't
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Ellen: No, but just -
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Taylor: I'd have to go with favorite
movie I've seen in the last week.
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Ellen: Okay.
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Taylor: Umm, "Someone Great" on Netflix.
[bell rings]
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Ellen: Oh, don't know that one.
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Taylor: It's a great movie.
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Ellen: Oh, well apparently.
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Taylor: Watch it!
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Ellen: Okay.
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Name three words to describe yourself.
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Taylor: Um, curious, cat lover,
make it one word?
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Ellen: Sure.
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Taylor: Um, romantic.
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Ellen: Yes. I would say creative also.
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Taylor: That's nice, thank you!
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Ellen: Okay, um, smart, I would add.
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Taylor: Thank you! You're doing five though,
that's so sweet.
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Ellen: Yes, because you deserve-
Taylor: You're giving me extra-
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[bell rings multiple times]
Ellen: Okay, that's out of time.
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Go to my Spotify page to hear more
of Taylor's music! We'll be back!
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[audience cheering and applause]