Chords for Taylor Swift on BBC Radio 1's Switch (23rd August 09) - Part 1

Right, anyway, it's time to welcome to the studio a lady that we know and love as T-Swizzle.
It's Taylor Swift, everyone!
_ Hi! _ _
_ Take a seat.
How you doing?
Hi, Taylor.
Sorry?
Did you just draw that moustache on me? _ Yeah.
You!
[G] Yeah.
Are you jealous?
_ Absolutely.
[N] Do you want one? _
Probably not.
_ _ _ I'm going to say no.
Anyway, you look beautiful, Taylor.
You look so cute.
I said it.
I said it again.
I don't know if you remember this.
You probably don't, but I remember the last time you came in,
the first thing Annie said, even before a hello, was,
You look really beautiful.
You look beautiful.
Thank you.
Can you keep it to me seriously?
Absolutely.
With this moustache on my face? Yes.
Do you want to know why this all came about?
I would love to hear the story behind this, actually.
Because we were just talking about how lovely and polite you are.
And we were saying maybe, you know,
No, we initially started with,
I've been taking the mick out of Annie for the last few weeks, Taylor,
because she puts makeup on, and I think it's a really odd thing that she would put makeup on for the radio.
Yeah.
Because, you know, you come in all pops and
People take photos of us, Grimmy.
Why do you think Taylor's dressed in a beautiful blue dress and high heels?
She's Taylor Swift.
You don't rock that look every day, do you? _
Um_
Okay, maybe she does.
Yes.
So then I just suggested that maybe Annie do a moustache.
Then the UK en masse texted and said that Annie must wear a moustache.
And then I just supported her with the moustache.
_ That's incredible.
Look at all these girls with moustaches.
And basically they want you to have one too, but we'll work on that.
It's really, you know, it's symmetrical.
It's great.
Look at_
it's so not symmetrical.
I think it's a good tache.
Grimmy drew it.
It's totally lopsided.
It looks like it was drawn by a blind man.
That's great.
I think it's a good tache.
I think it's_
anyway.
So the last time you were here, Taylor,
the last time you were on Switch,
you'd not even released a single in the UK yet.
I know, I know.
And you guys have been so good to me, so thank you.
I remember you listening to it and you were getting really excited to hear it.
I know, I was so excited.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But now is it odd?
Because it's like a massive smash hit, of course,
and you've just played a festival.
How much has your life changed since then in the UK?
How much has the UK angle changed?
Oh, definitely a lot.
I mean, I just played my first English festival.
I played V Fest.
How was it?
Awesome.
I played both locations and _ it was just so cool to be there
and all the other bands were great.
I watched Lily Allen and she was awesome.
Really?
I'd never seen her play before.
Yeah.
And I got to meet The Script.
They're lovely lads.
Yeah.
And it was just so cool to be there.
I mean, everybody was so wonderful.
And UK festivals are like a fashion show.
Yeah.
Yeah, people go full out, yeah.
People, because, yeah, it's like the magazines.
And people wear sunglasses no matter if it's even sunny.
Yeah.
It's like a staple.
Like colored, trendy sunglasses.
Did you notice any kind of trends in what everyone was wearing?
Yeah.
What did you think?
_ Lots of different trends, actually.
Well, everybody's got like really cool, like choppy, straight hair.
Yeah.
And like the colored Ray-Ban sunglasses and everybody's got like _ _ one-shoulder T-shirts or like, _ I don't know, a lot of people,
oh, a lot of people are wearing rain boots.
Yeah.
People love the way they are.
That whole setting is really, really cute.
[Fm] Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They do proper, like, there's ranges of them over here.
You [N] can get them in all different colors, shapes, sizes.
Yeah.
Their rain boots are big.
A lot of dresses, too.
Yeah.
It was so awesome.
I was right at home.
Dresses with the rain boots.
I was so excited.
_ And what do you make of like the British fans?
Do you notice a difference or are fans just fans?
Well, you know, they, as we've talked about, there's definitely a difference in dialect.
Oh. _
And pronunciation of my name, which is awesome.
But, you know, they're all, they all have the same energy.
They're all just wonderful and they're so wonderful to me and they give me really nice presents.
So there's been 30 girls parked outside this building all day waiting for you.
Aww.
What presents did you get?
Oh, I haven't gotten any on the way in today.
Girls, sort it out!
I got this shirt because I call London Fundin'. Oh.
I saw this on Twitter.
Because it's fun.
And, uh, inevitably.
And so these fans gave me shirts that said, I heart London, and they scratched it out and wrote Fundin'. Oh, wicked.
It's my dedication.
And, yeah, I love it.
That's well good.
Fundin'.
I'm gonna call it that from now on.
Fundin'.
Yeah, I like it.
So, now, um, we might play a brand new single.
_ I've never heard it on the radio here before.
Amazing.
Well, this is the thing that happens every time you come.
Please do it.
Should we do it?
I think we should.
Well, talk to us about it first.
Who's it about?
Because you're quite vocal about, you know, people in your songs.
Yeah.
Um, this song is actually, it's about one of my friends that I was walking past him and
he was talking to his girlfriend on the phone.
And, um, she was yelling at him.
So loudly that I could hear her voice yelling at him through the [A] phone.
And I'm like, I felt so bad for him in that moment because he was apologizing to her for
calling her _ 15 minutes after [N] they talked instead of 10 minutes.
Because she was like, call me back in 10 minutes and he called back in 15 and she freaked.
Oh my god.
And I'm like, you, that's like hard work.
Like, you need to find a new girlfriend right now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, and so I kind of walked away and I started humming to myself, you're on the phone with
your girlfriend, she's upset.
And then I'm like, _ there's a song in that.
Yeah.
And I kind of spun it a different way.
I started out with that line and kind of expanded upon it, um, and made it into this whole,
like, kind of more fictional story about me being in love with my best friend, which has
happened to me a million times, just not in that scenario.
Okay, cool.
Is that how a lot of your, your songs are written?
Just add personal things that just, you know, just start humming around and then there's songs.
Yeah, definitely.
Um, you know, for me, songs are like, you know, my diary entries put to a melody and
when I put out an album, you can tell what's happened to me in the last two years of my
life because it's all reflected on there and that's kind of the only way I'm comfortable writing music.
Yeah.
Brilliant.
Okay, let's do it.
This is a new Taylor Swift, You [F#] Belong With Me.
Oh my God, [B] awesome.
_ _ [F#] _
_ _ I don't know about you, Taylor Swift, but I think that's bloody brilliant.
I think that's a great song.
Thank [N] you.
Did you like listening to it?
I loved it.
It was my first time hearing it in the UK on the radio, so I'm so excited.
Wicked. _ _ _
So Taylor Swift is in the building.
Me and Grimmy both have ridiculous moustaches on our faces drawn on with permanent marker.
I love you, no Taylor.
Yeah, this is it.
I'm going on holidays at 6am tomorrow morning.
I'm not going to be able to get this off.
Oh, wow.
So that's the big sacrifice I've made for this show tonight.
Yeah, me too.
Oh, look, great.
I have to interview Judd Apatow tomorrow morning at about 9 o'clock.
Who?
Judd Apatow, the director.
He makes films.
He does, uh_
Yeah, he did Funny People.
Funny People, he just made.
The one with the fat guy in.
_ Oh, Adam Sandler.
You know all his films.
Adam Sandler and your man from the_
Yeah, anyway, whatever.
He's not going to like it either.
He's still going to be there.
Well, it kind of looks_
Because you're a man.
It kind of looks like_
I kind of got it right on you.
No, you look awesome.
Yeah?
Because I'm a woman.
Do you think I can pull this off?
I think you could.
It definitely adds character.
Because I can't really grow out my facial hair.
It's quite patchy anyway, so maybe I'll just fill it in with marker pen.
My favourite thing about it is that it's a completely different colour than your hair.
Yeah.
It's so much darker.
Yeah, it's cool.
Which usually doesn't happen.
It's funny that, isn't it?
But all of you have been doing it as well, the kind of collective boredom.
Lots of you have been sending in pictures.
Taylor, we've got some ones here that I want you to have a look at.
And maybe, George, what your favourite would be?
These are all the specific Taylor Swift moustaches.
We have incredible pictures here.
Taylor Swift fans.
We have Tara and Gabby.
Those are awesome.
Charlotte is great.
_ There's just so much spirit in this.
Yeah, Natasha sent one in.
Her name is Tash.
She put a Tash on Tash.
She's got flowers at the end of her moustache.
She's made a flower moustache.
That's good.
Isn't that incredible?
That's really good.
Really great.
I'm slightly worried that Taylor Swift fans will do anything, even have a moustache on their face.
Get their name read out.
No, that's good.
That's good dedication.
That's passion.
That's true passion.
I love that.
Gold star for them.
Well done for them.
So let's have a little chat about the UK.
You're going back to America tomorrow, I believe.
_ Yes, actually.
I'm going back to America.
I'm playing Madison Square Garden in New York City.
No big deal.
Fine.
Fine.
We're fine with this.
I'm Robbie Thorne.
Is it your show?
Yes.
Oh my God.
It's so crazy because I've never played there before except once when I was like 12, I sung
the national anthem for a Knicks game.
And now, I got the phone call a couple months ago that it sold out in one minute.
And I'm like, _ really now?
This is happening in my life right now.
Okay, I can deal with this.
One minute.
Madison Square Garden, a minute.
Absolutely fine.
Absolutely fine.
When is the gig?
The gig is September 27th.
Okay.
How will your nerves be leading up to [A] this?
_ [N] _ Do you get nervous?
Wait a second.
No, wait a second. _
August 27th?
What am I doing?
Yeah.
August 27th.
Sorry, I just had like a total like_ That's okay.
Yeah, that's on Saturday.
It's next Saturday.
Months, time, it's not an issue for me.
What were you saying?
How will your nerves be like leading up to it?
Will you be totally cool with it?
Are you fine with it now?
Well, sometimes I do get nervous.
of the show in my head, like when I'm about to fall asleep.
And I fall asleep halfway through my mental run-through of the show.
But I usually do a few of those and it's a big deal.
I mean, that's like_
You don't want to mess that up, that show.
Yeah.
Do you practice, you know, like the between song banter?
In your head, do you think beforehand,
right, maybe I'll say, tell that little anecdote from last week,
or maybe I'll say this.
Do you do that or not, or does it all come naturally?
You definitely_
I think about where I am in the country or the world
and you just cater to that.
I think the first kind of skill you [E] have to learn _ [G] when