#old interviews

[wildgreyocean]

“Drew’s practically a metronome on his own, anyway, the drummer, he’s like, he’s so so precise, he’s a real machine, you know, so that’s kind of always helped the fact that we’re- as a live band, we can we can rely on him to be so solid, you know.”

— Sam Fender to John Kennedy on Radio X on Drew Michael (x)

[gremlinsminion]

Eric Bogosian, 2017

[midnightsslut]

A Guide to Red - The Quintessential Taylor Swift Album

After the release of The Manuscript, the role of Red and Red (Taylor’s Version) in Taylor’s life and discography has been highly discussed. A lot of people have referred to it as her magnum opus and most formative album. I have decided to compile a condensed list of about a dozen key interviews, performances, speeches, posts, and videos from 2011 all the way until 2024 that illustrate the importance of this record for Taylor’s personal life and career. I’m putting the list under a cut because it got pretty long. You don’t have to go through all of these, obviously, but I would suggest at least one per era. The bolded ones are essential in my opinion.

Pre-Red - These interviews hint at Taylor’s emotional state at the time and thus the content that will be explored on the Red album

2011 The New Yorker profile

Taylor Swift reveals new album is all about heartbreak - Extra TV

Bonus: an article going through Taylor’s arm lyrics on the Speak Now World Tour, which she described as mood rings for any particular show

Lover diary entries from the making of Red (credit to @cabincreaking for the scans)

- All Too Well lyrics first draft (February 2011)

- Random bursts of happiness and anxiety during the Speak Now Tour (June 17, 2011)

- Red (September 8, 2011)

- Holy Ground (February 2012)

- Nothing New (March 2, 2012)

- Working with Max Martin (June 10, 2012)

Red era - Listen to the original sixteen songs on the Red album at this point.

Red announcement livestream + Q&A

Red prologue

2012 Rolling Stone interview

2012 The Guardian interview

2012 Billboard interview

2012 Esquire interview

Sirius XM Town Hall - an hourlong interview from the day Red came out

Good Morning America - this is the first mention of the ten-minute version of All Too Well

Red track-by-track descriptions

Random interview where she discusses the connection between writing Speak Now and Red

I Knew You Were Trouble music video

Diary entry about how love is fiction and she might move to New York after all (January 6, 2014)

Diary entry from Grammy night (January 25, 2014)

Red Tour London performance of All Too Well - any performance of this song from 2013-14 will work here, but this one has a pretty comprehensive speech

Final performance of All Too Well on the Red Tour - just listen to the speech here

Post-Red era - Over the course of these interviews, you’ll see her relationship to the album evolve.

Taylor’s description of Clean (skip to 11:18)

2014 BBC Live Lounge interview

1989 World Tour interview where she mentions thinking she’d never sell as many albums as she did with Red before 1989 came out

Clean speech - a lot of these will work, but these two best describe her relationship with the Red era and heartbreak in general

All Too Well (The 1989 World Tour live)

2015 GrammyPro interview

All Too Well Super Saturday Night performance

Reputation Tour All Too Well speech

Red into Daylight performance - 2019 City of Lover concert in Paris

Re-recordings era - at this point, listen to the red vault

2020 Rolling Stone podcast

Red (Taylor’s Version) prologue

2021 Saturday Night Live performance

All Too Well: The Short Film + Behind the Scenes

Seth Meyers interview

2022 Tribeca film talk OR TIFF (both are equally good. I have a slight preference for the former, but there are some interesting new details in the latter). You could also watch directors on directors from the same year as a bonus, but it’s less comprehensive.

2022 Graham Norton - How All Too Well (10 Minute Version) came about + how the re-recordings inspired Midnights

Also listen to Midnights

The Eras Tour

All Too Well speech (Glendale Night 2 & Atlanta Night 1) - any of the speeches from March and April 2023 will work, but these two really illustrate how she feels about this time in her life now and how the fans changed the Red album for her. Obviously credit to @cages-boxes-hunters-foxes for the transcripts!

Maroon first ever live performance (‘This is a song about something that happened a long time ago, but it took place in New York’)

Aaaand finally listen to The Tortured Poets Department, especially The Manuscript

This is a lot, but it’s worth it. Enjoy!

[notesonartistry]

Hi, I was wondering if you know which interview it was where Taylor talked about worrying/not wanting to peak with Fearless winning AOTY. I know it exists but I cannot find it anywhere!

Ooooh, I have no idea, sorry. Posting this to crowd source - hopefully someone will have a much better memory than I do.

Was it back after the grammy win or more recent?

edit: @midnightsslut says Esquire 2012 anon

[eddieredmayneargentinablog]

📸 #tbt to #November 2016 When Eddie visited BBC Radio 1 Breakfast with Nick Grimshaw to talk about Fantastic Beasts & answer YouTube comments. Photos source: Official BBC Radio 1 site. Full Video

[ludarklina-fan-spot]

https://www.vogue.com.au/culture/features/like-her-shadow-and-bone-character-jessie-mei-li-is-changing-the-world/news-story/cf1e09f5e85a2a42fe9f0c6fc5326e07

Like her Shadow and Bone character, Jessie Mei Li is changing the world

[oscarwetnwilde]

James Wilby in The Treasure Seekers (1996) as Henry Carlisle.

The Scotsman - Tuesday 24 December 1996:

"Henry is a man lost in his own world," says Wilby who plays the character. "He loves to engage the children with his tall stories, but he treats them with respect and doesn't patronise them. He's one of the few adults in the film who treats them as an equal. There's something clever about the way Nesbit creates an interesting story about the adventures of children, that adults enjoy."

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[waiting-for-lt3]

mobbing a 18/19 year old about his sex life again while he is clearly uncomfortable!!! what a great journalism!!!

one day i definitely plan on making a masterpost with how h was sexualised not only in printed press but in interviews but today is not the day (i would break down crying by the second interview)

(not mine, video from @/hslot_hs2024 on tiktok)

[wildgreyocean]

“Cruiser, yeah, but it’s a monster as well – big powerful drums, yeah. The drums? Nah, always, definitely, me and my drummer are really, really good mates, you know, and I always want to make sure that his job isn’t boring. So you know like, it’s gotta be, it’s gotta be monstrous, and he’s a proper groove player. Drew’s such a fantastic, incredible groove player and he’s so tasteful when he plays that like, I don’t have a hard job, you know, I know that he can play whatever I want him to play, and I know that when he gets in on it as well, he just knows how to make- so I’ll lay down a simple, the simplified version and then he goes in and makes it sound like a real drummer, you know, because he goes in and touches up the parts himself, you know, and comes up with the little ideas and stuff. And it’s always a big part of it because the drums like, a lot of my favourite records have got- I mean I listen to a lot of hip-hop as well, you know, and a lot of the drums on that is like, I love like, I love something that’s like, really, really monster-ish, you know, that like hits you right in the face. I love the Beastie Boys as well, you know, like the early, early Beastie Boys stuff, like I love all that the power behind things like Sabotage and stuff like that. Monster, yeah, monster. The drum’s part’s it’s so important because that’s where the song starts. You know it’s the first thing you do when you’re recording, yeah, so it has to be it has to be perfect, you know. Or you kind of- if the drums aren’t right then, it’s like – what’s that saying my dad used to say? – like a crap band with a great drummer could be a decent band, but if a brilliant band with a crap drummer it’s a shit band, yeah, it’s so important you know.”

— Sam Fender to John Kennedy on Radio X on Drew Michael and drumming (x)

[notafraidofredyellowandblue]

Because of the lack of new interviews i decided to finally give translating some old ones a go...so i scanned a couple from a 'progressive' dutch 1music magazine and am working on it..

but man! do i understand why the Rammstein guys stopped explaining their stuff to journalists, the things these people ask under the guise of 'cutting edge journalism'...😤

so i'm not getting it done today, but i will post them eventually, because well, rammstein interviews usually have something interesting in them anyway.. and to show the prejudice Rammstein had to deal with from early on..

[nextstopwonderland]

“🥰That club-foot, clamdigging, beasty-faced Washington-ite. 🥰” - sweet nothings by Nigel McGuinness about Bryan Danielson

[midnightsslut]

maria-interview-wikipedia, hi! do you have a post with all of taylor's interviews or a place to find them? thank youuu

hii! @taylor-on-your-dash actually made a spreadsheet with all the ones you can actually find. there’s some radio stuff missing, and some interviews have all but turned into lost media at this point, but it’s easily the most comprehensive list I’ve seen.

[self-made-cages]

How come we don't have a reaction meme of Graham Norton saying "I love it, I love it" after Taylor explains the re-recording concept?

[cryptocism]

It would have taken another immortal to keep up with him.

so i haven't read the books but i did read the Devil's Minion chapter and this part made me laugh out loud:

[cthaehart]

Disregard!