tayfabe75 · 9 months ago
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"Part of the fabric of being a country artist is, 'Don't force your politics on people. Let people live their lives.' That is grilled into us. Throughout my whole career, label executives and publishers would just say, 'Don't be like the Dixie Chicks.' And… I loved the Dixie Chicks. But a nice girl doesn't force their opinions on people. A nice girl smiles and waves and says thank you. A nice girl doesn't make people feel uncomfortable with her views. I was so obsessed with not getting in trouble, that I was like, 'I'm just not gonna do anything that anyone could say anything about.' I'm just getting… I'm just, I'm getting to the point where I can't listen to people telling me, 'No, stay out of it. Stay out of it.'"
January 31, 2020: Taylor explains how she was conditioned throughout her career to prioritize being "polite". (source 1, 2)
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comfect · 2 years ago
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playlist meme
Rules: You can usually tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to. Put your playlist on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, and then tag 10 people. No skipping!
I was tagged by @rosyfingered-moon; so nice to find you here!
To be honest, this took a long time because I don't, um, listen to music that I am responsible for very much? The computer I'm typing this on doesn't actually have any music on it at all. So this meant going to my car while driving, where I do have a USB stick with songs (courtesy of @penguinity filling it with music). So I put that on shuffle, and here's what came up!
Half A Heart, Barenaked Ladies. So in general but especially while driving I have a strong preference for soft '90s/early '00s music, and all the BNL on my USB stick is my fault.
My Hometown, Bruce Springsteen. The Springsteen is all (yes, there's another one on this list) from college, specifically working as assistant technical director of The Gondoliers, when my boss was from New Jersey and listened to Springsteen's greatest hits while we worked. He gave me a copy of the CD when the show ended and I listen to it for that nostalgia hit.
Always, Rilo Kiley. This is entirely for driving vibes, which are very similar to my partner's sermon-writing vibes, which is where this song got into rotation.
Great Provider, Barenaked Ladies. I mean, I said I listen to them, but actually this is (I think) my single least favorite of their songs. Oh well.
Black Sand, Jenny Lewis. Since Jenny Lewis is the lead singer on Rilo Kiley, she's pretty well-represented here. This is a great song to not listen to but fill the air with sound while driving.
epiphany, Taylor Swift. You're going to notice a lot of repeats in the artist list. Taylor Swift is one of them. Slow, lingering, good for listening without actually distracting.
If I Fall You're Going Down With Me, The (Dixie) Chicks. (Dixie) in parentheses since they changed their name. This is the opposite of the previous songs; uptempo, makes me want to clap along. But strangely, still really good for the car.
Acid Tongue, Jenny Lewis. I literally never remember the name of this song, because it should be called Liar, because she drawls that word out forEVER, repeatedly.
seven, Taylor Swift. I rarely pay attention to the lyrics, but I think this song has good ones.
Streets of Philadelphia, Bruce Springsteen. You can tell I got this off a greatest hits CD because I had no idea it was a movie soundtrack song for years.
And there we are! So many overlapping artists, because there's only so many vibes I want while driving.
Tagging @penguinity (since you're responsible for most of the playlist existing) and whoever else wants to do it, consider yourselves tagged!
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scary-ivy · 5 years ago
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Two theories of Taylor Swift/Buddy Holly fan overlap:
Influence theory: tswift takes influence from the Dixie Chicks and other country bands that take influence from bholly, linking their music stylistically
I Just Like It When Someone Does Country and Pop Songs theory: self-explanatory
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webcricket · 6 years ago
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Castiel Imagine
Imagine: Castiel smites you with a smile.
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You can tell by the way their voices carry, Dean’s deeper boom and Sam’s light husky laughter echoing off the concrete and tile-walled halls as you approach the bunker’s library, that the elder Winchester is well on his way to a delirious level of drunkenness and, from the boisterous sound of it, his brother isn’t too far behind. You swear the burnt caramel and oak-bite of Dean’s favorite whiskey wafting in the air is itself enough to induce a buzz.
You deserve the night off - a few cherished hours to cut loose - all of you; although, your idea of a good time falls more within the realm of an unhurried steamy hot shower without anyone going by the name of Dean insisting you ‘Hurry the hell up!’ precisely three minutes after you switched on water which never stood a chance of getting warm under the time constraints. Must be nice to be a man who wakes up looking runway ready in flannel and faded jeans every morning.
These carefree nights, they’re too far between.
Rounding the corner, cutting through the map room to the main threshold, uber-soothing essential oil of lavender clinging to still damp skin from the special super expensive organic body wash you save for just such occasions, you’re in search of your seraph’s warm vessel to snuggle. As you suspected, he’s there - at the table beside Sam, yet situated slightly too far from the animated antics of the men to be an active participant.
Strong shoulders rounded in a relaxed slouch, Castiel’s hands hide beneath the table where you guess the fingers lace loosely across his lap. He watches the brothers swim an undulating sea of booze and boast in the rise and fall of inebriation’s waves over conquests past. The boys are sinking fast, slurring syllables now and again, while the seraph simply sits, silent, observing their easy interaction, and with something rarer than a night off flexing the corners of his mouth upward - a soft smile.
Never could sneak up on the seraph, especially not smelling like you rolled in a field of fresh purple blooms and with a heart thrashing against your ribcage like a caged animal. Catching you staring, his blues shift to find you in the doorway. His smile deepens then, a manifestation of pure sunshine solidifying to skirt stretched pink lips and cut dimpled lines into his cheeks.
You grin back, warmth flushing your flesh at the sight of that stunning smile, bare feet magnetically ferrying you toward him.
The Winchesters stutter sloppy overlapping ‘Hellos!,’ Dean’s with a superfluous sweetheart attached.
Flicking a few wet tendrils of hair behind your ear, you flutter your fingers in greeting. “You boys going for a new bunker record for worst hangover?”
“You want in?” Dean quirks a daring brow toward his empty glass.
“Pass.” You pat a palm to Sam’s broad back as you slip past him.
Dean shrugs and pours another round.
Cas unfolds his fingers to catch you about the waist and pull you into his lap. “You were staring,” he murmurs while pressing a kiss to the curve of your neck.
“Was I?” You giggle, squirming at the tickle of scruff. Somehow he manages to make statements of the obvious absolutely endearing.
“Yes.” His words pirouette in exhaled puffs across your skin. “Why?”
Twisting your torso to face him, locking gazes, Sam and Dean fading forgotten to background noise thus reflected in his loving blues, you trace the square of his jaw with a fingertip. “Do I ever need a reason to stare at my handsome boyfriend?”
Forever shy of his vessel’s sex appeal, a rosy blush mantles his cheeks. Lashes lowering, the smile sweetens - so softly sweet and tempting you lean in, smitten, to savor a kiss.
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thisselflovecamebacktome · 5 years ago
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I know it’s been a day and probably nothing that I am saying here is things that have been left unsaid by the fandom at this point, but I wanna put out my thoughts on the lover remix and then talk a bit in general about both Taylor’s collaborations with women versus her collaborations with men and the fandom’s response to this all.
I wasn’t big on the collaboration if I’m honest. I’m someone who sees Shawn as an average artist. In total, he has two songs that I genuinely like and about three others that I wouldn’t skip if they came on. I personally don’t think his and Taylor’s voice meshed the best, I like the original lyrics more than his by far and overall I found this collaboration unnecessary and will probably never listen to it again. HOWEVER, I think it’s sometimes lost on fandoms that collaborations and remixes aren’t usually made for the fans. Sure, it’s a bonus if they like them. But in general, it’s my honest opinion that collaborations and remixes are for the general public and fans of the remixer/collaborator to try and draw them into the original artist’s fanbase and to keep the song relevant. And in many ways, I think Shawn will keep Lover until the Grammys like hoped because he’s had two very big songs this year and is very much the ‘it boy’ of the moment. In saying that, I think it is in some ways a strange business move for two reasons. One, Taylor has basically sold this song on the fact that she was the sole writer and that has implications to it which while Shawn changing lyrics doesn’t change the fact Taylor wrote the original, does kind of distract from it if the collaboration version is what’s keeping it relevant. Secondly, while I do think Lover will stay relevant until the Grammys, I do have to question how much longevity this collaboration will have given that from what I can tell, a lot of Taylor and Shawn’s fanbases overlap meaning a lot of his fans have probably already heard the original and aren’t going to bring it as much exposure as a different artist could have. But I’ll admit that may be a moot point because Taylor may just want it in the charts until the Grammys then be planning to drop a different single in which case, yeah, the collaboration will do its job and I’ll go on just not listening to it.
As for Taylor working collaborating on her own works with more women... I’ll be honest, I didn’t really consider it an issue for this single because she identifies as an ally so it makes sense that the collaboration would be a male/female one acting as if they’re singing to each other. Would a woman on it have been amazing? Sure. But it’s not something that automatically came to mind as an issue. BUT I will say that looking back at her work like this ask I reblogged earlier today got me to do makes me agree with people who say that the difference in the way she treats women she collabs with in comparison to men she does is larger than it appears on face value. And I want to state now that I don’t think that this has ever been an intentional thing and I do think that there’s a lot of truth and validity in the idea that she works with people she feels comfortable with. But I also think that if we’re going to say that, we need to question why she feels comfortable collaborating with women but only when they’re only harmonising as opposed to the men who she gives full features to. and if we’re going to answer that with “she feels more comfortable around those men than the women she works with”, why despite having seemingly close relationships with female artists such as Selena, Haley, Kesha and Camilla, why she doesn’t collaborate with them. And maybe the answer is that the other artists she’s close to only want to harmonise. I mean I couldn’t understand that career choice (apart from Dixie Chicks with Soon You’ll Get Better given how personal it is but surely there are other songs that Taylor could work with women on, ya feel me?), but maybe it’s the truth. But either way, her working with other women in a larger capacity and allowing them space on her songs is definitely something I hope happens in the future.
Which leads us to the final topic; the fan reaction. I’ve gotta be honest, a lot of what I’m basing what I say next off is hearsay because to be honest, the only things I’ve heard said about this collaboration that I didn’t have to specifically look up outside of one comment about not liking Shawn is people adoring the remix or people talking about people being demons about it. And if there’s one thing that I took from my time disliking the 1989 era it’s that, to quote Reputation era Taylor herself “You choose your poison or your cure”. If you don’t like the remix like me, you can express that. Same with frustrations over larger parts of Taylor’s career. But take it from someone who reached this point in the 1989 era, if you are at the point that everything Taylor does bugs you and you are literally angry over a collaboration, you need to take a step back and have some ‘me time’ because there is probably something deeper going on there. On the flip side though, if you’re someone who is getting stressed out by people being critical all the time, you need to unfollow those people and start following ones more in line with your view. None of this ‘we’re mutuals’ crap. Social media is meant to be fun and I know it is hard to purge and then find more positive blogs because I did it at the start of the Reputation era, but again, you pick your poison or your cure. You are going to end up hating social media and the fandom aspects of your life all together if you keep allowing this negatively associated bridges to build between that and these people’s opinions and mental strain on yourself.
Anyway that’s my two cents on this remix and the reactions I’ve seen from it so far. Wanting to leave this on a positive note, I will say that I cannot wait for Beautiful Ghosts to come out and hope it’s as amazing as the previews made it sound.
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nickeldreadful · 6 years ago
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In Defense of Pop Punk
I’ve often heard the phrase “defend pop punk” thrown around. I always thought, defend it from what? Your parents telling you to turn that shit down? The preps in your hometown who don’t understand you? But here’s what I realize now: the genre has never been taken seriously, even at its height of popularity. It was too weird to be pop music, not hardcore enough to be punk music, and it committed the most unforgivable sin of all: it was popular with teenage girls.
Maybe this is all old news. I’ll admit I was late to the game; I mostly started listening to the genre in 2011 and onward. The glory days of emo were at an end (although the second wave would be rising up shortly). I always joked that my relationship with the music was pretty. odd. In fact, I only just found out that the phrase “defend pop punk” was originally coined by Man Overboard when I googled it for writing research. Sure, I had seen the shirts, but I kind of thought it was just something all the emo kids said. So, credit where credit is due.
Before we go any further, let me just say, genres are meaningless. Yes, they exist to help people who say, “Hey, I like this sound! Where can I find more sounds that sound like this sound?” But it’s impossible to clearly draw lines between styles of music. Fall Out Boy is the first band that comes to mind when I think of pop punk. Wikipedia has six genres listed for them: pop punk, pop rock, pop, alternative rock, emo pop, and emo. Where is the overlap and where is the definitive break? Pop punk seems often synonymous with emo, but maybe it’s an issue of a square vs a rectangle. (In that all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares.) Perhaps it’s more of a Venn diagram that is nearly a circle. I’ve heard it said that My Chemical Romance were not a pop punk band, but no one could argue that they were not emo.
Emo, if anything, was even more ridiculed than pop punk. Personally, I was made fun of in middle school for being an emo kid, and I was hardly emo. I’m probably more emo now than I was then, although I wear it better. Although it had widely been “reclaimed,” the word carried negative connotations for a long time. Bands often resisted the label as it felt like a way to write of the music without giving it any serious consideration.
Okay, so. Now this is a defense of pop punk and emo.
Both genres were born out of punk and alternative rock music. Both zeroed in on teen angst. Both were a reflection of the world post-9/11. While some genres like country turned overtly patriotic, casting out anyone who didn’t support the country and its government (see: The Dixie Chicks), others turned away. Some bands were vocal about their political dissent, such as Green Day with their release of American Idiot in 2004. Others were more subtle.
Emo, being shorthand for emotional, was just that. Fear, distrust, anger, and grief clung to both our society and the music being created in the early 2000s. But emo was sad, too. It was touchy-feely. It was open and honest. This was not the way men were supposed to be acting. They were supposed to be tough and invulnerable. They’re certainly not supposed to wear tight jeans and heavy eye makeup. Those things were all seen as weak, and girly, and gay. All three were discouraged traits, even more so then than now.  
Emo, and to a greater extent, pop punk, was more readily embraced by girls. And as is the great tradition of all things popular teenage girls, this further pushed the genres towards ridicule. Perhaps in time, men will claim these bands as their own. Of course, they will like these bands for real reasons, unlike the hysterical teenage girls who only cared about the attractiveness of the band members. It happened with Elvis, it happened with The Beatles, and maybe down the road it will happen with My Chemical Romance.
Pop punk, of course, incorporated pop hooks and melodies that made the songs catchy and radio-friendly. Though their melodic voices were still carried by screaming guitars, thrashing drums, and thumping bass. The lyrics were more tame than its oft-offensive punk predecessors. Rage was toned down to angst. There was less of the desire to escape society and more of the desire to escape your hometown. It was elements of punk, woven into pop. Or maybe the other was around. It was consumable, and successful.
Isn’t that just… selling out?
Taking punk and cleaning it up, making it presentable and acceptable to the masses? Doesn’t that go against the core values of punk?
Maybe it was all performative – calling yourself punk but turning around and selling radio-friendly hits. Maybe it was a Trojan horse – using pop sounds to spread the Good Word about punk music. Maybe these bands were full of sellouts who liked to talk tough but only cared about getting big and making money. Maybe these bands were full of kids who had dreams of being famous musicians and could only achieve that by making sure at least some of their music was commercial. Maybe they just liked both punk music and pop music and decided to put the two together. Whatever the motivation, the sound certainly worked.
People can like what they like. People can dislike what they dislike. It’s a matter of taste. We are all individuals with our own opinions.
But this is my defense of pop punk.
I once had a teacher who said that he didn’t like Blink-182 because they were adult men who wrote songs like they were teenagers. I could have brought up that they had actually written a song on that topic, but what I ended up saying was, “Well, they write songs for teenagers.”
I actually ran into him at a Jukebox the Ghost concert a few years after I graduated high school. I should have started an argument with him. Instead I was just like, “Hey, do you remember what grade you gave me on my final project? I was never able to access my report card after they switched to digital.”
He didn’t remember.
But I digress.
Someone has to write music for kids who don’t fit in. Kids who are angry, kids who are weird, kids who are lonely. Kids who don’t conform, won’t conform, can’t conform. They see the guys in the band put on makeup, go on stage, lament their feelings, and kiss the other guys in the band. They see the girls in the band full of confidence, full of righteous fury, taking charge and taking names. They can listen to the songs express exactly how they feel. Maybe, for the first time in a long time, they feel understood. They found somewhere they belong. It opens up a new world of music to explore.
If I never listened to pop punk, I never would have gotten into punk rock.
If you give a kid a cup of unsweetened black coffee, they’re not going to like it. If you give them a Starbucks caramel frappachino, that’s a different story. Over time you ease up on the sugar and start to enjoy the taste of the coffee. Blink-182 goes down a little easier than Dead Kennedys. Someone has to be there to open the door to punk music. You listen to the radio singles and you like them, so you check out the rest of their discography. You notice the b-sides are a bit harsher. There’s more yelling, more shredding, more thrashing. It’s faster, it’s louder, it’s angrier. You like it. You feel validated in your own anger, your own sense of loss, your own dissatisfaction. You want more music like that.
Maybe you end up dropping the pop altogether, maybe you don’t. It doesn’t matter, because either way, you’re into punk now. Next thing you know you’ll be cutting the sleeves off your jackets and sewing on handmade patches. You get knocked down in the mosh pit, and your new friends are there to pick you back up.
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All the things I noticed or came to mind watching ME!
1. She had them speak in French (idk why I think this matters pretty sure cause she’s just that extra)
2. Christmas tree
3. Dixie Chicks on the wall; hopefully cause of a collab
4. 8:30 on the clock (ok this one I didn’t notice) hopefully a release date cause 8.31 is my bday so that’d be awesome *cough nudge @taylorswift cough cough*
5. Palm trees out the windows (kinda think this is a poke at us for thinking it’s important and yet part of me still thinks it’s important)
6. The snake cloud/rise from the ashes/Phoenix esque moment
7. Rainbows; which come after a storm passes are mentioned or shown a lot
8. Ok so @tshifty (love you) pointed out it looks like the whole world is in a Chrysalis but it also gives me Prism vibes
9. Pastels seem to be a motif
10. Also totally see and agree with the Metamorphosis motif possible album name ever since the snakes into butterflies from the beginning
11. What’s with the green door painting
12. Ok is it just Lover or is it supposed to be Unicorn Lover cause the giant unicorn gargoyle seems important
13. Her skirt is a waterfall
14. Know the kalidescope heart is a nod to 1989 but kalidescopes and rainbows and prisms are all overlapping
15. Twice her skirt looks like flowing water
16. There’s a lot of flowers either on or her clothes mimic flowers
Ok I think I’m done let me know if anyone sees anything else or agrees/disagrees with anything @taylornation
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rudeinterrupti0ns · 6 years ago
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THEORY MIND MAP!
@taylorswift has been dropping clues left right and centre but we’re all just getting dizzy spinning around trying to pick them up. I created a quick mind map to see if we could put them all together and see whether theories overlap with each other.
This covers: Home (and places where she’s lived), nostalgia, growing up, her past selves, the me! ready for it and lwymmd overlaps, paradise/heaven/head in the clouds/daydreaming, angels, wings, butterflies, chrysalis, metamorphosis, kaleidoscopes, rainbows, little benjamin button!!, heroes (Paul McCartney, Beatlemania, Pattie Boyd, Dixie Chicks, disney princesses), flowers and nature, and the heart/LOVERS overlap, plus a few extras I’ve seen floating around.
I’m bad with computers so I’m not sure how it will look when I post it but fingers crossed it pans out!
@taylornation
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tayfabe75 · 10 months ago
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"So, The Chicks, previously The Dixie Chicks, were supposed to do the BVs on this song. We couldn't make it happen in time, because we had 24 hours. If I do a remaster, I'm gonna get them to do it, a hundred percent. Or if they'd ever want to come and do it, because that's The Chicks for me, that's where I'm getting that from."
October 17, 2022: On the Tape Notes podcast, Matty explains that The Chicks were supposed to provide backing vocals on 'When We Are Together' but that they ran out of time to make it happen. (source)
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tayfabe75 · 10 months ago
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2000/2001: Taylor Swift covers 'There's Your Trouble' by The Dixie Chicks, age 11. (source)
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tayfabe75 · 10 months ago
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"@samlansky has such a wondrous way with words, and I've loved reading his pieces for over a decade. If you've ever been around him, you know he's just the best type of person: Curious. Interested. Hilarious. Intriguing and intrigued. I have tRuSt iSSueS when it comes to interviews but I couldn't be happier that I did this one with him. I was blown away to see quotes from people I adore and admire like Stevie Nicks, Greta Gerwig, Shonda Rhimes, Phoebe Bridgers, Natalie Maines, Kenny Chesney, and Lucian Grainge. I was so happy he spoke to fans Madison and McCall who were so eloquent, loyal, and kind. I'm really reflecting on this year, and all the years that led up to it. Can't say thank you enough times. 🥲."
December 6, 2023: Taylor expresses her thanks over Sam Lansky's TIME Person of the Year article, explaining that she was blown away by a quote from Natalie Maines (of The Chicks). (source)
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tayfabe75 · 10 months ago
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"Dixie Chicks. That's mine."
February 17, 2014: The 1975 are asked about their guilty pleasures. (source)
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tayfabe75 · 10 months ago
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"People talk to us about country music a lot. Now, you can break down our music into country music very easily 'cause that's kind of what it is. I have to admit that, when I was a kid, my favorite record was Wide Open Spaces, the Dixie Chicks. I grew up on those kinds of melodies, so, if you take 'It's Not Living If It's Not With You' or 'Be My Mistake' or any of those songs, they're just country songs … I've always resonated with the south of America. And I think it's because it's their north of England. You know, it has its own vernacular, it's demonized, it's under-funded, it has its own very recognizable folk music."
October 17, 2022: On the Tape Notes podcast, Matty compares a few of The 1975's songs to country music and explains why the genre resonates with him. (source)
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tayfabe75 · 10 months ago
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"You know, everybody who plays an instrument remembers that first song that they ever learned on guitar. And I feel so lucky because my very first memory of the first song I ever wanted to learn to play guitar, it was this beautiful, gorgeous song by the Dixie Chicks called 'Cowboy Take Me Away'. Does anybody know the words to that song? I happen to be looking at Martie Maguire, who wrote that song. The amazing, amazing fiddle player from the Dixie Chicks, she's here tonight! So could you sing with me as loudly as you possibly know how."
July 23, 2011: Taylor Swift covers 'Cowboy Take Me Away' by The Dixie Chicks at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. (source 1, 2)
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tayfabe75 · 10 months ago
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"This artist that I'm about to bring out - I can safely and honestly say I would not be a musician if it hadn't been for this artist. I would not have wanted to be a country music artist. If not for this woman and her band, I would not have known that you could be quirky and fun and yourself and outspoken and brave and real. I wouldn't have, when I was you know, nine years old and got her first C.D., I wouldn't have dreamed the things that I dreamed and I wouldn't be standing on this stage today. The song we're about to sing was my go-to talent show song. I've sung it probably seven thousand times in my life. And I just have a question: do we have any Dixie Chicks fans in the house tonight? Natalie Maines is here!"
August 24, 2015: Taylor Swift introduces Natalie Maines (of the Dixie Chicks) as a special guest in Los Angeles. (source 1, 2)
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tayfabe75 · 11 months ago
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October 2009: Taylor discusses her musical influences, listing The Dixie Chicks among them. (source)
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