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SPOILER WARNINGS: If you do NOT want to hear any spoilers about the 1989 tour, please skip past the following times in the episode: 13:45-21:45 and 30:00-50:20 The 1989 tour continues and Taylor surprised us with the second special guest of the tour, Little Big Town in Pittsburgh! Nate and Steph were at that show and tell us all about it.Earlier in the week, Ashley, Nate and Adam went to the Louisville show where we got to have a Swiftcast booth outside the concert! We loved meeting and talking to fans from all over and got to do a bunch of brief fan interviews! We hope you enjoy listening to the interview clips. Make sure to follow us at twitter.com/swiftcast13 to hear when we have a booth at future 1989 shows.Throwback tweet: I swallowed a strand of my hair and now everything is ruined. -@taylorswift13 on June 9, 2014In the news: The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry named Taylor as the #1 Global Recording Artist for 2014!! #SwiftieProblems: When you wish Taylor would release the new versions of WANEGBT and IKYWT. #TheStruggleIsReal -via @VinnieCesaroneLots of recent fashion updates from Loft 89 and more!Thanks for listening! If you haven't already, please subscribe to us on iTunes and leave us a review and a 5 star rating.

We're still recovering from Detroit, or should we say DIEtroit, since Taylor killed us all with special guests that night. Our host Ashley was at the show and tells us all about it. SPOILER WARNINGS: If you do NOT want to hear any spoilers about the 1989 tour, please skip past the following times in the episode: 1:19-6:47 and 26:11-45:15Throwback tweet: Out on the lake with the band, trying my best to resist the burning temptation to scream "I'M ON A BOAT". -@taylorswift13 on May 31, 2009In the news: Taylor is the youngest person EVER to make Forbes' 100 most powerful women list!#SwiftieProblems: When people say all of @taylorswift13 songs sound the same and you are like..have you ever even heard 2 of her songs? -via @kaylee_frank01Lots of recent fashion updates from NYC and more!

The Bad Blood music video broke the Vevo record this week for most views in 24 hours with 20.1 million views! Taylor was also recently named number one on Maxim's Hot 100 list. Our hosts attended Taylor's Bossier City and Baton Rouge shows last week, and we give you our full initial review of the tour on this episode! If you're avoiding spoilers, you'll want to turn the episode off after our news segment, which is fourteen minutes into the episode. We'll be talking much more about the tour over the coming months as we attend shows across the country. Tweet us at twitter.com/swiftcast13 or email us at theswiftcast13@gmail.com to tell us about your tour experiences and ask us any questions you'd like us to talk about. Thanks for listening! If you haven't already, please subscribe to us on iTunes and leave us a review and a 5 star rating.

Spoiler warning- if you do NOT want to hear about the 1989 world tour, skip 2:45-6:20 in this episode. Don't mind us, we're just lying on the cold hard ground after Taylor slayed us with the premiere of the Bad Blood video. If you haven't seen it, stop what you're doing and go watch it immediately! We discuss our favorite characters from the video and how much we love the remix of the song, which features Kendrick Lamar. Make sure to go buy the Bad Blood remix on iTunes now!As expected, Taylor DOMINATED at the Billboard awards and took home 8 out of her 13 nominations. We give you a full recap of the show and Taylor's always memorable acceptance speeches. What was your favorite part of the show? Tweet us at twitter.com/swiftcast13 and let us know!Our hosts are off to Louisiana this week for the first 2 official 1989 World Tour US shows! We will be doing a full recap (with spoiler warnings) on episode 108.Thanks for listening! If you haven't already, please subscribe to us on iTunes and leave us a review and a 5

In between all of the excitement of the tour starting, Taylor slayed us last week when she announced that the Bad Blood Music Video will premiere this Sunday, May 17th during the Billboard Music awards! We discuss all of the teasers she's posted so far and give our final predictions for what's sure to be an amazing video.Throwback Tweet: Eating cheeseburgers, scribbling on guitars, writing songs with @edsheeran :) -@taylorswift13 on May 15, 2012Taylor is on the cover of Elle Magazine's June issue which will be on newsstands next week, and her friend Tavi Tulle did a great interview with a lot of interesting questions. We discuss our favorite quotes from the interview. Make sure to pick up your copy of the magazine next week.#SwiftieProblems: Love me like I love Taylor Swift  Wait a minute... That's impossible. -via @Meli_Vc13Taylor looked fabulous in both Tokyo and LA last week and we cover all of her recent outfits in the fashion report.

IT'S FINALLY HERE! The moment we'd all been waiting for, the first show of the 1989 World Tour, took place in Tokyo this Tuesday, May 5th. SPOILER ALERT: If you do NOT want to hear about the 1989 show and setlist, please skip to the last 15 minutes of this episode. We discuss the tour first, and then provide all of our regular segments at the end. Did you hear all of our final tour predictions on episode 104? Some were close, and some were way off! We break down Taylor's setlist song by song and give our initial impressions. We will be talking about the tour more in depth after we attend the first two US shows in Louisiana later this month. We will continue to provide spoiler alerts on each episode, for those of you who don't want to know anything before your shows. Throwback tweet: "Meredith in various displays of bad posture. This is happening a lot lately." -@taylorswift13 on May 2, 2012

The 1989 World Tour begins next week in Tokyo, and we're VERY excited! There are just a few days left for our latest giveaway! We're giving away a rare Billboard magazine from 2013 and it's open worldwide! To enter, go to twitter.com/swiftcast13 and retweet the giveaway tweet pinned at the top of the page. We'll announce the wi

Did you catch the ACM Awards this weekend? Taylor attended and received a special Milestone Award presented by her mom. We have the full recap for you on this week's episode. We might still be crying over Andrea's speech... There's just a few days left for our latest giveaway! We're giving away a rare Billboard magazine from 2013 and it's open worldwide! To enter, go to twitter.com/swiftcast13 and retweet the giveaway tweet pinned at the top of the page. We'll announce the winner on next week's episode. Throwback tweet: I painted a tiny 13 on my wrist with eye liner. Wish me luck! -@taylorswift13 on 4/18/10 #SwiftieProblems: I heard our song in Cracker Barrel today. I was happy and no one else cared. -via @SwiftySam13 on Twitter To wrap up our tour look back series, this week we reflect on the RED tour, including a lot of great submissions from you guys! Thanks to everybody who submitted their tour memories the last 3 weeks. Get ready for episode 104 where we'll be giving our FINAL 1989 TOUR PREDICTIONS!!! Tweet us or email us with what songs you think will make the setlist and any other predictions you'd like to share. We also want to know: what song do YOU think will be played right before Taylor takes the stage each night during this tour? Thanks for listening! If you haven't already, please subscribe to us on iTunes and leave us a review and a 5 star rating.

First and foremost, our thoughts are with the entire Swift family after Taylor's recent announcement that her mother, Andrea Swift, was diagnosed with cancer. Please keep Andrea in your thoughts as she fights this important battle.We launched a new giveaway this week. Visit twitter.com/swiftcast13 and retweet the graphic pinned to the top of our page for a chance to win a limited edition Billboard magazine from 2013. The giveaway is open worldwide and we will announce the winner on episode 104!Throwback tweet: Getting ready to go to prom... In a music video. :) -@taylorswift13 on 4/17/09The biggest piece of news this week is that Taylor was nominated for 14 Billboard Music awards! We can't wait to see how many she takes home on May 17th.#SwiftieProblems: Only I would wear red lipstick on a sunny day and end up singing "CHERRY LIPS, CRYSTAL SKIES" in my head all day. -via @elliemiles3

The Swift family pretty much won Easter this year. We're dying over their Easter egg hunt video, and all the pictures from the awesome birthday party Taylor threw for Abigail last weekend. Taylor won't have much down time for long though. We are officially LESS THAN 30 DAYS AWAY from the start of the 1989 tour!!! With the tour starting so soon, we decided to take a look back at each of Taylor's previous tours in our next three episodes. We cover the Fearless tour in this week's episode, and we hope you enjoy our discussion! Be sure to tweet your favorite Speak Now and Red tour memories to @swiftcast13 so we can include them in the upcoming weeks. Giveaway news- we announce the winners from our recent call in episode, and tell you about our newest giveaway! Throwback tweet: "Playing Keith Urban in the dressing room in honor of the epic prank we pulled on him in this arena last year. Good times, Kansas City." -@taylorswift13 on April 2, 2010

IT'S OUR HUNDREDTH EPISODE! For the first time ever, we took calls LIVE from you, our lovely listeners. We talked all about Taylor, the upcoming 1989 tour, triva questions and much more. Special thanks to Torie, Sashara, Sunny, Jamie, Zac, JudiAnne, and Lindy for calling in. We had a blast! Other highlights from this week include: -All of Taylor’s albums, including 1989, are available to stream on Jay-Z’s new streaming service called Tidal. -1989 is also the #1 selling album of 2015, with 916,000 copies sold since January. -Huge congrats to Taylor for winning Best Lyrics, Song of the Year, and Artist of the Year at the iHeartRadio awards on Sunday! We'll discuss Taylor's amazing surpri

Have you heard the big news? Swiftcast will be doing our very first LIVE call-in episode on Sunday, March 29th! Join us from 6pm - 8pm EST to chat with the hosts, answer trivia questions, win prizes and more! Keep an eye on twitter.com/swiftcast13 for instructions on how to call. The Paper Towns trailer just came out, and Taylor seems to be very excited about it. Could she be writing a song for the film? Throwback Tweet: The downside to drawing my lucky number on my hand = waking up with an upside down 13 imprint on the side of my face. -@taylorswift13 on March 21, 2010 Style went to #1 on pop radio, making it Taylor’s 3rd #1 in a row! We can't wait to see how many more songs from 1989 go to number one. Taylor recently released New Romantics, one of the 1989 bonus tracks, to iTunes. On the surface, it's all about her carefree attitude and having fun with her friends. But does it have a deeper meaning? We discuss how this song might be one of the most accurate portrayals of what it was like to be young in the 80s, and how the "new romantics" is actually an attitude that can still describe our generation today. We hope you enjoy our discussion! Make sure to buy New Romantics on iTunes. Thanks for listening! If you haven't already, please subscribe to us on iTunes and leave us a review and a 5 star rating.

Taylor's legs insured for $40 million: Fact or Fiction? Our hosts debate. Throwback Tweet: Wow. Philly just left us pretty speechless. Home state, you always come through! Same time tomorrow?Cool. Can't wait. :) -@taylorswift13 on March 18, 2010 (Fearless tour)Style is now pop radio's most played song! Make sure to keep requesting it and gifting it to your friends on iTunes.Set your DVR for March 29th, when Taylor will attend the iHeart Radio Music Awards with four nominations. Let's hope she performs!#SwiftieSucess: When you convert the international student visiting you to being a Swiftie. -via @puppylover1202 Taylor recently released all of the 1989 bonus tracks to iTunes, and Wonderland is climbing the charts! We discuss the song in depth including lyric analysis, tour predictions, music video predictions and much more.

Big news- Taylor had the most view out of everyone on YouTube in January. Her videos were watched 361.3 million times! In other exciting news, 1989’s worldwide sales are now over 6.5 million!Throwback Tweet: In celebration of the start of the Fearless Tour '10, the Tampa show has a 'you belong with me' dress code. Let's see some giant glasses!! -@taylorswift13 on 3/3/2010#SwiftieProblems: Seeing 13 EVERYWHERE. -via @FinallySwiftThe Telegraph recently published an in depth interview with Taylor, and they covered a lot of interesting topics including fans making fun of her on Tumblr, her "feud" with Katy Perry, when we can expect the next album and much more! We go through the highlights, but make sure to read the whole thing at thetelegraph.co.uk.This is an exciting episode of Swiftcast because we have a new host! We're excited to introduce Adam, who has been a longtime fan of Taylor and will make a great male addi

Taylor took the UK by storm last week! We recap all of the highlights of her trip including the Brit Awards, Elle Style Awards, and adorable radio interview with Ed Sheeran. Throwback tweet: Management meeting. We got a giant new conference room table. My mom and my manager are talking on walkie talkies from opposite ends of it. -via @taylorswift13, February 25, 2010 It's been rumored lately that Taylor might be recording a remix of Bad Blood with Kanye West. We can't wait to find out if it's true! #SwiftieProblems: When @taylorswift13 comes on the radio at work I stop working and just sing -via @Steffii_Spencer Upcoming award show news, fashion segment, and much more! Thanks for listening! If you haven't already, please subscribe to us on iTunes and leave us a review and a 5 star rating.