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  • -How the record is unbelievable.

  • It is the top-selling record -- [ Cheers and applause ]

  • It really is, unbelievable. -Thank you.

  • Thank you so much.

  • -It's the top-selling record of 2019,

  • which is great and all that,

  • but it's actually the best record I heard this year.

  • It is so good, and I love it so much.

  • -Hey! -I know. I'm not --

  • Again, I'm not a music critic. What am I talking about?

  • -Well, it counts. It counts. It made me feel nice.

  • -Thank you. It made you feel nice?

  • -Yeah. -I have some real reviews

  • from real people. -Oh.

  • -"'Lover' is Swift's most mature album

  • and her most fun one all at once" --

  • Variety. -Aww.

  • -"Taylor Swift is one of the best pop lyricists

  • our era has ever produced" -- Vanity Fair.

  • "Lover is a career--"

  • [ Cheers and applause ]

  • I agree with that one, too.

  • "Lover is a career-topping masterpiece" --

  • Rolling Stone.

  • -Oh, man. -These are great reviews.

  • And I love the album.

  • Dude, look at this -- the blue and the pink.

  • -Ooh, you know what?

  • I haven't seen this yet, actually.

  • -Are you serious? -Yeah, so this is actually --

  • Can I see it? -Yes.

  • -Yeah. -I mean, don't give notes.

  • It's already done. It's already made.

  • -No, I saw drawings of it on a computer, but I didn't --

  • -Yeah. How cool is that?

  • -Yeah, it's good!

  • -Dude, it's a great cover. -I think it'll work.

  • -Did you always know "Lover" was gonna be the name of it or no?

  • -Um, so, I toyed around

  • with calling the album "Daylight" for a while,

  • but I thought that might be a little too,

  • like, on-the-nose or --

  • I don't know, because my last album, "Reputation," um,

  • I saw as, like, this nighttime album.

  • Like, in the city... -Yes.

  • -...in the nighttime.

  • -Yes! But this one, Did you have --

  • -This one I saw as a daytime album.

  • -Now, did you have --

  • -Like, I saw, like, fields and flowers and, like,

  • you know, like, festivals. -Butterflies.

  • -Possibly, if the mood strikes them.

  • -Um, you're going on tour next summer,

  • and it's a giant, massive tour all around Europe.

  • You're only playing two dates in the US.

  • One is in Boston, and one is in LA.

  • Two days in Boston, two days in LA.

  • You're doing this brand-new cool thing --

  • that of course I knew you would do something cool --

  • Is it Lover West and Lover East?

  • Yeah, um, basically,

  • I just kind of felt like this album

  • I was gonna try something new.

  • I haven't done festivals in a really long time,

  • and I just saw this album as, like, a really festival-y album.

  • -Yeah, it is.

  • -And so I kind of wanted to do, um --

  • I had the opportunity to open a stadium in LA,

  • which is really exciting.

  • -I mean, the first female performer to ever do that.

  • Congratulations. -Really, now?

  • -You are, yeah.

  • Yeah, I believe so. -Wow.

  • -First female performer to open a new NFL stadium.

  • That's awesome, buddy.

  • -Not the last. -No, not the last at all,

  • but do you have a favorite track on this record?

  • -It's hard to pick a favorite track, but I really do...

  • -"The Man" is good. -...love the song --

  • Thank you. I love the song "Lover."

  • Just, I -- [ Cheers and applause ]

  • -It is a good -- -Thanks, guys.

  • -It's a great jam. -Thanks.

  • It's a song that I wrote alone,

  • and somehow, those are -- I don't know.

  • You just think about the --

  • I find it funny thinking about if I were to have, like, a --

  • like, a party for all the songwriters on that song.

  • -Really? -Yeah,

  • 'cause it would just be me.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • The same as when I was in high school.

  • I'm just like...

  • -Yeah, so you just -- -[ Groans ]

  • -Yeah, it's just you. Just invite yourself, yeah.

-How the record is unbelievable.

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