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Taylor Swift Reveals Just How Challenging and Dark Her ‘Speak Now’ Era Was · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Just about every single Taylor Swift fan stopped down at
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  Speaker 2: some point over the last few days to listen to
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  Speaker 2: her latest phenomenal re release, the reimagining of her twenty
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  Speaker 2: ten smash Speak Now Taylor's Version, and with the arrival
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  Speaker 2: of the album, Taylor also shared a powerful long prologue
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  Speaker 2: for the record, where she confessed how much the project
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  Speaker 2: meant to her and how challenging a time in her life.
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  Speaker 2: That transformative era was when she began second guessing herself.
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  Speaker 2: It was made when Taylor was only eighteen to twenty
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  Speaker 2: years old. In the prologue, she writes, in my darker moments,
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  Speaker 2: I was tormented by the doubt that swirled loudly around
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  Speaker 2: my ascent and my merits as an artist. I was
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  Speaker 2: trying to create a follow up to the most awarded
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  Speaker 2: country album in history while staring directly into the face
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  Speaker 2: of intense criticism. And I had been widely and publicly
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  Speaker 2: slammed for my singing voice and was first encountering the
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  Speaker 2: infuriating question does she really write her song? Spoiler, she says,
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  Speaker 2: I really really do Speak Now Taylor's version is out
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  Speaker 2: now
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood,