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Tim McGraw Admits He Was Embarrassed Over Taylor Swift’s Debut Song, “Tim McGraw” · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. At this point, Taylor
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  Speaker 1: Swift has cemented her status as one of the most
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  Speaker 1: successful artists in recording history. But back in two thousand six,
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  Speaker 1: she was an unknown artist releasing her very first single
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  Speaker 1: called Tim McGraw, which Tim McGraw at the time made
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  Speaker 1: him uncomfortable. At the time, he tells Essentials, he was
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  Speaker 1: a little apprehensive at first, Dan it got even worse,
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  Speaker 1: he says, I thought, have I already gotten to that
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  Speaker 1: age where they're singing songs about me? Does that mean
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  Speaker 1: I've jumped at shark a bit? Is everything is still cool?
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  Speaker 1: Then somebody told me that Taylor was in her seventh
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  Speaker 1: grade math class when she wrote this song, So it
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  Speaker 1: made me feel better because she was so young writing it,
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  Speaker 1: so I didn't feel like I was that terribly old.
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  Speaker 1: Not only was that Taylor's first single was also a
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  Speaker 1: first of songs to hit the Hot one hundred, so
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  Speaker 1: Tim feels very honored. That's Direct from Hollywood.