Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central.
Speaker 2: Yew Taylor Swift, pop star, songwriter and inventor of the
Speaker 2: color red. Personally, I love Taylor Swift, A huge fan
Speaker 2: really nothing bad to say about her. But even if
Speaker 2: I had something bad to say about her, I wouldn't
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say it because Taylor Swift fans are super
Speaker 2: protective of her. They're like one of those old fashioned
Speaker 2: dads with a shotgun who doesn't want you to marry
Speaker 2: his daughter because he wants to marry her. You see,
Speaker 2: Taylor Swift has been re recording all of her old albums,
Speaker 2: which means people are re listening to all of her
Speaker 2: old songs about her famous exes and then getting mad
Speaker 2: at those ex'es all over again on her behalf. And
Speaker 2: While Taylor maybe content to address her old boyfriends with
Speaker 2: heartfelt lyrics and songs that are again, I want to
Speaker 2: stress this perfect in every way, some of her fans
Speaker 2: are a lot less subtle.
Speaker 1: This is going a little too far.
Speaker 3: While Jake Joonhall is taking incoming fire from the Swifties,
Speaker 3: another one of Taylor's exes is being bombarded with messages now.
Speaker 4: A user on Instagram sent John Mayer a direct message
Speaker 4: telling him fuck yourself, you ugly bitch. I hope you
Speaker 4: choke on something. Mayor then responded to the user, saying
Speaker 4: that he'd been getting many messages like that over the
Speaker 4: past couple of days, and asking do you really hope
Speaker 4: I die, to which the user responded, OMG, what, I
Speaker 4: don't want you to die. I'm sorry. The user apologized
Speaker 4: again and admitted they didn't really think Mayor would see
Speaker 4: the message.
Speaker 2: You see, people, This is what I hate about social media.
Speaker 2: It makes people act shittier than they actually are, which
Speaker 2: then makes us think that people are shittier than they
Speaker 2: actually are, because social media makes us forget that we're
Speaker 2: all human beings.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: We just see that little avatar and then we all
Speaker 2: talk shit to each other. But we're all human. Even
Speaker 2: celebrities are real people, all of them. I mean, I
Speaker 2: obviously except Timothy Shalamy. He's got to be cgi. No
Speaker 2: one can be that good looking. I mean, just look
Speaker 2: at that person. No, I'm craving Spice, God damn, and
Speaker 2: I know her fans are like, but he hurt her.
Speaker 2: Listen to her song. Yes, that's all you're supposed to do.
Speaker 2: Listen to the song you know, Taylor Swift writes songs
Speaker 2: to express her emotions in a way that touches other people,
Speaker 2: not to order a hit on her ex boyfriends, So
Speaker 2: death threats are not the way to go, especially with
Speaker 2: someone like John Mayer. Don't don't send him death threats.
Speaker 1: He gets them all the time.
Speaker 2: If you really want to upset him, tell him that
Speaker 2: Ed Sheeran is a better guitar player. That's gonna hit
Speaker 2: his heart. Democrats said, Hey, Republicans, I'm gonna let you finish,
Speaker 2: but we just got one of the best endorsements of
Speaker 2: all time.
Speaker 5: Taylor Swift got a huge response after announcing yesterday she's
Speaker 5: voting for Democrat Phil Brettison over Republican Marsha Blackburn in
Speaker 5: the US Senate race in Tennessee.
Speaker 6: The pop star has always made it a point of
Speaker 6: keeping silent on politics, but shocked her fans last night.
Speaker 6: Swift wrote, I always have and always will cast my
Speaker 6: vote based on which candidate will protect and fight for
Speaker 6: the human rights I believe we all deserve in this country.
Speaker 7: Wow.
Speaker 5: Wow, this this is a big deal because you realize
Speaker 5: until now Taylor Swift has stayed as far away from
Speaker 5: politics as she does from rhythm right.
Speaker 2: I know, like, don't get me wrong, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 2: I love I love Taite's music.
Speaker 4: But let's be honest.
Speaker 2: Have you seen her dancing like Taylor Swift?
Speaker 4: Taylor Swifts. Here's the thing, Taylor Swift.
Speaker 8: Taylor Swift dances like she's making fun of how white
Speaker 8: people dance.
Speaker 1: That's how she dances.
Speaker 2: And just like Kanye fired up Republicans, Taylor also seems
Speaker 2: to be having an impact. Her post apparently caused a
Speaker 2: huge surge in voter registration. So you can't deny that
Speaker 2: she has influence with voters, Yeah.
Speaker 4: She says Conn.
Speaker 2: You can't deny that Taylor Swift has that influence. This
Speaker 2: same way, you can't deny that While reputation might have
Speaker 2: lacked the momentum and sales records of nineteen eighty nine,
Speaker 2: it's still an impressive, brooding departure, portraying Taylor as a
Speaker 2: woman coming into her own and solidifying her power and
Speaker 2: range as an artist. Also, I've been told, I mean so,
Speaker 2: I've been told, and I get it.
Speaker 8: I get it.
Speaker 2: If anyone can convince young people to vote, it's the
Speaker 2: woman who somehow got young people to buy physical CDs.
Speaker 2: Because she wasn't on Spotify. I mean, like, who even
Speaker 2: owns a CD player? Like people are probably popping the
Speaker 2: distance of the toaster trying to play them.
Speaker 8: There's like and since Taylor.
Speaker 2: Has been so quiet about politics, there was actually a
Speaker 2: theory in the alt right community that was that maybe
Speaker 2: she was secretly a pro Trump conservative right, but now
Speaker 2: by endorsing Democrats, she blew that theory up, which is
Speaker 2: news that the president took surprisingly Well.
Speaker 8: You have to say it, Taylor Swift have a cheap
Speaker 8: the politics, Taylor Swift competent politics.
Speaker 9: What do you have to say? And what did she say?
Speaker 1: She said, you want people to vote the Democrats.
Speaker 8: Let's say that I like Taylor's music about twenty five
Speaker 8: percent less.
Speaker 2: Now, okay, that's that's a weird way to express displeasure.
Speaker 2: He likes her music twenty five percent less? Like, what
Speaker 2: does that even mean? Is is he now just gonna
Speaker 2: cut off twenty five percent of his Taylor merchandise?
Speaker 8: Is that what he's gonna do?
Speaker 4: Oh and by the way, I love how Trump.
Speaker 8: Turned back when you heard Taylor Srift.
Speaker 10: You see that.
Speaker 8: Like because he was leaving. He was leaving, right, And then.
Speaker 2: You have Taylor Swift and he's like what Yeah, Because
Speaker 2: normally reporters shout questions, he just keeps going that I
Speaker 2: miss the President the United Nations global warming, mister President,
Speaker 2: your policy and has been a mister president.
Speaker 8: What do you think about Taylor Swrift?
Speaker 11: He's like, what's that?
Speaker 4: What's that?
Speaker 11: Taylor Trift?
Speaker 4: Let me Taylor Trump thing.
Speaker 8: I know all about this issue.
Speaker 2: From my briefings that I read in the United States Weekly.
Speaker 2: And look, I know right now there are conservatives there
Speaker 2: who are pro Taylor Swift and are feeling conflicted at
Speaker 2: this moment because she has endorsed the Democrats. And to them,
Speaker 2: I say, if you're a real Taylor Swift fan, you
Speaker 2: know what you gotta do.
Speaker 8: Shake it off.
Speaker 4: We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: Covering the news is exhilarating. You travel the country, meet
Speaker 1: interesting people and find real stories. But then one day
Speaker 1: you realize it's a freaking Tuesday in November again. Well
Speaker 1: it's election day again?
Speaker 3: Got it?
Speaker 10: It's election day again?
Speaker 1: Because it's sorry, I can't it's election day again. As
Speaker 1: a journalist, I'm honored to be covering this sacred process.
Speaker 8: Again.
Speaker 1: I feel super chill about it.
Speaker 2: I'm good.
Speaker 1: It's election Day again, and we've got another close race
Speaker 1: on our hands, so you better start clenching those butt cheeks.
Speaker 5: Early voting is already underway in the Virginia gubernatorial race,
Speaker 5: with the latest polling showing Democratic Governor Terry mccaulliff effectively
Speaker 5: in a dead heat political riding.
Speaker 12: If Terry mccauliff doesn't pull out a win, Democrats are
Speaker 12: privately predicting a collapse on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 1: Wait, Virginia could go red. For a state that went
Speaker 1: blue by four hundred and fifty thousand votes in the
Speaker 1: last election, this was a story worth keeping down the
Speaker 1: vombit I sat down with Jeffrey Skelly from five thirty
Speaker 1: eight to help me make sense of this.
Speaker 10: Sorry about the mess elections? Am I right?
Speaker 1: Why is this race in particular so close? Isn't Virginia blue?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: So, Virginia has been Democratic leaning over the last few years,
Speaker 3: but President Biden is now somewhat unpopular and I think
Speaker 3: voters are responding to that, and so the electoral environment
Speaker 3: is better for Republicans. So you've got a close race
Speaker 3: in Virginia.
Speaker 10: Who do you think will actually decide this race?
Speaker 3: Voter really important because they are basically the most democratic
Speaker 3: leaning group. Well, one a little interesting thing the call
Speaker 3: He's done is run campaign ads attacking Glenn Youngkin because
Speaker 3: he was a CEO of the Carlisle Group, which was
Speaker 3: involved in the purchase of Taylor Swift's master recordings. And
Speaker 3: so they've been using this to try to get young
Speaker 3: people to pay attention to the race, because there are
Speaker 3: a lot of young people out there, you know, eighteen
Speaker 3: to thirty four year olds who really like Taylor Swift.
Speaker 12: Virginia Democrat candidate for Governor Terry mcculloff recruiting Taylor Swift fans.
Speaker 12: O'callaff reportedly linking his opponent to music executive Scooter Braun,
Speaker 12: who infamously bought Swift's master recordings.
Speaker 10: Back in twenty nineteen after.
Speaker 11: I was denied the chance to purchase my music outright,
Speaker 11: my entire catalog was sold to Scooter Braun's Epica Holdings
Speaker 11: in a deal that I'm told was funded by the
Speaker 11: Carlisle Group.
Speaker 5: One of the targeted ads reading, did you know that
Speaker 5: Republican candidate for governor Glenn Youngkin helped by Taylor Swift's
Speaker 5: masters out from under her?
Speaker 10: You gotta be shitting't me, Taylor Swift fans vote.
Speaker 3: I think that's what the call off campaign is hoping.
Speaker 1: If the Swifties are backing mccalliff, what group of fans
Speaker 1: are backing young can Chet Hanks fans chetheads.
Speaker 3: Well, we don't have any polling on on different fan
Speaker 3: groups of musical artists.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a real it's a real niche Could we
Speaker 1: be underestimating the Swifties.
Speaker 3: I think I'd be careful about giving them too much weight.
Speaker 3: But there are a lot of young people who like
Speaker 3: Taylor Swift. We know that's true.
Speaker 1: Could Taylor Swift fans be the key to the Virginia race?
Speaker 10: To find out?
Speaker 1: I had to dive deep into their fandom, no matter
Speaker 1: how many of her albums I had to buy on
Speaker 1: the show's credit card.
Speaker 11: Sorry, this just happened to me without my approval or consent.
Speaker 10: Shame on him.
Speaker 5: Whoa whoa.
Speaker 1: Finally, after becoming fluent in all things Taylor, I gathered
Speaker 1: a group of her fans of Virginia. See how angry
Speaker 1: they were with candidate Youngkin.
Speaker 10: Are you all true fans? Are you true Swifties?
Speaker 1: Did you buy signed fearless albums?
Speaker 10: Taylor version? I actually do have it and I can
Speaker 10: pull it up.
Speaker 9: I also have every single Taylor record on vinyl right
Speaker 9: next to me, if we want to go that far. Yeah,
Speaker 9: the two most important dates in November is November two,
Speaker 9: which is an election day, and November twelfth, which is Red.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I'm taking off work for election, Jay, just in case
Speaker 9: the lines are too long.
Speaker 1: Are you also taking off work for Taylor's release of Red?
Speaker 9: Oh? I need to get through all the emotions of
Speaker 9: all the songs on that album.
Speaker 4: I'm taking off work and my therapist is not getting
Speaker 4: the day off.
Speaker 1: While I respect this generation, it's clear dedication to mental health.
Speaker 1: Could this new base of voters actually tip the scales
Speaker 1: in Virginia.
Speaker 9: I'm originally from Texas, and the last three years in
Speaker 9: college I voted in Texas. But I just knew that
Speaker 9: I couldn't just sit by and watch as Youngkin took Virginia.
Speaker 9: And so that's when I decided to change my voter registration.
Speaker 1: Wow, okay, so you just changed your registration. This is dedication.
Speaker 6: I was in the weird college era as well, where
Speaker 6: I was kind of voting in my home state, but
Speaker 6: now I am voting in Virginia because of this.
Speaker 10: Issue they couldn't help.
Speaker 1: But pity these young girls. There are so many important issues,
Speaker 1: but all they care about is Taylor Swift's master recordings.
Speaker 1: It's not really about the masters, but I mean, just
Speaker 1: a couple of days ago, Youngin came out and said,
Speaker 1: you know, he loves everyone who.
Speaker 13: When asked if that includes LGBTQ people, he said, no.
Speaker 10: Are there other issues that you care about?
Speaker 2: Women's choose.
Speaker 9: I'm very passionate about gun violence prevention.
Speaker 6: Climate change is going to be the biggest issue of
Speaker 6: our time, so those policies are super important.
Speaker 10: I'm an environment engineer, so this is life changing.
Speaker 1: What would you say to boomers like my aunt Sheilo,
Speaker 1: who say fourteen year old girls should stay out of
Speaker 1: politics and stop stealing my sleeping pills?
Speaker 8: Deasy?
Speaker 1: I think that's such a weird stereotype of Taylor saw
Speaker 1: fans because we're not fourteen anymore.
Speaker 13: We are adults, We pay tective and we vote.
Speaker 9: Yeah. Do you want to see my thesis paper about
Speaker 9: congressional legislation because I can show you that. Don't underestimate stifties.
Speaker 1: All right, take it easy, Molly geez, I don't want
Speaker 1: any snake comments on my Insta. Yes they are fans
Speaker 1: of Taylor Swift, and yes they are in their twenties.
Speaker 1: Maybe they can make a difference in this upcoming election.
Speaker 1: No matter what happens, at least now I'll have some
Speaker 1: great music to cry too, just in time for next
Speaker 1: election Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Like cocaine and harmonies, beefs are an essential part of
Speaker 2: the music business. Think about it, Tupac versus Bigie, Dixie
Speaker 2: Chicks versus George Bush, Keith Richards versus mortality. And with
Speaker 2: so many new beefs going on in the music world
Speaker 2: right now, we figured it's about time to settle some
Speaker 2: of those scores and our brand new seg we call beefsas.
Speaker 9: All right.
Speaker 8: Next up the artist who soundtrack you'll quarantine dam pussoff
Speaker 8: evermore Tayna Swift. She's been dropping albums almost every week,
Speaker 8: but according to the guy from that British band that
Speaker 8: wasn't Oasis, she's not putting in enough work.
Speaker 11: Let's see the beef.
Speaker 14: Looks like there is some bad blood between Taylor Swift
Speaker 14: and Blur frontman Damon Alburn. During an interview a recent
Speaker 14: interview with The Los Angeles Times, he claimed Swift doesn't
Speaker 14: write her own songs. He said writing music doesn't count
Speaker 14: if you co write, and that co writing is very
Speaker 14: different from writing well. Taylor swiftly hit back, slamming the
Speaker 14: musician on Twitter. She tweeted, I was such a big
Speaker 14: fan of yours until I saw this. I write all
Speaker 14: of my songs, my own songs. Your hot take is
Speaker 14: completely false and so damaging. You don't have to like
Speaker 14: my songs, but it's really messed up to try and
Speaker 14: discredit my writing. Alvern later responded with an apology, saying
Speaker 14: he had a conversation about songwriting that was reduced to clickbait.
Speaker 14: He said he apologizes unreservedly and unconditionally, and said the
Speaker 14: last thing he would want to do is discredit Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2: Yo, that was the fastest ending beef of all time
Speaker 2: because one win of the dude was.
Speaker 8: Like, Yo, Taylor ain't shit, she doesn't write shit.
Speaker 2: And also I'm sorry, Taylor, please don't hurt me, please,
Speaker 2: And I'm not surprised he realized how wrong he was.
Speaker 2: I mean, guys, Swift is one of the most renowned
Speaker 2: lyricists of our generation. Meanwhile, Blurr's most famous lyric is
Speaker 2: whoooo and by the way. By the way, people, there's
Speaker 2: no shame in co writing, right, I'm not saying Taylor
Speaker 2: Swift does. I'm just saying there's no shame in co writing.
Speaker 2: Don't forget even God had co writers, all right, was
Speaker 2: Matthew Mark Luke, John Dey'll help with the Bible. And
Speaker 2: no one ever says God's fake. I mean except Rickie Gervaise,
Speaker 2: but he's gonna hell anyway, so it doesn't count anyway.
Speaker 2: It's no surprise who the winner of the beefs is
Speaker 2: between Taylor Swift and Damon Albaron is it's Jake Gillenhall. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you see, finally the heat is off. Now he's in
Speaker 2: the corner.
Speaker 7: Like, yeah, get that blur guy, and I keep the
Speaker 7: scarf Taylor Swift. This morning, tickets went on sale for
Speaker 7: the singer's first tour in four years, and so many
Speaker 7: fans rushed onto the ticket Master site that it immediately
Speaker 7: crashed and no one could get tickets.
Speaker 2: And yeah, ticket Master to Taylor Swift so wrong. She's
Speaker 2: already put out three albums about them. They're gonna learn
Speaker 2: their lessons.
Speaker 4: I'm not.
Speaker 2: I know everyone thinks getting these tickets is the most
Speaker 2: important thing in the world. But it's really not all right,
Speaker 2: get them just relax, log off, you know, just give
Speaker 2: the site like a chance to cool down and repay
Speaker 2: itself and then you know, don't.
Speaker 4: Bother and.
Speaker 1: You just chill.
Speaker 4: All right, I got mine. You can go back on,
Speaker 4: you can go back on.
Speaker 2: You do whatever you want.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 13: Let's move on to news out of Washington, to the
Speaker 13: biggest crisis the country is facing right now.
Speaker 15: Finally there's something that Republicans and Democrats seem united on,
Speaker 15: and it's this the Taylor Swift ticket fiasco. Today on
Speaker 15: Capitol Hill, senators held a hearing to examine the lack
Speaker 15: of competition in the ticketing industry.
Speaker 13: The bipartisan hearing comes in the wake of a technology
Speaker 13: breakdown on the ticket Master website.
Speaker 10: During the pre sale for Taylor swifts upcoming tour.
Speaker 1: Super Fans known as Swifties faced hours long wait times
Speaker 1: and website crashes.
Speaker 13: They just really just.
Speaker 15: Nuggetting tickets.
Speaker 13: Shame on you, ticket Master, Look what you did to
Speaker 13: these emotional young people. Hey, you know what it's about
Speaker 13: time someone held ticket Master accountable. And the Swifties are
Speaker 13: the only ones who can get this done. They're the
Speaker 13: most politically organized group in America. Now it goes Swifties,
Speaker 13: the Teamsters, and somewhere way all the way down the
Speaker 13: list is the Democrats. You know these hearings are so popular.
Speaker 13: I bet ticket masters screwed up tickets to that too.
Speaker 13: You got kids outside crime, I'm.
Speaker 10: The city's biggest food I just wanted to see Dick Durbin.
Speaker 13: But ultimately, there's only one way to fix this problem.
Speaker 13: Get rid of online tickets. Go back to waiting online
Speaker 13: in person.
Speaker 11: Out in the pole.
Speaker 13: Many people earn that shit like we used to. You're
Speaker 13: not a real fan unless getting a ticket gave you hypothermia.
Speaker 13: Hey I almost lost two toes just to see Johnny
Speaker 13: Gill and I'll do it again, damn it.
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