Taylor Swift’s First Ktla Interview & Performance (2006) - KtlaVideo Vault

Hey, welcome back. What better way to kick off the weekend than to meet another young artist that's making genuine waves in country music. The hit single is called Tim McGraw. Here's Taylor Swift. You're 16 years old. Yes. And you have got a poise beyond your years. Oh, my gosh. Thank you. But it was fun, though, because this is the actual CD we'll show it to you at home. And you were saying you've only seen it for the last couple of days. Yeah, we just got this back and this whole thing. So you've been, like, noodling around. Yeah, whenever I see it, I'm just like, oh, my God, look at it. It's still kind of new to me, and I'm just like, oh. I have a CD. Oh, my God. I'm speaking to you. You've got a website. You've got a MySpace page. Was MySpace a help? MySpace is a huge help, and I'm still really, really involved in it. And, you know, I try to comment people back whenever I get a chance. And, you know, I'm looking back to four months ago when I would get three emails a day and be like, oh, my God, you know, and now I get like 300 emails a day. And it's just so overwhelming to me, and we just hit like... two million plays of my single since it came out in June so congratulations thank you so much how was it the first time let's say you're driving in a car and you're with your friends or whatever and you hear you're saying you all of a sudden hear the song you go wait a minute that's me is that how exciting the first time that happened that happened in Nashville that's where i live so i'm driving down the road and this was like three days after the single came out so i'm just driving down the road i still kind of had a normal life and so the song just comes on the radio and i I literally almost drove off the road and died, and that would have been it. This song is called Tim McGraw. We're going to take a break. Taylor's going to sing it for us here. We also have the music video. Let's just watch a little of the music video for a second. I hope you think my favorite song, the one we dance to all night, like a spotlight on the lake. When you think happiness, I hope you think that little white dress. Think of my head on your chest. Oh, it's faded blue jeans when you think tomorrow. Now, what did Tim McGraw think of this song? Well, he liked it. My agent is the same agent that he uses, and he went and played it for Tim, and the first thing Tim said was, Oh, I've got to go play this for Faith. You're safe. No. So he really liked this song, and it was just really, really cool. I'm so excited, because the album comes out in 10 days, October 24th, and I've written every song on the album, so it's just... Really? Yeah, it's been so cool. My label's been really, really nice to me and let me write everything. How cool to be 16 years old and say, My label, man. Who is your label? Your label is what my label is Big Machine Records. It operates under Universal So it's just been so exciting and what is your favorite Tim McGraw song? My favorite Tim McGraw song is a song called Can't Tell Me Nothing and it's not a single or anything It's just an album cut but it's about like all these people tell you what you should and shouldn't do But you just aren't gonna kind of figure it out the hard way because of pride and issues like that This is a real treat for us Taylor Swift playing her Taylor Odd enough. So go ahead. Here we go. And to do this live on the spot at 9:42 in the morning is really something. Yeah, thank you so much. I guess before I play this song, you should all keep in mind, if you haven't heard it before, first of all, it's not really about Tim McGraw. Second of all, I'm not a stalker. I'm a joker. This is called Tim McGraw. Two good points. The way my blue eyes shine Those Georgia stars, it's a shame that I said that's a lie