Taylor Swift, charming and radiant, wows SVT's "Skavlan Show," sings "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"; also appearing is "Downton Abbey's" Elizabeth McGovern, who also sings on the show; @taylorswift13, @DowntonAbbey

uris1 video: Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (SVT's Skavlan, Taped 2012-11-08, aired 2012-11-09). http://youtu.be/0BfqvpdFpCQ

Another guest on the very popular Skavlan show, which is usually taped in Stockholm on Thursday afternoon for airing in Sweden and Norway on Friday nights, but here was done in London, is actress Elizabeth McGovern who of course plays Lady Cora on blog fave Downton Abbey, and whose segment starts at 31:49. 

In it, McGovern, a member of a band called Sadie and The Hotheads, sings LA Days  http://www.svtplay.se/klipp/573109/elizabeth-mcgovern-la-days

Lady Cora rocks! Downton Abbey's Elizabeth McGovern on her REAL passion – gigging in pubs with her barnstorming band 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2155918/Downton-Abbeys-Elizabeth-McGovern-REAL-passion--gigging-pubs-barnstorming-band.html

McGovern's segment segues into Taylor's at 44:39, which begins with an interesting chat about her life and her own creative process for songwriting and how she uses songs as a way of making sense of the world, with the singing starting after her goodbyes at 54:30.

You can watch the entire show or go to the particular segment via the show's SVT Play website for 43 more days as of today, Saturday.
Be sure you click Program 10 at http://www.svtplay.se/skavlan 

For best viewing, as always, click the opposing arrows in the bottom right corner of the video box for Fullskärm, i.e full-screen. 

My three previous posts on Taylor Swift were

a.) November 25, 2011,  Taylor Swift shows why she's so beloved by her fans in profile/interview on CBS News' "60 Minutes" with Lesley Stahl; Amazing times ten!
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/taylor-swift-shows-why-shes-so-beloved.html

To quote myself, in my concluding pargraph:

FYI: As of five minutes ago, Taylor had 9,399,700 Twitter "Followers." According to the CIA World Factbook, their summer 2011 estimate for the population of Sweden was 9,088,728. So, put another way, imagine the entire population of Sweden, plus, the cities of Denver and St. Louis. THAT is how many people FOLLOW Taylor Swift's tweets. Now that is some perspective you can wrap your arms around!

b.) August 3, 2011, Country music sweetheart Taylor Swift rocked Washington, DC Tuesday, as the Wash. Post runs out of adjectives to describe the well-grounded superstar
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/country-music-sweetheart-taylor-swift.html

I wrote then: 

Years from now, Taylor's fans will still remember that concert in Washington like it just happened: the sounds, the scene, who they were with, what they wore... and they'll remember the lyrics to the songs as if there was never a time in their life that they didn't know them by heart. That's Taylor's genius.

c.) October 12, 2010, Taylor Swift's impression of "Minnesota Soccer Mom" on BBC 1's Switch with Annie and Nick; Dateline: On Tour With Taylor Swift; @taylorswift13
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/taylor-swifts-impression-of-minnesota.html


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Fredrik Skavlan Talk Show homepage: http://skavlan.com/

All thing Taylor Swift in Sweden? At TSS: http://taylorswiftsweden.se/

http://www.youtube.com/user/TaylorSwiftVEVO

Taylor Swift shows why she's so beloved by her fans in profile/interview on CBS News' "60 Minutes" with Lesley Stahl; Amazing times ten!

CBS News 60 Minutes: Taylor Swift: A young singer's meteoric rise. November 20, 2011. Correspondent Lesley Stahl profiles and interviews the dynamic 21-year old singer who keeps her feet firmly on the ground while entertaining and charming her millions of fans all over the world.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7389010n&tag=mg;mostpopvideo

What can I say about Taylor Swift here that I haven't already said about her -literally- except "In Taylor We Trust."

My previous blog posts on Taylor -with lots of videos of her you've probably never seen before if you haven't previously read them- were:

1.) October 12, 2010

Taylor Swift's impression of "Minnesota Soccer Mom" on BBC 1's Switch with Annie and Nick; Dateline: On Tour With Taylor Swift

http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/taylor-swifts-impression-of-minnesota.html

2.) August 3, 2011

Country music sweetheart Taylor Swift rocked Washington, DC Tuesday, as the Wash. Post runs out of adjectives to describe the well-grounded superstar

http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/country-music-sweetheart-taylor-swift.html

CBS News "60 Minutes Overtime" video: Behind the scenes at a Taylor Swift concert

By 60 Minutes Overtime Staff

November 20, 2011 6:47 PM

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-57328060-10391709/behind-the-scenes-at-a-taylor-swift-concert/?tag=contentBody;currentVideoInfo

http://www.taylorswift.com/

http://twitter.com/taylorswift13

FYI: As of five minutes ago, Taylor had 9,399,700 Twitter "Followers."

According to the CIA World Factbook, their summer 2011 estimate for the population of Sweden was 9,088,728.

So, put another way, imagine the entire population of Sweden, plus, the cities of Denver and St. Louis.

THAT is how many people FOLLOW Taylor Swift's tweets.

Now that is some perspective you can wrap your arms around!

Country music sweetheart Taylor Swift rocked Washington, DC Tuesday, as the Wash. Post runs out of adjectives to describe the well-grounded superstar

Taylor Swift, "Speak Now" tour, Verizon Center, Washington, D.C., August 2, 2011

http://youtu.be/sQkKRy_XOLU

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Country music sweetheart Taylor Swift rocked Washington, D.C. Tuesday, even as the Washington Post runs out of adjectives to describe this well-grounded superstar.

Great photos of Taylor and a concert review that positively swoons.

The Washington Post

For Taylor Swift and a sea of squealing fans, Verizon Center show is a lovefest

By Jessica Goldstein

Wednesday, August 3, 11:02 AM

On Tuesday night, the sparkly-dressed and curly-tressed masses swarmed the Verizon Center. They had to come to see her, she whose name is never just spoken but is squealed, gasped, breathed: “Taylor!”

They were speaking, naturally, of Taylor Swift, the country-pop star whose “Speak Now” tour has a two-day stop in Washington. Swift’s disciples arrived in homemade T-shirts and cowboy boots with moms and best friends in tow. They expressed nothing but love — omigosh, LOVE, hands in a heart shape held over the heart for double-hearting emphasis love — for the current poet laureate of puberty.

Read the rest of the post at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/for-taylor-swift-and-a-sea-of-squealing-fans-verizon-center-show-is-a-lovefest/2011/08/03/gIQAzIBxrI_story.html

Washington Post photos at:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/taylor-swift-brings-nashville-to-dc/2011/08/03/gIQAFFz8qI_gallery.html

My previous blog post on Taylor Swift, on October 12th, 2010, featuring lots of behind-the-scenes videos of her and her band and friends from an NBC-TV special many of you probably never saw, was titled, Taylor Swift's impression of "Minnesota Soccer Mom" on BBC 1's Switch with Annie and Nick; Dateline: On Tour With Taylor Swift

http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/taylor-swifts-impression-of-minnesota.html

“She’s so normal,” said Abby Sisson, 16. “You can imagine her being your best friend. ... Every situation that you’re in, there’s a Taylor Swift song for it.”

Years from now, Taylor's fans will still remember that concert in Washington like it just happened: the sounds, the scene, who they were with, what they wore... and they'll remember the lyrics to the songs as if there was never a time in their life that they didn't know them by heart.

That's Taylor's genius.

Taylor Swift's impression of "Minnesota Soccer Mom" on BBC 1's Switch with Annie and Nick; Dateline: On Tour With Taylor Swift; @taylorswift13

Taylor Swift's impression of "Minnesota Soccer Mom" on BBC1's "Switch with Annie Mac and Nick Grimshaw"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh32wcP7Cbg

Taylor's impression begins at 0:51

I've been meaning to post this clip for awhile now since it's so clear that Taylor is channeling Frances McDormand's Oscar-winning turn as Marge Gunderson in "Fargo" that so captured the nation's imagination.
I'm not entirely sure that everyone in the Radio One studio with Taylor caught that, though.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116282/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_ux_5CcleM

Over the Memorial Day Weekend of 2009, May 31st to be exact, I watched the NBC News Dateline one-hour special on Taylor promoting her Fearless CD, titled simply, "On Tour With Taylor Swift"

It was amazing, and only served to confirm what I have thought about her from the very beginning -she's the very definition of "the real deal."
Anyone who doubts her talent, drive and resolve is simply ignoring what is right in front of them. That Taylor's only 20 makes it all seem a bit stranger, true, but as was proven over-and-over in this particular show, and which has been said about her for years by very talented people in Nashville in a position to know from past experince, her confident demeanor, work ethic and level-headedness -which makes her seem much more mature than many if not most entertainers who are twice her age- also makes her more able to grasp the great possibilities that are her's for the taking.

And is there any entertainer right now who connects more with their audience than Taylor does? These videos hardly begin to tell the tale of her fans devotion to her.

That she combines such a keen and growing talent with such a relentless drive to satisfy her fans, each and every night, knowing that they've been looking forward to those few hours together with her for months, makes her the kind of old-fashioned star that people held onto most loyally, year-after-year.
Plus, Taylor's audience will NEVER outgrow her.























http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31032270/ns/dateline_nbc-newsmakers/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30687911/

http://www.taylorswift.com/

http://twitter.com/taylorswift13 

@taylorswift13

http://www.bbc.co.uk/switch/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0081k8q

http://www.youtube.com/user/BBCSwitch