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My iMpaCt. 
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Originally posted by wownow
Elvis Costello asked to interview Taylor about songwriting back in 2009! Wow, that would have been so great 
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In perhaps his most disarming admission, Costello reveals he wanted Taylor Swift to appear on Spectacle, but the Kanye West incident at the MTV Music Awards happened the very same weekend. Spectacle's producers approached Swift. Swift hesitated, then declined. Costello suspects the sudden, dramatic fallout from the MTV Awards controversy, coupled with the sudden, white-hot glare of the media spotlight, caused Swift to have cold feet. By the time Swift was ready to reconsider, both she and Costello had moved on to other projects.
Costello feels a conversation with the exceedingly young, yet not untalented, Swift would have made an important addition to the Spectacle canon. Swift represents the flip side of Spectacle's more familiar lineup of Hall of Fame inductees and legendary rockers. Swift is a fast-rising star on the cusp of a potentially long and meaningful music career.
"I think she is quite interesting, and I thought it would be very snobbish to not try to get someone like that. You can see a degree of self-possession there, and I'm intrigued by that. She's a very young girl whom you don't want to judge based on what people are writing down about her, saying, `Well, that's just such-and-such.' How do you know? It's like saying to a teenager in love, `Oh, it's not real; just get on with it.' Well, it's very real when you're in love and you're a teenager.
"It's the same with pop. There are very few songs about young people that are written from a teenager's perspective. When you see her sing, you can see that coming alive inside her, in the moment. When she's singing, it means exactly what it says it means.''
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Good thing Kanye's music sucks these days.... *applies Hate-Card for Kanye*
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