Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift: That was nice. Oh, it's great to be here. This is amazing. Kevin Allocca: Now, we were talking before, you've actually been here before. Is that right? Taylor Swift: Yes.

I came here, I think about five years ago. I was 16 and just about to release my first single, Tim McGraw. And so, we were traveling up the West Coast in a rental car, in a Taurus, and I was, I was doing my homework in the backseat.

I was, like, homeschooled in 10th grade, so that was when we made this trip to San Jose and came to see you guys for the first time, and it's wonderful to be back here and have so many of you come out, this time around. It's amazing. Kevin Allocca: Yeah. We're, we're a, we're a very forward-thinking company, apparently, having you here when you were 16.

Oh, so I wanna thank you for being here, first of all, from all of us. This is really an honor and a treat. Now you're in the middle of your tour, for Speak Now, and I know that you've posted some videos to your channel, sort of outlining your tour, and specifically your trip to Asia.

And I wanna show a clip from, when you were in Singapore. Now you're in Chinatown, but the Chinatown of Singapore. Is that right? Yes.

Okay. Taylor Swift: We started out the year going on tour, and started off in Asia, and then we were in Europe for two months, so it was like three months of major worldwide touring. So, Singapore was the first place that we went on the tour. Kevin Allocca: Cool. All right. Let's, let's roll that clip.

Watch it. Taylor Swift: They're everywhere. I'm sort of fascinated by the waving cats, because, you know, of course, as long as you keep fresh batteries in them, they're always gonna be saying hello to you just always just. This symbolises forever, I think, these waving cats.

Just what's better than a cat that's just always like, "Hey"? There's nothing better than that. Kevin Allocca: So, this of course has all the makings of a viral video.

I mean, there's a big celebrity, it's a global thing. There's a cat, a cat in the video.

Taylor Swift: That'll do it. I think that, you just said it. That's the essential ingredient- Yeah. Is a cat. Now your YouTube To make it viral.

Kevin Allocca: Is very popular. I know you have, over, half a million subscribers that get your vlogs when you post them, which is really cool. I was, I wanted to ask you off the bat, how important is your channel and social media in general as a tool for expression, but also for connecting with your audience?

Taylor Swift: I think, we've all seen the effects of social media and how that can connect people. And for me, I grew up when that was just about to set fire to the world, you know? I was, I think in seventh and eighth grade when, everybody started having a profile online, and everybody was, you know, it was all about who's your friend and who's commenting on whose page.

And then it became the YouTube generation, where everybody's looking at videos. Everybody's making, video blogs and you know, makeup tutorials, or this or that, or back to school outfit shopping, you know. Everybody is, kind of catching on to communicating by making videos and learning how to edit them, and it's, I think it's fantastic, because it's just a new skill set for this new generation.

Kevin Allocca: Mm-hmm. And I would be remiss if it were a YouTube interview and I didn't ask you if you had any favorite. I know you're really busy, but do you have any favorite YouTube videos or channels that you like to watch? Taylor Swift: Yes. I have watched this one, like, three times this week, 'cause it makes me so happy, and it's got these, like, five or six lion cubs.