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The Santa Clause enthusiast • Disney Adult for Taylor Swift • #1 tied together with a smile fan • Seattle

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They were supposed to sing a cute little song. Instead, Taylor Swift started making fun of the show.

Taylor Swift and Zac Efron walked out with guitars, and Zac joked that he had only just learned how to play. Taylor said she had taught him a few chords and they started playing “Pumped Up Kicks.”

At first, it looked like a normal talk-show bit. They were laughing, trying to remember the chords and messing around with the lyrics.

Then Taylor asked if they could change the words.

That's when the song became something else.

Instead of singing the original lyrics, they started joking about what it was like to be a guest on the show. Taylor sang about always being asked who she was dating and being put into awkward situations. She even brought up the time she thought there was a hidden camera in the bathroom and got so startled that she nearly fell.

The funny part is that they weren't angry about any of it. They just turned it into a song.

And honestly, that's probably why it worked so well. Zac wasn't trying to look like a great guitarist, and Taylor wasn't trying to give some perfect performance. They laughed when they forgot a chord, looked at each other when they weren't sure what came next, and just kept going.

It felt like two people making something up right there.

But underneath the joke, there was a real point. Talk shows often put celebrities in situations where they are expected to laugh, play along and answer whatever comes their way. That's part of the job, but sometimes the joke can get uncomfortable.

Taylor found a pretty clever way to push back without turning the whole thing into a confrontation.

She just sang about it.

That's what makes the clip worth watching again. Not because the guitar playing is amazing or because it's some great musical performance. It's because, for a few minutes, the guests stopped playing the roles the show expected them to play.

They were still joking.

They were just joking on their own terms.

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Oh ready for it like a vendetta never heard that so clearly before 👀👀 @taylorswift13 @taylornation13

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[Swifties Want Tickets @swiftieswanttix]

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[Swifties Want Tickets @swiftieswanttix]

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[lucy @__lucyanna__]

@DisneyPlus @DisneyPlus @taylornation13 even snook a glance from a balcony in Seattle, my hometown, since I couldn’t get my hands on tickets… but had the best time with my family anyways!!! 🥲 [email protected]

[lucy @__lucyanna__]

@DisneyPlus I was fortunate enough to be at the first and last eras tour shows in Arizona and Vancouver! I would be SO grateful for this to accompany the memory 🥹 my moment of the final bow of the Eras Tour! @taylorswift13 [email protected]

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First show in AZ! I didn’t get any pics during the show bc I was taking every single moment in for literally the first time ever 🤩😍@DisneyPlus [email protected]

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Hi @DisneyPlus I’ve been the biggest @taylorswift13 fan I know since 2007 I would be so so so grateful 🥲 [email protected]

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Hi @DisneyPlus I’ve been a @taylorswift13 fan since 2006 and I would be so so so grateful 🥹

[Taylor Swift @taylorswift13]

Just 11 days until the final show of The Eras Tour is all yours. The Final Show now featuring THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT on @DisneyPlus beginning December 12 ✨🎂

[Taylor Swift @taylorswift13]

Honestly can’t think of a better way to celebrate my (almost) birthday than to relive the Eras Tour with you! This time we’re going backstage. "The End of an Era", a 6-episode behind-the-scenes docuseries, streams on @DisneyPlus beginning Dec 12 🫶

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The lack of discourse around Father Figure being a Joe Alwyn diss track is astounding to me

[Taylor Swift Updates @TSUpdating]

🚨| Taylor Swift reveals “The Life of a Showgirl” outro features crowd noise from the last Eras Tour show in Vancouver!

“one thing that I really love about the ending of it is that we actually ended the song with actual crowd noise from my last Eras tour show in Vancouver so that always chokes me up because it transports me right back to that actual memory of standing on that stage for the last time on that tour that was so important to me, and the tour that really inspired this album. So it's the last track of the album and a really special one to me.”

[Travis Kelce @tkelce]

I just gave a squirle a peice of bread and it straight smashed all of it!!!! I had no idea they ate bread like that!! Haha #crazy

[trish @ultragloss]

twilight in the morning with coffee and a bagel smuggled into the theater. break for brunch & mimosas, return buzzed for new moon. double feature with eclipse. dinner and drinks, back in time for breaking dawn part 1. popcorn, candy, movie theater wine, breaking dawn part 2. club