Taylor Swift Said She’d ‘Never, Ever’ Forget the Day She Worked With 1 Artist

In 2009, Taylor Swift collaborated with an artist in a parody of one of her songs. It aired at an awards show and did not showcase her typical skillset. Still, she said she would never forget the experience. Here’s the parody video and artist collaboration that Swift said she would never forget.

Taylor Swift said she would always remember a brief collaboration with 1 artist

At the 2009 CMT Awards, a parody of Swift’s song “Love Story” was a part of the intro. She said this song, “Thug Story,” had been her idea.

“The CMT Awards asked me, ‘Do you want to be a part of our intro?’ and one of the first things that came to my mind was that I really, really want some excuse to be able to rap and go to the mall and go to those kiosk things and go buy bling and experience rapping in front of a car with spinners for the first time,” she told Rolling Stone.

T-Pain joined her in the video. She said the collaboration was one she would never forget.

“T-Pain agreed to it and flew to Nashville and we were in a sweltering hot, 95-degree parking garage for an entire day shooting,” she said. “I will never, ever forget that memory.”

While rap was not her typical genre, she enjoyed delving into it. She said she took inspiration from “all kinds of different sounds”

“I think genres are sort of unnecessary walls,” she said. “I’ve been really lucky to have experienced that firsthand, with people taking down those walls for me little by little — I’ve been very lucky that country radio and pop radio have both been so wonderful to me. But when I hear a great song, I can’t help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.”