Anthony Albanese has outed himself as a serious Taylor Swift fan, revealing one in every of her songs helped him get him by means of a turbulent interval on the marketing campaign path final yr.
Appearing on Perth radio, the Prime Minister was peppered with questions on what was in his vinyl assortment after internet hosting the Nova presenters at The Lodge in Canberra on Tuesday night.
“I asked a question, I said, ‘Do you have a certain artist on vinyl’? And you said, ‘Yes, I do’. What was that artist, Anthony Albanese?” host Nathan Morris mentioned.
“It was Tay Tay,” the Prime Minister responded.
“I think she’s terrific, and I think that she’s empowering of young women. If people actually listen to Shake It Off, the lyrics are fantastic. I think it’s, I quite enjoy her.”
It’s not the primary time Mr Albanese has talked about his appreciation for the track.
He first embraced the “shake it off” mantra following his trainwreck first day on the marketing campaign the place he was unable to reply questions in regards to the money charge and wrongly guessed the jobless charge.
Nova co-host Natalie Locke famous the lyrics acted as “good advice” for a politician.
“You’ve got to do that, exactly. You’ve just got to shake it off,” Mr Albanese added.
“I actually did that at one of the press conferences during the campaign where I got harassed over ‘do you regret you know, X’, I can’t even remember what the issue was.
“And I was like, ‘Ah, you know, you’ve just got to shake it off’.”
Mr Albanese mentioned his vinyl assortment additionally included “a bit of U2, Angie McMahon, Radiohead”.
He’s not the primary Prime Minister to share his love of US singer Swift.
Scott Morrison was additionally a giant fan and in keeping with social media attended the pop star’s live shows together with his daughters in each 2015 and 2018.
He additionally invoked Swift’s lyrics to inform journalists to “shake it off” once they requested in 2015 if he had been plotting with Malcolm Turnbull to oust Tony Abbott.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
