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Taylor Swift attempts British slang in a new SNL promo with Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Waller-Bridge and Swift take to the SNL stage this weekend.

October 03, 2019

Phoebe Waller-Bridge is hosting this week’s episode of Saturday Night Live. Her musical guest will be none other than noted Phoebe Waller-Bridge megafan Taylor Swift, who loves – loves — Waller-Bridge’s shows Fleabag and Killing Eve. The first promo for the episode finds Swift attempting to say a series of British colloquialisms written by Waller-Bridge, and failing.

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The SNL episode will mark one of Swift’s few televised Lover performances; her last one was at the MTV VMAs, when she performed “Lover” and “You Need To Calm Down.” Lover recently tallied the best sales week of the year on the Billboard charts, moving over 800k copies in its first week. Last week, nearly a hundred fan-made Taylor Swift bootlegs were uploaded to Spotify illegally. Read The FADER staff's review roundup of Lover here, and watch the Saturday Night Live promo above.

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