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  • I love Taylor Swift and Def Leppard. I love them singing together.

  • Her voice mixes nicely with this song!

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  • Please Don't Ever Flatline Def Leppard! You Still Have So Many Loyal Fans Young & Old! Keep On Rocking And Bringing Us All Good Times And Songs That Have A Special Place In All Of Our Souls!

  • Taylor's a Great Talent! so you Haters that talk her down,do you even know who your dad is?

    because you don't know Music

  • Always sweet Taylor.. Def Leppard ..Rules as always.. Awesome loved it!!

  • Taylor swift has a good voice, but her one problem is staying on key. She always is flat.

  • Taylor Swift: Americas Sweetheart, for many many years to come!

  • just throwing it out there, Taylor Swift hasnt been endorsed by Disney for a few years. just sayin

  • Taylor Swift actually writes her own songs, has a good voice, and she actually has talent; so I don't see anything wrong with her colliding with Def Leppard. It shows how much passion for music she has and what influenced her in her own music. Just think that twenty years from now, she will be remembered in a reminiscent way that Def Leppard is being remembered now. Just be grateful that Miley Cyrus is not singing with them!

    "Taylor Swift is a Disney Slut!" - give me a break!

  • @Imagination8Madness i know eh. shes not even disney, she worked hard to get where she is, and she is amazing.

  • Bring back old Def Leppard!!!

    Taylor Swift sucks!!!

    HATE THIS VIDEO

  • @RomanRoxx she actually is pretty good tho but with them not alone

  • @RomanRoxx Both Def Leppard and Taylor swift were great in this video!

  • i love Taylor Swift and Def Leppard so i thought it was great having them sing together <3<3<3<3

  • I hate Taylor Swift but I will admit she did a great job on Def Leppards songs and the fact that Def Leppard who I love respects her and is willing to play with her and play her stuff,that says she has something going on.

  • @Fab2Ucb, LOL. Excellent question. It's sick and sad if someone did. If it happened, you probably know which band member it was. I am not going to be the one to name names.

  • I love this man and that accent of his

  • Modern country and cheesy 80's hair metal together at last! This might have been the worst show of all time.

  • Def leppard and Taylor swift where amazing on cmt crossroads.excellent interview,Joe it's worked you guys are on top,more than the first time I heard high n dry I was elven,now my ten year old niece is asking me for my pyromania and hysteria discs.def leppard is going to make it thew the generations.sookie821lee@yahoo­.com

  • does anyone have the vid of the 2 songs together? i really want it

  • Oh she needs to go away.

  • Only Steve could save Def leppard.... Fuck. how i miss him.....

  • @TrochezCovers

    You need to take a pill. Valium, Prozac, cyanide, whatever. Your rants sound like a broken record and won't bring Steve back. Move on and shut up.

  • @totophi i dont remember me insulting anyone.... its just my opinion. a comment. i dont try to insult someone..... please .dont mind.

  • @TrochezCovers

    Perhaps you have a short memory for comments you posted on other videos of this event.

  • @totophi well. refresh my memory mister know-all

  • @TrochezCovers

    One needn't even leave THIS thread. Your implication that Def Leppard needed saving after Steve's death is highly insulting to A) Vivian Campbell, who took his place; B) all the members who contributed to songwriting and performing since Steve's passing.

    (If anything, the drums were what needed saving after Rick Allen lost his left arm. The fills lost their flash and the drum samples were monotonous.)

  • @totophi after steve died, def leppard rating go underground.. steve the riffmaster was the real song writer from def leppard. but, now. def leppard give up against the comercial music and became the same thing with them.... they lose their style, their music.. and became someones puppet. im not insulting. they have some nice song after steve. but... we have to face it. they became from good to bad....

  • I used to have respect for Def Lep. Taylor Swift? Seriously? What a joke.

  • did they fuck after?

  • they do not mesh well at all.

  • Let's be honest here, would Taylor Swift have gotten a record deal, and all of what has come with it if she were 80 pounds heavier, and short cropped hair and a ying-yang tattoo on her arm? Nashville is selling an "Image" and she just happens to fit it. As if they can sing or play, who cares?. Pro tools, auto tune and studio pickers and a backing track can take care of that, you can even use auto tune live now. Hasn't anyone noticed that all the female country singers are clones now?

  • they are both amazing! Def is obv. waaay more experienced and perfected, but its sometimes cool to mix things up with old rock and new music. It doesnt mean that theyre gonna form a band together. it was just a collab.

  • @RockNRollahGuy101 I think next are:Motley crue and katy perry, ratt and selena gomez, cinderella and miley cyrus, ac/dc and lady gaga, poison and black eyed peas, kiss and jonas brothers...and others...

  • @glammetalfan7 Ummm, this is CMT Crossroads; meaning that only COUNTRY stars are colliding with musicians of different genres. I hate when people put Taylor Swift in the "pop" category. She's nothing compared to Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, or even Miley.

  • @glammetalfan7 Haha! hmm I would really be curious to see AC/DC and Lady Gaga together and also Poison and The Black Eyed Peas! Now that would be interesting....

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  • Taylor Swift is today's Linda Ronstadt.

  • @bdiemert2 I'll believe that when she's willing to speak her mind on issues that her fans may not like but she truly believes in. When she's willing to lay the career on the line... then I'll believe it.

  • @Gunfighter1b xcellent point! and what does she believe in?--well, she's probably too young to know. Ronstadt was really part of a far more politically aggressive era. It is strange that Jerry Brown has returned as the governor of California. I also agree that Taylor Swift fits the Nashville image which is pretty, how shall we say, white?  (I can't think of a single black country singer.) My comment reflected on her songs and their styling (and a bit of the image), but not her politics.

  • @bdiemert2

    Bit young, aren't you? Your comments failed to mention Charley Pride or Tebey....

  • Taylor's singing is soft and wispy, and it fits the heartfelt songs she composes. This performance was back in 2008, and her voice has greatly improved since then. Of course she sounds younger here. I appreciate that she has a positive attitude and a mature mindset. Her personality is relaxed, and I always see her as a rare find for the limelight.

  • A lot of people have hated on this performance.... Swift doesnt have the vocal range for rock (and frankly neither does Elliot anymore), and I have long hated on country music (I consider it a oxymoron). But this was a lot of fun. This performance is what live music is supposed to be all about. I wanted to hate it and ended up favoriting it instead.... until some cried COPYWRITE INFRINGMENT.... bastards.

  • @RockNRollahGuy101 Lol! An unlikely musical duo! :))

  • I don't have a problem with this; the Leps were always a commercial band and singing with Taylor Swift can only raise their profile some, which at this stage in their (long) post MTV career they can use.

    However, I wasn't impressed with Taylor's singing. I've heard a lot about her but really, this could have been just about any person singing. I saw no chops on her duet on Photograph.

  • @ChowAtTheY Rihanna, Katy Perry, Kesha, Lady Gaga all sell millions and are crap. What was your point again? Among them she is definitely the talented one, plus she has morals. You do not get signed as a teenager to a professional songwriting and record deals without talent.

    wtf was that all about her label being on damage control? they better work...as without Taylor Big Machine Records would have shit. She made them big with her music.

  • @ChowAtTheY Sex object? i don`t see it. I see more insults about her looks than compliments- squinty eyes, flat body etc, etc. And yes- she does have talent. You should be the one ,who looks into things before posting rubbish. She plays several instruments, writes songs that touch people (millions of records sold), sells out stadiums. All these people are complete asses, who buy into this? She obviously has the star/x-factor. You personal disliking of her is irrelevant.

  • their drummer is amazing!

  • DEF LEPPARD NEEDS TO GO ON ITUNES NOW

  • I love this song but she sounds terrible. 

  • Actually I'd love to Metallica and Shania Twain. I like to see different things in music. Unlike Gaga and Beyonce, Twain and Taylor actually have songwriting ability.

  • my last name is Elliott (ha) totally random so yeah! :P

  • @Combatbootlove21 Ok...and?

  • @wahinesurfergirl like I said Random, and his name is Elliott.....

  • @RockNRollahGuy101 dude, that would be effin' awesome!!!

  • @RockNRollahGuy101 Why not?

  • def leppard made me fucking love this song!

  • UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU­UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU­UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU­UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU­UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU­UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU­UUUUUUUUUUH Lost all respect for Def Leppard. Thank you Taylor Swift.

  • He is burying music he made , rock music .

  • She knows how to work it! Shake that money maker girl!

  • FUCK TAYLOR SWIFT!

  • @catarinaasp she should be striping to this song, not singing it.

  • @EthanakaWalter her voice is not strong enough for that song, as far as stripping...naw she's got a little girls body.

  • @EthanakaWalter shes soo fukkin hot

  • @catarinaasp I would!

  • Taylor Sift is a Nickelodeon, MTV, Disney Channel pushed HACK!! Why do you people continue to blindly follow whatever you are told is "cool?" Its no different than that Bieber chic!! And for all of the "@Gaugicus" comments that take offense to what I'm saying....wake up!!!! You are just sheep listening to exactly what the record company executives want you to listen to. You are making them richer and you stupider simply by buying into trash like this. Open your eyes/ears!! Find real talent!!

  • @Gaugicus i think u are the one, who needs to wake up here. wtf are u babbling about? what disney? what nickelodeon (fuck...i don`t even know how to spell that)? she has no connection to any of these mentioned. she came up on her talent, not some stupid tv-show or talent contest. signed to no-name indie label and made them one of the biggest record companies in the world. that is why they are kissing her ass/sticking up for her every chance they get. her fucking songs made them big.

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  • Fuck You Def Leppard! you were great before this shit!

  • fuck this shit!

  • Timemark 0:15....four guys up front playing guitars...name them? I got Viv Campbell and Phil Collin. The two on either end/right and left....who are they?! Anyone?!

  • @dannonforbes Grant Mickelson (far right) and Paul Sidoti (far left).

  • @RockNRollahGuy101 I wanna see THAT!

  • @RockNRollahGuy101 funny that you mention it, lady gaga actually has admitted to being a fan of metallica

  • @deanthefieldbench Thats raw as hell!

  • I just wanna lick Taylor Swift from head to toe. I just wanna lick and eat her long sexy legs like a bucket of KFC chicken wings. Yummy

  • Hey Joe Elliot you old prick why don't you get Pete Wilis back, your original guitarist and start playing some REAL fucking Rock N Roll like back in ther day.

    When your playing your hit songs with 'tayor swift' you know you fuked up somewhere down the line.

    By the way I paused this before the singing started. Last thing I need is a great song ruined for me like this.

  • i bet they gang banged her after the show

  • you guys are timeless, taylor is a great fan and star. joe your voice is ok. I heard some rumours you were not singing anymore. you guys are liked by this generations youth. that means timeless. rock on bro mike

  • Taylor should stick to singing her lame songs about her getting dumped.

  • @mizzmikaela  SOOOOOOOO True..lol

  • She totally wrecked this song she sux

  • swifts voice isn't very suited for Def leppard's songs to be honest

  • c,mon leps blow us away once more hysteria/adrenalize

  • Look at 1:00, Taylor must give good handjobs :)

  • @DTABM23 your a fag

  • i think DL is way to good to be matched up with taylor swift.

  • On through the night a cult album, High 'n dry too edgy even for a metal band(at the exception of Bringing the heartbreak and Switch 625), Pyromania the perfect one for a road trip and Hysteria THE Blockbuster, the album that put the Jovis and the Roses to the MTV map, so praise Def Leppard! On the other hand Adrenalize is lacking of inspiration but Slang is the perfect answer for those who still thing of Lep as a shallow band(what?) with an american sound(excuse me?)...

  • @marcoshary that would be you should have said no by Taylor swift sped up about three times. They would be the perfect couple if it wasn't for age difference.

  • Taylor Swift and that gold sparkle dress Um Um Um She made me be proud to be a man who love's the beauty of a women, in a sexy dress. Taylor Your such a beautiful women. I would marry u in a heartbeat girl. Keep doin what u do. Your so sexy.

  • @06hrhillbilly She's not 18 yet, buddy.

  • @sheepnote (Taylor Alison Swift born December 13 1989.) She's 21 Now, but at the time of this show "CMT Crossroads, 2008", She was 18-19Yrs old, Sounds Like a legal aged Women too me. So what the fuck are u talkn about. Know your facts and take your vitamins before u fuck with me friend!

  • @06hrhillbilly OK, I stand corrected. Didn't she release a song called 15 like last year? I think it was about being 15. Maybe she wrote it when she was 15. Eh, I don't even care.

  • What´s the song that starts at 0:59? Thanks

  • I always enjoy hearing Joe Elliott talk - he is lucid, honest and intelligent.

  • @peppercar I agree. He´s a great "fella". :) Regards

  • Seems like Taylor Swift loves Pyromania the most out of their albums, she talks about it more, said something about how it's a great album to listen all the way through on a roadtrip and stuff.

  • taylor swift is gonna be a legend...mark my words. people laughed, when this kind of thing was said about elvis too. i think leppard knows talent when they see it.

  • @LennaIsMyAngel she hit ledgend a billion copies ago.lol

  • @LennaIsMyAngel same thing was also said about sabbath and the Beatles.

  • Def Leppards best album was High N Dry, followed by On Through The Night and then Pyromania. Hysteria was pop rocks, I loved it, but not as much as their first three.

  • @1badsteed My fav Leppard´s album has always been Pyromania followed by On Through the Night. But nowadays I prefer to listen to Hysteria and some other later hits. But maybe Photograph is my fav Leppard songs of all times! Regards

  • doing this was the worst thing that def leppard has ever done

  • ...is true..

  • Taylor Swift fucking sucks. Why on earth would Def Leppard allow her to share a stage with them?

  • @starqz Because she asked them to do crossroads with her.Crossroads is an show that combines country music with a different genre.Its not about allowing a country singer to share a stage with a rock band.But allowing country music to collide with different music genres.

  • In the short period of 1985-87, some of the rock albums ever made were released: Def Lep's Hysteria, Guns N Roses' Appetite for Destruction, Slayer's Reign In Blood, Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet and Bryan Adams' Reckless.

  • lol agree with Joe,sucks they are always going to be compared to Hysteria. That was a massive album that took years to make, tons of money, and with the assistance and songwriting of Steve Clark and Mutt Lange along with the rest of the band members. They are still doing albums, but nothing they do will match the match the amount of work that went into the production of Hysteria. Still I can't wait for the next album, Phil said it's going to be the most edgy in a long time, so that's exciting.

  • that's def leppard going high school.. hahaha

  • I love CMT Crossroads it's so unique and so nice to hear Def Leppard sing Taylor Swift songs! They make such good covers!!!

  • Taylor Swift, JUST NO.

  • Hysteria is one of the Top albums of all time!

  • Joe Elliot u are the best lead vocal i ever heard i love u man im not homosexual but i love u so cool man ur voice is incredible.

  • what album did 7million, High and Dry or Adrenalize? I know Hysteria and Pyromania were the 10+million sellers.

  • @Numba1Gama

    either adrenalize or vault could have sold 7 million world wide. I remember adrenalize sold around 6 million back in the day when it was released, so it could have made it to 7 million by 2010 or vault. but I believe the 7 million Joe was referring to was pyromania, as it didn't reach 10 million sold until this century. it sold around 6 or 7 million back in 83.

  • Other songs went together really well. I thought When Love and Hate Collide and Hysteria were really good too as well as some of Taylor's songs. The DVD Exclusives like "Love" sounded a lot better live on crossroads together than it does on the Sparkle Lounge album, imo, and "Two Steps Behind" worked perfectly in the crossroads too.(DVD exclusive too)

  • @Numba1Gama Keep in mind I actually watched these on proper sound setups on the DVD and not some crappy youtube videos, some of which I've seen are horrible quality, and don't have the dvd exclusive bonus songs and other footage.

  • Joe discusses this a bit in this interview a few minutes in at pod.sptimes.com/stuckinthe80s1­74.mp3

  • AWESOME

  • Swift sucks but DL will always rock in my world

  • I totally applaud Taylor for being a great musican and having the gumtion to play with her idols, but the music just doesn't gel together. 

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  • dude. what the heck are you talking about, joe?! you ARE the biggest rock band in the world!!! at least for me..

  • sorry but i had the 'hysterics' seein tailor swift with the Legendary Brits..de de de de de de de du du (twighlight zone!!!) that was awful was'nt it?!! anyway sumone get that lass a pie please!!

  • The title of this is misleading. It says "Awesome".

  • hysteria is the best for sure, i went through 3 tape copy's and 2 cds of hysteria because i played them so much

  • No @TheWho58, Justin Bebier is a 15 year-old baby who sounds like a chick. And I've never heard of that other person. And I really hope that the best band on Earth won't sink to that level. But im glad that Taylor Swift was joined in. She is really hot and very tallented.

  • taylor stinks !

    elliot rocks !

  • wow whats next Motley Crue and Justin Beeber.

  • Joe, your duet with Taylor was the highlight of the night cuz her boobies were jiggling all over the place!

    Encore!

  • no good they talk all thru it.

  • im sure has sucked any and

    every member of def leppard ,,hihi

  • def lepp sont descendus bien bas :/ where is Heavy metal !!!

  • i met joe elliott the other day :)

  • Sorry. Nothing like the old Def Leppard music. They will never reproduce the music they had from the 80s. Rock Of AGes, Run Riot, Pour some Sugar on Me, Lady Strange, Switch625, Mirror Mirror etc............

  • Love this! I think she sings better in Photograph

  • What is that stupid disney slut do here...? DEF LEPPARD FTW

  • @cliffthelightning Learn your facts shes not Disney!

  • Joe Elliott. Pure legend!!

  • the idiot that came up with this shit with taylor swift should bee HANGD!! Why ruin DEF LEPPARD ROCK???

  • What next... Miley Cyrus with Whitesnake??? ..Hey I dont want to give anyone ideas!!

  • @stuh1975 Miley Cyrus whith Whitesnake no, but whith Poison... XD

  • @stuh1975

    Slayer and dolly parton love song duets

  • he did good in the country butt taylor kick ass lol

  • CROSSROADS WITH T.SWIFT AND DEF LEPPARD is one of the best crossroads cmt have ever done :) it's awesome :)

  • taylor swift sucks suck! Def Leppard ROCKS!

  • JOE HIGH AND DRY ALBUMN WAS Perty GOOD.

    YoUR BEST ONE

  • Def leppard was good when Steve Clark was alive... As for Taylor great country singer she should go rock lol

  • Def Leppard angers me. They went from being straight up rockers out from England's streets to some of the most poppish sounding stuff I've ever heard of. They are total sell outs. DEATH TO FALSE METAL.

  • Hysteria is best selling DF album, but I think Pyromania is better.

  • Very difficult is the understatement to end understatements, where do you go from perfect?

  • Yup, Hysteria is the best album ever of you guys! It's also one of the best albums of al times; hard to beat that. I love that album.

    Great band, and Joe, you guys are the best hard rock band of all times, thanks for all you have done!

  • Hey Check it out it's An 80's Legend singing with a Stupid Country Bitch

  • wtf ? hat hap with rock band 80's? taylor swift :S def leppard es una gran banda no hay necesidad de esto :S! q lamentable!

  • that says a lot about def leppord to go out there singing with a pop star. radiohead declined to walk out with hannah montana and kanye west to even be seen with them let alone perform with them.

  • Loretta you uncouth wench, do you ever shut your garbage mouth?! There is far more intelligence to be found in a parasite than will emerge from that diarhetic head-hole of yours.

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  • I don't know what to say really, for some reason I really like Taylors music, and she seems like a very nice girl. She doesn't have the best voice though, but who needs one if you get to play with Def Leppard anyway?

    Def Leppard are such cool guys, and they've always seemed so nice and normal, wich is pretty uncommon for rockers.

  • Def Leppard ROCKS!!!!

  • Awesome... I'll stick to the phrase: No matter what we do, people is going to compare with Hysteria... :)

  • taylor swift sucks def leppard pwns!!!