"They tell a full story," the Stranger Things star said of her Swift song picks.

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While facing the heat on Hot Ones , Maya Hawke praised two artists she thinks are the epitome of cool: Taylor Swift and Eminem .

In the episode posted Thursday (Oct. 22), the singer-actress braved increasingly spicy bites of chicken wings — the temperatures of which possibly even rivaled when her character, Robin, flambéed Vecna in season four of Stranger Things — and gushed about two of her favorite Swift songs. “OK, I’m going ‘But Daddy I Love Him’ or ‘Betty,'” she said when host Sean Evans asked which track would best represent the Eras headliner in the “American anthology of poetry.”

“They tell a full story like an epic poetry,” Hawke continued of the Tortured Poets Department and Folklore cuts. “They do it without using clichés. They tell an original story that plays on themes and historical ideas. And I think they’re just very fully thought through, extremely complete, kind of epic journeys.…