Decoding …Ready For It, Swift’s “partner in crime” Reputation opener, to uncover her deeper meaning

The title track on the Lover album turns out to mean something quite opposite to what it seems. But Joe and Toni reveal just how brilliant and bizarre the fifth song on Era’s Tour set list is, by decoding both the song and the bonkers music video. And along the way, they reveal one of Taylor’s grea…

A must-see episode as Toni sings a Taylor Swift song for the first time! She and Joe discuss why the The Archer lyrics are so brilliant, and the essential storytelling tricks you can learn from them. Finally, they debate the meaning of the sudden, ambiguous ending where the final line repeats the f…

You Need To Calm Down is Taylor Swift’s buoyant pride anthem and the fourth song on the Era’s Tour set list. But it also uses one of the most important storytelling tricks, used by everyone from Dickens to Churchill to Martin Luther King, Jr. Indeed, as Joe and Toni reveal, the song contains most o…

The Man is one of Taylor’s most ironically meta songs. But it also repeatedly uses one of Lincoln’s favorite literary devices: a storytelling tool that you can use too to make your content go viral. The third song on the Era’s Tour set list is Taylor’s most iconically feminist song, which inspires …