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Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of Open Tabs.
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I am your host, Keely.
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Side note, I always say the exact same intro.
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I noticed this earlier when I was editing the last episode.
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I went, huh, look at some consistency in my opener.
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Maybe I need to shake it up, or maybe I should keep it the same.
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So let's get into today's topic.
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Title of this episode is called Haters Gonna Hate Hate Hate.
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So you should know what this is about.
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This is about Taylor Swift.
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Now, I have been listening to Taylor Swift since I was like 12.
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Okay, I had the debuted album on a CD.
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Yes, I am, in fact, that old.
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I had CDs.
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The very first concert I ever went to was the Taylor Swift concert.
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I went to the sorry.
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I went to the Fearless Tour in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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I went with my sister Chloe.
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We had box seats, so we were like above the stage.
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It was amazing.
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It was so, it was so fun.
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And I remember one of my favorite parts was it was Forever and Always.
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So she's on one end banging on the drum.
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And then she had a band member on the other side of the drum banging on the drum.
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It was so cool.
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And of course, the water with should have said no.
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It was a great concert.
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It was so great.
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I have always loved Taylor Swift.
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Always.
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I I had like I said, I had all of her all of the CDs at one point before Spotify.
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So I've always been a Swippie.
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And I've always connected to her music.
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One of my favorite songs from debut was Cold As You.
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If you know, you know that the fifth album of all of her albums, or the fifth song of every album, tends to be an emotional one.
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And Cold As You was one I connected with.
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But I also connected with Tied Together with a smile.
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I was going through a lot as a teenager growing up with an alcoholic mother and taking care of my siblings.
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So I connected a lot to Taylor Swift's music.
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So she's always been very important to me.
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So I got Debute, I had Fearless, and then Speak Now and Red.
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Red for the Longest Time was my favorite album.
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And it stayed consistently my favorite album until the Tortured Poets Department.
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When the Tortured Poets Department came out, I went, well, Red, you've finally been voted from the first place.
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When so when 1989 came out, it was not my favorite album.
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I didn't connect as much to the songs.
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I still enjoyed them and I still had fun, but I didn't connect as much with them.
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Like I still love Shake It Off, because come on, the title of this episode is called Haters Gonna Hate Hate Hate.
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And I liked Blank Space a lot because I liked the satiricalness of it.
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And my favorite line from that is baby, I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream.
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It's just a great line.
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So even though it's not my favorite album, I still like like liked it.
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Like it was alright.
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That's okay.
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You don't have to like every single album.
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Excuse me.
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You don't have to like every single album that an artist puts out.
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That's okay.
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Lover wasn't my favorite either initially, but as I have gotten older, I I've enjoyed it more.
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Like I didn't really like the song me.
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I just I did not like it.
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I liked the video because I liked Brendan Urey, but it felt a little felt a little Disney channel, but that's okay.
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Because again, you don't have to like every song that comes on the radio.
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The reputation, man, that was huge.
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If you know, you know everything that's happened with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian.
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I had to give my mom the DL, the demo, on and all of the deeps of what exactly happened.
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And she asked me, she's like, how old was Taylor when she got that?
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It was like she only was like maybe 19.
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So yeah, when he took Kanye took her microphone, and she's just standing there so confused as to what's going on.
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So yeah, reputation was I liked that.
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Then just folklore and evermore.
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If I had to rank my favorite albums, it's gonna be really hard.
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But if I had to rank them,
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it tortured poets department, my fave, okay?
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Like I love that.
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That is 30 songs that I do not skip.
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I do not skip a single one of those songs.
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Peter is one of my favorite songs, but also Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?
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When that song came out, that was my theme song.
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It's still my theme song.
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So yeah, Tortured Poets Department read folklore and evermore are really very much like tied together.
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So we're gonna put them together.
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Um, and then probably four.
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This is gonna be kind of funny, but is midnight.
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I really enjoyed midnights a lot, and I like the bonus songs that she does, like You're Losing Me, so good.
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Um but also The Great War, Would've Coulda Should've.
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And a lot of the times, like when she re-re re-released Red, I loved it even more, especially with the songs that were added, like Forever Winter, I Bet You Think About Me, 1989 had some great bonus songs, like Is It Over Now?
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Just really great ones.
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Great one.
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Speak Now had Timeless, which I love that song, Castle is Crumbling, and I like that they added to it and you understood like where they fit, like they made sense.
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So obviously, when The Life of a Showgirl came out, I was like, yes, new album.
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So excited.
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I listened to the whole album when it came out last October and like all day, and I already had all of the songs memorized by by the time they rolled around.
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So yeah, I've always been a Swiftie.
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When I she said she was gonna do the Ares tour, I immediately tagged my mom in it and I put in all caps.
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I wanna go, this is what I want for Christmas, and then she messages me and she's like, You think I don't already know that that's what you want for Christmas?
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So we went to the Ares tour.
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I had a really great outfit planned.
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I was gonna wear some sparkly pants because I was like, midnight's had just come out, so I was like, Okay, there's gonna be so much sparkle because of the song Bejeweled.
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There's gonna be so much sparkle.
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So I got sparkly pants.
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They didn't come on, come in on time, and we had to go to Arlington, Texas.
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We go, and thankfully, our hotel is right across, so we can just walk to the venue.
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It was so much fun seeing everyone's outfits and all of the sparkles and the boots and the hats.
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You had some that were very debut-inspired and fearless, speak now, and red, and 1989, and reputation, and lover, and folklore, and evermore, and tortured poets department later when that came out, and it was just so much fun.
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My mom's got like a bunch of videos of me singing because I stood the entire time.
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I was dancing, I was singing.
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The people next to us, they were they also were having fun, but they didn't know all of the songs, and that was okay.
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So they would ask me what album is this off of because they wanted to listen to it more later, and I would tell them.
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And it was so much fun.
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My mom's got a bunch of videos of me singing and dancing and just grinning like a loon because I was so happy.
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It just it was so nice to do something like that, especially after because I was like after COVID, and even though it was after COVID, we were still kind of in the middle of everyone trying to get back to how it was, and I don't think we ever did.
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Air Stor was amazing, and I I loved it so much.
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The reason why this is called Haters It Are Gonna Hate Hate Hate is I have realized and noticed for years how much hate Taylor gets.
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And I wrote a blog about this a while ago.
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I think I've written like two blogs actually.
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Now, again, you don't have to like her music.
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Okay, you don't have to like her music.
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If you if her music is not your style of music, that is okay.
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Alright?
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Everyone has their own preference.
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Preferences.
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That's okay.
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My problem is is when you like Taylor Swift, and then people just automatically rip you apart and say she's she's trash and she's fake and she's a mean girl and all of that.
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They just automatically attack you for being a Swifty.
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Automatically.
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I really don't at all.
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For the Ares tour, every city she she helped.
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Like she donated money, she took care of the drivers who were moving the equipment, she took care of the people who were on tour with her, the fans, the dancers, all of that, right?
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So I don't understand where the hate comes from.
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No, that's a lie.
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I understand where it comes from.
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It comes from misogyny and sexism.
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Because I have never seen a male artist get as much hate as Taylor Swift does.
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It does not matter what she does.
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She gets she gets shot on.
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It does not matter.
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She always does.
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I don't understand that.
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I feel like it's just a level of they want something to bitch about, they want something to complain about, so they hate on her a lot.
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It's it's ridiculous.
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I mean, when The Life of a Showgirl came out, everyone was like, this is such a trash album, and blah blah blah.
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She's just doing it for the money, and everyone's always saying she's got too many variants of albums.
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Do you know who also has variants of albums?
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Every other freaking artist.
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Y'all aren't bitching about all of the male artists who have variants of their albums, and yet you want to bitch about her.
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I don't understand that.
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Once again, you don't have to like her music.
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That doesn't mean you get to just hate her and spew a bunch of random shit.
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Because you just want to bitch about her.
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I I really I really don't understand the discourse of it.
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I really don't.
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I'm never going to understand it.
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Whatsoever.
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I wish I did understand it.
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Because I I don't.
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Maybe maybe someone can tell me.
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What has she done?
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I have not seen anything or read anything of like the heinous things that she has done to make y'all hate her.
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Okay?
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She's just making music.
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That's it.
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Then everyone gets mad when she goes to football games.
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Guys, she's going to a football game to support her husband.
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It's not her fault that the camera ghost to her.
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She's not telling them, look at me, look at me.
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She's having fun trying to watch a football game, okay?
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Also, one of the cutest things is these these some of these dads, whose daughter love daughters loved Taylor Swift, they love her, wanted to go to football games because Taylor Swift was going to them.
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Then it turned out that some of the girls really
got into it because they had never gone before.
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Because they didn't think it was gonna be fun.
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That's okay.
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And then they saw that Taylor Swift was having fun and they wanted to understand.
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Then suddenly you have these dads who are connecting to their daughters who've been trying to connect to them.
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That's adorable.
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And I loved seeing all of these dads at the arrows tour with the friendship bracelets, even some of them got dressed.
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It was just so sweet.
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What exactly has she done to make y'all hate her?
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I really don't understand.
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I really don't.
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Now, I'm not gonna get into it right now because this is gonna be a next episode.
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Is I do understand that people are pissed off that she hasn't said anything about all of the awful shit that's been going on.
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And I do understand that.
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I do understand that silence is also a political statement.
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There's a lot of terrible things going on.
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There is Gaza and Cornell.
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There's terrible things.
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She is not the only one who hasn't spoken out though.
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Just saying.
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That's my point.
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I'm gonna leave it there because I am going to discuss that deeper and further in another episode.
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I do understand that, but we're gonna talk about that more in the next episode.
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So I don't understand the hate, because I I really do not.
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I do feel like a lot of it is they are bored and they want something to bitch about.
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I'm not for that, okay?
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Can you all just have fun?
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I feel like people don't like to have fun anymore and they don't want whimsy or to enjoy things.
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They always have to bitch about something.
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We're not gonna bitch about anything today.
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Well, I was bitching about why people are bitching about Taylor Swift.
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That's meta, but that's okay.
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Instead, I want to talk about her music.
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Now, as I said, I've been a Swifty since day one.
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Okay, day one.
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Debut.
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Awesome.
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I love Debut.
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A song that I really wish we had access to.
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You're Swifty, you know this, is I'd lie.
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Now, this is gonna sound so dorky, but one of my first YouTube um accounts I had, I had a bunch of videos of clips from Ingy Yasha that they put together with song.
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One of the songs they had put together with Ingy Yasha and Kigome and then Kikyo was I'd lie.
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Now I cannot find this anymore because I'm sure it's been taken down.
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YouTube's updated with privacy and copyright.
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But I'd lie is one of my favorite songs, and we have no access to this song.
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If we ever get debut Taylor's version, I need the song, okay?
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But again, one of my favorite songs is tied together with a smile, and of course, cold as you.
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But I also really like a place in this world.
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As I said, going through what I was going through, I just really related to that song.
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And I should have said no.
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Great song at the time, uh, and of course invisible and fearless.
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I feel like fearless was really more country than even Deep Ute was.
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I don't know if that makes sense.
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I could be totally totally wrong.
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Um, but I really liked You're Not Sorry.
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I like the emotional ones, guys.
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Don't worry, there's happy ones I like too.
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I like You're Not Sorry, but then Forever and Always.
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Yes, yes, and then of course, with the tailored version of Fearless, she had a bunch of songs that were added, right?
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We were happy is one of my favorites.
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It's so it's so pretty.
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Also, she added Untouchable, and I didn't know this, but Untouchable apparently is a cover of a song, and I did not know this, but this happens a lot where I like a song and I didn't know of the cover initially, and then I find the original and I'm like, yes.
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But yeah, I liked We Were Happy, and then Mr.
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Perfectly Fine.
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I love that so much.
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It is snarky.
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I enjoyed that.
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I like Wungie's snarky.
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It's why I like the uh songs off of Speak Now because it's a little more.
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I think that's where she really got into the snarkiness was with Speak Now.
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I had a friend who, when we got the new song, the new album, Speak Now, we listened to it for like ever, okay?
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Like we would sing and we dance and we'd listen to Speak Now.
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So Speak Now.
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My favorite song was always Sparks Fly, has never changed.
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That's always been my favorite song, Dear John.
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Holy crap.
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Oh my god, that song is so so good.
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It's so good.
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Just the emotional storytelling of that.
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I didn't initially like Mean when it first came out, and now I kind of like it because it's again one of those like she's calling them out and then she's being funny about it.
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Enchanted is a good one, Haunted is another one of my favorite.
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Last kiss is brutal.
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I know we have Dear John at track five, but holy crap, The Last Kiss is just brutal.
00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:51.279
I really love Castle's Premeling and Timeless of the songs that she added for Speak Now, Taylor's version.
00:18:56.079 --> 00:18:58.960
And of course, Back to December is a really good song too.
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As I've stated, Red has always been my favorite song.
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When that first album came out, I listened to it like YouTube.
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I didn't own it for a while.
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I was in Iowa and I listened to it.
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And Red, the name, the soundtrack name song, album track name, whatever.
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You know what I mean, was my favorite song.
00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:29.519
There's not a song on this album that I skipped.
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I loved all of them.
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Red, State of Grace.
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I knew you were troubled because again, with that cheekiness, and then we are never getting back together.
00:19:37.359 --> 00:19:38.400
Yes, iconic.
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We need it always.
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Holy ground, sad, tragic, beautiful love.
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Everything has changed.
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I really like Starlight.
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I feel like Starlight gets overlooked a lot because it's not holy ground, it's not red, or we are never getting back together.
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But I really enjoy Starlight.
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And then begin again.
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Somehow made it on one of my Spotify rapped, even though they are not newer songs, but then Better Man is another one of those songs where I liked Little Big Town's version, and I didn't know she had originally she Taylor had originally wrote it, and then I was like, Oh yeah, I like the song, and that happens with Babe too.
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Babe Shiverland did.
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I bet you think about me.
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Love that song.
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I will say I could have used some more Chris Stapleton.
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Um, I feel like, yeah, you can hear his voice, but it's very subtle, and I kind of wanted to hear more of it.
00:20:37.200 --> 00:20:43.039
And then Forever Winter is a song that I associate with my brother Tristan.
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So I love that song.
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An all too well 10-minute version, seeing that, hearing that live was a moment, and as always, fuck the patriarchy.
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As I've said, 1989 is not my favorite album.
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I don't hate it, but it's not my favorite one.
00:21:20.720 --> 00:21:21.759
There's nothing wrong with that.
00:21:21.920 --> 00:21:25.839
I think it's it's a little more synth pop than I generally like.
00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:29.359
And that's that's totally okay.
00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:43.920
A lot of times you'll find with the Taylor's version, the From the Ball songs are the ones that I'm like, you really oh my god about because they in my my brain they should have always been on this album.
00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:47.279
So of course, blank space, shake it off.
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I really like clean.
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But for like the From the Bolt songs, I like Is It Over Now and Stay Don't Go.
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I really like those ones.
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When Reputation came out, I was like, okay, because it was so vastly different from 1989, from Red, from Speak Now, from Fearless, from her debuted album.
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You're like, whoa, what happened to Taylor?
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Please tell us.
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Again, this is not one of my favorite albums.
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It's funny when I got my mom into Taylor Swift, I already knew what her two favorite albums were going to be.
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I said her favorite albums are going to be Reputation and Lover.
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And it's hilarious that those are her two favorite ones because they're so different.
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Because they're so different, right?
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Reputation and lover are like opposite ends, right?
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But when she listened to them both fully, she was like, You were right.
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I know Mom was right because I know you, Mom.
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So Reputation's not my favorite one, but I do have some great songs on there.
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It's got some great songs.
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And I don't know if we will ever see Dave Yves Taylor's version or Reputation, her version.
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And if we don't, I feel like that's okay.
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But man seeing Don't Blame Me on stage and just look what you made.
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It's so good.
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But no, I like I did something bad.
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Don't blame me.
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Delicate, look what you made me do.
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Ready for it, course.
00:23:40.799 --> 00:23:43.759
So I have two Taylor Swift tattoos.
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Okay, one of them is an actual line from the one.
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From the one.
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We'll get to that in a moment.
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Right?
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It is if you never bleed, you're never gonna grow.
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Then the other one is actually a lot more subtle.
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It's not a direct quote.
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Instead, with my Batman tattoo, I have poison ivy leaves, then turn into daisies.
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The line is from Don't Blame Me.
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I once was poison ivy, but you were Daisy.
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It was my mom's idea, and it's freaking genius.
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So yeah, seeing then the I just like I said, reputation is was so different, but not in a bad way.
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It was not in a bad way that it was different.
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And then you have lover, which threw me completely off track.
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Because you have reputation, and then you go to lover, and you're like, what?
00:24:33.599 --> 00:24:40.480
But um The Man and that video, I love her videos, her music videos are awesome.
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But The Man is so funny and such a good video.
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Yes, one of my favorites.
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Then Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince.
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Cornelia Street is weirdly sweet.
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That rhymed unintentional.
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I didn't warn my mom about soon you'll get better.
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And it's a very emotional song because it's about Taylor Swift's mom, Vital Cancer.
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And yeah, sorry, I made my mom cry.
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My bad, did I mean to, my bad.
00:25:25.680 --> 00:25:33.759
Again, it's one of those songs where it's like, okay, guys, she's addressing the discourse that's been around her.
00:25:33.920 --> 00:25:39.680
Some of her best songs are the ones that address the discourse and around her.
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One of the like surprise releases.
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Like, seriously, it was a major surprise.
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Cardigan was my top song for like three years.
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I'm not even kidding.
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It was like top song for like three years.
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This is another one of those albums where I don't skip a song.
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I love all
of the that happens sometimes.
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There's some songs that I skip.
00:26:19.359 --> 00:26:20.559
Like Lover, I skip a few.
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Same with Reputation, same with 1989.
00:26:23.519 --> 00:26:31.039
But folklore is one of those ones where every song just feels feels deep with me.
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So the one, obviously, I have that tattoo.
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You're never gonna bleed.
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If you never bleed, you're never gonna grow.
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Me, not knowing English.
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And cardigan and exile.
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I love exile, and I love that it's a duet.
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Elicit affairs, of course, mad woman.
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We love ourselves, madwoman.
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I just, there's just something almost very chill and witchy about folklore.
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Whenever I get to writing it, I'm definitely gonna be listening to that whole album and Evermore when I'm writing my witchy book.
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It just feels very witchy.
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Of course, we had Evermore that came in December of that same year, and we're like, wait, what?
00:27:31.359 --> 00:27:33.359
No body, no crime.
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Yes, it has such vibes of y'all know the song Goodbye Earl.
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That's the vibes it had, and it was perfect.
00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:42.000
Tolerate it.
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Ooh, ooh.
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Champagne Problems is my favorite song from Evermore.
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That's my favorite one.
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I love Champagne Problems, and also Billow.
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And then Cowboy Like Me.
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Long story short, one of my favorite belongings is Long Story Short.
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I survived.
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I thought about getting that as a tattoo, and I still might because I feel like I need to just add to my collection.
00:28:04.160 --> 00:28:10.319
Well, one of my favorite songs was actually one of the deluxe edition, and it's right where you left me.
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There's just something so sweet and sad.
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I like those kind of songs where it's sweet and it's sad.
00:28:25.759 --> 00:28:28.720
Alright, so we've talked about all of the herb versions.
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Now we're gonna talk about midnights.
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I didn't expect to like midnight as much as I liked midnights, but I do.
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It's very like electric pop.
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It's still kind of like got that synth vibe of the 1989, but it's different.
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Do to do.
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This is another one where I don't skip any of these songs because I like all of them.
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Snow on the Beach is one of my favorites.
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I like it with Lana Del Rey, and I liked that there was one a version where it's more of Lana Del Rey because I just feel like the two of them together just fits so well with Snow on the Beach.
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You're on your own, kid.
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Ouch.
00:29:17.680 --> 00:29:26.720
Midnight Rain is so interesting because she's actually singing that deeper voice part, and it's just been like edited and changed, and I love that.
00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:30.000
So it's kind of like a duet with herself.
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Anti-hero, that video again, her videos where she's like a giant monster.
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It is just so quirky and fun.
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Vigilante shit.
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I love that one.
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That scene where she's at the Ares tour doing like a little sexy burlesque dance.
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It's so perfect with that song.
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Bejeweled, another great video that's very Cinderella-ish.
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It's just, I like it.
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Then we've got the 3 a.m.
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version edition that's got more songs.
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So you got the Great War, which my fave.
00:30:05.119 --> 00:30:08.960
And then Would've Coulda Should've hurt me in the punch.
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I feel like everyone can relate to that song.
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Everyone.
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And then you're losing me, of course.
00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:40.640
And we have the Tortured Poets to Market, which is a mammoth of an album.
00:30:40.720 --> 00:30:42.480
It's got like 31 songs, okay?
00:30:42.640 --> 00:30:46.160
Now, Rhett also has about that many songs.
00:30:46.400 --> 00:30:49.920
Her version of Red at least has that many songs.
00:30:50.240 --> 00:30:52.559
But whoa, tortured poets.
00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:55.359
So bear it with me.
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So Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?
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Definitely one of my favorites.
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For the longest time, I was actually iffy about So Long London being track five instead of L-O-M-L of Loss of My Life because that one.
00:31:12.960 --> 00:31:14.400
Ouch! Painful.
00:31:14.559 --> 00:31:19.119
But then as I listen to So Long London, I feel like it's more sad somehow.
00:31:19.599 --> 00:31:21.119
In a subtle way.
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Florida.
00:31:23.680 --> 00:31:24.640
We all like that song.
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If you don't, that's okay.
00:31:26.559 --> 00:31:28.960
And then the alchemy.
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Great.
00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:33.680
Just the lyrics in this album alone are so good.
00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:37.279
It's just so I love the lyrics in this.
00:31:37.599 --> 00:31:40.480
Down bad and guilty of sin are just kind of fun.
00:31:40.640 --> 00:31:42.559
For some reason, and I do not know why.
00:31:42.720 --> 00:31:48.720
One of these days, I'm gonna go through all of her albums and I'm going to like assign characters to each song.
00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:53.759
Because for some reason, Down Bad reminds me of Bella Swan.
00:31:53.920 --> 00:31:55.200
I do not know why.
00:31:55.359 --> 00:32:00.720
I cannot explain it, but it reminds me of Bella Swan.
00:32:01.200 --> 00:32:01.839
I don't know.
00:32:02.160 --> 00:32:03.920
Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?
00:32:04.160 --> 00:32:04.720
Yes.
00:32:04.960 --> 00:32:05.279
Yes.
00:32:05.359 --> 00:32:09.839
That is on my I need to make a feminine rage playlist.
00:32:09.920 --> 00:32:12.319
I need to actually update mine that I have.
00:32:12.640 --> 00:32:16.240
And yeah, that's what's going on there.
00:32:17.680 --> 00:32:30.000
I have a new appreciation for I'm gonna get you back on the anthology edition of the Tortured Post department because of TikTok and just especially the bridge of that song.
00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:31.519
The bridge is so good.
00:32:31.759 --> 00:32:33.039
Thank you, Amy.
00:32:35.039 --> 00:32:35.680
Hey.
00:32:37.119 --> 00:32:41.759
If you know, you know, and if you don't, that's okay.
00:32:42.640 --> 00:32:44.240
That is okay.
00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:46.799
The prophecy.
00:32:47.680 --> 00:32:51.119
The Bolter is a song that I really relate to deeply.
00:32:51.440 --> 00:32:55.200
It's not like it's like tied together with a smile from debut for me.
00:32:55.279 --> 00:32:58.720
I just relate to it so deeply because I feel like that's me.
00:32:59.599 --> 00:33:00.720
And then Peter.
00:33:01.200 --> 00:33:02.319
I love Peter.
00:33:02.480 --> 00:33:07.279
I listened to that song on repeat a few months ago over and over again.
00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:09.599
And I just love it.
00:33:11.839 --> 00:33:20.160
So yeah, I didn't expect the Tortured Poets to knock Red, both Red and Red Dealers version, out of the running, but it did.
00:33:20.240 --> 00:33:22.880
So now Tortured Poets, Red.
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Folklore and Evermore are like even, but honestly, I think Midnight is above them.
00:33:29.440 --> 00:33:33.599
Then of course we have the latest one, The Life of a Joe Girl.
00:33:33.759 --> 00:33:41.759
Again, this is one of the ones that I kind of like with Lover right after Reputation, or like 1989, where I was thrown off.
00:33:41.839 --> 00:33:43.599
I was like, what is this sound?
00:33:43.920 --> 00:33:45.599
But I really like it.
00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:53.359
There's a few songs that I initially was not that into, and as I listened to the album more, I was like, hmm, you know what?
00:33:53.440 --> 00:33:54.799
I kind of dig it.
00:33:55.200 --> 00:33:55.759
You know what?
00:33:55.920 --> 00:33:59.039
I liked that it's a shorter album.
00:33:59.359 --> 00:34:04.400
I like that it was at first only 12 songs, and then you had the encore edition.
00:34:04.640 --> 00:34:12.000
But The Fate of Ophelia, yes, Elizabeth Taylor, yes, Opalite, yes, father figure, yes, eldest daughter.
00:34:12.320 --> 00:34:15.599
I feel personally attacked by this song.
00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:16.800
Thank you very much.
00:34:16.960 --> 00:34:20.239
But I also feel personally attacked by Babylon, so thank you.
00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:28.480
Actually, Romantic reminds me of Better Than Revenge from Speak Now, and I need more of that, Taylor.
00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:29.519
Wish list.
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That's it's a cute song.
00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:33.760
Same with honey.
00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:37.280
Would I first read that song?
00:34:37.360 --> 00:34:38.639
I said, oh my god.
00:34:39.760 --> 00:34:41.360
It was so quirky.
00:34:41.760 --> 00:34:44.559
But like that's a showgirl, right?
00:34:44.639 --> 00:34:46.480
Like a play on words.
00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:48.800
That's a showgirl.
00:34:49.679 --> 00:34:50.880
Then cancelled.
00:34:51.280 --> 00:34:54.400
Yes, also needs to go on my feminine rage because it's so good.
00:34:54.559 --> 00:35:12.480
And there's a few of these songs that I feel like pull from her other albums, and that's what I feel like Tortured Poets Day, because a lot of the songs on Tortured Poets, and again, I'd have to like go through it, could go in her other albums and blend completely in.
00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:16.719
But Babylon, Pink Clouding, and Patient Zero, I love those songs.
00:35:16.800 --> 00:35:26.880
Cleveland is again, I like it, and it's kind of quirky, and I like that she makes fun of herself and addresses again the discourse around her.
00:35:27.840 --> 00:35:29.280
That's my two cents.
00:35:31.519 --> 00:35:40.239
Like I said, I'm always gonna be a Swifty, but I don't I I I just wanted to share my love for her and her music.
00:35:40.480 --> 00:35:42.079
I'm gonna go backtrack again.
00:35:42.239 --> 00:35:44.960
If you don't like her, that is okay.
00:35:45.280 --> 00:35:45.920
That's okay.
00:35:46.079 --> 00:35:51.119
Not everyone likes everyone, and you don't like her music, but you don't have to be so hateful about it.
00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:52.239
That's my thing.
00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:53.920
You don't have to be so hateful about it.
00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:58.400
You don't have any right to get pissy at other people when they like something.
00:35:58.559 --> 00:35:58.880
Okay?
00:35:59.440 --> 00:36:00.239
That's it.
00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:01.679
That's all it is.
00:36:03.039 --> 00:36:08.559
But thank you for listening to me talk and random about Taylor Swift.
00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:13.519
If you also like her music, even if you're not like a Swifty like I am, let me know what you like.
00:36:13.760 --> 00:36:14.880
What's your favorite song?
00:36:15.119 --> 00:36:16.480
What's your favorite album?
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Until next time.
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Bye.