Swiftlore: The Lyrics and Lore of Taylor Swift

It's been one year since we saw Taylor live at MetLife. Hard to believe! In this episode, we cover the first and last songs of the Eras Tour, as well as discuss the changes Taylor has made to the set these last few weeks. Also, you're going to want to stick around until the end - otherwise, you'll miss the lore of the Car Shrimp™️ Follow us on TikTok and Instagram for other shenanigans...

If you think about it, The Tortured Poets Department has two track fives, one for the standard edition and one for the Anthology. So since we can’t stop thinking about TTPD, we decided to cover both So Long, London + How Did It End?

We are both big fans of Ed Sheeran, so this week we decided to cover two of Taylor’s songs that feature Ed Sheeran: Everything Has Changed and End Game! We did have some audio issues with this episode, so we had to switch to our camera’s audio halfway through — we apologize for the sound quality issues, but they’ll be fixed next week! Thank you for listening 🫶🏻

This week we got to talk to an author we love, Megan Collins. Megan is a huge Swiftie and it was so much fun to hear more about her thoughts on Taylor and writing. You can learn more about Megan’s books on her website: https://www.megancollins.com/ as well as on her TikTok and Instagram, which are both @megancollinswriter.

You know where Swiftlore is this April 29th, covering two Taylor songs about cheating: High Infidelity and Illicit Affairs. NOTE: we recorded this before TTPD came out.

The Tortured Poets Department is here! For our first episode, sorry, meeting, after the release, we decided to dive into our two favorite songs from our initial listens: loml and I Can Do It With a Broken Heart. We can’t wait to keep listening and seeing if these songs stay our favorites or if they’ll change as time goes on!

To get ready for TTPD dropping this Friday (!!!!) we decided to cover two songs with literary references: Invisible String and Tolerate It. We loved talking about these songs, and we hope you enjoy listening to us discussing them!

Taylor has written a lot of songs about hiding her relationships from the public eye, and this week we decided to cover two of our favorites: Dancing With Our Hands Tied and I Know Places.

We hope you enjoyed our little April Fool’s day prank in the first few minutes of this episode! We promise not to do it again unless Taylor actually comes on the pod. Instead, enjoy us talking about some songs we aren’t the biggest fans of: Stay Stay Stay and ME!

To celebrate Cat's birthday, we decided to mix things up and cover one of our favorite non-Taylor albums of all time: Decide by Djo. We've been planning this for months (longtime listeners will know we mention Djo almost every episode), and got so excited that End of Beginnings went viral a few weeks ago! Enjoy our journey through this incredibly well thought out album that we both love so...

This week we decided to explore two of Taylor's songs about mental illness: This Is Me Trying and The Archer. Light content warning for discussions of mental illness and addiction. You can watch the full clip of Abby and Silvia talking here: https://youtu.be/J9mTFgVisT4

This week we covered two songs that we love that have to do with driving (and crashing): Getaway Car and Out of the Woods.

It’s our twenty-second episode, so of course we had to do some Swiftie math and cover 22 and Fifteen. This was a fun episode as we dove into what we were like at 15 and 22 and also discovered how horrifying owls are without feathers. Enjoy!

This week we wanted to talk all things Tortured Poets Department before we actually know anything about the album! Enjoy our guesses about what might be on the album. We can’t wait to find out what we’re right and wrong about!

In honor of Taylor Lautner’s birthday, we decided to cover two songs that have to do with him: Back to December and I Can See You. We love an unproblematic ex! Check out Finer Finds here: https://www.shopfinerfinds.com/ Cat’s shirt: https://www.shopfinerfinds.com/products/the-repuslaytion-t-shirt?_pos=2&_psq=repuslay&_ss=e&_v=1.0 Abby’s shirt: https://www.shopfinerfinds.com/products/th...

We are so excited to have musician Sarah Gross on the podcast this week! She has been described as “queer cowboy Taylor Swift” and has written some incredible songs (our favs are Deep End and Arizona). We talked with her about how Taylor has impacted the music industry from her unique songwriting to her ability to connect with fans to her re-recordings. Sign up for Sarah’s monthly email list and f...

Welcome to the new podcast set! In honor of Cat’s move, we decided to do two songs about moving: Never Grow Up and Welcome to New York. We get a little weepy this week and even manage to make WTNY emo (we know, we were surprised too).

For the final episode recorded on our first podcast set, we decided to work on emptying Cat’s liquor cabinet to make it easier for her to move next week 🫶🏻 To make the drinking on theme and not just a fun Saturday night, we chose two Taylor songs that mention drinking: Nothing New and Maroon. Cat’s poem “Wrinkles in the Year of the Barbie Movie” - https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8sY4Xbr/

No one asked us to die on these hills, but honestly the view is great so why not choose here to die: It’s Nice to have a Friend and Midnight Rain.

Engineers WISH they could construct bridges as iconic and flawless as the ones in these songs: Cruel Summer and Death by a Thousand Cuts. Diving into these songs made us realize they're even more amazing that we originally thought if that was even possible. Also, please excuse our audio problems in the ten minutes or so of the episode, we had a recording issue!

Happy 2024! We’re kicking off the new year with a few fitting songs: Begin Again and New Years Day. Watch the behind the scenes of the rep secret sessions here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0sMLapsao8

To finish out 2023, we decided to do a few different Taylor Swift rankings and share our results! You can find the song sorter/ranking here: https://jesseepinkman.tumblr.com/tswiftsong and the link to the mathematical ranking is in @lizwizdom on TikTok’s bio! Thank you again for listening this year, it’s meant the world to us and we can’t wait to see what 2024 will bring ✨

This week we covered the two songs that appeared on Glee: Mean and Mine. We also have our first ever guests on the pod this week! It was so much fun having Andrew and Allison from Gleek of the Week on this week to talk about Glee, Taylor Swift, and everything else we ended up discussing on our many tangents. Head over to our YouTube channel to see the non-abridged version of our conversation with...

We asked a few weeks ago what songs you wanted us to cover, and these two were highly requested! So this week we’re covering two very interconnected songs: Dear John and Would’ve Could’ve Should’ve. Enjoy! Link to the Speak Now Tour’s Dear John performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FQCpSg65jU

It’s December and we’re getting in the spirit with two of Taylor’s songs about this time of year: ‘Tis the Damn Season and Christmas Tree Farm! And while these two songs may be about the same time of year, they definitely have… very different vibes. Enjoy!