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What a week! We’re talking Grammys, TS11 announcement, and the Super Bowl. Complicated feelings about conspiracy theories and Taylor’s public image and capitalism abound. Come for the discourse, stay for our imagined versions of every track on TTPD.   Sidebars this week: Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the self-fulfilling monster on the hill prophecy, Fox News plugging Taylor Swift as a psyop for the Pentagon and Joe Biden, whether the Super Bowl is rigged, wake up sheeple but also stay asleep sheeple, and no longer trusting Taylor’s use of punctuation.

HELLO LISTENERS and welcome back! We’re whetting your appetites with a petite overview of the happenings in Taylorland — the You’re Losing Me drop, the Eras tour film, and, of course, the couple bringing us close to monoculture. Tune in to hear our thoughts on PR and girlhood and the NFL and himbos.  Sidebars this week: raisins, Rachel Antonoff, whether is Taylor a picky eater, the chai cookies, Gettin Bi from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Lance from The Other Two, this Taffy Brodesser-Akner piece, and closed captioning for movies.

SUMMER OF TAYLOR. Recorded on the eve of Speak Now TV, we have a little recap of our tour experience. And soon we’ll be back with our full album (and music video) review — what a time to be alive! We are rich in content!!!

Breaking breakup news!!! The #toe split — let’s get into it.  Sidebars this week: Emily Henry, Lesley Gore, the Kravitz family, a new music video being filmed in Liverpool (??), the Barbie movie, Taylor as Christ, this TikTok, the locked Gaylor subreddit, Taylor’s selective public allyship and (infuriating, disappointing) silence on anti-trans legislation, Tree and the publicist machine, boygenius, this outfit, Taylor’s wardrobe, Jon Caramanica, and the Eras Tour setlist.

Just a little update epi! We eat some Goldfish and talk Spotify stats, tour, Amsterdam (the film, not the city), Taylor’s directorial turn, rerecording predictions, (among other things). Until our Midnights deep dive — thanks for spending your year with us! We love you! To 2023!

The first of many Midnights deep dives! We’re talking this week about our complicated feelings about this album: its public reception, the necessary role of criticism in ingesting culture, what it means to engage with an artist’s internality, how to carry both our expectations and our appreciation, and the many, many, many layers of being a Taylor Swift fan. The vibe is rigorous classroom discussion, so grab your pencils and check the syllabus and settle into a comfy chair to chew on this album with us.

GOOD MORNING AND HAPPY MIDNIGHTS DAY TO ONE AND ALL! A mini-ep from immediately before and immediately after listening to the album. WE ARE EXCITED !!!

We’re back, babies. It’s the Midnights era and we’re GETTING INTO IT. Let’s talk theories, Easter eggs, inspirations, expectations, explanations, reputations. 39 days left… which is 13 times 3… INTERESTING TIMING. Sidebars this week: talking about Taylor Swift in class, therapy, and first dates, Las Culturistas, Peloton instructors, Joni Mitchell references, Tik Tok lesbians, journalism politics, cages, burning this house to the ground, Harry Styles and the celebrity-coming-out pipeline, the Lorde effect, and tour predictions,

Things have been uneventful on the Taylor front recently, so we’re recapping the bits and pieces of news for you today — Harry Styles’ leaked song (as promised, the song backed by an exceptional photo compilation), Karlie’s TikTok presence, Joe Alwyn’s press tour, Where the Crawdads Sing, Taylor’s return to acting, and Drake’s Instagram — all punctuated by the sound of the freeway and occasional Google Maps directions for an immersive audio experience. Sidebars this week: our road trip to Martha Stewart’s garage sale, whether Karlie begged Taylor for mercy in a Starbucks, the mystery lyric in “I Think He Knows,” the Sally Rooney oeuvre, the very dark shit surrounding Delia Owens and her family, and our exhausted inability to speculate on when we will get new music.

Today we are transitioning from Taylor-as-poet to Taylor’s literal poetry, circa 1999 and 2017. We’re reading Taylor’s three published poems — A Monster In My Closet!, Why She Disappeared, and If You’re Anything Like Me — and talking about why they feel like a new kind of peek into her psyche and her Enneagram type, Taylor’s deep need for being understood (even when There Will Be No Further Explanation There Will Just Be Reputation), and as usual, our plea for Taylor to get a therapist. Sidebars this week: Taylor’s connection to Al Gore, the Cadbury commercial where kids wiggle their eyebrows, Madeline’s career as a public speaking tutor, the sentient Empire State Building, is Martha Stewart deuxmoi, and Colton Underwood’s connection to Scooter Braun.

With the turning of the calendar, it’s time for us to reflect — and look ahead to consider what the absolute hell is going to fall in our laps from the one and only Miss Taylor. We’re staking our claims and making our predictions for what is to come this year: tour? Re-records? A fresh album? A NOVEL?? Who knows. Also — we’re on Instagram! Follow us at @whenuthinktaylorswift and send us your wildest theories, your requests for new episodes, and/or your top ten songs. We want it all.

SPOILERS ABOUND WE LISTENED TO THE LEAKED VERSION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! unedited insanity for you all