Ep43: The Life Of A Showgirl (Taylor Swift Album Review)

About this episode

The episode features a review of Taylor Swift's album 'The Life Of A Showgirl' with guests Kate and Maddy discussing their fandom and connections.

Welcome to episode 43 of the bradtpop podcast! I am very excited to be joined by friends Kate & Maddy to talk about one of our favourite topics - Taylor Swift! Her 12th album The Life Of A Showgirl has broken all the records including biggest first week sales in the US - surpassing Adele’s 3.5m - and the highest streaming on Spotify for the week per average song, second on overall streams only to herself for the Tortured Poets Department which had nearly 3 times as many tracks. Today we will do a review on each of the twelve tracks and also talk about the associated film for the release party but first lets introduce our guests! Kate Pattison is famous among the Swifties, regularly being interviewed on TV and in print for her opinions on Taylor Swift and even landing herself in an academic book on Culture, Capital & Critique! She also is a PHD candidate at RMIT on fan studies including on Harry Styles & Delta Goodrem too. Speaking on Delta that is actually how the three of us know each other! People would be surprised the many connections that are made through the fandom. Maddy and I bonded over many clownings on a Reputation Taylors Version released, staying up…

People in this episode

Host: Brad

Guests: Kate Pattison, Maddy

Topics covered

• Taylor Swift
• album review
• music industry
• fan culture
• show business

Keywords

• Taylor Swift
• album review
• The Life Of A Showgirl
• Kate Pattison
• Maddy
• Eras Tour
• fan studies
• music sales
• streaming records

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: RMIT

Books & works: The Life Of A Showgirl, Tortured Poets Department

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