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

About this episode

Joe and Toni analyze Taylor Swift's song ...Ready For It, exploring its deeper meanings and metaphors.

Taylor said …Ready For It “introduces a metaphor you may hear more of throughout the rest album, which is like this kind of Crime and Punishment metaphor.” Joe and Toni discuss the song’s many ambiguous words and phrase find the true crime at the heart of the song. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Hosts: Joe Romm, Toni Romm

Topics covered

• Taylor Swift
• song analysis
• metaphor
• music commentary
• Reputation album
• true crime

Keywords

• Taylor Swift
• Reputation
• ...Ready For It
• Crime and Punishment
• song analysis
• metaphor
• music commentary

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: ...Ready For It, Reputation, Crime and Punishment

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