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

from Decoding Taylor Swift · host Joe Romm and Toni Romm

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

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