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EPISODE · Feb 18, 2026 · 44 MIN

Swift's storytelling trick in You Need To Calm Down and how to master it

from Decoding Taylor Swift · host Joe Romm and Toni Romm

You Need To Calm Down is Taylor Swift’s buoyant pride anthem and the fourth song on the Era’s Tour set list. But it also uses one of the most important storytelling tricks, used by everyone from Dickens to Churchill to Martin Luther King, Jr. Indeed, as Joe and Toni reveal, the song contains most of the tricks you need to know to be a memorable speaker and writer. And if people don’t remember what you say, it doesn’t matter what you say. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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