Taylor Swift: Culture's Most Polarising Showgirl

Welcome back to Two Girls One Culture! On this week’s episode, we wade into the notoriously dangerous waters of Taylor Swift and her accompanying lore. Using her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, we examine the ways in which she has embodied ‘the showgirl’ throughout her career, unpacking her relationship with fame and the media. We focus on how Swift's particular brand of showmanship has propelled her to one of the most consistent fixtures of popular culture. We also examine what she means to the culture in terms of feminism, environmentalism, fan culture, music industry and conspiracy, all in attempt to understand where artist and showgirl meet, and why the whole world seems to care about about one miss Taylor Swift!