EPISODE · Oct 8, 2025 · 47 MIN
why the life of a showgirl is a play within a play
from gasp! the pod · host gasp! the pod
It's been 1 full year of my podcast! Thank you so much! To celebrate, my Spotify subscription is now just $1. Please enjoy this gift from me to you <3Taylor Swift’s 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, was released last week, and to the world’s surprise, it did not impress. But is Taylor really losing her craft? Is she becoming MAGA-fied? Has her man replaced her brain with a football? Or is there more to the story?This episode, Hailey inspects this album through a different lens: an ironic one. Is it possible that this “new” Taylor is simply reflecting back on society what it wants from her? (that 1950s shit.) Is Taylor performing a play within a play–an ironic, 21st century rendition of the play within Hamlet? Are we actually seeing the life behind the Showgirl…or is she still on stage: performing for us, the heckling crowd?Subscribe on Youtube: here!My Patreon: here!Support: here!
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