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Emily Dickinson and Taylor Swift |"Karma," "evermore" & Why They're Literary Twins

“Blank Space” Line-by-Line Analysis | AP Taylor Swift Podcast

"Don’t Leave Me Like This": Taylor Swift Meets Pride and Prejudice | I’m Only Me When I’m With You, Haunted, and Lavender Haze | AP Taylor Swift

"Tim McGraw" by Taylor Swift Song Analysis | AP Taylor Swift Podcast

Looking at Taylor Swift’s Music Through a Feminist Lens | AP Taylor Swift

“Cruel Summer” Meaning & Lyrics Explained | AP Taylor Swift

Why Summer Hits Different in Taylor Swift Lyrics | AP Taylor Swift

Celebrating Taylor Swift’s Wedding Day, from Love Story to Paper Rings to Wi$h Li$t: How Taylor Swift Writes About Weddings, Marriage | AP Taylor Swift Bonus Episode

“Willow” Song Analysis: Witchcraft, Mythology, and Power Dynamics | AP Taylor Swift E137

"I Don’t Wanna Live Forever": How Taylor Swift’s Songs Tell the Story of the Odyssey

“Cold As You” Song Meaning: Taylor Swift's Debut Deep Cut | AP Taylor Swift

Why Mr. Perfectly Fine Spent 13 Years in the Vault (Preview) | AP Taylor Swift After School

"You Drew Stars Around My Scars" - Taylor Swift's Scars as Symbols in Cold As You, Cardigan & CANCELLED!

Taylor Swift's "Anti-Hero" Meaning & Lyrics Explained: Hamlet, Beauty and the Beast & More | AP Taylor Swift

"I’ll Stare Directly at the Sun, But Never in the Mirror": Taylor Swift's Mirror Moments from Debut to Midnights | Tied Together With a Smile, Begin Again, and Anti-Hero

Taylor Swift's "Our Song" | Meaning & Lyrical Analysis | "Taylor Swift" Debut (2006)

Taylor Swift's Fearless Album | Song-by-Song Lyrical Analysis | After School Paid Preview

Alliteration in Taylor Swift's Music | "Our Song," "Call It What You Want" & More

Taylor Swift's "Elizabeth Taylor" Meaning & Lyrics Explained | The Life of a Showgirl (2025)

Luxury & Status in Taylor Swift's Music | "Bejeweled," "Elizabeth Taylor" & More | Literary Analysis

Taylor Swift's Debut Album | Track-by-Track Lyrical Analysis, Part 2 | After School Paid Preview

Taylor Swift's "Opalite" Meaning & Lyrics Explained | The Life of a Showgirl (2025)

Transcendentalism in Taylor Swift's Music |"The Lakes," "Opalite" & More | Literary Analysis

Taylor Swift's "Fifteen" Meaning & Lyrical Analysis | Fearless (2008)

How Taylor Swift Uses Time |"Fifteen," "Timeless" & "All Too Well" | Literary Analysis

Taylor Swift's "I Can Do It With a Broken Heart" | Meaning & Lyrical Analysis | TTPD (2024)

E122: Strong Women in Taylor Swift's Music | “marjorie,” “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart,” and “Eldest Daughter”

E121: "Down Bad Crying at the Gym" - A Line-By-Line Analysis of Taylor Swift's Down Bad

After School Paid Preview: She Knew Exactly What She Was Doing - Taylor Swift's Debut Album Deep Dive (Part 1)

E120: "I'm Immortal Now, Baby Dolls": How Taylor Swift Tells the Hero's Journey Across Every Era in the last great american dynasty, Down Bad, and The Life of a Showgirl

E119: "Your faithless love's the only hoax I believe in" | Taylor Swift's "hoax" line-by-line analysis

E118: Wuthering Heights & Taylor Swift: Love, Revenge, and Gothic Romance

Taylor Swift's "Dress" — Line-by-Line Lyrical Analysis | reputation (2017)

The Meaning Behind Taylor Swift's "Opalite" Lyrics: After School Paid Preview

E116: Taylor Swift Songs That Are Basically Bridgerton Episodes | AP Taylor Swift Podcast

E115: "When the Lights Go Out It's Hard to Breathe" - Taylor Swift's Forever Winter Deep Dive

E114: Taylor Swift Winter Songs: "Back to December," "The Moment I Knew" & "Forever Winter"

E113: Keep It 100 On the Land, The Sea, The Sky | "The Fate of Ophelia" Analysis

E112: Taylor Swift & Hamlet: Breaking Down "Hamlet" themes in Anti-Hero, I Knew You Were Trouble & The Fate of Ophelia

Hamlet: Sad, Beautiful, Tragic (Shakespeare’s Version) (After School Paid Preview)

Revisiting Taylor Swift Parallels: Connecting the Dots Between Unexpected Song Pairings

Happy Holidays from AP Taylor Swift - Holiday Songs Reprise

The End of an Era - Initial Reactions to Eps 1 and 2 of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour

Revisiting TTPD and The Eras Tour

E111: “So High School” by Taylor Swift line-by-line analysis

E110: Taylor Swift's High School Songs - A High School Musical Comparison

We're All in This Together: Why High School Musical Became a Cultural Phenomenon (After School Paid Preview)

E109: "seven" Line-by-Line Analysis | Taylor Swift's folklore hit

E108: "That's a Real Legacy to Leave": Taylor Swift and the Art of Intentional Ambiguity in seven, Maroon, and loml

E107: State of Grace Deep Dive: Taylor Swift's Transition from Fantasy to Reality on Red

One Month with Taylor Swift's “The Life of a Showgirl”: Our Honest Reactions (After School Paid Preview)

E106: Stumble On Home to My Cats: Taylor Swift’s Cat Songs - State of Grace, Gorgeous, and Beautiful Ghosts

Celebrating Our Favorite Childless Cat Lady: Dissecting Cats the Movie and Taylor Swift’s Role in It (After School Paid Preview)

E105: I guess I'll never, ever know… “Now That We Don’t Talk” Deep Dive

E104: Just a Girl on a Mission: Connecting Wicked to Taylor Swift’s “A Place In This World,” “Treacherous,” and “Now That We Don’t Talk”

E103: Invisible String Deep Dive - How Taylor Swift Turned Fate into Folklore

"The Life of a Showgirl" Album Release Reactions

E102: Taylor Swift Parallels: Connecting the Dots Between Unexpected Song Pairings

E101: Magic, Madness, Heaven, Sin: A Line-by-Line Analysis of Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space”

E100: Taylor Swift Songs That Transcend Time - Blank Space, New Romantics, The Man

Medieval Reality TV aka "The Canterbury Tales" for Taylor Swift Fans (After School Paid Preview)

E99: “But Daddy I Love Him”: Sarahs, Hannahs, Taylor's Tale of Rebellious Love

E98: Taylor Swift's Unreliable Narrators: When You Can't Trust the Story - You Belong With Me, Mr. Perfectly Fine, But Daddy I Love Him

Is It Over Now? Exploring Taylor Swift’s Use of Rhetorical Questions - Question, Ready For it, Is It Over Now

Tim McGraw: Deep Diving the Single That Launched Taylor Swift

TS12 'The Life of a Showgirl' Album Breakdown: Taylor Swift Podcast Appearance, Album Track Analysis & Literary Connections

E97: Cruel Summer: Line-by-line through Taylor Swift’s summer anthem

E96: Cruel Summer, August, hits different: Taylor Swift Summer Songs Breakdown

Happee Birthdae Harry: Swiftie Potterheads Unite

Mastermind in the Museum: Taylor Swift & Women Who Paint

E95: Is "Don't Blame Me" Taylor's Most Unhinged Love Song? (Deep Dive)

E94: Frankenstein - When Taylor Swift Meets Gothic Literature and Scientific Ambition

All Too Well (10 Minute Version) - Three Literary Lenses on Taylor's Epic Masterpiece

E93: I Forgot That You Existed

E92: Revenge Narratives in Taylor Swift's Songwriting

“I Can Go Anywhere I Want, Just Not Home” — Taylor Swift & the Pain of “my tears ricochet”

Greek Mythology and Taylor Swift: Exploring connections between Greek Mythology and Taylor's Lyrics

Bonus: And Then It Was Bought By Her: Taylor Swift Owns Her Masters

E91: Everything You Lose Is a Step You Take: A Deep Dive into “You’re On Your Own, Kid”

E90: The Art of Taylor Swift’s Storytelling: Narratology Explained

E89: Deep Dive - Florida!!! From “The Tortured Poets Department”

E88: Dance in a storm: From 'Fearless' Rain to ‘Florida!!!’ Hurricanes, Weather as a Literary Device in Taylor Swift’s music

E87: Deep Dive - “Say Don’t Go”

E86: Under the Big Top — Taylor Swift and the Circus Metaphor

E85: Karma Is My Boyfriend? Unpacking Taylor Swift's Song "Karma"

E84: Is Emily Dickinson Taylor Swift’s Literary Twin? Comparing Emily Dickinson with Karma, Evermore & More

E83: Taylor Swift Is Funnier Than You Think | "Thug Story," SNL, and Her Best Joke Songs

E82: Deep Dive - Guilty as Sin?

E81: Show and Tell - Paintings by Female Artists

E80: Deep Dive - Mirrorball

E79: Show and Tell - Feminist Theory

E78: Deep Dive - Tim McGraw

E77: Show and Tell - Historical Criticism

E76: Deep Dive - “You Are In Love”

E75: Show and Tell - Romantic Love

E74: Deep Dive - Maroon

E73: "Maroon", "Red," "Daylight" - Show and Tell - Color

E72: Deep Dive - cardigan

E71: Show and Tell - Peter Pan

Holidays Show and Tell - New Year's Day Re-Release

E70: Show and Tell - Harry Potter Holiday Special

E69: Deep Dive - my tears ricochet

E68: Bonus Episode - Taylor Swift by the Book with Tiffany Tatreau and Rachel Feder

E67: Show and Tell - Greek Mythology

E66: Deep Dive - Holy Ground

E65: Show and Tell - Romance Novels featuring Lauren Rowe

E64: Deep Dive - Cowboy like me

E63: Show and Tell - Garden Songs

E62: Bookish Chat With Laura Bankers of Little Owlet Art

E61: Deep Dive - Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me

E60: Show and Tell - Witches

E59: Deep Dive - Vigilante Shit

E58: Show and Tell - Style featuring Sarah Chapelle of Taylor Swift Style

E57: Deep Dive - ...Question?

E56: DJ Louie XIV of Pop Pantheon Talks Taylor Swift and Pop Stars

E55: Show and Tell - Rhetorical Questions

E54: One-Year Anniversary of AP Taylor Swift

E53: Deep Dive - The Way I Loved You

E52: "Anti-Hero" "Look What You Made Me Do" "That's The Way I Loved You" - Show and Tell - Psychoanalytic Theory

E51: All Too Well (10 Min Version) - 3 Ways

E50: Cities + “The Tortured Poets Department”

E49: Poetic Repetition + "The Tortured Poets Department"

E48: Mad Women + “The Tortured Poets Department”

E47: Pride and Prejudice + "The Tortured Poets Department"

E46: Musicals + "The Tortured Poets Department"

E45: Satire + The Tortured Poets Department

E44: Metaphors + “The Tortured Poets Department”

E43: Marxist Theory + “The Tortured Poets Department”

"The Last Great American Dynasty" Deep Dive - 4th of July Re-Release

E42: Ecocriticism and "The Tortured Poets Department"

E41: Toxic Relationships + “The Tortured Poets Department”

E40: Deep Dive - Paris

E39: Show and Tell - Cities

E38: Deep Dive - The Archer

E37: Show and Tell - Surrealism

E36: Deep Dive - King of My Heart

Bonus: "The Tortured Poets Department" at The Eras Tour Reaction

E35: Show and Tell - Royalty

E34: Deep Dive - I Know Places

E33: Show and Tell - Animal Studies

Bonus: "The Tortured Poets Department" Album Release Recap

E32: Deep Dive - Love Story

E31: Show and Tell - Shakespeare

E30: Deep Dive - gold rush

E29: Show and Tell - Aestheticism

E28: Deep Dive - Shake It Off

E27: Show and Tell - Poetic Repetition

E26: Deep Dive - Haunted

E25: Show and Tell - "Pride and Prejudice"

E24: Deep Dive - right where you left me

E23: Show and Tell - Mad Women

E22: Deep Dive - The Outside

Bonus - Taylor Swift's "The Tortured Poets Department" Announcement Analysis

E21: Show and Tell - Musicals

E20: Deep Dive - Mastermind

E19: Show and Tell - Satire

E18: Deep Dive - Death By a Thousand Cuts

E17: Show and Tell - The Great Gatsby

Re-Release: Deep Dive - Enchanted

E16: Deep Dive - tis the damn season

E15: Show and Tell - Holidays - New Years Day, tis the damn season, champagne problems

E14: Deep Dive - Getaway Car

E13: Show and Tell - Metaphors

E12: Deep Dive - the last great american dynasty

E11: Show and Tell - Marxist Theory

E10: Deep Dive - Red

E9: Show and Tell - Fall Songs

E8: Deep Dive - the lakes

E7: Show and Tell - Ecocriticism

Special Episode: Our Eras Tour Reactions

E6: Deep Dive - “It’s Time to Go”

E5: Show and Tell - Toxic Relationships

E4: Deep Dive - “Wonderland” from 1989

E3: We got lost in it: Songs inspired by “Alice in Wonderland”

E2: Turning ordinary into extraordinary: A Deep Dive on “Enchanted”

E1: Enchanted to meet you: Songs that made us Swifties