2015: Part 3

Evolution of a Snake: The Taylor Swift Podcast

The Snakes & Studio71

Society & Culture, Music, Music Commentary

4.8 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

In the final part of 2015, there’s plenty to discuss. Hot off the VMAs, Taylor releases the Wildest Dreams music video and receives some backlash while turning out looks. Turns out the back half of this year was kind of cursed. The 1989 Ryan Adams version comes out to absolutely no one’s enjoyment. Todrick Hall (noted villain) enters the canon. Then, there is a lengthy discussion of what is potentially Taylor’s most revealing magazine profile: her GQ interview and cover shoot. We dive deep into the Katy Perry nonsense & take a moment to analyze how this moment altered the trajectory of her career forever. The year concludes with the bittersweet end of the 1989 tour, Out of the Woods music video, and a particularly heinous article by public intellectual Camille Paglia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, Swifties, welcome back to the evolution of a snake. This is a continuation, our final part of 2015. It's crazy. We're finally here at the end. And just for a little
0:23.0	bit of context, we are picking up from the end of the 2015 VMAs, and we are about to start
0:28.7	discussing the Wildest Dreams music video. If you like this podcast, make sure to follow us on Instagram
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0:42.9	There was also a video of her backstage on one of those like live cams, those feeds,
0:47.6	and it looks like she's snorting coke.
0:49.2	Obviously we know that she's not, she's blowing her nose.
0:50.9	But like if you look at the video, it kind of does look like she is.
0:55.2	Yeah, I watched it.
0:57.1	And I was like, oh, yeah.
0:59.5	Sniff, sniff, bitch.
1:01.0	Sniff, bitch.
1:02.5	In more interesting news, the wildest dream of music video premieres at the VMA pre-show.
1:06.9	And this is the first like organized backlash she has received since the 1989 campaign started and were pretty much a year into the getting papped every day, nonstop friendship world tour.
1:18.0	So I think what happened with the wildest dreams, we'll get into like what the wildest dreams music video was.
1:23.2	But what happened, I think, in response to it coming out was the outrage was so loud that Taylor
1:29.8	was forced to respond to it by donating all the proceeds to a wildlife foundation in Africa.
1:37.4	I don't know exactly what country in Africa, but somewhere.
1:40.8	So the video is like, how would you describe this, Madeline?
1:44.3	It's like a classic Hollywood story, I guess.
1:47.5	Yeah, yeah.
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