2019: Part 3

Evolution of a Snake: The Taylor Swift Fan Podcast

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🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Welcome to 2019: Part 3, the latest installment of our in depth analysis of every year of Taylor Swift’s career. This is the one where the woman they thought they had cornered gets a white shirt, embroiders every album she's about to take back onto it, and walks onto the AMA stage in front of the entire industry. There will be a notes app letter. There will be a Billboard speech about toxic male privilege and private equity. There will be a re-recording announcement that makes two very rich, very powerful men realise they have made the most expensive mistake in music history. Scooter Braun will write an open letter asking for sympathy. She ends the year in the Maldives with someone who does not deserve a vacation. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Evolution of a Snake. I'm Zach. And I'm Madeline. And this is 2019 part three. It has been almost a
0:23.6	year since we've updated our yearly format series. If you don't know, this is the format that
0:28.9	made us what we are today. We go year by year through Taylor Swift's career in painstaking detail,
0:34.6	offering insights from people who could only have told you what was
0:38.3	happened because they were there living each and every day alongside her. Before we get into
0:42.9	2019, Part 3, I have to tell you that we, this is our last episode before tour, we are going
0:47.6	on the showgirl experience tour around these United States and Canada. So opening night is in
0:53.1	New York City. We have a very low ticket warning. Come to see us in Chicago. Come to see us in D.C. in Boston and Montreal, in Toronto, in Vancouver, in San Francisco, in L.A., in L.A., in Philly. Am I forgetting anywhere, Madeline? I think that's all. Montreal. Did we say that? I said Montreal. Oh, bonjure. I said Montreal. I said Montreal. We are so excited to see you. So
1:13.4	Evolutionfesnake.com, go get your tickets now. We're, we're pumped. We can't wait. But I thought doing
1:20.9	this task of creating 2019 part three, I thought it was going to be simple and easy because part one and two of
1:28.4	2019 were already so much that, again, if we have to split a year into three parts, it's bad.
1:34.2	I think the only time we've done it before is with 2016, which as we know is the worst
1:38.0	year of Taylor's life. And something that I've come to realize is that 2019 was also
1:42.4	low-key, one of the worst years of her life.
1:47.4	If you think about it, it really kind of was.
1:52.7	There was so much, like, I'll call it propaganda to suggest that she was like the happiest she's ever been in her life.
1:53.8	I'm talking about the lover propaganda, the lover ganda, if you will.
1:57.1	She's promoting, like, up to that point, I would call the most gleeful, joyous record.
2:02.8	Juulant, even. In terms of, jubilant in terms of theming and in terms of just the way it was
2:07.5	promoted. And she's doing all that touring around the world, promoting the hell out of a song called
2:12.1	me and saying, no, promise I'll never find a lover like me. Meanwhile, there's turmoil going on career-wise. There's turmoil going
2:19.8	in personal life-wise with their personal relationships. I'm talking about Scott Borchetta, of course,
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