#43 Taylor Swift and the Normalizing of Envy and Lust

Unshaken Faith

Alisa Childers & Natasha Crain

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Taylor Swift is one of the biggest pop stars alive today. Her recent album, The Tortured Poets Department debuted with a total of 2.6 million sales, which is her biggest debut and the top selling single-week sales since Adele’s 25 almost 10 years ago. CNN reported that it became the first album to draw over 300 million streams in a single day in and the first album to reach one billion streams in a single week on Spotify. Slate reported that her single Fortnight debuted as the biggest song in the world launching at No. 1 both the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Gloabal Excl. U.S. charts. Last week, Alisa listened to several songs on the album and forced Natasha to listen to a couple of them and they have thoughts!

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Natasha Crane, and I'm Elisa Childers.
0:05.0	Welcome to Unshaken Faith, where we equip you to live your Christian faith
0:11.0	boldly in a chaotic culture. Taylor Swift is one of the biggest pop stars if not the most popular, alive today.
0:33.3	Her recent album, The Tortured Poets Department, debuted with a total of 2.6 million sales
0:39.1	in her first week, which is her biggest debut, and the top selling single week sales since Adele almost 10 years ago with 25.
0:48.0	CNN reported that it became the first album to draw over 300 million streams in a single day and the first
0:56.2	album to reach 1 billion streams in a single week on Spotify. Slate reported that
1:01.4	her single Fortnight debuted as the biggest song in the world,
1:05.3	launching at number one, both on the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global
1:10.1	exclusively U.S. charts.
1:12.0	So last week, I listened to several songs on the album and then I
1:16.3	decided to force Natasha to listen to a couple of them and we have thoughts and so
1:21.3	we're bringing our review today but first we have some
1:23.5	some announcements and our tips of the week.
1:25.0	Yes, it's going to be a fun and interesting episode because
1:28.0	Elisa did in fact force me to listen to these and I'll explain why that's a force in a little bit.
1:32.2	But first I want to make sure everybody knows that our next unshaken conference is so close. It's next Saturday, May 18th. A Lisa, Frank Turrick, and I will be in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and we cannot wait to be there.
1:44.6	We're going to be equipping and encouraging you to stand firm in your faith in this increasingly
1:49.3	challenging culture.
1:50.4	So tickets are still available.
1:51.8	You can get them at unshaken conference.com.
1:55.0	You can also get tickets for our fall dates. We're going to be in Buffalo, New York on
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