Hello and welcome to a new emergency episode of Ringer dish, Your source for everything, pop culture and

entertainment on the Ringer Podcast Network. I'm Kate Hallowel and I'm here with the

Ringer's Taylor Swift correspondent and expert Nora Princiati to give our instant reactions to Taylor Swift's surprise

a studio album which dropped overnight. Nora, give me a sense of your emotional state

throughout the past 24 hours, which is how long it's been since she

announced it. Okay, so right now my emotional state is great because Taylor

Swift correspondent is like the nicest thing anyone's ever called me. So I'm thrilled. I really like it and I also just

feel like we should do this in a 24-hour time frame from now on.

I just I don't really ever want to go through a Taylor

singles true rollout cycle really ever again, knowing what this feels like, which was just so pleasant and wonderful, and involving so much less stress.

So I'm in a good place, Kate.

I fully agree.

So yeah, that's our first takeaways

that we love the surprise drop.

We're gonna do eight full takeaways

from her eighth studio album.

And yeah, the first one is like,

please never give us warning again, right?

Yeah, totally. And like, Taylor has such a fraught relationship with lead singles.

They tend to not sound anything like what ends up being on the album the first

one from Lover was Me which is a troubling song that we won't speak of again on this pod and she has a long history of

doing that I mean it goes back to you know look what you made me do and stuff like

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