BONUS: Miss Americana (Taylor Swift Documentary Review)

Be There in Five

Kate Kennedy

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4.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 143 minutes

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*TRIGGER WARNING* Sexual assault is discussed as a part of this episode. BONUS EPISODE! Regular episode Thursday. This is an in-depth review of the content & related themes within Taylor Swift's documentary "Miss Americana." The remainder of the episode and deleted commentary available on patreon.com/bethereinfive.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, welcome back to the Be Therein 5 Podcast, I'm Kate Kennedy.
0:04.8	Your host, this is a bonus episode.
0:07.8	It's going to be a long episode, and it's going to be a strangely disproportionate to the
0:13.3	length of the film.
0:15.9	So if that frustrates you, please don't feel the need to listen.
0:20.7	This is just extra.
0:21.7	There will be a regular episode coming out Thursday, but I thought that this was worth talking
0:27.2	about on the regular podcast feed because as I said on Instagram in the like Miss Americana,
0:34.3	Taylor Swift's documentary that came out last Friday, January 31st, I didn't think it
0:41.0	was just for fans.
0:42.0	I think it's like hope it had a broader reach and I hope a lot of you watched it.
0:46.7	And I really wanted, I really thought it was important and I really wanted to review it.
0:50.9	I actually had no intentions of doing this episode, but then I saw it and I was floored
0:55.3	and it felt like there were too many important points to reiterate and there were a lot of
1:00.7	funny moments I wanted to highlight.
1:02.4	And you know me, I live for the analysis.
1:04.9	I live to make Taylor Swift feel like an AP lit class and it was kind of everything I never
1:12.0	knew I needed.
1:15.0	I just, I really, really loved the documentary and everything Taylor Swift does that feeds
1:21.8	into the Taylor Swift enterprise of music is serving a persona, but this wasn't about
1:31.5	her persona.
1:32.5	It was about her as a person too.
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