Breaking Down Taylor Swift’s ‘Lover’ | Ringer Dish

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The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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‘Lover’ is better than ‘Reputation,’ and that’s really all we can ask for. We break down our favorite and least favorite songs of the album, do some close reading of “Forgot That You Existed” and “London Boy,” and pick the six songs we’d cut from the album. Host: Juliet Litman Guests: Amanda Dobbins and Andrew Gruttadaro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ring or dish. I am Juliet Littman. It's kind of a holiday of sorts if you care about pop culture and pop music.
0:15.0	It's the Taylor Swift Renaissance?
0:18.0	It's something. We're going to figure it out. I am joined by Amanda Dobbins.
0:22.0	Hi Amanda. Hello Juliet. And Andrew Gurdaro. Hey. We have
0:26.6	assembled. I like to think of us as a pop music trucker. I think we all have different
0:30.7	interests. That's great. Taylor Swift is a place where we can really come together,
0:36.3	dig into it.
0:37.0	There's so much here.
0:38.0	I will just sit full disclosure.
0:39.5	Amanda and I were texting vigorously about this
0:41.8	the last few days.
0:43.0	I've been on an emotional journey.
0:45.0	Yeah.
0:46.0	I'm excited to get into it.
0:47.0	Taylor Swift also on an emotional journey.
0:50.0	So let's just jump into it. Lover is now the top selling album of 2019.
0:56.0	I saw via Taylor Swift's Instagram that the viral 50 chart on Spotify was like the top 15 songs or like all Taylor Swift songs.
1:04.7	Like she is here, she did CBS Sunday morning, she did Good Morning America, she's just flooding
1:10.9	the block wherever, and also like you know on the street like with her murals and stuff like when she first had her songs about.
1:17.4	Opening the VMA's tonight. Opening the VMA's tonight. There's just so much going on.
1:21.0	I'll be watching the VMA amazed to see if Tyler is there,
1:23.1	Gee, sorry.
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