Charli XCX & Taylor Swift's Brat Off
Eating For Free
Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson
4.8 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2024
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Hosted by journalists Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson, Eating For Free is a weekly podcast that explores gossip and power in the pop culture landscape: Where it comes from, who wields it, and who suffers at the hands of it. Find out the stories behind the stories, as together they look beyond the headlines of troublesome YouTubers or scandal-ridden A-Listers, and delve deep into the inner workings of Hollywood's favorite pastime. The truth, they've found, is definitely stranger than any gossip.
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Sources [may cutoff in certain apps]:
- Charli XCX Seemingly Breaks Silence on Taylor Swift Controversy, 06/17/24 [Newsweek]
- Why Fans Think Taylor Swift Is Referenced in Charli XCX's 'Sympathy Is a Knife' Song, 06/07/24 [ET]
- Taylor Swift may have captured the charts, but Charli XCX captured the zeitgeist, Shaad D'Souza, 06/14/24 [Guardian]
- For Taylor Swift, the Future of Music Is a Love Story, 07/07/14 [WSJ]
- Interview: Charli XCX Talks Feminism, Fighting With Her Label, and What She Really Thinks of Iggy Azalea, 02/05/15 [Complex]
- The rise and CRASH of Charli XCX, 04/22/22 [Varsity]
- Billboard Announces New Rules For Merchandise/Album Bundles, 11/26/19 [Billboard]
- How Album & Concert Ticket Bundles Reshaped The Billboard Charts In 2017, 01/24/18 [Genius]
- Charli XCX: 'Every single thing is work for me. Everything is music', 07/08/18 [TheGaurdian]
- Miley Cyrus Is Selling $20 Individual Condoms, Because of Course She Is, 06/01/19 [Glamour]
- Billboard Announces New Chart Rules: No More Merch & Ticket Bundles, 07/13/20 [Billboard]
- Billboard's New Merch And Ticket Bundle Rules Will Devastate A Lot Of Pop Artists. Not BTS, 07/14/20 [Forbes]
- A Billboard No. 1 Is at Stake, So Here's an Album With Your Taylor Swift Hoodie, Ben Sisario, 06/09/19 [NYT]
- RS Charts: Taylor Swift's 'Lover' Takes Number One By a Landslide, 09/04/19 [Rolling Stone]
- Taylor Swift, No. 1 Again, Is Last to Benefit From an Obscure Chart Rule, Ben Sisario, 08/10/20 [NYT]
- Charli XCX "stormed out" of meeting with label bosses after "authenticity" argument, 04/29/21 [NME]
- "More Variants Than Covid" – The Death Of The Album Chart?, 06/03/21 [Louder Than War]
- Are Album Bundles Helping Artists Game The UK Official Charts?, 07/21/21 [Clash]
- Billboard Introduces 'Fan Packs' to Album Charts, 05/04/23 [Billboard]
- Pushing Songs Up the Charts Was a Label Job. Then Fans Took Over, 08/23/23 [Billboard]
- WHY BILLIE EILISH INSISTS ON SUSTAINABILITY IN HER CAREER: 'IT'S A NEVER-ENDING F–KING FIGHT', 03/28/24 [Billboard]
- Billie Eilish Clarifies She 'Wasn't Singling Anyone Out' in Her Comments About Artists Releasing Vinyl Variants: 'Sheesh', 04/01/24 [People]
- WHY BILLIE EILISH INSISTS ON SUSTAINABILITY IN HER CAREER: 'IT'S A NEVER-ENDING F–KING FIGHT' [Billboard]
- Taylor Swift Sells a Rainbow of Vinyl Albums. Fans Keep Buying Them, 04/17/24 [NYT]
- Charli XCX: 'Labels are desperate for artists to be liked, otherwise you're bad, evil and wrong', 06/02/24 [Guardian]
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | These gays, they're trying to murder me. |
| 0:05.0 | What do I think of her? Yes. I don't think of her. |
| 0:25.1 | Wait about that in the New York fucking post. |
| 0:29.7 | My friend the communist has meetings in his RV. |
| 0:35.0 | Just in case you didn't know that. |
| 0:36.9 | In case you didn't know, my friend the communist has meetings in his RV. |
| 0:40.0 | I just had to tell everyone that because today I was soaking up the sun. |
| 0:44.1 | I was soaking up the sun. |
| 0:45.5 | Today I was going to tell everyone to lighten up because we're soaking up the sun today. |
| 0:51.1 | And that's what I did. |
| 0:52.6 | And it was done. |
| 0:56.0 | Soaking up the sun. Yeah And that's what I did. And it was done. Soaking up the sun. Yeah. |
| 1:03.4 | It's going... Okay, guys, this is about to be another... This is about to be another moment. |
| 1:09.8 | Joan loves to do references in plain voice out of nowhere. This is about to be another man, I feel like a woman moment. |
| 1:11.7 | Okay. |
| 1:16.0 | But maybe even worse, because this time I'm about to take it actually personally. |
| 1:19.0 | Soak up the sun, the song. |
| 1:20.0 | Matthew. |
| 1:21.5 | Oh, that's what you're doing. |
| 1:22.2 | My God. |
| 1:26.5 | You're just like plain text saying lyrics to complete. |
| 1:28.2 | Completely random songs. |
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