Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely overanalyze all of your favorite

pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon.

This is your host, DJ Louis X. Louis X.

And this is a B-side episode.

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the link in the show notes of the episode. All right. So tomorrow, July 7th, Taylor Swift,

some of you might have heard of her. She is an aspiring pop star, is dropping the third in a series of re-recordings of her first

seven albums. This is an incredibly ambitious project that she's been at for the last couple of

years, where in order to regain control of the master recordings of her songs, she is

re-recording all of the ones that were part of her first record deal with Big Machine Records that she signed in her teen years and doing a note-for-note redo of every single album.

On Friday, she will release the third of these, which is her third studio album, Speak Now.

She has already released re-recordings of her second album, Fearless, and her fourth album,

Red. And I thought this would be a good opportunity to gather an absolute murderer's row of

smart Swifties to enter the chat and touch down on how this re-recording process is going,

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