‘Jam Session’ — An Unhappy Conversation About Taylor Swift (Ep. 346)

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🗓️ 28 August 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The Ringer's Juliet Litman and Amanda Dobbins discuss Taylor Swift's shaky roll-out of her new single, 'Look What You Made Me Do,' and accompanying VMA video release (5:00), Swift's corporate sponsorships (12:00), Katy Perry's credibility in the pop music world (17:00), and the winners and losers from MTV's Video Music Awards (22:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to a special jam session, Taylor Swift emergency.
0:07.0	I'm Juliette Levin.
0:09.0	I'm Amanda Dobbins.
0:10.0	Last time we spoke, we were anticipating the new Taylor Swift song and video, and now we have both.
0:15.0	So can I just do this right up top?
0:18.0	I would like to apologize.
0:19.0	Okay.
0:20.0	I would like to apologize to the jam session community.
0:22.0	I would like to apologize to you.
0:24.0	I was so unbelievably wrong that I just...
0:28.0	You just wanted to believe in her.
0:30.0	She should be apologizing to you.
0:31.0	I wanted to believe in Taylor.
0:33.0	I wanted to believe that pop music could still be fun.
0:36.0	I wanted to believe that I have not spent upwards of almost 10 years on a fandom that has turned out to be for naught.
0:47.0	That's not true.
0:48.0	You sound like a game of Thrones fan right now.
0:49.0	I know. Well, you know, I spent a lot of time with them in the last 24 hours as well.
0:52.0	It's been a very complex weekend in the pop culture space for me.
0:56.0	Let's talk through what happened.
0:57.0	Sure.
0:58.0	So the song drops Thursday night at midnight eastern.
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