'Lover' Instant Reactions, Celebrity Photoshop Fails, and a Too-Close Read of the VMA's Seating Chart | Tea Time

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Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Taylor Swift's newest album, 'Lover,' was released on Friday and spoiler alert: it's good (0:30). Julia Roberts, Rob Lowe, and Tom Holland were among the celebrities that got duped by an Instagram hoax (14:24). Why are so many celebrities so bad a Photoshopping their Instagram photos (20:50)? Plus: 'The Bachelor' vs. '90 Day Fiancé' (30:41). Hosts: Kate Halliwell, Amelia Wedemeyer, and Jordan Ligons Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Liz Kelly, and welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network.
0:04.0	On Friday, Taylor Swift is releasing her seventh studio album, and this week on the site
0:08.5	you can read Kate Nibs on Taylor Swift's fall from Grace and later in the week
0:12.0	Lindsay Zolad's thoughts on the new album.
0:14.0	Plus, this week's Ringer Dish features a Taylor Swift syllabus
0:17.0	covering everything you need to know before you tune in.
0:20.0	You can read those pieces on The Ringer.com
0:22.0	and you can listen and subscribe to
0:23.6	Ring your dish on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:27.0	Hey guys, welcome to Tea Time.
0:32.6	Before we get into our usual programming, it would not be Tea Time if we did not
0:36.5	assemble an emergency segment to talk about Lover, Taylor Swift's new album that is out today.
0:41.7	So I'm here with Amelia Wettmeyer, and we're going to give you just our initial thoughts, our real like soul reactions to this extremely long 18 song album.
0:51.0	Yeah, 18. It's quite long. It is long but you know what I'm here for it.
0:55.2	I'm extremely here for it. Okay so really first off the bat do we like it do we not?
0:59.1	We love it. It's pretty good. It's really good. It's really good. It's really good. So I was iffy about the first two singles, me and
1:06.9	you need to come down. I liked the Archer and Lover. So obviously like I was like
1:10.4	it could go one way or could go the other we don't know it is pretty good it's
1:14.4	really good it has like I feel like a great mix of like upbeat songs and slower songs
1:20.6	it's got like the soft pop thing like just easy listening like you love from
1:26.0	Taylor.
1:27.0	We've got like some country songs.
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