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Hello everyone and welcome to Indiecast.

On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week, we review albums, and we hash out trends.

In this episode, we talk about new albums by

Mitzki and Olivia Rodriguez. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host.

He's indie cast's new Taylor Swift reporter, Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you? I mean, we've held a lot of

beats in our lifetime. You know, there was a time in M say, 2011 or 12 where I was, like, covering every wave

side project for pitchfork and then, you know, covering every Das Racist side project.

So this is really nothing new to me, you know, it's just, it's just a matter of size and scale.

So we should clarify for those out there who are not in media circles and social media.

There was a post that went up this week from the Tennessean, which is the Daily newspaper in Nashville.

And it's a job opening for a Taylor Swift reporter, someone who only reports on Taylor Swift.

And this is in a town that is an, it's an industry town, Nashville, obviously, country music.

I assume that there will be someone also covering the rest of the music industry in Nashville.

But Taylor Swift now is so much her own nation state and pop music that you have to have a reporter

in one of America's big industry towns covering her exclusively.

And of course, this news, it prompted a lot of gnashing of teeth among the music writer community.

How can this be?

How can there be a person only reporting on Taylor Swift?

I'm surprised that this didn't already exist in a way.

Because especially in Nashville, I mean, Taylor Swift is big enough as a cultural force, as a financial money machine, all of it,

to justify this kind of coverage.

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