On Taylor Swift's Biggest Flop To Date: ‘The Life Of a Showgirl’ Dissected
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The reception to Taylor Swift’s twelfth studio album has been markedly different than historic fan reactions; as Swifties and Swift haters unite to deliver the best meme about how bad the new music is.
In this week's episode, hosts Ione and Gina dissect the poorly received Charli xcx diss track, why the album’s lyricism has fallen flat, and whether just how rubbish The Life Of a Showgirl is indicates how an ardently capitalist point of view rots the joy out of good pop music.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Gina. Hi, I'm Eoni. Hi everyone. I'm Gina, the senior editor of Polyester. And I'm Aione, the founding editor-in-chief of Pliester, and this is The Polyester Podcast, a feminist pop culture podcast, dissecting the discourse on a weekly basis. Please make sure to like, rate, subscribe and review. And if you haven't yet, make sure to subscribe to our membership platform for exclusive |
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| 0:28.4 | send on what you want us to talk about across different tier options go check it out at the link in our |
| 0:33.5 | description do we have new reviews ioni we do This is five stars from Madmei in the |
| 0:39.6 | United States. Thanks for easing my boredom. I have an extremely boring research project at my job right now, |
| 0:46.0 | and you two lovelies are the soundtrack to get me through the first bit of it each Monday. I love your |
| 0:50.7 | nuanced takes on subjects people often skate by sincerely a California girl fan. |
| 0:56.1 | Thank you. |
| 0:57.3 | And then Spotify, this is about last week's episode, which was on J.K. Rowling. |
| 1:03.3 | And Emma Watson, George, says, another fantastic episode and so well said across the board. |
| 1:08.4 | Thank you, which is very nice. |
| 1:10.6 | And then Pins, the band said, |
| 1:12.6 | we're in the tour bus on our way to Bristol |
| 1:14.3 | and enjoying listening to the Pollyester podcast. |
| 1:16.8 | Love your takes and keep pausing to debate passionately. |
| 1:19.9 | Love from Pins. |
| 1:21.1 | Thank you, Pins. |
| 1:21.7 | Which is very cute. |
| 1:23.5 | So today we're talking about Taylor Swift. |
| 1:27.1 | We need to add a, what's it called? |
| 1:29.8 | Disclaimer. |
| 1:31.2 | That we are recording early Monday, Monday the 6th. |
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