Popcast: Taylor Swift and Drake, Friendship vs. Partnership

Popcast

The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2015

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The stars have found both help and hindrance from those who surround them.

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0:00.0	Because baby now we got bad blood.
0:02.8	You know it used to be mad love.
0:05.6	So take a look what you've done.
0:08.4	Because baby now we got bad blood.
0:11.6	Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your strategic alliance of music news and
0:15.3	cultural criticism. I'm your host, Ben Ratliff.
0:22.3	Hey, remember when you tried to write me. We're talking friends with John Care Monica.
0:23.0	Hi, remember when you tried to write me off.
0:26.0	Remember when you thought I'd take a loss.
0:28.0	Don't you remember you thought that I would need you.
0:30.0	Follow procedure.
0:31.0	We're talking friends with John Caramonica.
0:33.5	Hi John.
0:34.5	I'm talking about car jackets.
0:35.5	That's Bad Blood by Taylor Swift.
0:39.5	One of the primary aggregators of friends in the known universe?
0:44.0	A friend, yes.
0:45.0	Popstar, comma, friend aggregator.
0:48.0	John, you've written an essay in this weekend's Arts and leisure about the use of friendships and alliances
0:57.2	especially with Taylor Swift and Drake yeah this is something that has been on my mind for a while and it
1:05.1	really crystallized for me over the summer. There have been a bunch of pieces about
1:08.8	how Drake works with other artists, has strategic alliances with other musicians, and there's been a lot of
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