Ranking Every Taylor Swift Track 5 (Patreon Preview)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon: All Access episode, for the first episode of 2026, Louie and Russ took on Taylor Swift's venerated "Track 5s," the fifth song on each of her album track lists that many fans view as the records' respective emotional cores. The boys go track by track chronologically through each Taylor album, then each share their Taylor Track 5 rankings.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, DJ Louie here just dropping a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon All Access episode. |
| 0:05.3 | If you enjoy this snippet and you want to hear the rest of this episode plus weekly bonus episodes of this podcast, |
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| 0:53.6 | Welcome to Pop Pantheon All Access, the podcast where we do even more over-analyzing of all |
| 0:58.8 | your favorite pop stars. |
| 0:59.8 | Are you laughing at me? |
| 1:00.8 | Yes, I have. |
| 1:01.4 | I'm sorry to do that so soon. |
| 1:04.2 | Keep going, baby. |
| 1:06.0 | And do other stuff, too. |
| 1:08.4 | And do other stuff too. |
| 1:09.7 | This is your host, DJ Louis the 14th. I have the flu. I'm also here |
| 1:14.1 | with Russ. Good morning, Russ. Hi, Louie. I am so sorry that you are feeling under the weather. Thank you for |
| 1:21.3 | showing up this morning, as you do every week for our patrons. I wouldn't miss it. As I said, I'd be on my deathbed. I'll still be here. |
| 1:30.0 | Happy New Year to you and happy New Year to all. This is our first Pop Panther on All Access episode of |
| 1:35.7 | 26. Boy, do we have some plans for you that will be rolling out throughout the course of this year. |
| 1:43.1 | We are thrilled to be back. |
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