Taylor Swift: Fearless | A Place In This World | 1

Even the Rich

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Society & Culture

4.3 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

At 34, Taylor Swift is already a music legend. So how on earth did she get here so fast? Some people think it’s her incredible songwriting and earnest charisma. Others thing she’s a people pleaser with a tightly crafted public person. But… it turns out, the truth is somewhere in between.

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0:00.0	A quick note about our scenes. Some fictionalized scripted dialogue has been added for dramatic and narrative cohesiveness.
0:07.0	Also, this episode contains strong language.
0:10.0	And lots of middle school heartbreak. Please be advised.
0:13.6	It's July.
0:18.6	It's July 17th, 2016, and 26-year-old Taylor Swift is gripping the granite
0:26.8	countertop of her kitchen, trying hard to focus on the cool stone underneath
0:30.9	her fingers. Right now, she feels like her legs might give out.
0:35.8	Taylor's performed for sold-out stadiums and she's hung out with Michelle Obama. She's not
0:40.7	easily phased, but today she feels sick to her stomach.
0:45.0	This has been the worst summer of Taylor's life.
0:48.0	Recently, it's felt like the press is just straight up out to get her.
0:52.0	She can't seem to do anything right. press is just straight up out to get her.
0:52.8	She can't seem to do anything right.
0:55.8	Every time she steps outside, there's another negative story.
0:59.8	And now, things have gotten even worse.
1:03.1	Somehow she and Kanye West are fighting again.
1:08.4	A while back, Kanye called Taylor
1:10.0	to give her a heads up about a lyric
1:11.8	he'd written about her in his new song.
1:14.4	The line he ran by her was, I feel like Taylor Swift still owe me sex.
1:19.4	Now she wasn't super jazzed about it, but it could have been a lot worse. It wasn't worth picking another fight. But then in February, the single debuted and all hell broke loose. Turns out that the second half of that line was,
1:33.0	I made that bitch famous.
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