Taylor Swift: Fearless | Mastermind | 4
Even the Rich
Wondery
4.3 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Taylor learned some hard lessons about being mega-famous. And sharing so much of her life online took a huge toll. To dig herself out of the hole the public pushed her into, Taylor has to figure out how to rebuild her public image — and herself.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains adult language and descriptions of sexual assault. |
| 0:04.4 | Please be advised. |
| 0:05.8 | A quick note about our scenes. |
| 0:08.0 | Some fictionalized dialogue has been added for dramatic and narrative cohesiveness. It's February 4th, 2017, on Super Saturday Night, aka the Night Before the Super Bowl. |
| 0:28.0 | Taylor is standing backstage at one of the biggest concerts of her |
| 0:35.0 | sequined costume with shaking hands and closes her sequined costume with shaking hands and closes her eyes. |
| 0:39.0 | She's trying really hard to block out the sound of crew members hustling past her in the dim backstage |
| 0:44.1 | light. She needs to get her head on straight before she steps on stage because it's |
| 0:48.8 | been a while. In fact, Taylor's been completely out of the spotlight for three months. |
| 0:54.5 | Her stomach clenches with nerves at the thought of the thousands of people packed into the venue |
| 0:58.9 | tonight, and the thousands more watching at home. |
| 1:02.8 | Taylor opens her eyes and nods to the stage manager that she's ready, |
| 1:06.8 | even though she's definitely not. |
| 1:09.3 | She feels the ground underneath her shift |
| 1:11.8 | as the platform she's standing on starts to rise. An opening |
| 1:15.5 | appears above her and then she emerges on stage into the blinding light. The |
| 1:22.1 | crowd goes wild, cheering and clapping like crazy. |
| 1:25.0 | Taylor's heart swells. |
| 1:28.8 | She'd almost forgotten how much she loves this sound. |
| 1:31.8 | She's been totally off social media since the presidential election and she |
| 1:35.4 | tries not to peek at what people say about her online. She's still shaken |
| 1:39.4 | from last summer when she got sideswiped by Kanye, but it feels so right to be up here, singing her music to a live audience and feeling their energy. |
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