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Disgrace and is a production of Double Elvis.

Music Elvis. The stories about Taylor Swift are insane.

She has a laundry list of stalkers nearly as long as her list of hit singles.

One stalker sent more than 40 love letters and detailed death threats to her record label.

On three separate occasions, that same stalker drove 900 miles to hand-deliver them.

Another invaded her New York home, used her shower, and was found waiting for Taylor

in her bed. The threats on her life have become so persistent that her security team

installed facial recognition software at the venue she performed in, specifically to distinguish

her stalkers from her fans.

And while all this deadly fanfare was in full tilt, she lost the legal rights to the master recordings of her first six albums, effectively stripping her of her life's work to that

point.

But despite all of this, or perhaps in spite of all of this, Taylor Swift made and continues to make great music.

That music I played for you at the top of the show, that wasn't great music.

That was a preset loop from my Melotron called Cheeky Tiki MK One.

I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to Old Town Road by Lil Nas X.

And why would I play you that specific slice of Wrangler on my booty cheese could I afford it?

Because that was the number one song in America on June 30th, 2019. And that was the day Taylor Swift lost control of her music, an action that inspired her to reclaim control of not only her career, but of her life like never before.

On this episode,

Interstate stalking, death threats,

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