TAYLOR SWIFT PART 3: SPEAK NOW (with The Guardian's Laura Snapes)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 107 minutes
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The Guardian's deputy music editor Laura Snapes makes her Pop Pantheon debut for the conclusion of season one of our epic Taylor Swift super-series. Louie and Laura revisit the marquee music event of autumn 2010, the release of Taylor’s third album, Speak Now. They discuss the album's six platinum hits, how it revitalized the record industry in a moment of peril and the way Taylor used Speak Now to respond to public narratives about her.
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| 0:56.0 | Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast, where we completely overanalyze all of your favorite pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon. This is your host, DJ Louis the 14th. |
| 1:02.0 | And we have our main pop girls party coming up tomorrow night, October 3rd, at the Parkside |
| 1:09.0 | Lounge in the East Village. This is our showgirls edition in honor |
| 1:12.6 | of Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl, which comes out tonight. So grab your tickets at |
| 1:18.1 | Pot Pantheonpod.com. We'll be playing some Taylor stuff in there. We'll be playing all your |
| 1:23.0 | favorite showgirl divas all night. Sabrina, Cardi, you name it. They're all getting played. Can't wait. Poppantheonpod.com tomorrow night, Parkside Lounge. See you there. Don't forget to rate review and subscribe to this podcast wherever you're listening to it now. Follow us on social media at Pop Pantheon pod. Merch is available at Poppanthianpod.com and our Patreon, Poppentheon, all access. It's available atcom and our patreon pop pantheon all access is available at |
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| 2:02.9 | In Los Angeles, tickets for both of those are available in the show notes of this episode. |
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