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Taylor Swift's Midnights (with The Ringer's Rob Harvilla)

Pop Pantheon

DJ Louie XIV

Music Commentary, Music, Pop Culture, Pop, Pop Music

4.7630 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Host of the Podcast 60 Songs That Explain the '90s, The Ringer's Rob Harvilla, is back with DJ Louie to break down Taylor Swift's 10th studio album, Midnights, which dropped this past Friday. Louie and Rob set up Taylor's career and discography heading into this record before breaking down the lyrical motifs, recurrent themes and production choices on the album, what's working and not working for each of them, whether this record marks the end of one phase, the beginning of a new one, or some sort of static transitional moment, the Jack Antonoff of it all and so much more.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely overanalyze all of your favorite

0:14.3

pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon. This is your host to DJ Louis

0:18.8

the 14th, and this is a very special B-side. It's Taylor

0:22.7

B-side. Taylor B-side, guys. Before we get into that, please don't forget to rate, review,

0:27.9

and subscribe to Pop Pantheon wherever you get your podcasts. And please follow us on social media

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Let everybody know you listen to the coolest podcast on Earth and get a hat.

1:09.0

And let's get into this week's episode, which is a

1:13.3

conversation between myself and the ringers Rob Harvilla, the brilliant music critic,

1:18.5

about Taylor Swift's new album Midnights. We get into where this falls in her album trajectory,

1:24.4

what this pertains for her career at this stage, whether we're into the

1:28.1

music, what we're liking, what we're not liking, the Jack Antonoff of the whole thing,

1:32.3

where we hope she might go next, et cetera, et cetera.

1:35.2

It was a really wide-ranging and fun and funny conversation with Rob.

1:38.1

So without further ado, here is our episode on Taylor Swift's Midnights.

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